Let's get straight to the good stuff.
The blade on the Resilience is massive, especially looking at edge length, which makes it a great kitchen knife. However, where the Military uses some of its blade space for the choil, the Resilience does not. Making it seem disproportionately large.
Even though the Resilience is big, the Military is still bigger overall, and has the more comfortable handle.
For a $45 knife, the liner lock is very good.
The changes between the Para 1 and Para 2 really make this knife click with me. Even though I've never even held a Para 1, I can see where people would be put off by certain aspects of the handle. If I were a Para 1 owner, I would probably have filed off the "hump" on the Para 1 handle, where your pinky nicely rests on the Para 2.
Blade retention is crazy! I physically cannot open this knife inertially no matter how hard I try. This should make it thumb flick extremely well, but I don't want to induce accelerated wear on the lock just yet.
I have to wonder if lock-bar tension was cranked up on the 30 examples sent north to W&W.
Opening is stiff, but it's all in the lock-bar. To close, I just disengage the Compression Lock and the blade falls into the handle. There is no blade play when open.
Pocket clip tension is just about perfect. I normally loosen them off a bit, this one is not too tight.
This is the first knife I have ever owned that needs no adjustment out of the box (clip tension and pivot tension to eliminate play, plus Loc-Tite to keep it there). Since it has the pivot bushing, hopefully it won't loosen off after a week of carry like most knives do.
The blade on the Resilience is massive, especially looking at edge length, which makes it a great kitchen knife. However, where the Military uses some of its blade space for the choil, the Resilience does not. Making it seem disproportionately large.
Even though the Resilience is big, the Military is still bigger overall, and has the more comfortable handle.
For a $45 knife, the liner lock is very good.
The changes between the Para 1 and Para 2 really make this knife click with me. Even though I've never even held a Para 1, I can see where people would be put off by certain aspects of the handle. If I were a Para 1 owner, I would probably have filed off the "hump" on the Para 1 handle, where your pinky nicely rests on the Para 2.
Blade retention is crazy! I physically cannot open this knife inertially no matter how hard I try. This should make it thumb flick extremely well, but I don't want to induce accelerated wear on the lock just yet.
I have to wonder if lock-bar tension was cranked up on the 30 examples sent north to W&W.
Opening is stiff, but it's all in the lock-bar. To close, I just disengage the Compression Lock and the blade falls into the handle. There is no blade play when open.
Pocket clip tension is just about perfect. I normally loosen them off a bit, this one is not too tight.
This is the first knife I have ever owned that needs no adjustment out of the box (clip tension and pivot tension to eliminate play, plus Loc-Tite to keep it there). Since it has the pivot bushing, hopefully it won't loosen off after a week of carry like most knives do.