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Rike Knife M3 154CM Folding Knife
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Rike Knife M3 154CM Folding Knife
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Looking at either side of the Rike Knife M3 folder is a totally different experience. On the show side is a G-10 scale in your choice of color Read More
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keyboard_arrow_downSylentKnight
112
Sep 10, 2019
For those that are curious, Blade HQ has pictures that aren't organized in a confusing manner https://www.bladehq.com/?search=rike+m3
JP9MM
7
Sep 16, 2019
They tried to throw too many things at this design, really nice pivot but then theres the bottle opener / hex tool on the blade with a triangle cut out with a star in it? At least there's a spot for a floppy disc drive in the handle :)
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NiteNinja
140
Nov 11, 2019
JP9MMFinally a knife that can also let me play my original disk copy of Doom.
Dirk12
5
Mar 23, 2020
crowleykirkI'm confused. What are we holding China accountable for this time? Also, what about buying products made in Japan, Germany, or Switzerland?
JaegerD
190
Mar 24, 2020
Dirk12China just makes only shit I guess...
But I really enjoy the
"NO MORE SHIT FROM CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" With this right after,
"I don't know where this knife is from.".
As for European goods... they must be shit as well, being not American and such
Bobraz
2631
Sep 13, 2019
This has an aggressive looking design, not necessarily a bad thing 😃
I just know that you flip this open in an office, and several office workers risk pissing themselves! 😂
Kingdimofkush81
12
Sep 15, 2019
BobrazWith the "wave" opener you can't even retrieve it quickly from your pocket with out creating a potential (crime) scene lol
djpr
304
Sep 15, 2019
I very much doubt it. I've seen a few wave knives coming out recently. I wonder if the emerson patent has run out?
ponagathos
512
Oct 4, 2019
djprThe patent ended in 2017 but I believe they still have a trademark in effect for calling it "wave". Cold Steel has being selling knives that wave for a while but the were never called wave. Not sure if their design was different enough with the thumb disk(it is in my opinion since the disk waves or uses your thumb to open) or if they are just bigger and willing to fight in court. I remember hearing them sending lawyers after other knifemakers using the term "San Mai" which is definitely not something they invented.
RJES
40
Feb 14, 2020
I really like the look of this knife... unfortunately, I had to cancel my order when I realized it was a clear rip-off of the Spyderco Tropen.
AJAugust
353
May 14, 2020
“...copy or a clone and almost any knife has some similarities with another...” you mean like an edge or a bevel?
Just joshing with ya :)
LMNOBeast
32
Dec 17, 2019
This is pretty trivial but I'm getting worn out on the blue hardware. It often looks like a forced one-size-fits-all afterthought. Anodized blue and OD green are an awful combination. And it definitely seems like a group-think, it's-what-everyone-is-doing mentality and I would expect more from Rike—this is the kind of thing you see on Ganzo or any of the other budget Chinese brands. And they're not alone. I really like the Kizer Roach but that stupid blue backspacer kills it for me. I know it's kinda silly and petty but I'm just tired of seeing that shit. It seems standard polished or stonewashed hardware would be more generally pleasing without turning people off. Of course they could [gasp] try using other colors that are a better compliment to the overall design.
reswright
3851
Feb 11, 2020
LMNOBeastI agree with you, but I don't expect the knife industry to get away from blue titanium fittings anytime soon.
Blue is a color of privilege in the West. Goes back to the days when blue dye was hard to make and expensive. Not as prestigious as purple used to be -- which used to be so difficult to dye that it was reserved for royalty, they made it from snails if you can believe that. Still once upon a time indigo blue dye was one of the most valuable agricultural products you could produce.
That's probably part of why it still gets chosen so much in the modern age, but there's another reason that weighs in more, at least with titanium fittings. I think the reason you see so much blue tinted titanium fittings is that the blue's a lot easier to anodize than some other colors. Green, for example, which I'd have preferred on this knife as well, takes a much higher voltage to anodize. For people like you and me who might anodize stuff at home, it raises our expense a bit, we need to buy a more expensive power source, and if we're going for any sort of two toned effect we have to do the green first because it'll wipe out other colors in the anodization bath. that's just for people like you and me doing onesy-twosey work at home -- at the industrial scale where you're ionizing a large anodization cell and everything in it, anodizing to green adds significant expense because your gear needs to be able to push a lot more volts through the electrolytic solution, and over time it wears out much faster.
Looking4deals
23
Nov 12, 2019
Does anyone know what knife is in picture #4 of 7 the same photo is #5 0f 8 it looks like that it is green g10 with stone washed blue and black Ti scale is this an option there not offering? I'm confused is the green g10 knife going to have that on the lock bar side? Would like to know, thanks.
reswright
3851
Nov 18, 2019
Looking4dealsThat option is what I got. I ordered the OD and green Ti. I didn’t get a Ti scale that looked anything like pic number 4 tho.
the Ti scale on the knife in pic number 4 was much more aggressively weathered then apparently fully chemically stripped before it was reanodized green - getting that shade of green with that intensity isn’t easy. What I got was nominally weathered and reanodized blue. There’s pics of it.
someone like @Kavik could tell you better about producing the differences but the upshot is the knife in the pic looks like it was done by hand using really good technique and the one I got looks like it was batch weathered lightly and batch anodized without getting quite so cleaned off first. There may have been color enhancement on their photos as well; tweaking, but still.
Kavik
5531
Nov 18, 2019
reswrightSo many variables involved, it's almost impossible to even guess at.
The way the photography and photo editing was done (and even the settings of your screen) is going to be a huge variable.
With tumbling for the two tone effect, no two are ever going to have the same amount of weathering, even using the same material and same times.
Then the colors for the final anodizing stage can vary at the same voltage, depending on the level of polish on the piece, how clean the piece was, the concentration of the solution, the temperature of the solution, how good of a connection there was, the distance from the anode, the time in the bath.
Not to mention how clean it is between the anodizing and the pics, is there packing oils or skin oils on the knife from handling while taking the pics?
So many wildcards, even in a carefully controlled production setting you could have two radically different pieces in the end.
In my eyes, that's part of the appeal though, each piece can be unique, even in a production model knife
Can always try wiping it down with windex to see if it goes back to the color you were expecting when it's clean and free of oils...but it may just change back again the next time you use it lol
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