February may have just begun, but it’s already a month that Kizer has been making the most of. They’ve just added several fresh designs to their lineup from new collaborators, including this one, the Bamboo, an EDC front flipper inspired by Japanese blade design and visual motifs.
The slick, needlenose tip blade shape on the Bamboo is nimble and manueverable – and, even with its narrow profile and not-enormous blade length of 2.99 inches, it offers the holy trinity of edge types, with straight, curved, and tip portions all represented. This knife, although it comes from a different maker, bears several similarities to the Kizer Tomb, which it is releasing alongside, including blade steel: Nitro-V makes another appearance here, delivering a palatable blend of characteristics that make it one of the standard bearers for the non-super steel category in 2025.
Now the Bamboo gets its name from the design on its handle. There are three different scale materials offered, and each one comes with texturing that evokes the bamboo tree. The yellow and green G-10 options both have the thick corrugated segmentation of bamboo – it’s also a visual element that reminds us of stuff that Mcusta used to do on some of its folders. The black Micarta scale Bamboo, on the other hand, goes for thin, linear cuts into the scales, reminiscent of the way bamboo components on buildings or other structures look.
The Bamboo is the first Kizer collaboration with Maksim Epifantsev, a new name to us. He doesn’t seem to have an enormous presence online, but his first production design looks like it might get his name out there. If your first step into the knife market is with a collab model with a big name manufacturer, you must be doing something right.
The Bamboo is available now; it released earlier this week alongside the previously covered Kizer Tomb.
Knife in Featured Image: Kizer Bamboo
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