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Pros: Blade Material, Blade Sharpness, Finish, Handle Material, Materials, Overall Quality, Sheath/Scabbard, Weight
Cons: None
A favorite
I own hundreds of knives and the Sorrow has got to be in my top 10. I love everything about this knife. The ergos are fantastic. The milling on the G10 is really nice, even though the G10 matches up with the handles not quite perfectly ... unless being "proud" a uniform .01 all the way around was on purpose. The thickness right behind the edge is .03, which I would call medium. Still slicey, but tough. This is obviously designed to be a fighter, but I think it's a good all-around knife. I carry it a lot, and it rests tight up against my body instead of flopping around. Some people might think the sheath doesn't have enough retention, but I don't like to have to grunt when I draw my knife. It's just tight enough that I don't have to worry about it falling out. There's no screw to adjust this. The tip is tough. The only way you could break it is maybe with the kind of prying where you would expect it to break. You could easily pry heavy staples out of a crate, but I think if you actually hammered it into wood about an inch and laid on it with your foot, it would break. I say this because I don't like knives with ultrafine tips. I'm a bit biased against D2 knives because I think a lot of overseas manufacturers are not heat treating it right. I think this must be the good D2 or Real Steel is treating it just right because it doesn't seem to have any edge retention trouble at all. I'm really starting to trust Real Steel as a manufacturer. If I could start all over again as a collector, I think I would have a lot more Real Steel knives in my collection instead of some others. Buy this now because I don't see it on Real Steel's website anymore so they may have discontinued it.