hey everyone David C Anderson here coming at you from the KnifeCenter and
today we're taking a look at one of our favorite knives it's something we use
over here every day and we don't know what we'd do without it let's check it
out
so here we have the Mundial Sandwich Spreader this is a very versatile design
and as I said it gets a lot of use over here even though folders are all the
rage I love a good fixed blade and this is no exception it is a hidden tang
design and as you can see we have a red synthetic handle that red color not only
can help you find it if you do happen to accidentally drop it but it also has an
antimicrobial surface which is going to help keep it clean and it's gonna help
it last longer as well in terms of handle size I can get a good four finger
grip on this knife which means even though it's on the smaller size you can
really bear down and do a lot of work speaking of doing work as you can see
this is almost a fully serrated edge and the factory edge I'd say is quite good
you're gonna very easily be able to get through fibrous materials like rope or
even celery the heat-treat on this knife is very nicely done as well they have
left it a little bit springy kind of like a fillet knife and that's gonna
help you get really down and dirty and really close to the surface when you're
needed to do those really small precision jobs in terms of grind there's
actually no grind to speak up because this knife is that thin to begin with to
tell you the truth I find that refreshing in this day of crazy
overbuilt fixed blades that can often be a quarter inch thick or more often times
those knives can sacrifice on their slicing ability that's not something
you're gonna have to worry about with this Mundial the handles are also nice
and comfortable there's not going to be any hot spots to speak of because
there's nothing sticking out there's no finger grooves or swells just a very
nicely finished smooth handle one problem I do see coming up however is it
is completely symmetrical which makes it a little hard to index the knife if
you're not looking at it directly the last thing you really want to do when
you need to make a cut is to be holding it upside down and that's not something
you're gonna be able to tell just feeling this knife you're gonna have to
take a look at it before you cut as you would expect this is a stainless steel
and additionally it's NSF certified which means if you really wanted to you
could even use this in a kitchen so what is this knife really good at for
one there's a lot of belly with this design and when you combine that with
the unsharpened tip this can actually make a very good game processing knife
when you're done skinning with this section the hump here is gonna come in
very handy when you need to scrape that hide of course this is also excellent
for EDC I don't think the edge is gonna be super long-lasting with this knife
but the serrated edge does help mitigate that a little bit and personally I think
this would make a great neck knife that would be easy to whip out I mean you
need to open a box or a package now someone has suggested to me that this
may make a good bushcraft knife and I can kind of see it but I have to
disagree there although the handle is certainly conducive as I said there's no
real hotspots and this would make a decent carving blade but it's not a
Scandi grind and if you do need to do any sort of drilling with the tip again
the handles comfortable enough to do it but you're gonna be making some really
wide and shallow divots which really kind of defeats the purpose and doesn't
do what you need a bushcraft knife to do for that same reason it's not really
gonna make a great tactical knife either not just because of the lack of a point
but there's also no finger guard here which would make it easy for your finger
to slip forward we don't really want that to happen so I think you can tell
that we're pretty big fans of this knife over here even though the handle is
symmetrical and I didn't quite like that the only other thing I could really
think of that Mundial could do to improve this is to give us a nice sheath
it doesn't even have to be high-end but even a simple molded thermoplastic sheath
would be affordable and would fit this aesthetic very nicely so I'm sure you're
asking by now how does this knife compared to its
competitors and to do that we're gonna bring one of them out right now the
Cold Steel Chaos Tanto is another knife that we see just about every day here at the
KnifeCenter and it's easy to see why while this is certainly a larger knife
than the Mundial it's not gonna be quite as easy to carry a more than makes up
for that with its strength and power this is what I was talking about to
with thicker blades as you can see here there is a lot of strength in the spine
of this knife but it's not gonna glide quite as easily through what you need to
cut one problem that this knife does not have that the Mundial does is that it's
very easy to index this knife whereas if you grab the mundial without looking the
blade could be in either orientation it's kind of hard to do with this knife
you're instantly going to know you're holding it wrong and flip it around so
that you're ready to rock because of that handle design also we do get some
finger protection which not only is going to help for those tactical
situations but it's also going to keep your knuckles off the cutting board if
you need to use it for food prep also another area where I think that these
two knives compete very well we've got a nice long length with this blade with a
good hollow grind which is gonna be a very nice place for say peanut butter to
rest and I think this would make a heck of a sandwich spreader
so we hope you liked seeing these two items again they're some of our
favorites over here and if you want to get your hands on either of them click
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