Definitely should have been made somewhere with sprint potential! I came here thinking of starting a similar "we should sprint the astute" thread. I would love it as a backlock, but would definitely get bitten as I do the blade falling on finger backlock close with all my spydies, and this edge doesn't have any choil/ricasso to let me get away with that :cool:
I'd be happy with a Ti framelock aswell.
I just refuse to buy a knife from China, if I have the choice(which I do).
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
Some of our Chinese makers are open to better steels. ZDP, however is far more complicated. Hitachi requires that they train the heat treaters for ZDP.
