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Microtech Glykon
The Microtech Glykon takes its name from an ancient snake god, and the design lives up to it: a long, slender OTF with a 3.75-inch double-edge bayonet blade, a fuller drilled with milled holes, and titanium overlays riding a 6061-T6 aluminum chassis. Designed in-house by Tony and Sean Marfione, it measures 9 inches deployed, 5.25 closed, and right around 5 ounces in the pocket.
It is also one of the few knives in the Microtech catalog built with standard Torx screw construction, so clip swaps and adjustments happen at your bench, not the factory's. Machined in the USA, naturally.
How the Glykon's Tri-Sided Button Works
The Glykon was the first Microtech to carry the tri-sided X-button, and the short version is this: you can fire and retract the blade from the traditional spine slide or from either side of the handle. That makes it a top-slide OTF and a side-firing OTF in one knife, fully ambidextrous out of the box, with the reversible titanium clip moving to whichever side you carry. Among OTF knives, nothing else gives your thumb this many options, and the side slides make one-handed retraction genuinely easier than a standard slide.
Glykon Bayonet vs Tanto
The catalog splits into two blade personalities. The bayonet is the signature look, a double-edge profile with a sharpening choil on the top edge and that distinctive ventilated fuller, equally at home stonewashed, apocalyptic, or in Outbreak dress. The T/E tanto trades the elegance for a reinforced tip and a more conventional working edge. If you are weighing this against the Ultratech, think of the Glykon as the same size class with more jewelry and more ways to fire, versus the Ultratech's pure, proven simplicity.
M390MK Steel and Titanium Overlays
Blades run Bohler M390 or M390MK depending on production cycle, with nickel boron coated internals keeping the action slick over the long haul; see where that steel family lands in our comparison of every major knife steel. The bead-blasted titanium overlays are removable, which has made the Glykon a quiet favorite for people who like to customize, and anodized aluminum options from OD green to natural clear keep the compact lineup more varied than its size suggests.