Daedalus Green Lab Knife Review

The Daedalus Green Lab knife has a slip joint look but offers a built-in titanium pocket clip and a liner lock. It’s grippy and fantastic. Read on!

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Official Specs

Here’s a link to the official page for the Daedalus Green Lab knife.

Versions

I’m not completely sure about Daedalus’s naming scheme – I think this knife is named the “Lab” (and the box supports this), and the name is appended by the body color. Either way, there are six Labs, all with different handle colors. There are two blade colors.

Price

This (and I think all) versions of the Daedalus Lab knife have a list price of $150. Unfortunately, they are all out of stock! I hope there’s a version two in the works!

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Package and Manual

There is no manual.

What’s Included

• • Daedalus Green Lab knife

A bunch of other stuff is included from C. Risner Cutlery, but those aren’t Daedalus items.

Look

I bought this knife for exactly the reason you see below: It looks awesome. I have begun to like slip joint knives, and while this only looks like a slip joint, it fits my wishes for this role.

I say “looks like” because the Daedalus Green Lab knife does in fact have a locking mechanism. There are other differences too, such as the pocket clip. Most, or “traditional” slip joints do not have pocket clips!

The blade has a firm movement. Below the blade position is not in a detent.

In the position below, the blade is in a detent.

The Daedalus Green Lab knife is probably a bit bigger than it looks. The “full length nail nick” (or the “Fuller” as it’s properly called, apparently) and the overall blade shape remind me of Cylons from Battlestar Galactica.

There’s minimal branding on the Daedalus Green Lab knife.

Check out the diamond shape knurling! It’s probably not technically knurling. It’s a dimond pattern though, and provides great grip.

Open / Close / Lock

To me, the Daedalus Green Lab knife is a slip joint. If you’re capable of flipping in usual ways, you have the main option: this fully jimped thumb or index flipper.

I appreciate that this flipper tab is more subtle than most, and it doesn’t detract from the look of this knife.

You may even have enough dexterity to thumb flip it!

The handle is long enough (again, surprisingly) to have a full four-finger grip!

Here’s the liner lock. I’m a big fan of liner locks, and this one is very good. It looks like it could be hard to actuate, and it also looks like that little access cutout wouldn’t be sufficient. But it’s not hard to actuate, and that little cutout is sufficient.

Build and Feel

The pivot area, which you can see below, uses caged ceramic ball bearings. Opening this knife is very smooth!

You can’t see the blade centering thanks to this backspacer. This adds to the quality look and feel of this knife.

But the blade is perfectly centered!

Here you can see the skeletonized liners. The handles are aluminum, so I don’t think they require separate liners.

One side of the pivot can’t be adjusted.

But the other has a TORX driver.

Size

OAL: 6.9″
Blade Length: 2.99″
Closed Length: 3.91″

Above, you can see the Daedalus Green Lab 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 Daedalus Green Lab knife with the venerable Convoy S2+. This is a brass version, which is a good bit heavier than aluminum, but has the same dimensions: 24mm in diameter by 117.5mm in length.

Also in the photo above, my Standard Reference Material (SRM) flashlight is the Hanko Machine Works Trident, an 18350 light. 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 to the inexpensive Convoy S2+, another great SRM.

Steel / Cut / Oats

The Daedalus Green Lab knife uses 154CM steel. I don’t think Daedalus says what this blade shape is, but it appears to be a type of clip point.

If you want more info about 154CM steel, you can click on KnifeSteelNerds.com. There you will find all of the info!

The blade offers a flat grind and, in this case, a blackwash finish.

It looks like near the tip the blade has a bit of fancy flair – that’s the Fuller reaching its termination.

According to coltellimania.com, which produced this image, the Daedalus Green Lab knife does appear to have a drop point blade.

Retention

A “milled and bent titanium deep carry” pocket clip is included. It allows only tip-up carry.

This is a fancy clip! Carry is indeed deep! Note that the diamond pattern will interact with your pants pocket, but the pressure seems just about right to prevent ruining the cloth.

The clip is not reversible.

A lanyard slot is built into the end of the knife.

Summary and Conclusion

I love the Daedalus Green Lab knife specifically because of the departures it takes from traditional slip joint knives. At $150, it’s somewhat pricey. In any case, it’s out of stock nearly everywhere, and on sale anywhere it is in stock. For the sale price, go buy one! I do hope there’s a V2 of this knife, and I hope they design it smaller and for a three-finger grip.

Notes

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