10 yrs of hard use and I broke the tip today. RIP

I've had him for 1 mount now

I bought this knife for myself as well as the extended lanyard hole variant of the OG goat aluminum scales back in December. Since then I have completely lost the desire to buy folding knives and I was buying 3-4 a month prior to this purchase. As soon as the scales came in the deka has been my work-horse every single day without fail. I’ve tried carrying my other favorites but I end up feeling naked all day and disliking the experience.

The action and everything on the knife is awesome. I clean it by spraying it out with a water hose at clients houses and then dropping a tiny bit #9 in the pivot/axis lock. But what absolutely shines is the magnacut blade. I have never experienced anything like this. My first and only other expensive blade was a properly treated Kizer in m390 (the Deviant, another amazing knife that rides in my wallet) and that knife has nothing on this one. I have NEVER sharpened it. Only stropped. And it strops like some soft 440a, just beautifully. I semi regularly smack the edge of the knife into various things including various galvanized steel parts, the body of my work truck, masonry on clients homes, etc etc. the only time it ever nicked was when I accidentally smacked the edge into the corner of a sidewalk while breaking down a box. That was around a week after I purchased it; since then the roll in the edge has completely disappeared with daily stropping. I use a 1 micron cheapo compound on a home made strop and strop it after every shift at work.

After all this time this knife slices paper better than when I got it from the daily stropping. I’ve kept the factory edge this entire time. I’m shocked and flabbergasted. When you hit things with the edge you can’t even tell where it hit 95% of the time and when it does damage the edge it’s so small you can ignore it and it will come out over time with stropping. Magnacut is nutty. I thought super steels were hype for the longest time as I can keep almost any non-abused knife sharp indefinitely. But holy shit you can absolutely abuse the edge on this and it just takes it. Never seen or felt anything like it. And I live in the highland lakes in Texas where it’s humid as shit and everything rusts. Never seen a speck of rust on it.

The action remains supreme over time even with frequent fidgeting. Never lost an o spring and I flick my knife all damned day. It gets used constantly for everything I can possibly use it for. It brings so much joy to my heart. It’s the only expensive knife I can truly recommend to the working man. It will survive whatever you throw at it as long as you get those aluminum scales. They are a necessary upgrade.

This knife will probably be around when my son is a grown adult at which point I can compare it to whatever insane shit people carry at that point. It’s a true heirloom knife. Coming from a blue collar knife abuser.

Thanks ahead of time.