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Night Watch Knives is the one-man shop of Alex Harrison, a Kansas City, Kansas sheriff's detective who caught the knifemaking bug in 2016 watching Forged in Fire on a jail booking-room television, and started building in February 2017 with a cop's problem to solve: a purpose-built field knife shouldn't cost more than the officers who need one can spend. A voting member of the Knifemaker's Guild, Harrison grinds every blade freehand without jigs, fixtures, or CAD, runs heat treatment and milling in-house, and holds every design to a three-word standard he treats as scripture: light, comfortable, capable.
The Patrol Scalpel is the duty knife the whole brand grew from, a slim, hard-working fixed blade in AEB-L stainless wearing Harrison's signature Two Tone War Wash acid finish. The Creaux carries the same DNA with our stock spanning hollow, scandi, and duplex grinds, living proof that these are ground by hand rather than run through a fixture, while the Interloper covers compact carry. Every model runs the two-finger choil handle profile that has become his calling card, locking the grip in without hot spots. Where AEB-L sits among the razor steels is covered in our knife steel guide.
Handles run linen and canvas micarta, G-10, linen burl, and walnut with brass guards and mosaic pins on dressier builds like the Sojourn and Violin, all covered in our knife handle materials guide. Harrison picks materials on documented performance rather than fads, and his design rules are refreshingly blunt: no gut hooks, no serrations, no American tantos. Just knives that ride lighter than they look, work every grip the job demands, and wear their acid-washed finish like a uniform. The night shift would expect nothing less.
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