Most of my shipmates have their own pocket knives but most have the tips broken off and dulled from prying. My Spyderco Shaman is usually my go-to work knife but I would have been hesitant to pry metal clips with it. The Tiga handled all these tasks without issue.Ĭould thinner-bladed knives have handled these tasks? Probably. After all that, I used the knife to trim a little window in some bubble wrap to view the part-number/serial-number on a piece of sensitive electronic equipment. If you're not familiar with a tri-wall box, they are massive triple-thick cardboard boxes used to ship heavy tools and gear. The sharp edge comes in very handy when there are tri-walls that need to be broken down. That complication is avoided when you have something to pry with (yeah, I know most knives are purely for cutting and not prying). In aviation every single tool has to be checked out in a log, so a simple task becomes time consuming when you just need a flathead to open the metal clips on a crate. It's times like this that a sharpened, folding prybar comes in very handy. I've been carrying this knife for the past week as we've been transferring pallets of assets, consolidating supplies, clearing out tri-wall boxes of unused materials. Just a little background, I work in Navy aviation and my command has been preparing for deployment. There's just something satisfying about a chunk of useful metal in hand. Eutsler Equalizer, DSK DBV2, Grayman Satu, CKF Muscle, or any of Crusader Forge's offerings.
I have a soft spot for this kind of thick bladed, absurdly overbuilt knife e.g. It feels like it would be at home in a toolbox with wrenches, vicegrips, and speed-handles. I'll admit, it is definitely not a knife for everyone. I didn't feel like shipping the knife back so I took care of it all myself. I emailed Grayman Knives about all these issues and they offered to fix them for me. Lastly, the clip needed to be a bit tighter so I took it off and bent it to have better pocket retention. I should mention, the blade never had any kind of play with the rotating stop-pin. I put a little dab of blue Loctite on each side and that alleviated the issue.
The stop-pin is designed to rotate to combat wear so it had slight side-to-side play which gave a little rattle when the blade was opening. Stripped it down, polished the PB washers, applied 10wt Nano-oil to the washers and 85wt to the detent track.
It did require a little tweaking to get it to my liking.
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