Blade Testing: Pig Carcass

There are a TON of so-called “tactical” knives on the market. We tend to avoid using the term for our own knives mostly because most of these “tactical” knives’ designs come solely from the fantasies and imaginations of mid-level marketing or sales staff at those knife companies. Which is an oblique way of saying; most “tactical” designated knives on the market are dogshit. For that reason, in this post we will persist in framing the term in quotation marks, because these dogshit knives are as “tactical” as a rubber spatula.

We won’t get into the reasons why this has happened here and now – that’s for a later post/video, but one of the reasons why most “tactical” knives suck is that the design/development process doesn’t include any sort of testing and user feedback.

Fisher Blades is resolute that we don’t fall into this miasma of mediocrity. So to that end, when we were almost ready to pull the production trigger on our Beckwith Covert defensive daily carry (DDC) blade (see our blog post on our views on this), we spent a bunch of time testing the blade to make sure the knife met our standards and fulfilled the intended purpose of the knife.

Here's a video we made on this process:

So next time you consider getting a knife, unless it’s a cheap-ass China-made knife you can afford to waste money on, consider asking the knife brand what sort of testing they put the knife through during the design/development process.

/Chas Fisher