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The best version of the Boker kwaiken flipper...

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...in my opinion, is the BladeOps exclusive, with marbled carbon scales and a duplex-ground, satin finish blade, as you can see from the pic. And oh man it's so smooth on the flip--not only the best Boker kwaiken model, but its possibly the best built Boker knife I own. Although the BladeOps exclusive Kihon is pretty great too, but I prefer the kwaiken's VG-10 to the Kihons D2.

Im not a employee or paid shill of BladeOps, just a customer that the guys there have treated like some high-roller millionaire, even though its really more like a hundred-aire; anyhow, just got a notification that BladeOps is doing a 24-hr sale: their kwaiken out the door including their usual free shipping for $99. You just can't beat that; heck, you cant even get that model anywhere else. If you don't already have one, jump in it today and save yourself $50.

Or maybe you disagree, think that kwaiken is junk compared to your favorite. So...make the case.
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T.willy
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Mar 28, 2018
Very nice looking carbon fiber. Thanks for the tip 👍✌
Hatuletoh
850
Mar 28, 2018
T.willyThank YOU for taking a look, and even more if you picked one up.
Couldn't agree with you more about the marbled carbon; in fact, I think it's the very best presentation of that medium. Most times, C seems like a rip-off: a knife maker glues one small, razor-thin insert to a handle, calls it the "carbon fiber model" and charges a 25% premium, despite the fact that C provides no structural benefit and has the same old boring greyscale woven pattern that can be easily achieved by other means.
But the marbled C look great, which is why I bought BladeOps' other exclusive with it, another Boker/Lucas Burnley collaboration, the Kihon. Though it might not be quite so visually striking as the kwaiken, it's more functional, I think, and half its body marbled C. I've attached pics taken in natural light to try to capture how good it looks (sign you're WAY too into knives: your daughter see you on hands and knees on the kitchen floor shooting pics of a knife and finds nothing unusual about the scene).
The fact that half the Kihon's body is C affects the function, whether for good or ill depemds on which hand holds the knife. The stainless steel side weighs more so the knife always wants to list a bit that direction. If held in the right hand, the knife leans into the palm, and it consequently only the lightest grip is needed to hold on; it almost feels like it's defying gravity, and it facilitators detailed cutting.
Conversely, the knife feels like it's trying to jump out of the left hand because the heavier side is away from the palm in that case. Makes the knife hard enough to control that Id say this Kihon model is a right-hander's knife only. So if you're not a southpaw, check it out on bladeops.com--D2 steel, Burnley design and that marbled carbon--lots of it--for the regular price of $99, I think. Oh, and Hinderer overtravel stop on the lock-bar. A nice extra feature.
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Kavik
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Mar 23, 2018
The dual grind in that blade makes me think of the Boker Urban Trapper tanto that's here on MD right now.....if this one has the same tanto blade I'd jump on it. As it is though, as good of a sale as that is, I need to refrain given my recent knife purchases.
Good looking out for the community though 👍
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