Click to view our Accessibility Statement or contact us with accessibility-related questions
QSP Worker N690 Lockback Knife
01 / 10
QSP Worker N690 Lockback Knife
bookmark_border
Where's the price?
To negotiate the best possible price for our customers, we agree to hide prices prior to logging in.
170 requests
Product Description
The Arthur Brehm–designed Worker from QSP is the company’s more traditional take on knife design. A lockback folder with a vintage look, it’s armed with a 3.5-inch blade made of Bohler N690 stainless steel for good edge retention and corrosion resistance Read More
You Might Also Like
search
close
Sort by: Newest
keyboard_arrow_downMadManion
Nov 4, 2020
Two handed open, possibly two handed closing, no jimping( I'm not spelling it gimping, I'm just not). 3.5 inch blade is a little too large for control but I could deal with it IF it was actually a wharncliffe. Prefer a real wharncliffe or hawkbill for what I do(I'm a serial killer) (Kidding). If you open letters or whittle for a living than Worker is fitting.. I guess.
Leoanger
355
Jan 12, 2021
MadManionA lot of workers cut cardboard, plastic wrap and pallet straps and not much else, so this looks like a good design for the average worker. My work requires occasional whittling (okay, I find excuses to whittle), and for that my ideal blade shape is more like a narrow drop point with subtle belly.
And yeah, this is not a warncliffe. It's actual one of the nicest sheepsfoot profiles I've seen, reminding me of the blade on the antique barlow that I bought thinking I might use it at work to cut sheetrock and the like; that notion went out the window the moment I had the knife in hand.
Notsurewhyibother
1200
Nov 2, 2020
It really shouldn't be that hard to avoid reusing names from iconic knives from other brands. The Spyderco Worker was a watershed moment in knifemaking. Things we take for granted like a one-handed opening hole and a pocket clip were introduced with that model.
Giving random ball bearing slipjoint #482 the same name is pompous and disrespectful. It would be like Hyundai making a new random hatchback and calling it the Beetle. But I guess it is to be expected from a company that evidently can't tell a wharncliffe from a sheepsfoot.
reswright
3850
Nov 2, 2020
I tend to agree. At the very least my rule in these situations is that you either go hard or go home. If you use the name but do something epic with it I can personally respect that. Craft matters most and it makes up for a lot of other shortcomings in my book. This is a trendy Barlow style folder; it looks fine but no one’s gonna call it a breakthrough or even say it’s shaking things up. To me it’s more of a faux pas than a knife foul but I think we’re mostly in agreement.
I’d say ‘ding them for not doing it justice’ yet also recognize that ‘worker’ is a pretty common word.
of course this opinion is coming from a guy who doesn’t mind when someone borrows a design either so long as it remains legal and they build it well so YMMV :)
Leoanger
355
Jan 12, 2021
Notsurewhyibother"Worker", even if it was used by Spyderco to great effect, is a no-brainer name for a knife, especially one designed for utility. I have a small-brand fixed blade called the Workr, and it has a very, well, worker-ish design; much like this one. So I'd say the use is less disrespectful and more unimaginative (not necessarily in a bad way).
riffrafff
91
Nov 2, 2020
To me, that's a sheepsfoot blade profile. A true Wharncliffe is pointier (like a Case Seahorse Whittler model.)
reswright
3850
Nov 4, 2020
To be fair I find modified Wharncliffes more useful than unmodified ones when it comes to day-to-day, non-stabbity tasking. I don't whittle and stabbing people isn't something I tend to do in the typical day either, so I find the modifications helpful To be even more clear I think blades are blades and names are names -- someone designs a blade and we gotta give it a name because we gotta think we know what it is, right? But the blade is still whatever it is, not what we named it.
The name gets used because Wharnies sell quickly these days and people go 'ooh' but most people when it's a knife in their hand and not in their mind, want a knife with some belly... and find a true straight edge a little harder to use.
The other funny thing is that most people talk about blades being part Wharncliffe and part sheepsfoot and what they really mean is that the blade has some belly to it - but both Wharnies and sheepsfoots are traditionally supposed to have a flat edge parallel to the handle, the major difference between the two is where the spine tapers and whether the blade still has a 'point'.
reswright
3850
Nov 4, 2020
riffrafffThe Wharncliffe spine starts dropping earlier toward the honed edge as a rule.
Sheepsfoot blades have something close to a 90 degree angle between the honed edge and the point where the spine meets it -- i.e. the point. This one has a slightly more acute angle than that so it's not a perfect sheepsfoot either, but on balance it's more sheepsfoot than wharncliffe. They're calling it a Wharnie because it's got sales cachet at the moment.
Niel50
13
Aug 19, 2020
Found QSP knives at Knives Plus and the specs for each knife I looked at indicated China as the country of origin.
1917
1
Mar 18, 2020
Does this actually have bearings? I have never heard of a lockback running on bearings.
shoop
81
Mar 17, 2020
Decent price for the snakewood and carbon/G10. The other options... not so much. I just picked up the snakewood from an online seller for $64 with no shipping or sales-tax. Didn't include the sheath, but I didn't want one. VERY nice knife with fantastic build quality.
Some considerations: with the snakewood scales, the knife is NOT the grippy-est, in-hand. Also, the blade profile is just not grabbing me from a usage standpoint. Not having a curve at all makes it less functional. Still good, but it will never replace my Benchmades, Spydercos or Kizers.
Overall, the knife is very attractive, and a pleasure to own. 
Recent Activity
Related Products
Drop Refurbished
Like-new products you can trustDrop Rewards
Get $5 for every 500 points you earn! Learn more
Drop Keyboard Club
Become a member and expand your keycap collectionCollaborate With Us
For Brands & DesignersFollow Drop