2-for-Tuesday: Kershaw G-10 Knives
- Satin-finished 8CR13MoV steel fillet-type blade for light to medium duty (i.e., pretty much everything you ever do with a knife unless you’re Crocodile Dundee)
- Textured flow-through handle is easy to hold, easy to clean, easy… to love
- Oh, yeah, you get two of them, in case you missed that
- Model: 1530
Crocodile Dundee was wrong.
It was the scene that summed up why the wilds of New York are no match for an Aussie outback ranger, the line that even people who’ve never seen Crocodile Dundee want to quip whenever they pick up a knife. Some '80s street scum flicks a switchblade on Croc and his date. “That’s not a knife,” chuckles the Antipodean reptile poacher, brandishing a massive, hooked Bowie knife the size of a baby’s arm. “That’s a knife.” The ever-unruffled bushwalker slashes open the hoodlum’s knockoff Michael Jackson red leather jacket, sending him and his fellow cockroaches scurrying into the night.
But knife guys know: Crocodile Dundee was wrong.
Almost every time you want a knife, you want a slimmer blade. It’s easier to work with. More versatile. Can fit into tighter spaces. As long as the knife itself is strong and sturdy, like this Kershaw G10 Hawk, thinner and lighter is better.
This knife wouldn’t pass the Dundee test. You wouldn’t use it to kill your dinner, or throw into the bar to dramatically announce your arrival at some outback honky-tonk, or terrify some central-casting muggers into finding some other yobbo to rip off. But for the things you actually do with an EDC knife - slice an apple, open a package, cut some twine, etc. - it’s just right.
We’re sure that gigunda Bowie comes in handy when Mick Dundee is skinning a crocodile. But if you carried it around all that time, you’d be more likely to skin yourself.
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