I was given this knife for Christmas by my brother and wanted to give my initial impression of this knife.
I started by touching up the edge. It was sharp but not my kind of sharp. I've batoned about 2-3 nights of kindling/starter wood for the stove with it (the clip tip and the forward curved gaurd gave me good fulcrums for leverage when it would get stuck in the wood occasionally. and the spine being an almost completely uniform thickness meant I could strike any where on it). And it made itself useful in popping some aluminum framed windows free from an old trailer that we are tearing apart. I expected the tip to snap or break several times now, and it just hasn't. the DLC coating has not impressed me though. It scratches and wears pretty easily. One thing I really like is this velcro pad with a snap in the middle.
Makes it easy to put on/off my belt as I don't have to take my belt off to do it. And I feel like the snap relieves some of the shear stress on the velcro. Which I think should make it last longer. It took a while to improve the sharpness, but it does seem to have good edge retention, I have already put it through quite a bit and it has not dulled much, or suffered any edge damage. It definitely feels meaty enough to withstand a fair bit of abusive use and a little neglect. Not sure how I feel about how it is fitted.
Nothing has come loose, there is not rattling. And it doesn't really feel like it ever will (under reasonable circumstances). But it doesn't look like there is any way to get that pin out easily If I did need to disassemble it for one reason or another. The knife has some heft (12 ounces outside of scabbard and 1lb. with). But it doesn't feel nearly as heavy as it looks in the hand. It balances about half an inch below the guard. So it has that sort of balance where it feel butt heavy held upright, but feels tip heavy when you extend it out. The center of percussion is right between the belly and the clip of the tip. The belly choil and ricasso as a whole looks...a little awkward. But it has not presented any actual problems.
I really like the grip. Where the logo is on either side it is actually concave. It lets the meat of my knuckles and the pads of my fingers rest nicely in it. This in conjunction with the deep grooves makes for a really sure grip. It's also pretty comfortable. Though I feel like it could be a little more narrow.
...Over all I like it. Not my absolute favorite among my large fixed blades. But it's decent knife so far. I'd like to know what others who have owned one for longer or havehandeled these before think about it.
I started by touching up the edge. It was sharp but not my kind of sharp. I've batoned about 2-3 nights of kindling/starter wood for the stove with it (the clip tip and the forward curved gaurd gave me good fulcrums for leverage when it would get stuck in the wood occasionally. and the spine being an almost completely uniform thickness meant I could strike any where on it). And it made itself useful in popping some aluminum framed windows free from an old trailer that we are tearing apart. I expected the tip to snap or break several times now, and it just hasn't. the DLC coating has not impressed me though. It scratches and wears pretty easily. One thing I really like is this velcro pad with a snap in the middle.
Makes it easy to put on/off my belt as I don't have to take my belt off to do it. And I feel like the snap relieves some of the shear stress on the velcro. Which I think should make it last longer. It took a while to improve the sharpness, but it does seem to have good edge retention, I have already put it through quite a bit and it has not dulled much, or suffered any edge damage. It definitely feels meaty enough to withstand a fair bit of abusive use and a little neglect. Not sure how I feel about how it is fitted.
Nothing has come loose, there is not rattling. And it doesn't really feel like it ever will (under reasonable circumstances). But it doesn't look like there is any way to get that pin out easily If I did need to disassemble it for one reason or another. The knife has some heft (12 ounces outside of scabbard and 1lb. with). But it doesn't feel nearly as heavy as it looks in the hand. It balances about half an inch below the guard. So it has that sort of balance where it feel butt heavy held upright, but feels tip heavy when you extend it out. The center of percussion is right between the belly and the clip of the tip. The belly choil and ricasso as a whole looks...a little awkward. But it has not presented any actual problems.
I really like the grip. Where the logo is on either side it is actually concave. It lets the meat of my knuckles and the pads of my fingers rest nicely in it. This in conjunction with the deep grooves makes for a really sure grip. It's also pretty comfortable. Though I feel like it could be a little more narrow.
...Over all I like it. Not my absolute favorite among my large fixed blades. But it's decent knife so far. I'd like to know what others who have owned one for longer or havehandeled these before think about it.
