- Boker Orion
- Benchmade Terzuola Park Avenue
- CRKT Tighe Tac
These are small knives, in the "gent's folder" size class, with the largest having a blade barely 3" long.
The Orion is feather-light, with a titanium blade and carbon fiber frame/scales. The Park Avenue is a "first production" #610/1000, with a boron carbide finish on the 154CM blade; the scales are titanium. Boron carbide was very much the style at the time; I think the guys at knife companies would have had their desk chairs coated in the stuff if they could.
Very pretty, all of them. I'd be terrified to carry any of them lest they get dinged up or lost...
ReplyDeleteI have similar things in the fixed blade category, and find that my working, hunting and EDC blades are
prosaic pieces I don't mind knocking around...
The CRKT is pretty pedestrian; I've carried both it and the Park Avenue quite a bit, as you can tell by the scuffs and schmutz on the blade.
ReplyDeleteI'd carry the Orion more but a combination of not a lot of tension on the pocket clip and a flyweight knife means that I worry about it bailing from the pocket without my noticing. Plus it's kinda expensive, rare, and out of production, so it's for dress-up occasions mostly.
Nice ones, and the Park Ave is one of the few knives I lost to the airlines/TSA and the reason only junk knives go in the bag these days...
ReplyDeleteAll these pictures and not a single Mora...
ReplyDeletegvi
"All these pictures and not a single Mora..."
ReplyDeleteThere's always some guy in the comments at The Truth About Cars who pines for brown stick-shift diesel station wagons, too.
Ken
STOP IT... you are going to make my bank account hurt soon...
ReplyDeleteNow have to see if any of yours are for sale...
Went for a lovely autumn hike up the world's third most-climbed mountain Saturday with friends from the office. Come lunch time on the broad, bare summit (with the several hundred others up there) turns out that of the six adults (and 2 kids) in our group I'm the only one who brought a knife (!).
ReplyDeleteWith some trepidation I lend my knife for lunch wrangling purposes. When the borrower is done it's obvious she can't figure out the locking mechanism. So she tries to close the knife by bracing the back of the blade, tip-first yet, against the granite and pushing on the handle. And this is a smart (and multi-degreed) person. My howl of "No! Not like that!" was greeted with near-universal amusement. Me, I had visions of her lacerating herself when either the handle turned in her hand or the abused blade slipped.
I now better understand the whole "My wife, my toothbrush, my knife" thing, sexist remark or not.
I'd say my Tighe Tac is the only knife I regret giving away. After we had to put down one of our cats, my (now Ex) wife cried and said the only thing that would console her was either another cat or my knife, so I handed over the knife (since we had plenty of other cats at home, didn't need another).
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