![]() The above article may contain affiliate links. Do you have a favorite affordable knife? Let us know about it in the comments! Our goal is to represent knives for a variety of uses from EDC, to outdoor, to tactical knives. All knives were purchased by me from Amazon: CRKT Minimalist I am using Amazon as the price base line for this series. It’s an affordable, compact defensive fixed blade. Our installed knives include the OEM scales in-box. They feel great in the hand and turn this little knife into a workhorse. Our new Flex scales shake things up and give the Minimalist a beefy grip. The Minimalist is a great little knife if you want a small utility blade to EDC. The CRKT Minimalist, while light and useful for small tasks, has some challenging ergonomics that can leave you wanting more. It is actually a decent sheath that retains the knife well and allows a full grip on the knife handle. The sheath is injection molded but it would pass for real heat molded kydex at a glance. It is an extremely aggressive cutter thanks to this thin stock and good geometry. 10″ thick steel stock and has a relatively high hollow grind, especially on the wharncliffe style blade that I prefer. That is really the genius of this Alan Folts design. In most cases, finger grooves are an annoyance but in the case of the Minimalist, they are the key to how a knife with such a small handle manages to lock into the user’s hand. It can be carried on your belt as a compact self-defense knife or even attached to something like a Raven Concealment Pocket Shield.Įverybody hates knife handles with finger grooves… until they try a CRKT Minimalist. Whether you carry it on your belt, as a neck knife, or in your pocket, the Minimalist is small enough to forget it’s there. The Minimalist is small – truly small – which makes it very easy to carry. But still, it’s a great knife in part because its small and well designed. It doesn’t have the cache of a custom knife. The Minimalist is a Bargain, not just cheap. ![]() Sheath: Injection Molded Plastic Observations from Use This popular compact fixed blade can be found for less than $30 and it is extremely easy to carry… but is it a Bargain or Just Cheap? The CRKT Minimalist is based on the original, custom Alan Folts designed Minimalist. I’ll buy them, carry them, and use them in an attempt to determine if the knife is a bargain or just cheap. All of the knives will cost less than $50 (in most cases, much less) and will be purchased out of my own pocket. ![]() And they are certainly a great value, which explains why the Minimalist family continues to grow.Welcome to Bargain or Just Cheap? This series will review budget friendly knives for a variety of uses in a short format. True to their name, these really are minimal fixed blades, but they are also the most useful for their size that we have seen. This version has a straight Razor-Sharp front edge, which allows push cutting, and a concave main edge which feeds material into the edge for fast cutting. The 2.125" Tanto blade shape is very strong because of the strong central spine of metal which extends nearly to the tip. The knife is held securely in place by a positive detent which locks the base of the blade in place for maximum safety.īecause the knife and sheath weigh about two ounces together, it is a personal carry you will barely notice. ![]() Unlike many small neck knives, this handle is really functional for a wide variety of daily cutting tasks.Įach Minimalist comes with a custom-fitted glass filled nylon sheath and neck paracord for inverted carry as a neck knife. They are very small and lightweight knives which give surprising comfort and control, thanks to the unusual geometry of the full-tang blades, aided by three finger choils, friction grooves for the thumb, hand-contoured green-black resin impregnated fiber scales, and a braided fob. His Minimalist® neck knives have proven to be very popular, so we are now offering three CRKT production versions. Alan Folts is a knifemaker and metalworker in Greenville, N.C., who makes a remarkable range of custom objects, including titanium chopsticks. ![]()
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