It’s no secret that big dumb knives are the channels bread and butter, and now that
I’ve read that last sentence out loud I’ve found a new opportunity for my upcoming Zombie
Tools Deuce 2 review. So I knew it’d be tough come up with knife gags and or jokes
with for these two reasonably sized pocket knives from Summit Knives called the Half
Do-me. Two seperate words D-O M-E. Big hit Bell Biv Devoe. But then I remembered I could
just steal the Richard Cheese gag, and that would get me at least 20 seconds into the
review. The Half Dome, named after something I’ll never climb, has a product hierarchy
that might make Massdrop proud. Sorry mmmm… Drop. Summit Knives is the company, it’s
designed by an Italian guy named Tommaso Rumici, manufactured in Italy by Fox Knives. An well
here it is in my hand. But before we go any further let’s look at the dimensions of
the half micarta and titanium, and full titanium version. Like the overall length and weight.
Note that the only real dimensional difference, wow that sounds deep, the only dimensional
difference is in the weights because micarta is lighter than titanium (nerd voice) well
I never knew that. Blade size and cutting edge. Note that I haven’t been prying with
it- the tips come conveniently pre broken- saving you the time from doing it yourself.
Handle size and grip area. Can you believe I’ve never broken the tip of a knife? Spine
thickness and handle thickness. You’re probably asking, “bro- how do you look under rocks
for spiders” or pry open doors your ylady.” Tallnesses. Good question. Another good question
is why tallnesses is plural when there is only one.
The Summit half dome, is designed to be an inoffensive light every day carry knife- for
people not interested in making up for what the Lord didn’t want them to have anyway.
Meaning it’s kinda small. It features drop point- reverse tanto-ish, satin finished,
flat ground blade made from the M390. The M390 is a well rounded super steel, that holds
it’s edge a long time, is harder to sharpen than a poorer persons steel, and has a a high
resistance to corrosion. (Nerd Voice) oh a stainless steel? (Tactical voice) Boy don’t
you ever refer to M390 as stainless. It’s highly corrosion resistant soy boy. (My voice)
So you I guess you could call it stainless if you wanted. You might notice the tip, and
ask what’s up. I’m getting into some light knife theory here. Meaning I’m just making
shit up… But I have seen some knife designs that kill the point on the tip= I think Benchmade
has a new one I didn’t want to review. But I think these generally work better when cutting
close to things you don’t want to poke. Like a belt or strap or vine in search and
rescue where you would rather not hurt the people any more than currently hurt. It’s
the Half Dome- climbing, a climbers knife. JUST CUT THE ROPE! YOURE GONNA KILL YOUR SISTER.
Ok that knife looked like a 110 or 112. Because of course it was. That said the blade comes
with a very sharp edge.
Lockup and deployment. The Half dome comes in three handle trims. The half Natural micarta
and titanium or the half and half half dome if you will (pathetic laugh), black micarta
and titanium, and a full handle. Meaning that mostly affects weight… micarta will be lighter
because it’s a fabric bound by resin… But the lock side on all three, or the lock
side as they call it, is made from a piece of titanium with a hardened steel insert to
prevent wear on the softer titanium or whatever. Without going into the whys, some companies
like the Chris Reeve Knife company just use a piece of titanium for the lock side with
no insert and it works pretty well. The full titanium knife looks to have a tumbled or
stonewashed titanium finished handle and the half micarta looks to be smooth satin.
