Eafengrow EF55 Pocket Knife Folding Knife G10 Handle D2 Steel Blade Folder EDC Tool Knifes for Working Camping with Clip(Black)

I've had this knife and have been using it for about six months now. When I first received it, I was a little concerned because it was extremely stiff on opening, and the deep groove on the blade kept catching the tip of one of my fingers every time I tried to open it. Which meant I had a difficult time opening it one handed. On the other hand, when it locks open it LOCKS with an audible *clunk* and there was no give or play in the joint at all. With use, the knife loosened up considerably, in that it became much easier to open. Now I can flick it open one handed as quickly as any of my folders. Once it loosened up, I was a little concerned that there wasn't enough friction to keep the knife from opening in my pocket. But there's something about the blade geometry or the lock design that keeps it pretty securely shut until you decide to flick it open. I even looked in it to see if there was a ball-bearing detent or something, but I couldn't find anything to indicate how this is accomplished. It's a mystery but it works. The joint itself did NOT loosen up in the sense of lateral give or wobbliness and it still locks like a bank vault. You could drive this thing through a two by four with a hammer and that lock is not going to give. I also really like the edge geometry. The straight lines make it easy to sharpen, and the acute point should be sufficient to penetrate pretty much anything reasonable you might encounter in daily life. The edge is slightly hollow-ground, I was a bit surprised to see, and nicely done. Of course, so long as the cutting edge is kept sharp the hollow grind makes it cut better than a flat-grind edge would. As a general rule, I do not use folding knives to pry open crates, or to open tuna cans, or to do anything else abusive like that that aficionados of really tough knives like to do to prove how tough their blades are. If you find yourself having to do stuff like that, you should be wearing a tool belt and not carrying a folder. I use my knives for cutting, which is what the tool is designed and intended for anyway. Having said that, if I needed a heavy-use folder that I could abuse without destroying it, this folder would probably be the first one in my hand. Especially given the outrageously low selling price for it. $500 knives are nice and all that, but there's something to be said for a knife that you can snap in half or lose in the woods without giving yourself a nervous breakdown. This folder is an ideal example. I don't think you're going to break it. It's tough. But if you do, or you lose it, another thirty bucks and you can have a brand new one. Try that strategy with that ridiculously overpriced Benchmade folder you just paid a week's salary for. Is there something I don't like about the knife? Yes. All those machine screws with the funny heads on them. They do give you a double-headed tool that fits both the large and small screw heads so you can keep them nice and tight. And if you lose it you will not be tightening up any more screws on this thing. The heads do not allow themselves to improvisations like needle-nose pliers. I still have the tool that came with mine, but I'd wager most people will lose it or misplace it sooner or later. So note to the manufacturer: Yes the three-lobed screw heads look very cool and all that. Thank you. Please quit using the damned things and use either Allen or star-headed screws instead. They look cool too, and I can easily buy a tool at Lowe's to drive them if I need to. Unlike the screws on the knife right now. This is a good quality, well designed, well made knife. For less than thirty dollars it's a steal. It's easily as useful as any folder I have in my collection, of any brand or any price. And I have a lot of folders. Edit, 1.5 years later: Still using this thing. It's now my everyday carry that I slip into my pocket every morning before I leave for work, and use the knife extensively at work. Mainly for opening boxes and cutting packing straps and the like, 90% of my everyday use is cutting cardboard. Here's the weird thing: I cut stuff with this knife multiple times a day and while it's not anything that is going to chip or break the knife, cardboard is notoriously hard on knife edges and will dull even the best knives quickly. I've been using this thing for two years now and it's still extremely sharp. It only just lost the shaving edge it came with and I brought that back with a few strokes on a diamond sharpener. If indeed the knife is D2, that's a relatively hard steel and one would expect it to hold an edge well. But mine has held an edge phenomenally, amazingly. I don't know what sort of magic dust they used in the blade but whatever it is they need to keep using it. About to place another order for several Eafengrow knives, including one like this to give as gifts. I have someone close to me who just snapped the tip off a nice Kershaw by using the blade for something besides cutting (prying). Incidentally, knives should never be used for tasks that don't involve cutting, and I don't care how much your latest eye-watering expensive folder just cost or how tough it's purported to be, using it for prying, gouging, or hammering or anything that does not involve cutting is an ABUSE of the knife, I don't care what kind it is. Anyway, my close family member who snapped the Kershaw is getting one of these. I defy her to snap the tip off of this one. It's unbelievably tough. And if she does manage to break it, it's a $30 Eafengrow, not a $120 Kershaw and can be easily replaced. Though I hadn't said anything about it in the first review, I also carry this thing as a last-ditch weapon should I run into a dire situation. I'm a former police officer, I've trained in knife fighting and defense, and I've seen plenty of dead people made that way because of knife work. And for a folder, I'd be quite comfortable to have this one if it were all I had. There are other folders that I'd prefer simply because the blades are longer and thinner-profiled and so would stab deeper and more easily, but none of them are cheap enough or robust enough to use as an everyday utility knife. Length and blade profile matters in a defensive blade. Every dead person I've ever seen made that way by someone with a knife, it was stabbing every time that did them in. Swinging and slashing might keep a maniac off you, but if you really need to dispatch him then stabbing is the way to get it done. Since my EDC also has to be a working knife, I carry this one instead of my CRKT Jumbones. The blade is an inch or two shorter than I would prefer, but if some maniac tries to kill me by the time I'm finished working him with this Eafengrow his own mother won't be able to recognise him. So this folder might not be my first choice for a defensive blade. But believe me, it'll do.

