Urban knife by Papi

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Hello everyone! Now after sneak peak I finally got my urabn knife. Thanks to Papi. All I have to say is wow. This is roughly the size of Victorinox Alox Soldier, except considerably lighter. Perfect sized for pocket carry and so light, you forget you have it. Lock is extremely solid. No bladeplays, lock up is extremely tight and you have no fear whatsoever that lock would fail.

Its two hand opener. Basicly you can flick it open but you can't make lock contact with flick but you need two hands for that. A feature I do like. This is urban knife. Made to cut everything urban dweller might encounter and need to cut in time of peace. While doing it, it does not look tactical, nor it can't be open nor closed easily like tactical knife. It took me while to think what kinds of features I wanted. As urban knife, most things it would do would be slicing. So I wanted roughly 2.6-2.7" spear point blade with full flat ground using RWL-34 powder steel. Two hands opening because I wanted this knife to be non-tactical and non-dangerous looking. I do love clean blade. No etchings, engravings, nicks, pulls or studs. Just clean beautiful blade.

I'm very happy to have this :D

Now some photos:
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Very very nice! i might have to start talking to Papi about making me something:D
 
That does look sweet. Nice clean lines. Maybe its the picture but the liner looks like its barely touching the tang. How is the lock up?
 
That does look sweet. Nice clean lines. Maybe its the picture but the liner looks like its barely touching the tang. How is the lock up?

Lock up is extremely solid. There's no much change accidently disengage the liner and Papi added feature into stop pin and tang, since I wanted double handed knife, he added so, you need to press the tang against the stop pin, which drives a small section middled into tang, tightly against the stop pin, using friction preventing blade closing, even if titanium liner would fail.

I tested knife and there's no change that knife would close on my fingers in any regular use you could use knife. This is urban knife / gents folder so I did not see any reason to go .0800 " titanium liners (2mm) but 0.475" (1.2mm) liner and lock is plenty for gents folder / urban knife.
 
That is beautiful nate! Seems heavy duty liners again. Gorgeous damscus blade. Is that ivory or stag the handle?
 
Thanks Jani. It's Mammoth Ivory. Blade is Damasteel Rose pattern which is Damascus with RWL34 core, Bolster is Chad Nichols Frenzy pattern. It hasn't arrived yet but I'm looking forward to it's arrival. :)
 
RWL-34 is really nice steel. That is really nice looking one, Nate. COngrats! :thumbup:
 
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