Review The Magnetic Attraction of the Winterblade Severn

SharperApex said:
Excerpt from the full review:

Verdict​

Bryan Winters, the founder of Winterblade, is one of the pocketknife industry’s leading figures today. He’s transforming the way we think about, build and operate pocketknives.
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Never heard of him, and I disagree with the statement. Reads like an advertising puff piece.
 
I'm sorry you feel this way. It's definitely not a puff piece. I had quite a few nit-pick complaints about the knife, but overall, I was really impressed. If you ever get a chance to read the full article, which is admittedly long (but that's how all of my articles are), you see I start out with references to Chris Reeve, Andrew Demko and Larrin Thomas as folks who've been big influences on the pocketknife industry. For folks who know about Winterblade, Bryan Winters' work is really influential as his designs are very strong and consistent, even with the numerous technical variables he engineers in each release. I stand by everything I wrote, and I hope you might get a chance to learn about Winterblade knives. I think you might be impressed! But if not, we fortunately have a huge number of knifemakers whose works we can all enjoy. Thanks for commenting, Frank! I appreciate your perspective.
 
I was bothered by the dithyrambic prose, but the direct link towards the Winterblade online shop confirmed that it is a glorified advertisement and not a review.
 
Hey, Mister Punchy, you have a great vocabulary! The full-length post is far from a marketing piece. It is an honest opinion on a great knife. It is very much a full, technical review. I write very lengthy, very detailed and rather snarky posts. I link out to online resources like any good web article should, and that includes to Winterblade. The tech innovation, the very strong design language, and the quality of the build puts this knife in the running for many reviewers as Knife of the Year, and deservedly so. Context is everything, my friend. If you don’t care for the Winterblade design style, that’s okay. It’s not a knife for everyone. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
 
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The lock is definitely a gimmick. It's definitely geared more towards people who have safe queens and/or use their knives in sterile environments. Anything with a magnet in it is not exactly conducive to my lifestyle and will get a ton of metal filings in it.
 
T tussery , There’s no magnet in the lock of the Severn. Other knives, yes, but not here. I explain it all in the full article. Thanks for your comment!
 
Thank you for your review, it's been nice to read :) I personally don't much care for Winterblades, they look cool and interesting, but it's not my style of knife.

Good read though, thanks again!
 
You seem to be a real asset for Bryan Winter, whom I've never heard of.
The knife looks like a clone of so many other "unique" blades with a "unique" Stealth Lock.
Great name for the lock. Original.
There is very little "new" in the knife game.
This is not.
Great advertisement though I doubt if it will ever sell as many as "grampas rusty old Barlow".
Mine happens to be shaving sharp.
 
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Ikhnaton said:
Thank you for your review, it's been nice to read :) I personally don't much care for Winterblades, they look cool and interesting, but it's not my style of knife.

Good read though, thanks again!
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The Winterblade designs are heavy on angular lines, unusual design elements, and will be polarizing because of all these factors and more. To be honest, I was more drawn to Winterblade knives due to their consistent, inventive engineering rather than things like the blade shape. But I now have 2 of them and have really come to appreciate them as a whole package. It's good to know what we like and what we don't, and still enjoy learning for learning's sake. I'm working on a post about Opinel knives and I have really learned a lot about them and am having the same kind of epiphany here. Thanks so much for writing!
 
kvaughn said:
You seem to be a real asset for Bryan Winter, whom I've never heard of.
The knife looks like a clone of so many other "unique" blades with a "unique" Stealth Lock.
Great name for the lock. Original.
There is very little "new" in the knife game.
This is not.
Great advertisement though I doubt if it will ever sell as many as "grampas rusty old Barlow".
Mine happens to be shaving sharp.
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As a Barlow guy, who enjoys the traditions and history of the development of pocketknives from the early years, you have no reason to know about Bryan Winters. He's either an engineer who loves to design knives, or is he a knife designer who loves the engineering side of the knife-making world. He's pretty new to the knife design world, but his work is impressing the people who are interested in cutting edge knife design and engineering.

I agree there is little that is new these days in any subject of life. Everything and everyone borrows from past work, from scientific and engineering advancements to things as simple as film and TV scriptwriting and pop music. What is left to do anymore is refine old ideas and refresh them with new, modern sensibilities. I'm definitely not as experienced as you in clearly seeing his work as simply derivative of past works of others, so I've missed that. I do happen to find his work fascinating, his use of magnets in augmenting a number of folding knife functions, from locking mechanisms, to detents, to even applying reversible thumb studs. I find his work refreshing. I can appreciate a Barlow as much as anyone, and the history of Obadiah Barlow's 350-year-old design is amazing as well.

I will take your comment about my post seemingly to be as advertisement as a compliment. Any well-earned, positive product review will express the joy and pleasure found in a similar nature as a marketing piece. In my case, this wasn't not a marketing piece, nor was it sponsored. I had seen video reviews of Winterblade knives and was interested, so I borrowed the knife from a friend, and I wrote my honest thoughts in my post. I ended up buying the knife as I liked it so much.

K kvaughn I really appreciate your time taken to leave your thoughts here. Thank you!
 
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