MachineWise
Tottori
Tottori
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DESCRIPTION:
The Tottori is our first sandwich construction balisong. The project stemmed from a desire to do something a little different for MachineWise. The Tottori is our entry into the "standard" balisong world. The Tottori retains the machining quality, attention to detail and tuning that you have grown to expect from MachineWise but delivers it in a shorter overall package. Named for a small patch of sand dunes in Japan the texture of the Tottori provides ample grip while not being intrusive during flipping. Each Tottori ships with (2) sets of spacer weights to adjust its flipping traits to your preference. In the future we hope to offer spacers in many different materials for finer tuning.
SPECIFICATIONS:
- Default Balance (w/ Light Weights in handles): Very very slight handle bias
- Handle Material: Grade 5 Titanium
- Weight (w/ Light Weights in Handles): 3.92 oz
- Total Length (Closed): 5.62”
- Total Length (Open): 10”
- Handle Style: Sandwich
- Pin Design: Floating Zen Pins
- Handle Length: 5.5”
- Handle Width: 0.5” *taper toward pivot 0.4"
- Handle Thickness: 0.5” *taper toward pivot 0.45"
- Pivot Design: Bushing with Hardened Stainless Steel Washers
- Blade Material: S35VN
- Trainer Blade Material: 440C
- Blade Length: 5.10”
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Weight System: Spacer Weights shared with the Sasori
Blems are small cosmetic "issues" that do not effect performance in any way. All Blemished products are final sale.
Great balisong, used a zippy kit to adjust the balance to my preference. Hope to get a live blade version someday.
This is one of my favorite trainers. I love the handles, it's more on the circular end but I love how skinny and nimble it is but it also has weight to them especially when you change the weights to the heavier ones. I love the blade shape especially, the triangular cut outs on the trainer blade. When I touch the cut-outs it's not sharp they've been curved out and in light it shines the crevices of the cut-outs. Bonus... I play with this at night while my girlfriends asleep, this is more on the quieter balisongs but it still makes a nice deep sturdy clack sound. Different sound from the serif tho still love it. Also added zippy extensions and ring silencers to it.
Sounds great, looks even better, and flips superbly. It does exactly what I want when I want it to, but I can't help but wish it had a little more character. Don't get me wrong, I think the tottori is far superior to the SlifT (even though the Ti Saosori is the actual successor and flips worse), and I think everyone complaining that the Maryn is gone is just some crybabies calling the wah-mbulance, I do wish the Ori platform was just a wee bit longer for some character
The flipping is an experience in itself
Amazing quality.