Just opened this up, what a beauty. Contoured milled titanium scales, crazy thin hollow ground blade, nice details throughout, great action and acoustics. This would easily be 2-3x times the price if made anywhere else
Core Edge Pulsar natural aluminum with double edge tanto.
I'm a big fan of OTF knives (especially Microtech) this one matches on quality and has some cool things going for it: countoured, milled scales, centered blade, back screw is the only hardware, the blade itself is unique and the internals are unique. Minor gripes: blade edges aren't perfect at the choils, milling isn't perfectly crisp side to side. Overall worth the price if you want a relatively unique OTF
Kunwu makes a solid knife for the price, especially when you buy from CKW for 20-30% off.
Kunwu Django XL, Gringo Verta, Tao III, X-Padre, Padre
CKF Ratax - dark stonewash titanium integral with mirror DLC M398 🤌
(that's the sky on the blade)
Piratech Kraki with mirror DLC S90V and zirconium.
This thing is beautiful, the materials work well together. There's no pocket clip on this version which feels great in hand, but getting a good grip to close it is a bit awkward
Some of my favorite handle textures/milling, in no particular order.
Machinewise Mojave / Rangermade OBJ-2 / Demko AD20 / McNees Dixon / Oz Machine Rosie XL / TRM Atom / Medford Praetorian T / Chris Reeve Umnumzaan / Microtech Amphibian / Maxace Sandstorm / QSP Rhino / PMP Ares / Kunwu Tao III / Poikilo Tuna / CKF Evo 1.1 / Herman Ishtar / Vosteed Psyop / Shirogorov F95
Another Kunwu from CKW. Took 18 days to arrive, but saved $72 so no complaints. The knife feels great in hand with the lack of lock cut out and smooth but grippy texture. The Verta lock works well, it's flickable but not the snappiest, solid lock up. Kunwu does a nice satin finish. Definitely happy to add it to the collection, especially for the price
Diamond and DLC
KB Vagrant / Kunwu Padre / Kunwu Tao III / Kunwu Django XL
I've always liked this design and this version (diamond milled titanium, M390, full DLC) is my favorite yet. I think Kubey has always been decent for the price, especially with WMK pricing, while the retail on the KB line is pushing it. I finally grabbed this on sale and it's well worth it. Also pictured with the KB Eclipse