Ramonade wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 1:10 am
Wartstein wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:14 pm
Ya'll know why Mr. Ramonades pics show two knives?!
...Cause Robin is a great guy, helped me out in ordering one (I was in the mountains with little to no internet service when the Goddards got available).
Thanks again!!
Should be on its way from France to Austria soon, and I am looking very much forward to this one!
Not SE, but I guess I can live with that since this knife ticks so many other boxes for me: Light, FRN, my personal perfect regular size for EDC, backlock, NOT a deeply recessed choil but rather a "high" and wide (under the index finger) and flat area for choking up, tool steel (I might remove the coating)... great!!
Makes me happy to help a fellow forumite ! And now that they're gone, we're both officially european owners of an exclusive !
I've been waiting for an occasion to help someone, considering several people here already helped me find a model or variant I was after !
Only "con" I found after the honey-moon phase passed (and I was terribly sick for 3 days, certainly because I've left all the tension of the school year leave my body TOO fast
![sick :sick](./images/smilies/face-with-thermometer.png)
) : The blade to handle ratio is really not that good. I think this design could benefit from the Stretch XL treatment
Yes, man, wonder how many European forumites actually ordered and will own one - I guess not too many.
So glad I am one of those ,and I would have had a really hard time becoming that without your help due to the lack of internet service in the mountains! Thanks once more, and I hope you´re feeling better already!
/ Yes, I pointed that out in one of my first posts here: Looking at the Goddard one could assume that it has a better blade to handle ratio than even an Endura, but that´s not the case.
Without having the knife in hand yet I will say though that I am pretty sure this does not bother me at all:
I am actually much more about EDGE to handle ratio than BLADE to handle ratio, and concerning the former the difference between Endura (closed length 127 mm, edge 88 mm), Goddard (closed length 130 mm, edge 87 mm) and Stretch XL (closed length 126 mm, edge 88 mm) is not that big.
I figure while being a hair longer the Goddard will be an even a tad slimmer and perhaps thinner carry than Endura or Stetch XL.
Anyway: Can´t wait for the knife, and as I told you in my latest pm already: Very much looking forward to comparing M4 to my so far favorite plain edge steel, which is REX 45...
![smiling eyes :smlling-eyes](./images/smilies/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes.png)