EF335 Folding Knives D2 Blade and G10 Handle,5 inch Closed EDC Pocket Folding Knife with Clip (black)

So this is my second Eafengrow knife, my first being a titanium frame lock which is a reminiscent of the sebenza. Unlike that knife I own both this version and the actual Marfione/Strider Microtec DOC. So instead of simply reviewing this knife as it is, ill compare. it to the 400US original as well. The interesting thing is while a lot of the design changes vis a vis the original are clearly cost based (given the 13 fold difference in price) some of the modification actually improve the EF335. 1) size. the general dimensions are very close, the DOC has about .25" more belly in the blade, giving it a very exaggerated curvature. I prefer the slightly less bowed blade profile on the EF335 2) Grind: the DOC has a completely nutty (and not perfectly executed) nightmare grind. I always found nightmare grinds functionally pointless, they are showy, harder to sharpen and offer nothing to cutting performance. Nightmare grinds are hard to execute for sure and likely beyond the skill level of the makers doing the grinds on the EF335. the result is a standard saber grind with an aggressive tops swedge, its well executed and frankly in my view a better performing blade shape. 2) Steel. ok the DOC wins, at least from the perspective of being exotic. the DOC has Elmax, the EF335 has D2 which 10 years ago was the state of the art for these things, and is still an awesome steel. less stain resistant than the Elmax but will be way easier to sharpen 3) Materials and assembly: So the DOC had these machined triangle pivots, if you wanted to adjust the pivot or back spacer posts you had to buy a dedicated pivot tool from microtec. the EF335 has similar (although less complex) triangle pivot and post machining but they include the pivot tool!! the microtec. the Microtec has an machined aluminum static side scale and titanium frame lock side with a milled aluminum back spacer. the EF335 is all G10, including the back spacer. It Is set up as a liner lock, it has nested steel liner (like the first gen para militaries) which is a nice touch as it reduces weight a lot. some folks commented that the liner lock bar on the EF335 is a bit thin (while others still commented it was too hard to disengage, which I did not find to be the case). I think the lock bar is pretty standard thickness but is dwarfed by the thickness of the blade. Either way the the lock bar is more than adequate, unless you are using the knife for activities well outside the normal range of pocket knives. Lastly the Clip: this is Huge the DOC famously had the very oversize "Marfione FU" clip. it was a pocket clip so large and with such an aggressive angle at the end that it made the knife uncomfortable to hold in any position. The EF335 has a way better shaped clip which fixes the DOC clip problem. All in all an exceptional value.

I actually purchased this knife a long time back but never received it. Got a refund. I had a screw come loose in my microtech and wanted a tool, remembering this knife came with one and it was still available. I figured, $10 for a tool or $27 for a knife and tool...so I bought it. I'm well aware that this is a rip off of a microtech-strider collaboration design. The tool worked on my microtech, it didn't mar up the hardware so that's great. The knife itself is actually really nice looking and for $27 it's a great camping or beater knife. The blade steel says D2 but I'd bet it's that cheap Chinese steel all Chinese Kershaws use, which is not great. I'd say a step below 440 in characteristics. But, it's cheaper than anything comparable from Kershaws Chinese knives. The blade stock is almost 1/4", or it is 1/4", it's thick! The blade is beautifully ground, to me looks to be hand ground and not machined, or machined and hand finished because of the lines not being exactly matching on both sides. Not something that detracts from the function, just an observation. The forward choil is rounded and comfortable. Most of the squared edges are sharp on this knife. The handle it's more an issue than the blade but an easy thing to fix with sand paper. The handles are not g-10, they are some sort of hard plastic that has a similar appearance from a molded pattern. Without touching them, they do look very similar to g-10. Again, I don't think it really matters at this price point. They are stiff and thick. The nested liner lock is sharp and uncomfortable to actuate, however lock up looks fine. Would I trust it? I really like my fingers so probably not. Knives aren't generally designed to be used in such a way that would cause the lock to fail, so it's not really an issue. If it did fail and your fingers were in the way, the weight of the blade is liable to cause a multi-stitch gash or amputation. It's sharp, don't know if they all come this sharp but I'm happy with the factory edge. The flipper tab works with deliberate force but a lazy flip won't get it. This knife is really smooth and has a good detent, I just think the weight of the blade keeps it from flying out under relaxed flipping. Give it some grunt and it'll damn near fly out of your hand. The thumb stud works well and the copied design is pretty good. Very good traction. They work as external stop pins and butt up against the nested liners for extra support. The pocket clip is awful. Its recessed into the handle which is cool but it's super tight. Ideally for a knife that weighs this much, a belt sheath would be a better option. All in all, I wouldn't be embarrassed to give this to a friend, well one who isn't into knives anyway. It's beefy, decently put together and looks pretty sweet. I plan to beat on it and see how it holds up.

