What blade did you EDC today?

Today I am carrying my newest knife, the TwoSun TS27-TT.

The scales and back spacer are translucent jade green G-10. Been wanting a translucent jade G-10 knife for a while, super happy I found the TwoSun TS27-TT .

Super smooth action, the blade flies out with a smoothness that feels like it is gliding on silk. Best thumb ramp ever. Beautiful blade shape is wonderfully curved to slice for days.

The negative is: worst pocket clip I have experienced. It creates a bad hot spot (the only hot spot on this knife). It is pointy, so it ends up stabbing my finger, really bad. I am going to try and bend the tip of the clip backwards in hopes of creating a rounded fold over. If that doesn’t work, I will remove the clip.

Over all: LOVE IT!

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I love the look of the “jade” scales. I’ve been tempted to pick up a few different ones, including this Two-Sun. The clip turned me off. I really can’t, for the life of me, understand why a knife maker would fail so miserably at such an important component. How hard would it have been to level off the tip of it? At least something like the SOG or Spyderco below:

This always bugs me. Kizer has a few knives like this, where the clip terminates at some funky angle making a point. I understand wanting to get creative or going for art. However, clips serve an important function and it’s easy to get right. The style of deep-carry loop-over we see on most Civivis, the Ganzo FH line, the Tangram Santa Fe, etc. is just so good. The Spyderco wire clip is good too.

I bent the tip of the clip back. It created a stress crack at the bend area. I should have bought a hand held grinder and rounded off the pointy tip instead. I don’t think the stress crack will hold up very long as I clip it to my pocket several times a day.

It did get rid of the finger stabbing hot spot, though, so that’s a good thing. I will remove the clip when the stress crack gives. For now, I am happy enough with the fix.

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Today, and days to come, a Mini Bugout. A too expensive for me little knife, but my gf gave it for my birthday :heart_eyes: . Her opinion: I’m happy when you are happy but that there is a toy knife.

I’m going to RIT-dye the scales, never done such a thing, wish me luck :slight_smile:

2.82" blade.

Not terribly small, though I prefer larger knives as well.

Dyeing the scales sounds like a great idea.

What color are you going to dye it?

I’m trying a mix, dark blue with some red to make it slightly purple-ish. I hope. If it turns out ok I’ll make a pic afterwards.

Next time when you try something like this get a torch or at least a lighter and heat up the area you want to bend until it’s getting bronze at least.
If you’re lucky it should not break.

Well, that went different than planned. Recipe: 20ml racing red, 20ml dark navy mixed in 500ml almost boiling water in a small pan with a few drops of dish washing liquid added. The scales went purple alright but I left them in too long and now they are very very dark purple, black in anything but daylight. Still looks good though…

I’ve seen some hair dye jobs go that way, lol.

It might lighten up over time and with abrasion to look a lot better than it does now

Not bad looking but I kinda rathered the look with white scales.

I think it’s a definite improvement.

Dark colors like blue can overpower lighter colors like red, so maybe half as much blue next time….? Not that I have any experience doing what you just did.

I currently rotate these two. Para 3 LW melts into my pocket and is more ‘public friendly’ being blacked out. The R2D2 is a sturdy work horse that is a 1/4 of the price for around the farm. They both get a good workout though. Sometimes I feel like the LW might be a tad fragile but I haven’t had any real issues with it, took it apart, cleaned it and applied some KPL the other day runs smooth.

I do work my knives a bit living on a farm and working for a construction business. My next mission is to learn to use the ceramic rod and edge pro clone I got off eBay to sharpen them. :cry:

Pocket Rotation

@lazereagle, I gave my experiences with the edge pro clone here. What knife do you have on order? - #531 by moderator007
The stones make all the diffence. I always thought edge pro was charging ridiculous prices until I started using and looking at the stones.

Hey that’s pretty much the sharpening system I got. Have had a bit of a look for replacement stones but being in Australia options are low and prices are extortionate, if I find a good value set maybe I will just order from US in the end and cop the 30USD postage. The other thing I’ve looked at is the ‘small knife’ attachment, I see a few videos on youtube using this for 3” pocket knives and it seems sensible, another case of stickershock there though, I’m considering making my own rectangular thing with a hole in it for a fraction of the cost.

At this stage I think I’ll flatten the stones that came with it on some sandpaper and a flat surface then man up and start working on some old kitchen knives first. Then hopefully progress to fishing, hunting and EDC lol. (tl;dr sharpening good pocket knives is scary, I tried sharpening years ago with a basic stone and failed miserably, have done enough youtube research about angles, apexing and burrs, now I just need to eat cement).

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Well, that went different than planned. Recipe: 20ml racing red, 20ml dark navy mixed in 500ml almost boiling water in a small pan with a few drops of dish washing liquid added. The scales went purple alright but I left them in too long and now they are very very dark purple, black in anything but daylight. Still looks good though…

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I went with purple Rit Dye More. I poured very little dye into the pot with some white vinegar, and several drops of Ajax dish soap. Brought the pot to a low roll boil and dipped the scales in for fifteen seconds and pulled them out to check color. It was perfect at fifteen seconds for the shade I wanted. I still wanted the translucent effect from the original natural jade color.

Original jade

New purple



I like that…are you going to carry it?

Thank you!

I dyed the scales this morning, and I have been carrying it all day. And since I LOVE the action on this knife, and I am extremely happy with the dye job, I will be carrying it a lot.

That actually looks quite nice! Still kept the semi-translucent effect. So you exposed the scales to about 15 secs of boiling hot water with the purple dye?