This Folding EDC Pocket Knife Will Convert Utility-Knife Skeptics

Civivi wraps an ultra-useful utility knife in its familiar Elementum package.

utility knife on a gray textured background

Published April 22, 2024

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As we stated back in February, 2024 is shaping up to be the year of the utility knife. A number of brands, mainly on Kickstarter, have displayed a willingness to play around with the function-first utility knife format, making the knives more stylish and practical for everyday carry.

But by and large, this new wave of utility knives still look more or less like traditional boxcutters, with most opting for a sliding deployment and a rugged design. So if you’ve been holding off on picking up a utility knife until one arrived that truly captured the essence of a folding EDC pocket knife, today is your lucky day.

Meet the Civivi Elementum Utility.

Civivi Elementum Utility

$50 at Civivi

Heightened Utility in a Familiar Package

The Elementum is Civivi’s most recognizable and popular knife, and it’s easy to see why. It comes in about a million variations, but at its core it’s a simple folder with an attractive curved handle, a button lock and a back flipper. The new Elementum Utility incorporates all of these features (and a couple more EDC-specific specs) but adds an interchangeable utility blade in place of a traditional pocket knife blade.

folded civivi utility knife — The Elementum Utility includes such niceties as a thumb stud and button lock.

When folded, the Elementum Utility just looks like a plain old Elementum. It has the familiar curved aluminum handle, the branded button lock, the back flipper tab and the stainless steel tip-up pocket clip. It even adds a couple of extra goodies for EDC fans in the form of alternate side screw holes for ambidextrous carrying and a thumb stud as an added deployment method.

But flip open the Elementum Utility and you’re not greeted with a drop point blade but instead a replaceable 2.6-inch 6cr razor blade screwed inside a stonewashed stainless steel holder. The knife also includes three additional blades, making it clear that, even though this very much looks and acts like your typical EDC folder, it’s built to be used and abused like an average ugly utility knife.

Civivi hasn’t released the Elementum Utility just yet, but when they do it will be priced at an extremely reasonable $50. We’ll be sure to update this post and let you know once it becomes available.

Civivi Elementum Utility

Civivi gives its flagship Elementum the utility knife treatment, complete with dual deployment methods, an ambidextrous pocket clip and a button lock.