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Flavio Ikoma is a legacy designer at CRKT—his powerful designs and hardworking knives are defining pillars that have held CRKT up for a quarter century. So when Ken Onion approached Doug Flagg, CRKT’s VP of Marketing and Innovation, with an incredible new knife design and a need for an equally powerful mechanism, he knew just who to call. Flavio’s...

As any masterful inventor will tell you, a new tool inspired by anything but a specific need is destined to fall flat. So when Joe Caswell took pen to paper to create the mechanism that was to become Kinematic, he wasn’t acting on creative impulse, he had the words of his tactical-knife-wielding firefighter, EMT, and police officer buddies echoing in...