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I received this knife for a week (uhhh sorry about the delay) as part of a pass around. First off, thanks to Spyderco and Sal for allowing us to handle these knives before buying.
The first thing you should know is that this is a big knife. Despite the size of both the handle and the blade the knife is surprisingly light weight and rides well in a pocket. The other nice thing about the size is the way it fills out my hands. I have average size hands and found the knife to be comfortable in any grip. The blade has a nice leaf shape and alludes to the Barong name. The angle of the blade to the handle is very nice, but as another tester stated makes you "feel compelled to go chop stuff with it". I must admit I had these same feelings.
Opening and lock up were smooth and solid. The liners are thick enough to inspire confidence but not be to heavy. Spyder hole was in a good spot and lent itself to smooth operation. The blade has a nice full flat grind and was good and sharp. The ricasso is much larger than I would expect, so much so it's hard not to notice. I am not sure what the purpose of this is. There is no choil in said ricasso so it does not inspire me to choke up using it and it is quite easy to choke up on the knife without it there anyways. perhaps there is something to using barongs I am not aware of that requires this extra ricasso. If so, I apologize for my ignorance.
The knife preformed very well in all cutting tasks I asked of it. As a pass around knife I avoided abusing it but used it for everything I would have asked of my EDC. It never let me down and stayed sharp thanks to that good ole VG-10. There were times when a smaller blade would have worked better for what I was doing but that is clearly not the knives fault. It is a large knife and performs as such. I would buy this knife given the right circumstances buy personally I would regrind the blade back a bit (Don't try this at home unless you are willing to deal with the results lol). It made me want to take it camping and abuse it some, but cut like a real slicer. Thats a good sign for a large folder in my book.:thumbup:
The first thing you should know is that this is a big knife. Despite the size of both the handle and the blade the knife is surprisingly light weight and rides well in a pocket. The other nice thing about the size is the way it fills out my hands. I have average size hands and found the knife to be comfortable in any grip. The blade has a nice leaf shape and alludes to the Barong name. The angle of the blade to the handle is very nice, but as another tester stated makes you "feel compelled to go chop stuff with it". I must admit I had these same feelings.
Opening and lock up were smooth and solid. The liners are thick enough to inspire confidence but not be to heavy. Spyder hole was in a good spot and lent itself to smooth operation. The blade has a nice full flat grind and was good and sharp. The ricasso is much larger than I would expect, so much so it's hard not to notice. I am not sure what the purpose of this is. There is no choil in said ricasso so it does not inspire me to choke up using it and it is quite easy to choke up on the knife without it there anyways. perhaps there is something to using barongs I am not aware of that requires this extra ricasso. If so, I apologize for my ignorance.
The knife preformed very well in all cutting tasks I asked of it. As a pass around knife I avoided abusing it but used it for everything I would have asked of my EDC. It never let me down and stayed sharp thanks to that good ole VG-10. There were times when a smaller blade would have worked better for what I was doing but that is clearly not the knives fault. It is a large knife and performs as such. I would buy this knife given the right circumstances buy personally I would regrind the blade back a bit (Don't try this at home unless you are willing to deal with the results lol). It made me want to take it camping and abuse it some, but cut like a real slicer. Thats a good sign for a large folder in my book.:thumbup:
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