Neeve’s Knives: Is the Kansept Tuckamore their best model yet?

H. Clay Aalders
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For those unaware, Kansept is one of the second-generation Chinese knife companies that have been nipping at the heels and in some cases surpassing the OG’s of Chinese knife industry. It was founded by a group folks who cut their teeth working for other companies, and who struck out with dreams of doing it better. I have known one of their key team members, Joyce Jiang, for almost a decade at this point, since back when I was Editor at TTAK, and Joyce was working for Kizer.

The Tuckamore is Kansept’s newest release, reaching dealers this month. It is designed by Canadian Maker Jonathan Styles, and features a premium CPM20V sheepsfoot blade and multiple Shred carbon fiber and micarta handle options. You can find out more here at the Kansept Website.

Jared Neeves got an early sample and is calling it Kansept’s best model yet?

What are your thoughts?

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H. Clay Aalders

H. Clay Aalders is a lifelong edged tool user. He spent the past 20 years as a woodworker and fishing guide in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Tennessee. While guiding in Idaho, Clay worked part-time writing for a local newspaper, and upon moving to Tennessee began writing for the blog The Truth About Knives - spending his last 5 years there as Managing Editor. His background is in fixed-blade hunting and bushcraft knives, but has jumped into the world of vintage slipjoint collecting with both feet since coming to work at Knife Magazine. Clay’s primary role is as Digital Editor, curating and creating new content for our website and blog, as well as maintaining the Knife Magazine social media accounts (FB/IG: @theknifemag, Twitter: @knifemagazine). He is also a contributor and Associate Editor of the print magazine.

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  1. Yangjiang, China has a population of approximately 12,000,000 humans. “Kansept”, “Kizer” and most other mainland China knife manufacturers make their cookie-cutter knives in this “city of the knife”. Lasers, water jets and CNC; plus, low-wage human labor enable millions of knives and edged tools to be produced. The MSRP of the “Tuckamore”*** is $224.00. Hmmm-mmm-mm . . . I can think of quite a few “Made in USA”, “Made in Taiwan”, “Made in Japan”, knives that are comparable in construction and function to this knife for $50-100 less. ***Interestingly, Jonathan Styles lives in Newfoundland, Canada. He is the designer of this knife. Named it “Tuckamore” . . . “a small, stunted, deformed spruce with gnarly roots”. The name does not fit this attractive knife. CPM20V rivals Magnacut. Flat grind on modified sheepsfoot/wharncliffe blade is very functional. Oh, the video shows “the Hand” flicking the blade open repeatedly . . . repeatedly . . . repeatedly. I get it, it probably has caged bearings.

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