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[mak1277]

If anyone is looking for a Winterblade Factor B3: https://winterbladeco.com/

and some B2 as well. at 8 pm EST.

6-8 month delivery time. They look awesome though.

 

[LA Guy]

6-8 month delivery time. They look awesome though.

Meh, that's everything these days. I have a B2 and that's enough for maybe you can pick one up... right now.

 

[mak1277]

Has anyone here handled the iMamba flipper from Arno Bernard. Aside from the detent being light the reviews are good and they are stunning to look at with the inlays they offer. The rinkhals are nice too, but the price is a bit nuts for a slip joint.

 

[LA Guy]

Has anyone here handled the iMamba flipper from Arno Bernard. Aside from the detent being light the reviews are good and they are stunning to look at with the inlays they offer. The rinkhals are nice too, but the price is a bit nuts for a slip joint.

i like the Eforyn one: https://arnobernard.com/collections/imamba-collection/products/imamba®-flipper-with-elforyn, though I have a Microtech MSI shipped to me, and just got the Benchmade Full Immunity (Benchmade quality has improved drastically in the past few years).and I'm having fun with new Hwk shortcut, so unless it fits all my criteria, I'm passing. The inlays do look nice though.

 

[mak1277]

i like the Eforyn one: https://arnobernard.com/collections/imamba-collection/products/imamba®-flipper-with-elforyn, though I have a Microtech MSI shipped to me, and just got the Benchmade Full Immunity (Benchmade quality has improved drastically in the past few years).and I'm having fun with new Hwk shortcut, so unless it fits all my criteria, I'm passing. The inlays do look nice though.

No love for mammoth molar?

imambaⓇ Flipper in Mammoth Molar

Check out the deal on imambaⓇ Flipper in Mammoth Molar at African Sporting Creations

www.africansportingcreations.com

I’m strongly considering getting a gecko or fin&fur in mammoth.

 

[LA Guy]

No love for mammoth molar?

imambaⓇ Flipper in Mammoth Molar

Check out the deal on imambaⓇ Flipper in Mammoth Molar at African Sporting Creations

www.africansportingcreations.com

I’m strongly considering getting a gecko or fin&fur in mammoth.

I like mammoth, and even have a few knives in it. but I have an eye for materials that are both durable and attractive - thus my preference for materials like titanium, G10, damasteel and micarta over things that can and have shattered on dropping. This is sorta just my aesthetic sensibilities as well. I like things like Craftsman furniture and really don't love anything acetate, etc...

 

[DavidLane]

Any one tried Giant Mouse here? I am new(ish) to knives, and the Penguin Fok is just about perfect for me as an EDC (thank you by the way). Was looking at their smaller piece Ace Nibbler as another small piece. Any thoughts or experience?

Thank you.

-DL

 

[LA Guy]

Any one tried Giant Mouse here? I am new(ish) to knives, and the Penguin Fok is just about perfect for me as an EDC (thank you by the way). Was looking at their smaller piece Ace Nibbler as another small piece. Any thoughts or experience?

Thank you.

-DL

I do like Giant Mouse knives, Both Jens Anso and Jesper Voxnaes are amazing designers. Voxnaes maybe the best small big knife designer currently working; I will say that Reate (Chinese) made ones (like the Riv) are much higher quality. A lot of it is cosmetic (fit and finish and types of contouring, etc...) but the incidences of functional things like lockstick are more common on the Italian made knives.

I've heard good things about the nibbler, and it is a Reate made product. probably pretty good.

 

[Jr Mouse]

New version of the Rockwall just hit.

 

[Jr Mouse]

Looks good to me but I’m sad to see no milling on the handle. Feels like they got lazy.

 

[LA Guy]

Looks good to me but I’m sad to see no milling on the handle. Feels like they got lazy.

I like the texture, but I think that they know that if it's their go to for everything, that it could be limiting to their brand. Anyway, I have to say, having a Micarta Maverick now, that Benchmade makes a far superior product. Everyone is bitching and moaning about the price of the new Full Immunity, at $270, with excellent action and fit and finish. Yes, it's a small knife, but that was on purpose, and you could make that a smaller or full sized knife from what is basicallly a mini, for very much less. The work is about the same and the material cost differences would be negligible. The Maverick looks nice, but the action is sluggish and Micarta version comes in at $250, and titanium, at $350. Though I prefer more spring tension (and Kunwu provides them - I've just been too lazy to change them out) the Kunwu Pulsaw is a far superior product, with a more stable lockinng system, an Ti scales, for $259, or $239 in preorder. I realize that the Maverick is made int he USa, etc... but if you are charging $350, get the action right.

In other news - I managed to snag a Microtech MSI (base G10 version) when they were stocked, and that is scheduled to get here next week. After a drought of knives that I really, really, wanted, the Full Immunity came out, I managed to snag an MSI, my shortcut preorder from October came it, and is so much fun as well as being probably my actual most functional "knife", and Casey Lynch finished repairs from September of last year and I got my Hinderer Half Track back with an upgraded Lynch Milled Hinderer clip, as well as one of my favorite quirky knives, the Wilkins Leafstorm V2.

I really, really, really want a Leafstorm with a datmasteel handle and his new wharny blade, like this:

Wilkins-Knives

Knives and Knife Grips made by Kevin Wilkins in Berlin, Germany.

wilkinsknives.bigcartel.com

 

[JohnGalt]

I haven’t been around in a while. Is this where I put my custom Greg Cimms knife with some BMS12 A5?

 

[LA Guy]

I haven’t been around in a while. Is this where I put my custom Greg Cimms knife with some BMS12 A5?

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I'm looking at a Murray Carter custom, but actually want something a bit more robust, a bit more European. I think that what I'd really get the most real use out of is a 5.5-6" petty with a slightly more robust bladestoclk. Nothing crazy, but maybe in the 0-.125 bladestock thickness level, rather than the super thing Japanese knives, which are often closer to 2/3" of that. Any recomendations?

 

[admin]

Visited Winkler Knives in Boone, NC today. Some bloody gorgeous knives, but the nicest were not for sale.

I picked up a Blue Ridge Hunter in sculpted walnut and my buddy got the others.

 

[admin]

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Drop point Crusher, Blue Ridge Hunter, Huntsman.