Smith & Wesson8in High Carbon S.S. Folding Knife with 3.3in Drop Point Blade and S.S. with G-10 Inlay Handle for Outdoor, Tactical, Survival and EDC

This is probably not suitable for everything it's advertised as. My husband and I have debated the glass breaker and whether it would work. In an absolute emergency we agreed it might break windows meant to break more easily for safety but probably not that quickly and only if hit just right. I didn't even realize the small angled blade was for a seatbelt. There is no way. It will cut lots of thin and small objects. Especially line, string, or very small gauge wire that is easier to hook and pull than try to provide tension while bending it over the blade. For something as thick as a seatbelt you'd definitely be better off relying on the serrated blade to rip through it rather than slice easily. Not knowing anything about what the knife was advertised for when I got my first one it is absolutely perfect for my myriad of uses.I was gifted one of these knives probably at least 6 years ago. It replaced some $10-$20 Buck Knives I'd bought as a teenager/early 20s. I misplaced it a few years ago and my husband got me a 2nd one from this listing. I found the old one after a few months. I can't tell them apart after using the new one for a couple years. The older one is probably the one with the slightly loosening thumb screw (I should tighten that) and that has some type of gritty material left in it. I probably stabbed into a bag of something and didn't fully wipe it off or dropped it while doing outdoor work and just stuck it back on my pocket.I promptly put aside all other pocket knives I had and carry these around every single day since I got my original one. The first thing I loved was how easily it opened and yet stayed open. That was the main reason I wanted an exact replacement to be sure it was as easy and quick to use. No more having to grab my knife with 2 hands to open it and the clip slides onto and off of jeans, cargo pants, or even the waist band of some pants that have zip up pockets easily. 90% of the time it stays there. Occasionally because I keep it in my pocket with the clip on the outside it is long enough that if not placed right and wearing women specific pants with the usual shallower pockets it will hit my leg when crouching or bending over and get shoved off my pocket. Otherwise I don't notice it most of the time and find myself brushing my pocket with my hand while walking to be sure I didn't forget it somewhere. I pull it out so many times a week and often several times a day that it's a quick motion without looking to get it out and then put it back.I was walking out of the pet store with a treat for the dog we'd taken with us and it required cutting the end off the roll to open. Without thinking or changing my stride I pulled my knife from my pocket and flicked it open in a single, smooth movement before I even finished lifting it up to the dog treat in my other hand. I realized I'd just pulled out a fairly large blade when a person walking at us to go through the door same door suddenly hesitated. I had similar happen when we were trying to find good boards at the hardware store for a project and there weren't enough not still tied in bundles. The employee coming over to help stopped sharply for a brief moment because in the time it took me to register someone was coming over I already had the knife no one notices me carrying out, open, and ready to slide under the plastic band. It's just so easy to casually pull these knives off my pocket practically already open that I don't think about the fact I'm standing in public and it's near the maximum size allowed for general carry in some cities around here.Some have said you can adjust how easily it opens by tightening or loosening a screw. I had no reason to. There is no one else except my husband that is going to end up using one of my knives without me handing it to them and it's the perfect tension for me to open easily. Both remain completely locked when open no matter what I've done with them.I always keep my fingernails very short so I frequently can't lift edges of things or even take the paper or foil top off a new bottle of something. I've used these knives for literally everything and anything. Cut cardboard, mason line, thin wire, stabbed and sliced open bags of all sorts of animal feed, fertilizer, potting soil, dog treats...... Plastic packaging, stabbing holes in seals on containers from food/drink to strong chemical solvents. I've had them on me when wading in lakes or streams with the dogs. I've gotten mud, sand, compost, food, and everything else on them. Occasional use of the back of the tip as a screwdriver for easy to turn screws or locking/unlocking bolts on other tools and household objects like the vacuums.Unless I'm going to use it cut food I never fully clean them or and have never lubricated or oiled them any. I wipe most of any debris or moisture off them on my pant leg, the bag I opened, or other nearby objects and then close it and put it in my pocket. Never had a spot of rust.The handle fits even my smaller hands perfectly and both the older and newer one are equally durable material. I have no idea what someone is talking about with a paint coating on anything. The metal on the ends and all other parts is slightly lighter than the blade but obviously just smooth metal with no coating unless it's galvanized or similar. The black center is a thinner metal section on the inside covered over in solid, single pieces of a rough, hard plastic of some type with no coating on it. Neither have separated, cracked, or chipped anywhere on the handles. No screw has ever fully come out or rapidly loosened. Over years one might loosen slightly but after forgetting it for several more days/weeks it's still there and a brief turn of a screwdriver makes it completely stable again.Looking at both blades I realized there isn't even a bur anywhere on them. No dents or raised areas along the edge at all. My equivalent price Buck knives got little nicks in the blade edge within 6months. Years of use and these do not. The older one is also so close in sharpness as the newer one I couldn't tell the difference without having both to test out and compare and I've never sharpened them. They don't really dull from their factory edge.However, they don't come particularly sharp. The serrated section is often necessary for tougher or thicker material and it's probably not going to make a perfectly smooth cut through a sheet of paper right out of the box. If you put a sharper edge on then it may be at risk of easier damage and more maintenance than if left as is. It's is still far sharper than most pocket knives I handled growing up on a farm. I cut myself far more often with those dull little blades including down to the bone on the back of my left thumb. I can't even remember any time I've cut myself with these knives. I am a little smarter about it with experience but they also are sharp enough they don't require working the tip into something first, sawing at it numerous times, or slip right off the surface without managing to cut into it.I have to wonder if some people aren't getting some type of knockoffs or a different manufacturing source. I have come across companies using 2 different locations to manufacture their products and one using slight differences in materials from the other due to what is more readily available in that area. Most often when a company uses different countries to manufacture their products for more convenient supply worldwide or as a backup source if one can't fulfill all demand. I don't know if that's the case here but sometimes even when something is being sold directly from the same company it can vary depending which manufacturing plant it came out of. With an Amazon listing and sometimes different sellers using the same listing you can end up with products from a wide variety of sources and still be recognized as produced by the same company. It can help to check the "fulfilled by" prior to ordering things to know if it's the main company, a secondary seller, or a mysterious source sitting around in an amazon warehouse with no further info who provided it for amazon to fulfill. With some things it doesn't matter but numerous times now I've ended up finding it extremely important to make sure an item is coming from or not from a specific source.

