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Reate Velocity
The Reate Velocity is the light, fast end of Reate's titanium framelock catalog: a 3.25-inch Elmax blade over a milled titanium frame at just 4.1 ounces. The name isn't decoration — most of the builds wear machined holes straight through the handle, cutting weight and giving the Velocity a sporty character nothing else in the lineup shares.
Reate Velocity Elmax Frame Lock Flipper
Per DLT's own product write-up, the Velocity is a precision-crafted frame lock flipper that delivers smooth, reliable deployment every time. The blade runs Bohler Elmax on 0.138-inch stock, a well-rounded powder stainless with excellent edge retention, real toughness, and predictable sharpening behavior, in belt satin on the standard builds and hand satin on the flagship. Lockup is the titanium frame lock, and carry is a right-hand tip-up clip at 7.75 inches overall.
Anodized Titanium with Milled Holes and Zircuti Hardware
Four of the five builds run the drilled-out frames: bead blasted titanium with holes, blue anodized with holes, bronze anodized with holes, and the two-tone blue anodized frame with bronze-finished holes. The fifth is the dress flagship, a bead blasted frame with Zircuti hardware under the hand satin blade, trading the sport look for Reate's patterned metal jewelry.
Reate Velocity vs Mantis
Reate's two Elmax titanium flippers split on shape and weight. The Reate Mantis runs Alvin Lee's 3.5-inch sheepsfoot on a liner lock at 4.9 ounces, the dress collaboration, while the Velocity keeps a conventional 3.25-inch blade on a frame lock and drops nearly a full ounce through the milled frames. Same steel, same maker: the Mantis is the showpiece, the Velocity is the one built to move.