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First, Thank you, Sal!
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The UPS guy brought me a green Vesuvius - prototype. So I've been carrying it this afternoon and evening, and playing with it, and scanning it. Haven't cut anything yet except arm hair, and it does that very well.
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That last image sort of shows the ramp milled into the tang, that engages the locking finger when the knife is in the closed position, acting as a "speed bump," like the ball bearing/detent in a liner lock. There's no ball bearing in the compression lock. Like a liner lock, this mechanism is probably happiest in tip-down mode, since there's no spring to pull the blade back into the handle if it is bumped open a little.
The handle is comfortable. I suspect that it should be issued in both "plain" and "fancy" modes. The pearl version is a nice change of pace for those of us who have a whole bunch of black knives that we rotate. My unscientific survey so far has gotten more "Wow!" than "Awk!" but I don't get moderate reactions.
Just what is that surface on the G10 anyway? Is it based on actual seashell material, or it it totally synthetic?
I find that the easiest way to close that Compression Lock is to push on it with my thumb, as if it was a liner lock, but with the knife spine-up, letting the edgeless tang drop onto my index finger, and then rolling the knife over and pulling the blade in with my thumb. It's not exactly ambidextrous. But it's a lock you can't defeat unless you force the locking finger through the stop pin, and you won't do that bare-handed.
I suppose I have to get my hands on a Gunting and confuse myself.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
The UPS guy brought me a green Vesuvius - prototype. So I've been carrying it this afternoon and evening, and playing with it, and scanning it. Haven't cut anything yet except arm hair, and it does that very well.
<A HREF="http://www.chaicutlery.com/spyderco/Vesuvius-green-prototype-b.jpg" TARGET=_blank>
(Click above image for larger image)
That last image sort of shows the ramp milled into the tang, that engages the locking finger when the knife is in the closed position, acting as a "speed bump," like the ball bearing/detent in a liner lock. There's no ball bearing in the compression lock. Like a liner lock, this mechanism is probably happiest in tip-down mode, since there's no spring to pull the blade back into the handle if it is bumped open a little.
The handle is comfortable. I suspect that it should be issued in both "plain" and "fancy" modes. The pearl version is a nice change of pace for those of us who have a whole bunch of black knives that we rotate. My unscientific survey so far has gotten more "Wow!" than "Awk!" but I don't get moderate reactions.
Just what is that surface on the G10 anyway? Is it based on actual seashell material, or it it totally synthetic?
I find that the easiest way to close that Compression Lock is to push on it with my thumb, as if it was a liner lock, but with the knife spine-up, letting the edgeless tang drop onto my index finger, and then rolling the knife over and pulling the blade in with my thumb. It's not exactly ambidextrous. But it's a lock you can't defeat unless you force the locking finger through the stop pin, and you won't do that bare-handed.
I suppose I have to get my hands on a Gunting and confuse myself.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
