The brand’s “SHOT Show Special” features its first-ever use of Ultem, a handle material about which knife nerds have very ...

Nearly 60 years later, something else doesn’t seem the same: Benchmade’s moniker-sharing edition of the Mini Barrage, a premium pocket knife the likes of which we have never laid eyes on before.

In general, the knife industry has a knack for churning out compelling new releases. But with two major brands, Benchmade and CRKT, announcing the bulk of their 2025 catalogs in January, not to ...