Blade Finish / Handle Material:
Stonewash / Grey Aluminium
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Blade Shape:
Drop Point
The Vero Engineering Aura is the way into the Vero Engineering brand – at a price that’s otherwise unusual for a Vero Engineering knife. The aluminium handle scales with their velvety surface and the bold, industrial design show the typical Vero signature right away, even though aluminium takes the place of titanium here.
The blade in 14C28N is finely and thinly ground, which makes it a precise slicer rather than a coarse workhorse. You can have it either as a classic drop point (8.4 cm) or as a more modern talon with a sheepsfoot profile (8.1 cm). It opens via the thumb hole or the front flipper and is secured by a crossbar lock that snaps in precisely, with no play.
At around 119 g and 19.6 cm of open length, the Aura is pleasantly light for daily use – a Vero Engineering knife for anyone who wants to carry the brand in an easygoing, everyday way.
Bella Italia Meets American Spirit
Imagine this: American ingenuity meets Italian passion – and instead of a deep-dish pizza, you get the Spyderco Metropolitan. Designed in Colorado and crafted in Italy, this slipjoint is as smooth as an espresso in Rome and as reliable as a burger in Denver.
The Metropolitan is essentially the little brother of the legendary UK Penknife – or rather, the cousin who feels at home on both sides of the Atlantic. With an overall length of 16 cm, it sits perfectly between the UKPK and the Urban. For those familiar with the old SpyDK (now discontinued), the handle will feel familiar – just with an updated high-performance blade.
The blade is Böhler M390 – a high-end powdered steel so edge-retentive your cardboard boxes will already be nervous. Add the feather-light 54 g FRN handle, which is barely noticeable in your pocket, and the reversible wire clip for carry convenience – left or right side. And, of course, the iconic Round Hole: slip in a finger, a gentle push, and the blade is deployed.
In short, the Metropolitan Lightweight is Spyderco’s answer to whether a modern slipjoint can be practical, §42a-compliant, and stylish at the same time. The answer? Si!
XL version of the popular Coffin Frame Lock by AUX MFG
Bowie or Tanto blade made from M390 with stonewash finish
Finely textured titanium handle scales
Reversible 3D-milled titanium pocket clip
XL version of the popular Coffin Frame Lock by AUX MFG
Bowie or Tanto blade made from M390 with stonewash finish
Finely textured titanium handle scales
Reversible 3D-milled titanium pocket clip
Otter Anchor Knife Micarta Knife Lounge Exclusive
The brass anchor sits so large on the green Micarta scale that you won’t have to explain to any knife nerd what you’re holding. The Otter Anchor Knife with green Micarta and an inlay of solid brass. The trick this knife brings along: it ages right alongside you. Brass tarnishes over the years, goes darker and takes on a patina. Bolsters and pins were blasted together with the anchor and the handle scales, which leaves a matt, almost velvety feel across the whole grip.
So what is an anchor knife anyway? A classic slipjoint from Solingen, two-hand opening, with a sheepfoot blade whose edge runs almost dead straight while the spine curves generously above it. That shape is built for pull cuts, which is why it went to sea back in the day whenever hawsers and lines had to go. The anchor stood for hope, and sailors’ wives liked to send their men off with a knife like this. On land it butters a sandwich beautifully, by the way – just use the curved spine for that. The next picnic is coming.
You get a choice of steel. C75 is a non-stainless carbon steel, a keen cutter and sharp again within minutes, though it takes on a patina and won’t thank you for a damp pocket overnight. The stain-resistant blade in 1.4034 takes that worry off your hands. Anyone taking their knife onto a boat, or not wanting to dry it off every evening, picks this one.
The slipjoint spring is set good and firm, so nothing folds shut on you mid-task. Nothing locks either, and nothing opens one-handed – which is exactly why the anchor knife is § 42a compliant and may be carried in Germany.
It’s made by Otter-Messer, in Solingen since 1840 and today based on Schwertstraße. The small workshop still builds traditional Solingen knives – the Mercator and this anchor knife are the classics in the range. For you that means craft that has grown over time and has run almost unchanged for generations.
