Marfione Custom Knives is the founder's bench. Anthony "Tony" Marfione started Microtech in 1994, and alongside the production line he and his son Sean build limited-run customs out of their North Carolina workshop: upgraded takes on famous Microtech platforms and entirely original designs, hand-ground, hand-finished, serialized, and delivered with a presentation box, a zippered pouch, and a certificate of authenticity.
These are the knives at the very top of the Microtech lineup, and the inventory here is a snapshot, because pieces built in runs this small rarely sit long.
The logos are the code, and here is how to read them: a claw logo marks a semi-custom, an existing Microtech design elevated with hand-ground blades, exotic materials, and premium finishing, while the Marfione dagger logo marks a fully custom build. Both carry serial numbers, birth dates, and the Marfione maker's marks, but the dagger pieces are the ones collectors chase hardest.
The custom OTF side reworks the platforms you already know, including the Combat Troodon, Scarab II, Halo, UTX-70, and Mini Troodon, alongside the custom Atreus, with hand-ground Damascus from forges like Vegas Forge, Chad Nichols, and Devin Thomas, carbon fiber and flamed titanium inlays, hefted alloy and brass chassis, and mirror-polished, cryo, or hot-blued finishes. If you want to understand what those Damascus billets and premium alloys are actually doing, our comparison of every major knife steel is the place to start.
The Marfione Custom Anax is the integral frame lock that took the 2014 Blade Show by storm, its handle machined as a single piece of titanium or carbon fiber around an Elmax blade, with tritium ampules glowing on select builds; its production descendant lives on the Microtech Anax page. Around it sits a rotating cast of custom folders, from the Star Lord, a father-and-son design from Tony and Sean, to the Sigil, Warhound, and Matrix. When one of these lands in stock, the window is short.