Hi fellas, so yesterday my new knife got here!
Heres some pics;
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Heres my new Emerson Super CQC 7! This is my first folding knife so I was up till 5am opening and closing the knife over and over again. So far I have 2 minor cuts on my thumb and 1 on my pinky anyways the knife feels a little stiff I see some videos of guys flipping the knife open with their thumb alone, I still have to give it a little flick with the wrist to get it to open. Grips are also G-10. They have a lot of grip, but since the clip is so darn tight I am afraid that the grips are going to tear my pants up (5.11 tactical pants). I actually stretched the clip open a little, this thing was so tight I couldn't even stuff a credit card between it. Hopefully they loosen up too or if you dont wear tactical heavy duty pants w/ reinforced linings forget about carrying this knife. The liner is also a little tight but I hear that will smooth out in time too...only thing thats kind of annoying is the liner lock. It "clicks" every time I unlock it like it kind of sticks but I think that will sort itself out after the knifes been broken in.
The lockup on this blade is also exceptional. Again I have nothing to compare it to, but it feels like a fixed blade knife. Does not wiggle a centimeter left right or forward or backward. Gave it some hard taps on my palm and the liner did not unlock. The wave feature is by far its the best feature though. Basically the "wave" catches on the seam of your pocket and drags the blade out, so you dont even need to touch the disk with your thumb, just pull and give it a little flourish at the end and the knife locks in place. I was able to get it down on the second time and is faster than even a switchblade not sure why no other knives copy this feature...
Anyways I was wondering if my Emerson is still in its break in period, I hope maybe in 1-2 weeks it will loosen up a bit, its pretty tight right now, and my thumb is taking a real beating on that disk. The black coating I hear is very durable too, but I wont be doing meager tasks with this knife like opening envelopes or whatever so it should stay black and beautiful. I would rate this knife 9.5/10 just because I found a small hairline cut on the face of the blade...nitpicking probably but for its price I wanted a pristine perfect blade...then again I dont know of another knife to compare it with so my rating is kind of useless. I will also note that my friend at the gun store has a knife that is marked w/ the H&K logo and looks almost exactly like mine..not a Emerson though..curious.
Cheers,
Chris
Heres some pics;
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Heres my new Emerson Super CQC 7! This is my first folding knife so I was up till 5am opening and closing the knife over and over again. So far I have 2 minor cuts on my thumb and 1 on my pinky anyways the knife feels a little stiff I see some videos of guys flipping the knife open with their thumb alone, I still have to give it a little flick with the wrist to get it to open. Grips are also G-10. They have a lot of grip, but since the clip is so darn tight I am afraid that the grips are going to tear my pants up (5.11 tactical pants). I actually stretched the clip open a little, this thing was so tight I couldn't even stuff a credit card between it. Hopefully they loosen up too or if you dont wear tactical heavy duty pants w/ reinforced linings forget about carrying this knife. The liner is also a little tight but I hear that will smooth out in time too...only thing thats kind of annoying is the liner lock. It "clicks" every time I unlock it like it kind of sticks but I think that will sort itself out after the knifes been broken in.
The lockup on this blade is also exceptional. Again I have nothing to compare it to, but it feels like a fixed blade knife. Does not wiggle a centimeter left right or forward or backward. Gave it some hard taps on my palm and the liner did not unlock. The wave feature is by far its the best feature though. Basically the "wave" catches on the seam of your pocket and drags the blade out, so you dont even need to touch the disk with your thumb, just pull and give it a little flourish at the end and the knife locks in place. I was able to get it down on the second time and is faster than even a switchblade not sure why no other knives copy this feature...
Anyways I was wondering if my Emerson is still in its break in period, I hope maybe in 1-2 weeks it will loosen up a bit, its pretty tight right now, and my thumb is taking a real beating on that disk. The black coating I hear is very durable too, but I wont be doing meager tasks with this knife like opening envelopes or whatever so it should stay black and beautiful. I would rate this knife 9.5/10 just because I found a small hairline cut on the face of the blade...nitpicking probably but for its price I wanted a pristine perfect blade...then again I dont know of another knife to compare it with so my rating is kind of useless. I will also note that my friend at the gun store has a knife that is marked w/ the H&K logo and looks almost exactly like mine..not a Emerson though..curious.
Cheers,
Chris
