It’s easy to say utility knives are a dime a dozen. Then something really different — like Rivery MFG’s Zero-6061 or The James Brand’s The Palmer Clear — crosses your path and leaves you thinking twice.
The day after Halloween, it’s perhaps fitting to examine an item that so clearly resembles the Grim Reaper’s scythe. And yet it’s important to remember that the practical human use is not so much harvesting souls as it is the agriculture-related tasks of threshing and clearing brush.
That’s exactly what’s happening right now as we behold a funky new offering from Polish knife designer Ostap Hel and Chinese knife manufacturer Civivi: the Pyrus. Because wtf, amiright??
Blade back story
Before we get into what this new knife can do, let’s examine where it came from. Knife nerds will likely recognize the blade shape as a karambit, which probably last made GP headlines with the launch of CRKT’s innovatively deployed Provoke.
While this type of blade is typically associated with the fighting knife category — particularly the Filipino martial arts of Arnis, Kali and Eskrima — its history goes back much further. The image below might help with explicating it.
