I met Grant Hawk and his son Gavin some 25 years ago when I was in Boise, Idaho, doing a story on Chris Reeve and Reeve’s jump from custom knifemaker to micro-manufacturer, a jump Chris had to make simply because he couldn't keep up with demand for his popular Sebenza model. Grant was just learning knifemaking with Reeve’s assistance and Gavin was soaking it all in from the sidelines, learning all he could.
From then to now, I, like many BLADE® readers, have watched Hawk Knives grow by leaps and bounds. Like Chris Reeve Knives, Hawk grew to a tipping point where Grant and Gavin faced a greater demand than they could supply—all due to the consumer appetite for one knife in particular: the Deadlock.
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