Boker Savannah and Eurofighter II

Posted: April 16th, 2010 | Author: Thomas | Filed under: Tactical steel & outdoors magic | No Comments »

My bad for being AWOL for so long, life takes priority over my hobbies unfortunately!

Hope you all had a great Easter and as promised my thoughts on Boker‘s new line up!

 

Boker Savannah

 

 

 

Specifications

• Designed by Armin Stütz
• Micarta scales with dimples
• Full tang N690B0 blade
• 9.5mm blade thickness (3/8″)
• 23.8 cm overall length (9 3/8″)]
• 12.7 cm blade length (5″)
• Leather sheath
• Made in Germany
• Really really hot
• Approx 260 Euros
• Boker product link

 

My thoughts

YES PLEASE was the first thing that came to mind, I am really loving that dimple Micarta and that blade with the 2 tone polish is just stunning, very impressive.

On the flip side I would have loved to see it with a good sheath because the leather one that is issued is just terribad looking, I don’t approve at all.

Should you acquire that beautiful example of functional art I would heavily suggest that you invest in some kydex clothes for that blade!

With regards to the price I was a bit stunned but you gotta remember this is not a made in Taiwan/China Boker Plus model, its a high end fixed blade made in Europe with premium European materials so after some thought I am relatively comfortable with the price point this model is being introduced at.

 

Boker Eurofighter II

 

Specifications

• Aluminum scales
• 154CM blade steel
• 9cm blade length (3½)
• 21cm overall length deployed (8 3/16)
• Twin-Pin Lock
• Approx 180 Euro’s
• Boker product link

 

My thoughts

Full disclosure, I will most likely never ever purchase this knife; not because its not a good knife but simply because its not a liner or framelock, doesn’t have a Spyderhole deployment system and it not cheap enough for me to buy just for the hell of it.

So why is it here? Because its damn cool.

When I wrote my “Boker knives to babble on about” list I went through the catalog and decided on picking only the models I was interested in, hence the distinct lack of “Boker Magnum” knives on my blog.

Its not that Boker Magnum knives are badly made  or that they are not cool designs, its just that I don’t go for the cheap stuff and thus don’t write about it.

With regards to the Eurofighter, I feel its interesting enough to be worthy to grace my blog if I have no intention of getting it.

I am trying to think of a way to convey how I feel about this folder without coming across as a child. Regrettably I will fail in this endeavor with my next sentence;

I like the Boker Eurofighter II because it looks cool.

Thats all their is to it, take it or leave it!

Sure, I could talk about how funky the scales are and while I tend to avoid aluminum I can clearly see that Boker really did a good job but to be honest its not even the point so lets have a pro’s & con’s shall we!

 

Con’s

• Mega expensive
• Blade not a supersteel (Would have prefered S30V, ZDP-189, SGPS etc. in that price point)
• Aluminum scales instead of titanium
• Mega expensive

 

Pro’s

• Cool as fuck (only way I can possibly put it)

 

So here you have it, 11 more knives to write about and all will be posted very very very shortly.

 

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