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Rusty_shackelford said:
I saw them on that collector knives.
Are they legit?
Never heard of em.
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Rusty I just got the Lionsteel shuffler in marbled carbon fiber.
They do not directly ship to Canada. I had reserved one and did not find out that until I went to pay. I signed up and used an American shipping company to forward my knife.
This and the duties hiked up the price of the knife a lot.
It's a nice knife but I'd recommend the secondary to avoid the cost and trouble.

As for customs, two handed opening knives such as slip joints will not have as issue getting through.
They're mostly after flippers, thumbstuds seem to be 50/50.
 
bambam99 said:
Rusty I just got the Lionsteel shuffler in marbled carbon fiber.
They do not directly ship to Canada. I had reserved one and did not find out that until I went to pay. I signed up and used an American shipping company to forward my knife.
This and the duties hiked up the price of the knife a lot.
It's a nice knife but I'd recommend the secondary to avoid the cost and trouble.

As for customs, two handed opening knives such as slip joints will not have as issue getting through.
They're mostly after flippers, thumbstuds seem to be 50/50.
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Hah.
Of course. That shouldn’t surprise me.
Thanks for the info.
I have a good friend that lives in Rhode Island. He serves as a middle man for me. I do go to that well a lot tho.
I figure slip joints will be ok coming across the border too.
 
Rusty_shackelford said:
i was just poking around benchmades custom shop. You can get them in D2 or 20cv as well.
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Yeah I forgot the mini crooked river is one you can customize on their website. You can choose all different kinds of steels, materials, colors, etc. That would be a great option.
 
GMox677 said:
Yeah I forgot the mini crooked river is one you can customize on their website. You can choose all different kinds of steels, materials, colors, etc. That would be a great option.
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$20 premium for 20cv over s30v. total was $240 i think. add tax and shipping. Plus id be paying in canadian $. Id be at $400 canadian by the time it arrived.
ouch.
 
evilgreg said:
I have a lot of different scales for mine, and I rotate them around. Wood, various flavors of CF, and other oddball materials too (e.g. Juma, C-Tek, etc.).

Two of the ones (python micarta and orange and black CF) in that photo I linked are actually liner-delete mods, where the presentation side liner has been removed altogether. There are a few on here that weren't in that last photo, IMO the wood scales are super classy looking on the knife:

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I have maybe six or seven Dragonfly variants, including some jazzy ZDP-189 and whatnot. Compared to the Dragonfly 2 the Tuff Lite is a bit larger, the Mini Tuff Lite is a bit smaller. The Tuff Lite is cheaper, crappier looking, and has much worse fit and finish out of the box, but IMO it's altogether superior as a cutting tool--I so wildly prefer it to my small finger choil Spyderco knives (I have lots of them, Cats and Kopas and Dragonflys and more) that I've stopped carrying small spydies altogether, outside of a customized Cat wearing ivory paper micarta scales that is near and dear to my heart.

When I get a new Tuff Lite I have a five minute routine that makes the knife feel 100% nicer, which I highly recommend, consisting of:
  1. Disassemble it
  2. With a coarse sanding block, break the edges of the blade spine and blade finger choil (optionally the opening hole, though I leave those sharpish, usually)
  3. Break all the sharp edges on the plastic scales
Doing this makes a huge difference in how nice the knife feels in hand, at least it does to me.

I use them as my go-to spare knife, keeping them in my car, using them as travel knives, and basically littering my life with them.

I also whittle quite a bit as a hobby, and my primary whittling knife of choice is, you guessed it, the CS Tuff Lite. Yes, I know this is odd. Yes, I do own (over a dozen) dedicated, purpose built, high-end whittling fixed blade knives--I still prefer the Tuff Lite.

It's a cheap, tiny little knife, but it's strong as all heck and I know from experience--these little knives will take whatever beating you want to throw at them, including cutting wood with tons of force being put on them constantly.
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do you rather the tuff lite or the mini tuff lite?
is the mini discontinued?
seems like the tuff lite gets great reviews. might be a little bulky, but great knife for the price.
 
Rusty_shackelford said:
$20 premium for 20cv over s30v. total was $240 i think. add tax and shipping. Plus id be paying in canadian $. Id be at $400 canadian by the time it arrived.
ouch.
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That’s too much. Lots of better options in the $400-ish range IMO.

The guys in Calgary and Vancouver have the standard dymondwood or G10 for just over $260CAD which isn’t bad IMO. I don’t mind S30V, so I will likely be picking one up soon. Plus the dymondwood with the orange looks cool to me.:thumbsup:
 
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