RoseCraft Awanata Folding Knife Reviews

4.1 Rating 12 Reviews

The RoseCraft Awanata features a 5cm, D2 carbon steel, Wharncliffe blade with a long pull and a brush satin finish. It’s a modern, non-locking, slip joint knife that is legal to carry in the UK. The handle is made from G10 in a choice of six colours with an integrated lanyard hole. It will easily fit in a pocket or survival tin or is small enough to hang round your neck on a chain.
Designed by Andy Armstrong it's a quality little folder that snaps open with a reassuring crispness.

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“From an aesthetic point of view, the knife is really good-looking both open, with very clean straight lines, and shut, with a lot of blade stock above the liners. With D2 you know what you're getting. Unfortunately, the nail nick is way too sharp. It extends out to the back of the blade, so if you ran your thumb or finger along the back you could definitely cut yourself. Even worse, when combined with the seriously strong back spring (at least a six or a seven, which inspires confidence that the blade won't shut on you), if you grab the short blade tightly enough to overcome the resistance, you could do yourself a mischief on the edge of the nick, which is very hard to avoid on the short blade. Without the nick the knife would be great.”

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Posted 2 months ago

“Had to buy this knife to see if what other reviewers had said was true. Sure enough I managed to draw blood from the extremely sharp end of the nail nick (it's more a blood groove). Managed to cure the "problem" with just a few strokes of a small fine file. Other than this issue, it's a quality, sharp little knife. Plus I now have a purple coloured knife to add to my 70+ collection.”

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Posted 2 months ago

“I collect and only buy EDC knives and this little gem is a real bargain. Great material at a great price. The action is smooth and the whole thing has a real tactile quality too it. I've added a lanyard to help find in depths of my bag.”

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Posted 2 months ago

“What the other's said, and there was blood.”

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Posted 2 months ago

“Again super quality from rosecraft”

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Posted 2 months ago

“Firstly, the size and profile are just what I was looking for and I'm more than happy with that. On the other hand - and as already mentioned in several other reviews - the iend and inner groove of the nail nick are ridiculously sharp and draw blood . A really bad design fault or quality control issue. I have managed to smooth most of the dangerous areas, resulting in scratches to the blade and choir area, but as I bought it to use this is not particularly worrying. Given the choice now I might have considered another make of short bladed knife, but it is what it is. As ever, HH service was second to none.”

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Posted 2 months ago

“Lovely knife, was a little worried when I read last review about the groove being sharp, mine has the right amount of bite to feel confident in your grip of it but not worried about it hurting my fingers. its on my keys now replacing a very old SAK, review is of the Blue version.”

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Posted 2 months ago

“The knife is aesthetically a beautiful piece of design, attractive (even cute) when open and unique with the amount of blade showing when shut. But it has two peculiarities which combine into a real risk. The backspring is astonishingly strong (6 or 7), so it can't be opened or shut one-handed (at least by me), and the nail nick, which extends into the back of the blade, is wickedly sharp all the way along. This means that people are taking a risk of cutting themselves on the nick itself whenever they open the knife, since one has to grip the blade very tightly and pull on it very hard to overcome the resistance of the spring. There isn't enough blade to avoid the nick. Although I am fond of the knife both open and shut, I consider the transition between the two to be unacceptably hazardous.”

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Posted 2 months ago