Bestech is poised to release a new collaboration that is, itself, a collaboration model. Meet the Excentric, which results from the partnership of Grzegorz Grabarski, AKA Kombou Designs, and Toni N. Tietzel of TNT Knives.
Every partnership works on its own rules. Sometimes, the designers will send drawings back and forth, iterating and reiterating on something until it feels right. We’ve also seen collaborations where the finished knife of one maker is riffed on by another, in a kind of tribute. But according to Grabarski, his partnership with Tietzel, which began when the two met for the first time at the IWA Expo in Germany, took a much more…literal form. The two literally divided the knife in half.
Tietzel was responsible for the blade, and he absolutely put his personal stamp on it. Tietzel is known for being a bit of a grind connoisseur, and he conjured up a wild one for the Excentric. This flipper-deployed knife is a formidably-spec’d techno-tanto, complete with a stylized compound grind, it is made from M390 and measures 3.88 inches long, which is a size that makes it easy to appreciate the S-shape line demarcating the two edge portions.
Meanwhile beneath the blade, Grabarski crafted a handle with enough sweep and cuts and curves to compliment the visually ambitious cutting edge. The sculpting lends the Excentric a sort of biomechanical look – half techno, half organic. There is an anodized bolster around the pivot, steel capped titanium frame lock, and a sculpted titanium pocket clip to round things out. The Excentric has a fittingly stout weight, listed as 5.71 oz.
This one is slated for a relatively speedy release.
Knife in Featured Image: Bestech Excentric
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