One of We Knife Co.’s incoming models looks to be an homage to the premium knife juggernaut’s earlier days. The Dracarys brings a scaly style and a large-ish size to bear on EDC chores.
We Knife Co. is obviously a headline act these days, but, like any young knife company, it had to prove itself to earn its market share. And props to the team, they knew how to make an impression, with big folders, made with premium materials, bristling with high-falutin machining flourishes. And back in those days one of those eye-catching pieces was the Drakon, a huge frame lock flipper with a one-of-a-kind dragon scale texture milled into its scales (the other kind of scales).
This legacy model is the starting point for the Dracarys, although it brings some changes of its own, most notably in the blade. It’s smaller than the Drakon’s 4-inch edge, although no slouch when it comes to bladespan with 3.58 inches as the listed measurement. And, instead of a drop point with a dished out forward grind, the Dracarys’s blade is a wicked, yet still tasteful, clip point. A ramped, tear-drop shaped thumb stud provides a secondary deployment method alongside the flipper.
The handle is where the Dracarys’s heritage really comes into focus. The 3D-textured scale pattern – reminiscent of similar visual motifs in Asian art – covers both halves of the handle, creating a striking visual presence without impact performance. In fact, it could be argued that the scales enhance performance as they provide traction while looking, to use the scientific term, extremely sick. The pocket clip is non-reversible and sculpted from titanium, and the Dracarys weighs 3.66 oz.
Knife in Featured Image: We Knife Co. Dracarys
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