More news rolling out from Vosteed’s direction this week: the company just released the Marten, the latest in their quickly-growing lineup of practical working knives assembled from sensible materials.
It’s hard not to be impressed by Vosteed’s increasing pace. It feels like just yesterday that we were covering the company’s first tentative forays into the production knife world, when founder Yue Dong turned to Kickstarter to help crowdfund the Morgan, a kitchen knife design. After the success of that project, the Vosteed catalog grew model by model, gaining speed; 2024 has been the company’s busiest year by far, with the Marten following a mere month after the release of the Vallhund, a collaboration with custom maker Ray Laconico.
The Marten is an in-house design and, like other designs from the Vosteed team, it is all about clean utility and a pocket friendly mien. The Marten’s blade measures 2.98 inches, and is a handsome drop point with a wide stance. Made from 154CM steel, it will be a capable, reliable workhorse that can scale up and down between the smaller snippy chores, and bigger jobs that require a little more real estate than one would find on a keychain knife or similar.
Looking at the handle, we see aluminum scales with a clean diagonal line texture, and available in a variety of anodizations – naturally we are showcasing the KnifeNews Orange configuration in our headline picture above. The Marten is equipped with what Vosteed calls a Top Liner Lock, similar in design to Spyderco’s compression lock, with a locking leaf on the spine side of the knife; here on the Marten, the lock is disengaged with an external button on the show side handle scale.
The Marten is available now.
Knife in Featured Image: Vosteed Marten
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