Blue Nishijin Stretch2 XL Damascus
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Wow, I didn't know the lanyard/blade issue was a thing. I looked at mine and it was barely touching. I just removed the lanyard tube entirely since I don't use lanyards anyway. Thanks for bringing awareness to this.
Re: Blue Nishijin Stretch2 XL Damascus
A PITA to get back together, but I did what they should have at the factory. Now when I sharpen out the flat spot on the edge the lanyard tube won't make a new one. Looks fine without it. I don't think the knife needs a lanyard hole at all really. Would look much cleaner.
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•• Beau
Re: Blue Nishijin Stretch2 XL Damascus
^ I've ordered from Sooner State many times. They are legit.. just very, very old school..
Rick H.
..well, that escalated quickly..
..well, that escalated quickly..
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Thanks Rick. I wouldn't hesitate to order from them. And I know a lot of people like them. I don't like putting that label on some of the dealers. However, I'm not sure if they are an authorized dealer and I would hate for anybody to have a bad encounter only to find out, they're not, after the fact.
Just trying to be a responsible with the alerts.
•• Beau
Re: Blue Nishijin Stretch2 XL Damascus
Didn’t want to regret skipping this one. I had to have a piece from “The Last of the Nishijin!”
Beautiful knife but it is such a bummer that the lanyard tube issue is still present on sprint run like this.
The issue is present on my example too but I don’t want to remove the lanyard tube. I’m considering modifying the lanyard tube on a friends lathe to add some clearance but I’m even a bit reluctant to modify a sprint run at the moment.
Beautiful knife but it is such a bummer that the lanyard tube issue is still present on sprint run like this.
The issue is present on my example too but I don’t want to remove the lanyard tube. I’m considering modifying the lanyard tube on a friends lathe to add some clearance but I’m even a bit reluctant to modify a sprint run at the moment.
-Nick
Re: Blue Nishijin Stretch2 XL Damascus
The tube was an absolute bummer, but man, I'm really glad I got one of these. Just a gorgeous knife. The blue fibers look cool under a jewlers loupe too. Been carrying it quite a bit.Mushroom wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:44 pmDidn’t want to regret skipping this one. I had to have a piece from “The Last of the Nishijin!”
Beautiful knife but it is such a bummer that the lanyard tube issue is still present on sprint run like this.
The issue is present on my example too but I don’t want to remove the lanyard tube. I’m considering modifying the lanyard tube on a friends lathe to add some clearance but I’m even a bit reluctant to modify a sprint run at the moment.
-Matt a.k.a. Lo_Que, loadedquestions135 I ❤ The P'KAL
"The world of edges has a small doorway in, but opens into a cavern that is both wide and deep." -sal
"The world of edges has a small doorway in, but opens into a cavern that is both wide and deep." -sal
"Ghost hunters scope the edge." -sal
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Great pic! I got mine yesterday and it has the issue too. Really mind blowing they didn't look for this in QC, given it's "specialness"
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And given how vocal we were about it with the Cruwear grey-g10 run. The Bradley gets along just fine without a lanyard hole. They should ditch it for all future runs of this knife.
-Matt a.k.a. Lo_Que, loadedquestions135 I ❤ The P'KAL
"The world of edges has a small doorway in, but opens into a cavern that is both wide and deep." -sal
"The world of edges has a small doorway in, but opens into a cavern that is both wide and deep." -sal
"Ghost hunters scope the edge." -sal
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Has anyone seen them ever restock on spyderco.com after they first came out? I missed it by minutes and been checking the site multiple times a day and no luck so far. Was saving up my OpFocus discount for it as soon as it was announced
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•• Beau
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Of course I post something about it and it’s in stock next morning lol. I got one! Can’t wait to see it!
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You've got good luck! Glad to have you around Paleek.
•• Beau
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Hi Paleek,
Welcome to our forum.
sal
Welcome to our forum.
sal
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Thank you! Glad to be here, I guess ill test my luck tomorrow at online seconds sale
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I don´t have a "lanyard tube Stretch XL" ("just" the LW), but I am actually a bit surprised that this was not noticed and solved already before even the G10 model came out.
I am not at all in a position to talk about designing and producing folders, but in my layman view it should kind of be one box on a general basic checklist if there is enough clearance for a blade in a handle - ?!
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Beautiful knife. Too bad it wasn't fixed.