Blue-Collar Blades

The popularity of neck knives has increased over the past decade. Many observers, however, have opined that such blades lack any utility. My team and I recently reviewed three neckers with the focus on exactly that—everyday utility.

After doing initial examinations to see how sharp the knives were from the factory, we put them to the test by accompanying a friend who owns a security alarm company and working with him to install cut a wafer-thin slice from a grape or a ripe tomato without squishing the fruit. Each of the review neck knives passed the wafer-slice test. That done, we hung them around our necks and headed out to job sites.