I want to start off by saying, this knife, as others have said, is big. Out of the 20 knives I currently used for EDC this is by far the biggest and heaviest. The pocket clip is good, but you might need to customize the angle of the flare of the pocket clip if you so desire. It is not a deep pocket carry, but it is suitable enough. It is sharp out of the box, I have yet to strop or hone the blade at all, but your mileage might vary. The detent for this knife is substantial, almost on par with my Twosuns knife. IT may take some getting used to but nothing overly tough to open. The first few opens may be a little stuff but most knives, regardless of price, will always have a break in period. The knife is a Liner lock, And does indeed come with its own tool, BUT, keep in mind the tool, will allow you to tighten or loosen the pivot screw, but mine did not have the correct sized part for the body and pocket clip screws. So keep that in mind and make ready to find a suitable tool. So far the knife performs as it should. It is Sharp, it doesnt its job, it is D2 steel, and it is robust enough to do some heavier tasks something along the lines of a Mini praxis might not fully be up to. all in all I think the knife is great, and in my case, I wanted to know if I liked the look, feel, and weight of a Strider, without commiting to Strider budget. but for a knife that is very similar, I say go ahead and get it for you, if you enjoy larger knives.

Let’s face it: the Chinese have gotten crazy good at cloning MT knives. At least when looking at the $30 range folders and $60 OTFs. I mean, I own some clones that came sharper and with better action than the originals (which cost 10x more) and the fit and finish is pretty much the same these days. Sure, the materials are inferior and so is the QC, ultimately leading to reduced toughness and dependability, but if you get a good one, it will be rugged and reliable enough for most of us, who’ll use these knives for some fidgeting and LARPing and then (maybe), some occasional cutting. What I received from Eafengrow is an amazing DOC clone. I’ve only played with a DOC at a dealer before but from everything I can remember, this looks, feels, and works exactly the same. Excellent fit and finish, no blemishes or defects and buttery smooth action, no matter whether you use the flipper or the thumb studs (my favorite method of deployment). The detent and pivot action really are good, especially after some pivot lube and considering the heft of the blade. It’s hard to botch blade deployment with this knife. I mean, it doesn’t open very quickly or snappily but very smoothly and confidently. The blade centering and liner lockup are great too. Deploying this chonky, nasty, sweet looking blade always brings a smile to my face and the knife is a joy to wield and practice (cough… LARP… cough) with. The only grip style that sucks is the edge down “ice pick” but that’s an issue with the vast majority of liner lock folders out there. The finger choil and jimping are great for some precision cutting and my blade came with an excellent sharp edge. Here’s to hoping that the D2 is properly heat-treated for decent hardness. That can be an issue with budget Chinese knives. Oh yeah… unlike MT, Eafengrow is nice enough to include a tool for the proprietary screws, in case you need to adjust the pivot or simply take the knife apart! Anyway, if this knife looks good to you, for the asking price, just buy it! If you end up with a victim of bad QC, just get it replaced. This is an awesome knife for the money! As my title says, with the current batch of MT clones, you get 95% the knife for 10% the price and this particular knife is a perfect example of that.

