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It's easy to say utility knives are a dime a dozen. Then something really different -- like Rivery MFG's Zero-6061 or The James Brand's The Palmer Clear -- crosses your path and leaves you thinking twice.

That's exactly what's happening right now as we behold a funky new offering from Polish knife designer Ostap Hel and Chinese knife manufacturer Civivi: the Pyrus. Because wtf, amiright??

Before we get into what this new knife can do, let's examine where it came from. Knife nerds will likely recognize the blade shape as a karambit, which probably last made GP headlines with the launch of CRKT's innovatively deployed Provoke.

While this type of blade is typically associated with the fighting knife category -- particularly the Filipino martial arts of Arnis, Kali and Eskrima -- its history goes back much further. The image below might help with explicating it.