Strider SMF

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Hi all! Long-awaited Hard Use testing of Strider SMF knife Knife is absolutely new Blade geometry is 3/4", hollow grind, 154CM steel And I think nothing more to say here, have to do It is pretty sharp out of the box Doing paracord push cuts easy Starting with a cable Hard to do a push cuts but it's working This edge area is thinner ground than closer to the tip thus push cut can be done Cutting edge is fine, these are cable particles that left on a coating Continue Look at this hole Blade is pretty wide, it was hard to maneuver inside the can thus it is how ugly it turned out And let's check the edge Edge started to reflect light a bit but overall no chipping Tiny tiny glare dots Check with a paracord Cutting with this area No push cut anymore Knife blunted But without hard damage Moving to shaving of aluminum Not bad overall, here's how it bites Right now everything here is covered by small aluminum shavings It's just hard to tell when shooting from some distance Aluminum particles are left on a blade I don't think that it's a coating coming off, but just tin and aluminum particles but we'll check later As for cutting edge - no chipping or damage, just little dullness I think it can be seen now where we have these light reflections Well, moving to a lock tests Frame lock from Mick Strider Folded I haven't held it with my fingers and it folded I'll try to hold it now Now with a finger over it, even with hard hits there are no problems You can see. I'll even do a couple more When my finger isn't put over a frame it slips It depends on a fact that handle will be held in hand But no bending anywhere Now hits with a front side You can see these pretty hard hit marks I think it folded on a last one I think these are enough hard strikes and we can count it Strider's frame performs not bad at all Continue with a tip testing Galvanized metal 0.8mm 5 strikes. Absolutely no damage I remind that we have 154CM steel here Tip is totally fine Moving to 1.0mm galvanized metal Some strikes hit at the same spot But in general - 5 punches and a tip is perfect No problems at tip, maybe a coating started to come off a bit And 1.0mm stainless steel Tip is still perfect Very good result here but you saw that knife folded from a hammer hit Frame wasn't supported by hand But tip doesn't even felt this job Well, let's pick some wood Slight side-to-side play appeared Maybe you can even hear it. But no vertical play That's how frame is going against the lockface It sticks just a little bit But it opens and closes smoothly with one hand Look at this It just eats wood away here There is already a hole there but I'll make it bigger Look - tip slipped to a concrete and concrete particles are left on it but the tip itself left totally fine OK, no problems with a tip. It's just perfect Blade wasn't bent And right now we have a following situation - if frame isn't deep enough we start to have a blade play But if it gets stick like now, no problems But if it stands at the beginning we may have lock weakness Well, moving to chopping We've got a vertical blade play I don't know if damage is here at the lock area... Look, if I push the frame, the play is gone I hold the knife like this when I chop. No pushing at the frame and it gets loose It chops like an axe Frame is stick and no play So only batoning is left Look at this That is cool guys, that is really cool Frame went deeper, got stick there Tine side-to-side, probably will be eliminated by tightening the pivot screw No vertical play at all Overall knife is fine Cutting edge is in the same condition as it was Check the remaining sharpness... Almost push-cut at a tip, no push cut at the bottom But other than that fully functional sharpness Excellent, just excellent Well, what can I say here You know, in all fairness I always considered Strider as a knife that MUST show such results But of course I wasn't sure till I checked it by myself And right now, after this knife has shown what it capable of, I am doubly pleased It is the exact knife that justifies all the expectations All its marketing features - tactical, pry-bar, tough knife, hard-use folder All of the above is fully related to Strider Just excellent I'll take it apart, clean, check what about a coating, clean the blade Dullness can be seen But just superb That's all, I hope it was interesting Thanks for watching, see you, Now you know why Striders are cost so much, and why people love them Bye, bye Everything looks good when disassembled Pivot screw was a bit loosened after the testing what explains the appearance of side-to-side play Blade looks like this after cleaning I took a lot of some black stuff off the blade It's the coating that started to came off but these marks on it are also from a metal particles that left here. Cutting edge And there is one damage that should be noticed Note this frame edge that was crushed That is the frame point that first contacted a lockface And after we got this crumple, vertical play appeared when frame wasn't pushed deep enough What I am going to do now is I'll bend the frame so that it'll fully contact the lockface But overall I don't have any claims to titanium here, it performed just as expected When frame is sticking, the lock is highly reliable And under extreme loads there may be damage As I've expected, frame bending has fully restored lock functionality Right now it is a bit stickier but along with it frame is going deeper on a lockface thus I consider current lock state more reliable than it was initially out of the box Because now it is impossible that something will push the frame spring out even when it isn't supported by a grip It stands very tightly in its place I didn't had to re-sharpen it, stropping was enough to get the sharpness back Almost exactly like out of the box, doing push cuts on a paracord without problems And the only thing that I'd like to notice is handle ergonomics Yes, it is uncomfortable for a heavy cutting But it showed itself from an unexpected side It allows generating a huge lever in picking or battering tasks I always put a lanyard on knives during these tests in order to have ability to grip as close as possible to the end of handle But this time I didn't even need that Because my grip on the bottom of a handle was very secure and I was able to chop and baton without any problems This big handle has proven itself very good in this test And other than that I think that all words are useless You saw everything by yourself That's all, I hope it was interesting to you Thanks for watching, see you, bye bye