Just a thought. Was toying with idea of a new BM and have been leaning toward a Gaucho. What's your opinion and does anyone have pics of it open and closed.
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I personally not a big fan of the curved blade. It's not easy to strop or sharpen with a stone. You can sharpen it with a sharpmaker or ceramic sticks, but you still can't strop it.

The handle is superior to the 940, but I like the 940 blade better. I have an extra Gaucho, and I'm thinking of adding jimping up to the point on the spine of the blade.

I know what you mean, but I still sorta like the idea of a semi recurved blade knowing it has incredible cutting power. My current EDC is a 750 which is an incredible knife, but the handle's a bit over sized whereas the Gaucho seems better balanced. Still open to thoughts.

Since the NRA line is going away, I would hurry if I were you...

If the sharpening thing isn't a problem, the Gaucho is a very cool looking knife! Yes the handle is a little more boxey than a 750, so it grips very well. I would prefer a little grippier handle than their engraved aluminum, but it still does ok and looks good too. I wonder if their blades will swap with any of the other 94x knives?

I like mine a lot. For two reasons.

The recurve (makes for an interesting cutting surface, dare I say it reminds me of a Hawkbill blade)

The ergos. They remind me of the Emerson Specwar knives, which is probably my favorite out of that line)

I've got a few pics. None open by itself, but a couple of group shots.

Reverse grip is excellent on this one. This is one of the few knives I can park my thumb on the butt.

Out of these three, this is probably the thickest handled one. Gives it a nice beefy feeling without being overly clunky or weighing you down. I know a lot of folks don't care for the backspacer, but I think it contributes to how light it is. One other thing to note: Check out how the handle starts out fat, then thins out in the middle, and then tapers back out again.

You could probably do some light prying with the tip (going with the premise that most tantos can do that), but I wouldn't go overboard with it. The tip is thick, but not overly so. The flip side of that is the tip is pretty darn sharp.




All in all, it's a very solid knife. I can't think of a thing that I don't like about it, from the ergos on down to the color scheme. I think part of the reason it didn't do as well was with the tanto shape. It probably turned a lot of folks off. So far as the stropping aspect of it goes, what you can do is take your strop, and turn it on its side. This way, the strop doesn't hit the whole blade. Another method is the shoelace trick. What that is: Take a leather boot lace, hold it taut (I use my foot for this) and strop like you'd normally would.

Shame to see it discontinued. I would hope someday it'll make it's way into the lineup again.