BESTECH BT2202D

Bestech Knives

The BT2202D Fairchild is a large folding knife design from Bestech Knivess, perfectly suited for everyday carry and tough jobs alike. The 3.97″ drop point blade is made from CPM-S35VN stainless steel with a satin finish. The action riding on ceramic ball bearings is buttery smooth and the lockup is nice and tight. Unlike many of Bestech’s designs, this blade does not feature a thumb stud or flipper tab, but instead only has a blade hole, allowing the blade to easily be opened with either the thumb or a reverse middle finger flick. The handle is made from gold anodized, milled 6AL4V titanium and the shape locks it into your hand for comfortable extended cutting tasks. The blade choil allows for an excellent choked-up grip, providing maximum stability on this wicked sharp knife. The pocket clip and backspacer are made from 6AL4V titanium for maximum quality assurance and the design includes a nice sized lanyard slot.

About CPM-S35VN Stainless Steel

CPM-S35VN is a martensitic stainless steel designed to offer improved toughness over CPM-S30V. It is also easier to machine and polish than CPM-S30V. Its chemistry has been rebalanced so that it forms some niobium carbides along with vanadium and chromium carbides. Substituting niobium carbides for some of the vanadium carbides makes CPM-S35VN about 15-20% tougher than CPM-S30V without any loss of wear resistance. CPM-S35VN’s improved toughness gives it better resistance to edge chipping. Because both vanadium and niobium carbides are harder and more effective than chromium carbides in providing wear resistance, the CPM stainless blade steels offer improved edge retention over conventional high chromium steels such as 440C and D2.