![]() The price is outrageous, given other knives in this Quick Hits list. All of this comes together for a decent, but not great knife. And if I were a petty person (oh, I am don't worry), I'd be upset about the screws in the carbon fiber. I also dislike the sculpted titanium pocket clip (stop me if you have heard this before). Its massively thick and a lot of different aspects of the knife are negatively effected by that. I like the flipper tab, the blade shape, the chamfered handles, and the steel (S35VN), but I do not like the girth of this blade. I am sure I have had enough TFFs to last me a lifetime, but just in case, here is another. And good thing because this is a very by the numbers knife featureswise. The Slimfoot isn't my favorite of his designs (that would be the Mini Catalyst) but it is certainly unique. Tuff Thumbz has always been one of my favorites and seeing a design of his instantiated in a high end production knife is pretty cool. ![]() I also like the Boy’s Knife pattern, which is essentially a 85% sized Barlow with a smaller bolster. This is like a Mnandi but with much more charm. Think about that-when was the last time you could double the price of a product and have it still be easily worth it? This is one of the reasons I don’t feel the need to own a Mnandi. Even at twice the original retail price, this blade is worth it. If you can find one on the open market, buy it. This is one of the best knives in my collection and easily gets a perfect score. Sadly, the CSC Boy’s Knife is out of production because Canal Street went out of business. Russell knifes edge is factory perfect with no signs of ever having been used to cut anything. The knife is also the ideal size and shape to be people friendly. Even an upgraded steel wouldn’t really make much of a difference to me-the blade geometry and the mirror finish make this 440C punch well above its weight. I don’t know how, if I were given free reign, how I would make this knife better. The blade of 440C is ground paper thin and slices like it belongs in a delicatessen. The translucent yellow (aka “gold”) G10 is a wonderful material-charming enough to be traditional, but without the expansion and contraction of natural materials. ft building, then less than a decade after that had to find an even bigger building in Rogers, Arkansas. Russell Knives was operating out of an 8,000 sq. It is one of the finest made blades I have handled, comparing well to a number of custom knives with tight lines and clean materials. Andrew Russell started selling knives he made on his kitchen table in the mid 60’s, then (as these things go) slowly moved up in space over time. This knife is, for me, the perfect traditional knife.
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