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Thanks for advice. I'm having my Bro order a Hinderer. In the meantime maybe a Reeve or Strider. Be nice to see how the Strider hits the cardboard. Always wanted a Reeve but what holds me back is they are basically well-made classic 60's Buck. Not necessarily a bad thing but...
What's up with the wise-azzed Japanese named Euro white boy?
Striders are too thickly ground, you'll do a lot more pushing and heaving than cutting. They're thicker aka "tougher" but you'll end up dulling it faster due to the amount of force you'd have to use compared to a Reeve to be honest.
The Reeves have a heat treated/carbidized lockbar which means the lockbar will not self adjust as rapidly (people have had theirs for about a decade) vs the Strider where the routine service schedule is like every six months, but they will develop blade play a lot sooner than that. The lockbar to tang surfaces are uneven and the lockbar holds the blade locked with it's corner, the Hinderer and CRK uses the full face of it's lockface to lock up and it's cut at a matching angle as the blade. Even hinderer doesn't have a surface treated lockbar, but they still last a long long time too heh.
Again it's nitpicky stuff, but you don't go around saying you build the best knives without caring about stuff like this.
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