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Rare TiNives Large Damascus Manual Folder
This knife is one of the smoothest, fastest opening manual knives I have ever seen. It can be opened and closed faster than the eye can see with a slight flick of the wrist.
This knife was made by a company called TiNives that is no longer it business. This knife is one of smoothest, if not the smoothest opening knives ever made. It features a blend of balance, precision and innovation. "Our first product, which we called the Zero Play knife, was introduced at the Blade Show in Atlanta in 1998," said TiNives president and owner Scott Self. "While most folding knives feature about 20 parts, ours has more than 100. In addition, our first knife featured more than half a dozen innovations that the industry had never seen before."
This knife was made using precision CRM software with several hundred lines of code. Though a manual opening knife, the button mechanism unlocks the blade and allows the knife to be opened with the unique thumb opening design or snapped open and closed like lightening with a flick of wrist. What makes this knife rare is that this is one of the early knives that feature the extraordinarily smooth mechanism, pivoting on 84 ceramic balls that have a finish measured in tens of thousandths of an inch. The nature of ceramic is that it burnishes and polishes, so that the knife keeps getting smoother and smoother over time, without any surface removal. While most companies are making knives dealing in thousandths of an inch, TiNives was dealing in tens of thousandths. This mechanism proved to be costly to manufacture so in later years, TiNives introduced the Speedroller lock, that was the brainchild of custom knife maker Larry Chew, but IMO, the opening mechanism of the newer design wasn't as smooth or quick as the design of this one.
The knife has a 4.25" Raindrop pattern razor sharp Damasteel blade. The blade geometry is spear point with a hollow-grind blade that looks quite aggressive; it features a full convex edge, very strong and one of the more difficult grinds.
The knife is 9 1/2" overall. The handle is made from aircraft aluminum with a black finish and is a sculpted shape that delivers excellent grip and feel. Even closed, the butt end of the knife makes an excellent Kubotan striking weapon. Open, the knife has zero play.
This knife was purchase in 1998 and cost at that time of nearly $600, the additional expense at the time because it was Damasteel. I haven't seen too many with this pattern steel. It was a made to order knife; the blade and finish created from menu selections. The knife comes with a presentation box; see photos. I have carried the knife and if you examine the photos closely, you will see some wear in the finish on the handle at some of the leading edges. I haven't carried the knife in nearly a decade, but when I did and wear was evident, I used to touch it up with a black sharp pen.
SOLD
This knife is one of the smoothest, fastest opening manual knives I have ever seen. It can be opened and closed faster than the eye can see with a slight flick of the wrist.
This knife was made by a company called TiNives that is no longer it business. This knife is one of smoothest, if not the smoothest opening knives ever made. It features a blend of balance, precision and innovation. "Our first product, which we called the Zero Play knife, was introduced at the Blade Show in Atlanta in 1998," said TiNives president and owner Scott Self. "While most folding knives feature about 20 parts, ours has more than 100. In addition, our first knife featured more than half a dozen innovations that the industry had never seen before."
This knife was made using precision CRM software with several hundred lines of code. Though a manual opening knife, the button mechanism unlocks the blade and allows the knife to be opened with the unique thumb opening design or snapped open and closed like lightening with a flick of wrist. What makes this knife rare is that this is one of the early knives that feature the extraordinarily smooth mechanism, pivoting on 84 ceramic balls that have a finish measured in tens of thousandths of an inch. The nature of ceramic is that it burnishes and polishes, so that the knife keeps getting smoother and smoother over time, without any surface removal. While most companies are making knives dealing in thousandths of an inch, TiNives was dealing in tens of thousandths. This mechanism proved to be costly to manufacture so in later years, TiNives introduced the Speedroller lock, that was the brainchild of custom knife maker Larry Chew, but IMO, the opening mechanism of the newer design wasn't as smooth or quick as the design of this one.
The knife has a 4.25" Raindrop pattern razor sharp Damasteel blade. The blade geometry is spear point with a hollow-grind blade that looks quite aggressive; it features a full convex edge, very strong and one of the more difficult grinds.
The knife is 9 1/2" overall. The handle is made from aircraft aluminum with a black finish and is a sculpted shape that delivers excellent grip and feel. Even closed, the butt end of the knife makes an excellent Kubotan striking weapon. Open, the knife has zero play.
This knife was purchase in 1998 and cost at that time of nearly $600, the additional expense at the time because it was Damasteel. I haven't seen too many with this pattern steel. It was a made to order knife; the blade and finish created from menu selections. The knife comes with a presentation box; see photos. I have carried the knife and if you examine the photos closely, you will see some wear in the finish on the handle at some of the leading edges. I haven't carried the knife in nearly a decade, but when I did and wear was evident, I used to touch it up with a black sharp pen.
SOLD
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