Lynch Northwest began when founder Casey Lynch quit his day job and rented a 300 square foot shop in his hometown of Rockford, Washington, a building with holes in the wood floor and no walls on the bathroom, and started machining the part most knife makers treat as an afterthought: the pocket clip. Today the crew runs a 3,000 square foot shop in Spokane Valley, Washington, and that combination of CNC precision and hand forming is why a small Pacific Northwest shop became the default answer across the EDC community whenever a factory clip disappoints.
Every Lynch clip starts as domestic 6AL-4V grade 5 titanium, gets CNC milled to match a specific knife model, then is hand formed and finished in the shop. Deep carry geometry seats the knife lower than factory hardware, cutting the visible metal to a clean sliver while grade 5 titanium holds its spring tension where coated steel fatigues. The catalog covers the knives people actually carry: Spyderco clips from standard and long to wire replacements, the shared three hole pattern on our Benchmade clips serving Emerson and select Pro-Tech models too, dedicated Microtech clips for OTF and Ram Lock knives, McNees clips, and Buck clips developed with Buck for the modern 110 and 112. The full range lives under Lynch Northwest pocket clips, spare screws ride in every package, and each clip is guaranteed for life. The same clip even anchors Lancelot Leather's Clip Slip, the pocket sheath built around Lynch hardware.
The All Access Pass prybars bring the same philosophy to the abuse a knife should never take: 6AL-4V titanium bars packing a pry tip, bottle opener, nail puller, and flat driver, offered in micarta inlay versions alongside the P40 Warhawk engraved editions exclusive to DLT, with the Open Door Policy rounding out the line. The newest chapter is Lynch Northwest knives, built under one roof in Spokane Valley: the Sparrow Seven and compact Swift Six, full tang fixed blades in American steels like CPM MagnaCut, Cru-Wear, and CPM 10V with swappable micarta and titanium scales. From clip to prybar to knife, everything Lynch makes is designed, machined, and finished in Washington by people who use what they build.