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EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

15V Para 3 for today.

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ktataragasi said:
This is hollow ground right? How is it?
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Yes. It has a nice hollow grind. Overall, quite good. They tried to accommodate a lot here and that doesn't always go as well as it does here. For instance, they've got an opening hole, front flipper, and something like a regular flipper. The regular flipper is actually a little hook that lets it work with minimal material. The only catch is that if I'm messing around and not paying attention, I sometime get my finger caught between the tabs when opening without thinking. That's as much user error though. I just have to think about whichever method I'm using.

The same is true for the ergonomics. The contoured Richlite looks good but also feels good. They do the half-choil thing like a lot of the Spyderco knives but clearly give two different choices of hand position. Going under and holding it as a three-finger knife works well for me. Four fingers with one in the choil feels awkward but that's a feature of my hand. (A lot of the Spyderco knives fail to fit my hand that way too.)

I haven't taken it apart yet but I'll post pics in the disassembly thread when I do. I've seen more Kizers running on multi-row bearings lately and they never bother to advertise it. So I'll be curious to find out if they did that here.
 
Chronovore said:
Yes. It has a nice hollow grind. Overall, quite good. They tried to accommodate a lot here and that doesn't always go as well as it does here. For instance, they've got an opening hole, front flipper, and something like a regular flipper. The regular flipper is actually a little hook that lets it work with minimal material. The only catch is that if I'm messing around and not paying attention, I sometime get my finger caught between the tabs when opening without thinking. That's as much user error though. I just have to think about whichever method I'm using.

The same is true for the ergonomics. The contoured Richlite looks good but also feels good. They do the half-choil thing like a lot of the Spyderco knives but clearly give two different choices of hand position. Going under and holding it as a three-finger knife works well for me. Four fingers with one in the choil feels awkward but that's a feature of my hand. (A lot of the Spyderco knives fail to fit my hand that way too.)

I haven't taken it apart yet but I'll post pics in the disassembly thread when I do. I've seen more Kizers running on multi-row bearings lately and they never bother to advertise it. So I'll be curious to find out if they did that here.
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Awesome breakdown. Thanks man!
 
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