Olight Oknife Aion Gentleman’s Folding Knife Overview

The Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife options Nitro V blade metal and the enduring OAL end. Many kinds can be found on Kickstarter now! Learn on!

Official Specs

Right here’s a referral hyperlink to the Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife on Kickstarter.

Variations

A minimum of three variations of the Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife can be found on Kickstarter. And not less than 4 have been made. They fluctuate in end colour or deal with materials or blade end. Try the Kickstarter for that information!

Worth

The Early Hen worth on Kickstarter for the least featured model of this Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife is $90. There’s a Zirconium Damascus choice that is available in at $500, too. And a center floor titanium, at $200.

Bundle and Guide

What’s Included

• • Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife
  • Cleansing material
  • Guide and card

Look

The Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife is skinny. It’s skinny when closed, it’s skinny when opened, it’s only a good skinny knife. Olight (Or “Oknife” – I’m unsure which to go along with!) is utilizing the OAL (Olight aluminum) that we’ve already seen on a few of their flashlights.

OAL is alleged to be extra sturdy than common aluminum, however even to say that’s attention-grabbing – this knife as aluminum scales! That’s not less than considerably uncommon, and I prefer it fairly a bit.

If the OAL isn’t for you, Oknife provides titanium and Zirconium Damascus, too.

Open / Shut / Lock

The Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife is a flipper. In actual fact, there aren’t different choices for opening the Aion.

It seems to be such as you may be capable to pinch the blade open, however the liner lock will get in the way in which of that.

However that’s advantageous. The flipping motion on the Aion is incredible. The motion is easy and the blade has simply the fitting weight for flipping proper open with ease.

As a result of it’s simply a flipper, it’s clear that the title “Gentleman’s Knife” is given due to the look and doubtless dimension. Which is to say that it lacks a “slip joint” really feel.

As I stated above, the Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife is a liner lock knife. Liner locks are amongst my favourite (or not less than I want liner locks to border locks). And this can be a good one. The lockup is strong and unlocking with this liner lock is straightforward.

Construct and Really feel

Oknife promotes the truth that the pivot is hidden. That enables a geometrical design on each scales.

It’s a neat look. The knife feels sturdy, too.

The blade is completely centered. Right here’s the perfect end-on view of the pocket clip, too, which we’ll tal about extra later.

Olight says that the pivot is hidden however they don’t describe it additional – not if it’s ceramic or ball bearing or no matter. It’s very easy.

The backbone is rounded (very gentlemanly!) and it has a little bit of jimping, too.

One of many issues I like most about this knife is that, whereas there’s no backspacer, the scales are designed in such a approach that the again (or prime) of the knife doesn’t appear to name for them. In actual fact, there’s a backspacer tucked in there, as a part of the place the pocket clip attaches.

The OAL scales are lined, too. In all probability with stainless-steel.

Measurement

3.5″ blade
8.19″ lengthy (when open)
1″ tall (on the tallest)
0.78″ tall (scales)

Above, you’ll be able to see the Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife with the Civivi Elementum in orange G10. I take advantage of that knife a lot!

Right here’s the knife in hand:

Under you’ll be able to see the Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife with the venerable Convoy S2+. The model under is a customized laser-engraved Convoy S2+ host by GadgetConnections.com. I did a full submit on an engraved orange host proper right here! Or go straight to GadgetConnections.com to purchase your Convoy S2+ now!

Additionally within the photograph above, my Normal Reference Materials (SRM) flashlight is the Hanko Machine Works Trident, an 18350 gentle. Whereas I’ve not reviewed or examined the Gunner Grip model seen right here, I’ve examined a Hanko Machine Works Trident Whole Tesseract in brass. I really like the Trident, and it’s a hanging distinction to the cheap Convoy S2+, one other nice SRM.

Metal / Reduce / Oats

The Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife makes use of Nitro V metal. The blade is DLC coated.

Knifesteelnerds know so much about it, and right here’s what they are saying.

Nitro-V has a really advantageous microstructure and superb toughness compared with different steels.

In line with coltellimania.com, which produced this picture, the Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife seems to have a drop level blade. It’s a fantastic, helpful form! Additionally simply usually useful, so nice for on a regular basis carry.

It must be famous that different scale choices of this knife supply different steels, too. M390 on the titanium model, for instance.

Retention

The pocket clip attaches with one screw to the tail finish of the knife. This enables for a really deep carry, which is incredible!

It’s a easy pocket clip, however very helpful.

Right here you’ll be able to see the one screw, in profile.

The pocket clip could be eliminated or turned to the opposite aspect for actually ambidextrous carry.

Abstract and Conclusion

I like how gentle the Olight Oknife Aion gentleman’s folding knife is, however greater than that, how slim it’s and the way slim it carries. Whether or not it’s a gentleman’s knife or not, it’s a fantastic gown knife, appropriate for skinny (materials) pants pockets. The blade form is nice for EDC and the flipping motion is incredible! I don’t care in regards to the hidden pivot (possibly when you ever alter pivots, this is able to be vital to you), however the scales are detachable anyway, so you’ll be able to nonetheless entry the pivot. The early hen worth is respectable, however I do suggest getting within the early hen worth of $90! The value simply goes up from there!

Notes

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