On my last video about a flashlight...
you’re like "didn’t see it."
Oh maybe it was about a knife.
Who gives a shit.
Kyle Miller asserted without sources that somehow expensive purple knives are basically
a sinister sign of being part of a secret knife cult.
I don’t like sources anyway.
Don’t trust em.
Now we all know that We knives are the ultimate purple knives, but also that you need half
a rent check if you live in Missouri or an 8th of a rent check if you live in the government
parts of Virginia to buy one.
This applies to renters only because a home owner wouldn’t buy a $400 purple knife.
But Gear Best being the sugar daddy they are somehow knew all this, and didn’t take no
for an answer.
They don’t carry We’s but they carry other purple knives that are titanium and like a
$100 with air quotes D2 steel.
So what I’m trying to say is the purple knives find a way, even if you refuse at first.
And while we ponder when exactly I’ll buy a $400 purple knife while Tactical Center
Elite says… hey isn’t that a clone of the Dmitry Sinkevich Full Custom Leaf Pattern
Knife?
Let’s look at the overall length and weight.
They also make these in gray and blue.
Handle size and grip area.
You know what maybe I have a blue and not a purple one.
Spine thickness and handle thickness.
It’s a very purple blue.
Maybe Violet.
Tallness Height, you know the side length when it’s like this.
And flipper protrusion.
So this knife looks to be a copy of a Sinkevich custom knife that only 2 or 3 or 5 were made.
I searched for about half an hour and couldn’t find buyable versions other than the Chinese
ones.
The main difference between the 2 or 3 available and these are this one has no spine jumping
and the colors are different.
Also D2 steel.
So let’s look at the drop point D2 steel blade.
My experience and some stuff I’ve read online is that D2 is one of the more rust discoloration
prone of the stainless steels.
Cedric and Ada has done some tests on D2… and one Brous Razorback blade I use for some
steak one night became discolored a bit, which is a terrible story.
The blade is sharp as shit out of the box, and the satin fished blade long and comes
to a nice point.
The blade pivots on a ball bearing system and is deployed via a flipper stud or tab.
I’m the only one who calls it a stud.
As an American I find it my right to stay willfully ignorant about whatever I choose.
Deploymennt is very consistent and fluid.
As smooth as a lion steel clone or maybe even a real lion steel.
The tab ain’t got no jimping, which is nice because you don’t need it.
The blade is locked into place by a frame lock or Reeve Integral Lock if you’d like
to call it by it’s proper name- by it’s proper developer Chris Reeve’s ex wife.
If this were made in America she’d get .25.
You’re like where did you get that information.
Sorry the source document is classified.
The frame lock has a hardened steel insert as not to damage the beautiful titanium of
the fame lock.
It covers ‘bout this much of the tang.
The handle the handle is made from two pieces of #d milled titanium.
It may look like each side is made from several layered pieces but they ain’t.
As we all know titanium can be as strong as steel in theory but weighs more than aluminum.
However when it’s milled out like this you save a lot of weight.
A 3 and 3/4 inch blades knife with a weight well under 4 ounces is actually impressive.
This is a fairly large knife.
The handle grip area fits my hands very well- like they made it for me.
It might crowd the digits of hands larger than mine, but I still have a bit of room
to spare.
As far as hot spots go… nothing jumps out whilst cutting cardboard of my new power tools.
You know these only cost slightly more than this knife.
One even “assembled” in the USA and the other in Hungary.
I often wonder about where along the chain of raw materials and knife making the hustle
lies.
I feel like the steel dudes are the ones making the money…
I have no evidence to back any of this up but it’s something I think about.
The handle has an open backed design with some pins and a back spacer.
All to save weight I assume.
The knife comes in it’s own case with a skull bead sculpture and a pivot adjustment
tool.
So you don’t even have to hit up Bud K to make your knife extremely fashionable and
tactical.
By the way a skull bead makes anything tactical- even your purple knife.
Or your Chris Reeve.Blade retention when closed is fairly good you have to fling it real hard
to get it to open.
Like real hard.
Like you’ve been drankin hard.
Pocket clip.
Molded weird shaped pocket clips either just suck like my Benchmade 765 or are just ok
like this one.
This one sometimes has problems going in the pocket smoothly, but ones you get the proper
pocket clip bend down it’s alright.
It ain’t deep carry however it sticks out much less than it might look because of the
handle the pocket clip is mounted.
About a 1/3 sticks out if it’s nestled in the corder of your pocket.
If I had my way every pocket clip would be a spoon style like a spyderco even if it made
the knife uglier.
It’s why I review knives and don’t make them.
Ok are we at comparison time yet?
First up the TC4, sometimes it’s called a Vespa on places like DH Gate or wherever
fine Chinese knockoffs are sold.
I have no idea if any of these companies paid for the right to make knives like this…
however since there’s only two or three examples in the world.
I guess they traced their computer screens.
Next up the Chris Reeve Sebenza 21.
A nice integral folder.
About 5 times the cost, and I feel generally the same about them.
They’re both good… the Reeve deploys much slower, and is a much more dubious financial
decision.
Now the Para Military 2.
This one is from a company called Spydercos.
It’s good an considered one of the finest examples of an every day carry knife.
It deploys fast, is reliable, has a nice lock, a nice handle, and is also purple.
If you had to buy one knife here this would be the one.
How about the full sized crooked river.
It’s bigger and clippier.
And heavier.
It looks like a knife also.
you might think the TC4 here has a slick handle but the leaf pattern adds some hand friction,
non of it is sharp.
However during extreme prolonged use there are a few blunt areas near the flipper and
front of the handle that may wear on the dangers.
Let’s see?
How about the quartermaster Strickland.
Ha ha just kidding.
Any others?
I think we’re done here.
The TC4 is actually a very fine well made knife.
I had no idea it would be this light and I really see no reason why it wouldn’t make
a fine every day carry knife for people who carry knockoffs.
Ok or even real knives.
It fits all of my requirements for every day carry knives.
Like being purple, being under 4 ounces.
Larger than 3 inch cutting edge.
Deploys and closes easily.
The butt of the knife does wear on the hands if you fidget with it more than use it- which
can be said about things other than knives too.
With knives that are as open as this, I’d think twice about putting things like keys
in the same pockets.
I have dinged up blades of open back knives before when I carry change or metallic things
in my pocket.
And theres a lot of room for stuff to get wedge within the webbing.
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Oh and gear best provided this purple knife for review.