Real Steel 9914 Evolution, Carbonfiber Titanium, Tanto pocket knife, Carson Huang design

Thursday 8 May 2025

A very impressive folding knife. The blade shape is wickedly ferocious-looking, razor sharp with a n attractive finish; I usually orefer plane steel but this finish is nice. The carbon fibre side of the handle is securely gnarly allowing for a secure grip and has a pleasing papery texture. The titanium side is from where the frame lock it cut and gives a very secure lock which can be released by the button. The blade action is quite stiff and so I wasn’t able flick this out even after careful lubrication with Blue Lube; not a great issue but this doesn’t allow for ‘pleasant fiddling’. It did take much longer to arrive than advertised necessitating an enquiry to K&T to which they responded quickly and they reassured me they were simply waiting on stock to arrive and kindly offered me the option of refund if I didn’t want to wait; import/export is in chaos these days (I blame Trump) but I was pleased I did wait for it to arrive since it’s a great knife. Great service from K&T and a great knife.

Wednesday 23 April 2025

I ordered this knife in February. K & T sent me the wrong knife. I contacted them as soon as I saw the error. It took 4 days for a reply. I sent the pictures they asked for. A week went by and no answer. I contacted them and got a rude email back saying 'pity they couldn't zoom into them'. I resent the pictures. Eventually I was sent a returns label and arranged collection myself. I reordered the knife accepting that mistakes get made. Its now 2 months and still nothing. Considering all this company does is sell other peoples products and ships them that's a pretty poor performance. As long as they get your order right you will get great service. Just pray they don't get it wrong.