CIVIVI's SŌKN Is a 2.82-Inch Fixed Blade With a Spey Point

Small fixed blades have had a quiet resurgence, mostly because people realized that a 3-inch knife with no lock to fail is more useful than a 3-inch folder with three moving parts. The CIVIVI SŌKN is aimed squarely at that realization: 7.17 inches overall, a 2.82-inch blade, and 3.04 ounces including the handle.

The blade is Nitro-V at 58-60 HRC, flat ground, in a bronze stonewashed finish. The profile is a spey point — a shape originally built for castrating livestock, now used mostly because it gives a broad, controllable belly without a fragile tip. The cutting edge measures 2.52 inches, so the usable edge is honest about the blade length rather than inflated by a long unsharpened ricasso.

Put it next to the Estoc and the choice is use case, not quality. The Estoc is a 4.1-inch folding knife at $87 with more reach and less weight. The SŌKN is $105, shorter, heavier, and will never develop lock rock or a loose pivot. If you are carrying in a city, the folder. If you are carrying in a garden, a boat, or a truck, the fixed blade. The spey point is the part most people underestimate. Because the spine dips toward the tip rather than rising, you can lay the blade flat and cut without the point digging in, which makes it a decent kitchen-adjacent knife in a way that a clip point is not. Combined with a tip-down clip on a fixed blade, the SŌKN reads as a knife designed by someone who actually carried one inside a waistband or on a strap rather than posing it on a table.

The handle is black G10 at 0.35 inch thick with a tip-down clip on a fixed blade — an unusual spec that tells you CIVIVI expects people to hang this inside a waistband or on webbing rather than in a belt sheath. At three ounces and $105, it is the least compromised knife in the current budget fixed-blade field.

Availability and variant pricing are listed at CIVIVI.