This is really a great knife. It has a solid feel and has a balance between blade and handle that makes it feel great in the hand. It has a nice detent and opened easily. Some have commented in the sharp top edge of blade near the spine, however I have found this edge helps aide in multiple deployment methods such as an index finger or middle finger flick. It also snaps open very well with a standard thumb flick. It carry’s well in the pocket with its tip up design and has a great clip. The bearings are smooth and blade movement is clean and controlled. I love the size and feel of this knife. It feels substantial without being cumbersome. This is probably one of my favorite knives so far. I would have easily paid over $100 for this quality and been satisfied. I have tested the locking mechanism aggressively and have no indication that it would fail. The liner lock engages with 100% of its surface area. I am extremely satisfied and wound definitely recommend it.

A little background, I have a couple of other knives by this manufacturer and neither have suffered from the same issues. The design is lovely and the materials seem to be fairly good quality for a $40 knife. My issues with it are that the thing is sharp! And when I say that, I'm not being specific to the blade edge, which was quite serviceable out of the box. No, i'm actually talking about the knife spine and the machined fuller. The edges of both are sharp enough to cut you; I had to very carefully use some polishing tips and a dremel tool to round the edges over so as not to cut up my hands. I understand that manufacturers have to cut corners to provide this sort of blade in the $30-$40 range, but that's not what I meant!!! After a good bit of very detailed work, the edges are now acceptable. Buyer beware. Secondly, the pivot on the knife was so full of grit I couldn't clean it without completely disassembling it....Right out of the box. Thirdly, due to the unique screws used on both the pivot and grips, a tool is included to tighten or loosen them. Trouble is, only ONE tool is included! A second tool is needed to be able to grip the screw head on the other side of the knife if friction and pressure alone won't allow the screws to be loosened or tightened well enough. While I plan to purchase another of the same knives in a different colorway (and will have that second tool), this is definitely another oversight. So, it's a fine knife for the price, just be prepared to do some work before it's ready for use.

This is a nice knife that takes design cues from the microtech socom knives. Its heavy at 6.15oz with no skeletonized liners and a giant metal backspace. The lockup seems a little short to me but has not failed even with some good spine hits. Pocket clip is tight, sturdy and slides in and out of the pocket smoothly. I really like the thumb stud with a tri directional jumping design that's easy to catch and deploy the blade. The knife is super smooth drop shut with little to no blade play. The micarta has decent grip but has seemed to smooth out. It's not the best slicer but for the price it's a nice usable knife that you're not going to be upset if you lose it the only thing I don't like is the screws even though they give you the tool if I ever lose that thing not sure how I would adjust it.

