RMX™ Thumbstud Reverse Tanto

The blade is drilled for the studs, so this is not something added to an RMX afterwards and not something you can fit to one you already own.

Your thumb finds the stud without looking by about the second try, and the button lock drops the blade closed the same way, which means you can open and close it while your other hand is holding whatever you are cutting. It stays manual.

This is the RMX that trades the manual-to-automatic swap for one action you do without thinking about it, so there is no pivot cartridge in the box, nothing to convert, nothing to tension, and it ships legal in all 50 states as sold. If push-button automatic is what brought you to the RMX line, the Drop Point and the standard Reverse Tanto both do it. This one does not, and that is the trade it makes

The blade is CPM-3V, a powder steel chosen for toughness rather than for a number on a chart, and the reverse tanto grind puts a thin, slicey edge in front of a spine that has metal behind it where it matters.

Tough and slicey is a hard combination to get and it is the reason this blade shape has the following it does. In practice it is a blade you can lean on. Cardboard all morning, strapping and shrink wrap in the afternoon, a length of hose or a bag of feed after work, without the edge folding on you or the tip becoming a thing you have to be careful with.

Every knife is sharpened and quality checked in Ashland, Oregon before it ships, and when it finally does go dull you are sharpening it back to the edge it came with, not reprofiling it.

A knife that gets used gets dirty. This one comes apart with a single screw, cleans out, and goes back together without a specialty tool, a jig, or any experience doing it before.

The handle is a single piece, so there is no second set of screws quietly backing out while you carry it.

Sharpen it, clear the pocket lint out of the mechanism, put it back to work. It is covered by the Work Sharp lifetime warranty either way.