The Microtech Stitch started life as a Marfione Custom collaboration with Sebastijan Berenji of Borka Blades, and the production version keeps everything that made collectors chase the original: a broad spear point blade with the most recognizable silhouette in the Microtech catalog, wrapped in a handle that fills the hand like few folders of its size.
What began as a single side-opening auto has grown into a full family. The Stitch now ships as an automatic and as a manual RAM-LOK folder, each in full size and Mini, all machined in the USA, so the same design covers everyone from duty carriers to office pockets.
The Stitch-A is the original recipe: a push-button automatic that swings a 3.75-inch blade out the side of an 8.5-inch package, carried tip-up, with a Mini Stitch auto running a 3.25-inch blade for smaller pockets. For people who prefer a conventional auto over an OTF, this and the LUDT are where Microtech puts that energy, and between the two, the Stitch is the one that gets noticed. It sits among the burliest side-opening automatic knives in production, with the fit and finish you buy a Microtech for.
The RAM-LOK version followed the MSI and turned the Stitch into a manual folder built around Microtech's crossbar-style bar lock, with X buttons on both flanks, a titanium backspacer, standard Torx hardware, and a deep finger choil that locks your grip in. The Mini Stitch RAM-LOK shrinks the same formula to a blade just over 3 inches in frag-machined aluminum and titanium for lighter carry, and Marfione Select runs push both sizes into carbon fiber, anodized titanium, and Baker Forge Damascus territory. Fidget-friendly does not begin to cover it.
Current Stitch production runs Bohler M390MK, the tuned M390 that Bohler produces exclusively for Microtech, in plain, partially serrated, and fully serrated edges across stonewash, apocalyptic, DLC, and Cerakote finishes. You can see how that steel measures up in our comparison of every major knife steel. The blade's tall flat grind makes it a far better slicer than its tactical looks suggest, which is exactly the Borka trick: a knife that photographs like a showpiece and cuts like a tool. If you want the lock without the Stitch profile, the rest of the Microtech manual folding knives lineup is worth a look.