Sand knife??

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Hammer27

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Recently, and with more to come in the foreseeable future, I've been spending a lot of time in sand. As we all know it gets everywhere and that sucks for anything that is actually necessary. I've been carrying my Spyderco Civilian or Emerson CQC-8 and they're doing alright but I was just wondering if anyone had any other recommendations or knew of other knives that dealt with sand especially well.

Thanks:thumbup:
 
Any folding knife that has an oiled pivot is going to collect sand there - and it's a real pain in the ass to remove. I guess go for an open-backed knife that you can flush easily with water.

What's your price point?
 
I don't have one yet, but the ZT Mudd is marketed as having a pivot sealed in neoprene, which is suppossed to keep sand and mud and such out. I don't know if it is marketing hype or if it really works, but I bet someone here could tell us...

Hammer27 said:
Recently, and with more to come in the foreseeable future, I've been spending a lot of time in sand. As we all know it gets everywhere and that sucks for anything that is actually necessary. I've been carrying my Spyderco Civilian or Emerson CQC-8 and they're doing alright but I was just wondering if anyone had any other recommendations or knew of other knives that dealt with sand especially well.

Thanks:thumbup:
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symphonyincminor said:
Any folding knife that has an oiled pivot is going to collect sand there - and it's a real pain in the ass to remove. I guess go for an open-backed knife that you can flush easily with water.

What's your price point?
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I'd like to stay around $150 but I'd go up past $200 a ways if its worth it.
 
+1 on the ZT 0500 Mudd. The pivot's sealed & there's a rubber "booty" enclosing the lock release. Other than a FB, it's about as good as you're going to get, IMHO.

The only problem with the ZT 0500 is that they seem to develop a little blade play. I didn't send mine in, but I know of 2 others that did send theirs in to Kershaw & they still developed blade-play again. I'm not talking about much & because it's pretty much the only folder of its kind (Unless I want to buy a full blown custom Hawk, which I don't), I live with it.

If anyone reads this & theirs doesn't/hasn't developed blade-play, great. I'm just writing what I experienced & know what 2 others experienced, but I still think it's the way to go to keep out the elements if you can't get by with a FB. That is why I still have mine.
 
Again, the ZT 0500 is made for sand and mudd, but it is a little beafy. It also seems a little slow to deploy.

I have taken my Spyderco Salt 1 in the ocean before. It stayed in my boardshorts pocket. Sand got everywhere. The knife still functioned, but it was a little rough. Once I got home I washed it off in the sink for about 5 minutes, opening and closing it under water, then I let it dry off. After that it was fine -opened just like new.
 
MUDD, definitely. Very hard use, very, very, very LITTLE blade play. Like, almost undetectable.
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Great to use with gloves, too.

Andy
 
water in desert is a strateagic entity.everyone needs to go to graphite or more modern dry lubes.most lubes want to let microcrytiline silica contaminents adhere to surfaces.looks like all our forum engineers had to work late last nite.
 
Sand [silica] is an agressive abrasive and a folder is then not a good idea ! Get a fixed blade , small sheath knife or neck knife of a very wear resistant steel.
 
i often go sloshing waist deep in streams; i usually have a fixed on me, but i also have been using a combo edge kershaw et...its open construction makes it easy to rinse off...long term durability in those situations unknown...probably it wears down but at its price point, i'd just get another...
 
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