EK is a small-run collaboration between two designers who need no introduction to anyone who's carried a serious folder: Allen Elishewitz and Les George. Rather than a full production brand, EK exists to put one design into the world properly, built overseas by Ketuo, the OEM whose machining has earned it a reputation as one of the best high-end production shops running.
The Integral Folder machines its titanium frame from a single block, no scales, no bolsters, just one piece of metal wrapped around a 3.75" M390 blade in your choice of single-edge dagger or spear point. Black DLC covers the full knife or pairs a gold DLC handle with a black blade, dressed with brass hardware and a titanium clip over a framelock that benefits from the monolithic construction it locks against. At 4.94 ounces and 8.5" overall it carries like a working folding knife rather than a shelf piece, and with runs this small, colorways don't come back once they're gone.