The Spyderco Kiwi is an excellent little knife that works like a larger one. I use one for a work knife, and it cuts boxes, tape, sheathing on fiber optic cabling, pretty much anything I need. And the sharp point makes it more versatile than other wharncliffe blades. It's also safe, with the finger choil preventing unintended closing. Greg
Not a recommendation, unless you feel like spending a bit of coin. Jason Clarke Custom Hybrid Wharncliffe Flipper Knife C-Tek Scale Wharncliffe Swedges C-Tek IKBS What's not to like? (other than the price... but you pays for your pleasures....). ATB, Sam
As a Wharnie/Sheepie guy, here are my recommendations. Cold Steel Tuff Lite. Or the Mini Tuff Lite if you prefer something smaller. Affordable, comfortable, AUS8, and grivory scales (<- read lightweight but ugly ) Spyderco Dodo. If you can find it, afford it, and find a guy not gouging, it is the benchmark for limited useability, freakish good looks, lady-catcher/conversation starter, and it has S30V steel. Maybe a Boker Gnome? 440C on the olivewood version. Teeny tiny and super cool. Put yourself on Alan Davis's list and wait for a "digger"-cliffe. I also like the pruner and electrician sheepsfoot on the SAK.
Darn it! I was drooling over these all morning. Then you go and show me that!?! I'm off to go sell my kidney.
I'm going to "kind of" agree with this. I agree there are some limited use for wharnies. I kind of disagree on the belly love. Food prep is lost on me for an EDC requirement. Maybe I need to eat more fruit. The precision tip and generally short controllable blade of a wharnie is great for my EDC. At this stage in my knife obsession, I think the Boker Gnome (slight belly wharie) is the perfect EDC blade style.
I really like the knife Steve Karroll makes, the EDMW. Here is my review: http://www.everydaycommentary.com/2013/03/steve-karroll-edmw-review.html It is very robust, compact, with an excellent steel, insanely great grind, and very good ergos. For the money it is a great buy.
I pretty much agree with this. I LOVE the sheepsfoot on a multiblade knife, and I EDC a stockman pattern slipjoint solely for the utility of the sheepsfoot (they're outstanding package openers). But it's got limited utility as the only blade on a knife. Wharncliffe's, in my opinion are even worse. They've got all the limitations of a straight edge, combined with overly delicate tips. I could see them having some limited utility for whittling on a multiblade knife, but I don't like them at all on large folders or fixed blades.
Wow there are some beautiful knives I've never seen before and probably won't see again because of price. I just can't bring myself to spend more that $100 on a edc. So I think I'm down to the kiwi, the mini tough lite, or maybe fish around for a centofante 4.
Check out the Boker Magnum Slicer. It just came out about a month ago. I've had mine about 3 weeks and love it. Its about the size of a Tenacious.
I agree on the blade shape. I find that the BM MiniGrip with the hole has pretty much the ideal blade shape for a EDC blade. They call it a "modified sheepsfoot", or something like that.
