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I bought a Yojimbo 2.
Been reading reviews, threads, watching youtube...
the hole is recessed, the hole is small, the handle too small, the steel is brittle, the knife is too wide in the pocket, too heavy, the lock pinches your fingers, the access to the lock is to small, many critics..
no, no, the hole is there to give you strong spine, the size of the hole gives you more purchase to your thumb, the handle is smallER than the first model because usingit as an impact weapon is no longer a proirity, an besides, you can use it as an impact weapon anyway, the steel has a better heat treatment than average, so it's not brittle, it's the same wide in it's widest point than a paramilitary, it does't pinches the lock, the small acces to the lock it's there CASUALLY to avoid accidental pinching with your fingers or your attacker's fingers and closing the blade by accident, many responses to those critics.
But there was a point without response, because it was not a critic, but point made: you can't wave a Yojimbo 2.
And there were the peopple grinder happy grinding away their blades, and there was the zip tie or kydex method.
And variants, of course.
I went to the pertinent store and got several sizes and lenghts of zip ties.
I decided myself for the biggest one I had, and proceeded.
Been testing it.
IT'S A SACRILEGE, MAN.
The Yojimbo 2 it's a beautiful design, truly.
You hold it in your hand, and you can sense you are holding a master piece.
You may not like it for you, but the style and beauty are there.
The zip tie wave ruins it all.
Ruins the aesthetics. Ruins the essence.
What you are doing when adding a zip tie is adding a cube of plastic on top of the blade, and a piece of plastic bended inside the hole, to keep the plastic cubr there.
With that, you kill the spyderhole, and get a bad thumbstud. So if not waved, the knife opens like a cheap knife with poorly executed thumbstuds.
Also, you eliminate the filipino grip advocated and INCORPORATED IN THE DESIGN by Mr. Janich.
And it's not the same than a real wave.
Another thing: having that little cube there changes the position of your hand and fingers ever so slightly...and now the compression lok bites the fleshy baseof my fingers, where the palm ends.
It will wave...but it will be unbalanced, tainted, unperfect.
Don't do that to your Yojimbo 2, like I did.
Been reading reviews, threads, watching youtube...
the hole is recessed, the hole is small, the handle too small, the steel is brittle, the knife is too wide in the pocket, too heavy, the lock pinches your fingers, the access to the lock is to small, many critics..
no, no, the hole is there to give you strong spine, the size of the hole gives you more purchase to your thumb, the handle is smallER than the first model because usingit as an impact weapon is no longer a proirity, an besides, you can use it as an impact weapon anyway, the steel has a better heat treatment than average, so it's not brittle, it's the same wide in it's widest point than a paramilitary, it does't pinches the lock, the small acces to the lock it's there CASUALLY to avoid accidental pinching with your fingers or your attacker's fingers and closing the blade by accident, many responses to those critics.
But there was a point without response, because it was not a critic, but point made: you can't wave a Yojimbo 2.
And there were the peopple grinder happy grinding away their blades, and there was the zip tie or kydex method.
And variants, of course.
I went to the pertinent store and got several sizes and lenghts of zip ties.
I decided myself for the biggest one I had, and proceeded.
Been testing it.
IT'S A SACRILEGE, MAN.
The Yojimbo 2 it's a beautiful design, truly.
You hold it in your hand, and you can sense you are holding a master piece.
You may not like it for you, but the style and beauty are there.
The zip tie wave ruins it all.
Ruins the aesthetics. Ruins the essence.
What you are doing when adding a zip tie is adding a cube of plastic on top of the blade, and a piece of plastic bended inside the hole, to keep the plastic cubr there.
With that, you kill the spyderhole, and get a bad thumbstud. So if not waved, the knife opens like a cheap knife with poorly executed thumbstuds.
Also, you eliminate the filipino grip advocated and INCORPORATED IN THE DESIGN by Mr. Janich.
And it's not the same than a real wave.
Another thing: having that little cube there changes the position of your hand and fingers ever so slightly...and now the compression lok bites the fleshy baseof my fingers, where the palm ends.
It will wave...but it will be unbalanced, tainted, unperfect.
Don't do that to your Yojimbo 2, like I did.
