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Microtech Hawk
The Microtech Hawk is the curved blade in a catalog full of straight ones. First released in 1996, it came back in 2019 with updated styling and a modernized firing mechanism, and the formula still stands out: a push-button, side-opening automatic that swings a karambit-style hawkbill blade just shy of four inches out of an 8.75-inch aluminum frame.
Nothing else in the Microtech lineup looks like it, fires like it, or cuts like it, which is exactly why the small runs that reach this page rarely stay long.
The Hawk Karambit Blade
The hawkbill is a different tool than a straight edge. The curve pulls material into the blade as you draw, so rope, webbing, strapping, and cardboard sever instead of slipping off the tip, and the hooked profile keeps working through a cut where a drop point would stall. It is the geometry karambits are built on, cut here from thick 0.19-inch stock with an upper swedge, a reinforced tip for piercing, and weight-reducing cutouts in the flats.
Microtech Hawk Specs and Steel
The numbers run 8.75 inches overall, a blade around 3.95 inches, roughly 5 inches closed, and about 4.7 to 5 ounces depending on trim, with the same button that fires the blade also releasing the plunge lock and a tip-up clip for carry. Textured inserts keep the anodized 6061-T6 aluminum planted through curved-blade cutting angles, in black, OD green, and a DLC Shadow Signature Series. Blade steel follows the production run across CTS-204P, Bohler M390, Elmax, and CTS-XHP, and you can see how they perform in our comparison of every major knife steel.
Hawk vs the Straight-Blade Autos
Inside Microtech's side-opener stable, the LUDT is the do-everything drop point and the Hawk is the specialist: pick the LUDT for general carry and the Hawk when your cutting is pulls, hooks, and draw strokes, or when you simply want the most distinctive knife in the room. For a curved blade with a Persian sweep instead of a hook, the Brachial sits between the two. Among side-opening automatic knives, an American-made automatic karambit is a rare thing.
