Knock-off CRKT UL Knives: $10

[Erik Basil]

If you're in SoCal and have a Big 5 near you, the flyer in today's paper includes two UL-style "neck knives" that fans of the CRKT products may recognize very quickly. (http://www.crkt.com/smallsurvivalknives)

The first knife is the lighter of the two:

It includes a fairly beefy Kydex sheath and a metal bead necklace.

24 grams, with the light lanyard.

The second knife is a tanto-bladed item:

This one also includes a Kydex sheath and necklace. The knife draws cleanly from the sheath.

This one's 38 grams, and took a fine edge with a few swipes on the $4 ceramic sharpener.

Each of these is currently $9.99 at Big 5.

[Ben H.]

They look pretty nice. How does the edge seem?

[Erik Basil]

I've been using the pair to slash/breakdown boxes and mail all week, cutting cardboard, tape and paper, as well as some plastic straps, food bags and wrappings. Both knives were sharp and burr-free out of the box, but I dressed the edge on both with one of those pocket ceramic sharpeners, anyway…what's good enough for the 30-year old Opinel is good enough for these, eh?

The tanto-bladed knife took a very nice edge and has kept it. The skeleton knife's shape focuses a lot of work onto the belly of the blade and that's lost some keen but is still good. For Ten Bucks, these are good.

[Nancy Twilley]

These are so close in design to the CRKT originals, you'd think they'd get them for some kind of trademark violation!

[Erik Basil]

These two knives are on-sale for ten bucks at Big 5, again this week. They also have a longer, finger-through-the-handle skeleton framed version.

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