A big folding knife,
a knife that literally fills your hand
comes from US knives makers, CRKT,
Columbia River Knife and Tool.
The knife I'm showing you
is called "Crawford Kasper".
It's actually the name of designers,
because there are two of them.
A box, a carton box...
there is a CRKT brochure inside it.
And the knife, as I told you, is called Crawford Kasper.
Her is the folding knife/.
The blade is made out of a very good stainless steel,
8Cr14MoV.
In other words it is an alloy of
Chrome, Molybdenum, Vanadium
The hardness of this knife
reaches 57 - 59 on the HRC scale
Although it is stainelss steel
the blade is painted black non reflective
The opening mechanism
is very simple: stud on both sides.
It helps to open it with one single hand,
with left hand or right hand as well.
It has a big blade, I always pull it this way
then close it.
Th locking mechanism,
as you probably already seen it,
is Liner Lock.
There is a liner on one side of the handle
that fixes the blade in this position.
Now it's locked, it cannot be folded
unless I push the liner aside with my finger.
Only after I push the liner aside
I can fold the knife.
It has here an additional brake that,
when I push it toward the blade,
it blocks the liner in this position
preventing the knife to be unlocked.
So, it has a supplementary closing protection.
When you hold it in your hand,
you tend to push this forward
and so, to not get it accidentally closed
and cut your fingers.
The frame is made of steel
covered in a kind of plastic called Zytel.
It has a lanyard hole
for a string, for a paracord,
and a pocket clip.
The pocket clip is a big a strong one,
it's written CRKT on it.
It's only issue is that
can be mounted in one single position.
It can be screwed here an nowhere else.
There are no other holes for it.
It also says "CRKT" on the handle,
the name of the manufacturer.
On the blade.... it doesn't say too much
"C|K Folder" here
and "Crawford/Kasper Design" underneath.
Somewhere here, very very little
is the part number.
I was telling you that it's a big knife.
It weighs 200 grams.
The overall length of this knife is more than 23 centimeters,
23.4 cm more precisely.
The blade is pretty long, 9.4 centimeters
and it measures almost 14 centimeters when it's folded.
The blade's thickness is 3.7 millimeters.
There are bushcraft or outdoor knives out there
which have thinner blades than this one.
I found it presented as
multifunctional folding knife
or EDC, "every day carry" folder.
I found it too big for a EDC folder.
I hold it very very well,
I have a big hand and there's still
some handle left near the blade
and on the back end as well.
The handle's shape
contributes to an extraordinary grip.
This room is for the index finger and
and here is for the other three fingers.
This shape gives a very good grip.
Here, on the handle,
you ca see some ditches, notches,
which increase as well the grip.
It came very sharp from factory
A knife is a tool, not a weapon!
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