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Two keens, an Ewc and an EZC? Of those which is your favorite?
Two keens, an Ewc and an EZC? Of those which is your favorite?
I'm leaning towards a keen but the
Ewc looks really nice except for the double detent lock which I'm afraid I lose a finger if I used it for anything more than opening letters or boxes.
Those Shiros looks really nice too.
And I thought I was done a few months ago. Really.
Of the lot, the Shiro HatiOn Lite is the most useful in a work setting for me. That primarily means butchering tasks, but it's also a good multi-purpose paring knife.
In the pocket the EWC is the one I'm most likely to grab. I've partially closed it a few times while applying torque by twisting the blade deep in something, but not past the detent. Still, for that reason, it's not a hard use knife but it is handy and very, very pretty. I'd love to see a linerlock version of it.
We use the Keens for dinner duty most nights. In general they are superb cutters though I never carry one. The vaunted EZC is everything it promises to be but I'd rather have a custom version from Ray. IMHO Kizer didn't quite match the precision of the Keen by WE. The F3 is the best hard use folder I have but I'm conflicted because at the size I almost always grab a fixed blade.
I'm looking to add a Cheburkov Small Strizh. I found that I'm partial to linerlocks and carbon fiber, so that works. I never looked twice at a CRK before but now I'm jonesing for a CF Insingo. Mostly though I'm interested in 80mm to 90mm FFG drop points and spear points.