SOG Pillar: USA S35vn

[beestokk]

There sure is! Good price too

I thought so too. Nice looking blades...

 

[vjb.knife]

Thanks for the review, good job. I have not liked SOG knives since probably 25 years or so but this one could possibly change my mind about them and it is made in the USA. Overall I think it is a nice knife; maybe worth a try. I still think SOG makes a lot of real stinkers but this one is better.

 

[y53p]

Good review.

If you find that it rides too high:

Hey where did you get that loop attachment? (or whatever its called)

 

[y53p]

By the way does this knife throw sparks off the spine when striking a ferro rod?

 

[Mistwalker]

I think my biggest gripe about the knife is the design of the choil. It always feels like my finger is going to slide up onto the blade if I use it.

I haven't used the choil much. I will say that it could be more circular.

I agree on both counts, I'm going to mod mine to widen it a little... take the corner just a little further up the blade. If I use the choil with just the first joint of my forefinger with my thumb on the thumb ramp just to rotate the blade / tip in light pressure detail work it's fine, but with the second joint for more force, then the edge is too close to my finger.

This is the first SOG I've bought in quite some time, I like that it doesn't have all the notches on the spine, that the forward hump is shorter than the rear one, that the blade is uncoated, that it is full tang with micarta scales, and that it has a textured tang extension. Though I'm not in love with the sheath I don't hate it either. As a whole it seems much more well thought out than the SEAL Team Elite and Tigershark Elite were, and taken more seriously. So far I'm liking a lot of what I am seeing from SOG's new owners.

As for carry options, just to throw it out there, the hole spacing is perfect for the ESEE 3/4 boot/belt clip as well. And using that inside belt with the knife in a reverse underhand position the knife rides high enough it goes unnoticed under a loose t-shirt and doesn't interfere with my seat belt.

 

[craytab]

So far I'm liking a lot of what I am seeing from SOG's new owners.

I agree with most of what you said. But if you are talking about GSM, this knife predates them by quite a bit.

It is a very good knife. I wish I had held on to it but sadly I had so many knives in this size at the time and went through a major purge of my collection.

 

[Mistwalker]

I agree with most of what you said. But if you are talking about GSM, this knife predates them by quite a bit.

It is a very good knife. I wish I had held on to it but sadly I had so many knives in this size at the time and went through a major purge of my collection.

I wasn't sure on the timeline of this one, but we have several new SOG fixed blades in at the shop where I work, and I like the new hard sheath of the SEAL Pup I just bought much better than the nylon one on the one I bought back in 2020. Admittedly I haven't dug into the timeline on any of them. I had stopped caring much for SOG in like 2012, so more accurate to just say I like what I am seeing out of them now much better than what I was seeing a decade ago. I'm liking the US made S35VN Pentagon as well, may pick up one of those also.