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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 2406353" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>This Coast FX350 is an awesome knife for under $30. 3D milled G10 with a good grip, Frame-lock (locks up like a bank vault - no play in any direction), good ergos with a deep-carry reversible clip (Right-hand only), a beautiful flat-grind on a nice 3.5" drop-point blade. It is heavy at 5.1oz, but I don't mind heavier folders so long as they are ergonomic, functional, and not too large/small.</p><p></p><p>My only complaints are that the pocket-clip curves with the knife while in tip-down, but when reversing it to tip-up, it curves away from the lines of the knife (often times, frame locks will use the pocket-clip to prevent the lock-bar from over-extending also - this isn't possible in tip-up with this pocket clip as it curves away from the lockbar). </p><p></p><p>Also, I'm not crazy about the pivot being a spanner-type instead of a normal Torx bit. </p><p></p><p>Mine also came just a hair off-center (which to be honest - I've gotten Benchmades and Emersons like that from the factory), but it is nowhere near touching either the liner-side or the frame-lock side. It is smooth deploying out of the box, so it doesn't need any adjusting, but I wanted to fix the blade-centering because I'm OCD and the proprietary pivot made that difficult (I still got it though <img src="/images/smilies/biggrin.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-shortname=":D" /> ).</p><p></p><p>It came very sharp and the 9Cr17Mov (Chinese) steel is supposed to be an upgrade over the 8cr13MOV, but I'm not sure how much of an upgrade it really is.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Here are pics of it next to my other favorite Budget EDC, the Kershaw Injection 3.5 (the Coast isn't actually that much larger than the Kershaw, I think that's a perspective thing from the camera angle - the two knives are almost identical in length):</p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i70.photobucket.com_albums_i91_rawatkins_Knives_DSCN0120_zps209d3285.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i70.photobucket.com_albums_i91_rawatkins_Knives_DSCN0121_zps43b971a0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i70.photobucket.com_albums_i91_rawatkins_Knives_DSCN0116_zpsc4ed8809.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i70.photobucket.com_albums_i91_rawatkins_Knives_DSCN0119_zps0ebdff2c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 2406353, member: 229"] This Coast FX350 is an awesome knife for under $30. 3D milled G10 with a good grip, Frame-lock (locks up like a bank vault - no play in any direction), good ergos with a deep-carry reversible clip (Right-hand only), a beautiful flat-grind on a nice 3.5" drop-point blade. It is heavy at 5.1oz, but I don't mind heavier folders so long as they are ergonomic, functional, and not too large/small. My only complaints are that the pocket-clip curves with the knife while in tip-down, but when reversing it to tip-up, it curves away from the lines of the knife (often times, frame locks will use the pocket-clip to prevent the lock-bar from over-extending also - this isn't possible in tip-up with this pocket clip as it curves away from the lockbar). Also, I'm not crazy about the pivot being a spanner-type instead of a normal Torx bit. Mine also came just a hair off-center (which to be honest - I've gotten Benchmades and Emersons like that from the factory), but it is nowhere near touching either the liner-side or the frame-lock side. It is smooth deploying out of the box, so it doesn't need any adjusting, but I wanted to fix the blade-centering because I'm OCD and the proprietary pivot made that difficult (I still got it though :D ). It came very sharp and the 9Cr17Mov (Chinese) steel is supposed to be an upgrade over the 8cr13MOV, but I'm not sure how much of an upgrade it really is. Here are pics of it next to my other favorite Budget EDC, the Kershaw Injection 3.5 (the Coast isn't actually that much larger than the Kershaw, I think that's a perspective thing from the camera angle - the two knives are almost identical in length): [IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i70.photobucket.com_albums_i91_rawatkins_Knives_DSCN0120_zps209d3285.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i70.photobucket.com_albums_i91_rawatkins_Knives_DSCN0121_zps43b971a0.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i70.photobucket.com_albums_i91_rawatkins_Knives_DSCN0116_zpsc4ed8809.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i70.photobucket.com_albums_i91_rawatkins_Knives_DSCN0119_zps0ebdff2c.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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