The young lady at Knifeworks who was checking out the knife cut her self badly while making sure it was right. She said that the blade was extremely hard to operate and it was like that on several that she tried and the one I got was the best of those. Well I can understand what she was saying and also how she cut herself. The blade is really really hard to operate. No one he’s going to accidentally have this knife clothes on them at least not very easily. There is no way my wife even with two hands could operate this knife. This is what I mean when I say Maniago‘s knife making is all over the map and that the back spraying needs to be fixed on this knife.
However I will say that the edge grind is very nice. The centering is perfect. The knife has no rough edges anywhere. Other than the blade being difficult there are no complaints at all, zero, about this knife. So kudos there.
As can be seen from the pictures the blade on the coyote is shorter than the k390 and the N690 is shorter than both of them. In fact it’s quite a bit shorter. I have not measured it yet but I’m going to guess it is below 2.5 inches in length. Also you can see that there is a difference in the arc of the edge.
I wish that it’s blade was the standard 2.61 inches like in the catalog and as the K390 is. Somehow it looks a little bit stunted. Still it is a really nice knife other than the one glaring fault that the blade is very difficult to operate even for me. I hope it will loosen up overtime.
The knife came very sharp and like most urbans it feels good in the hand. I noticed that the thumb ramp and the arc on the back where the thumb ramp is is different very slightly on the K390 than on the other two and it is a little bit more comfortable for me. On a knife this size small increments matter a lot. But it is not uncomfortable on this new one and the knife feels great in hand or pocket.
