Tanto blade AO folder - any suggestion ???

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sharp-k

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Hi folks

I'm looking for a good assisted opening folder with a tanto blade.

The SOG Flash tanto seems to be great but I never handeld one.

Any suggestion ?

Thanks in advance.
 
They are awesome. I got one. You will really like it,but that's only me.
Lycosa
 
The SOGs don't fire half as hard as a Kershaw in my experience. You might want to check out a Kershaw Tanto Blur. I've heard a lot of good things about them but own a drop point version myself.
 
Get a Kershaw Tanto Cyclone. Trust me on this...I have one, and it's an excellent folder.:thumbup:.:thumbup:.
 
Benchmade Nitrous Stryker opens so hard it has recoil I have to warn people least it jumps out of their hands, the only reason it replaced my Blur was blade steel I got tired of sharpening 440c
 
If you don't mind a blade with more of a Japanese tanto look, you may find something to like in the Hissatsu Folder.

The blade design would appear to take some inspiration from the earlier Kamasu shape...a long sloping kissaki, little fukura, and an obvious discontinuity of the ha at the yokote. The detail of the mune is not clearly visible in this picture, but it is a mitsu style, which helps contribute to the overall traditional Japanese shape of the blade.

The AO on this knife deploys the blade using a torsion bar/blade tang cam system...very simple, very strong. And it fires with *plenty* of authority. This knife is larger, and has more heft than the Flash knives, but it is in roughly the same price range. However...this might not be a knife you would want to snap open just anywhere to casually pick food from between your teeth.

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Fergit the AO part; save your dollars, rubles, or pesos; then search around for a Sebenza with a Tanto blade. The blade is great, the grind is perfect, and it is just as quick to open as an AO. Some may scoff due to their misunderstanding of the extreme coolness of the Sebbie, thinking that an AO outcools it (not so). "Trust me on this...I have one, and it's an excellent folder." But if you have to have an AO, I have a BM Apparition (I know, not a tanto) that is very snappy. If their other AOs are similiar, you might like them.

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all da best,
rats...
 
ratstuph said:
Fergit the AO part; save your dollars, rubles, or pesos; then search around for a Sebenza with a Tanto blade. The blade is great, the grind is perfect, and it is just as quick to open as an AO. Some may scoff due to their misunderstanding of the extreme coolness of the Sebbie, thinking that an AO outcools it (not so). "Trust me on this...I have one, and it's an excellent folder." But if you have to have an AO, I have a BM Apparition (I know, not a tanto) that is very snappy. If their other AOs are similiar, you might like them.

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all da best,
rats...
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Ok, I agree, Sebenza's looks great , I never handeld one because you couldn't find one in Belgium but in comparaison with a BM is a Sebenza not overpriced ???
 
sharp-k said:
but in comparaison with a BM is a Sebenza not overpriced ???
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Compared to a Benchmade, a Sebenza is expensive. Overpriced is a value judgement you have to make for yourself. :)

This is a question that generally leads to long repetitive threads. The short answer is that at the high end of many product fields, the best will increase in price faster than they add those final small increments in quality.

Sebenzas are extremely well-made, beyond what most people realize until they handle one. For some of us, that difference is worth the cost. Of course, some others honestly decide they don't care for the design or don't think the differences are worth the money.
 
ratstuph said:
Fergit the AO part; save your dollars, rubles, or pesos; then search around for a Sebenza with a Tanto blade. The blade is great, the grind is perfect, and it is just as quick to open as an AO. Some may scoff due to their misunderstanding of the extreme coolness of the Sebbie, thinking that an AO outcools it (not so). "Trust me on this...I have one, and it's an excellent folder." But if you have to have an AO, I have a BM Apparition (I know, not a tanto) that is very snappy. If their other AOs are similiar, you might like them.

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all da best,
rats...
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Respectfully I disagree with most of what you said. Your Sebbie opens as fast as an assisted? I'd have to see it to believe it. And if you're flicking it open CRK won't warranty it any more.

Also, on the tanto sebbies, the tanto tip is convex and the straight part is flat ground which I found to be a pain in the butt. I ended up flattening my tip out but sent it to CRK for something else and they re convexed it. So I sold it.

YMMV
 
Convex is so easy to do it's a shame so many people wince at it ... but the straight part is hollow ground, as on most Sebenzas. Flat ground was only on one short run of standard drop points.

The Sebenza can open as fast as almost any other knife. I snap the thumbstud forward and it opens very fast and locks in place. It does not slam into the stop pin. It voids no warranty.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
The Sebenza can open as fast as almost any other knife. I snap the thumbstud forward and it opens very fast and locks in place. It does not slam into the stop pin. It voids no warranty.
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You sure about that? Seems like flicking comes up occasionally on the CRK forum and they don't like it.

And by flat I was referring to the actual edge. Flat = Not Convex
 
OK. Actually, if you look at the edge bevel on a Sebenza as it comes from the factory, it is convex. :)

You can believe I'm sure about it. The problem comes with the definition of "flicking". I don't consider a firm snap of the thumbstud to be flicking. It does not slam the tang into the stop pin.

What Chris Reeve complains about are people who use strong centrifugal force to augment the opening, slamming the blade open with an audible clash.

My Sebenzas are very smooth from long use and careful maintenance and cleaning. I am also very used to their action. A gentle push on the thumbstud will open the blade partway but the tight tolerances will damp that out. A slightly harder push will drive the blade just far enough to lock. An doing that, it moves fast.
 
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