The handle is also sufficiently tall and thick to provide good contact area for my hand's thenar eminence, which greatly contributes to comfort during extended use. The handle's scalloping and palm swell provide adequate grip security in both the forward grip and the less commonly used reverse grip but are subtle enough not to generate any hot spots. The handle is textured enough to provide a good amount of traction. The indentation on the blade spine is a perfect landing spot for my thumb when holding the knife in my preferred grip. Holding the Yojimbo 2 in the "Filipino grip"ĭespite its handle's rather unconventional appearance, I find the Yojimbo 2 to be very comfortable to hold and easy to manipulate when doing grip transitions.
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All in all, my impressions of the Yojimbo 2 have thus far been formed from about 800 hours of work carry and use and somewhere around 300 hours of “EDC-ing”, plus several hours of gym jackassery with the blunt-bladed trainer version. I also frequently use the Yojimbo 2 as my “convenience cutter” (i.e., my “EDC”) outside of work. I almost certainly use a folding knife to cut things more times in one workday than most people do in a week. I employ one dozens, if not hundreds, of times per shift to cut pallet straps and tie-downs, break down cardboard, and slice through stretch wrap. The breadth and extent of my use of the Yojimbo 2 are as follows: I have been using the Yojimbo 2 for warehouse work for roughly one eight-hour shift per week for the past two years-it shares use-time with the rest of my work knife rotation-with perhaps a total of four or five missed months when it was edged out of the rotation by some new knife I wanted to try out. Can I offer comments relevant to the Yojimbo 2's original self-defence intent? Perhaps, but much of that commentary would be in the realm of the theoretical, of limited practical value, so we'll skip any talk of that here. Yes, I know that evaluating the Yojimbo 2 as a work tool is sort of missing the point-the knife equivalent of judging a C8A2 carbine on its merits as a hunting rifle-but the overwhelming majority of my experience with the Yojimbo 2 is using it in a utility knife capacity. Is this the case in actual use?īefore we set about answering that question, a quick aside. As popular as it is, there is a subset of the knife community that contends that the features that optimize the Yojimbo 2 as an aid in self-defence compromise its functionality as a more conventional work and everyday-carry cutting tool. The Yojimbo 2: An expression of Michael Janich's Martial Blade Concepts (MBC) edged-weapon system in stainless steel and fibreglass laminate, and arguably the most well-known of Spyderco's non-Glesser designs.
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