The Obsidian Balisong! This new design is collaboration designed by Midnightcat Studios with the engineering and build done by Maxace.
This Obsidian render features a 14C2BN blade with the rock grind handles carved from Black G10 set on blue anodized titanium liners. By just an ounce under its predecessor, the G10 Obsidians are lightweight compared to the titanium version (you can really feel that ounce difference when you swing it) done in late 2020 but it swings great and the grip is just as good if not better.
The latch design on these is quite a bit similar to the design popularized by famed custom maker Santiago with the his simple but highly effective signature style where he dropped a dowel through the latch. This latch style spread like wildfire and appeared everywhere. Our favorite small shop auto maker BURN even went to him to learn how to correctly build this extremely important piece of the balisong design that is so difficult to properly execute many makers ended up leaving it off the build and went to the clean and simplistic latch-less style that is as old as the balisong design itself. Pick it up and squeeze - the spring latch jumps to attention out of the way-safe so the blade has no shot at bumping it while you spin.
Your Obsidian also includes the custom MAXACE zip up pouch and dust cloth.
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