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CRKT Knives, formally Columbia River Knife and Tool, has been turning custom maker designs into production knives from Tualatin, Oregon since 1994. The formula has stayed the same for three decades: find a designer with a genuinely new idea, then build it at a price working people can justify. That approach put the flipper tab, the field-strippable folder, and some of the most recognizable collaboration knives in the industry into everyday pockets.
Kit Carson's M16 made history in 1999 as the first production knife deployed by a flipper tab, a protrusion on the blade spine that doubles as a finger guard once the knife is open. A quarter century later the platform is still evolving. Current M16s run D2 and MagnaCut blade steel, and the XD versions swap the original liner lock for a crossbar lock that releases without putting fingers in the blade path. Combo edge models carry Veff serrations, Tom Veff's 60 degree tooth pattern that outcuts conventional serrations on rope and webbing, and the BALI editions rebuild the classic silhouette around stonewashed MagnaCut.
CRKT's push-button lineup has become one of the strongest values in side-opening autos, with the Michaca, Xolotl, and Brian Tighe's Twist Tighe Compact all running MagnaCut blades. On the manual side, Ken Onion's Redemption brings the same steel to a crossbar lock flipper in full size and compact formats, joined by the Sero, Counterpart, and Q Compact for lighter carry.
The collaboration bench runs deep. Ken Onion's Homefront introduced Field Strip, a takedown system that lets you fully disassemble the knife for cleaning without a single tool. Joe Caswell's Provoke reimagined the karambit around a kinematic deployment arm, a concept CRKT pushed further with the Provoke X morphing axe. Michael Walker, the inventor of the modern liner lock, contributed the Blade Lock, and Ed Van Hoy's Snap Lock remains one of the strangest opening mechanisms ever put into production. For collectors, the Facet pairs iridescent titanium with a Damasteel blade, and the HandTi fixed blade and HangPry round out the titanium side of the catalog.
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