Real Steel models

Wow sharp now I bet!
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Gary it is unreal how sharp that knife became. Of course, we know the Sanvik series steels 12c27, 13c26, and 14c28n have extremely fine grain, and aren't super abrasive resistant, so it's fairly easy to put on a super keen edge.

DMT C to lower edge angle to 14° per side, apexed, deburred.
Naniwa Chosera 400 grit to help eliminate the diamond scratch pattern
Shapton pro 1000
Naniwa Green Lobster 2000, edge trailing only.

Laying your fingertips on the edge apex, it instantly will remove fingerprint ridges. Yeah....it's sharp!
 
A friend ordered a couple Sea Eagles for his brothers as well as a model T101 Thor, that is a pretty nice knife, nice enough that I also ordered one and will put up some pics when she arrives later on this week or weekend.

It's quite a bit thicker handle wise and just feels a little more rugged in holding/use, as you would guess, Thor isn't a Dainty name to toss about :) The action on this one is amazing, detent is such it opens super fast by either thumbstud or flipper.

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Hopefully by this Friday or so, for now, I do give it a thumbs up, very robust knife without being blocky or too bulky, the blade is ground down fairly thin, maybe thinner than what the Sea Eagle is, so it is quite a slicer out of the box.

I did have to sharpen it up, but it had a serviceable edge as these all seem to arrive with, some work and as you point out, the steel takes quite a keen edge being fine grained.
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Well just took this shot for now, but it does show off the knife nicely

Thor.jpg~original


If you laid the Sea Eagle atop this one you'd find they almost have the same overall size, length and width, but the Thor is a bit thicker which provides a solid feel when using the knife.

The Sea Eagle has a markedly pointier blade, but also if you laid the blades atop one another you'd see that the Sea Eagle blade's spine comes just about to where the swedge is on the Thor, making them both pretty pointy.

I like the clip on the Sea Eagle a bit better, also the Sea Eagle you are stuck with it's one position, while on the Thor you lefties luck out :) but there isn't any inlay area for the clip to nestle into so you have to rely on the screws keeping the clip in place. I'd prefer just the one side myself, keeping the presentation side more pristine but on the black g10 it's not too noticeable. Speaking of presentation side, I'd shake the hand of the person that laid out how the screws would be, the wrench sides are on the side of the clip leaving a nice looking smooth heads on the presentation side. Something that I'd always do when ever I got a Sebenza, the older Sebenza's that is...

The blade is ground down nice and thin, this one arrived in cutting condition so I'll leave it be for a while before I go to sharpen it.

The blade is also centered nicely in the handle, for those that are concerned about such things, I've only cared if it became a problem otherwise I usually don't check for that.

The flipping action works great, as mentioned before a strong detent provides more than adequate load to light switch an opening, also while this one has thumb studs, I found that it opens equally as fast using the thumb studs too. The front part of the handle looks like it was at first designed to have the thumb stud come up against it as part of the lockup, otherwise it seems odd having that indentation there. Speaking of lockup it is very solid, no play in any direction and unlocking isn't any problem either.

As to the fit and finish, everything is smoothed out, some knives come in with a very sharp edged set of liners, these have their edges knocked down so you don't feel any sharpeness at all there.

I think this will allow my Sea Eagle to go rest in it's nest for a while, I like the handle configuration, not too finger groovy to be a concern that it locks you into one type of grip. I'd recommend this one for any that are on the fence about it, really well done overall.

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Yes, the thumb stud can be removed, they are tight though but are screwed together.
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Gary,

Thanks. It's interesting that the knife is thicker yet ground thinner.
This is a framelock I suppose, and I hope there is no lock release cutout on the presentation side.

Looking forward to your update.
 
Well, the blades are the same thickness at the spine, but the Thor has a bit thinner grind down to the edge.

None of the ones above are framelock, all three are liner lock types.

Sea Eagle is napping today ;) may take an extended nap...
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Thanks for the review on the Thor, Gary! I was going to post a pic of the Sea Eagle, but you have it covered well. Mine is identical, just a larger edge bevel now, due to the lowered angle when I sharpened it.
 
Both knives hover about the 28 thousandth's mark for thickness at the top of the edge bevel, depending on how wide your bevel is of course, but still cuts well.
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Gary Graley and Samuraistuart, two gentlemen with Ph.D's in knife sharpening.
WAAY over my head on what they discuss on the finer points of sharpening, but very enjoyable reading nevertheless :D.
Thank you both for your postings. Keep it up. Greatly enjoy the results of your sharpening skills, Gary my friend :thumbup:
 
You're welcome Raj, for the money these are very hard to beat folders! Here's a shot along side my watch;

Invicta_Thor.jpg~original


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Is the back spacer on the Thor G10 or Polymer? Also, how weak is the detent on the Sea Eagle? I'm torn between three new cheap EDC's, and all of them are from these guys. :eek:
 
They're all very good, but I moved on and have a different brand in hand now so I can not answer that question on the back spacer.

As to the detent, both seemed to be adequate, I wasn't able to just shake it open, but if I threw my arm against my other arm...stopping the knife wielding hand...the knife would come open, but a lot will also do that in such a situation.

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I got a Real Steel E571 the other day and I'm not impressed. The fit and finish are fine but the knife flips like a dead fish. I've disassembled, lubed and reassembled and it's no better.

It's the first knife from them that didn't perform above expectations. I still love my H6, H6-S1 and Stinger. All great knives. Next up I'm going to grab an H6-S1 with the CF scales when they get back in stock.
 
That's very strange as I've had a couple pass through that flipped fine
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Gary W. Graley said:
That's very strange as I've had a couple pass through that flipped fine
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I think you're thinking of the E771 Sea Eagle. I know, confusing nomenclature. The E551 is kind of a mini-Sea Eagle with steel handle slabs. It's a newer model, just recently released.
 
You are correct haven't tried that one
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