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Pros: Blade Material, Blade Sharpness, Ease of Opening, Handle Feel, Handle Material, Lock Ease of Use, Lock Type, Overall Quality
Cons: Pocket Clip
Viper Moon with a SureTouch handle is near perfection
No matter what I use a knife for I want to be able to fully control that knife, and the biggest factor in that is the nature of knife's handle: its size, shape and material. About a year ago I bought a Viper Moon with G10 handles here on KnifeCenter with a red, G10 handle. It fit perfectly in my hand with no hotspots whatsoever once I removed the $!#^#@% pocket clip. (I HATE ALL POCKET CLIPS!) The Viper Moon is far and away the most comfortable pocket knife I have, and it's VERY controllable because the shape and size of the handle so perfectly fits my hand. HOWEVER I need to grip that handle firmly to compensate for the smoothness of the G10 scales on the handle. Consequently other knives I have lock more firmly into my grip for reasons of their size, shape, and NOT having smooth G10 scales.Recently I purchased my first pocket knife which has SureTouch scales. WOW! What those alternating layers of G10 and rubber do to improve grip and controllability is amazing. So why not have SureTouch scales on my Viper Moon??? I suppose I might have found SureTouch scales for my Moon somewhere, but I decided to do an apples-to-apples comparison with two Viper Moons, one with G10 scales and the other with SureTouch scales.OMFG!! The rubber in the SureTouch handles makes that Viper Moon lock into my grip almost like it is glued to my hand. I can now get a better grip on my Viper Moon with its SureTouch handle than on any of my other knives. I cannot recommend this knife enough for the comfort of its perfect (for my hands) handle shape and the security of its SureTouch grip.Oh, and the Viper Moon has all that other good stuff like a great, strong, Magnacut blade; a very nice button lock; smooth flipper action; etc.
