Who’s up for a quicklook. By now you have seen Urban EDC F5.5 review and in there I had
mentioned I had a second urban EDC exclusive video I’d be treating the viewers too in coming weeks,
and that time is now. Yeah these are treats ok. Urban EDC has a few exclusive knives made for
them, which are fairly clean and unique looking and today’s blade is known as the Nessie. Now not
“Nessie” (Irish guy voice) but rather “This here’s Nessie. That’s what I cell ‘er. Now
you millennials don’t know nothing about the skinning hunting heritage of fur trapping,
and how integral the Nessmuk style was to the idenity of the fur trader” Sir I’m a generation X,
and I think Nessmuk was the pen name of a magazine writer. “What the hell is a generation X”. Now I
say all that but this was supposedly inspired by the Kukri. And last time I read kukri
from a description for a knife, that looked like another knife I was corrected for years.
I’ll let the viewer be the judge, is it a Nessmuk style blade or a kukri styled one.
Fight amongst yourselves. Comes with a little zipper pouch, that’s cool. Who really
cares, so let’s do the dimensions. The trick of the Nessie is it feels bigger than it is.
For simplicity the Nessie, smooth gliding frame lock flipper. It is based upon a slip joint
named the Nessie designed by Chris Taylor, which is a pretty nice looking slipjoint.
The Nessie heres got the M390 blade, in a kukri, nessmuk, whatever blade profile. Is
it a flat grind? I’m asking you. Looks like it slightly curves inward, but it probably doesn’t.
Don’t see many hollow grinds these days. We’re in the era of the flat. Up top on the blade you
get your jimping, about where your thumb would rest if you’re choking up. Can’t have a folder
with no jimping, those are the rules. Pretty comfortable. How about the action. The action
is about as smooth as it gets, the pivot is silky and it drops shut, you can twist the wrist and it
glides close. The detent is strong, like really strong, and while the flipper has no sharp edges-
it’s overall geometry and the force it takes to overcome that initial pop of the detent ball,
in the same factory as the F5.5, the handle and it’s titanium and micarta and the grip
doesn’t have a harsh edge anywhere- the back spacer is a nice touch with black or is it
denim micarta, and the brown micarta is smooth in the hand. I believe the brown micarta is a
special release, for just this week. The green micarta/G10/full ti are currently available.
Limited number of the Brown micarta variant of the Nessie drop on Wednesday at noon.
The flipper and the rear of the handle while not sharp might have a hot spot. A
hand shouldn’t touch the back of the grip, unless for extremely tactical reasons, but the flipper,
while chamfered seems a little mean for my tender, dry, chapped Microsoft outlook hands.
The clip is milled titanium feels ok when you grip the handle tight,
not deep cary about 3/4 pos an inch sticks out of the pocket, tip up blade backward in the right
pocket only, Sorry lefties. Holds to the pocket firm. Not my favorite clip, not my least favorite.
Comparisons. This quick look is going to match up to the name. First the Nessie. Strong detent,
not super fidget friendly. One of the top 5 smoothest pivots though.
I don’t see as many pivots as some of the day-a-video guys though. A big belly is in
theory good for skinning. I don’t know if a 230 folder is going to be used as a hunting knife.
There’s nothing stopping you though. You can skin wherever and whenever you want.
That’s not legal advice though.
Now the F5.5. I like this one a lot and I’m not a Voxneas guy. Light fidget able, don’t see a
ton of drawbacks. Now the brand new to me Mini Tempest. I love this one, it’s nice, and very
faithful to the custom I held once. Brian does great work on his own or when working with Reate.
Why not the cold steel Spartan, just for the heck of it. Of course you cannot mention cold steel and
fidgeting in the same sentence. Lock stick is a feature to discourage being and unprepared cuck.
Wrapping it up, thanks to Urban EDC supply for loaning me this to take a look at.
It’s a pretty interesting and well made folder. Rai you got anything to say. It can be about
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