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Massdrop x Tashi Bharucha Heat Seeker Folding Knife
kmstewart
2
Feb 20, 2019
No sharpening choil.. Not great. If I were wildly impressed with the design and look of the knife, I might have bought one and had a sharpening choil added after the fact by either myself or a professional sharpener that I know but this knife just doesn't really appeal to me enough to do that. Most, if not all, of the Massdrop/FFKW/WE collaborations have gotten this detail right. The Prism also got this right, which was also a Tashi design. I don't know why someone who obviously knows what the notch is for would fail to include it on any design. The blade just looks unfinished and frankly, kind of ugly. Nothing against anyone who likes the look of this design, I just don't.
However, I don't see the notch as a "designer's choice" sort of decision. If the knife is meant to be used as a tool, it will inevitably need periodical sharpening and the lack of a sharpening notch not only makes the blade look amateurish in its design but it will unquestionably be harder and just downright annoying to maintain the edge.
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svtcobra00
113
Feb 20, 2019
kmstewartYou don’t need a choil with that blade
RBnumber3
112
Feb 21, 2019
kmstewartThe simple answer is that's how Tashi designed the original and this is true to his design. Another answer is that not everyone has the same priorities in a design. Traditionally a lot of "tactical" trailing point and Persian designs have not had a choil because a choil can get hung up when pulling the knife back out of something. Look at a lot of the Liong Mah designs, the Benchmade AFCK, most Spyderco models, many older Elishewitz models including my own custom Stryker. None of these were designed by amateurs, just designers with different priorities. Whether or not I find that important personally, if I'm buying a Tashi design I'll take it as he intended, not altered based on an individual buyer's idea of what's important. Anyone who feels strongly about it can do it after the fact.
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