- CRKT CEO Microflipper · Sheepsfoot2.21″ blade · 0.09″ spine · 1.7 oz · ~0.61″ tall
CRKT CEO Microflipper
Despite the shared name this is a different knife from the CEO, not a variant: 2.21" of sheepsfoot blade against the CEO's 3.11" drop point, Sandvik 12C27 instead of 8Cr13MoV, an aluminium handle instead of nylon, and 1.7 oz against 2.1. At 5.5" open it is the smallest folder in the catalogue that still flips.
- Blade
- 2.21″
- Weight
- 1.7 oz
- Steel
- Sandvik 12C27
- Price band
- Budget
A pocket knife small enough to carry somewhere a full-size folder reads wrong
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Specifications
Manufacturer-published figures, cross-checked against crkt.com.
- Blade length
- 2.21″
- Spine thickness
- 0.09″
- Blade shape
- Sheepsfoot
- Grind
- Flat
- Steel
- Sandvik 12C27
- Overall length
- 5.5″
- Closed length
- 3.25″
- Weight
- 1.7 oz
- Lock
- Liner
- Deployment
- Flipper
- Handle material
- Aluminum
- Country of origin
- China
Why a sheepsfoot
A straight edge with the spine curving down to meet it, ending in effectively no point. It cannot stab, which is the point: it is the shape for cutting toward yourself, cutting on a surface, or cutting a seatbelt off someone without stabbing them.
Every sheepsfoot here →About Sandvik 12C27
Morakniv and Opinel's steel. Modest edge retention, excellent toughness and grain, sharpens on anything including a river rock.
1-5 is a relative ranking drawn from published composition and hardness, not a lab measurement. Higher is better on every axis, and no steel is a 5 across the board — edge retention and toughness pull against each other. All Sandvik 12C27 knives
What owners say
Drawn from 27 owner discussions of the CRKT CEO Microflipper since 2024. The opinions are theirs. The specifications above come from the maker.
What owners like
- Long-term forget-it carry: one owner has used theirs for several years as a knife they forget until they need it and are generally satisfied.
- The opening click is a draw: owners single out the sound of the blade deploying.
- Bearings and liner lock earn praise from one several-year owner, who also loves the straight sheepsfoot-style blade.
- Rewards a little work: one owner reprofiled the edge to 20 degrees, spent a week learning to open it, and says it quickly became their favourite, replacing a lost Spyderco Dragonfly.
What owners flag
- Hard to flip open: one owner still struggled after much practice, another traced it to the detent because it opens smoothly when they push the lock, and one gift recipient handed it back because they could not open it.
- Flipper tab gives little leverage: one owner found the notched tab too smooth, small and shallow.
- Short, smooth clip: one owner carrying it on a wide belt dropped it several times while sitting down or cycling.
- Thick for a coin pocket: one several-year owner says the roughly 0.4-inch handle and sharp corners dig into their hip.
- Learning it can draw blood: one new user cut a finger slightly by holding it two-handed so it flung open toward their other hand.
- The blade carries tip up, which one owner who wears it on the left of their belt says slows deployment when they reach across with their right hand.
1.7 ounces with a 2.21-inch 12C27 blade on an aluminum handle makes the Microflipper a small forget-it-until-needed pocket knife. One owner has carried theirs that way for years, another replaced a lost Dragonfly with it, and two owners single out the click when it opens.
Opening it is the recurring problem: two owners report it hard to open, blaming a stiff detent or a tab too shallow to flip reliably, a third calls the detent stupid stiff, and one gift recipient gave theirs back. One owner who wants something thinner shortlisted the Kershaw Chive and Spyderco Dragonfly 2, and another went looking for a tip-down, deep-carry alternative after dropping theirs off a belt.
Why is my CEO Microflipper so hard to open?
Owners point at a stiff detent and a small tab. One noticed it opens smoothly when they push the lock aside, which points to the detent, and another found the tab too smooth and shallow for leverage. One owner spent a week learning the technique, after which it became their favourite knife.
Is the Microflipper a good small office knife?
One owner has used it for years as a forget-it-until-needed carry and likes it, but finds it thick in a coin pocket with corners that dig in. Another owner dropped theirs off a wide belt several times because the clip is short.
Will the Microflipper stay closed in a pocket?
No owner in the records reports it opening by accident; the complaints run the other way, with owners finding the detent so stiff that opening takes practice. One owner did drop it off a wide belt a few times because the clip is short and smooth.
Features
- Liner lock
- Flat grind
- Flipper
- Made in China
- Stainless blade
- Under 2.5 oz
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