Frag Out! Magazine
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Blade The blade profile is a sharply cut sheepsfoot with a slightly outlined belly. It looks origi- nally and matches with its remaining part within a frame of the assumed convention. the full, flat, grinds are led along a line indicated by a crosswise edge of the flipper. Taking into account a significant thickness of the blade (4 mm, in the mini version, too), I am impressed how thin the cutting edge they managed to obtain. both knives make an impression almost the razor blades, what rare- ly happens in the designs of this type. the smaller piece features the classic not high, double-sided blade, and in the larger, due to the serration that reach almost to a half of the cutting edge, it is a little bit higher and led only from one side. both blades feature stone washing finish. The laser burnt markings of the manufacturer and the used steel (58-60 hrc n690 in the Srn model and the 60 hrc m390 in the mini version) look aesthetically and discreetly. the only one error, which I noticed in the Srn model is not centering the blade what looks crappy, at the same time considering a reservation placed un- der a pivot forbidding an execution of the independent adjustment of the axis. Handle In contrast to the first version of the centauro, the handle in the new models is not made exclusively from titanium. This time on one of the frames there is a carbon fiber, what in a noticeable manner reflected in the knife price (surely, beneficiary). Similarly, as the blade, the titanium handle parts have a delicate stone wash finish. Unfortunately, an over- all impression is spoilt by exaggerated processing of the frames. All edges (and there is really a lot of them here) are strongly beveled, and additionally there are numerous milled recesses, which partly fulfills a role of the undercuts for the fingers. It is ordinarily too many of them, and moreover a carbon pattern does not look good in the concave areas. the other shortcoming that www.fragoutmag.com