Pros: Blade Material, Blade Sharpness, Ease of Opening, Handle Feel, Handle Material, Lock Ease of Use, Lock Type, Overall Quality, Pocket Clip, Sheath, Weight
Cons: None
Awesome knife, knifecenter exclusives continue to be the best version
Don’t listen the complaints from the people complaining about it being small, or hard to open with large hands, or the detent being too hard. One guy has xxl hands as stated he had no problem, I have xl and I’ve had no problem, and it’s not knifecenter’s job to tell you that a knife is too small for your hands. They list the every dimension and spec on the site. Instead of crying about knifecenter not warning you, the one person, that they don’t know, that this knife could be tough for you to open, read the specs, not hard and it’s your fault not theirs. There is nothing wrong with a tough detent on a knife because it will break in. It’s much better to have a heavy detent than one that’s too light. As far as the detent being “heavy” or “hard”, that’s mostly comes down to how you apply the pressure to the detent. Because of the geometry between the thumb stud, pivot point, detent location and depth, as well as the ergonomics of the handle, you just need to learn the best way to open it. In some knive you can apply pressure at the 11-12 o’clock position and it will fire out like a rocket. Due to the knife being very slender, short and the thumb stud placement, this knife works better using either the slow roll out, or you need to find that perfect angle to push out on the studs to get it to pop open. It’s just basic mechanical physics. With a wider knife, the margin of force application is greater in order to to push the blade out to “pop” open and to defer the detent. The distance from the stud to the pivot point is not only shorter but the stud is very close to the pivots vertical axis, which means that you can’t apply pressure as much upward pressure to defeat the detent without increasing the force needed due to the lack of leverage as a result of the stud being so close to the vertices axis. If the stud was further out from the vertical axis then the leverage affect would enable to you to more easily pop open the blade. In this design you need to push more out horizontally say like 10 o’clock so easily defeat the detent but that decreases the amount of force applied vertically that is responsible for the “pop” opening. This knife is great. I’m not a small knife guy due to the needs I have on most days but this one is. Great looking gentleman’s semi formal knife. It’s awesome at doing small knife tasks like slicing apples, opening packages, cutting strings and so on. These knives are made 100’s at a time maybe even a 1000 in a day. Anytime anything is manufactured, especially on a large scale, there will be be some variance in the details like edge sharpness, detent depth. And anyone who knows anything about making micarta knows it’s almost impossible to get the same exact color from batch to batch, and anyone who’s taken photos, especially product photos knows that the lighting can change the look, the shade, the depth, and even the texture of things compared to in real life. Denim micarta can come in many colors, just like your Levi’s. Within the same stack at the store having a variation of the “same color” blue, you’ll get the same thing with micarta.
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