Most folding knives give you one way in. Some give you two. The Kizer Huldra Ki3665A1 gives you three — flipper tab, front flipper, and a thumb hole — on a 3.19-inch reverse tanto in S35VN, wrapped in a black titanium frame lock for $89.40.
The spec sheet: 7.78 inches overall, 3.19-inch blade at 2.8mm stock, 4.59-inch titanium handle, frame lock, 3D non-reversible titanium clip, 4.59 ounces. Designer credit to Mason Hayes. The blade shape is a reverse tanto, which is to say a straight spine that drops abruptly to the tip — good for piercing, good for scraping, indifferent at slicing compared with a full-belly drop point.
Three openers sounds like marketing until you use them. A flipper tab is fastest and works through a glove. A front flipper keeps the whole knife inside the handle silhouette and does not snag on a pocket seam. A thumb hole is the only one of the three that works with a slow, quiet, deliberate open, which is what you want in an office or at 2 a.m. in a house with thin walls. Kizer has been putting all three on its mid-tier knives for a while, and the geometry here is the same one that works on the Cormorant.
What $89.40 buys against the rest of the catalog: the Bugai gives you tougher 3V for $27 less but in micarta and with no frame lock. The Kobold 2.0 at $76.30 gives you a bigger 3.66-inch wharncliffe in 4V on aluminium for less money, and it is the better pure cutter. The Microlith at $147 is the same idea executed smaller and slicker. The Huldra's case is that it is the cheapest titanium frame lock Kizer currently lists with a 3.19-inch blade and three ways in.
Verdict: a sensible titanium knife at a sensible titanium price, and the three openers make it a good left-field pick for someone who has not decided what kind of folder they like yet. Skip it if you want a slicer — 2.8mm reverse tanto is a strong, pointy blade, not a laser.
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