Eafengrow EF335 Folding Knives D2 Blade and G10 Handle,5 inch Closed EDC Pocket Folding Knife with Clip (gray)

This knife surpised me. It's better than I had originally thought. For me the ergonomics are great. I have large hands. Altough this knife is not heavy it is still very well made. You can feel the quality in the action. I think a lot of people rate these knives before they are broken in. The first thing I do is oil them up. With this knife that drastically improved the action. I wipe of the excess oil off and just work the action over and over until I'm satified. I always use a heavy rag while moving the action to protect my hands. Just doing this drastically improves the action and I really like this knike more than most. This will help getting use to the knife and how it works. This knife is a good value and if you have large hands it fits and operates great!!! Caution very sharp.

Great knive, worth the money and more

Very well done sharp as tack really tight the quality is damn good especially when you look at the cost I will recommend efengrow knives thanks

Great quality for the price. Larger than what I usually carry in my pocket, but it is a great EDC.

I've got dozens of different knives, Zero Tolerance, Hogue, Benchmade, Microtech, and Spyderco being my favorites. Lately I've enjoyed buying a few lower priced Chinese knives and "working them over", breaking the sharp edges, polishing the internals, sharpening the blades, in general making them feel like much higher end knives.I saw this knife and liked the looks and know what knife it's intended to look like so decided to take a shot on it. Here's my impressions.It's not grey, it's very much tan but a nice tan. The little tool they give you for the disassembly works on the small screws and is almost useless on the large pivot screws, I wound up using a large standard head screwdriver and wedging it in so I could unscrew it. The fit and finish is very rough when you get it, I could only push over the liner lock with great effort and every edge on the blade, the liner, and the G10 was sharp. I fixed all of that with some polishing and honing and now it's a very smooth operator but if you're not willing to do such work I'd pass on this knife for that reason. Very poor fit, finish and operation.As others have posted, the scales may be G10 but they also may not be. It's hard to tell and if they are the quality is poor. They very much feel like molded plastic and I'm pretty sure the backspacer is molded plastic.It may be D2 steel, I'm not a metalurgist, but if it is it's very soft D2. I've literally sharpened hundreds of knives and use a combination of tools to do so, and when you're workign with high end steels like M390 or S35VN or Elmax you can really see the difference in how hard it can be to re-profile the edge and get a burr to start sharpening the blade up. With D2 it's generally easier than the "supersteels" but it still usually requires a bit of effort to get the blade to start to sharpen, and different D2's react differently. I have a D2 Benchmade and a D2 Gerber that are absolute beasts to sharpen and very difficult if you need to re-profile the blade but hold their edge very nicely - they perform very similar to higher end steels like 154CM or S30V. The steel on this knife is very easy to reprofile, very easy to get a burr on one side of the blade, and sharpens to a razors edge in a very short amount of time. And that is NOT a characteristic of D2, it's a characteristic of cheap stainless. So maybe it's D2 but it's the softest D2 I've ever used.The detent is very weak. Regardless of the pressure you generate by bending the liner lock out the detent won't hold the knife shut when you try to flip it by flicking your wrist. It won't fall open by just holding it but it will fly open by flicking your wrist without touching the thumb tabls or the flipper tab. The detent and the detent hole are just not sized properly for the size of the blade.But, the bottom line here is this is a large "G10" and "D2" (maybe) knife that really looks cool for under 30 bucks. IF you're willing to put time in it and know what you're doing you can make it a pretty smooth operating knife that operates excellently and looks great. I would NOT trust it for hard use but I've got much better knives for that anyway. So I figured for 30 bucks it was worth it - and it was.But if you're looking for a good G10/D2 flipper knife that you plan to actually carry and use I'd recommend spending a little more and looking at Steel WIll, Bestech, CJRB, Kizer Vanguard, or Civivi. They're much nicer knives made with much nicer G10 and D2 that feels like actual D2.Or spend more still and buy a Spyderco or ZT or Benchmade.Good luck and hope this helps.

It's so cool that I think I might buy another one!

Let’s face it: the Chinese have gotten crazy good at cloning MT knives. At least when looking at the $30 range folders and $60 OTFs. I mean, I own some clones that came sharper and with better action than the originals (which cost 10x more) and the fit and finish is pretty much the same these days. Sure, the materials are inferior and so is the QC, ultimately leading to reduced toughness and dependability, but if you get a good one, it will be rugged and reliable enough for most of us, who’ll use these knives for some fidgeting and LARPing and then (maybe), some occasional cutting.What I received from Eafengrow is an amazing DOC clone. I’ve only played with a DOC at a dealer before but from everything I can remember, this looks, feels, and works exactly the same. Excellent fit and finish, no blemishes or defects and buttery smooth action, no matter whether you use the flipper or the thumb studs (my favorite method of deployment). The detent and pivot action really are good, especially after some pivot lube and considering the heft of the blade. It’s hard to botch blade deployment with this knife. I mean, it doesn’t open very quickly or snappily but very smoothly and confidently. The blade centering and liner lockup are great too.Deploying this chonky, nasty, sweet looking blade always brings a smile to my face and the knife is a joy to wield and practice (cough… LARP… cough) with. The only grip style that sucks is the edge down “ice pick” but that’s an issue with the vast majority of liner lock folders out there. The finger choil and jimping are great for some precision cutting and my blade came with an excellent sharp edge. Here’s to hoping that the D2 is properly heat-treated for decent hardness. That can be an issue with budget Chinese knives.Oh yeah… unlike MT, Eafengrow is nice enough to include a tool for the proprietary screws, in case you need to adjust the pivot or simply take the knife apart!Anyway, if this knife looks good to you, for the asking price, just buy it! If you end up with a victim of bad QC, just get it replaced. This is an awesome knife for the money! As my title says, with the current batch of MT clones, you get 95% the knife for 10% the price and this particular knife is a perfect example of that.