I've got dozens of different knives, Zero Tolerance, Hogue, Benchmade, Microtech, and Spyderco being my favorites. Lately I've enjoyed buying a few lower priced Chinese knives and "working them over", breaking the sharp edges, polishing the internals, sharpening the blades, in general making them feel like much higher end knives. I saw this knife and liked the looks and know what knife it's intended to look like so decided to take a shot on it. Here's my impressions. It's not grey, it's very much tan but a nice tan. The little tool they give you for the disassembly works on the small screws and is almost useless on the large pivot screws, I wound up using a large standard head screwdriver and wedging it in so I could unscrew it. The fit and finish is very rough when you get it, I could only push over the liner lock with great effort and every edge on the blade, the liner, and the G10 was sharp. I fixed all of that with some polishing and honing and now it's a very smooth operator but if you're not willing to do such work I'd pass on this knife for that reason. Very poor fit, finish and operation. As others have posted, the scales may be G10 but they also may not be. It's hard to tell and if they are the quality is poor. They very much feel like molded plastic and I'm pretty sure the backspacer is molded plastic. It may be D2 steel, I'm not a metalurgist, but if it is it's very soft D2. I've literally sharpened hundreds of knives and use a combination of tools to do so, and when you're workign with high end steels like M390 or S35VN or Elmax you can really see the difference in how hard it can be to re-profile the edge and get a burr to start sharpening the blade up. With D2 it's generally easier than the "supersteels" but it still usually requires a bit of effort to get the blade to start to sharpen, and different D2's react differently. I have a D2 Benchmade and a D2 Gerber that are absolute beasts to sharpen and very difficult if you need to re-profile the blade but hold their edge very nicely - they perform very similar to higher end steels like 154CM or S30V. The steel on this knife is very easy to reprofile, very easy to get a burr on one side of the blade, and sharpens to a razors edge in a very short amount of time. And that is NOT a characteristic of D2, it's a characteristic of cheap stainless. So maybe it's D2 but it's the softest D2 I've ever used. The detent is very weak. Regardless of the pressure you generate by bending the liner lock out the detent won't hold the knife shut when you try to flip it by flicking your wrist. It won't fall open by just holding it but it will fly open by flicking your wrist without touching the thumb tabls or the flipper tab. The detent and the detent hole are just not sized properly for the size of the blade. But, the bottom line here is this is a large "G10" and "D2" (maybe) knife that really looks cool for under 30 bucks. IF you're willing to put time in it and know what you're doing you can make it a pretty smooth operating knife that operates excellently and looks great. I would NOT trust it for hard use but I've got much better knives for that anyway. So I figured for 30 bucks it was worth it - and it was. But if you're looking for a good G10/D2 flipper knife that you plan to actually carry and use I'd recommend spending a little more and looking at Steel WIll, Bestech, CJRB, Kizer Vanguard, or Civivi. They're much nicer knives made with much nicer G10 and D2 that feels like actual D2. Or spend more still and buy a Spyderco or ZT or Benchmade. Good luck and hope this helps.

First it's a big knife which i love . Comes with the tool to tighten the pivot and other screws. The tool and screws are even made of nice hardened steel. Then the blade is nice piece of D2 Which sharpens to super sharp edge that cuts everything like butter (very happy about that), holds edge very good so the heat treatment was done right. For the price this is a great knife. Why buy lower grade than D2 steel blade . when other lower grade steel just dull so easily and have such lower toughness and edge retention. The ball bearing pivots help it flip open pretty good . not the super silky like a super expensive knife (but they don't always open super great) but only had it for a lil bit n it is already getting smoother the more i open it. (I own other eafengrow knives and they all open relly nice after a few weeks of use). The liner lock locks up very solid. I seen other brands(expensive ones) that when bang on back of knife will close on your hand. And a knife this sharp that's the last thing you would want to happen. So i tested it by hitting it with 3lb dead blow hammer and it stayed solidly locked up. So very satisfied that it will not fail on me . Then one surprise i really love is the choil on the knife(lil indented curve just behind the blade area where you can put your finger for a choked up grip for better control) .it is the first knife i have owned that it is actually rounded and smoothed out so feel very comfortable when you put your finger there(real reason i never have used or cared for a choil on other knives before) but this one i find myself actually using it on a knife for once. N ya i show that point to all coworkers (were all woodworkers n use knives all the time . i carry 5 knives all the time ,each one is used for different purposes at work ) Well hope this help make someone pick up this nice knife TERRY F.

