MYERCHIN BW300P OFFSHORE FOLDER 3/4 SERRATED PRO SAILING RIGGING KNIFE

I purchased this for my stepfather as a gift to use on his sailboat. He's in his 60's and has had many knives in his life. He raves about this one still, and says it's excellent quality and a sharp blade. He carries it with him daily.Highly recommended.

Great knife. Beware of item description. This knife does not have a belt clip.

If you are a mariner, owning this knife is pretty much like owning a Rolex or a Nikon; you don't have anything else to want. Of course, if you have a Rolex or a Nikon, you know that lots of watches and cameras that cost a lot less work just as well, maybe better.Until you get that flick of the wrist down so you can open it like a switchblade, it is hard to open. So, like most things on boats, it'll take some practice. It is a good, honest, well made tool, though the marlinspike could be a little sharper. Anyone who spends any time on a boat should have a rigger's knife on their belt, but is it four or five times better than the $20 Davis it replaced, probably not. That said, if you like good tools, it's a good one.Only trouble is, once you have one of these you start looking at all those really cool and ever so nautical macrame knife pouches and lanyards. Then you have a really hard choice: you can either spend a Godawful amount of money buying one somebody else made or you can sit your lazy self down and tie a bunch of knots - you know; the ones you had to learn how to tie to get your license.

This is a beautiful knife, nice heft, fits the hand, strong, sharp, good steel, good useable sheath. But... the clever locking/closing mechanisim works via the loop where you would tie on a lanyanrd. It works by pivoting like a cam around it's pin, pulling the lock open. It is made of thin sheet metal and after just a few openenings and closings, it wears down and wont lift the lock open far enough. Mine got stuck with the marlin spike out and won't close. It quit while I was playing with it before I ever got to really use it. The rest of the knife looks like it would last forever.I read a somewhat similar review at another vendors site, but decided to try it any way.