WTS: Hinderer XM-18 3.5" flipper. Photos added!

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I hate to do it but have to part with my Gen 4 3.5" spanto flipper. The knife is used but with being fully stonewashed you can barely tell. The blade steel is S35VN, the blade does have the laser stamping on the blade. I flipped the clip for tip-up carry, I have also installed blue titanium standoffs. The blade has not been sharpened but could use a touch up. Lock-up is solid with no blade play whatsoever. The knife does feature a black G-10 scale and I do not have the box. I am asking Sold to kzinti1 shipped

I would like to keep the sale CONUS and would prefer paypal. For any and all questions and inquires please Email me at Hkrantz28@gmail.com
 
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And money sent back atcha! Thanks!
This makes my 3rd XM-18 3.5" and now I have all 3 blade designs.
I'd already ordered a pair of scales, one translucent green and the other battleship gray, a bottle of Tuf-Glide, a set of bronze/titanium stand-offs, a spare parts kit plus a Work Sharp WSKTS-1 Knife and Tool Sharpener kit.
I read a couple of reviews of the Ken Onion sharpener that said they should've just stuck with the kit that I ordered. At almost half the price.
I hope the reviewers were right, but I'll never know.
Looks like I'm gonna be busy for a while.
I'm not sure about the Hinderer Teflon washers. Mine feel kind of soft and I'm thinking it's why my 2 knives just don't flip open with the flipper, without a lot of wrist action.
It seems to me that if the washers were harder they would cause less friction.
The knives pop right open with the buttons, though. And the flipper makes a very nice finger guard so I'm not complaining.
For the price that Hinderer charges, it seems to me he would've used ball-bearings instead of old school type washers.
All I can figure is that these knives are easier to service, in the field, with washers. After all, they're made to be used, not just played with and displayed.
I just found out the other day that the retailers charge twice the factory cost of these knives.
And supply and demand can't keep up with them?
And Chris Reeve knives cost more at the factory than the same knives do at retail? What a world!

(I just received this knife. Another excellent job by Hinderer Knives!
Nicely packed and a very good price. Thank you!)
 
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