Excuse me guys for my long-timed silence, I have been a bit busy with my home renovating.
For a long time I have been wondering about a very light knife with high cutting ability, stainless of course, with grippy and comfortable handle and very polite for many different laws in various countries such as Russia , Finland etc. But at the first place there was lowest weight possible.
I have got 110 AG version, which was experienced in Finland last year, and it hasn’t been questioned by the customs on the border. It is a well-known, heavyweight champion, but the handle is a bit slippy when work it water or wet conditions.
Finally I turned my eyes on the Ecolite from Buck knives, and decided to add the blade made of CPM S30V steel , because I had had a large experience before with that steel from Buck, and I had been completely satisfied with all the features of it.
So, I have bought Ecolite with green handle on ebay , it was very cheap some $24.50 , the blade made of CPM S30V.
I dismantled from the donor knife, it was an used ,scratched old version of those custom made by Buck, old , with big blade play , and almost not maintainable or repairable knife.
I accurately deleted the old rivet with a high speed engraving machine, then made new one of stainless steel wire of suitable diameter and riveted it again.
Finally it is almost perfect, ( frankly it has a small blade play, because of not exactly conterminous shapes of back lock detent and the notch of the blade), and I am really and very satisfied with this result.
I have got what I have been dreaming of, the light weight, the grippy handle ( thanks to those finger grooves) , the law friendly back up knife without clips under my palm, with wooden- like handle for winter temperatures, almost completely stainless steel construction and with long lasting cutting edge made of CPM steel.
This knife was especially wanted without the clip as an EDC version of back up knife in its own pocket putted in my bag out bag.
It looks like after I had shifted to learn American version of English , I caught another so called “fever” after reading of too many threads on Bladeforums about so called zombies :foot:, ends of the days
, new equipment 
, zombie hunting etc.
Now it looks like each learning has a little evil in it.
Over here are some pictures for your attention:
For a long time I have been wondering about a very light knife with high cutting ability, stainless of course, with grippy and comfortable handle and very polite for many different laws in various countries such as Russia , Finland etc. But at the first place there was lowest weight possible.
I have got 110 AG version, which was experienced in Finland last year, and it hasn’t been questioned by the customs on the border. It is a well-known, heavyweight champion, but the handle is a bit slippy when work it water or wet conditions.
Finally I turned my eyes on the Ecolite from Buck knives, and decided to add the blade made of CPM S30V steel , because I had had a large experience before with that steel from Buck, and I had been completely satisfied with all the features of it.
So, I have bought Ecolite with green handle on ebay , it was very cheap some $24.50 , the blade made of CPM S30V.
I dismantled from the donor knife, it was an used ,scratched old version of those custom made by Buck, old , with big blade play , and almost not maintainable or repairable knife.
I accurately deleted the old rivet with a high speed engraving machine, then made new one of stainless steel wire of suitable diameter and riveted it again.
Finally it is almost perfect, ( frankly it has a small blade play, because of not exactly conterminous shapes of back lock detent and the notch of the blade), and I am really and very satisfied with this result.
I have got what I have been dreaming of, the light weight, the grippy handle ( thanks to those finger grooves) , the law friendly back up knife without clips under my palm, with wooden- like handle for winter temperatures, almost completely stainless steel construction and with long lasting cutting edge made of CPM steel.
This knife was especially wanted without the clip as an EDC version of back up knife in its own pocket putted in my bag out bag.
It looks like after I had shifted to learn American version of English , I caught another so called “fever” after reading of too many threads on Bladeforums about so called zombies :foot:, ends of the days
, new equipment , zombie hunting etc. Now it looks like each learning has a little evil in it.
Over here are some pictures for your attention:
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