Review on 🔪 Cold Steel Luzon Medium Folding Knife: Durable Steel, 8Cr13MoV Blade, 20NQL by Emlia Teremov ᠌

This is a good knife, badly spoiled by a fashionable approach. Well made for the money. Everything is in place, the blade convergence is good, the steel is satisfactory. Light weight but strong enough construction. Excellent powerful lock of the closed blade. Manual blocking of the open blade. Flaws: 1. Clip. Plastic, one-sided, cannot be removed (the handle has a recess under it). The clip is made in such a way that it makes it difficult to remove the knife from the jeans pocket even in ideal conditions: the inner edge of the clip confidently clings to the pocket edging. Knife removal force from the pocket it is required that the trouser leg is supported along the leg in full length. It is necessary either to grind the clip from the inside, making it more gentle, or lift it with washers, providing a gap between the clip and the handle. I simply transferred this knife to the left pocket, attaching a metal clip to the handle on the other side of the plastic one. 2. Foolish flip ledge. The blade flips quickly and hard in show conditions. But if we are talking about camping conditions and, God forbid, the hand is damaged or weakened (for example, frozen), the knife may not be opened with one hand: the ledge is sharp due to its shape, the handle is narrow, and the lock force of the closed blade is significant. 3. At the same time, the peg on the blade, hinting at the possibility of opening the knife with your thumb, is generally not intended for this because of its small width, it does not protrude beyond the handle and it is difficult to pick it up with your finger. I had to put an additional wide peg on the blade, it helped. 4. If it seemed to you that the protrusion on the of the blade allows you to use itself as a wave (one of the best, truly useful inventions of the knife business, not like a flip), this is not entirely true. It allows. but in order for it to work confidently as a wave, it must at least be covered with transverse notches. And it’s better to change its shape, giving it the appearance of a wave. In general, this is a knife of a good idea and a bad, exhibition-shelf design. Luckily, it's not too difficult to upgrade to a normal EDC knife. The knife is worth the money.