Boker Plus Clip and Anti-MC Folders

Posted: April 20th, 2010 | Author: Thomas | Filed under: Tactical steel & outdoors magic | 3 Comments »

Boker Clip

 

 

Specifications

• Backlock
• G-10 Scales
• Aus-8 Blade
• 20,2 cm overall length
• 8,6 cm blade length
• 3,4 mm blade thickness
• 118g
• 70 Euros roughly
• Official product link

 

My thoughts

If you knew the sort of knives I liked then you would not think the Boker Clip is my sort of knife, it does not have a choil, uses the backlock locking system (which I don’t like) and its not a Spyderco (my company of choice for folders).

But I will be damned if I can hate it! For some reason it just appeals to me on an aesthetic particularity! it has a 3.4mm thick blade which I think is kinda neat even though I generally tend to avoid thicker/tank/heavy duty knives.

 

This folder is my contradiction, I know for a fact I will buy it even though it doesn’t have the sort of features that traditionally appeal to me, the steel is unremarkable- AUS-8 is a good steel but not a super steel by any stretch of the imagination but I just cant seem to bring myself to give a damn.

Even the thumb stud deployment method doesn’t manage to piss me off.

(Also it has a weird clip, which I guess gives it its namesake).

 

I like.

 

Boker Anti-MC

 

 

Specifications

• Ceramic blade
• Frame lock
• 19,5 cm overall length
• 8,2 cm blade length
• 2mm thick blade
• 71g weight
• 70 Euros roughly
• Official product link

 

My thoughts

I don’t know what to feel about this folder, it has alot of cool features which initially appeal to me but the more I think about it the more I firmly believe they would annoy me.

The ceramic blade is very cool on the surface- looks great, keeps and edge and anti-magnetic (dont know why I like this but I just do) however I know I would get frustrated sharpening it, I would be scared of it breaking if I did anything strenuous due to the impossibly thin grind and the more I think about it the less I like it.

I find the thumb stud extremely ugly too, and kinda tacky unlike the one on the Boker clip.

It has an weird/annoying pivot that looks like it would require special tools to disassemble unlike the de facto standard of torx screws utilized on Boker’s more sensible offering and pretty much all Spyderco’s.

The reason why I am writing about it is because its so different from the rest of the Bokers and I am sorta torn over it, it appeals to my geeky side but its lack of real world flexibility makes me shy about throwing down the Euros for it.

Then again I completely adore the blade shape/pattern.

Dont like the scales.

Arg.

I wont get it but I might if I see it. <– I am not a simple person!

What do you think about it? Anyone have any experience with ceramic blades?

 

 

A+

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