Just a thanks note, had never heard of the Schrade SHMF, and bought one, and another on way, now.
Great heavy duty daily driver one-hand knife. Yes, blade grinds may not be perfectly symmetrical, and yes, rivets obviously done by hand, along with stop pins also cut roughly to correct length...BUT...
3/16ths" thick D2 blade loaded with carbides, left soft enough to not chip or break (unlike the max hardness blades), and even thicker stainless at pivots on handle..
A butterfly knife actually tough enough to survive a hit or stab to bone....with stainless handles, and tough bayonet blade ground better than most issue bayonets, and solid pins are always stronger than anything with threads cut in them, steels being equal .
Aside from sloppy handmade pins (whoever making them obviously not provided proper tooling) and less than perfection blade grinds, an exact rattle trap heavy duty replica of balisongs of the late 1970s-1980s....and they do exactly what they were made to do, and that is not showboat knife flipping....a one-hand, hard use, utility/self-defense knife is what they were.
Comparing new knives to these is comparing the F-35 to a P-38.....considering materials, anyone.would have been king of the jungle in 1981 with one.of these.
A huge turnoff for me has been the obvious fragility of most butterfly knives, from cheapest zamak models, to carbon fiber and glass hard and brittle bladed wonderknives.
This Schrade is hugely tough, maybe toughest made, and flips easily open and easily closed...and a half pound of stainless and D2 for $80 current.
Thanks again for pointing it out...have been having a ball, today, since mine arrived, and called straight off for another one....will see if I get lucky and a perfect blade grind....will keep the better one and gift the other to some kid who thinks mine is cool, with all that padlock and chains and leg irons clanky whir clank of my young adulthood, just as seen in movies and on the street.
PS- as for how tough the D2, and for the daily driver work/defense heavy duty blade, was standing in carport, watching self in window reflection, going faster, changing rotation to unfamiliar directions and knowing I was going to drop it, and not caring....it finally flipped loose, I broke most of fall with foot, (on a 1/2lb knife or hammer, yes...full pound, no), and knife bounced to concrete, landing first on belly of edge, putting a 1/8th" long dent into edge, and then skittered on side, with a rear corner and rivets taking most of the slide...immediately grabbed fine file and then same wrapped with 1000 grit to clean up handle and rivet marring, and also, while at it, broke all sharp rear corners. The blade edge was ironed back into postition with smooth back of file, hit the edge with finest ceramic stone and quick strop, and erased nearly every sign of a glint to edge....no chip, no break, and back to cutting heavy ticking fabric with ease.
This is one tough knife.
Great heavy duty daily driver one-hand knife. Yes, blade grinds may not be perfectly symmetrical, and yes, rivets obviously done by hand, along with stop pins also cut roughly to correct length...BUT...
3/16ths" thick D2 blade loaded with carbides, left soft enough to not chip or break (unlike the max hardness blades), and even thicker stainless at pivots on handle..
A butterfly knife actually tough enough to survive a hit or stab to bone....with stainless handles, and tough bayonet blade ground better than most issue bayonets, and solid pins are always stronger than anything with threads cut in them, steels being equal .
Aside from sloppy handmade pins (whoever making them obviously not provided proper tooling) and less than perfection blade grinds, an exact rattle trap heavy duty replica of balisongs of the late 1970s-1980s....and they do exactly what they were made to do, and that is not showboat knife flipping....a one-hand, hard use, utility/self-defense knife is what they were.
Comparing new knives to these is comparing the F-35 to a P-38.....considering materials, anyone.would have been king of the jungle in 1981 with one.of these.
A huge turnoff for me has been the obvious fragility of most butterfly knives, from cheapest zamak models, to carbon fiber and glass hard and brittle bladed wonderknives.
This Schrade is hugely tough, maybe toughest made, and flips easily open and easily closed...and a half pound of stainless and D2 for $80 current.
Thanks again for pointing it out...have been having a ball, today, since mine arrived, and called straight off for another one....will see if I get lucky and a perfect blade grind....will keep the better one and gift the other to some kid who thinks mine is cool, with all that padlock and chains and leg irons clanky whir clank of my young adulthood, just as seen in movies and on the street.
PS- as for how tough the D2, and for the daily driver work/defense heavy duty blade, was standing in carport, watching self in window reflection, going faster, changing rotation to unfamiliar directions and knowing I was going to drop it, and not caring....it finally flipped loose, I broke most of fall with foot, (on a 1/2lb knife or hammer, yes...full pound, no), and knife bounced to concrete, landing first on belly of edge, putting a 1/8th" long dent into edge, and then skittered on side, with a rear corner and rivets taking most of the slide...immediately grabbed fine file and then same wrapped with 1000 grit to clean up handle and rivet marring, and also, while at it, broke all sharp rear corners. The blade edge was ironed back into postition with smooth back of file, hit the edge with finest ceramic stone and quick strop, and erased nearly every sign of a glint to edge....no chip, no break, and back to cutting heavy ticking fabric with ease.
This is one tough knife.
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