Strider Knives

Strider Knives

Type	LLC
Founded	San Marcos, California 1997 (1997)
Headquarters	San Marcos, California
Key people	Mick Strider, Duane Dwyer, Josh Lee industry = Manufacturing
Products	Knives
Revenue	N/A
Number of employees	N/A
Website	www.striderknives.com

Strider Knives, Inc. is a custom and production knifemaking facility headed by Mick Strider and Duane Dwyer based in San Marcos, California.

Materials and design

Strider Knives makes folding knives and fixed-blade knives, using metals such as ATS-34, CPM S30V steel, titanium, stellite, beryllium, damascus steel, and BG-42 for the blades.^[1]^[2]

Strider fixed blade knives utilize Steel, Paracord or G-10 fiberglass for the handle material.

Strider uses a proprietary heat treatment originally developed by Paul Bos of Buck Knives.^[2] This resulted in knives with blades of ATS-34 or BG-42 coming back from heat treat with a very dark colored blade which would then be bead blasted a flat grey color. After masking a blade before beadblasting, Mick Strider found it resulted in a striping or camouflage effect and it has become a part of the design.^[3]^[4] As the newest steel Strider uses, CPM S30V does not darken after heat treating, a black oxide coating is applied beforehand.^[3]

Strider folding knives

Strider SnG folding knife

After eight years of making fixed blade knives, Strider turned to making folding knives.^[4] Strider's goal was to produce a folding knife that was as strong as a fixed blade.^[4] To work toward this goal, Strider relied on the use of G10 Fiberglass handles, titanium liners thicker than what was in current use throughout the cutlery industry and an oversized pivot screw 0.19" in diameter.^[4] The end results were two linerlocks known as the AR and GB models. Strider makes titanium handled framelock folding knives.^[4] These models utilize the handle itself as the locking mechanism and are named the SMF, SnG, PT, and RC models.^[4]

Military models

Strider's first project as a company was to supply Naval Special Warfare Group 1 with WB and BG models in 1994.^[5]^[6] Strider Knives currently makes several models specifically for units of the US Military in the Global War on Terror,^[7]^[8] each with its own NSN.^[4] NATO Stock Numbers are: Strider SMF (officially - Knife, Folding, Special Mission) 1095-01-531-5015, Strider DB-L (officially - Knife, Fixed, Camo) 1095-01-531-5023, the JB1 (officially - Shroud Knife) 1670-09-000-3920, and the Probe Knife 1095-01-503-7231, built for landmine detection.

Strider Knives has designed a new bayonet it hopes to market to the US military. The blade is CPM S30V and it features a tang extending all the way to the latch plate for increased strength. Strider designed the bayonet for Zero Tolerance Knives, which will release it as the ZT Bayonet D9.^[9]

Strider Knives has manufactured modern versions of classic military designs such as the V-42 Stiletto, the Marine Raider Stiletto, the SOG Knife, the USMC Fighting Utility Knife, and the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife. These versions have the same profile as the originals, but incorporate modern steel and materials in their designs. The SOG Knife, Marine Raider Stiletto, and V-42 Stiletto have been used to raise funds for Veteran's Groups associated with those units.^[4]

Collaborations

Strider Knives has collaborated with the following companies:

Buck Knives for a variety of Strider developed knife designs mass-produced at a more affordable price.^[4]^[10]
SureFire Flashlights. Strider Knives collaborated with SureFire by making an exclusive SF fixed-blade numbered and marked with the SureFire logo and sold with an identically numbered Strider marked M2CombatLight.^[11]^[12]
Unertl Optical Company, Inc. (longtime manufacturer of USMC Scout Sniper Scopes) for a unique SMF knife paired up with each custom 1911 pistol sold.
Kershaw Knives (under the Zero Tolerance Knives affiliate) for Strider joint designs with custom Knifemaker, Ken Onion. A portion of the proceeds from every sale of Zero Tolerance Knives is donated to the Paralyzed Veterans of America. Strider, Ken Onion and Zero Tolerance won Blade Magazine's Publisher's Award for 2006 because of this collaboration.^[13]
Richard Marcinko for the "Rogue Warrior" series of knives named after the author's series of books.^[14]

