Finest Cerakote artist I know of is Jeff Forbush; we've been friends a few years now, and I prob'ly have 30+ pieces of his work.
Including a (Foy's fault): Solarforce L2Xe 'koted in Flat Dark Earth w/ matching 'koted Spro swivels & Tec S-3 w/ Merkava trit.And a lantern head.Liked it so much, he did a second (Foy's fault)L2Xe in Sniper Gray, with the matching accessories.
He can Cerakote 'most anything that isn't wood or plastic. Extremely tough coating, even on pocket-carry items.
When I was about 12 years old (don’t remember exactly), my grand-father offered me a classic n°8 for my birthday. It was a kind of tradition in the “good old days”. Every boy scouts had his opinel and a lot of workers in factories or in fields also had one to cut bread, french sausage and cheese for the 10’ oclock (AM) pause.
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In the French’s alpes, opinel knives are still used to sculpt traditionnal patterns on soft woods.
I got some picture-posting help from NightCrawl, and posted pix of my 3 favorite Cerakoted Solarforce lights over here, while placing the BLAME for my Solarforce fetish on FOY:
This is sitting in NY right now. Last thing I got from china post took 2 days to get to NY, sat in NY for a week and then got to me in a couple of days or so. We’ll see how long this takes.
Not entirely certain this will even be legal for me to carry in WI. Law seems a bit vague to me. Might be too big to carry anyway. Not sure if this will really be what I want but should be a great knife to have on my motorcycle trips in any case.
My current EDC is a SRM 704. I just thought the axis lock would be cool to see. Perhaps a little larger than the 704 would be OK for EDC? Other recommendations?
Thanks, the most amazing thing about the Opinels is the weight. Only 30 g that's 1.06 ounces... pretty light for a 18,5 cm knife. With only a 1mm spine and high polished stainless sandvik steel ... I expected some awesome slicing capabilities.
Really like the feel of this in my hand. Am thinking about making this my new EDC. However, it only took me a few minutes of playing with it (this is my first axis lock knife) to realize that it is pretty murky legal territory for me in WI to own this knife.
OTOH, this is a tool for me. I do not intend to ever use it as a weapon. Is it really a risk to carry it?
Suggestions for something as good as this knife in a liner lock?
Thanks,
Wade
PS. as others have said, that axis lock spring is stiff. Some skin missing;-) Does not bother me though as, other than the initial play time, this won’t be an issue in normal use. Stiffness of spring likely to be more of a plus than a minus.
I just placed this order. I am planing to keep the 710 for edc and gift the other ones. I am also trying to find a proper strong knife up to 30$, not for edc but for fishing, hiking etc…
The Ganzo G704 is a quite strong folder with excellent ergonomics. In average conditions its rust resistance seems good for me but I have no experience with it in salt water environment.
almost accidentally :zipper_mouth_face: i won this knife on ebay. Really hope it worths something! Most likely it will go for a gift to a friend at special ops. …
