Whats your latest knife purchase?

[American Samurai]

Thread started with a Swiss, I'll add my new knife too:

Nice Tea Party Tinker.

[mattadams6552]

Mail call today

[crufflers]

0392's look pretty cool. Let us know how you like it and compare to the 0452 since you have that too Nice blades. I got a UPS notification email that I have something waiting, I'll pickup and post later.

Mail call today

[crufflers]

Here's my mail call today... BGTG... heavy sucker. I will weigh it with my TGLB later. A beauty.

and with what I have in my pocket today

[crufflers]

Weight wasn't a huge difference but these BGTG's are definitely Team Gemini's rather than Light Brigades... the blade width is slightly more, the spines are not "melted" or radiused and the fuller is shorter. Overall I think the BG looks better to me. Funny the BG won't fit in the leather sheath I had but it fits in the TGLB Kydex. It is wider enough to have way too much tension to get it in and out of the leather. Each has a home though, so no worries.

[American Samurai]

Good pig stickers/zombie killers.

[mattadams6552]

Here's my mail call today... BGTG... heavy sucker. I will weigh it with my TGLB later. A beauty.

and with what I have in my pocket today

Nice. I really like the 0452CF. Im sorta stuck on benchmades, but the 0452CF is by far my favorite knife ive ever owned. I bought the two 0392 to resale to fund other knife purchases. I have a feeling they will be pretty expensive in the upcoming months. I have been wanting to buy a fixed blade for some time now. I really just want one for hunting, so that I don't have to borrow my dads when I kill a deer. Ill probably end up with one of the benchmade hunt series of fixed blades.

[mattadams6552]

Well #2 arrived today. I really hope the wife doesn't look at my paypal account.

[cdtx2001]

Nice score. I'm sure you could center it easily if you wanted to... cleaning, tuning, polishing the bushings and adjusting pivot. As long as there's no blade play, I wouldn't bother either.

No blade play at all and it locks up tight. I've already resharpened the blade and I'm sure Benchmade would have kittens if they saw what I did to it. I don't really like factory edges and sharpen blade how I like it. Anyhow, this Bedlam is now my EDC.

[GW]

My Busse Team Gemini is shipping this week.

[gti_20ae]

Well #2 arrived today. I really hope the wife doesn't look at my paypal account.

Nice knives! How do they compare to XM-18 / XM-24, do they flip better?

[Loubot10]

My sons gave me an A-Sol "Ladies Man" for Christmas. I put a handle on it (came with cord wrap) in a day. It's now my favorite fixed blade and yes it shaves.

[kowalski]

I wanted one before I found out it was Daryl's knife just based on the name, hahah. Team Gemini Light Brigade just sounds cool. Then I looked at it and it is a classic Randall design modernized and beefed up. That fighting knife design has been popular for ages. I think the CG model is closer to a realistic fighting knife since it is more affordable. IMHO, the $150-$200 range 7.5 Regulators beat it as far as what you get for the money in a functional indestructible blade. I love my Convex Military Regulator (.33" thick including the coating) and Hollow ground regulator (.30" thick stock).

They sure don't look like a Team Gemini though This new one is only .20 thick and has a different choil from early reports. It'll be a nice variation. I got it in Black with black canvas micarta handles (which are grey and black really). I already had a leather and gator sheath that will fit it.

I prefer the SYKCO's I guess because they are more utilitarian with the grippy handles, but I do like the Team Gemini - it stands out with most of my other Bussekin stuff though.

Which model Sykco is the green handled one second from the left?

[crufflers]

That's a Regulator. Specifically a hollow ground parkerized version. They make a few variants. The latest one just offered but sold out was a full flat grind black handled. They all have that handle except the de-regulator which has the top guard ground off. There are a few short blade variants as well.

[09cs]

My girlfriend got me a benchmade 707 to with the 710 she got me