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QSP Neckmuk D2 Fixed Blade Neck Knife

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reswright

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Apr 15, 2020

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D2 Duck Shaped Nessmuk Necker

Say that three times fast. Working backwards up the title: It's a necker -- a small fixed blade in a neck sheath. Like so:

It's a nessmuk -- a thin ground curving blade with a humped spine that follows the curve of the edge, kind of like a bolo head that's more distributed along the blade. Like so:

It's duck shaped. Like so:

Don't even tell me you can't see that. And it's made out of D2. Like so:

What else? Well, it's got nice jimping as you can see in the above pic. If I wanted to be picky I'd say 'why not put it on the finger choil too, it belongs there' but maybe Sal Glesser has spoiled me on that one. Where's the balance? Oddly enough, on the second finger groove -- not the choil. The balance is actually behind that first Torx fastener on the blade.

That duck head keeps the weighting back a bit. There is no universal right place for knives to balance -- sometimes you want it in the middle, sometimes forward, sometimes back. In the Neckmuk, the knife is not that heavy, so the balance being back is keeping the grooves in the handle locked into your fingers, which means you can work pretty damn quickly with the knife and it won't go tumbling. That goes OK with the nessmuk theme -- it's a bush knife, meant for everything from skinning to cutting and slicing. On that note, is it sharp? Eh, it'll push cut a Post-it, but it isn't very slicey. More of a utility edge. Hard to achieve sliciness with D2 which is one reason I'm a little tired of it as a pocketknife steel. But it's still decent stuff for a budget fixed blade, especially one meant for heavy work -- D2 will keep a working edge longer than most steels, including some super steels. So I'd say 'good but not great' and restate for the record the narrator's bias against D2, then move on. How's the ergonomics? Decent. The main grip will be with thumb on jimping. It's a three finger grip -- the fourth finger's resting against the back of the duck head pommel.

You can also reverse the grip.

That's not what I'd call optimized for self defense, but in a pinch, you could get your point across. So to speak. The fit and finish are competent -- not luxurious but everything lines up where it's supposed to and at least some time has been spent finishing the blade. There's a lanyard hole, and I'm a lanyard guy, but I'm not sure this neck knife wants one of those, what with the weight already back and the duck bill lip on the handle being easy to find with your reaching hand. The sheath is actually pretty damn well made. It's not luxurious but it's got good craftmanship, and while it's not exactly a hideaway sheath -- you guys wanting a concealable necker first and foremost, this one won't be for you -- it's still fairly lightweight, and the dit-dash ball chain is a nice change from the standard steel ball chain. Like a lot of QSP knives, they're priced maybe $5-10 higher than some of their competitors would price the same model, but they at least are trying to offer you something for it, and it's tough to sweat someone five bucks on a well built item when they're paying a designer for the design. Happy with this pickup.

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Recommends this product? Yes

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HarrySmith

Apr 30, 2020

reswrightDoug DeMuro, is that you?

Apr 30, 2020

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reswright

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Apr 30, 2020

HarrySmithAlas, no. I had to look up who that was, in fact.

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HarrySmith

Apr 30, 2020

reswrightDang..... your review read just like one of his. Well, if you like cars, Doug’s YouTube channel is worth watching just to see various cars’ “quirks and features”.

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reswright

3850

Oct 20, 2020

reswrightSix months update: still a good knife but I don't believe this is made of AISI D2. I left the edge stock and used it as a shop knife and it worked great at that task, which speaks to a good design. But the steel dulled quite quickly and it scratched up quite a bit. Too fast and too much for this to be 'real' D2. Many steels are sold as analogues of AISI D2 but they as a rule tend to have less vanadium and molybdenum. In some ways that's not a bad thing -- easier to sharpen, maybe fewer giant carbides, possibly tougher -- but it means much less wear resistance compared to real AISI D2. D2 is not a trademark, it is not copyrighted, the patent on its formula came out in the Great Depression and hence has long ago expired, and what's more all these other steels really are considered to be analogues of it, so none of this is strictly speaking illegal, and depending on who you listen to, some people will tell you that the differences aren't statistically significant in terms of their impact on knife function. That said, this is one reason I prefer to see steels other than D2 on new knives.

Oct 20, 2020

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