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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 blade and bead-blasted 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, few give your thumb this many ways to work the action.
Glykon Bayonet vs Tanto
The catalog splits into two blade personalities. The double-edge bayonet is the signature look, equally at home stonewashed or apocalyptic, and it has even run in Baker Forge Damascus on Marfione Select builds. The T/E tanto trades the elegance for a reinforced tip and a more conventional working edge, in plain, partially serrated, and fully serrated versions and finishes up to Outbreak. If you are weighing this against the Ultratech, think of the Glykon as a notch larger, with more jewelry and more ways to fire, versus the Ultratech's pure, proven simplicity.
M390MK Steel and Titanium Overlays
Current blades run Bohler M390MK, with earlier runs in M390, Elmax, and CTS-204P as availability allowed, and nickel boron coated internals keep the action slick over the long haul; see where that steel family lands in our comparison of every major knife steel. The titanium overlays are removable, which has made the Glykon a quiet favorite for people who like to customize, and anodized aluminum from black and tan to blue, OD green, and natural clear keeps the lineup more varied than its size suggests.
