11 New Pocket Knives, Multi-Tools and EDC Items You Might Have Missed

Tops and Ontario have collided on a collaboration that sees the latter’s iconic Old Hickory field knife updated for modern outdoors folk and campers who need an all-purpose knife for both food and generalized campground tasks. While the silhouette remains largely unchanged, the blade gets upgraded to thicker 1095 Cerakote-finished steel and the handle is swapped for Micarta, making it a lot more robust from tip to tail.

Peak Design’s latest play in the smartphone accessories game is three different straps that use an innovative Micro Anchor connection system to attach to any phone case, including non-PD ones via an adapter. The $30 Mobile Cuff loops around your wrist for extra security, the $50 Mobile Crossbody Strap carries your phone (or small camera) like a crossbody bag and the $60 Mobile Crossbody Multi-Strap features a custom-machined anodized aluminum carabiner that holds up to three (included) Micro Anchors, enabling you to keep two other key items — such as keys, earbuds, a small knife or multi-tool — in easy reach as well.

In celebration of the Chinese New Year, Flytanium has taken one of its newest catalog offerings (actually a revival and renewal of an older knife) and transformed it with a limited-edition colorway. This take on the Theory still boasts 20CV steel and a titanium handle, but with a black cerakote blade finish and an exclusive fire horse graphic on its red-yellow gradient handle. It also still has a frame lock, machined pocket clip, ceramic ball bearing pivot and more.

Designed by Greg Thompson, founder of the Special Operations Combatives Program, the SOCP Dagger is uniquely optimized for hand-to-hand self-defense, where folding knives just don’t cut it. This 6.3-inch, 1.81-ounce downsized version features a 1.66-inch blade made of 440C stainless steel, a lightweight skeletonized handle and a protective Cerakote finish, plus a molded sheath with multiple mounting options and a weight of just 1.04 ounces itself.

Buck’s 124 Frontiersmen is already hugely popular among the brand’s outdoor-going clientele. However, that knife just got a major upgrade to its customization program with the addition of MagnaCut steel. That helps elevate this hardcore cutter even further, making it stronger, more corrosion-resistant and higher-performance than ever before. Of course, you can also customize the hardware and handle to your liking — the potential combinations are legion.

The more affordable spinoff of Kansept Knives converts its big brother’s popular frame-lock folder into a budget-friendly backcountry beast. This fixed-blade take packs a 2.99-inch wharncliffe blade made of reliable D2 steel and grippy G10 or micarta handle scales, plus a multi-angle Kydex sheath offering a range of carry options. A fancier $90 variant boasts a Damascus steel blade and a semi-transparent PEI handle.

Since it debuted on NASA’s Apollo 7 mission in 1968, the Fisher Space Pen has been aboard literally every manned NASA mission. Now that NASA is headed back to the moon via the Artemis II lunar spaceflight, it makes sense that Fisher would want to celebrate with a special edition of its legendary EDC pen. And while a version of this titanium nitride pen is going to be aboard that mission, you can actually snag one for yourself down here on Earth, too. And yes, it still has its legendary pressurized cartridge that can write underwater, upside-down and in zero gravity.

While not entirely unusual to see a folding knife with two blades — see some classic Barlow knives, for example — a third blade is far more uncommon. However, that’s precisely what Böker is offering in its surprisingly affordable HL Triple (along with a high-vis polymer handle). This knife has a classic drop-point blade alongside a pry blade and a pry saw. While the main blade locks with a back lock, the other two use classic slipjoint mechanisms. However, all three are useful in EDC and the outdoors, should you require a versatile, affordable, go-anywhere knife.

Not unlike the Norse goddess — the way she appears in Marvel movies, anyway — SIF the knife doubles down on beauty and brawn. The former is assured by a beautifully contoured silhouette, while the latter manifests as a 3.76-inch drop point blade made of S35VN steel, complemented by ambidextrous thumb studs, a crossbar lock and an equally fierce yet ergonomic handle made of titanium.