I don’t like knockoffs...in fact this is the only unlicensed production version of a mid-tech/custom I own (have ZT Hinderer, Fox Panchenko, and Cold Steel Demko AD15). First, no this knife isn’t in the class of any of the licensed production knives I own or have held other than maybe the Kershaw Cryo and Kershaw Al Mar models (these are serviceable but not premium like ZT and Cold Steel I mentioned). That said, my first impression is that I am impressed. The knife feels well made in the hand, the blade is delivered sharp enough to smoothly remove hair from my arm (something a $200 Lionsteel failed to do so even premium makers can fail here), and the blade is centered with absolutely no play in any direction. I will list the shortfalls here too, but please keep in mind the price, if this was a $150.00 I would be mildly disappointed, but I really think that as long as the blade holds a reasonable edge and nothing falls off or breaks that this is almost a steal. The bad (I hate criticizing a knife this cheap like this, seems unfair): I am not convinced the scales are really G10. They are nicely formed, have great looking texturing but just don’t feel like real G10. They are also a bit slick and I don’t think they would be great with oil or blood on them though a little water I tested on them didn’t make them any more slick. The orange back spacer has a slight gap between it and the scale that is worse on one side than the other. The detent is great for flying the blade out with the flipper, but my 21 year old son who isn’t really into knives couldn’t overcome the detent (and before anyone thinks he is a just a wimp he does pull ups until he gets bored so it isn’t hand strength). 5 or 6 deploys in a row and my finger gets bit sore. The swedge on the back side of the blade does not come evenly up to the tip of the knife on each side of the blade and leaves the tip a little less than needle point sharp (I have an Al Mar Talon that came the same way so even the big boys fail here sometimes). 3 of the 8 screws in the scales were not flush. I used the provided tool to try to tighten them but only 2 of the had enough room to tighten them flush leaving one a few sticking out a few hundredths. The next one is is probably more personal, but I don’t like the pocket clip. It is thin (as in gauge thickness, not width), long and yet still leaves a lot of the end of the knife sticking out of my pocket and creates hot spots when I take a strong grip on the knife. I literally just opened the box this came in a couple hours ago so I will try to remember to come back with an update if I have any issues but overall I am happy with the knife and it will be a knife I can beat up without feeling any guilt as long as it holds up. Only time will tell.

unfourtunatly returning because of my 2 negative points the worst being mine arrived rusted seems the manufacturer doesn't use packing grease to keep the d2 from coroding which is unfourtunate because there is a lot of it like A LOT huge knife .15 stock and will say mine at least was perfectly sharp. the other negative is that the handle material is listed as g10 but feels and sounds more like 3d printed plastic which also is unfourtunate because of the hollow sound it makes when the very heavy blade with better action than my 200$ vipers and spydercos have dead falls shut. the plus side if your looking at it is the knife is sharp bearing action is stellar litterally one of the best iv seen centering dead on lock up tight with 25% engagement solid lock geometry I would be cautious with hard use because liner has the slightest flex. may want to flare the lip on the pocket clip a bit if you decide to keep yours its tight and sturdy but a little thin and doesn't quite ramp on a blue jeans seam probably gonna take my refund and get the titanium strider clone they make because even low tier titanium would feel better than the plastic but I truly respect the machining quality. 1 nit pick which is a bit unfair for a 30$ knife is the hardware isnt countersunk but if you want a big scary knife that's razor sharp super fast sturdy and unless you try cold steel tests on it with regular use should last forever its a win just remember she's a big un

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