Knives
For reviews on knives, I’ll focus on three categories, each given a weighted point system – equaling out to a possible perfect score of 20 out of 20.
The Every-Day Carry considerations:
1. Functionality (0 to 10 points)
2. Durability (0 to 5 points)
3. Price (0 to 5 points)
The factors broken down are so weighted for the following reasons:
1. Functionality – the knives’ ability to serve a wide variety of functions, suitably, and its’ overall design strengths. Specifically broken down: the blade (0 to 2 points), the handle (0 to 2 points), the lock/tang (0 to 2 points), emergency uses (0 to 2 points), concealability (0 to 1 point), and finally ease of deployment (0 to 1 point).
2. Durability – the knives’ ability to withstand wear, tear, and damage – including sharpening. Specifically broken down: overall construction (0 to 1 point), ability to cut and retain an edge (0 to 2 points), ability to pry and retain rigidity (0 to 2 points).
3. Price – a product that is functional and durable, but is not exorbitantly more than just a products cost in materials and cost of labor, plus overhead and reasonable profit.
What is important to me may not be important to you, but I’ll do my best to provide substantive answers to all metrics applied in review. Scoring each review, anything between 20 to 16 points would rate “try it out!”, 15 to 10 would rate “it might work for you”, and 9 and under would be “avoid.”
Steel1Actual, 20180303
