Direware Solo V5 - A Brief Love Affair
Published: 4 years ago
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Warning: you will hear me say beautiful, cool and awesome more than usual in this video. For this, ladies and gentlemen, is the sublime Direware Solo, borrowed from the great and powerful Dirk Werning and loved, intensely for a brief time by yours truly. My 10-year-old daughter's knee-jerk assessment of this knife was, "It looks like an Orca." I like that, an Orca: deadly, smart and with no natural predators, but also bulbous, thick and thoroughly unique. The Solo's M390 tanto blade is ground hollow and thin on the recurve portion and thicker (yet still hollow) on the yokote and forward portion. The handles are beautifully contoured Carbon Fiber, of the type that doesn't anger me with it's monotonous weave, and you have bronzed contoured Titanium on the lock side.
It's never easy being the "other guy" and I could go on to talk about her deployment, feel in hand and performance, but I think it's time to dry my tears and package her up for the cross-country journey back to her man... but I will never forget the time we had together, during that heady, tumultuous summer of 2020...
This is just one of those knives that got its hooks in me the moment I saw it, it was love-at-first-sight, which is bittersweet because I just can't swing a Direware Solo of my own. But it's like the man said, "It's better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all."
Check out Dirk Werning and his tremendous collection of stupendous custom knives and other sweet gear here:
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Warning: you will hear me say beautiful, cool and awesome more than usual in this video. For this, ladies and gentlemen, is the sublime Direware Solo, borrowed from the great and powerful Dirk Werning and loved, intensely for a brief time by yours truly. My 10-year-old daughter's knee-jerk assessment of this knife was, "It looks like an Orca." I like that, an Orca: deadly, smart and with no natural predators, but also bulbous, thick and thoroughly unique. The Solo's M390 tanto blade is ground hollow and thin on the recurve portion and thicker (yet still hollow) on the yokote and forward portion. The handles are beautifully contoured Carbon Fiber, of the type that doesn't anger me with it's monotonous weave, and you have bronzed contoured Titanium on the lock side.
It's never easy being the "other guy" and I could go on to talk about her deployment, feel in hand and performance, but I think it's time to dry my tears and package her up for the cross-country journey back to her man... but I will never forget the time we had together, during that heady, tumultuous summer of 2020...
This is just one of those knives that got its hooks in me the moment I saw it, it was love-at-first-sight, which is bittersweet because I just can't swing a Direware Solo of my own. But it's like the man said, "It's better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all."
Check out Dirk Werning and his tremendous collection of stupendous custom knives and other sweet gear here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDp9SNQeF818F1ZBLRsvWkg/featured
Please call the listener line at 724-466-4487 or email bob@theknifejunkie.com with any comments, feedback or suggestions on this video, Thursday Night Knives or The Knife Junkie Podcast.
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