Here are the Blade Show winners

I love the Spyderco Military 2, have been asking for it since I learned of the brand, but how can something be the best American knife of the year when it is not out? Maybe they refer just to design.
 
Hashishiin said:
I love the Spyderco Military 2, have been asking for it since I learned of the brand, but how can something be the best American knife of the year when it is not out? Maybe they refer just to design.
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Same way car companies come out with their 2023 models 2 months into 2022 I guess lol
 
madcap_magician said:
Some well-deserved custom show awards. Those miniature scissors are amazing, and apparently Vince Evans can make two hells of a swords lol. That cinquedea is incredible, and the long double-fullered gladius or spatha is nothing to sneeze at.
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This! I can't speak for all the knives there but I can say for sure that the pictures of the Spatha and the Cinquedea BADLY misrepresented how nice those pieces were. If that's true of those it may be true of some of the others as well.
 
WHAT?!?!

WOW!

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I have a perfectly fine bit driver but Lionsteel will take my money for the Eggie. Cool design.

I also have a Malibu that’s in my regular rotation. I love its single purpose perfection and blade shape (for me.) Making a new model the big winner seems a bit much.
 
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I'm usually kind of disappointed with the results of all the contests at Blade every year, but I got to say that I think all were pretty well deserved and not outlandish as some years. The Malibu as knife of the year doesn't surprise me. People have been raving about it across all online knife platforms all year and I really never hear a single bad thing about it.
 
LimpCroissant said:
I'm usually kind of disappointed with the results of all the contests at Blade every year, but I got to say that I think all were pretty well deserved and not outlandish as some years. The Malibu as knife of the year doesn't surprise me. People have been raving about it across all online knife platforms all year and I really never hear a single bad thing about it.
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The Malibu was released in 2020. Slapping black DLC on it and putting a tritium vial in the button doesn't really make it a new knife...
 
I gotta say, overall winner and American winner are pretty underwhelming. I’m a huge fan of Protech and Spyderco, but taking existing designs and just swapping parts? Meh. Maybe my expectations are too high, but to me, “knife of the year” should be a new innovative design that knocks your socks off… not “well we put one of our tritium vial buttons on a Malibu and murdered it out!” That isn’t innovation, that’s just lazy. Same thing with slapping a compression lock on a military.

I hope next year makes up for this weak showing.
 
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