Both knives were purchased new by me from KnifeCenter in June this year right after Blade Show. Both were safe queens, never carried, and handled rarely, only reason I'm letting go of these is to fund a grail. Both are extremely sharp and well built. Both come with original packaging: the Sander only came with the logo'd pouch and cloth; the Alpha has a logo'd pouch and hand written card. The Sanders are said to have a light detent and true you can fail it but it doesn't require any wrist or a ton of pressure to deploy and I find the action very satisfying...maybe could benefit from some jimping on the flipper to make it even easier but totally fine as is. It has a beautiful Vanadis-10 core damascus blade, extensive lightening pockets milled on both sides of the handle, amazing hand carving and cracked earth texturing, perfect centering and lockup. The Alpha Gladiator (number 5 of 10) - said to be a 2-hand opener but the fuller is deep enough to be used as the opener one-handed no problem, I can middle finger flick this all day and can also be thumb opened. Very large and aggressive tactical tanto design with large jimps and deep texturing on the show side and it is not milled out for weight reduction so you know it's there and you can feel confident knowing it'll hold up to whatever you need to do. Great action on washers (almost feels like bearings probably just due to the weight of this blade), also perfectly centered and solid lockup. Don't be fooled by the size though, it has a nice fine edge on this hollow grid, I'd equate it to a Medford - looks like it would be thick behind the edge but its actually pretty thin and slices easily through paper. It has internal stop pins integrated on the blade which ride in tracks milled into the scales for about as solid a construction you can get on a folder.
Prices - PayPal G&S, $SOLDfor the Sander; $SOLD for the Alpha. Send offers - include your email please.
Providing the original links with additional specs/details below for your reference:
Sander - https://www.knifecenter.com/item/SN...-bull-engraved-titanium-handles-sander-knives
Alpha - https://www.knifecenter.com/item/AH...ed-titanium-handles-2021-blade-show-exclusive
IG pics:
Sander - https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzcMeplPN2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Alpha - https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzdPA8FPMC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Prices - PayPal G&S, $SOLDfor the Sander; $SOLD for the Alpha. Send offers - include your email please.
Providing the original links with additional specs/details below for your reference:
Sander - https://www.knifecenter.com/item/SN...-bull-engraved-titanium-handles-sander-knives
Alpha - https://www.knifecenter.com/item/AH...ed-titanium-handles-2021-blade-show-exclusive
IG pics:
Sander - https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzcMeplPN2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Alpha - https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzdPA8FPMC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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