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Les George made his first knife in 1992 and learned the craft under legendary Hawaiian maker Stan Fujisaka before enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1997, where a decade of service ran from heavy equipment mechanic to Embassy Guard to Senior Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician. As an EOD team leader in Iraq he oversaw more than 300 responses and over 100 IEDs rendered safe, and his M12 EOD knife design is an authorized purchase option for Marine EOD units today. The ordnance never left the catalog: nearly every George model, Rockeye, Talos, Harpy, Galvo, carries the name of a munition.
The current mid-tech lineup leads with the MK3 and the Myna, both running CPM MagnaCut under DLC and stonewashed finishes with George's signature milled titanium textures, Morph, Double Diamond, Sweep, and fullered patterns among them. The VECP, whose name jokes on the military's Value Engineering Change Proposal paperwork, streamlines his Rockeye custom into a hard-use titanium framelock with hardened steel lockbar inserts, the ESV compresses the same knife for easier carry, and the Talos and new Magnate round out the folding knife side. Our knife steel guide covers the MagnaCut, S45VN, and CTS-XHP running through the line, and our knife handle materials guide covers the titanium and G-10 doing the gripping.
George's design reach runs far past his own bench. Zero Tolerance built his Harpy design into the 0900 and 0920 and Kershaw turned his M3 trench knife concept into the XCOM. The Spartan Blades V-14 dagger, his modern answer to the WWII V-42, took Collaboration Knife of the Year at Blade Show 2014. And Defiant 7 is not merely a collaboration but a brand George co-created with damascus maker Chad Nichols, where designs like the Hyrax carry his EOD-shaped philosophy into full production. Few living makers have their fingerprints on more corners of the tactical knife world.
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