Last Saturday, the Blade Show awards were given out to both production and custom knives, highlighting some of the best and brightest on both sides of the knife world. Here’s a recap of the Production Awards; the Custom Awards recap will follow tomorrow.
One note: the production knife award categories were changed this year. The “American Made Knife of the Year” and “Imported Knife of the Year” categories were removed, replaced by Folding and Fixed Blade of the Year awards for both American Made and Imported designations. Furthermore, an Automatic Knife of the Year category has been added. That means there’s a net gain of three more categories, and that means there’s even more stuff to add to the ol’ wishlist.
Production Awards
Overall Knife of the Year: Spartan Blades Harsey Clandestina
American-Made Fixed Blade of the Year: McNees Knives Ridge Runner
American-Made Folding Knife of the Year: Protech TR-3
Most Innovative American Design: Spyderco Para Military 2 Salt
Imported Fixed Blade of the Year: GiantMouse GMF1
Imported Folding Knife of the Year: LionSteel Skinny
Most Innovative Imported Design: CRKT Fial
Best Buy of the Year: Civivi Yonder
Kitchen Knife of the Year: QSP Kiritsuke
Knife Collaboration of the Year: Ketuo Knife/Ken Onion Buckhorn
Manufacturing Quality: LionSteel
Investor/Collector Knife of the Year: Pro-Tech Oligarch
PVK Automatic Knife of the Year: Kershaw Livewire
Knife in Featured Image: CRKT Fial
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