Rite Edge Peanut Brown Textured Folding Pocket Knife

The Rite Edge Peanut Brown Textured Folding Pocket Knife is a compact two-blade Peanut, shaped around a stainless steel handle finished in brown with a textured surface, opened manually and held shut with a slip joint.

The Peanut pattern is one of the smallest traditional two-blade designs still made, favored for slipping into a pocket without any bulk rather than for heavy-duty work. Two blades give a little more flexibility than a single-blade knife this size usually gives: one for everyday cutting, a second smaller one for finer tasks.

The textured brown finish on the stainless handle is meant to read like a natural material at a glance, giving the small knife a warmer look than bare polished steel. Rite Edge sells the Peanut pattern in several handle finishes, and this textured brown stainless version sits toward the more affordable end of that range. Its small size is really the whole appeal, a knife that can ride in a pocket all day without anyone noticing it's there. Two-blade patterns like the Peanut trace back to a time when carrying a single all-purpose knife wasn't considered enough. A second, smaller blade meant one knife could cover both everyday cutting and finer detail work. Two blades folded into a handle this small means each one has to be ground thin, which keeps the whole knife slim in the pocket despite carrying two separate edges. Explore more Traditional Knives.

• Compact two-blade Peanut pattern
• Textured brown stainless handle
• Slip joint construction
• Small enough for pocket carry without added bulk