From a german perspective, the knife is awesome due to our laws and what you can carry. Removing the flipper allows me to carry it legally, also them clip is nice too. Im eyeing the knife for some time and will buy it in like 2-3 weeks.

@KnifeNerdery

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, the removable flipper tab idea is definitely a great way of making knives accessible to more markets.

I’m really excited to see your review on this one, such a funky knife haha

@KnifeNerdery

2 жыл бұрын

It's been really fun poking around at it. It does some things a lot better than I expected, but overall the feeling is still "Clever ideas that need more refinement to actually work well" 😝 I should be able to film the review in the next couple of days, but it might slip to this weekend depending on what else I get dragged into. Thanks again for letting me borrow it!!

In my head I say it the way you were questioning so I had to look it up. Turns out Merriam Webster’s has both pronunciations. I’m the opposite of a math nerd so this makes sense.

@KnifeNerdery

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've heard some folks pronounce it with the emphasis on the second syllable in regular life too over the years, but it's always been the small minority. I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce it that way in the math/calculus context, and I spent seven straight years taking calc classes, so the mathy pronunciation is pretty ingrained in my head. 🤷🏼‍♂️ It's not a novel usage of the term -- it's just referring to a single, integrated handle construction technique, so it's the same meaning the word has always had -- so I bet it's just random/regional how people choose to say it and neither is "right" for this context.

The ROK is what got me interested in knives. It's cool in idea but isn't great 😆 The flipper is huge but the action sucks, the HWAL clip is great, but the Roto-lock triggers randomly over time but you can't adjust it to be tighter. It's a pain in the butt to disassemble the knife 😆

@KnifeNerdery

Жыл бұрын

Hahah, yeah, it's full of "great idea, not necessarily great implementation" details. After seeing how they assemble it, I definitely didn't want to take it apart!

That knife is ridiculous... but the clip is kind of awesome. I've thought about how something like that could be implemented, but I always pictured a mechanism that would lower the clip into the handle automatically when the knife is opened. The pen world has done this kind of thing for decades though. In the 60s Sheaffer came out with the "reminder clip" which served as the clicker to extend the point and remained slightly sunk into the body while extended, mostly just so you couldn't clip the pen in your pocket without retracting it. More modern takes on this can be seen on Lamy's Swift and Dialog.

@KnifeNerdery

2 жыл бұрын

Boy do I feel like I could get totally lost in the pen hobby. So many clicky, mechanical things to obsess over. Time to go Google those two. By the way, did you end up getting an iQ in the drop? I messaged you on FB, but don't know if you saw it. Mine arrived yesterday, but I haven't had time to open it yet.

It is pretty cool looking. Is it crazy thick behind the edge?

@KnifeNerdery

2 жыл бұрын

You betcha -- about 28-thou BTE. Which, given it starts at a whopping .18" blade stock, is probably to be expected. This is set up as kind of a bruiser of a knife.

Thats a weird one. I believe the removable flipper tab is for European countries that don’t allow one hand opening. 🤦

@KnifeNerdery

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think you're correct -- especially since lionSTEEL is an Italian company, it's almost certainly at least partially (if not significantly) motivated by EU knife laws. There's also a compelling case for ergonomics on some knives, as removing the flipper lets you choke up a lot further. As I'll show in my upcoming review, this particular knife kind of fails at both of those ideas, though: they placed a swedge exactly where you'd want to pull to open two-handed, making it really hard to get a good grip, and the forward part in front of the lockbar cutout is too small to comfortably choke up on even without the flipper tab there. That is becoming more and more the thesis statement of this knife: ambitious, clever ideas that need more refinement to actually "work".

@ashwilliams779

Жыл бұрын

​@@KnifeNerdery le port de couteaux,même un opinel ou un sak est formellement interdit en france et dans le reste de l Europe.....normalement......pour le flipper c est juste que ce n est pas très populaire chez nous,cela casse l esthétique du couteau.

What watch are you wearing?

@KnifeNerdery

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, I've had a couple folks ask me that before in conversations -- maybe I should do a short video on it at some point? It's a Longines Flagship Gent, specifically reference L4.874.4.72.2. I spent _years_ researching watches until I finally found exactly what I was looking for, and then somehow managed to buy only that one without falling down the rabbit hole. I've worn it every day for the last 6 years, and I still absolutely love it. It's pretty different from what most "watch guys" in the EDC community are after -- smaller bezel (38.5mm) and super slim (8.5mm) -- but it has a great movement (the L619.2 is an embellished ETA 2892-2, with hacking seconds, quick-adjust date, and smooth 28.8k beat rate), a display back to let me gaze at its gorgeous little wizardy, and it keeps exceptionally good time for a mechanical watch (it's not chronograph rated, but it's tested at chronograph levels the two times I've had it measured). Oh, and it's on an Equus strap in Sedgwick bridle leather (originally in the Hazel color, but boy has it darkened) with an RHD deployant clasp. I adore it, and it's one of extremely few high-value items for which I have had absolutely zero buyer's remorse.

Yeah the flipper is bad. I would remove it and never let it out of the box ever again. 👍🏻

@KnifeNerdery

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 Yeah, it's pretty freakin' awful. Less a Pocket Pecker and more a Pocket Monolith. It genuinely works better than I expected, but I still hate it.

I think there could be a reason why you have over 1,300 views and 34 likes.

@KnifeNerdery

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣 I assume you're pointing out that it's _only_ 34 likes, right? And looks like it's over 1400 views, so the ratio is even worse. But yeah, probably a reason! I'm assuming you're one of the folks who didn't like it, so what would you want me to have done differently? This is just the unboxing, so you can see the full "Small Details Review" on this knife here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKl7q9WOpKrXibw.html