Timeless Folding Knives, Fashionable EDC and Mounted Blade Fashions Impressed by Case Custom and Innovation
BRADFORD, PA. (Jan. 21, 2025) – W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Firm (Case Knives), a number one American producer of premium knives, returns to the 2025 Capturing, Searching and Outside Commerce (SHOT) Present Jan. 21 to 24, on the Venetian + Caesars Discussion board in Las Vegas, showcasing latest releases and new launches. Assortment additions embrace conventional folding pocket knives, trendy on a regular basis succesful (EDC) tactical fashions and stuck blade searching knives.
Highlighting the Case line-up would be the new XR Sod Buster® Jr., the return of the Child Doc from the Case XX® Vault, serrated blade variations of the Kinzua® and Marilla® EDC types, and stuck blade Ridgeback Hunters with all-new sculpted handles.
“We’re proud to kick off 2025 at SHOT with a number of new and refreshed designs showcasing how custom meets innovation at Case,” says Brent Tyler, vice chairman of world advertising and marketing at Case. “From conventional folding knives to trendy EDC and stuck blade fashions, we all the time sit up for presenting the brand new ranges of innovation, superior manufacturing capabilities and American-made craftsmanship that’s anticipated from Case.”
Fulfilling the “Custom Meets Innovation” promise, the Case Crossroads (XR) Collection delivers a contemporary tackle traditional Case designs. Making its SHOT Present debut, the XR Sod Buster® Jr., being launched beneath the Crossroads banner, is a chief instance. A contemporary reimagining of the timeless ’37 Sod Buster® Jr., pocket knife, the brand new XR model is designed with its authentic body and slip joint mechanism, plus up to date, premium options resembling rugged burlap laminate, G-10 and pure wooden deal with supplies and a stonewashed S35VN stainless-steel Skinner blade for final edge retention and sturdiness. The precision construct is secured with torque screws as an alternative of pins to strengthen the knife’s integrity and efficiency over time.
One other in style traditional being showcased in Las Vegas is the Child Doc, a pint-sized model of the full-sized Case Physician’s Knife, reissued for a restricted time in quite a lot of conventional deal with supplies. Formally launched to the general public in January 2005, this perennial favourite, geared up with a spear blade and genuine miniature spatula device, hearkens again to a time when medical doctors carried a flexible, multi-purposed folding knife of their drugs luggage. Collectors and Case fanatics might be excited to make their appointments with the Child Doc earlier than it goes again into the vault on the finish of 2025.
The wildly profitable Marilla® and Kinzua® Fashionable EDC fashions will debut a brand new serrated blade function at SHOT. Out there within the Spring 2025 catalog, the Kinzua options both an S35VN serrated tanto or spear blade whereas the Marilla introduces an S35VN serrated drop level blade, every with a stonewash satin end. These one-handed opening, light-weight anodized aluminum EDC fashions function a triple faceted face or raised inlay for a dependable grip, a flipper design on a metal ball bearing pivot for fast and dependable deployment, and a reversible deep-carry pocket clip for a cushty and versatile pocket carrying expertise.
Additionally launching at SHOT is the brand new assortment of Case Ridgeback® Hunter fastened blade knives, that includes new sculpted handles paired with the sample’s conventional stainless-steel Swept Skinner blade. Scalloped deal with choices are new for this rugged and sturdy fixed-blade searching knife famous for its concave floor saber blade. The sculpted handles are available in pure canvas laminate, black burlap laminate and inexperienced burlap laminate, with both a real leather-based or ballistic nylon sheath.
MSRP and delivery dates:Crossroads XR Sod Buster® Jr. – beginning in January, $85.99 MSRPBaby Doc – beginning in January, $74.99 to $114.99 MSRPSerrated Kinzua®/Marilla® EDC – beginning in January, $146.99 to $169.99 MSRPSculpted Deal with Ridgeback® Hunter – beginning in April, $125.99 MSRP
Preliminary releases of recent choices might be launched all through the primary quarter of 2025 at Case sellers nationwide and on caseknives.com.
To talk with a media consultant from Case at 2025 SHOT Present, please contact CaseKnivesPR@fwv-us.com to rearrange an interview. Go to Case on the principle ground at sales space #10538 and within the regulation enforcement space at sales space #20156.
ABOUT W.R. CASE & SONS CUTLERY COMPANYW.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Firm is an American producer of premium knives which might be constructed on a popularity of high quality and perseverance. Based mostly in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Case’s choices cowl a variety of product classes, from conventional folding pocket knives and stuck blade sporting knives to trendy on a regular basis carry knives and different gear. Celebrating the corporate’s one hundred and thirty fifth anniversary in 2024, Case evokes us all to develop into extra on a regular basis succesful through the use of its reliable and modern merchandise. Case is owned by Zippo Manufacturing Firm, makers of the world well-known Zippo® windproof lighter. Name (800) 523-6350 or go to caseknives.com for extra data; you can too comply with Case (@WRCase) on Fb, Twitter and Instagram.
