I bought this knife from Fastteck after reading a post by Chloe, and have been EDCing it for a few weeks now.
When the knife first arrived my first impression was: “this is way bigger than I thought!”
As you can see comparing it to the EL-01 it has a very long and super smooth handle which I have learned to really like
The finish of the blade is rounded and well done.
The clip is large and smooth, finally a clip that I’m not afraid it will rip my trowsers!
This knife is very nice to hold and definitely classy.
Note that it needs the thumb stud to be opened as the blade is too far in the handle when closed, the stud is only on one side thus making this knife definitely for right handed people.
The mechanism is two little balls on both inside liners that “block”, not lock, the blade in place when open.
It is not a locking knife! (image from aliexpress as I haven’t opened the knife yet)
The blade is just over 3 inches requiring a little bit of filing if you need to make it below 3” for legal UK EDC.
The knife can be easily flicked open and closed with one hand.
The blade has enough unsharpen part at the beginning so that it wont cut your finger if you close it with one hand.
Also I believe it can not be mistaken for a gravity knife of any sort as the blade is well firm when half way open.
I think I’m going to like it, I bought a Navy K607 recently and after sharpening it up (very sharp) I started carrying it around and thought, “hey, maybe I’ve been wrong all this time, maybe I don’t need a huge folder,” so I looked around and the Persistence is about the same size blade (2¾”) and I saw the blue one on eBay for only $3 more than the black so now it’s in the mail.
Looks sweet but if it doesn’t lock, I won’t buy it. I have spent too many years with locking knives to go back to the finger cutters.
I have had locks fail on me but I can’t remember that ever causing a cut. I have had countless mishaps with non-locking knives so they are off my list.
I recently saw a co-worker use a Swiss Army Knife to try to cut a plastic 5 gal bucket. I just cringed the entire time. I could see a major accident happening. Luckily, he gave up and went to something else, hacksaw I think.
But, that knife looks so nice! If they made it with a lock, it would already be in my cart. LOL!
If you do that, you loose 50% of the functionality of a knife. If all there were were slip joints, I would carry a fixed blade. Also, no matter how careful you are with a non-locking blade, there are ways to have that blade snap shut on your fingers.
I was cutting a stick with a slip joint and being careful and I got cut bad. I was cutting away from myself and trimming the stick for use as a walking stick. I put some force to the blade to cut a smaller stem from the main stick and when it let go, My hand went with it. As my hand and knife flew forward, my auto muscle reaction was to contract my arm and bring it back. The blade hit something on the way back (the stick or small stem) and snapped shut on my index finger giving me a deep cut.
Is it possible to avoid accidents like these? Maybe but even the weakest lock in the world would have prevented that cut.
Accidents will happen, w/ slipjoints, locking or fixed knives. If you’re doing some hard cutting put on work gloves or something to protect your hands. I’ve had enough cuts and “gotchas!”, I keep a pair heavy duty gloves at hand.
Well I Was going to order one of these but I forgot it wasn't locking. I'll pass until they make an exact duplicate but with a liner lock or some other mechanism.
ordered 8) we dont have a choice tbh, although I was glad I had my en01 on Saturday, got to make like ray mears and build a fire at my sister in laws, her guests who were attempting this were less than useless, the en01 shrugged off the abuse of a branch used to knock it through the kindling, I figure this one would too and avoid the raised eyebrows a liner lock would get from the local sheriff’s. :bigsmile:
I’ve been using mine daily since I got it and you know what? I dont miss the lock in the slightest, its got that good a blade retention system, its fine, and a great choice for places like Britain where having a lock knife gets you the same funny look as jimmy Saville would get walking into mothercare.
Its a great knife even amongst the few lockers I’ve bought and I have less to worry about carrying it so I’m a happy man.
It’s a great knife isn’t it Gords? The problem I have is I keep giving them away. Friends see me using one, they like it, ah it’s only cheap keep it and I’ll order another……oh Fasttech is sold out! Anyone have another seller for this knife?
Unfortunately ebay uk don’t allow knife sales, no-one on Amazon stocks it, exduct don’t stock it, at FastTech it’s $11.25 but sold out and the only seller on AliExpress wants $23.20 for one, not at that price!
I’ll wait untill FastTech re-stocks or I find it somewhere else at a reasonable price.
It seems they’re popular at the moment.
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