Find lock-blade knives for most any purpose. Compact, safe, versatile, folding knives are available in a wide variety of designs and styles for work, play, or for the collector in commemorative or historic editions.
One of the most popular types of folding knife is the “Buck” or folding lock-blade knife, meaning a knife whose blade folds into its handle, as with a common pocketknife, but locks into place when opened, so that it cannot close unless the release is pressed.
The term is a generalization of a type of knife produced by many different manufactures. Buck Knives is a leading American maker of knives of many sorts, but it is especially noteworthy for producing the first really successful folding lock-blade, introduced in 1964. Folding lock-blade knives and "Buck Knife" thereby became strongly linked in the public mind, and the Buck design was much imitated, so that a buck knife, in common understanding, has come to mean to mean any folding lock-blade of like design, even while Buck Knife is yet a trademark and not limited to folding lock-blades.
The folding lock-blade knife lends itself to many different types and uses. From the everyday work knife carried by tradesmen, farmers and carpenters, to specific use knives for hunting, fishing and camping. Due to the design, which incorporates both safety and convenience, it has become the most popular knife in use today.
