I’ve typically mentioned that we dwell within the golden age of EDC and area knives. There may be an amazing number of knives to select from relying in your funds and wishes. The great factor is that there are loads of nice knives obtainable for good costs. You don’t must spend a ton of cash to get a top quality knife you can rely upon. The Eutektik sequence from Liong Mah is a good instance of that.
Liong Mah began as an expert chef, so he has spent loads of time working with knives to know what works, and what’s snug to make use of for lengthy intervals of time. He translated that data over to EDC blades as effectively, and his designs are at all times modern and sensible. He makes some superb folders, and most carry value tags within the $300 to $600 vary. I perceive that’s not a variety everybody can spend on a each day EDC instrument, or is prepared to. I get it. When you’re studying this right here on The Reality About Weapons, you’re primarily a gun man or gal, and people are getting up into gun costs! Liong Mah has of us like us lined, although, together with his manufacturing Eutektik line of EDC folders. You get all of his design expertise and experience in a manufacturing folder produced from nice supplies, at a really cheap value. Let’s check out a pair fashions I’ve been working with for the previous few months.
Eutektik EFD
When you have a look at the Eutektik EFD you’ll be able to see that it shares loads of design cues from Liong’s greater finish choices. The EFD brings the associated fee down by using inexpensive, however nonetheless glorious, supplies.
The three.5-inch, drop-point blade is flat floor and is produced from Swedish 14C28N Sandvik metal. It comes with both a Stonewashed or Blackwashed end. 14C28N is a good metal. It’s stainless, and has glorious corrosion resistance and good edge retention, however continues to be straightforward to sharpen. It really works nice with a leather-based strop too to maintain the sting tuned so that you simply don’t must sharpen it as typically too.
The EFD handles are G10 with a metal liner lock and pins, and can be found in quite a lot of colours together with primary black, OD inexperienced, orange, denim blue, purple and Pure Jade. The open body design is simple to scrub and permits crud and pocket particles to drop by and never get trapped within the body within the first place. My EFD had OD inexperienced handles and a Stonewashed blade. A lanyard gap can be obtainable on the butt of the knife, though it’s a bit small for paracord.
The blade opens with a entrance flipper or by utilizing the elongated opening slot on the blade. The blade opens easily and locks up tight by the use of a liner lock mechanism. I’m not nice with the entrance flipper type opener, however the elongated opening gap works nice for me. Being that we’re seeing increasingly entrance flippers, I in all probability ought to apply with it extra, however because the EFD has choices, I don’t actually need to.
The EFD carries flat within the pocket with a reversible deep carry pocket clip. I’m fairly choosy about pocket clips and have drawers filled with knives that I like, however don’t carry a lot due to the clip and the way they experience within the pocket. That was undoubtedly not a problem with the EFD. It’s a superb design that carries the knife discreetly and permits for a simple draw, whereas nonetheless giving correct retention so that you simply don’t lose the knife out of your pocket.
The manufacturing facility edge on the EFD was glorious, and has held as much as months of typical EDC work like opening bins and packages, slicing cordage and tape, and even gentle meals prep. It cleans up simply too. The G10 handles are huge and hand filling, and match my mid sized palms effectively. They’ve a texture that gives for a strong grip, however isn’t overly aggressive and doesn’t trigger scorching spots throughout use. A finger choil on the blade helps you to choke up for element work or simply offers you some additional area you probably have actually massive palms.
The EFD is a snug knife to make use of, and carries simply with its flat profile, glorious pocket clip, and weight of solely 3.92 ounces. The three.5 inch drop level blade is an ideal dimension and elegance for EDC use. The EFD has an MSRP of $85, which I feel is fairly cheap for the supplies used and design experience that’s gone into it.
