Hi everyone welcome. This is a 11:28. First of all, I purchased this knife with my own funds, from China via DHgate I, have no affiliation with any manufacturer distributors or resellers. In my opinion, you really have to be careful about all the shill YouTube channels that are out there. This includes most of the channels that promote affiliate links such as Amazon links also be aware of channels that don’t buy the products that you’re reviewing, such as by receiving them from manufacturers.

Ok, now, let’s get into the knife itself. Overall length is 8 5 inches. The blade length is three point: six inches. The weight of the knife is four point: eight ounces, as measured on a digital scale. The handles are stainless steel. The blade steel is fourteen, c28 and supposedly the knife itself is held together with two hollow screws.

One side of the screw is keyed and the other side fits a three millimeter hex wrench. There is a secondary, lock to lock the blade open. The lock will not function when the knife is closed, though it’s inoperable. Okay, let’s go into the good first. The knife is a decent overall length, it’s quite slim and will fit in your pocket easily.

The ergonomics are decent. All the edges have been very nicely rounded, except in one place which I’ll get into later. The lock bar is milled out at a 45 degree, on both sides, and it’s really nice. It gives your plenty of room to get in there, Sandvik 14c 28 as a mid-grade steel, and she should perform quite well given the price that is assuming.

It really is what they claim it is and that it’s been properly. He treated in my prolonged experience with 14c 28 on a Kershaw knife. It has not rusted in my pocket, unlike s30v, which tended to corrode some okay, let’s go into some of the negatives now. First of all, the handle scales are very smooth and provide little traction.

They would be very slippery under some conditions, such as when if they were wet the knife at 4, 8 ounces is a little bit heavier than I prefer steel handles are heavy, has even if they are milled out, which they are personally I. Don’t think metal alloy, be it iron alloy. A case steel, aluminum, alloy or titanium alloy is a very practical material for handle scales.

If you carry it every day, each day chances are you’re, gonna drop, your knife occasionally and the metal handle scales are just gonna get dinged up, whereas g10 scales or carbon fiber scales are gonna, hold up the wear better. Also, if you drop it on something hard, there’s chance of damaging the surface, you drop it on if the hand of skills are metal, the bearings came quite gritty, so I had to disassemble it to clean it out.

I’m, not a fan of bearings and a folding knife. I. Think then, just not as practical with washers, except if you’re gonna use the knife as a fidget toy, then bearings are probably the best choice. Also bearings can go bad, they can get corroded and you need to replace them. Phosphor phosphor, bronze washers, are probably not gonna go bad.

Also, a negative negative was the pocket. Cliff came ridiculously stiff, so stiff that were to require two hands to put it in your pocket, but fortunately, I took a piece of denim cloth, slid it under here and then bent the pocket clip off and now it’s okay. Another negative is the jimping on the flipper tab.

I think it’s a little bit overly aggressive in fact, I’m, just not a fan of jimping on flipper tabs at all, I, don’t think it’s necessary, though it seems to be the current trend. Another negative is on the right side scale. Well on the right side, as you look at it from this angle, because they’ve milled away here this edge here is a little sharp.

So if you grab the knife, really tight, it’s slightly uncomfortable. They should not have know this area out here. Okay, let’s talk acoustics when the knife opens, it has a little bit of a tinny sound. It’s not really a solid black when it opens. Of course, this is just a very subjective just like it’s not bad, but it’s not really a solid black, sound.

Okay, let’s talk warranty say you do have a problem with this knife. Well, first of all, I don’t know if the manufacturer even has any customer service facilities, and even if they do it’s not gonna, be practical to send it back to China at least is going to be cost prohibitive. So, in terms of warranty, your much better off going with a more mainstream manufacturer that has a distribution, channel and service facilities in the US.

Okay, so overall would I buy this knife again well. Overall, the quality I’d say is is excellent, especially for the price. It’s really well finished knife overall, but for me, the metal handle scales are not really practical. It leads to a knife. That’s a little bit on the heavy side. I prefer knives under four ounces.

This is 4 8 ounces and the metal scales are very susceptible to cosmetic damage. So but I’ll leave it up to you whether this is a knife for you or not. So thank you for watching and have a great day and hope to see you again. Bye-Bye.