Name: KA-BAR Short Becker Drop Point BK16
Brand: KA-BAR
SKU: KABK16
Price: 126.99 GBP
Availability: InStock
Rating: 9.33333 (21 reviews)

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Handle/blade: Zytel/1095 carbon steel
Blade length: 11.2 cm
Weight: 172 g

The **KA-BAR Short Becker Drop Point BK16** is the result of a collaboration between knife designer Ethan Becker and KA-BAR. It is a tightly designed allround knife. The blade is made of 1095 carbon steel, which doesn’t make it stainless. Luckily, the blade has a black coating making maintenance a lot easier.
  
   
 
The supplied sheath is made of nylon with a plastic insert and is MOLLE-compatible. On the front of the sheath is extra space where you can put a firesteel in for example. This knife comes with black handles, but there is also an extra set of brown handles in the box, so you can choose what you prefer.
  
   



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Good: The design.  Possibly the best knife design of any I own.  Very slicey but still seems tough.  Feels strangely light in the hand, and it is lighter than say an ESEE 4 (the handle is skeletonised on the BK16).  Super comfy; great overall ergonomics, can still do chest lever grip well despite the functional finger guard.  I can already see it becoming my "go-to" knife.

Bad: QC, build, finishing, price.  The bevel grind on mine was so bad I should really have sent it back, but knivesandtools wanted me to pay to return it (despite it being faulty?!) so I decided to spend a couple of hours on the stones and fix it myself. I then removed the black coating to find very obvious grind marks all over the blade.  It is unfinished to my mind; no comparison to an ESEE for example.
Handle scales are just plastic with a little bit of texture. Cheap feeling and slippy, they need replacing.
And the sheath is pretty much unusable.  Terrible design, zero retention without using the press stud straps, which are poorly positioned and require both hands to engage, and are still fiddly even then.  Sheath is too long for such a small knife too.  It's just terrible Chinese rubbish basically.

So that's £132 GBP for a poorly made, unfinished 1095 knife, plus £44 GBP for aftermarket micarta scales, and you still need to buy (or make if you can) a new sheath too, so add another £50 GBP maybe for that.  I make that £226 GBP in total.

If buying in north America or some other cheaper location it might be worth it, but at UK prices it seems very overpriced, despite the excellent design.  

Angenehmes Griffgefühl und gute Größe. 
Wer Beckerdesigns mag wird hiermit Freude haben.

Great purchase!!! Great Knive and the best customer service. Thanks so much one more time!! :D

J'avais peur que la matière de la  manche soit désagréable,mais il n'en est rien. Il est assez confortable a utiliser. Je l'utilise tous les jours en couteau utilitaire dans mon métier. Très robuste ,on a pas peur de faire levier avec la lame, couper du bois , plastique. L'affûtage de la lame ne tient pas trop ,mais il a le mérite de s'affuter facilement. Le revêtement noir est de bonne qualité 

Bon couteau que l'on peut emmener presque partout.

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