Boker is transmuting one of their outdoors fixed blades into a folding format for the fall. The Micro Tracker Folder adapts the rugged fixie original’s design into a more pocketable incarnation for adventurers of all stripes.
Any fans of the unbendable original will be happy to know that that knife’s signature blade shape has survived the folding intact. It is a heavily modified tracker-style profile, with a – well, recurve is probably the proper term but it feels inadequate to convey the extreme dip between the front and back portions of the 3.12-inch cutting edge. The front half bellies out and has a chunkier grind, while the back half runs straight, and is thinner ground.
Obviously, these different geometries allow the Micro Tracker to flex into whatever sort of cutting tool its user needs it to be at the time. While there are certainly ways to anticipate what will be needed on any particular outdoor excursion, there’s a much larger unpredictability factor out in nature, and this multivalent blade design seems drawn up to expressly address that.
The handle design has undergone some changes of its own, but adheres to the same principles of grippiness as the fixed blade. The Micarta scales are a direct material reference to the original, which, it should go without saying, is much larger and heavier than this pocketable flipper knife. The Micro Tracker weighs 3.77 oz. and comes with a deep carry pocket clip.It is set to drop next month.
It is coming out early next month.
Knife in Featured Image: Boker Plus Micro Tracker
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