No one has ever doubted Tactile Knife Co.’s creativity, but they’ve really proved it with the new Skeletonized Rockwall model. This holey roller variation of their flagship flipper stemmed from a “happy accident” and also showcases a new blade grind.
Lots of famous creations stem from rolling with a mistake. Silly Putty resulted from a failed attempt to create a rubber substitute during WWII. Super glue grew out of another unsuccessful military research project. Even penicillin, a crucial development in antibiotics, was first discovered when it grew in a forgotten petri dish. We can add the new Skeletonized Rockwall to this list of unintentional, but history-making discoveries.
According to Tactile, a batch of standard Rockwall handle scales came out wrong early in production, which led company co-founder Matt Palmore to get creative: rather than throwing out all this perfectly good stock, they reworked the scales, thoroughly skeletonizing them, with eight, count ’em eight, large cutouts on each handle piece. Then, they redrew the Rockwall’s drop point blade so that it properly fit and functioned into these new scales.
In many ways, this is the same blade we’ve come to know and love on prior Rockwalls: comfortably EDC-sized, and made from much-loved knife steel MagnaCut. However, this is the first iteration of the Rockwall to sport a full flat grind; all blade grinds have their advantages and their fans, but the full flat, often abbreviated as the FFG, is perhaps the most popular (at least in the EDC sphere), thanks to its reputation as a superior geometry for slicing.
The new Skeletonized Rockwalls are coming soon.
Knife in Featured Image: Tactile Knife Co. Skeletonized Rockwall
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