The PM Mac 2 is the workhorse of the McNees Knives catalog, the Performance Machined folder that Jonathan McNees built to bring his custom shop standards to a knife made for daily rotation. Machined in Alabama with a MagnaCut blade, titanium frame lock, and the fit and finish McNees is known for, the PM Mac 2 has become one of the most carried American mid-tech folders on the market.
The platform runs in two footprints. The PM Mac 2 3.5 is the full-size expression, a drop point with real reach that still disappears into a pocket, while the PM Mac 2 3 brings the same architecture down to a lighter, more office-friendly package. Both deploy on thumb studs over smooth bearing pivots, and both lock up with a titanium frame lock, a mechanism our guide to knife lock types breaks down against the rest of the field.
Blades come in CPM MagnaCut run hard at 63 to 64 HRC, ground thin for slicing performance in drop point, spear point, and tanto profiles, with dedicated hollow grind runs appearing for cutting purists. Where MagnaCut sits among modern steels is covered in our full knife steel comparison. The Gen 2 update refined the platform without changing its soul, adding threaded standoffs, a milled clip area, Delrin caged ceramic bearings, and US made titanium clip and body screws.
PM Mac 2 handles rotate through Atomic anodized titanium in stonewash, bronze, blue, and green and bronze, milled in patterns like Frag, Honeycomb, Swerve, Fastback, Rock, and Jigged, plus skeletonized frames and inlay runs in Jade G-10, Richlite, and Micarta. If you like to dial in your carry, aftermarket Lynch Northwest clips for McNees bolt right on.
As an authorized McNees dealer, we stock the PM Mac 2 across both sizes, generations, and finish runs, with new drops landing as they release. Looking for the push button version of the platform, or something bigger? The AutoMac line and the full-size Dixon carry the same DNA.