Medford M48
A flipper folding knife named for the M-48 Patton tank, with a hand-ground 3.9 inch CPM S45VN blade on bearings, machined 7075 aluminum scales with a tread-style texture and a titanium spring. It is 8.6 inches long when open and comes in black, red, green or blue. Medford builds and finishes it in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Medford Knife & Tool designs, machines, assembles and finishes all of its knives at its facility in Phoenix, Arizona, and says it never outsources manufacturing overseas.
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