References

↑ Covert, Pat."Strider Knives Are Hard Corps", American Handgunner, March–April 2000
1 2 Gardner, James."Duel of the Titans: two exceptional folders exemplify state-of-the-art",Guns Magazine, June 2005
1 2 Kertzman,Joe."Earn Your Steel Stripes", Blade Magazine, March, 2006
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Covert, Pat."Evolving edges: Strider Knives get Better and Badder!",American Handgunner, January–February 2005
↑ Bolke,Darryl. "Strider Knives!", American Handgunner Magazine, 2002 Annual
↑ Dick, Stephen (1995). "Blades of the Combat Swimmers". Tactical Knives. 1 (2): 68–73.
↑ Ayoob, Massad."One night in the War on Terror", American Handgunner Magazine, Nov-Dec, 2005
↑ Ewing, Dexter (2003). "Keep Your Eyes on the Strider Guys". Blade Magazine.
↑ Cox, Matthew (16 January 2009). "Shot 09 - Wicked Bayonet". Army Times. Army Times. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
↑ Markel, Paul. "Practical Tacticals: Buck's Strider Folders",Tactical Knives Magazine,May 2006
↑ Ewing, Dexter, "Knives and Lights", Blade Magazine, March 2004
↑ "Surefire/Strider - New Products",Guns Magazine, January 2003
↑ Cascio, Pat."Kershaw's Latest Tactical Folders",Knives Illustrated, February 2007
↑ Shackleford, Steve (2009). "New Knives for 2009". Blade's Complete Guide to Knives. Blade. 33 (3): 90.

External links

Strider Knives, Inc. official site

Knives and daggers

List of daggers List of blade materials

Types of knives	Aircrew Survival Egress Knife Athame Balisong/Butterfly Ballistic Ballpoint pen knife Bayonet Boline Bolo Boning Boot knife Bowie Bread knife Cane knife Cheese knife Chef's knife Cleaver Clip point Combat knife Commander Corvo CQC-6 Deba bōchō Diving knife Drop point Electric knife Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife Gerber Mark II Ginsu Grapefruit knife Gravity knife Gunong Hunting knife Jacob's ladder Karambit Kīla Kirpan Kitchen knife Kukri Laguiole knife Machete Mandau Mezzaluna Misericorde Mora knife Multi-tool Nakiri bōchō Navaja Neck knife Nontron knife Opinel knife Palette knife Pantographic knife Parang Penknife Penny knife Pocket knife Putty knife Puukko Rampuri Resolza Sabatier Sami knife Santoku SARK Scalpel Seax Sgian dubh Sharpfinger Shiv Sliding knife Smatchet SOG Knife Straight razor Strider SMF Survival knife Swiss Army knife Switchblade Taping knife Throwing knife Tomato knife Trench knife Tumi Ulu Utility knife Warrior knife X-Acto Yanagi ba Yatagan

Types of daggers	Anelace Applegate–Fairbairn fighting knife Arkansas toothpick BC-41 Bagh naka Baselard Bichuwa Bollock dagger Cinquedea Dirk Ear dagger Emeici Facón French Nail Hachiwara Hunting dagger Janbiya Kaiken Kalis Kard Katar Khanjali Khanjar Kris Mark I trench knife Ocean Edge Knife Parrying dagger Poignard Push dagger Rondel dagger Seme Shobo Sica Stiletto Tantō Marine Raider stiletto V-42 stiletto Yarará Parachute Knife Yoroidōshi

Knife manufacturers	Aitor Al Mar Knives American Tomahawk Company Bear MCG Benchmade Böker Buck Knives Caber Camillus Cutlery Company Cattaraugus Cutlery Company Chris Reeve Knives Cold Steel Columbia River Knife & Tool Cuisinart Cutco Cutlery DOVO Solingen Dexter-Russell Dirte Knives Eikhorn Ek Commando Knife Co. Emerson Knives Erizo F. Dick Fällkniven FAMAE Fiskars Füritechnics Gerber Legendary Blades Global Golok Hanwei Imperial Schrade J. A. Henckels Ka-Bar Kershaw Knives KitchenAid Korin Japanese Trading Company Kyocera Leatherman Mad Dog Knives MercWorx Microtech Knives Morseth Murphy Knives Ontario Knife Company Opinel Pro-Tech Knives Randall Made Knives Ranz Rigid Knives Rösle SOG Specialty Knives Sabatier Aîné & Perrier Spyderco Strider Knives Survival Aids TEKNA Thiers Issard Tramontina Victorinox Vox Knives W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co. Walther arms Wenger Western Knife Company Wilkinson Sword Windlass Steelcrafts Wüsthof Yarara Ltd

Knifemakers	A.G. Russell American Bladesmith Society Rex Applegate James Black Blackie Collins John Nelson Cooper Ernest Emerson Jerry Fisk Phill Hartsfield Bill Harsey Jr. Gil Hibben Knifemakers' Guild Zanjan Knifemakers Jimmy Lile Bob Loveless Bob Lum William F. Moran Ken Onion Ralph Osterhout Bo Randall Chris Reeve Jody Samson William Scagel Mike Snody Robert Terzuola Michael Walker Buster Warenski Daniel Winkler

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