Paragon Warlock vs Smith & Wesson Search & Rescue Fixed Blade Knife

You know this clamshell sort of opening thing right, there's more complicated machine work, that's involved with getting the tolerances correct, okay,...

The knife is light weight, has a very small handle for my hand, is nowhere near as sharp as my K-Bar and has an awkward sheath. The balance is decent, but putting it into the sheath is a pain (it's a one-directional sheath and the strap to lock the blade gets in the way when you push in the blade). For $20 I will give this 3 stars. I'd have been much happier spending $50 on a K-Bar

You are getting a pocket clip that can be either for a right or flip it over for a left tip up. Carry I'm not going to show you that in the pocket jus...

Anywho, the replacement knife's blade was even duller! After 45 mins of sharpening (with a whetstone as the included "diamond" sharpener made it more dull) I was able to get it "decently" sharp. I also realized the pommel was also crooked on this blade. I wonder if anyone else has had this same issue? Either way with a few taps of the pommel onto the hard ground it leveled out. Surprisingly, this method of hitting it onto the ground had also solved the shifty hand guard on this knife! Perhaps the tang is too long causing an alignment issue of the pommel vs the hand guard

The action truthfully, you know once you push those buttons there, it does free swinging freely. There's friction I mean this, isn't here's the thing ...

It's a bit wieldy but I wouldn't mind that if it were more solid. It's still holding up but with just that wiggle in the handle. Like I said.