Who’s it for? Anyone who likes slipjoints and wants a knife that looks better with the years rather than worse. Harbour air is optional, but it does help the patina along!
Otter Anchor Knife Micarta Knife Lounge Exclusive
The brass anchor sits so large on the green Micarta scale that you won’t have to explain to any knife nerd what you’re holding. The Otter Anchor Knife with green Micarta and an inlay of solid brass. The trick this knife brings along: it ages right alongside you. Brass tarnishes over the years, goes darker and takes on a patina. Bolsters and pins were blasted together with the anchor and the handle scales, which leaves a matt, almost velvety feel across the whole grip.
So what is an anchor knife anyway? A classic slipjoint from Solingen, two-hand opening, with a sheepfoot blade whose edge runs almost dead straight while the spine curves generously above it. That shape is built for pull cuts, which is why it went to sea back in the day whenever hawsers and lines had to go. The anchor stood for hope, and sailors’ wives liked to send their men off with a knife like this. On land it butters a sandwich beautifully, by the way – just use the curved spine for that. The next picnic is coming.
You get a choice of steel. C75 is a non-stainless carbon steel, a keen cutter and sharp again within minutes, though it takes on a patina and won’t thank you for a damp pocket overnight. The stain-resistant blade in 1.4034 takes that worry off your hands. Anyone taking their knife onto a boat, or not wanting to dry it off every evening, picks this one.
The slipjoint spring is set good and firm, so nothing folds shut on you mid-task. Nothing locks either, and nothing opens one-handed – which is exactly why the anchor knife is § 42a compliant and may be carried in Germany.
It’s made by Otter-Messer, in Solingen since 1840 and today based on Schwertstraße. The small workshop still builds traditional Solingen knives – the Mercator and this anchor knife are the classics in the range. For you that means craft that has grown over time and has run almost unchanged for generations.
Who’s it for? Anyone who likes slipjoints and wants a knife that looks better with the years rather than worse. Harbour air is optional, but it does help the patina along!
Big Idea Design × Chaves – Fountain Pen with Cult Status
Two heavyweights of the EDC scene in one brilliant collab: Big Idea Design and Ramon Chaves created a fountain pen that has everything fans love.
Titanium with a stonewashed finish or black DLC, the legendary Chaves Skull Clip – and as the highlight, a Bock nib that matches the finish. Black nib to DLC body and silver to stonewash. Compact, robust, and ready for daily carry – a true must-have for collectors and everyday writers alike.
Why you’ll want this pen
Legendary Skull Clip – unmistakable Chaves DNA, now on a pen.
Titanium, stonewashed or black DLC – lightweight, durable, and EDC-ready.
Bock nib (EF) – precise writing, gorgeous contrast to the finish.
Deep-carry clip – sits low in your pocket, secure and discreet.
Cap with O-rings – smooth handling without visible threads on the grip.
What’s included
Big Idea Design × Chaves Fountain Pen (Titanium, Stonewashed or black DLC)
Bock nib (Extra Fine)
Converter for bottled ink
1× International ink cartridge
Spare O-rings
Technical details
Material: Grade 5 Titanium
Finish: Stonewashed
Nib: Bock EF, black
Clip: Chaves Skull, deep carry
Cap: Pull-cap with O-rings
Ink: International cartridges & converter (included)
Big Idea Design × Chaves – Fountain Pen with Cult Status
Two heavyweights of the EDC scene in one brilliant collab: Big Idea Design and Ramon Chaves created a fountain pen that has everything fans love.
Titanium with a stonewashed finish or black DLC, the legendary Chaves Skull Clip – and as the highlight, a Bock nib that matches the finish. Black nib to DLC body and silver to stonewash. Compact, robust, and ready for daily carry – a true must-have for collectors and everyday writers alike.
Why you’ll want this pen
Legendary Skull Clip – unmistakable Chaves DNA, now on a pen.
Titanium, stonewashed or black DLC – lightweight, durable, and EDC-ready.
Bock nib (EF) – precise writing, gorgeous contrast to the finish.
Deep-carry clip – sits low in your pocket, secure and discreet.
Cap with O-rings – smooth handling without visible threads on the grip.
