That’s great to hear! It’s very “casual” looking with the spey blade and people tend to react well to it.

I’ve had the Iridium on my to-buy list for a while now. I’ve been trying to /not/ buy more knives but that one is so darn tempting. :)

Thank you but, I think you’re mixing me up with @dual_spork_dork who is a much better writer than I’ll ever be. :)

I guess, given my lack of posting frequency, I am rightlfully downgraded to “lurker” :)
But I have made a few posts before: https://lemmy.world/u/cetan?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts (not a fan of the reposts counting as my posts so some things are doubled-up)

Only 2 here since switching instances though.

One-hand opening challenge? Winner gets reconstructive surgery on their hand for free!

This is really great. As always thanks for sharing the files!

My second carry is the Civivi Sendy with a far surperior toothpick and tweezers. Not only better than nothing but better than most!

The Victorinox tweezers are… very low quality compared to other offerings. I’ve been using an ALOX Farmer X for a couple years now and I never miss the toothpick or the tweezers. YMMV of course.

Given the poor quality of the clone, “friend” seems a bit of a stretch here. More like a lazy bastard who somehow married into the family and is trying to cozy up to grandma to get some of that sweet sweet inheritance. You didn’t pick them and you surely don’t want them around but it looks like they’ll be there for a while… at least until everyone wises up.

You’re, of course, going to sharpen it, right? :)

Here’s the liner lock OG and the mini side-by-side with the plain pivot and their older (maybe still in use?) logo:

It occurs to me that somebody with a 3D printer and a huge predilection for cutlery related nerdery could probably make custom replacement lock toggles for these pretty easily. Now there’s something to think about.

Indeed. I mean the printer is likely just sitting there waiting for another new project to be worked into the queue, right?

Nice write-up and it’s good to hear it’s so easy to take apart (and hopefully all their glyde locks are like this).

The Penguin was my first QSP purchase, in 2021. They had a pretty good hit on their hands and were putting out decent varients. I think only the liner lock version was avaialble then. I held out for one with green micarta scales. The micarta is fairly smooth and at first I thought it was going to be slippery but that’s not proved to be an issue.

About a year ago I got the mini Penguin in the green micarta. It’s been a great little 5th pocket carry. Not sure if it was based on feedback or just they decided to change it up but the micarta was not as smooth and much more to my liking (especially for a smaller knife).

Most recently (May) I got one of their 4" paring knives in 14C28N. Very thin and slicey blade and the edge retention has been excellent. (As an aside, they list it as a Kiritsuke but it’s double-beveled so I think technically it’s not a Kiritsuke? I’m not a kitchen knife person so I don’t know.)

Edit: they do also make a slip-joint version of the Penguin which is supposed to be excellent. QSP is the OEM for others. In particular I know they made the Stump Lifter and the upcoming Stump Fish for Advanced Knife Bro.

If you really gave a rat’s ass you could attack both of them with one of those graded hardness file sets and figure out which one is softer

Hey, any excuse to buy something new and probably single use for my needs is good enough for me. 😆

It’s just like I’ve gone back to when I was a lad, pawing over the rows of lousy Pakistani cutlery on the tables at the local flea market back in the day

I know the feeling. For me it was a store in a tourist town that was just wall to wall crappy weirdness. In the back was a glass case with knives even a gas station would think twice about carrying. And of course I just stood there wishing a large bag of money would drop from the sky so I could buy them all.

Of the 3 folders, the Duratech is the runaway winner. I did get a decent fixed blade as well but it hasn’t been put to the test. Thanks for the welcome!

I’d use a spray lacquer but only after the paint has been drying for 48 hours. You should do very very light coats many times. Too much and you’ll probably ruin the paint job. The lacquer layering will also take a while as you have to let it dry before applying more.

I’m glad to see a company doing this. I plan to pick up the Flex Modular (with the pliers) this fall.

The other cool thing about this system is that you can, in theory, build a small multi-tool that is TSA friendly. YMMV of course based on how the TSA agents feel that day.