mcb
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So I was at Academy yesterday and this knife caught my attention and after I hemmed and hawed about it while perusing the nearly empty ammunition isle I sort of impulse bought it. This is not the typical type of knife I use but I liked the looks and I though it would make a good knife to slide into a pack's admin panel or similar place, and to carry in more formal attire. If I am carrying a knife (in addition to a multi-tool, often I only carry a multi-tool) it is usually a well used Kershaw Cryo II.
The knife is a CRKT CEO. Certainly not an expensive knife but it seemed well build with acceptable materials, ie maybe not junk.
The wife had gotten a new patio set (two chairs, loveseat, and table that I got to assemble it earlier) and it came in two big boxes. I also had a few other large boxes to cut up for the recycling. So I pressed the new knife into service. It did OK. It was not as sharp out of the box as I would like but it made it about 2/3's of the way through the stack before I decided it could be sharper and went in and spent two minutes on the crock sticks to improve the edge and finish the job. I was wearing some gloves and in a gloved hand indexing the blade with how short (top to bottom) the handle is was something you had to pay attention too. The handle is roughly the same width and heights so it difficult to tell orientation in the hand. The pocket clip became my reference for keeping the sharpe edge going the direction I wanted.
It can be flicked open and close with one hand. The thumb stud is small and well recessed into the handle which makes it snag free but making it harder to use, similar with the liner lock, it a bit hard to get to. But given the style of knife it is acceptable for my use and after a little practice one handed open and close is fairly easy.
After cleaning all the tape residue off the blade and giving it a more diligent run over the crock sticks it took a nice edge. Well see how it holds the edge with more use. This has always been my complaint with CRKT knives before. I liked them but they never held an edge as well as my Kershaws.
-rambling
The knife is a CRKT CEO. Certainly not an expensive knife but it seemed well build with acceptable materials, ie maybe not junk.
The wife had gotten a new patio set (two chairs, loveseat, and table that I got to assemble it earlier) and it came in two big boxes. I also had a few other large boxes to cut up for the recycling. So I pressed the new knife into service. It did OK. It was not as sharp out of the box as I would like but it made it about 2/3's of the way through the stack before I decided it could be sharper and went in and spent two minutes on the crock sticks to improve the edge and finish the job. I was wearing some gloves and in a gloved hand indexing the blade with how short (top to bottom) the handle is was something you had to pay attention too. The handle is roughly the same width and heights so it difficult to tell orientation in the hand. The pocket clip became my reference for keeping the sharpe edge going the direction I wanted.
It can be flicked open and close with one hand. The thumb stud is small and well recessed into the handle which makes it snag free but making it harder to use, similar with the liner lock, it a bit hard to get to. But given the style of knife it is acceptable for my use and after a little practice one handed open and close is fairly easy.
After cleaning all the tape residue off the blade and giving it a more diligent run over the crock sticks it took a nice edge. Well see how it holds the edge with more use. This has always been my complaint with CRKT knives before. I liked them but they never held an edge as well as my Kershaws.
-rambling
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