What’s included
Big Idea Design × Chaves Fountain Pen (Titanium, Stonewashed or black DLC)
Bock nib (Extra Fine)
Converter for bottled ink
1× International ink cartridge
Spare O-rings
Technical details
Material: Grade 5 Titanium
Finish: Stonewashed
Nib: Bock EF, black
Clip: Chaves Skull, deep carry
Cap: Pull-cap with O-rings
Ink: International cartridges & converter (included)
Big Idea Design x Chaves
Bolt action pen
Signature Chaves Skull Clip
Schmidt P900 refill
Two brands you recognise instantly by one detail. With Chaves it’s the skull clip, with Big Idea Design it’s the titanium and the mechanism. This collaboration brings both together in one pen, as a limited edition, in stonewashed or Black DLC.
Bolt action means: you push the bolt forward with your thumb, the refill comes out, and it makes a solid mechanical clack. The principle comes from the bolt-action rifle and has caught on in EDC because nothing deploys by accident — the bolt has to be walked through its track before the tip appears. So nothing happens in your pocket that you get to admire on the inside of your trousers afterwards.
The body is turned from solid titanium at 10,9 cm overall. Short enough for the notebook in your pouch, long enough that your hand doesn’t cramp while writing. The stonewashed finish absorbs new scratches instead of putting them on display, while the DLC version stays matt and deep black and disappears into a blacked-out setup. The deep carry clip can be reversed, which lefties will appreciate. And sitting on top of it is the Chaves skull clip.
About the story behind that skull: “chaves” is Portuguese for “keys”. The skull points to Golgotha, the place of the skull. Out of both came the skeleton key in the brand logo of Ramon Chaves, who started out as a custom maker and whose overbuilt folders are now among the best-known names in the EDC segment.
Big Idea Design, in turn, is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was founded in 2009 by Chadwick Parker and Joe Huang and broke through on Kickstarter in 2011. Titanium has run through nearly everything they’ve made since, and every pen carries a lifetime warranty. The Base Line is their deliberately accessible series: the same build quality as the flagship models, but instead of the auto-adjusting collet that swallows hundreds of refill formats, it’s set up for the Parker standard. A Schmidt P900 comes fitted from the factory, and because Parker-style is so widespread you can switch to just about anything you’re used to. Ballpoint through gel.
Who’s it for? Anyone with a Chaves in their pocket who wants the matching pen. And anyone after a titanium pen that gets written with rather than sitting in a display case.
Big Idea Design x Chaves
Bolt action pen
Signature Chaves Skull Clip
Schmidt P900 refill
Two brands you recognise instantly by one detail. With Chaves it’s the skull clip, with Big Idea Design it’s the titanium and the mechanism. This collaboration brings both together in one pen, as a limited edition, in stonewashed or Black DLC.
Bolt action means: you push the bolt forward with your thumb, the refill comes out, and it makes a solid mechanical clack. The principle comes from the bolt-action rifle and has caught on in EDC because nothing deploys by accident — the bolt has to be walked through its track before the tip appears. So nothing happens in your pocket that you get to admire on the inside of your trousers afterwards.
The body is turned from solid titanium at 10,9 cm overall. Short enough for the notebook in your pouch, long enough that your hand doesn’t cramp while writing. The stonewashed finish absorbs new scratches instead of putting them on display, while the DLC version stays matt and deep black and disappears into a blacked-out setup. The deep carry clip can be reversed, which lefties will appreciate. And sitting on top of it is the Chaves skull clip.
About the story behind that skull: “chaves” is Portuguese for “keys”. The skull points to Golgotha, the place of the skull. Out of both came the skeleton key in the brand logo of Ramon Chaves, who started out as a custom maker and whose overbuilt folders are now among the best-known names in the EDC segment.
Big Idea Design, in turn, is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was founded in 2009 by Chadwick Parker and Joe Huang and broke through on Kickstarter in 2011. Titanium has run through nearly everything they’ve made since, and every pen carries a lifetime warranty. The Base Line is their deliberately accessible series: the same build quality as the flagship models, but instead of the auto-adjusting collet that swallows hundreds of refill formats, it’s set up for the Parker standard. A Schmidt P900 comes fitted from the factory, and because Parker-style is so widespread you can switch to just about anything you’re used to. Ballpoint through gel.
