I have to seriously re-adjust my initial impressions and attitudes toward this very fine blade. The knife doesn't necessarily overwhelm you at first-- unless you have never owned really nice and beefy folders before.
As I stated earlier, it has a strange lightness to it, courtesy of its titanium scales. The blade looks thinner than its actual .14 thickness, due to its beveled spine. However, if anything, both of these characteristics only add to the knife's overall appeal. The beefiness is still there, it just doesn't scream it at you. It is deceptively stout.
So stout in fact that, when combined with the ultra bank vault like quality of the lock-up, the knife feels like a small fixed blade knife. It really does.
It's a handsome knife-- in a high tech, super engineered way. Everything about the knife is either chosen with the utmost consideration in design, materials, and engineering. The ceramic ball locking innovation and totally sealed pivot mechanism means a wear-proof lock engagement and a dirt proof folding action, respectively.
It's razor sharp hollow ground blade cuts like a scalpel too.
If you wish to spend 4 bills on a user folding knife, you would be very hard-pressed to find something finer than this extremely rugged, engineered, hi tech, handsome folder. It's a perfect EDC.
One suggestion: I still think the take-down tool should be included. If CRK has to add an extra $10 (or even $20) to a $400 knife, so what?
As I stated earlier, it has a strange lightness to it, courtesy of its titanium scales. The blade looks thinner than its actual .14 thickness, due to its beveled spine. However, if anything, both of these characteristics only add to the knife's overall appeal. The beefiness is still there, it just doesn't scream it at you. It is deceptively stout.
So stout in fact that, when combined with the ultra bank vault like quality of the lock-up, the knife feels like a small fixed blade knife. It really does.
It's a handsome knife-- in a high tech, super engineered way. Everything about the knife is either chosen with the utmost consideration in design, materials, and engineering. The ceramic ball locking innovation and totally sealed pivot mechanism means a wear-proof lock engagement and a dirt proof folding action, respectively.
It's razor sharp hollow ground blade cuts like a scalpel too.
If you wish to spend 4 bills on a user folding knife, you would be very hard-pressed to find something finer than this extremely rugged, engineered, hi tech, handsome folder. It's a perfect EDC.
One suggestion: I still think the take-down tool should be included. If CRK has to add an extra $10 (or even $20) to a $400 knife, so what?
