Agreed. Don't get it at all. I "get" the "I demand exteme!" thing people seem to have, but it doesn't make sense to me at all.
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Agreed. Don't get it at all. I "get" the "I demand exteme!" thing people seem to have, but it doesn't make sense to me at all.
Comeuppance
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In defense of flippers: while I primarily like them because they are just more fun, they do have some features:
- built-in finger guard
- no thumb oil buildup or prints on the blade, reducing potential corrosion
- zero chance of slipping a thumb onto the blade
- allows thumbstuds to be omitted entirely, allowing the full length of the blade to be passed through material without it catching on any protrusions.
I also like the technical, design, and mechanical challenges it presents to the makers and their different approaches. Every flipper feels and functions just a little bit differently (or, all to often, not at all) and I've had a good time experiencing all of the ones that I can find.
Best action do far: Field Grade Bodega, then TiLT, then CRKT Mah Eraser.
- built-in finger guard
- no thumb oil buildup or prints on the blade, reducing potential corrosion
- zero chance of slipping a thumb onto the blade
- allows thumbstuds to be omitted entirely, allowing the full length of the blade to be passed through material without it catching on any protrusions.
I also like the technical, design, and mechanical challenges it presents to the makers and their different approaches. Every flipper feels and functions just a little bit differently (or, all to often, not at all) and I've had a good time experiencing all of the ones that I can find.
Best action do far: Field Grade Bodega, then TiLT, then CRKT Mah Eraser.
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The ZT is a folding brick and the BK2 is a none folding brick . Both pretty good pry bars , but that's about it .
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HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS !
Why not get a fixed blade? Cause a lot of employers do not ALLOW you to carry a fixed blade. I've had 4 jobs in my life, NONE of them allowed wearing of a fixed blade(and this is in Texas, there are plenty of states with more restrictive knife laws than I have), 3 of the 4 allowed folders(and the managers at the 4th one were willing to overlook a folder)
I always thought ZT was stuck on an island where they can't decide if they want to go big or small. If you wanted small, I would always take a PM2 ($140) over a ZT350 ($180). For oversized, Lionsteels are sexier and sleeker. Thugs would carry a ZT. 007 would carry a SR-1.
Beauty in in the eye of the beholder I guess, cause I haven't seen a Lionsteel that looks even half as good as the 0350.
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yes I OWN 5 OF THIS BRAND< SO STOP HATING ALREADY>>>
any CRK folder, why... Guntersville Al. is home to one of the most amazing fabrication shop anywhere. Co. name Guntersville Fab employees many former Nasa engineers and they produce and invent as many Fab machines as products. They can simply do anything. I worked for a competitor and they even allowed me to watch and learn as they are just that type of people. POINT: they have said to me many times, an anchor point "hole" is never necessary in any fabrication job. I first don't understand why we as buyers ever accepted that, and how any company who uses an anchor hole to secure blanks could consider theirselves fabricators. Who else has them ? I am disabled, work for no knife company and love the zaan, with 2 useless holes, one on each side, just to hold the blank in place . wow.
any CRK folder, why... Guntersville Al. is home to one of the most amazing fabrication shop anywhere. Co. name Guntersville Fab employees many former Nasa engineers and they produce and invent as many Fab machines as products. They can simply do anything. I worked for a competitor and they even allowed me to watch and learn as they are just that type of people. POINT: they have said to me many times, an anchor point "hole" is never necessary in any fabrication job. I first don't understand why we as buyers ever accepted that, and how any company who uses an anchor hole to secure blanks could consider theirselves fabricators. Who else has them ? I am disabled, work for no knife company and love the zaan, with 2 useless holes, one on each side, just to hold the blank in place . wow.
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pls stop before you hurt yourself,
i hope you can do better tomorrow, today is shot and can not be recovered. I guess ATS 34 is also "soft" ????
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There are a lot of knives that I don't understand.
Just to name a few:
-Kershaw Leek. I'll never understand how people consider it to be a comfortable knife.
-Kershaw Skyline. The pocket clip is terrible.
-Some ZT knives. They make some odd material choices and some of their designs are a little off.
-Italian knives. Ugly, over built designs and an insistence on using D2 for everything.
Just to name a few:
-Kershaw Leek. I'll never understand how people consider it to be a comfortable knife.
-Kershaw Skyline. The pocket clip is terrible.
-Some ZT knives. They make some odd material choices and some of their designs are a little off.
-Italian knives. Ugly, over built designs and an insistence on using D2 for everything.
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Please if you don't like what anybody has to say keep it to self, anybody can express their like or dislike about any blade.
Any folder that wiggles to much mostly spyderco, some cool designs but they most wiggle to much, "some" Dalton's autos are so slow opening they feel liked toys, I like an auto that opens with authority, I like a big knife but not useless bricks that stay at home in the draw collecting dust, medford , direwre, faridt5000, crusader forge, well built knives but to thick for any real use.
Any folder that wiggles to much mostly spyderco, some cool designs but they most wiggle to much, "some" Dalton's autos are so slow opening they feel liked toys, I like an auto that opens with authority, I like a big knife but not useless bricks that stay at home in the draw collecting dust, medford , direwre, faridt5000, crusader forge, well built knives but to thick for any real use.
I'm terribly impressed that we haven't had an outburst of extreme butthurt yet. Somebody is bound to lose it sooner or later.
