If you were in the MKT Factory's grind room in mid December 2025...
… a very large piece of steel would catch your eye.
Sitting just on top a bin of EDC-friendly pocket-sized
187 Blades and next to the new
Black Card Knife blades is a nearly 15″ inches of steel. So long it could only be one knife in the Medford Knife Archive… the TBF.
With a little research, you’ll see only a handful of these knives made it onto the internet… and it’s often mistaken as it’s little brother – the USMC Raider at 11.6″
It’s Ridiculously Big.
Greg Medford re-introduced the USMC Raider in summer of 2024 and the response was extremely unnexpected.
In what seemed like a knife community and collector community dominated by an emerging “pocket fixies”…
While the knife is world-class we did not expect the demand for a nearly footlong, monstrous, Rambo-like BEAST in 2025… You surpised us.
So for a boatload of fun to shake things up, in 2026 we're bringing a knife back that's considered an even BIGGER BROTHER...
In the pictures, you can see I’m following some of the earliest stages of the process…
These 15″ blanks freshly cut from our water jet are now surface ground to probably somewhere slightly above .270″
They will go to the Machine Shop next, followed by the Grind Room for rough grind, heat treat, then finish grind and surface grind round 2…
A pair of updated 2026 contoured G10 handles in a new pattern from Greg Medford are cut in the Daytron by the shop. It looks to me like a multi-color black, tan, grey combination…
Then, the whole knife comes together in assembly with a titanium hardware and hilt. If you want to see the whole process, we’ll be releasing a video on our channel.
50 in Production. These will take time. Reserve Yours ahead if you want one...
Greg Medford is making 50 of these in the last of the CPM D2 the factory ordered from Niagara specialties in upstate NY when they were still in business…
It’s our way of turning our nose to the specialty steels, and sticking to the American-made for a badass knife revival.
If you want to be a part of the 50…
