“Are Fox Knives Good or Ass?” — r/knives Delivers the Definitive (and Hilarious) Verdict
Every knife community has its recurring question, and on r/knives it may just be: “So... Are fox knives good or ass?” A new collector, armed with a few Bear & Sons balisongs and a recently purchased Fox that looked dope and was pretty cheap, asked the question with total sincerity — they had vaguely heard someone call the brand horrible and wanted to know if it was true. The thread that followed delivered the funniest and most honest assessment of a mid-tier brand you will read this week.
The responses split into two camps. The optimists pointed to Fox's Italian heritage: “Italian knives are usually pretty good,” one commenter noted, citing their positive experience with MKM (the sister brand) and observing that Fox seems to have the folding karambit market cornered at its price point. The skeptics were more measured: “It's a brand that I go back and forth on. Some of their models I've really liked and others not so much.” And then there was the comment that perfectly summarized the brand's position: “It's in the middle between good and ass. Not quite good, not quite ass.”
The thread also produced a genuinely useful technical discussion about folding karambits. One user warned that folding karambits are not very structurally sound and would break easily, while the original poster acknowledged the point — they are probably going to get a normal (fixed) karambit next, but the folding ones are awesome too. It is a fair trade-off: the folding format makes a karambit pocketable and legal-friendly in more places, at the cost of the rigidity that a fixed blade offers.
The internet being what it is, the thread also delivered a masterpiece of comedic timing. One user wrote “Son I read this. Left the post. The joke clicked and came back just to write this. THATS FUNNY YES IT IS!!!!” — a reaction to a joke that took a full walk away to land. It is the kind of moment that makes Reddit worth the noise.
The takeaway for buyers is genuinely useful: Fox is a brand of peaks and valleys, with some models — particularly in the karambit space — offering real value, and others feeling like filler. The advice from the thread's wisest commenter applies broadly: if you are happy with it, you do not need the internet's permission to enjoy it.