I was taking my Astrum apart for cleaning and tuning, and I figured I’d document the process for those who are interested in Shirogorov knives.
I remain convinced that no other company competes with Shirogorov in terms of design and detail. Every one of their knives is so full of facets, chamfers, steps, and other little features throughout; you can stare at one for an hour and keep seeing new details.
They add a bunch of design elements seemingly for no reason other than showing off, like the pseudo-floating backspacer that wraps around the tip of the blade, or the multiple levels and ribs of pockets under the handles. Not only is the pivot bolt captive, but the body bolt is as well. They use their beautiful custom fasteners on the interior to secure the lock bar and clip into place, and the backspacer locating pin also doubles as an indexing tool to precisely position the lock bar during reassembly.
This is an expensive knife, no doubt, but I’ve never seen anything else like it.
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I was taking my Astrum apart for cleaning and tuning, and I figured I’d document the process for those who are interested in Shirogorov knives.
I remain convinced that no other company competes with Shirogorov in terms of design and detail. Every one of their knives is so full of facets, chamfers, steps, and other little features throughout; you can stare at one for an hour and keep seeing new details.
They add a bunch of design elements seemingly for no reason other than showing off, like the pseudo-floating backspacer that wraps around the tip of the blade, or the multiple levels and ribs of pockets under the handles. Not only is the pivot bolt captive, but the body bolt is as well. They use their beautiful custom fasteners on the interior to secure the lock bar and clip into place, and the backspacer locating pin also doubles as an indexing tool to precisely position the lock bar during reassembly.
This is an expensive knife, no doubt, but I’ve never seen anything else like it.