Schrade Imperial IMP15S Stockman Stainless Steel Folding Pocket Knife for Outdoor, Outdoor Survival and EDC

Great quality knife, as expected with a Schrade. A quality knife should have a strong back spring, which ensures the knife blade stays locked open and doesn't collapse and cut your fingers when using it. If you can't open the blades without breaking a fingernail, then don't buy it.

The photo does not show the true size of this knife and it appears that the blade is larger than the handle. The written dimensions are correct. This is a well made knife and the finish is very good. The blades are sharp. As with most similar types of pocket knives, there is no lock for the blades.

I like all the imperial knives you can't beat them for the price

Positives: Nice looking, good fit and finish, good size for an EDC, certainly inexpensive. Negatives: Blades are too hard to open. I've had to use tools to open to spare my fingernails. Most importantly, the blades don't want to take a good, sharp edge. I'm fairly good at sharpening knives but these blades will simply not get as sharp as I would like, and I've tried several different sharpening tools.

You can't beat a Schrade knife. Solid, well made and incredibly functional!

Great size for a working knife

Pros: Tight lockup when the blades are open Inexpensive Arrived decently sharp Cons: Fairly minor, I don't like how much the bottom of the blades stick up over the scales when it's closed. It is difficult to open at first. I oiled it with mineral oil, which helped, and am going to open it a lot over the next week and see if it loosens up. I'll update this review if it does. Edit: it only took about two days to loosen up. Mineral oil helped, as did some silicon grease in the bolster/tang area. It's opens pretty well now. It's good for what it costs. It's not Case quality in terms of fit and finish, but that would cost 4-5 times more. It's a perfectly functional tool. I bought it because I have another stockman knife that is 60 years old (American Blade AB-22) given to me by my grandfather and I didn't want to carry that around and risk losing it. This is the same style, and reminds me of him when I use it since he also collected some old imperial pocket knives in addition to the AB stockman, and it won't matter too much if I lose this one or break it.

Very sharp classic pocket knife.