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Kavik
5531
Aug 15, 2018
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This is perhaps my most beautiful knife so far. The design of it is just gorgeous, and it's absurdly comfortable in the hand. Their design team knocked this one right out of the park!
General features : Action is buttery smooth Solid lockup, no lock stick Centering is perfect Clip rides reasonably low compared to many of these types of knives/clips Came sharp as all heck out of the box Externally I found absolutely zero issues with fit or finish or design choices
So why not 5 stars? 1-Detent. Detent detent detent! It's just strong enough that the flipper action works well, but weak enough that I can shake it open with little more than a wrist flip. Making it illegal to carry anywhere with gravity assist laws.... Like where I live. I've tried tweaking it a bit and can't find any fix that makes it any stronger. 2-Hardware. Screws feel very soft. This is SUCH an easy place where all manufacturers could improve any knife for a fraction of a percent of the total value of the knife. There no reason to skimp pennies on a $200 knife and have a customer deform a torx head on the first disassembly 3-I'm not 100% confident in the way they attached the CF:
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As you can see, everything on this knife comes apart, the CF isn't permanently affixed to the handles.
All that holds it into the milled groove is the one screw at the tail end, and the pivot collar. On the collar end I'm not too worried, they left a decent thickness with nice clean milling:
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But on the opposite end, where it's just held by a screw, that's where I have less faith. Way too thin on this end:
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And I can't tell if it was sloppy milling, or if the CF was damaged during assembly, but either way, it was already a bit jacked up the first time I took it apart:
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(both sides looked roughly the same, but this one was just slightly worse) That said, I've gotten a good feeling from the couple interactions I've had with Bestech. I feel like they would be good about replacing the inlays if it ever came to that. So I'll enjoy it as it is and be gentle if I have to disassemble again in the future