Video Overview

Jerad at Neeves Knives opens a handful of WIXCO folders and treats them like everyday tools, not shelf pieces. WIXCO is the more affordable line from the same team behind Ferramonster, and this video stays on that side of the shop. He starts with a cyan carbon-fiber hawkbill, moves to a button-lock folder in a similar handle, then a liner-lock pair, and finishes on a milled aluminum front flipper. The useful part is how each knife opens, locks, and sharpens. A photo of the handle does not tell you if the detent is lazy or if a stone will hit the choil.

Items & Gear List

• WIXCO Wortex XL (WX16XL-C) – View at WIXCO
• WIXCO Jugger (WX22-C) – View at WIXCO
• WIXCO liner-lock drop point (Jerad calls this pair the Relays) – View at WIXCO. The shop Jerad credits does not list this name on a product page.
• WIXCO liner-lock clip point (same pair) – View at WIXCO. Same shop link. We did not guess a different model.
• WIXCO Fenix – View at WIXCO. Jerad does not name a color, so this is the Fenix line, not one finish.

Editor’s Insight

Jerad at Neeves Knives starts with the Wortex XL in cyan blue shredded carbon fiber. The blade is black stonewash 14C28N in a hawkbill. The lock is a button liner lock, which is a liner lock you can run with a push as well as a thumb stud. The stud sits in a short slot, so you can set it where your thumb lands. He lays the curve on a stone and says a one-inch stone can still sharpen it. A small gap sits under the belly, and that is fine. The deep-carry clip is not inset, and it is reversible. The hardware is T8. The detent is usable. He says you can tune it stronger if you want a harder pull.

The next folder uses a similar blue-and-green carbon fiber and a conventional button lock. That matches the Jugger in N690 with a black stonewash blade. Jerad likes the detent here more than on the hawkbill. The handle is mostly carbon fiber with thin liners, so it stays light for the size, and he calls the action fidget friendly.

Then he shows two liner locks he calls the Relays, one drop point and one clip point. He prefers the drop point. Both have a crisp detent, thumb studs that do not feel slippery, and a deep-carry clip that is reversible but not inset. The hardware is T8. He says the steel is D2. WIXCO’s current shop does not list that model name, or a D2 blade, on a product page. Those two links go to the shop he credits in the description. We did not swap in a nearby knife just to have a product URL.

His main complaint on that pair is the plunge grind and the sharpening choil. The line sits close, so a stone can kiss the ricasso. He shrugs it off and still sharpens one until the edge is silly sharp. Lock-bar access is good enough, and he is picky about that. The colors remind him of Matt at Southern Cali EDC. He also holds up a curved carbon-fiber folder and says it looks more pirate than his own Misdemeanor. He never names that one, so it is not in the list.

He closes on an aluminum folder with micro-milled handles, a front flipper, and N690. That matches the Fenix, the only WIXCO line that combines those three. He likes the angled edge for utility cuts and for trapping material on a flat surface. He calls the finish acid etched and points out a fuller. The link goes to the Fenix line, not one color, because Jerad does not name a color. His warning is the tip. A few sharpenings are fine. A chip would force a long grind before the tip sits where you want it.

That is the trade Jerad keeps making. A hawkbill you can still sharpen. A button lock with a better detent. A liner lock with a choil that is close but usable. An aluminum flipper whose tip you should not abuse. None of that shows up in a product photo.

Closing Remarks

Watch Jerad at Neeves Knives before you pick one of these folders. He shows the detent, the lock, and the sharpening choil, which a product photo leaves out. The Wortex XL and Jugger links go to those models. The Fenix link goes to the aluminum front-flipper line, because he does not name a color. The pair he calls the Relays has no matching product page on the shop he credits, so that link goes to the WIXCO shop. A hawkbill that sharpens on a normal stone is a different carry from a tanto tip you should not grind down. Hit play, then tell us which blade shape you would actually carry.