Who’s it for? Anyone with a Chaves in their pocket who wants the matching pen. And anyone after a titanium pen that gets written with rather than sitting in a display case.
Zero Beginner Mistakes
Joseph Vero builds drones. And folding knives. And – because apparently neither of those was complicated enough – a custom electric motorcycle. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University and years of independent design work across multiple disciplines, one thing becomes obvious very quickly: the man does not sit still. And you can feel that energy in his products.
The Nova is Joseph’s very first folder design with a dropoint blade. If you’re thinking “first attempt, let’s see how it goes” – understandable, but completely wrong. What happened between the first sketches and the finished knife was classic Vero Engineering: drawings, CAD models, 3D-printed prototypes, more drawings, sleepless nights, and eventually a knife that feels like every single detail was checked twice. Which, for a mechanical engineer, is honestly not surprising.
The Nova was produced in collaboration with Bestech – the same manufacturer behind the Heidi Blacksmith Heidi #1. Meaning: Vero’s construction philosophy meets manufacturing quality that no longer needs an introduction. The titanium framelock locks up rock solid, the front flipper running on ceramic bearings deploys exactly as it should, and the CPM MagnaCut blade – 9.2 cm drop point with a high flat grind – cuts like someone set out to design the ideal everyday blade.
At 21.1 cm overall length and 162 g, this is intentionally not a small knife. Instead, it gives you plenty of handle to work with and a very secure feel in hand.
A nice detail: the integrated lanyard hole in the backspacer is the first one ever featured on a Vero design. Sounds minor – but it’s exactly the difference between “thought through from the start” and “added later because someone asked for it.”
Spyderco PITS 2
The Spyderco PITS 2 is one of those knives that makes you pause for a second and ask: “How exactly does this work?” – and that’s a big part of its appeal.
Designed by British knifemaker Mike Read and named after his forum “Pie in the Sky” (PITS), this is a non-locking folder that is anything but ordinary. Instead of a traditional backspring, the PITS 2 uses two integrated spring arms built directly into the titanium handle scales. As you open the knife, they build tension and hold the blade securely in place. It sounds technical – because it is – but in everyday use, it feels surprisingly intuitive.
Compared to the already legendary PITS 1, the concept has been significantly refined. The original was innovative, but the PITS 2 feels like a true evolution: cleaner, more precise, and mechanically more sophisticated. Less experiment, more fully realized tool.
The blade is made from Böhler M390, delivering outstanding edge retention, strong corrosion resistance, and thanks to its full flat grind, highly efficient cutting performance. The symmetrical design fits perfectly within Spyderco’s SLIPIT concept – no lock, but still safe and intuitive in use. A reversible pocket clip allows you to carry the knife exactly how you prefer.
A knife for those who don’t just want to cut – but also appreciate clever, well-executed engineering.
A front flipper always asks for a bit of trust. You put your thumb on the exposed spine, push down, and if the geometry is right the blade snaps through on its bearings like someone gave it a hand. On the Kazy it is right. That has a lot to do with who drew the thing.
Gabriel Berthélémy, born in 1990, raised in the Ain and in Lyon, today runs the workshop La Forge AGAB in Crest in the Drôme. As a kid he took apart everything he could get his hands on – putting it back together worked out far less often, which drove his father up the wall on a regular basis. He later studied architecture and mostly worked out from it that he wanted to be at the material with his hands. Volunteer bicycle wrenching and welding got him out of Lyon and into the Drôme, where he first made jewellery from found objects. Then came Flo Baroud, his master smith, and finally the coutelier David Lespect, who taught him the liner lock. The lessons turned into a friendship.
Forging, Gabriel says, is intensely sensory: the eye reads the temperature, the sound on the anvil tells you whether the hammer landed right. The forging happens in his workshop in Gigors, mostly damascus, while other blades he works cold from solid stock. What comes out at the end is almost exclusively liner lock folders, every piece a one-off, every step of the work his own. And there is a story in there too: he met Bastards Knives in 2024 at the Strasbourg show, and a year later they built his frame lock in a run of 200 pieces. It was the first time one of his knives carried a name. Octavus, after the number eight in rugby, the position Gabriel used to play.
