The KNAFS Lulu is the brand's first American-made knife, designed in Utah and built in Michigan by White River Knife & Tool. KNAFS named it for Lulu Pass in southern Montana and proved it the honest way, with Ben Petersen whittling through the Colombian Amazon before the design was final. It is the outdoors half of the KNAFS story: where the Landers live in pockets, the Lulu lives at camp.
The blade is CPM MagnaCut, the American powder steel that balances edge retention, toughness, and corrosion resistance better than almost anything else stainless; our steel comparison guide explains why it earned the hype. KNAFS ground it scandi with a protective microbevel, so it bites into wood for feather sticks and camp carving and reprofiles on a flat stone in the field. At 2.95 inches of blade and 6.75 inches overall, it works hard without crowding the hand, wearing layered green canvas micarta over red G10 liners with a thermoplastic sheath and belt adapter in the box.
The Little Lulu is the first knife KNAFS has manufactured entirely in-house, and it distills the formula to 1.9 inches of flat-ground MagnaCut at 1.8 ounces. It rides low-profile for feather sticks, food, and box duty, a companion to bigger fixed blades rather than a replacement for them. Both sizes carry the open-source scale DNA that runs through the whole KNAFS lineup.