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Just got my Lion in tan g10 scales. I am very impressed with attention to design detail on the handle. Having been an amateur knife maker in the past who did everything by hand it's the small details I appreciate, even though I know most of the work as done with machines.
Handle details I noticed and appreciated: 1. The angled chamfer on the insides of the SS liners are consistent in angle, size, and finish all the way around except where it exactly meets the handle spacer/lanyard/skull crusher. 2. At the handle spacer/lanyard, this piece stand proud (slightly elevated/raised) off the handle back contour. In addition, where it sits against the steel handle liner, the liner is "not" chamferred there so that there is no unsightly gap to collect crap if they did not design the liner and backspacer/lanyard piece to match exactly. Also the chamfer on the backspacer tailpiece itself, exactly matches the amount the piece stands proud . This means the spacer/tailpiece was not simply thrown in there. It was "designed" as part of the overall flow of the knife. 3. The exact same chamfer angle/size on the liners and spacer/tailpiece is the same put on flipper tab. Makes it all very consistent in both design and implementation. Some complain the the flip tab is a too hard on their fingers because it's edges are not chamferred more.. I don't know what to say about that. I don't have pansy fingers and I prefer the design is consistent in looks and implementation. This chamfer angle/size even matches the one on the pivot screw edges. That's serious attention to detail/design 4. They milled about 30% thinner section on the lock spring area so the lock is not so hard to disengage. Even milled it's pretty stiff so I can image how still it would be with the full thickness. 5. The G10 scales edges match the liner edges perfectly. Yes both pieces were cut by some precise CNC machines, but actually implementing and assembling it so matches "after" production steps is not easy. A few thousandths difference here and there and the assembled product doesn't match any more. This precise machining QC also shows with the inset head of the pocket clip into the g20 scale that shows no visible gaps around a part that probably cost 0.05 cents to stamp out. I do wish they had chamferred the edges of the pocket clip to match the rest of the lovely chamfers, but it's a stamped part, but they did well enough to polish off the sides of the clip so it doesn't show the stamping tears on non finished stamped parts.
So for the price. I am simply amazed. Hopefully I didn't just get lucky and they are all mostly as good as the one I got. I'm not going to comment on the blade or steel. The fact that I see a LOT of attention to tiny details and aesthetics on the handle alone makes my inner amateur knifemaker OCD very happy because I know how hard it is to make that level of design consistency by hand.
Kavik
5531
Jul 16, 2018
AdamantinepiggyThis is a very well written and thought out report. You should copy that over into the review section :)
I agree with most of it, but did want to share one thing I found when I just took mine apart (something I always do before coming back to put my own review here) While most everything has great tolerances, the holes for the pins in the backspacer do NOT. 1 of the three is perfectly sized, but the other 2 are quite a bit too large. Out of the box the spacer lined up perfectly like you said, with the chamfer proud. But, on mine at least, it's relying on the tightness of the screws to stay that way. If I loosen the screws I can push the end of the spacer on the spine in far enough to sit flush.
If I ever do give anything a whack with that "glass breaker" I'm sure it will slip out of alignment fen with the screws tight
Adamantinepiggy
82
Jul 18, 2018
KavikAhhh well.. Even if they needed to make the holes a bit bigger in the spacer for fine tuning, I'll give them credit for good alignment on assembly! It's still amazing for the price!
Kavik
5531
Jul 18, 2018
AdamantinepiggyNo argument there :)
ponagathos
512
Nov 16, 2018
AdamantinepiggyI too was very impressed when I received my scimitar. Ordered a Warwolf and a Paladin based on that first impression. I think I will pass on this one since I have too many knives on order already. Also worried that these slightly smaller Bestech models will feel slightly less comfortable in hand. Bigger knives tend to fit my hand better.