CRKT KREIN DOGFISH NECK KNIFE

Sometimes simple is better. Here’s a cute little neck knife and the most innovative fixed blade carry harness we’ve ever seen.

Tom Krein is a young custom knifemaker who has created quite a stir with his Mid Tech Dogfish neck knife. It seemed like the perfect affordable CRKT production knife, so here it is. Tom has a great sense of style, so unlike many skeletonized flat blades, the Dogfish™ is graceful, gives a secure grip, and also has that dogfish face at the pommel which turns out to be—a lanyard hole and bottle opener! It has a secure finger choil and friction grooves at the thumb spine and near the butt.

CRKT Krein DogfishWe E.D.M. wire cut it from a single piece of high-carbon stainless steel, bevel grind the 2.25” modified Wharncliffe blade, give it a fine bead-blast finish and add a Razor-Sharp or Combined Razor-Sharp and Triple-Point™ Serrated edge.

You also get a custom-fitted six-eyelet Kydex® sheath that grips the knife securely for inverted carry with the neck chain included, or with the MercHarness described below. It’s a useful, friendly minimal knife that’s a great value.

George Matheis, known professionally as Mercop, is one of those big, burly cops who commands your respect instantly. As a certified weapons instructor at the state and federal level, he is a fan of inverted fixed-blade carry in Kydex® or Zytel® detented sheaths for emergency self-defense. But most harnesses are complex, bulky and uncomfortable. Neck chains require a tie-down to position the knife. So George developed his MercHarness, a revolutionary new way to carry fixed blades of any size.

CRKT Krein DogfishThe harness is a length of mil-spec paracord, gutted so it is flat. Soft rubber keepers allow adjustment of the harness even when wearing it. Users just tie the cord through the eyelets of their fixed blade sheath and slip the MercHarness over their shoulders.

George’s key words are comfort and concealability. Comfort means you can carry even larger fixed blades such as the CRKT Hissatsu. The MercHarness can be worn under uniforms, tactical vests or casually under a T-shirt. It’s durable, inexpensive, lightweight and moves with the body.

The MercHarness does not need tie-downs. You can position the knife under the arm or slightly forward and it stays oriented. Drawing from the MercHarness is lightning quick with either a cross draw to the forward grip, or a same-side draw to a reverse grip. So sometimes, simple really is better.

Blade: Length: 2.25 in. (5.7 cm)
Thickness: 0.14 in. (0.35 cm)
Steel: 3Cr13, 55-57 HRC
Overall length: 5.25 in. (13.3 cm)
Sheath: Kydex
Weight: 1.5 oz. (43 g)