U.K.-based Hoo Knives has always kept an eye out for the particular needs of users in its home country, and their latest release, the Dragon, sees them answering a long-time fan request: a Hoo design with a traditional slipjoint non-locking mechanism.
“Since Hoo Knives is U.K.-based, the vast majority of our customers are on the look out for UK-friendly, sub-3-inch, non-locking folding knives they can lawfully carry every day,” Carl D. Pearson, Hoo Knives founder, told us in a recent email interview. The company’s bread and butter has been its double-detent non-locking knives, which use detent bearings to keep the blade secure, but not locked, in the open and closed positions. “Over time, we had a lot of requests for a slipjoint and I was always drawn to the idea for something that felt more rooted in tradition,” Pearson notes, acknowledging the long history of traditional slipjoint craft in England. “A slipjoint carries a sense of heritage, especially in the UK. On a personal level, they have a special place in my heart, with an old school Sheffield steel Barlow slip joint being my first ever pocket knife as a child.”
I don’t know too much about Hoo knives, but I have heard good things, and they obviously have significant following across the pond.
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