I got the new Oknife LK (LightKnife, presumably) and have been carrying it the last couple of days in place of my main knife and flashlight.
It’s… interesting. I do feel like Oknifelight missed the mark a bit with this one but they had a great idea. The knife blade is cool and sharp and very slicey, but not the easiest shape to sharpen when needed. Also, because a decent chunk of the handle is occupied by LED and accompanying bits, the blade is decently shorter than the grip, which is somewhat odd feeling.
The light itself is, well, strange. First, it charges from an unprotected usb-c port on the bottom, which will potentially sit in the bottom of your pocket. The basic white light has low and high modes changed by a long press, and a turbo mode activated by double-tapping when the light is on, and a flashing mode activated by triple-tapping when the light is on. That part isn’t so strange. The button can lock by holding it down when off until it blinks at you 3 times, and then unlocks again by holding it down until it turns on. When unlocked the light turns on and off with a single press.
The really useless part is the decorative RGB led, which encircles the main light led. It has a couple of modes. By triple-tapping the button it turns on in a cyclic RGB mode, like a gamer girl’s cat-ear headset LED. If you hold the button for a long press when on in this mode, it switches to a spinning and cycling RGB decoration. If you hold the button for a long press again, it will switch to a white light. Not the other white light, but the RGB led is now set to white. Holding the button a long press again returns it to the stationary cyclic RGB mode again. If you triple-tap it while the RGB is on, it switches to a blinking red mode. If you double-tap it while the RGB is on, it switches to just red. I may even be forgetting some things, as the instruction strip kept unfolding more sections until it was longer than a CVS receipt.
Other than the red, both flashing and static, the rgb led seems useless. And there are no magnets on the knife so you can’t stick it somewhere to act as an EDC twitch streamer setup.
Overall it feels like a great idea that had a flawed execution. The blade deploys a bit awkwardly with a very small nub where a proper flipper should be, the clip is in a tip-down orientation, and the light controls are not placed well for easy use. I don’t think this will be replacing my regular knife and light in the long run.
by Eirikur_da_Czech