Sturdy quality, only thing is I would have got the straight edge instead of the serrated blade. It comes practical dull, but easy to sharpen. It has a good weight and comfortable handle. Good for work or protection.

Love this knife, carry it everywhere.

The knife is not a great knife at any one task more of a jack of all trades. It’s a great knife for using in the case of emergency, such as breaking glass or the occasional cutting tasks. I would not consider it a daily user knife, but I would consider it a EDC knife. If you use a knife for cutting everyday I would get a different knife, perhaps a D2 knife. I carry this knife everyday but rarely use it. I am in LE so it is useful for me when needed. The clip is not that great and I broke it off after 1.5 years, but other than that not bad for what it is, price should be in the $15 or less range though.

Handy knife, I carry it all the time in my pocket.

Rugget design that works without asking for permission. Still works flawlessly after 12+ years. The handle easily cleaned. Use anywhere and everywhere.

I decided to grab this knife because it was cheap and had the Smith and Wesson brand name on it.My opinion is it is not worth the price. the knife looks like it is not painted in pictures but there is definitely a coating which is bad because cheap painted knives flake their paint off if they are used with any regularity... I was hoping to avoid this.When the knife arrived it was stiff and after a couple days feels normal to open and close so I believe in a few weeks this knife is likely to become a loose wobbly mess due to it slowly loosening up as some others have mentioned in their reviews.the seatbelt cutter is garbage. this was a selling point for me but when it arrived I realized it is off center in the handle so it is right under one side and comes all the way to the edge of the hook meaning I could see myself cutting my hand if it had to grip this too tightly if it weren't for the fact that the seatbelt cutter is dull! (that is discussed below)the most un forgivable issue in my opinion however is that it arrived just barely sharper than a butter knife. This knife and the included seatbelt cutter are so dull that a paper napkin tears usually in a spot the blade is not making contact. The reason that this is such a problem is that the partial serration on the blade not only makes sharpening it a hassle but I have no idea how you would go about sharpening a seatbelt cutter since the entire idea is it is recessed far enough in that it does not cut you randomly.this knife will require tightening a couple times a year and a full set of sharpening tools to make it useful. If you happen to be fine with that and don't mind the probability of the coating on the knife flaking off this is the perfect knife for you. I suspect that if you are picking up a $13 knife you likely are not wanting to put in the time and energy to make this knife useful. If you are buying this as a gift and none of that matters I still recommend rolling the dice on one of the other knives but if your not interested this might be a great stocking stuffer.

I use knives at work every day and this has been one of the best I have ever worked with, it feels great.