Knives DC53 Steel Tactical Fixed Blade Knife with kydex sheath for Men EDC Outdoor Camping Survival Hunting (White stone wash)

Trying new every day carry knives is a hobby for me. This is meant to be an EDC knife, it is an appropriate size and weight to carry daily, all day. It is small and thin compared to a typical fixed blade for bushcraft uses. This is meant to be used to cut, if you want a pry bar or something to baton this isn't the one for you. I wear M to L gloves. XL hands will not have enough handle for a full grip, but there is a nice finger choil which is big enough for even a very big finger.The sheath is quality and being able to hold the sheath with your thumb while pulling the blade out is a great feature I wish more knives employed. It came shaving sharp, but barely, which exceeds my expectations at the 25 dollar price point. The edge was ground evenly and easy to sharpen to a razor edge in a few minutes. In use and sharpening it feels like properly heat treated D2. Given the value proposition I will be buying more from this maker.

First off , the sheath is almost worth the price of the whole package, 25 dollars at the time of writing this . I bought this because I was interested in the esee 2.5 and don't have anywhere close to me that carries it in stock. I wanted to get it in my hands before I coughed up the 100 or so dollars . I watched several videos of the 2.5 and looked at a few photos and it just looked really small , and the handle looked oddly shaped to me. Then I came across this knife for 25 bucks. To be honest I wasn't expecting much but a similarly sized and shaped esee 2.5 clone made for peanuts and slapped together haphazardly and shipped out the door to whatever poor sap would bite on the advertised price. ( me )I was wrong.I have spent a lot more money on a lot , and I mean a lot worse blades. Not even counting the sheath,which can be a crap shoot for even some bigger knife companies. For the price I paid for this knife I am exceedingly satisfied . It was shaving sharp out of the box , the blade grind looked even to me , the blade finish was uniform. No burrs or rough spots on anything. The handle scales were microscopically uneven in the finger groove area but that's really grasping to find a flaw on my part. I'm very particular about some things and it's so slight as to be virtually unnoticeable. The handle shape just sinks into my hand like it melted there and the blade length is pretty perfect for all around use. The sheath is very well formed and finished , with a drain hole, and provides really good retention. I swapped out the belt clip for an ulticlip which fit perfectly, and it's good to go. It's got a good weight to it , light in the pocket but not too heavy. A perfect EDC pocket fixed blade. I still plan on buying the esee but it will just be a little later on. Not gonna lie , I'm feeling a little guilty right now for liking this knife so much and also not spending the extra for a made in America product that I could have just returned if I wasn't satisfied with it. Eh , I'll just buy 2 esee's next , problem solved 👍

Only complaint is that the bolts that hold on the scales are not completely recessed. Only slightly uncomfortable. Will have to file the screws down a little. Don't want to try and flatten the scales out as the handle is small. The steel is very good, out of box sharp. Sheath is great except the clip. Plan on replacing with something smaller or use as a neck knife. This is a great EDC fixed blade. You won't regret getting it.

In a blade world — Dark Ages Melee, Big Choppers & Machete, compensatory belt danglers, fixed work and duty edges, Companion fixed, gentleman’s fixed, locking folders, and small slip folders . . . I was expecting a heavyweight paring knife at 2oz. maybe, and 1/16th” thick.What I got was a full tang mystery chinesium that feels good, if slick, in the hand, around 5oz., a ‘Mini-Companion about 1/8” thick. Decently sharp out of the box with a perfunctory edge not of my choice — So, re-profiling…A respectable factory Full Flat Grind with secondary bevel of 35 to 40 degrees inclusive . . . Far too oblique for my interests. In refining the flatness and finish on the knuckle side I noticed that the steel (mystery chinesium) seemed harder as I got below the factory grinding.I think s30v skates over abrasives. I think s35vn will burr up but does not form a wire… 14c28n is easy to work… and m390 will work WITH you but requires a great intention as you sharpen it.This mystery from the west pacific produced a heavy wire burr after I got down to harder metal on the side I was focused on. This steel might be very polishable. I think this would make a really good neck knife if a bit heavy. The sheath is as simple as rocks and well imagined and shaped — also light in weight. The belt or strap hanging doohickie fastened to the back of it is way to big and bulky — no doubt has virtues I will never discover — but its klunky.If I am off-trail with a chopper as sharp bludgeon and a “woodcrafting” companion next to it — this would be great as a ‘fine work’ scout-draw or neck knife — or as a field expedient paring knife that could open a coconut.An excellent size for small hands, I have re-worked mine with a waxed polyester cord wrap that fixed the slippage and fits my hand without strain.After I live with this a bit there could be other observations. I can see myself buying more of these…Two days later and I have finished my preferred profile. The steel noticeably gets harder after you ‘skin’ the blade with your new edge.In this application I want a single plane on the knuckles side, a full flat grind with essentially no other bevel — this will take some time.I used the same method to flatten and polish the thumb side that finishes with a radiused edge for something like a 25°ish inclusive angle concave on one side and flat on the other.I refined the good try factory 90° face on top of the spine — leaving a bit of a burr on the knuckles side for wood scraping, sharp with no burr on the thumb side for ferrocerium striking.This one is not as hard as an aogami-steel, nor as finely grained. In this case, it is softer than s30v with a keenness harder to achieve than m390 ( these are all reference points that are NOT statistically valid and subject to the variables of manufacture and the vagaries of my impressions.