“If at first you don’t succeed…” is half of a cliché knife designer Joe Caswell must be painfully familiar with, as the man seemingly spent most of last year living the “try, try again” part.
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After all, the production version of CRKT’s mind-blowing kinematic axe, the Provoke X, is the 94th iteration of Caswell’s design.
He might have given up long before, if not for the faith that presumably comes from having designed CRKT’s original Provoke morphing karambit for first responders six years ago.
That revolutionary mechanism spawned a whole Provoke family, plus EDC versions with more traditional blades.
However, as essentially a folding pocket axe, the Provoke X is on a whole other level.
