Eric5273
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This is the first time I’ve ever done a knife review, so here it goes....
Just got this knife today, and I’m pretty sure this is the nicest knife I’ve ever handled. I tend to prefer smaller knives, less than 4 inches length when closed, and up until now my favorite knives I own were the Olamic Busker and TRM Neutron, but this one is nicer than both of those.
It’s also lighter than both of those knives, which is impressive for a titanium frame lock with 0.13” blade stock thickness. The interior of the scales are milled out to save weight, and the result is a knife that feels as light as a Benchmade Bugout. Based on weight alone, it feels as if the scales must be aluminum and not titanium, but then you can tell it’s too nice to be aluminum.
It has such a refined look, the titanium handles have a sort of polished stonewash, and most of the screws are hidden. All that’s visible is one single torx screw on the lock side, and of course the pivot screws... everything else is hidden. And since the pivot screws have their own cool design, the show side of the knife looks like there is no hardware. And yes, they give you the special pivot tool.
There are no sharp areas on the knife, everything is very smooth and chamfered and very ergonomic for such a small knife (3.5 inches length when closed). I suppose the Busker is a little bit more ergonomic due to the included finger choil, but the SPAR-K has a surprisingly comfortable handle and I can just barely get all 4 fingers on there comfortably. If you have very large hands, it’s probably a 3-finger knife.
The action is great with the Kickstop hidden flipper. It’s too small of a blade to fall shut, but the detent is dialed in great and upon both opening and closing, it gives off a really nice snap/clicky sound. It’s definitely the most “clicky” and fidgety knife I own, even more so than the Busker.
And then there’s the blade.... It has a hand-rubbed satin sort of look, although I don’t believe it’s hand rubbed. It just has that expensive look where the grain of the grind, flats and swedge sections all go in different, but uniform directions. And it’s definitely super thin behind the edge.
If you like small knives, I’d definitely recommend one of these! I got the plain titanium version as I thought the copper inlay version looked a bit busy.
Just got this knife today, and I’m pretty sure this is the nicest knife I’ve ever handled. I tend to prefer smaller knives, less than 4 inches length when closed, and up until now my favorite knives I own were the Olamic Busker and TRM Neutron, but this one is nicer than both of those.
It’s also lighter than both of those knives, which is impressive for a titanium frame lock with 0.13” blade stock thickness. The interior of the scales are milled out to save weight, and the result is a knife that feels as light as a Benchmade Bugout. Based on weight alone, it feels as if the scales must be aluminum and not titanium, but then you can tell it’s too nice to be aluminum.
It has such a refined look, the titanium handles have a sort of polished stonewash, and most of the screws are hidden. All that’s visible is one single torx screw on the lock side, and of course the pivot screws... everything else is hidden. And since the pivot screws have their own cool design, the show side of the knife looks like there is no hardware. And yes, they give you the special pivot tool.
There are no sharp areas on the knife, everything is very smooth and chamfered and very ergonomic for such a small knife (3.5 inches length when closed). I suppose the Busker is a little bit more ergonomic due to the included finger choil, but the SPAR-K has a surprisingly comfortable handle and I can just barely get all 4 fingers on there comfortably. If you have very large hands, it’s probably a 3-finger knife.
The action is great with the Kickstop hidden flipper. It’s too small of a blade to fall shut, but the detent is dialed in great and upon both opening and closing, it gives off a really nice snap/clicky sound. It’s definitely the most “clicky” and fidgety knife I own, even more so than the Busker.
And then there’s the blade.... It has a hand-rubbed satin sort of look, although I don’t believe it’s hand rubbed. It just has that expensive look where the grain of the grind, flats and swedge sections all go in different, but uniform directions. And it’s definitely super thin behind the edge.
If you like small knives, I’d definitely recommend one of these! I got the plain titanium version as I thought the copper inlay version looked a bit busy.