Really appreciate the review and hearing your thoughts, Nick - thank you!! :D (The production version will actually have a little bit stiffer detent btw, so good call on that!)

We are Blessed to live in the time of such an Amazing Artist. Every piece is an Ultimate Grail. God i wish I could afford one...😢

Shabazz is easily the best knife reviewer on KZfaq (maybe to include Cedric and Ada). My struggle with Bryan Winter designs is every one I've taken apart to clean just turns to a jumble of magnets and metal, placed in a zip lock in the back of my closet. Love what you're doing Bryan, but I struggle on the disassembly.

Nick! I was desperately searching for an Ontario Rat 2 disassembly/assembly video, came across yours from 7 years ago, and it was gold. Took apart, cleaned, lubed and reassembled my first knife tonight with your good guidance. Ever since, I've been binging on your knife reviews. Love your style and your channel. Thanks so much, my friend. Subscribed!

Nice to see you showing up in my feed again! Always fun to watch.

If a guy who measures things in Delica, has a Fibonacci wedding ring, sounds like an informant to a 1930's private eye and wears an Omega dive watch to go with his rubber Batman mask says that somebody is weird I believe it.

“The person responsible for that has been sacked.” Appreciate the Holy Grail credits reference. It is kind of a møøse of a knife, after all.

Thanks for the review, Nick. I always appreciate your perspective

A while back, you talked about how there are so many good channels for knife reviews, and it influenced the way you looked at your own channel. But Nick, you still have the best channel. What I love most about your channel is the disassembly video's. Keep up the good work

All hail Winterblade!! 🙌💜💜💜

Just wonderful!! No not the knife the reviewer.

I love winter co knives. Thanks Nick

This was great Mr. Shabazz, thank you. Also, happy that this knife was made for left and right hand pockets, hopefully one will be in one of mine soon...

Best reviewer ever keep up the good job nick

Great Review/Disassembly man!

Thanks Nick. This knife is not my cup O tea. Looks like a good build. Thanks again, have a good weekend.

Severn like Dan Severn. UFC champion and professional wrestler

Great to see your review. Now I know not to ever take my Severn apart. I have this same B1 variant on order. Can't wait.

We need more Nick Shabazz!!!

Great review, as always! :-D

Very interesting knife and as usual a great review.I'm going to start wearing a Batman mask at work(commercial construction) for safety!

It is a very interesting piece. Interesting is good. We all have dozens of the norm.

That stealth lock is great.

Cool knife !

Always good to see the legend return. I wouldn’t call a knife that follows Demko pricing “budget-friendly” though. ;)

I wish I had ordered one when they were doing the preorders. I stared at them for a while but ultimately decided against. I haven't picked up a WinterBlade yet but it's on my short list.

Mechanically this knife is awesome. It might not be good for battoning, but its absolutely awesome.

I preordered the budget version. Hope it’s just as good as the titanium version

Great job ! Definitely a unique blade offering..I like it .. I agree I would like to see a slightly smaller version..🤔..in my old age..my knife taste has gone to lighter and slightly smaller blade styles.. love your videos man ! .. take a vacation dammit ! ..lol.. 🤘😎🤘

I like the proportions and the Severn more than the Factor, but the harmonic resonance of the Factor’s deployment is mightily missed. Still, I think I would sooner get the green Severn-if it was available, just because it seems more useful and does look a little nicer. But, Snecx’s Superlock is already patent free or something like that, so anyone could use that for a spine locking knife. To wit, I’d love to see you take a look at the S35VN or the new lightning looking Damascus on the Vision FG.

Was waiting for this! Thx Mr. Nick. Front choil a no go. Meh thumb stud. Pretty cool knife still.

G'day Mr. Shabaz. We love it when you disassembling a knife. You do it entertainingly.! And only The Man will notice any possibilities that would make a knife better. "Bacon Lasering" & "Bacon Damascus"? Is that a new word/thing?? Cheers cobber from Australia.

Now that's the pot calling the kettle black 😂😂😂 You calling someone weird A man that wears a batman mask that takes apart knives 😂😂😂😂 Love the contact keep up the great work nick

My collection is rather vanilla but i like this. I think its the laser pattern.

Yay. Nick

12:58, it's almost as if that steel insert is smiling at you as you suggest to do it from the other side :)

You have to adjust WB knives and use the magnets supplied that are meant for the action you want.

Batman mask? Good idea, I'll put one on too.

which is better factor or severn??

Thanks Nick not my cup of tea but still great review

Considering that little coil springs are so easy to get (they're in ballpoint pens), you'd think knife makers would have been using them instead of omega springs. Spyderco messed around with that idea, but sadly didn't really do anything with it other than the Manix, really...

Kinda wish Benchmade would license this from Winters

For me, the word that comes to mind regarding Nick's videos is substantive. He digs into another level, delivery is intelligent and entertaining, my wife has little interest in my knife hobby and she really enjoys watching these. I owe a big thanks to Shabazz. I value his opine before I buy. This Severn looks like a pretty cool folder but for this blade shape, I'm a dinosaur, I'll stick with my Serge Panchenko Trisect where detent is not an issue with frame lock and the Trisect action is one the best I own.

I have one pre-ordered. That weak detent has me a bit concerned

Why did u say only the early factors had that fantastic ting? I just got a b3 from the preorder after ten freaking months mind you, and as long as you’re not touching the carbon fiber deployment part when it locks open it makes an auditorily addictive “ting” like the cutlery version of a tuning fork 😅 It’s definitely grown on me a lot, but it could’ve stood to have a bit more faux-detent feel, by increasing the magnetic strength by 30%

That lock looks really close to a Demko shark lock.

I remember when you could get G10 and 14C28N, made in the USA, for under a $100….

The Severn is the uks longest river.

Its a Sharxis lock 😮 I want to pre order but man $369

ExxonMobil Shabazz!

The Severn is a river in England and "made overseas" is a term relative to where a viewer might be watching from. But this is the kind of thing one would expect from someone who absolutely did not get the whole historical vibe of the Otter Mercator knife which indeed would be a more useful EDC knife than this Magpie.

You can’t deny the engineering that went in to it but these aren’t knives, they’re sharpened toys.

Weak detent 👎 thought it was cool until you shook it open with ease.