Strider KNIVES

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.

Strider Fixed Blade Knives utilize either parachute cord or G-10 fiberglass for the handle material.

Strider uses a proprietary heat treatment originally developed by Paul Bos of Buck Knives. 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. As the newest steel Strider uses, CPM S30V does not darken after heat treating, a black oxide coating is applied beforehand.

Military models

Strider’s first project as a company was to supply Naval Special Warfare Group 1 with WB and BG models in 1994. Strider Knives currently makes several models specifically for US Military Units in the Global War on Terror, each with its own designated NSN number. 1095-01-531-5015 is the National Stock Number for the Strider SMF (officially known as Knife, Folding, Special Mission). The Strider DB-L (officially designated as Knife, Fixed, Camo) NSN 1095-01-531-5023, the JB1(officially designated Shroud Knife) NSN 1670-09-000-3920, and the Probe knife built for landmine detection NSN 1095-01-503-7231 are Strider’s fixed blades with NATO Stock Numbers.

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.

Strider folding knives

Strider SnG folding knife

After eight years of making fixed blade knives, Strider turned to making folding knives. Strider’s goal was to produce a folding knife that was as strong as a fixed blade. 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. The end results were two linerlocks known as the AR and GB models. Strider also makes titanium handled framelock folding knives. These models utilize the handle itself as the locking mechanism and are named the SMF, SnG, PT, and RC models.

Collaborations

Strider Knives has also teamed with the following companies:

Buck Knives for a variety of Strider developed knife designs mass produced at a more affordable price.

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.

Unertl Optics (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 Tolerace won Blade Magazine’s Publisher’s Award for 2006 because of this collaboration.

Richard Marcinko for the Rogue Warrior series of knives.

References

^ Covert, Pat.”Strider Knives Are Hard Corps”, American Handgunner Magazine, March-April 2000

^ a b Gardner, James.”Duel of the Titans: two exceptional folders exemplify state-of-the-art”,Guns Magazine, June 2005

^ a b Kertzman,Joe.”Earn Your Steel Stripes”, Blade Magazine, March, 2006

^ a b c d e f g h Covert, Pat.”Evolving edges: Strider Knives get Better and Badder!”,American Handgunner Magazine, January-February 2005

^ Bolke,Darryl. “Strider Knives!”, American Handgunner Magazine, 2002 Annual

^ Dick, Stephen (1995), “Blades of the Combat Swimmers”, Tactical Knives, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 68-73

^ Ayoob, Massad.”One night in the War on Terror”, American Handgunner Magazine, Nov-Dec, 2005

^ Ewing, Dexter.”Keep Your Eyes on the Strider Guys”,Blade Magazine,December 2003

^ Cox, Matthew (16 January 2009). “Shot 09 – Wicked Bayonet”. Army Times (Army Times). http://www.militarytimes.com/blogs/gearscout/?p=360&cpage=1#comment-98. 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

External links

Strider Knives, Inc. official site

ATS-34 Steel

BG-42 Steel

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Knives and Daggers

Types of knives

Aircrew Survival Egress Knife  Athame  Balisong  Ballistic  Bayonet  Boline  Bolo  Boning  Boot knife  Bowie  Bread knife  Cane knife  Cheese knife  Chef’s knife  Cleaver  Combat knife  Commander (knife)  Corvo  CQC-6   Dagger  Deba bocho  Electric  Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife  Flick knife  Gerber Mark II  Ginsu  Grapefruit knife  Gravity knife  Hunting knife  Jacob’s ladder  Karambit  Kirpan  Kitchen knife  Kukri  Laguiole knife  Machete  Mandau  Mezzaluna  Misericorde  Mora knife  Multi-tool  Nakiri bocho  Navaja  Opinel knife  Palette knife  Pantographic knife  Penknife  Penny knife  Phurba  Pocket knife  Putty knife  Puukko  Rampuri  Rondel dagger  Sabatier  Santoku  SARK  Scalpel  Seax  Sgian dubh  Sharpfinger  Sheath knife  Shiv  Sliding knife  SOG Knife  Straight razor  Survival knife  Swiss Army knife  Switchblade  Taping knife  Throwing knife  Tomato knife  Trench knife  Ulu  Utility knife  X-Acto  Yanagi ba

Types of daggers

Anelace  Bagh nakh  Baselard  Bich’hwa  Bollock dagger  Cinquedea  Dirk  Ear dagger  Facn  Hachiwara  Hunting dagger  Jambiya  Kaiken  Kalis  Kard  Katara  Khanjar  Kris  Parrying dagger  Pata  Poignard  Push dagger  Seme  Shobo  Stiletto  Tant  Thracian dagger  Marine Raider Stiletto  V-42 Stiletto  Yoroi tshi

Knife manufacturers

American Tomahawk Company   Benchmade  Brusletto  Buck Knives  Calphalon  Camillus Cutlery Company  Cattaraugus Cutlery Company  Chris Reeve Knives  Cold Steel  Columbia River Knife & Tool  Cuisinart  Cutco  DOVO Solingen  Dexter-Russell  Emerson Knives, Inc.  Ek Commando Knife Co.  F. Dick  Fllkniven  Fritechnics  Gerber Legendary Blades  Global  Glock  Hanwei  Imperial Schrade  J. A. Henckels  Ka-Bar  Kershaw Knives  KitchenAid  Korin Japanese Trading Company  Kyocera  Leatherman  Mad Dog Knives   Microtech Knives  Morseth  Murphy knives  Ontario Knife Company  Rada Manufacturing  Randall Made Knives  Rsle  SOG Specialty Knives  Sabatier An & Perrier  Spyderco  Strider Knives  Thiers Issard  Victorinox  W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co.  Walther arms  Wenger  Western Knife Company  Windlass Steelcrafts  Wsthof

Knifemakers

Bob Loveless  Chris Reeve  Ernest Emerson  Ken Onion  Murray Carter  Phill Hartsfield  William Harsey, Jr.  Daniel Winkler

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