Now the way most people will open it is hold the handle with one weak fragile hand and
pull the blade open with their clammy other hand . However the sorts of people who regularly
consume knife based content, almost like it’s porn, aren’t satisfied opening knives with
two hands. So you can give it a hard bandaid covered middle finger flick and get it to
deploy. The knife isn’t on bearings, but on phosphor bronze washers. Remember when
people were as excited about phosphor bronze washers as 15 rows of flicking bearings. I
member. Since the knife is kinda small larger more tactical hands might have a hard time
getting there finger placement right. Look for some comments below where a man has gifted
this to his daughter or wife- for their let’s say purse. Closing it ain’t bad, and you
can do it one handed too. This knife is fidget able… but hardness of flick, and lock disengagement
gets a little fatiguing after a while- if fidgeting is main use you get out of your
knives. Lockup is early on these knives… a little earlier on the micarta handled one
for me. Like compared to my Sebenza here which the lock covers most of the tang, the summit
covers less. You can get a tiny amount of travel inward once it’s locked, but it neither
seems to give the blade rock or play, and affect lock strength- as it’s fairly resistant
to spine whacks. Also a tiny bit of lock stick on both too. Both handle versions feel solid-
micarta has inward flex- not much though. I prefer the lighter micarta version personally.
In the average sized dude hand it’s a little small… it’s comfortable, though you feel
a little of the jimping in the front section of the handle underside… which seems to
be there because there’s not much of a finger guard.
Pocket clip. The Titanium version and micarta versions have two different clips that aren’t
swappable between knives, not even if you’ve thrown your keys in the bowl. Sorry haven’t
done a good key party reference in a while. The full titanium one the clip has several
possibilities as long as you like tip up blade backward in your right pocket only- or tip
up blade backward in your right pocket only. It goes in the pocket smoothly, because of
the ball tip? I literally have no idea what that part is called. Also I really don’t
care- so spare your breath. The wire version is a little deeper of a carry, and flippable
to the right or left side in a tip up configuration only. So the wire clip because it’s swappable,
deeper carry, and easy on the pocket wins. I didn’t find one or the other to be significantly
easier to slide in and out of my pocket though.
Comparisons. First the Micarta vs the full titanium. One of course has a handle slab
made out of micarta. Or the show side, if you’re a person into using irritating niche
terms. Mainly it cuts down on the weight. Also the pocket clip is more functional on
the micarta version. I guess go with the titanium if you want a studier hand feel. Sturdier
or solid of course is code word for heavy in knife reviews, when you’re sponsored
by the knife company you’re doing the video for. Now the Spyderco Para 3. The Para 3 is
a quick deployer, better looking to me, but it’s still small. I like the natural micarta
though… I know the trend is to buy the natural and dye it, but I think that’s a terrible
idea. But when I carry something from the Military series it’s generally the Para
Military 2, when not carrying one of my 50 other knives. Now Spyderco Delica in the wharncliffe
style. This knife is is not a fast deployer, but I guess if you flick the hole hard enough
you can do it. Might give you the fidget owies though. The fidget owies are a real thing
for modern knife bros. Although a little below a paper cut on the pain scale.
Alright wrapping it up. Summit knives asked me if I wanted to review these, and I said
yes because a few subscribers were asking about them. So a big thanks to those guys
and gals, and also my mom, your mom, and the Lord for giving me enough talent to make videos
on Youtube. Summit is a fairly new knife company- this may be their first release- I mean it
is- I just checked their website to be sure. Look for an upcoming giveaway on my Instagram
for the full titanium version with tumbled handles. I don’t need it. These knives retail
for about $175, so I wouldn’t call them a budget knife… I mean if you have a large
budget then I guess it would technically be one. It kinda has that Voxnaes look, and feel-
though it ain’t one. His designs are generally not my favorite… but that’s ok because
I had several people tell me the MUDD auto is a hideous knife- so that’s my way of
lashing out in anger. The Half dome is a well constructed knife with premium materials.
Micarta titanium, and pretty rust resistant hard wearing steel. My current job generally
likes smaller more compact knives, so I’ve brought these along for stripping jackets
off network cables, instead of the right tool for the job, a wire stripper- or just quitting
altogether to pursue my dream of being a shitty youtube personality. Anyway if you like this
sort of review, check out my Instagram where I’ll give one of these away soon. I don’t
have an exact day yet so lay off. Check out my Patreon, these are all my cool patrons-
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