Certainly this. The White Owl took off from the USA on 30th Nov and clearly struggled across the Atlantic....arrived in Helsinki 3rd Jan where Posti decided to detain it another 15 days before reaching its well earned perch last night.
Many sincere thanks to
@btb01 for arranging all this and likely enduring angst over its fate, really appreciate it Barrett.
Some words about the knife: owners have complained about blade-rub on theirs, none of that here at all. Maybe people are not skilled in opening? Beautiful light colour version, with first rate W&T, no blade play at all, no perceptible gaps, spring flush open/close. Excellent radiusing and overall finish, very high quality indeed. This run of White Owls appear to my eye to have a slightly broader spring than the earlier ones, anybody else notice this?
There's been a fair bit of interesting discussion about nail nick access recently. One of the reasons I prefer a blade each end to a side by side Jack is that you don't get this potential problem
However, if a knife has same side nicks then BOTH must be accessible, otherwise the knife is simply dysfunctional. I don't really see the allure of same side nicks and as others have noted, the type of master blade makes a difference, so in many ways nicks on each side is more trustworthy. Looking at an all steel Eureka, the Spear master sits low but the Coping minor doesn't inhibit opening as the Eureka's nick is set well back, so GEC can do it if they want.
Will Power
, those White Owls are wonderful, but the Cougar Clawed Churchill steals the show! It is on my all time best GEC list for sure.
