With the increasingly fierce competition in the western outdoor and tactical knife market, more and more knife companies can only improve their product positioning, especially in terms of appearance, so a lot of products with a weird appearance can attract the public's attention at once, and this Kiku Matsuda Matsuda Kikuo heavy-duty dog leg knife is one of the more representative ones.
THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THIS LARGE DOGLEG KNIFE IS 470 MM, AND THE MAIN BODY IS 320 MM LONG, AND THE THICKNESS OF THE BLADE IS ABOUT 8 MM. This one adopts the more traditional Nepalese scimitar reverse blade design, and the knife shape is heavy at the front and light at the back, which is convenient for chopping. The head part of the cutter is extremely sharp, although there is no false blade design to assist piercing, and the main outstanding ability is still chopping, but it still has a certain ability to stab.
The surface of the blade is covered with Kikuo Matsuda's signature pickling pattern, and the front and back parts of the blade are sharpened in different ways, with the blade being sharpened at the head and the blade using a sharp edge. The knife is made of OU-31, a micro-fine steel developed by Koshuha Steel Works in Japan, which has a chemical composition of 0.9% carbon, 3% vanadium, 8.2% chromium, 2% molybdenum and 3% cobalt, and its final hardness reaches about 60-62HRC.
This type of tactical knife has a one-piece keel design, and the handguard as a whole with the blade is also cut from a single piece of OU-31 steel in advance, and the handguard can not only protect the fingers, but also can be used to attack the intended target. The handle is made of lightweight and non-deformable Mikata material, and the hexagon rivet is used to fix the handle and the cutter body, and the shape of the handle and the finger groove design on the edge can also play a role in stabilizing the grip. At the same time, the knife is also equipped with a special K scabbard for storing the blade, and the edge of the scabbard is also designed with a rope hole to assist the blade for easy carrying.