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EF159

Eafengrow EF159 knife
This boy is good sized! Definitely a chopper.
The handle is slightly squared off on the top. I have read and seen reviews where they say it really does not make a hot spot, but I am planning on rounding it over just a little.

Overall length: 14.3inch(364mm)
Blade material: AUS-10
Blade length: 8.8inch (225mm)
Handle length: 5.5inch (139mm)
Blade Width: 2.4 inch (62mm)
Blade thickness: 6mm
Handle Thickness: 20mm
Handle material: Yellow G10 spacers, with dusty green Micarta scales.
Knife Net weight: 21.5oz(612g

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Comment by Lars 7 minutes ago: Good field review Kevin - not too braggy, not too critical - just good honest observations for the tasks you performed and found important to do. Good tasks as well - real camp type stuff, especially cutting open sausages. Life skill number one right there! I just might have to get one too....unless DLKG buys the last one! :-D

Comment by Kevin D 54 minutes ago: DLKG - If you have not picked one of these up yet, I cannot discourage it.

I do not think you would be unhappy with that decision.

Comment by Kevin D 58 minutes ago: A loooong time in coming... Sorry about that, but I did want to give this knife an honest work out. But I do not go about intentionally abusing my knives either. The black surface coating has some marks on it now from hacking into branches and such.

I recently got back from a camping trip in which I was able to use the Kukri a fair bit. One thing that is without question. It CHOPS! Small branches (Ø.625" and under)? Child's play. Larger branches and small trees? Might take a a couple (or multiple) swings, but the blade bites deeply and I did not notice much shock in my hand at all.

While this took care of branches easily, I also used it to slice the plastic wrap on the sausages, and to feather a piece of wood. That feathering was not needed, as I was able to scrounge good starting materials very near the firepit area. But I wanted to see how it would do. I have to give it a thumbs up.

I do like the smoothed out handle much better, and I did slightly re-profile the cross-section just a little bit. But I doubt most people would notice.

While I was using it, I was happy that the blade steel was AUS-10 instead of the cheaper and well used AUS-8. Slightly more carbon, slightly harder - better edge retention. I did not see ANY chip out at all. I believe the edge angle is thick enough to avoid that, but it still is sharpened to a nice edge. I have not sharpened this thing yet, so the recurved edge might require a smaller stone; or better yet, a round stone to accommodate all of the curves.

Comment by Kevin D on February 22, 2026 at 18:29: The handle...

Out of the box it has a pattern of very shallow radiused ridges. As you can see from the photo, they are not very deep at all. But if you are paying close attention, you can feel them. I am suspecting that they are purposely put onto the surface to increase the 'grippyness' of the handle. I guess it works, but it is not really what I like.

SO. In addition to putting a slight radius on the top and bottom 'corners' of the handle, I am in the process of removing all of those little ridge buggers. The screws on one side of the handle use a T9 torx driver, whereas the other side use a T8. I am pretty sure the T8 screws into the T9 screw. But I am also sure that they used loc-tite or something. Those are TIGHT!!! I bore down on the drivers pretty good, but I did not want to strip out the head either... So those screws remain.

I am now having the cover up each head carefully, so I do not accidently contact them and mar the black finish on the screw heads. I have one side pretty much finished, but the other side is all but untouched. To me, I like the feel of my refinished handles a lot more than before. But that is a personal preference. Most of my coworkers (that I showed it to) did not seem to notice the ridges at all until I had one side pretty much re-done. They were then able to feel the difference. Most remarked that one side was a lot smoother than the other, but they did not say if they actually preferred it.

Featured Comment by dead_left_knife_guy on February 14, 2026 at 21:21: Man, I keep thinking about this knife now... Might have to pick one up sometime soon. Things are going to be especially tight for us over the next couple months -- but this might be a priority... I really like those specs. Even at almost 1/4" thick, it looks slicey. And the cant of the blade is more appealing than the TOPS Bushcraft Kukri... At a fraction of the price...!

Ach -- I've gotta stop thinking about this knife! But please keep posting about it! :)