First experience dealing with Warriors and Wonders. WOW! Shipping took less than 24 hours. I'm used to waiting 2 weeks for my knives to come all the way from the states. This was a VERY pleasant change of pace.
The Persistence is of EXCELLENT quality. It is absolutely solid. ZERO blade play in either direction. And I mean zero, there is not even the tiniest wiggle. The liner lock is relatively thick and engages entirely, but there is still some room for wear. Blade opens up very smoothly, I just realized that if you look through the pocket clip holes, you can actually see the bronze bushings
The edge is very, VERY sharp. I just tested it and it will shave. They put a lot of effort into drilling out the liners to save weight. I was surprised to see that on such an inexpensive knife. There are 5 big holes drilled in the non-locking side, and 6 smaller ones in the lock side.
This is by far the most functional jimping I've ever felt. I always watch review videos and they complain about the jimping on almost every knife and I always feel mine and think to myself "what are they whining about, this is fine". Now I know what jimping should be like.
I've put it side by side with the Boker Trance because IMO that is its number one competitor. They are right around the same price and size.
The G10 is superior to the FRN on the Trance, and the liner lock is only very slightly thinner than the frame lock. For lefties it is a no brainer because the Trance is only drilled for right hand carry. The Persistence has WAY better jimping, but the Trance's flipper acts as a finger guard.
The Trance has been a favourite of mine for a long time, but I think I would have to give the edge to the Persistence (hehe, I'm punny). Although I am almost always biased towards whatever knife is newer, so take that with a grain of salt. In any case, it is a very tough decision, both knives are excellent and easily worth twice their asking price.
Now I have recently developed a little bit of an obsession with polishing G10. I purchased the Persistence with the intention of giving it a polish job similar to my RAM and Skyline:
I'm thinking it would look pretty awesome. Basically I'm trying for a budget Sage I'm not worried about losing traction or anything like that, if I want a hard use knife, I can always grab my Trance or JYDIICB. I think I might even take a shot at polishing the blade because it's halfway there already and doesn't have any kind of coating on it.
The Persistence is of EXCELLENT quality. It is absolutely solid. ZERO blade play in either direction. And I mean zero, there is not even the tiniest wiggle. The liner lock is relatively thick and engages entirely, but there is still some room for wear. Blade opens up very smoothly, I just realized that if you look through the pocket clip holes, you can actually see the bronze bushings
The edge is very, VERY sharp. I just tested it and it will shave. They put a lot of effort into drilling out the liners to save weight. I was surprised to see that on such an inexpensive knife. There are 5 big holes drilled in the non-locking side, and 6 smaller ones in the lock side.
This is by far the most functional jimping I've ever felt. I always watch review videos and they complain about the jimping on almost every knife and I always feel mine and think to myself "what are they whining about, this is fine". Now I know what jimping should be like.
I've put it side by side with the Boker Trance because IMO that is its number one competitor. They are right around the same price and size.
The G10 is superior to the FRN on the Trance, and the liner lock is only very slightly thinner than the frame lock. For lefties it is a no brainer because the Trance is only drilled for right hand carry. The Persistence has WAY better jimping, but the Trance's flipper acts as a finger guard.
The Trance has been a favourite of mine for a long time, but I think I would have to give the edge to the Persistence (hehe, I'm punny). Although I am almost always biased towards whatever knife is newer, so take that with a grain of salt. In any case, it is a very tough decision, both knives are excellent and easily worth twice their asking price.
Now I have recently developed a little bit of an obsession with polishing G10. I purchased the Persistence with the intention of giving it a polish job similar to my RAM and Skyline:
I'm thinking it would look pretty awesome. Basically I'm trying for a budget Sage
I'm not worried about losing traction or anything like that, if I want a hard use knife, I can always grab my Trance or JYDIICB. I think I might even take a shot at polishing the blade because it's halfway there already and doesn't have any kind of coating on it.
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Does the type of polish matter (eg could I just use some flitz)? Liking the way the Skyline and RAM came out.