@kyleemj I'd love to see this drop offered with the full titanium S35VN Mini Sheepdog (2.6") and Whistle at a proportionate discount off MSRP (~$115). The Mini is more popular and should sell like crazy at that price.
The price on this full size sheepdog is not too bad at all! If you factor in the free whistle that gives you around $139 for the knife itself. Cheapest I have seen will be around $183 from white mountain knives with the discount codes.
Drop has lately been coming out with all these discounted kizer TIs that doesn’t help the wallet.
Well I'll be damned, it is for the full size model. That's too bad: I guessed wrong and spent this week's knife $ on an exclusive Manix 2 with a CPM 20CV blade.
Hopefully, this is only the first of many times we see this drop, and the time with the fewest color options, since--AHEM--I like the blue handle vesrion better, but like version with the grey handle and black blade best of all. Would love to see at least one of those, although honestly, for $159 I'll still buy the comparatively mundane grey version here. That really is an excellent price; Kizer is one of the few companies that allows meaningful reductions on prices advertised as "discounted".
Hey everyone. Sorry for the confusion, this page is for the full size C01C . Specs have been updated. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we apologize for the confusion.
Can a Drop representative chime in on this? The size specs are listed as the mini. The pics and material specs are for the full size. The mini is offered as a liner lock and has 154cm steel. The full size is s35vn and is a frame lock. Definitely not paying this price for a mini when the mini goes for well under $100 elsewhere. Pics of the blade also have the full size model number. Ki4488.
ChuckHI'm pretty sure the titanium Mini runs around USD$160-170 most places, the g10 Kizer Vanguard Mini seems to run around $60-70 most places I've seen
Well done Drop! Good show, this is the Kizer I and I'm sure many others have been waiting for. I own a bunch of Kizers but have never had the $ at the right time to pick up a Sheepdog. And the standard retail price is $204, so $159 is a fair discount. Indeed, the sale price this knife is usually listed for, when it goes on sale, is like $172 or $174--something like that. So this drop price is basically <$15 from even that. Very nice.
HatuletohWell, for what it's worth the pic is of the full-sized model.
In one of the pics here, the right/lock side of the blade can be see clearly, and on it down on the forte and near the top by the spine--just before the swedge grind, in other words--is Chris Conway's Sheepdog Knives logo and nothing else. If the image depicted an actual Mini model, beneath the logo would be the word "MINI". But the two types are so amazingly identical in their proportions that it's entirely plausible for pics of one to stand in for the other, so I'm not going to put much stock in four missing letters beneath the barely visible logo to be the key that unlocks the answer.
ChuckH: I have to admit I had no idea what you were talking about with the thing about Mini Sheepdogs having 154CM blade steel. After looking around on bladehq.com a bit though, I saw that the original Mini models, the ones with G10 scales, have blades made from 154CM--not VG-10 as I assumed, since every other budget model Kizer using VG-10, to my knowledge. That change makes sense: 154CM is much tougher and overall more versatile, just the sort of things you'd want in a big ol' cleaver blade (even miniature big ol' cleaver blade). However, Kizer recently released Mini Sheepdog models that are truly that: all the same materials as the full size originals--S35VN blades, titanium framel ocks, anodized hardware with contrasting color, etc.--just scaled down to about...well, looks like about 2/3 the size of the big ones. Which I think is the same size as the budget Mini models with the 154CM, but I'm too lazy and busy right now to go look on bhq.con again.
Why is this Kizer so expensive? It is smaller by far and uses the same materials with less machining than the three I picked up here recently for $99(Rattler), $100(River Cat) and $130(Wanderer).