New Knife - QSP Dolphin

Although the Dolphin, as this knife is called, is not the most expensive QSP knife ever made, it may very well be one of the most extravagant. Both the appearance and the treatment of the materials contribute to that.

The design with its sweeping lines breathes a bit of Mediterranean culture and perhaps influences from French, Italian or Spanish traditional patterns. Or maybe it is not like that at all, and the person or people who designed it just like flowing shapes. But they are there anyway.

QSP Dolphin

There are currently five versions of the Dolphin. Among them are simpler materials such as blue resin, but also abalone, mother of pearl, and carbon fibre are found among the materials or, in this case, stabilised wood. I don't actually know what kind of wood it is, but given the way it looks, Tuja is close at hand.

The knife has a steel frame in the sides of which pockets have been made for the wooden panels. The Dolphin is open at the back, where a standard spacer is found halfway and towards the rear end of an oversized tube that also acts as a lanyard hole. It also acts as an attachment point, and the screw head is hardly standard, but a special key is included if you want to dismantle your knife.

The total length is 198 mm and closed 118 mm. This gives a weight of 102 g. The blade is an 80 mm long drop point blade. It is 3 mm thick, and the material is 14C28N.

Dolphin opens with thumb studs and locks with a liner lock. Or rather, given the thickness and how the wooden sides extend over it, it is more of a bolster lock, which is a variant of a frame lock.

Dolphin is a knife with flowing lines and a pointed blade, characterised by its mirror finish.

So far, the Dolphin is not a remarkable knife at all, apart from the extraordinarily beautiful wood on the sides. But it is quite obvious that this is not what makes the knife so spectacular. That detail is instead taken care of by the unusual and very well-executed mirror polish.

The blade is extremely shiny, but the frame and other details have received the same treatment so that everything shines. This makes this knife stand out from the crowd.

More about this somewhat "blingy" beauty will be in a later review.

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