TwoSun Tuesday: TS177 "Maverick" NM & Tepe Designs in Titanium & M390 (Knife Content)
Published: 3 years ago
This here's the "Maverick". It's one of TwoSun's flagship designs. This is a collaboration between NightMorning and Tepe Designs.
I say "flagship" as there are some things with this design that puts it a bit above other designs, as well as it being a large full size knife in M390.
The milling on the titanium scales is highly textured as well as being skeletonized, but the edges are all crowned rather than just being softened a bit. This crowning also includes the top and bottom of the blade where a user would have contact with it. The clip is also mounted inside the scales so the screw isn't visible.
With that out of the way, there are some not so great things as well. This would have been a prime candidate for an internal relief for the frame lock. Since they're already milling both sides of the scales, this wouldn't have been difficult.
The flipper tab is curved a bit upward. When a lot of knives do that, the downward curve when the blade is opened will dig into your finger, and this one is no different.
The handle is canted down which I'm not a crazy fan of. It makes the scales taller than they would otherwise be and forces the blade to point higher, making the tip nearly inaccessible in the saber and hammer grips.
Aand, the pocket clip makes a bit of contact to the frame lock, so the blade hole can't be used to rotate the blade open with your thumb if you're right handed (works fine for lefties).
This is a neat knife for sure, but I do think they addressed a lot of these nit picks with the TS328 that they both collaborated on again. It's just not a frame lock.
Specs:
3.38" M390 blade with 4 mm stock thickness
4.79 oz / 135.5 gram weight
0.51" handle thickness (Ti)
Frame Lock
Ceramic bearings & detent ball
I say "flagship" as there are some things with this design that puts it a bit above other designs, as well as it being a large full size knife in M390.
The milling on the titanium scales is highly textured as well as being skeletonized, but the edges are all crowned rather than just being softened a bit. This crowning also includes the top and bottom of the blade where a user would have contact with it. The clip is also mounted inside the scales so the screw isn't visible.
With that out of the way, there are some not so great things as well. This would have been a prime candidate for an internal relief for the frame lock. Since they're already milling both sides of the scales, this wouldn't have been difficult.
The flipper tab is curved a bit upward. When a lot of knives do that, the downward curve when the blade is opened will dig into your finger, and this one is no different.
The handle is canted down which I'm not a crazy fan of. It makes the scales taller than they would otherwise be and forces the blade to point higher, making the tip nearly inaccessible in the saber and hammer grips.
Aand, the pocket clip makes a bit of contact to the frame lock, so the blade hole can't be used to rotate the blade open with your thumb if you're right handed (works fine for lefties).
This is a neat knife for sure, but I do think they addressed a lot of these nit picks with the TS328 that they both collaborated on again. It's just not a frame lock.
Specs:
3.38" M390 blade with 4 mm stock thickness
4.79 oz / 135.5 gram weight
0.51" handle thickness (Ti)
Frame Lock
Ceramic bearings & detent ball