I'll come back later today and give a quality report on these two.
JB
Ok, I said I'd be back to do a report on the two drop point Special order 110's currently be offered on the market.
So here goes,
The Good:
These two 110's come with a drop point blade one in BG-42 the other in S30V, the grind line on the blade look identical to my eye's. However, the kick grind is just a bit different (this could just be these knives though, the photo's did not capture what I can see).
The S30V knife comes with Cherry wood laminate with a pewter escutcheon plate, no nail nick and the BG-42 knife comes with Gray wood laminate scales, nail nick, both knives come with Nickle silver frames. These are cool up-graded 110's and worth a look and worth the extra coin for the better steel and drop point blades.
The Bad:
The Cherry wood knife came with a finishing flaw at the bolster lock cut out. The factory missed polishing this area on the knife and you can see tooling marks from the manufacturing process. This is purely cosmetic and will have no affect on the knife's performance (as a collector this QC issue bother's me, not enough to ship back though)
The Gray wood knife also has an issue with the closed blade centering. Again this is just cosmetic and no issue on the knife's performance.
Additional comment:
The Cherry wood knife came with the typical polishing crud pushed deep into the blade pivot making it stiff to open and very gritty. The gray knife however, has none of that crap and is silky smooth to open and close (I have not gotten a new 110 in years that was like this awesome). Both of these knives lock up perfectly and will give a lifetime of hard work and service to the user. I'm happy to have them both and as they were special Christmas gifts from my kids I will cherish them both.
JB
