Hello , folks
This post is going to go a little deeper that the title Suggest. I have many thoughts flowing through my mind . I'll try to make it as succinct as possible and still convey my thoughts and feelings .
First a little history .. for 2 decades I just carried my leathermans. I was satisfied with the knife that they provided . Especially the one handed opening of the wave series. Recently I decided to get me a dedicated folder . I'm now 10 knives in , lol .. and here's where I stand .
Being a noob at knives . When I went searching , I had two criteria. I really loved the s30v blade steel on my leatherman charge tti. So american made and s30v blade steel . Ran into the manix 2 and it fulfilled that criteria. And damn did it feel good in my hand . Went searching the net and reading about knives . Had to try the paramilitary 2 . To see what all the hype was about . And damn is was all it was hyped up to be . Was interested in the military , but always found a reason not to get one . Bought a few zt's , loved them as well . Then wanted to try the "it" knife . Bought a chris reeve, sebenza 21 .. omg!! That knife means so much to me . It was worth the savings and sacrifice it took to get it. You can view my thoughts on that knife . In the chris reeve forum "what my sebenza means to me " . That said , owning the grail sebenza did not diminish my love and respect for the paramilitary one bit . Hats off to Sal and the spyderco family . For making suck a kick ass knife at this price point . It truly is a marvel .... if I could only have one knife , it would be my sebenza . That said if my only knife was a military or pm2 . I would not feel I was lacking or that it was a substandard compromise.
So I finally broke down and got a military ... I couldn't be happier .. fit and finish is perfect .. blade perfectly centered , action smooth as butter . It flips out with that orgasmic twack. Lock up at 10% and smooth as butter . After owing all these knives . I want to give some special props to spyderco. Things I think they Excell at as compared to other manufacturers. First the sharpness and edge grinds on spyderco knives .. are the best of any manufacturer that I have experienced . And that includes chris reeve. I have never felt the need to reprofile a spyderco knife out of the box . The worst in my experience are zt's , only my 0450 was perfect out of the box . Next their price point .. 90.00 dollars for a manix 2 or 120.00 for a pm2 . With the quality of construction , s30v steel .. you can't beat that shit with a stick ... damn , I've already did what I said I wouldn't do . I've droned on to long ... I hope I made my point .. even when you get into higher end knives , you never outgrow a good spyderco ... next on my list a titanium military. .. would love to hear y'alls thoughts ... can ya feel me ?
This post is going to go a little deeper that the title Suggest. I have many thoughts flowing through my mind . I'll try to make it as succinct as possible and still convey my thoughts and feelings .
First a little history .. for 2 decades I just carried my leathermans. I was satisfied with the knife that they provided . Especially the one handed opening of the wave series. Recently I decided to get me a dedicated folder . I'm now 10 knives in , lol .. and here's where I stand .
Being a noob at knives . When I went searching , I had two criteria. I really loved the s30v blade steel on my leatherman charge tti. So american made and s30v blade steel . Ran into the manix 2 and it fulfilled that criteria. And damn did it feel good in my hand . Went searching the net and reading about knives . Had to try the paramilitary 2 . To see what all the hype was about . And damn is was all it was hyped up to be . Was interested in the military , but always found a reason not to get one . Bought a few zt's , loved them as well . Then wanted to try the "it" knife . Bought a chris reeve, sebenza 21 .. omg!! That knife means so much to me . It was worth the savings and sacrifice it took to get it. You can view my thoughts on that knife . In the chris reeve forum "what my sebenza means to me " . That said , owning the grail sebenza did not diminish my love and respect for the paramilitary one bit . Hats off to Sal and the spyderco family . For making suck a kick ass knife at this price point . It truly is a marvel .... if I could only have one knife , it would be my sebenza . That said if my only knife was a military or pm2 . I would not feel I was lacking or that it was a substandard compromise.
So I finally broke down and got a military ... I couldn't be happier .. fit and finish is perfect .. blade perfectly centered , action smooth as butter . It flips out with that orgasmic twack. Lock up at 10% and smooth as butter . After owing all these knives . I want to give some special props to spyderco. Things I think they Excell at as compared to other manufacturers. First the sharpness and edge grinds on spyderco knives .. are the best of any manufacturer that I have experienced . And that includes chris reeve. I have never felt the need to reprofile a spyderco knife out of the box . The worst in my experience are zt's , only my 0450 was perfect out of the box . Next their price point .. 90.00 dollars for a manix 2 or 120.00 for a pm2 . With the quality of construction , s30v steel .. you can't beat that shit with a stick ... damn , I've already did what I said I wouldn't do . I've droned on to long ... I hope I made my point .. even when you get into higher end knives , you never outgrow a good spyderco ... next on my list a titanium military. .. would love to hear y'alls thoughts ... can ya feel me ?
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