New Knife - Civivi Mini Bullmastiff

Well, what to say? Maybe that I'm inconsistent or I realize there are other tastes than my own. The reason I say this is that I do not really think there is any reason in the whole wide world to put a folding  a meat cleaver-inspired blade in a folding knife. It will only be a sheep's foot, but much worse. That is, significantly wider and more clumsy in the pocket, in most cases much heavier, and to what use? None! Despite this, this knife is just such a knife, a folding knife with a blade completely inspired by a heavy piece of butcher/kitchen tool.

A little anecdote may be in order. When I was younger I worked holidays and later for a longer period at a combined slaughterhouse/butchery/charcuterie in a small town nearby. For the longest, pigs were split by hand there. So long, in fact, that I had time to do it. That is, instead of letting a machine do the task or use a power saw, you split pigs into halves with the help of a very large meat cleaver. An ax with a handle about 60 cm long and a blade of a few kilos at the other end. The reason is simple, the quality of the meat will be significantly better as there will be no bone chips or "sawdust" as there will be with machines. At home, I use a cleaver for making pork chops or trim chicken legs, etc. This is the kind of work these blades are for. If you make miniatures of them, they lose all meaning.

However, it is not about utility in this case but only about appearance. As long as no one claims otherwise, I will not lose it too much and instead say something about the knife itself. Of course, it comes from  Civivi and looks like this!

 

Civivi C2004C Mini Bullmastiff

The model itself is called Mini Bullmastiff, which suggests that there is another and larger knife involved. And there is. It's, of course, called Bull Mastiff and has a blade of just under four inches instead. This is the slightly less clumsy more EDC-oriented version. Thankfully, these two lack the hole in the blade that the Mastodon and Mini Mastodon models have. Otherwise, they are very similar.

Mini in this version is not so mini but measures 18 cm in length and the blade stands for 75.5 mm or three inches of it. The blade is made of stone-washed 9Cr18MoV which is actually not bad steel. The blade runs on fine ceramic ball bearings like most of Civivi's knives. The blade locks with a well-made liner lock. The handle material is black G10. Other colors are available. The knife also comes with a reversible deep ride type of clip.

The Mini Bullmastiff opens with a flipper tab, although the wide blade allows it to be slowly rolled out with the thumb as well. The handling itself is, as one has come to expect from the Civivi, excellent. So far, so good. But then we come to the blade shape itself. I will talk more about it in the coming review of this knife. But the build quality can not be complained about.

/ J 

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