We’re not ready to call 2024 the Year of the Fixed Blade yet, but the venerable format has received a lot of love this year. Latest exhibit: an upcoming Kizer release, the Hare, delivers an EDC-sized fixed blade option, appearing tip to tail in solid working materials.
You have to appreciate a straightforward name like “Hare.” It evokes something small but not too small, quick and maneuverable – all ways that this knife could be described. The overall profile here, that is the shape described by the blade and handle together, does evoke the hunched, readied position of the average lagomorph. All in all, we give the Hare top marks in the much desired “name appropriateness” category, well done Kizer.
The blade measures 3.14 inches – again, screaming everyday carry – and its shape is a drop point. The wideness of the blade here makes the Hare seem smaller than it is, but this could be well-suited to hard work as well as the usual day-to-day stuff – which is, of course, one of the main reasons a user may choose to daily carry a fixed blade rather than a folding knife. The Hare comes in two different steel options, either D2 (if you want to prioritize edge retention), or Nitro-V (if you want something fully stainless).
Meanwhile the handle is a lightly quirky teardrop shape, with the narrow part of the tear beneath the blade, so that the scales run smoothly up into the forward finger groove afforded by the exposed portion of the full tang. An extra wide lanyard hole adorns the butt end of the knife, and the scales are available in full orange G-10 scales with D2 steel, black Micarta with orange G-10 liners and Nitro-V. More variants will follow but that will be the initial release configurations.
That batch is set to drop on November 21st.
Knife in Featured Image: Kizer Cutlery Hare
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