Kizlyar Supreme Kid Knife Field Test and Review English language

Hi everyone, here is yet another great little knife from the people at Kizlyar Supreme. The KID is made in 440C stainless steeel. Now I'm going to say right now to all of you who think 440C isn't any good. What you mean to say is that 440C is simply not in vogue as a knife steel these days. I want to see all those pictures of this micro chipping in 440C blades. Where are they??? That's right it's all here say or it's simply by knife makers or manufacturers who don't know how to heat treat their products properly. The KID did not suffer any of this micro chipping, in fact I've had knives made from ELMAX that micro chip and ATS34 made knives that microchip too. Let's get over it shall we??? When 400C was being used in knife production everywhere what happened to all the bad publicity regarding micro chipping way back over 20 years ago? Yes there maybe better knife steels out there but we need to define what is meant by  better steels, otherwise it's just a pointless comparison and straight out and out slagging. Firstly you need to ask better for what application. Better meaning: harder?? Tougher??? resistant to chipping??? ( the harder it is the less it will resist chipping) and under what circumstances? A lot of steel manufacturers are quoting data that pertains to industrial applications of tooling and machining with flowing lubricants!!, not banging away at bits of hardwood impregnated with dirt. Yep, dirt, you know that stuff that has loads of abrasive (depending where you happen to be around the world- but mainly abrasive) material covering a non homogenous natural product/s, not some chunk of plastic being machined at high speed.

You need to be able to easily sharpen a knife too.



Ok I'm getting side tracked here. The KID I found to be a comfortable knife to use even for a bit of butchering albeit, just one leg. Yes it's not a butcher's knife and I'm not trying to say it is but you can do some skinning with it and some butchering and even a bit of carving wood work due to the short, strong and pointy blade. It cuts well as it's a hollow ground geometry but it has a lot of "meat" in the blade as it's almost 4mm thick along the spine. The other nice thing is the rounded spine, you can really apply a lot of pressure here without getting blisters over your thumbs.

I'm not a big fan of hollow rivets and would rather see screws in place of rivets holding on the slabs of nicely scalloped micarta. BUT the handle wasn't coming off. Being 440C you don't have to be in big rush to clean off this blade in fear of corrosion. Good chance of getting salt on the blade if you're like me and like to salt those skins back at camp and then realise that you really should have removed more crap of the skin and that means putting a knife back there (provided you haven't got something else).



Anyway check out this short video if you haven't already. The KID by Kizlyar Supreme is a nice little knife with good practical value.