I got mine about 3 weeks ago from the last drop. I already owned two other Kizer/Cucchiara collabs, the Flashbang (with rainbow skull) and the plain, bead-blasted Ti Trifecta. Actually, I also own the green G10 Flashbang, which is actually mini-sized like this mini Dorado, but Ill stick w/ a like-to-like comparison and only consider the Ti-framed models.
I also own a couple other designers' Kizer productions, including the recent MD offered Alter Ego, and as you can probably tell, I love my Kizers. And especially my Cuchiarra models--theyre beasts in size, beautifully built, and have blade deployment as smooth and swift as my best Zero Tolerance,
So I was supet stoked about this drop when I saw it a few months back, esp to try out the M390 blade steel (and of course I ordered the rainbow skull version, so much better looking than (yawn) plain grey Ti.
The knife looked grear out of the box, of course, but the blade would not deploy with even a stern flip. Id never experienced anything like that with a Kizer, granted the mini Dorado has a much thinner/lighter build than the similarly shaped, but obviously bigger full-size Flashbang. But even my G10 models flipped great.
To make a long story short(er), the deployment problem was mostly caused by an off-center blade. I was able to fix it by adjusting the torque of all the screws, but it didnt get truly smooth until I swapped out the screws holding the pocket clip with ones from one of my G10 Kizers. For whatever reason, the original screws let the clip touch the frame look a bit, inhibiting the movement of the blade.
So in the end, alls well that ends well, but I was a bit surprised that this Kizer knife didnt quite live up to the quality of the others I have. It was like the final finisher quit 10 min before the job was done. Hopefully that's an aberration, because i see from the serial # (105 of 200) this knife appears to be part of a batch specially made/set aside for the drop.
I also own a couple other designers' Kizer productions, including the recent MD offered Alter Ego, and as you can probably tell, I love my Kizers. And especially my Cuchiarra models--theyre beasts in size, beautifully built, and have blade deployment as smooth and swift as my best Zero Tolerance,
So I was supet stoked about this drop when I saw it a few months back, esp to try out the M390 blade steel (and of course I ordered the rainbow skull version, so much better looking than (yawn) plain grey Ti.
The knife looked grear out of the box, of course, but the blade would not deploy with even a stern flip. Id never experienced anything like that with a Kizer, granted the mini Dorado has a much thinner/lighter build than the similarly shaped, but obviously bigger full-size Flashbang. But even my G10 models flipped great.
To make a long story short(er), the deployment problem was mostly caused by an off-center blade. I was able to fix it by adjusting the torque of all the screws, but it didnt get truly smooth until I swapped out the screws holding the pocket clip with ones from one of my G10 Kizers. For whatever reason, the original screws let the clip touch the frame look a bit, inhibiting the movement of the blade.
So in the end, alls well that ends well, but I was a bit surprised that this Kizer knife didnt quite live up to the quality of the others I have. It was like the final finisher quit 10 min before the job was done. Hopefully that's an aberration, because i see from the serial # (105 of 200) this knife appears to be part of a batch specially made/set aside for the drop.