No bubble bursting, thanks for the input.

I'm not too worried about the clip, as it's easily replaceable.

I haven't been to the Spyderco outlet, I should probably check it out sometime. Spyderco's are great knives, but to be honest I'm not too fond of most of their designs (manix being an exception).
I'm really leaning towards the ZT at this point, purely cosmetically speaking, as I'm not hard on knives at all, and performance wise I'm confident in either. I just wish I could handle one first lol.