Knife designer Joe Caswell designed this Provoke First Responder knife, designed for EMTs working in close quarters.
Caswell has extended his mastery of mechanisms to a new product in the line, the Provoke X:
This is a folding axe, and it works like this:
I'd thought it would be aimed at bushcrafters—hatchets are a cumbersome thing to carry, and this design obviates the need for a blade guard, which can get lost—but I was wrong. Perhaps as a sign of the times, this is being billed as a "tactical axe," a "powerful, portable, self-defense tool."
The Provoke X generated strong buzz at last week's annual SHOT Show (Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show). Caswell is putting the $350 tool/weapon into production through his company, CRKT, and expects to ship in April.
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In the novel Idoru, William Gibson described a character as having such a tool.
Excerpt From Idoru, by William Gibson