Fans of utilitarian daily carry blades, this one’s for you. Civivi is setting to launch the Yonder into full release. This compact user took home a big award earlier this year thanks to its understated but highly functional design.
Civivi specializes in affordable knives, and their work has become one of the dominant forces in that category – so it’s no wonder that the team – and designer Zac Whitmore – went home from Blade Show 2024 with the Best Buy of the Year award in tow. In that way, terms of design philosophy, even though it doesn’t come from the in-house team and has an identity all its own, the Yonder brings another Civivi icon to mind: the Elementum.
With these focused user designs, it all comes down to the blade, and Whitmore came up with a winning take on the spey blade concept here. Normally seen on smaller slipjoint knives (you may be able to guess, but don’t want to know, what it was originally used for), the spey blade shape makes the transition to modern locking folder quite smoothly on the Yonder. It has a generous belly throughout its 2.88-inch length, and a sturdy, dropped point. Rendered in 14C28N and flicked open with a thumb stud, it’s just going to be a solid choice when work needs to get done.
The butt end of the Yonder’s handle has some linework reminiscent of coffin jack patterns, but transitions into more modern folder elements with its chunky, but not bulky, forward guard. The scales come in either black G-10, dark green canvas Micarta, or guibourtia wood (that last is also sporting a damascus blade), and no matter which one you choose you’re getting Civivi’s Axislike cross-bar lock. Whitmore wisely leaned into the ambidexterity of this mechanism by allowing the clip to be swappable to either side.
The Yonder will be available next month.
Knife in Featured Image: Civivi Yonder
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