This review is a little different but please bear with me as I try to articulate the best I can. First off my passion and hobby is customization of production knives for myself, family, friends and others. When choosing a knife to work on I primarily look at the blade grind quality and that is what drew me to my first Eafengrow product, the Moon. It was simple, clean and the blade work was nice for a 24$ knife. Over a 2 year period I purchased 5 different Eafengrows with the first 3 being great starter knives, that worked well, looked good and their still in use today, I bought my last 2 and each had a noticeable drop in quality in assembly and blade work. This knife had a uneven grind on the cutting edge and it was far from sharp, it was beyond dull, and the blade had several rough areas on the surface itself, very visible and annoying for a new knife. The rest of the knife was ok. Now I fix all this anyway but not every owner does,, nor do they want to and that's why I'm reviewing Eafengrow the company. Today there are several manufacturers making excellent inexpensive knives that are very high quality right out of the box, needing nothing to use. Based on my last 2 purchases alone, I can't say Eafengrows quality is equal to the price paid for normal buyers. In today's knife world, there is no excuse for allowing a knife to be sold at any cost with poor blade grind work and difficult to operate.. The blade bearing pockets on my last Eafengrow were so rough, the bearings failed before I had finished my work on the knife and 2 of the scale screws were cross threaded, requiring replacement of all scale screws for ease of maintenance and the thumb studs were misaligned causing one side to not even be touching the liner stop posts when open.. I set the knife aside and sent a detailed letter with photos highlighting the above issues and I didn't recieve any response from anyone, that was 6 months ago so I moved on to other projects. I saw this knife and I thought the shape and style were familiar to me but couldn't remember from where but I liked it so I got it with my fingers crossed. When I opened the box and saw the knife I realized it resembled the Socom Elite from Microtech, not identical, not a clone, just a resemblance, including the unique screws. The box included a tool for screw removal on scales and pivot but didn't include anything to remove the smaller pocket clip screws. When I opened the knife blade, it was rough, requiring two hands to open and I immediately saw the blades cutting edge was not even close to being finished. I put it away and began this review to aide new purchasers who aren't retired machinists who like working on knives as I do. Its one thing to recieve a knife that needs a stropping or an adjustment, it's quite another to recieve a knife that needs serious work just to make it function properly without inflicting pain when you handle the blade normally. I'm fixing this knife and performing the mods I have in mind and keeping it. I will not recommend Eafengrow any longer for 2 reasons, first and most important is I didn't recieve any response from them from my previous email regarding my last knife, no service then no more purchases or recommendations. Secondly, allowing the knife to be sold in the condition I recieved it in is just wrong. Who does final quality inspection before sent to shipping? There are some remarkable low cost knife manufacturers these days who don't copy another manufacturers design and provide excellent service after the sale. These same companies also fully understand the importance of customer service. Case in point,, I bought a Civivi a few days ago and I sent an email to them regarding the availability of replacement parts and I recieved a response in less than 2 hours the same day.. My hope is Eafengrow reads these reviews and learns because my first 3 Eafengrows are good knives still in use but not my last 2. Lastly, when searching for any product check around and find out how to contact the manufacturer for service or questions, don't assume you can just email or text them because often times you can't at all. Don't buy if you can't get service.

I don’t know why I waited so long to get this knife but it is awesome! It’s a big knife which I tend to like! I have a collection of over a hundred pocket knives! The main feature of this knife is the Tanto blade which came shaving sharp! It’s a big hunk of D2 steel with some nice milling on it! The action is super smooth and snappy for a blade that’s so big! The lockup is rock solid and feels like a fixed blade! It’s a really fun knife and it always raises some eyebrows when it’s presented! I don’t feel that this knife is overly heavy for its size weighing 5.5 ounces! The pocket clip works well too! Really like this knife and feel like it’s a lot of knife for the price point! Easy 5 stars!

Worth buying. Great weight closed or open. Not to heavy in hand or pocket. Great blade. Great handles. Fits in hand perfectly. Flawless glide when cutting. I like the black with the blue insert. I like that it has its own screw key, just don't lose it. Definitely buying more from Effengrow because of this one purchase.

The overall build quality is quite nice, nested liners match up nicely w/G10 handles, blade has sharp and accurate grind lines, and it's absolutely centered (which it would have to be since there is little to no extra room for blade offset inside the handle). However, when I received it, there was some lock rock, lock slippage, and side-to-side play which left me a bit disheartened. I used the included pivot tool to tighten up the pivot, and flipped the action open/shut ~ 200 times, and that seemed to knock off any burrs on the lock-face and somewhat bed it into the tang of the blade. Now, even though I can see that only the inner edge of the liner lock is engaging the blade - whereas previously there was perhaps 15-20% lockup, now looks ~ 40% lockup, and the engagement is more solid, although the lock still slips under moderate pressure - I think I'm going to take it apart and file the lock face to align with the angle of the bade tang, but I shouldn't have to do that - Eafengrow put the effort in to (nicely) jimp the inside area of the liner lock release, they should have machined the engagement surface at the correct angle while they were at it. Overall, I'm (reasonably) pleased with the purchase - it's a really good looking knife and snaps open w/authority and is almost fall-shut when closing, but definitely DON'T buy if you aren't willing to put the work in to making it lock up reliably. UPDATE》》had to do something about the lock slippage, so I took it apart, buffed the liner bearing surfaces with fine sandpaper, used the diamond file on my Leatherman to file the edge of liner lock at same angle as blade tang, bent the liner lock in slightly to put more tension on the blade, filed one of the blade stop "pockets" (one of the stops didn't touch the corresponding pocket) so that both of the blade stops bedded against the liner "pockets", cleaned everything with alcohol, oiled the bearings with fishing reel oil, and put everything back together. Also, having seen all the comments about missing fasteners (and no way to replace them), I thread-locked every screw including the pivot. Now there's no lock rock or slippage, blade locks up solid and I can finally trust the knife.