stu42000 from United States, MI Public Profile

This is a solid budget work knife. Very sharp out of the box. Action is a bit stiff but lightens up a bit after working it a bit and a little bit of oil on the pivot and where the lock meets the blade. Has a deep carry clip that is reversable, but I'm not sure of the point because this particular model is bright orange, which doesn't conceal well. Also, it could use a lanyard hole, although the hole in the pocket clip could secure a lanyard (that's just me - I like a lanyard on my knives - easier to pull from the pocket). Appreciate that it is USA made and "forever" warrantied. (As a side note: buy this from a reputable US dealer - there are fakes from China that are not as good quality).

This is a great knife. Great feel, solid, sharp, tough steel. Never disappointed with Spyderco.

And they beat Benchmade - quality, design, variety, and price, including budget versions, plus they allow sellers to apply coupons. Benchmade doesn't.

I carry this unless I need a tougher work knife in my pocket. Slicey and 5th pocketable. Good blade steel. Down from 5 to 4 stars for 2 reasons - 1) not sure there’s an advantage over a Dragonfly, which is quite a bit less expensive; and 2) really needs a lanyard hole. I put lanyards on most of my EDC knives, especially the smaller ones because they’re harder to access in my pockets than the larger ones without a lanyard.

I really like Knafs knives. I have 2 Lander 1 (<3”) for the (right and left pockets) and this one for more serious work. These are moderately priced, easy to maintain, very flippy and drop-shutty. comfortable dimensionally to a bug out but tougher due to the steel liner, I would not hesitate to use this for moderate work and leave the Benchmade priced 50% more in my nightstand.

Only 4 stars due to the price, but this is a quality EDC that I am happy to own.

It’s a pleasure to use - big, bright, larger eyepieces than I’m accustomed to on my old compact units - so easy on the eyes - easy to align. Quite light compared to the old brass body units.

This is a very light, very sharp, very well-made knife. I prefer the wire pocket clip on the lightweight over the flat-spoon kind on many Spydercos. I'm a lefty and the compression lock keeps my finger out of the blade's path regardless of which hand is holding the knife. And better than a back lock, the Sage (like the PM3) is plenty fidgety - and I like to fidget with my knives. Folders that require accessing the lock by putting your finger in the blade path are not fidget friendly. All-in-all - a great knife.

This is a good quality product, but I think its ability to fit over glasses is somewhat oversold. My glasses are not particularly large but theseover-specs don't fit over my every day glasses, so they are useless for that. I will keep them for whan I wear wire-smaller framed glasses and I will make them available for use by my friends and shooting students when we go to the range.

I installed this on my S&W 642 with no difficulty. I had already removed the roll pin from the bottom of the frame in order to install the previous frame so that did not hold up the installation. I found the extension to reliably pop out with very little pressure on the button. What became evident was that it will probably pop out when I don't want it to. I am not sure if that is a problem or not because I haven't carried the gun much - I don't know whether having it pop out in my pocket will make it difficult to draw so I'll leave that issue alone. What I did not like was the coarseness of the stippling in the plastic. It is hard plastic and the stippling is not very comfortable. I guess I have wimpy hands. What I did was cut a rubber grip sleeve to fit over the grip but not over the button and shot it for the first time last week. It was like having a pinky rest on the bottom of a magazine and did what the grip was supposed to do. I definitely shot better with it than I would have with the original boot grip. For now I am keeping it on the gun as I consider it an improvement.

I bought this mainly to improve visibility indoors for rapid sight acquisition in competition. It is more visible in daylight than standard white dots or night sights. It glows pretty well in the dark. In low light not so much.