Specs:
Blade Size: 3.50″Slicing Edge: 3.15″Closed Size: 4.50″Total Size: 8.00″Blade Materials: Sandvik 14C28N Stainless SteelBlade Thickness: 0.125″Blade Type: Drop PointBlade Grind: FlatBlade End: StonewashHandle Materials: Black G10Handle Thickness: 0.458″Locking Mechanism: Liner LockPivot Meeting: BearingsPocket Clip: Deep Carry Stainless Metal (Tip-Up, Proper/Left Carry)Weight: 3.92 ozDesigner: Liong MahMade in ChinaMSRP: $85.00
The Eutektik Trinity
The Trinity shares lots of the options of the EFD. It makes use of the identical metal lined G10 handles, and 14C28N stainless blade, and is on the market in the identical array of deal with colours. Just like the EFD it has a reversible deep carry pocket clip and lanyard gap. It has a thinner total profile although and an extended 3.75-inch clip level blade. My Trinity had the blue denim G10 handles and black stonewashed blade.
The Trinity makes use of a extra conventional again flipper, which I’m rather more used to. I can function it a lot quicker and extra intuitively than a entrance flipper. With the EFD I usually used the thumb gap for opening, however on the Trinity nearly solely used the flipper.
I rotated the Trinity with the EFD for carry and located them to carry out equally. You get a bit extra blade size with the Trinity and a bit finer level with its clip level form. The Trinity is snug to make use of, and offers you a barely longer deal with. That coupled once more with a finger choil may make it the higher selection for actually massive palms however truthfully, they’re shut. MSRP on the Trinity is similar $85 because the EFD.
Specs:
Blade Size: 3.75″Slicing Edge: 3.25″Closed Size: 4.75″Total Size: 8.50″Blade Materials: Sandvik 14C28N Stainless SteelBlade Thickness: 0.125″Blade Type: Clip PointBlade Grind: FlatBlade End: Black StonewashHandle Materials: Denim Blue G10Handle Thickness: 0.463″Locking Mechanism: Liner LockPivot Meeting: BearingsPocket Clip: Deep Carry Stainless Metal (Tip-Up, Proper/Left Carry)Weight: 3.46 ozDesigner: Liong MahMade in ChinaMSRP: $85.00
Ultimate Ideas
Though I do know my EDC blade is usually going for use for mundane duties, after over 20 years as a cop, and over 30 years of carrying hid, I at all times take into accout a knife’s functionality as a again up or weapons retention instrument. I feel both the EFD or Trinity would work effectively in that position. They’re straightforward sufficient to hold that you simply’ll even have them with you, and may be set as much as carry in order that they’re accessible with both the first or alternate hand. The deal with texture and place makes drawing them decently quick, and opening is fast with both the flipper or elongated blade gap. the three.5- to three.75-inch blades will do high quality for getting somebody off of you. I won’t decide a sub 4-inch blade as a devoted preventing knife, however then once more I don’t actually wish to get right into a knife struggle within the first place. It’s loads to let somebody know that you simply’d somewhat them not be in your private area, nevertheless.
You’ll be able to inform loads of thought and expertise have gone into the Eutetek designs. They’re a sensible mix of dimension and options, and so they’re fabricated from high quality supplies. I feel we generally get overly obsessive about the most recent metal crazes, and neglect that our ancestors obtained by simply high quality utilizing their blades much more than we usually do, and for lots extra critical functions. They didn’t have a lot past primary carbon steels and so they obtained by simply high quality. 14C28N is a good metal and if that saves me some bucks up entrance I’m okay with that. With an $85.00 price ticket I’m getting a top quality knife, however not one so costly that I’m going to be devastated if I lose it, or the TSA confiscates it.
Between the 2 Euteteks, I tended to gravitate in direction of the EFD a bit extra. Though I most well-liked the again flipper of the Trinity for quick opening, I appreciated the deal with width and form of the EFD a bit higher. I’ve at all times been a fan of a basic drop-point blade too. Each carried out effectively, although, and I wouldn’t hesitate to slide both one into my pocket. In actual fact, should you run into me out within the wild, there’s a superb likelihood you will notice one or the opposite protruding of my pocket. I take a look at and check out loads of knives, however I’ve a small steady of standard customers that I rotate by, and the EFD and Trinity are going into that line up.
Liong Mah’s Eutetik folders can be found instantly by his web site or from quite a few on-line retailers.
