Review request: CRKT/Nealy Pesh Kabz

I bought a pair and like them very much. Coming from collecting many Cold Steels - early stuff, and recently purchasing Kershaw items, I was both impressed and depressed with CRKT products. The Peshkabz are great, but the grinding of the 'cutting blade' is off on both of my knives; so much so, I wanted to return them to be reground. Then I found out they are hand ground in Taiwan - and they could not regrind them in Oregon.
I am going to retaper the edge of the tip to give it the equivalent of at least a chopping edge - not to chop - but to illustrate a usable edge shape I have in mind.
I think these are close to a perfect knife and I love the design. I have resigned myself that the semi-professional grind job just gives the knife that bit of character unique to each blade. These are really useful knives as I will use the tip to cut tape and other stuff, and save the blade for real needs. They also are quite conversation pieces to other knifenuts. The quality of every other part is excellent. I truly like my knives 'with character'!!
I have also purchased five of their Kaspers = of both sizes, giving two away to family. The Kaspers are great too.
 
Hi
I bought one in New York from Bud. It´s well made. My bladegrind was perfect. The only thing you gotta get used to is the reeinforced tip. It won´t break on you. But for everyday use the tip ain´t -well of little use- unless you want to stab medival armor.
I tossed it aside for a couple of months, but now it grows on me and I use it more frequently.

hope this helps

Matthias
 
I sell knives every now and then to guys in my unit. Usually at about 3 bucks over cost (to make the credit card co. and Household 6 happy). About two weeks ago I gave one to my driver. He used iit pretty hard and had no complaints. He did bend the pocket clip out on some 'wait a minutes' but other than that he really liked it.

Now if they just made it fixed blade and about 7.5in. long.:D
 
I was driving through Ohio and bought one at the Fin Fur and Feather off of I-71 between columbus and cleaveland. I got it on sale for $30.

The tip was slightly sharp, but I got a useful edge on it with using a spyderco white stone as a file. Later, I got a better edge with sandpapeer on a 1" block. The tip grind looks like an appleseed grind similar to the Lum spyderco tanto. This is one knife where you'd have to try hard to break the tip. I just sharpened the original grind, I did not reprofile. The sharpened portion of the blade had a good symetrical grind. The grind was perfect and shaving sharp. It was nice and coarse, so it would rip through anything. The edge held well and came back with some quick work on a sharpmaker. I picked the best out of two knives. The second was the display knive and was a little bit duller on the re-enforced tip but had less travel on the liner lock.

I was highly impressed by the fit and finish. The lock-up was about 1/3 and after a week it settled in at 1/2 and hasn't moved in a month. There is no blade play. I threw it into tree stumps more than a few times and it still has no blade play.

The flipper was a little difficult at first, but two drops of mineral oil and it was flipping real easy. Later a drop of miltec improved the performance even more. I was a little suprised it needed oil since it's got teflon bearings. But upon examination, I believe it needed oil due to the ball used to hold the knive closed, not due to pivot assembly. The spring on the liner lock makes the ball and blade contact tight, the blade swings freely when the liner is moved over.

The blade design is great for stabbing and slashing. Due to the tip, it's not the best for some types of utility work, such as apple coring. However it will do everything you need and take a beating. With the tip sharpended more than factory, it will rip open boxes and letters. The snake-like shape of the clip is interesting and functional. The top of the clip is recessed which is a nice touch.

It's a fun knive and an unique design. Execution was well above par. Plus, unlike a sebenza you can flick it and flip it open, and not void the warranty :) and all for $30.
 
I have a Pesh Kabz in Meier damascus. It's a superb knife for covert carry. It has the knack of being thin profile and light but alot of knife at the same time. Really, in that respect probably only Polkowski compares. I thing the shape is also veru elegant and I do like the reinforced tip for penetration strength.

I think it's a classic design.
 
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