Pros: Blade Material, Blade Sharpness, Handle Feel, Handle Material, Overall Quality, Pocket Clip, Weight
Cons: Lock Ease of Use, Lock Type
Cool knife, but maybe not for everyone
The knife itself is very nice. It fits my glove size large hand perfectly and is comfy just about any way I hold it. The square edges give it a very solid feel and the g10 has good traction without being rough. The build quality of the pivot is excellent too. A perfect fit where the screws torque down on the center pivot itself and not the blade, that is what allows this washer knife to swing open like a bearing knife. What spoils it for me is the lock, and that it doesn't have more screws holding it together. Closing the knife is awkward in the left hand. In the right hand it's ok but you must be careful of how deeply you jam your finger into the lock area or the tip of your finger can touch the choil area of the blade and prevent it from closing all the way. The lock also doesn't hold the blade closed well, that makes this knife difficult to properly flick closed as the blade really wants to bounce open. Also this knife (and the Military 2) should have at least one more screw and spacer holding it together. The blade stock is thicker than the Endura/Endela but the flexy handle isn't very "hard use". And don't try to take out the lanyard hole spacer, if it's fitment gets loose then it will allow even more handle flex. Regarding the blade. This Maxamet is maybe too brittle for some people. I chipped some very tiny pieces of the edge off mine when I was shaving down some thin nylon on a plastic part I was repairing. I'm not saying that's a flaw, the brittleness is what you get with the extreme hardness. It's a little like trying to use a carbide drill bit in a handheld drill, the odds of the human user not bracing the tool properly and chipping the bit are high. Overall, pretty cool knife. Excellent quality. If I bought again it would be in a tougher steel, but that's just me.
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