If you’ve been waiting, patiently, perhaps for years, for Civivi to release a fillet knife – well, your time has come at last. Civivi is calling it the Shawka, and they naturally went all out with the mechanical flourishes.
The fillet knife is a demanding format, in the sense that it requires the blade to have very specific properties. It needs to be fairly large – larger by far than the average folding knife – and it needs to be flexible, in order to be maneuvered around delicate bones and in between the skin and meat layers of a fish.
I don’t keep a lot of fish, but I do like the look and specs of this one.
Hard to beat a Martini/Cabellas though.
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Civivi Shawka Fillet Knife Flaunts Fancy Folding Feature
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