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Microtech Hawk
The Microtech Hawk is the curved blade in a catalog full of straight ones. A combat folder from the company's 1990s era, it came back in 2019 wearing modern internals, and the formula still stands out: a push-button, side-opening automatic that swings a hawkbill blade just shy of four inches out of an 8.75-inch black 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, offered here in plain and fully serrated edges, and the serrated version in particular is a shockingly effective utility cutter for anyone who works with fibrous material all day.
Hawk Specs and Steel
The numbers run 8.75 inches overall, a blade around 3.94 inches, roughly 5 inches closed, and about 4 to 5 ounces depending on trim, with a button lock securing the blade both open and closed and a tip-up clip for carry. Grip inserts keep the anodized aluminum planted through curved-blade cutting angles. Blade steel follows the production run between CTS-204P and Bohler M390, and you can see how both 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. Among side-opening automatic knives, an American-made automatic karambit is nearly a category of one, and Microtech has it to itself.