New Knife - FKW - Fort Knife Works Cross

There aren't many of them on the market, high-quality stilettos made of decent materials. At least not any that don't cost a fortune. However, if you look among custom manufacturers, there are, of course, many available. But for us mere mortals, it is harder to find alternatives. But here is one of them called Cross from FKW - Fort Knife Works.

FKW Cross

Whether it is a limited edition or not, I will leave it unsaid, but they are numbered, and this happens to be 1030/1200.

The material in the handle sides is aluminium, and the knife can be obtained with or without bolsters. Cross has a total weight of 132 g. Quite a lot for such a slim knife, but the frame is sturdy and made of steel. On the back, there is a clip that cannot be moved, and which is unusual; it is a top-mounted deep ride clip. This is probably mostly due to the handle shape. However, it does have the advantage that the ergonomics are good.

A stiletto with a blade in M390 is not common.

On the other side, you will find a slide safety and the cross-shaped activation button that gave the knife its name. The blade is driven by a coil spring and is medium-fast. Not one of the fastest, but in return, there is absolutely no play in the blade. The lock is given by the construction, a button/plunge lock.

The blade is also just over nine centimetres long, 91 mm and made of steel as fine as M390. The total length of the knife is 21.5 cm.

Overall, a nice and very well-built knife for under a hundred Euros.

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New Knife - Al Mar Quicksteel 40

If not at the dawn of time then at least early there was a giant folding knife from Al Mar called Quicksilver. It was also available in a smaller version. If you fast forward several years, you will find a new edition of said knife reviewed here on the blog. That too, was a big one, so big that I hesitate to use it for EDC use. A thirty-centimeter stiletto attracts attention. However, there was no option for anything smaller at the time. 

Old meets new, Quicksilver SlimLine UL and the new Quicksteel

But now that has changed. The luxury knife with a titanium handle has been discontinued and replaced with three different sizes of knives with steel handles. This is the intermediate model called the Quicksteel 4" where the four indicates that the blade is four inches long.

Al Mar Quicksteel 4"

Even though the handle is made of steel, we are not talking about a heavyweight. It weighs in at 120 g. This is mainly due to the slim shape but also to the rows of holes made in the handle. Closed, the knife measures 5 inches or 12.5 centimeters and opened around 23 centimeters or nine inches.

The blade has a very typical stiletto shape with an almost symmetrical blade with a bayonet grind. The material is D2. As I said, the handle is made of steel and this also means that you can use a frame lock to keep the blade in place. When opened, the knife has a flipper made up of symmetrical finger guards. In no other way can the blade be made to show itself to the world because the Quicksteel is one of those knives where the blade is completely hidden when the knife is closed.

Incidentally, the knife was designed by Gary McFadden. Now all that remains is to thoroughly test it before the upcoming review. It will appear here on the blog again.

Al Mar

/ J