Frag Out! Magazine
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Corps. Its various variants have been manufactured until now and enjoy unflagging popularity – one of them, in the civil version and with an extended cutting edge, appeared in 2016. The BK39 originates from the Becker Knives series, which is an effect of a cooperation with the Ethan Becker knife designer. Stylistically consistent with the other models from these series certainly is not surprising with its design, all the more that it differs mainly with its color from the predecessor, the BK9 knife. The knife is really large (37.5cm) and at the first glance may arise associations with the Zombie machetes (what is enhanced by a color of the handle liners), but it is enough to take it by your hand to determine that it is a quite different league. The design is characterized by a total simplicity, there are no fanciful shapes, a recurve or a strange profiling, everything is subordinated to the best utility. Just, the massive full tang bowie, bolted with the liners by three bolts, armored like a tank. BLADE The clip point blade is made of 56-58HR 1095 Cro-Van steel with Clear Powder Coat transparent coating with a slightly yellowish shade. The false edge is blunt and rather short therefore it does not weaken significantly its tip, but improves a little bit its penetration capabilities. A high, flat grind was led along the entire length of the blade (which still measures 23.5cm) . The knife has not any choil or ricasso, and a forehead of the liners just minimally occludes a beginning of the grind. Such a solution enable to use fully large dimensions of the blade. A semicircular notch which starts the edge is a small compromise that takes away a fragment of the cutting surface. A knife line is almost entirely straight, the only diversion constitutes a small ramp with three large undercuts for a thumb, located on the blade spine. When it comes to care in workmanship is quite good, the lines of the grinds converge perfectly at its tip, the cutting edge is led straight, only the grind ends are NOŻE