went to the gamekeepers fair at catton park yesterday. Cannot remember who brought it up, but I've been looking for a small bladed innocuous looking knife to replace my 3 inch folder ever since

Only one real knife dealer there and I ended up with this little beauty:

http://www.mantisknives.com/Product%20Zoom/B4%20Buzzard/b4_buzzard.html

It's a mantis blades (never heard of them before) b4 buzzard.
looks and feels like a serious quality item. blade opens closes very smoothly with either hand.
weighs 1.3 oz - my old edc is nearer 6 lol

even better it was priced at £23.95 and I got it for £20.

Got to say - highly recommended, particularly if you're looking a for small every day lock knife for opening, boxes, packages, cutting tape, cord etc.

And the bottle opener and screwdriver is a real bonus. Good thickness of metal on the opener gives the impressio you could put decent pressure on a screw with no problems.

I'll do a comparison video when i get the chance.

But if you're looking for a small - non-threatening in appearance, but eminently practical small edc - definitely consider this little gem

Nice design.  Don't know about sharpening that in-curved blade, though.

I just bought a new small knife for the same reason; ended up with a little Kershaw "assisted opening" job.
Pics up on the "other topics" area.

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I wondered that- BUT it's dead easy, just use my normal diamond file, no problem.

build quality is seriously high. durability shouldn't be a problem.

Et Cetera wrote on Apr 19^th, 2010 at 6:50pm:


it's 420HC

Curious Aardvark wrote on Apr 21^st, 2010 at 7:14am:

Why does that matter? Are English people scared of knives/tools? 

carrying a knife is not illegal - yet.

But having a LOCK knife in a public place is a prosecutable offence. And the definition of  'a public place' is vague bordering on conprehensive.

So a three inch long, wide bladed lock knife is tantamount to carrying a firearm in the current eyes of the law.

pic below illustrates the difference between my old edc and my new one

As you can see the old one is a tad conspicuous - great little knife cost $7 from walmart 3 years ago and has probably been used nearly every day since.
Wouldn't swap it for one 10 times the price

But I do have a tendency to whip it out with a flourish and a fast click on opening lol (david morningstar and slingbagder can testify to this, they both jumped lol). I can do the same with the new one and nobody bats an eyelid.

The new one is still technically illegal 'cause it's a lock knife - but the odds of anyone being worried enough to call the police is pretty much zero. And yes such sad people do exist.

Guy got done in burton recently for simply taking a knife out of his pocket and putting it back. Nobody anywhere near him, he wasn't threatening anyone probably just rearranging his pocket,  but some arsehole monitoring a cctv camera spotted him and he was prosecuted.
I don't intend to take the risk.
Sad, but unfortunately it's the law now.

I still have my little swiss army knife and the gerber, but I very rarely use the blades on those.

I carry this SOG knife in my wallet in a credit card slot. It's perfect for unobtrusive carry and real use.

if you want an awesome bottle opener, look at this http://budk.com/Gifts-and-Gadgets/Silver-Flash-Butterfly-Can-Opener I bought one a while back and their kind of cool and fun to play with