The Kazy is the Böker Plus translation of that handwriting. The blade is Nitro-V, a stainless nitrogen steel that takes an edge back without any fuss and forgives a fair bit in daily use, here with a two-tone finish. 6,7 cm of blade at 3,2 mm thick, 16,5 cm open, 69 g on the scale: that carries all day without dragging your waistband down. The Coyote Tan G10 scales bring a warm, slightly dusty tone that works with the two-tone blade. It locks up on a liner lock and rides on a deep carry clip that drops the knife almost entirely out of sight in your pocket.
Who is it for? Anyone who wants French custom design in their everyday rotation without joining a waiting list. Otherwise you only get this close to a knife from the Crest workshop by catching the right show at the right moment.
Blade forged from a single piece (chromium-molybdenum steel X 50 CrMoV 16) Blade oil- and ice-hardened to 56±1 HRC Made in Solingen Blade is hand-honed Olive wood handle
Around 1880, somewhere between a fence line and a cattle drive out in the American West, cowboys needed a knife that could simply do a bit more. The stockman pattern grew out of the older cattle knife: a slipjoint that originally carried three blades on two springs. The clip blade for the rough stuff, the sheepsfoot with its straight edge and blunt tip for controlled cuts, and the spey, flat and rounded at the point, for castrating… actually, let’s not go any further into that. W.R. Case & Sons later turned the pattern into a classic of the American pocket.
Jack Wolf Knives takes exactly this pattern and boils it down to the essentials. The Gateway Stockman keeps the curved handle shape and the character of the original, but comes with a single blade instead of three. That’s how Jack Wolf works across the board: classic patterns, each reduced to one blade, no matter the series. Flat-ground Sandvik 14C28N, satin finished, just under 8 cm long, a steel that shrugs off rust and takes a shaving edge again in two minutes at the kitchen table.
What makes this version special: the smooth white bone scales make it a Knife Lounge exclusive. Add the Bullock shield, integral bolsters and liners in satin stainless steel, and nickel silver pins, and you get the tone of a real traditional knife without feeling dusty.
It opens the classic two-handed way over the nail nick, held by the spring – walk & talk, the way a slipjoint should. Designed by Benjamin Belkin in Scottsdale, Arizona, the brand is named after his grandfather Jack Wolf, who carried slipjoints his whole life. The Gateway series is the affordable way into exactly this world, without fit and finish taking a hit. If you’re just getting into traditional pocket knives, or simply can’t resist white bone, you won’t go wrong here.
Please note: This product is limited to 2 pieces per customer.
Just past midnight, the heat still hanging over the asphalt, a synth beat dripping out of an open window. Something purple flashes in the neon light. Not a drink with a little umbrella – the Divo Smallboy in Purple Nurple.
Divo Knives is based in Atlanta. The Tallboy is their flagship, and the Smallboy is its little brother. Little brother doesn’t mean harmless here. The blade is CPM S90V, hollow ground, 7,6 cm long and running on ceramic bearings, so it just drops open and shut. S90V is the steel for people who want their edge to stay sharp for a long time and can’t be bothered with constant touch-ups. Kubey Knife builds the whole thing as OEM partner, and you can feel it in the tolerances.
The colour runs the whole show here. The dyed CamoCarbon scales catch the light like a sunset over Ocean Drive, with collars, backspacer and clip in purple titanium – Sonny Crockett, the pastel-blazer cop from „Miami Vice“, would have carried this thing to the Ferrari without a word. The 3D-milled titanium clip rides deep, can be repositioned and fully removed if you want to rework your setup. It locks up with a nested liner lock that Divo runs as a tab lock: a small lever you work comfortably with your thumb. It opens either through the thumb hole or the thumb stud.
At 17,5 cm overall and 79 g, the Smallboy sits in your pocket as a compact EDC folder without bulking up. „3 inch, very average“, as Divo describes it themselves – still enough for everything that comes up day to day, somewhere between a parcel and an apple.