Tour the American-made Medford Knife Factory

A Video Tour Through the Medford Knife Factory.

WARNING! Extremely HOT. Medford Knife & Tool in-house heat treat of blade steels.

Inkonel heat treatment bag reveals glowing hot blades inside ready for the next step of our in-house heat treat process. (see video)

Medford Knife & Tool sources steel from Niagara Specialty Metals in upstate New York. All of our titanium comes from George at the American Metal Exchange in California.

Before heat treat, Greg Medford is in front of the Water Jet station where the team cuts blanks out of sheets of steel to be surface ground.

Medford blades post processing. These will be matched up with handles and hardware. These blades pictured are for a model the On-Belay, a titanium folder that discontinued around 2023.

Assembling Medford Knives. See in video.  

Lineup of Medford Smooth Criminals in different hard anno color configurations.

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