Ostap Hel has graced the Bestechman line with a fresh workhorse folding knife design, the Flick. Like the designer’s previous efforts for Bestechman, the Flick delivers Hel’s signature style at a budget-friendly, entry-level price.
Thankfully, the Flick lives up to its name, opening with a pert triangular flipper tab and locking up with the tried and true liner lock. In fact, underneath Hel’s hyperclean lines, every major element of the Flick is tried and true. To start with the blade, it’s a drop point – slender, but with a respectable 3.48-inch edge length. Made from D2 steel, it’s the kind of blade with the muscle for harder use, but that isn’t so large as to become unwieldy for the simpler, lighter-weight EDC-type chores.
Direct your gaze towards the handle and you’ll see a shape that’s also slim, and also simple, but still big enough to accommodate not only a full four-finger grip, but an angled chamfer underneath the finger guard for comfort and that little bit of patented Hel pizazz. There’s also the signature Bestechman pizazz as well, in the form of the company’s signature T-shaped pivot screw. The handle scales across all variations of the Flick are made from G-10.
Speaking of those variations, there are a boatload to choose from Bestech – parent company of Bestechman if you didn’t know – has a reputation for offering their models with plenty of options, and the Flick in particular impresses on that front with a whopping eight different varieties, including some outre choices like teal, purple, and see-through(ish) jade. The pocket clip is loop over and reversible, and the Flick weighs 2.87 oz.
It will be available in early 2027 – just kidding. It’s available now!
Knife in Featured Image: Bestechman Flick
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