Kiya custom folder and Spiderco EDC UK

June 15, 2009  |  General

A little Kiya knife I picked up in Tokyo Japan along­side some ser­i­ous chefs knives. Sim­ilar to an Opinel in blade style and sharp as a razor (sharpened in store). Cost about £20, but Japan is a little too far to go for an EDC! They had 4 mod­els, the top one was a cus­tom spe­cial steel and out of my cur­rent price range.

This one has a simple wooden handle and a simple slip move­ment. Here it is next to my Spiderco UK, which I carry when I don’t have my Leather­man. (Lan­yard my own design).

Kiya custom folder and Spiderco EDC UK

Its smooth, classy, body will mean that it is my “Black Tie” knife, for when the Spiderco would raise an eyebrow.

BTW I also have a SOG Micron and the handle fails –spits– dur­ing hard work. Not what I expect from a SOG, which is usu­ally my choice when teaching/learning knife defence.

Regards,

Basho

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  1. mr t frost....

    nice look­ing knife dude.… ques­tion though… is it a uk legal edc? blade looks a little big in my mind to be under 3 inch?

    btw i mostly carry 2 tools every day now… a spiderco bug (inch cut­ting edge, sod­ding sharp, good slip joint, and only cost about 6 quid. ive also taken to car­ry­ing a cold­steel pocket shark.. which sounds aggress­ive but is actu­ally a simple marker pen that has been over engin­eered to be cap­able as an emer­gency win­dow breaker, wedge, lever, or short range impact tool.… can also be used as a Yawara stick.

  2. I like the bug, but it really is too small! The length of the blade of the Kiya is exactly 3 inches.

    For per­sonal defence I have a Cold­steel Sharkie Pen.

    Hope to hear from ye soon

  3. mr t frost....

    dude… a quick ques­tion? why did you go for a sharkie instead of the pocket shark?

  4. Well, back then the sharkie was all there was! I have had it for a long time.

  5. mr t frost....

    to be hon­est as far as i know the only dif­fer­ence is the col­our any­way… i must admit though with mine i got some sand­pa­per and took off the trade­marks and the silly shark face.

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