A five star knife with a 4 star finish
I'd really love to give this five stars, it's a great little knife, serious steel, good blade shape (I prefer the regular urban blade shape but that's just personal preference based on what I'm using it for) and ergonomics. The g10 handle is very grippy and I prefer the additional weight over the non Heinnei version. However, the edge while well finished (probably 1500 grit) wasn't particularly sharp and needed sharpening before use, two of the three screws were very loose causing a few mm of play in the blade until tightening... My biggest grip is that the back of the blade on one side had a very sharp edge with a ridge, to the point that I have an approx. 2cm long slice in my thumb from closing is after tightening the bolts. So I've had to flatten that off to avoid it happening again. On the first night I found a few small mystery slices on my finger but didn't realise it was from closing it. Only worked out today that it was from the back edge of the blade. I'm guessing most people buying knives at this price point have sharpening and tightening tools so it's not a deal breaker but is pretty disappointing and should probably be addressed since I saw another review complaining about how sharp some parts (that aren't the blade edge) are. Undeterred I've just bought a native 5 midnight blue since I haven't encounter these issues with any other spyderco.
