ULTIMATE EDGED TOYS?
Some time ago I visited a friend and we ran down some out-the-front automatic folders. For whatever reason, autos—aka switchblades—have been villainized* through the decades and, yes, they have a super cool factor. Nonetheless, as with all knives, they are still tools, tools with certain jobs they’re best suited to do. The beauty of knives is they can be presented in so many ways, including OTFs, which have their own mastery of the cutlery world.
This time my team and I examine three OTFs: the Benchmade Autocrat, Microtech Exocet and the Heretic Hydra. (In a shout out to my nerdy Marvel comic friends, Hail Hydra!) The review knives are EDCs, so we ran them as EDCs with a sheep dog attitude toward them. We basically checked to see if they could do the work and, at the
