Knives
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TOPS Unleashes El Chete for Heavy Duty Chopping
TOPS just unleashed El Chete, a king-sized machete built for chopping. Designed by TOPS President Leo Espinoza, El Chete has a massive, foot-long blade and a...
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Benchmade Shipping Its First Slipjoint Ever
Modern traditional knives are a growing trend and Benchmade is entering the arena with a brand new slipjoint called the 319 Proper. Other Benchmade models like...
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Peter Rassenti Carves Out Open Back Integral
Peter Rassenti is introducing the Satori, a custom knife with an open-backed integral handle. The new knife has a prehistoric, geological finish that can only be...
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Zero Tolerance 0920 Takes Legendary Les George Harpy to Wider Audience
Last year when Zero Tolerance and maker Les George collaborated on the ZT 0900, a knife based on his Mini Harpy design, fans wondered if...
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Chris Reeve Knives Discontinues Ti-Lock
After seven years in circulation, Chris Reeve Knives is discontinuing the Grant and Gavin Hawk-designed Ti-Lock. The Ti-Lock’s innovative locking mechanism put the locking component...
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Liong Mah Overhauls Budget Knife Design for New Mid-Tech
Liong Mah just introduced the GSD into his line of high-end, Reate-produced knives. Most production knives are based on custom or mid-tech models. In the case...
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Uli Hennicke Adds We Knife Co. to Growing List of 2017 Collaborations
We Knife Co. is debuting the Uli Hennicke-designed Bullitt, a rare collaborative effort from a company that until now has almost exclusively designed its knives...
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Custom Knife Factory Scales Down Decepticon for States with Strict Knife Laws
Custom Knife Factory (CKF) has just introduced a new version of its flagship Decepticon model, the DCPT-4. With a 3-inch blade, versus 4-inches or more of its predecessors, the...
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TOPS Unearths New Tracker Digger
TOPS Knives just introduced a new edition of their best-selling Tom Brown Tracker line in the form of the Tracker Digger. An edged tool designed for digging as well...
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Böker Adds to Modern Traditional Lineup with the Slack
Böker is expanding their lineup of modern-style traditional knives with the Raphael Durand-designed Slack. Inspired by jack knives from the 19th century but rendered in...
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Carbon Fiber and Tanto Blade Make a Classic Feel New Again
Special thanks to KnifeArt.com for providing a review unit of their exclusive Large CF Tanto Sebenza 21 for this story. Few knives enjoy the reputation of...
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Andrew Demko Started with the Clip to Build the Cold Steel Grik
The Cold Steel Grik stands out in the company’s vast 94 product catalog with its unconventional pocket clip, HTR deployment mechanism, and smaller size. Slated for a...
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Tashi Bharucha Introduces Integral Carbon Fiber Friction Folder
Knife maker Tashi Bharucha is introducing a new custom knife called the Logan, a friction folder featuring an integral carbon fiber handle and a claw-like hawkbill blade....
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Böker Collaborates with Serge Panchenko on Lancer
Böker just introduced the Böker Plus Lancer, a lightweight mid-sized EDC blade that makes a Serge Panchenko custom design more accessible to mainstream buyers. Well known for his eccentric...
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Rike Unveils World’s Smallest Production Framelock Flipper
Rike is kicking off a string of unconventional designs with the Mini, the world’s smallest production framelock flipper. Rike says the Mini is only the beginning...
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Shop Talk: 7Forge Knives Goes from Science Project to Semi-Production
In the last five years, the knife making scene has absolutely exploded, with dozens upon dozens of new names, new talents, and new knives. One shop that gained a...
Grant Hawk Passes Away at 82
Hawk Knives delivered deeply sad news to the knife world yesterday: Grant Hawk, one of the most innovative, boundary-pushing knife makers of the 20th century, passed away earlier this...
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CRKT Brings New Redemption Compact to Blade Show
As we expected, the Blade Show-adjacent product announcements have continued to ramp up. CRKT is throwing its hat into the ring with the reveal of the Redemption Compact, little...
Spyderco Shakes up the Week with Product Reveal No. 18
Well, well, well – the newest Spyderco Product Reveal has arrived just in time for Blade Show. The new stuff, as usual, is an incredibly diverse spread of line...
Bestech Taikes a Bold Approach with James Lowe’s Taipan
Bestech has tapped Australian knife designer James Lowe for a new release, the Taipan. The Taipan sees this up-and-coming designer once again working with unconventional blade shapes and detailing...
WE Knife Co. Closes the Deal on the Kyklos
Here at KnifeNews, we like to jump between the WE Knife Co. labels in covering the prolific brand family’s sizable output. The last piece we talked about was the...
Civivi Triptych Takes Three to Tango
The last Civivi knife we covered, the Buster, was a pretty sizeable piece of hardware. But it will be releasing alongside the Triptych, a compact everyday carry knife with...
