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

Blade size: its small but the description is accurate. Grip is excellant. DC53 is a good knife steel if you have the money find a magnacut blade if you just need a cost effective option, keep reading!The elephant in the room... this is a clone of a big brand mfr. So should you buy a clone or support the OG source?This requires some explanation...The original is made of a basic steel not some super alloy, so this knife is also a basic steel.The org has excellant heat treat, i havent used this one long enough to know but so far its good! Scale materials are the same as are attachment methods. Now the biggie: cost!The org is 4 to 5 times the cost. Could the org possible be worth the mark up? Well you are paying for the most comprehensive warranty in the knife industry so if you are rough on your knives the org warranty is probably worth that cost. If you want a hard wearing pocket sized fixed blade... BUY THREE OF THESE, youve spent less than the org and chances are the three combined will last at least as long as the org.My opinion is based in having owned both the org and the copy. Also im not one of those idiots that tries to cut nails or conduit with a knife.

Great steel, DC53, and great craftsmanship here. I got the one with the carbon fiber handle and it is really nice. I wouldn't go out bush crafting with it and certainly no batonning with it, but for a pairing or a small craftsman knife, even a skinning knife it would be perfect. I has rounded off edges on the back of the blade and all around the scales, like I've seen on Elmax steel blades costing a fortune; ie. like the Olive Arbor and some Lionsteel blades. Jimping in two spots on the backbone a very nice choil to prevent your finger from slipping onto the blade. Even the sheath has a great thumb push-off and a drainage hole on the inside only. The belt clip doesn't have a slide lock but I doubt I'll be carrying this one. It will be for food prep and skinning. I'd be willing to bet if you found this knife in a cutlery store on the shelf, it would have a price tag of 2-3 times more than $40. And after holding it, you'd probably pay that price for it. It's razor sharp as well and a full grind on the blade. It really feels like a high quality knife! Very impressed with it.

Knife is good. Sheath is unusable, plan on having a new sheath made for it because the one it comes with has basically no retention.

I love this little knife. It holds a good edge and is easy to carry and use. It is very much like a knife sold by a company whose name starts with E and ends with E, but at a much lower price. I'm sure that the other knife is superior in materials, but I can't believe it would be worth several times what this knife sells for ($25). I have two of these knives and am bound to buy another.

This knife is a little gem. It is 80% of a White River Knife, I have a Caper and a Backpacker for 20% of the price. I feel I can actually use this blade, whereas the WR knives are so pretty and pricy, they don't get as much hard use. I have purchased 2 so far and I may buy more. I hope the price doesn't increase!

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.

Love this knife, it's better than fixed blades from big brands that cost 200 plus dollars. As I knife collector I can say this is one heck of a knife for a crazy good price.