Creely Blades is the shop of Gary Creely, a Pennsylvania maker who built his reputation on running steels nobody else would touch. The original Mako launched with CPM REX 121 hardened to 68 HRC, and the Lehigh Valley shop has since worked through LC200N, Vanax, CruWear, and MagnaCut, using modern small-shop manufacturing to turn out blades with custom-level heat treatment at production-friendly prices.
The Mako is Creely's testbed, a shark-profiled EDC fixed blade with a 2.91" drop point that gets first crack at every new steel that comes through the shop, with the PG versions receiving a precision-ground edge before they ship. The Minnow scales the same idea down to a 2.12" clip point that rides in a pocket like a folder without the moving parts. Handles run from G-10 to additive-manufactured carbon fiber PETG with colored liner accents, fitted Kydex sheaths are available for both patterns, and full-tang construction still comes in under three ounces.
True to form, Creely was among the first makers shipping CPM MagnaMax, Larrin Thomas's follow-up to MagnaCut that pushes edge retention into K390 territory while keeping the corrosion resistance that made the original famous. Steels that hard demand diamond abrasives to maintain, which is exactly what Sharp Condition is for: Creely's diamond stropping lotion in 6, 3, and 1 micron grades that loads a strop or bare wood for polishing an edge back to hair-popping sharp. It belongs next to the rest of your sharpening compounds whether you run Creely steel or not.