If you like your everyday carry knives with a side of gallows humor, you might dig Kizer's latest undertaking.

But Civivi has taken a slightly different approach with its Civivi Merit, an upcoming folding ... Damascus-bladed version (for a relatively small price bump). Style alone does not make a great knife.

Quality Damascus knives can cost over $5,000. Their signature swirl pattern comes from layering two different alloys and folding them over each other, sometimes resulting in thousands of layers.