I received one of the new CRKT Foresight folders designed by Ken Onion today. The friends that sent it to me called wanting to know if I'd gotten the box and if I'd broken/bent/abused or otherwise destroyed the knife yet (what d'ya think they're implying?
). I told them that I'd only had it for 45 minutes and all that time I was going and getting my wife's tractor from the shop so I hadn't had time to do anything worse than cut some mud incrusted sisal rope with it and pound a recalcitrant clip out of the 3-point 
. That seemed to make them happy. 
The stats on the knife are available from CRKT, but here are the basics. 3.5-in plain edge AUS-8 blade, aircraft Al alloy body, Ti-N coating all over, IKBS bearing system pivot, stout detent closed, 420J steel liner lock (without CRKT's suspenders to go with the belt), flipper without a thumb stud/disc, very deep carry right hand only pocket clip, point down carry, sculpted finger grooves on the body with a palm swell and a thumb ramp.
Big knife, but light. Fills the hand without feeling like a lump and locks in well in both a hammer and ice pick grip. The finish is somewhere between satin and flat without any shininess. The finger grooves are angled and my fingers dropped comfortably into them. The liner lock aligned well. The blade is secure without movement up or down or side to side when open. The knife is held against opening by the detent and when the pressure on the fin overcomes the detent the knife "flies" open to lock with a satisfying SNIK. The recurve blade does like to cut and the high hollow grind doesn't leave the edge too thin for tougher work.
My buddy at BadaBing put his customary custom edge on that allows you to read the newspaper in the reflection of the polished edge so I have no idea how sharp it was out of the box. Its disturbingly sharp now.
). I told them that I'd only had it for 45 minutes and all that time I was going and getting my wife's tractor from the shop so I hadn't had time to do anything worse than cut some mud incrusted sisal rope with it and pound a recalcitrant clip out of the 3-point . That seemed to make them happy. The stats on the knife are available from CRKT, but here are the basics. 3.5-in plain edge AUS-8 blade, aircraft Al alloy body, Ti-N coating all over, IKBS bearing system pivot, stout detent closed, 420J steel liner lock (without CRKT's suspenders to go with the belt
), flipper without a thumb stud/disc, very deep carry right hand only pocket clip, point down carry, sculpted finger grooves on the body with a palm swell and a thumb ramp. Big knife, but light. Fills the hand without feeling like a lump and locks in well in both a hammer and ice pick grip. The finish is somewhere between satin and flat without any shininess. The finger grooves are angled and my fingers dropped comfortably into them. The liner lock aligned well. The blade is secure without movement up or down or side to side when open. The knife is held against opening by the detent and when the pressure on the fin overcomes the detent the knife "flies" open to lock with a satisfying SNIK. The recurve blade does like to cut and the high hollow grind doesn't leave the edge too thin for tougher work.
My buddy at BadaBing put his customary custom edge on that allows you to read the newspaper in the reflection of the polished edge so I have no idea how sharp it was out of the box. Its disturbingly sharp now.
