ATS-34, nice steel. Anything else positive?
1] Has pocket clip sometimes handy
2] Has thumb stud sometimes handy
3] I do prefer locking liners over a Lockback
4] Appears to be a great design for a plant dibbling but why didn't they stay with their old beater
steel for that. ATS-34 can be used to make brilliant cutting instruments. Given the cutting power of this knife is appears completely hobbled by the design that steel seems totally wasted. If that is true it follows one would be shelling out $150 [after the intro price] for a material that could never realize its potential.
Notes:
Apart from dibbling it looks like another spastic offering. I'm trying to overlook the tacky looking holes in the blade 'cos there may be a purpose for them that exceeds my intellect, but still. And most salient to me -
it looks to have really low cutting power. I think a 12yr old fanatic could have spent between christmas and now edge whittling cotton wool fibers with it yet finds that even a
cheapo Gerber would offer such an improvement in cutting power and user comfort it would consummately annihilate it as a cutting instrument. Yup, 154CM, very similar indeed to ATS-34, at between .33 and .25 the price, that in a real world design is going to piss on it and pay for its taxi home. Even if they cost the same I know which ones I'd hand out to a troop and it aint the Tops one.
