CIVIVI’s Vision FG puts its lock bar on the spine of the handle, where a thumb finds it without hunting. The black G10 version is $69 at Amazon right now, $23 under its $92 list.
Snecx Tan designed the Vision FG around his Superlock, and CIVIVI built it as the affordable way into that mechanism, with a 3.54-inch reverse tanto blade in Nitro-V steel and a full-size black G10 handle over stainless liners. Twenty-five percent off is a real cut.
Inside CIVIVI’s own line, this is the big-grip option, the folder for buyers who find the Elementum family cramped and want a handle that gives four fingers somewhere to land. The Elementum II runs smaller at $65 with a 2.96-inch blade, while the Vision FG spends its size on grip and lock access instead. Both knives run Nitro-V, so the choice between them is size and lock, not steel.
CIVIVI Vision FG (C22036-1)
3.54″ Nitro-V reverse tanto blade · Black G10 handle · Superlock
Price: $69.00 (save $23.00, 25% off $92.00)
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon
Built around the Superlock
The Superlock’s bar rides along the spine of the handle, worked from the top of the knife instead of from a liner buried inside the scales. Because the bar sits outside the blade’s swing path, a left-handed carrier gets the same controls as a right-handed one, and the tip-up clip swaps sides to match. It closes without a fingertip crossing the edge. The bar is the first thing a thumb finds on the draw.
A caged ceramic ball bearing runs the pivot, so the blade rolls open with a push on the thumb studs rather than a flick of the wrist. Both thumb studs are stainless, like the screws, the clip and the backspacer, and the whole hardware set carries the same black finish as the blade. Nothing on this knife is decorative.
No flipper tab interrupts the spine. The studs handle every opening.
A reverse tanto in Nitro-V
The reverse tanto keeps most of its 3.54 inches straight for draw cuts through cardboard, strapping and shrink wrap, then finishes in a thickened tip that takes the piercing work a fine drop point usually refuses.
CIVIVI grinds the Nitro-V flat and rates it at 59 to 61 HRC, a working hardness that favors toughness over bragging rights or brochure numbers. It’s a work profile, not a slicer.
A straight edge is the easiest shape to keep sharp on a stone, since the whole edge meets it at one angle from heel to tip.
Black runs across the blade, the blackened stainless liners and the backspacer, so the whole knife carries one dark finish from every angle. Open, the knife measures 7.95 inches overall, with a blade 0.12 inches thick behind a handle just under half an inch across. The proportions stay plain.
A flat grind and 0.12 inches of blade stock put this knife on the slicing side of the folder market rather than the pry-bar side. The long straight edge presents its full length to flat material in a single pass, from the heel right up to where the tip takes over.
The carry math
At 4.35 ounces with a 4.45-inch closed length, the Vision FG fills a pocket the way a work knife does, and the broad G10 handle takes up real room beside a phone or a wallet. The trade buys a full four-finger grip on textured G10 and a lock that works the same in either hand, with four round cutouts through the scales keeping the big handle from feeling like a brick. You feel it in the pocket daily.
CIVIVI’s own store lists this same black G10 variant at $69, so the Amazon price matches the maker rather than beating it, and the saving stands against the $92 reference the listing carries. Either route buys the same C22036-1, the same Nitro-V blade and the same Superlock, packed with the same stainless hardware.
CIVIVI Vision FG (C22036-1)
3.54″ Nitro-V reverse tanto blade · Black G10 handle · Superlock
Price: $69.00 (save $23.00, 25% off $92.00)
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon
Buy the Vision FG at $69 if the Superlock is the mechanism you have been waiting to try and you like a handle that fills the hand. If the weight puts you off, CIVIVI’s Elementum II is $65 with a smaller 2.96-inch Nitro-V blade.
