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What are your thoughts on the Giant Mouse Ace Biblio?
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I've heard a lot about it as a good EDC choice. Maybe not the thinnest in the pocket, but really nice in the hand. As for hard use, I don't think that is it's intended use, but if I remember right it was robust enough the the BladeHQ guys to take camping and do some whittling with in one of their videos.
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I just got one a few days ago, and while I haven't put it to much use yet, I have been fiddling a lot with it.
It's pretty good in the hand, I get a 3,75 finger grip on it. My index finger is too fat to comfortably use the choil.
Blade is slicey, with some excellent jimping on the spine.
Wouldn't be the best blade for a Hard use high speed SPEC OPS operator operating operationgly, but it isn't trying to be that.
It's pretty good in the hand, I get a 3,75 finger grip on it. My index finger is too fat to comfortably use the choil.
Blade is slicey, with some excellent jimping on the spine.
Wouldn't be the best blade for a Hard use high speed SPEC OPS operator operating operationgly, but it isn't trying to be that.
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I've never been that impressed with Viper/Tecnocut knife production. It's not bad, but it's certainly not consistent, and subjectively the lockup feels chintzy — and the knives they make for GM are no different, even after GM's additional QC (if there is any). Quality/consistency issues led Nick Shabazz to deem the entire GM lineup a "waste of time" recently. At least the ACE series is priced more in line with Viper. Personally if I was going to own another Maniago-made knife I'd pick something from Fox or Fantoni.
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The Biblio is a great knife. First of all, it has most of the features or qualities I look for in a day-to-day knife: liner lock, Micarta over liners, M390, flipper, full flat grind, simple tip-up pocket clip, full blade shape, contoured scales and in the three-inch range. The fit and finish are flawless. I'm on the fence with forward finger choils however.
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If you have one coming your way already, you will have your own opinion on it soon. For what its worth I own an GM 5, and it has a lot of quality issues, it just sits in a drawer. Hope it helps
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Why don’t you send it back to them? Kevin
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I contacted them, great customer service, changed all screws, the CF has QC issues and the clip is a pocket destroyer, the one in the biblio solves that, just felt I can get a better knife for the money, thats just my opinion
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Carried mine quite a lot in the months after I got it as a partner to a Mora Companion, and I still really like it.
What version are you getting?
It is the natural canvas micarta handles but they have been dyed black. Kevin
Here is one of the pictures he sent me.
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