The We Knife Co. designers are getting a bit wild, a tad experimental, with a new model called the Collinear. This one approaches the large EDC folder concept from a new angle – a few new angles, in fact.
Officially, We Knife is calling the Collinear’s blade a “reverse tanto,” but it’s definitely a reverse tanto approaching that point where the lines between an R.T. and a Wharncliffe are blurred, if not erased altogether. Well, hairsplitting aside, this is one striking blade, running to a not inconsiderable 3.67 inches in length and made from M390Co; it doesn’t take a ton of imagination to envision this things literally splitting hairs, amongst many other materials, in its duty as a big boy EDC.
We’re no mathematicians – the only “cosine” we deal with is on our lease – but there’s something very mathematical about the Collinear’s handle: its clean geometry, the way in which it almost mirrors the shape of the reverse tanto blade – mirrors it so precisely, in fact, that the entire thing is hidden when the knife is in the closed position, with only its in-line flipper ferrule visible until the user wants otherwise.
We mentioned above that the blade steel is M390, the central steel in the We Knife Co. lineup, and handleside we see that it is paired with titanium, another core cast member at We (and many other shops as well). The texturing running along the center of the front scale has a different finish to really set it off, but the off-side offers its own suite of pleasures, including the steel-capped frame lock and sculpted titanium clip.
The Collinear is shipping in the next couple of weeks.
Knife in Featured Image: We Knife Co. Collinear
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