A modern classic of an ancient design
Svord have done a superb job with this knife - I would say that this could be the 'Opinel of our times'. How clever - take a proven design that has consistently performed (the earliest examples of this type off knife date to around 100BC and quite possibly they are much, much older than that). Spend what money you put into it on the carbon steel and forge it in a traditional way to give durability and ease of sharpening, then stick it in a modern polymer handle which outperforms way beyond the original design parameters because it is able to grip the tang and blade with ensures a confidence that exceeds all but a lock knife. Then sell it at an impulse buy price - what could possibly go wrong? How fantastic! What a wonderful bit of kit. As a EDC it is simply superb, as a rescue knife it is ideal. I intend to get a couple ion fluorescent ones, grind off the point to round it and attach it to my buoyancy aids for dingy sailing as a sea knife but also as an emergency escape knife, all sailors should carry a razor sharp knife, playing around with ropes can be very dangerous and only last year a couple were drowned when they became tangled underwater in their trapeze harness when sailing. Had they had one of these, they would probably have survived. Such knives must be cheap, tough, sharp and easy to maintain. Previously I used Opinel safeties for this but in the future I am going to use ground off Peasants. 'Green' is fluorescent snot NOT the 'racing green' shown below. Understand that this is a tool knife, as simple as that so don't expect beauty - its function is its form. And a UK EDC it excels - not for a suit pocket as it is a biot too bulky (douk douk for that) but in jeans, in the garden, on a picnic, hunting etc... its simply superb. If you want a friction opener of the ancient design as a collectors piece, consider buying a reproduction medieval one from one of the smiths who specialise in ancient swords etc. It will cost you ten times what this cost and you can enjoy looking at it, but if you want to apply this ancient, tried and tested technology, to modern use with modern materials then the pairing of 2000 year old blade and tang design with a polypropylene handle of the 21st C is simply genius - I wish I had bloody well thought of it! Another use will be to get two in different colours for the camp kitchen, dodgy tummies and food poisoning are rife when camping or in the wild because of handling raw and cooked meat and limited washing facilities - here you could use a red one for raw and a green one for cooked. And they are only £17! Absolutely fantastic. Well done and Heinnie delivered the next day before noon!
