Prometheus Design Werx PDW SPD X-11 Keychain Sliding Utility Blade Knife 2.32" Overall, Titanium Handle, GITD Strontium Aluminate Button Inlay - 1042404

Description

PDW1042404: SPD X-11

Prometheus Design Werx

The Special Projects Division X-11 is a precision-made, titanium-handled, compact cutting tool using a common and replaceable no. 11 utility blade. A unique, unibody design that is smaller in width than a AAA battery and about as long as your pinky finger. This small but mighty cutting tool is designed to be barely felt on your keychain, in your pocket, or stored in a pocket emergency kit or stash tube.

The SPD X-11 is a very compact, yet highly capable cutting tool. Barely over 8 grams in weight, smaller in diameter than a AAA battery, and about as long as your pinky finger. 

At PDW, they have a strong affinity for titanium billet and machining them into useful, everyday carry tools and objects. The SPD X-11 is a precision-made tool for EDC.

Using the latest fabrication techniques, PDW was able to construct the handle out of a solid piece of titanium billet, creating a unibody cutting tool. Despite its very compact size, smart details characterize the design which features four preset blade positions and carefully considered ergonomics.

PDW uses the best grade in materials in the making of their X-11. From 6AL-4V grade-5 titanium billet to the brightest strontium aluminate cabochon button inlay, PDW is uncompromising in the quality of make. The practical use of the replaceable, readily available no.11 utility blades was a smart decision to have an off-the-shelf supply of razor-sharp blades at your disposal. 

As with just about all of PDW EDC tools and items, it includes a presentation box, that is simple, yet elegant and practical. The tin boxes are completely reusable for storing odds and ends, fire-making supplies, a DIY sewing kit, and more.

Making the X-11 literally required some fresh angles in fabrication methods. It was a challenging and ultimately satisfying exercise to achieve the unibody construction that they were after, as well as the whole process to miniaturize the entire cutting tool was befitting of the SPD classification.