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Microtech Auto Knives
Microtech auto knives are the reason most people know the name. The company has spent three decades machining spring-loaded blades in the USA to tolerances the rest of the industry chases, and this page collects all of it in one place: every automatic in the Microtech lineup, across both of the brand's mechanism families.
If you are comparing Microtech against the wider world of automatic knives, the short version is that this catalog is the deep end of the pool.
Microtech OTF Automatic Knives
The out-the-front side is the famous one. Dual-action OTFs fire and retract from a thumb slide, and Microtech's range runs the entire size ladder: the Ultratech that has defined the class since 1999, the UTX-85 and UTX-70 scaled beneath it, the Troodon and Combat Troodon duty pair, the oversized Scarab II, the contoured Hera family, and specialists like the screwless Cypher II, the money-clip Exocet, and the tri-button Glykon. The single-action Halo tops the range with the biggest blade of all, retracted by hand like it's 1995.
Microtech Side-Opening Automatics
The push-button family swings out the side and predates the OTF fame: the LUDT descends from the first knife Microtech ever made. Around it sit the Borka-designed Stitch, the Persian-bladed Bastinelli Brachial, the karambit Hawk, and the SOCOM Elite Auto, together the most interesting corner of American side-opening automatic knives. If an OTF feels like machinery, a Microtech side-opener feels like a trap snapping shut, and plenty of carriers end up owning both.
Steels, Signatures, and What to Pick
Current production leans on Bohler M390MK, the steel Bohler runs exclusively for Microtech, with M390, Elmax, and CTS-204P rotating through by production year; our comparison of every major knife steel puts all of them in context. From there the grid splits by taste rather than quality: tactical black workers, Signature Series runs from Outbreak to camo, and Marfione Select pieces at the top. Start with how the knife deploys, pick the size your pocket honestly carries, and let the finish be the fun part.