Vosteed Porcupine Top Liner Lock Knife Review

The Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife uses a button to release the lock for very smooth action. Micarta scales and a drop point blade complete this knife!

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Official Specs

Here’s a link to the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife.

Versions

A bunch of versions of the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife have been made. Not all of the versions are currently available, but the one seen on this page is.

The variations include different Micarta scale colors, different scale materials (G10, Micarta), and different blade colors!

Price

All versions of the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife are not available on the Vosteed website, but amazon.com has a bunch of choices! Here’s a referral link to the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife.

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Package and Manual

There is no manual.

What’s Included

• Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife
• Cleaning cloth
• Zippered carry pouch
• Vosteed sticker
• Warranty card, etc.

Look

The Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife is very similar to the Raccoon (which I recently posted about). The build quality is great. The Porcupine has just a bit different setup as far as blade shape and pocket clip, though.

In particular, about the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife, I love this colorway. I did not know I was a “Dune” colorway fan, but the sand blade with black Micarta is absolutely great.

There’s minimal branding on the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife – just a subtle Vosteed brand name on one side and steel type on the other.

Open / Close / Lock

A thumb hole is used to open the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife.

Technically the thumb hole is just one of the options. The other is to hold the button (as seen below) to depress the top liner lock. At this point, the blade can be swung open fairly freely.

This is a very nice action, and also how I prefer to open the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife.

The blade is practically a “drop shut” smoothness. It’s very good! Below you can see that with the button depressed and the knife held nearly horizontal (ie not a lot of weight pulling the blade closed) the blade still willingly tucks itself away in the scales (closed.)

Build and Feel

It is covered above, but the scales of the Porcupine are Micarta. The build quality is great, and note that the Micarta provides a great grip surface. This will ebb and flow with the age and use of the knife – Micarta isn’t really a “patina” material, but it also is in some sense the best patina material – it should show age and usage very nicely.

On a black knife like this, “wearing in” will be quite subtle.

The blade is perfectly centered. On this Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife, we get a metal standoff backspacer.

The pivot, as Vosteed says, is a “Caged Ceramic Ball Bearing.” Action is very willing. There’s no blade play at all.

Only one side (not the one pictured next) has an TORX bit for adjusting the pivot.

Around the pivot there’s a sand spacer that adds to the Dune colorway.

The Micarta scales are lined with metal, of course, and those liners go all the way down the back of the knife. Those liners have jimping, too!

There’s ample jimping on the blade, too.

Below you can get a good idea of how the top liner lock works. The button directly presses down on the liner lock.

Size

Blade Length:2.99″ | 75.98 mm
Overall Length:7.20″ | 183.00 mm
Blade Width:1.24″ | 31.53 mm
Blade Thickness:0.118″ | 3.00 mm
Handle Length:4.16″ | 105.70 mm
Handle Width:1.22″ | 30.99 mm
Handle Thickness:0.472″ | 12.00 mm
Weight:3.19 oz | 90.50 g

 

Above you can see the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife with the Civivi Elementum in orange G10. I use that knife so much!

Here’s the knife in hand:

Below you can see the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife with the venerable Convoy S2+. The version below is a custom laser-engraved Convoy S2+ host by GadgetConnections.com. I did a full post on an engraved orange host right here! Or go straight to GadgetConnections.com to buy your Convoy S2+ now!

In the photo above, you may note that the SRM (standard reference material) flashlight for comparison has changed! I used a TorchLAB BOSS 35 for ages. Now what you can see as the 18350 SRM is the Hanko Machine Works Trident. While I have not reviewed or tested the Gunner Grip version seen here, I have tested a Hanko Machine Works Trident Total Tesseract in brass. I love the Trident, and it’s a striking contrast next to the inexpensive Convoy S2+, which also makes a great standard reference material.

Steel / Cut / Oats

Vosteed states the Porcupine blade steel as “14C28N.”

Here are some details on that steel:

https://www.materials.sandvik/en/products/strip-steel/strip-products/knife-steel/sandvik-knife-steels/sandvik-14c28n/

Retention

This pocket clip is what used to be called the “paperclip” style. I have disliked these in the past (for example on Zebralight flashlights). But they’ve been great on other brands (like Spyderco). And I had great luck carrying this knife, so I like the clip a lot! Vosteed has also used this clip in the Parallel (a knife I really like.)

The clip allows fairly deep carry, and carries very well.

The pocket clip is reversible, too, but still allows only tip-up carry.

The Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife has a lanyard hole. It’s lined with metal, which is a nice touch, and even nicer is that it matches the other sand-colored parts.

Finally, there’s an included nylon zippered pouch. This is standard for Vosteed!

Summary and Conclusion

I love this Dune colorway on the Vosteed Porcupine top liner lock knife. I like a lot of other stuff about the knife too. One of those is that you don’t have to use the thumbhole – you can open the knife by just depressing the top liner lock button! The price is reasonable and build quality is fantastic!

Notes

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