Mike Franklin is an award-winning custom knifemaker working in Aberdeen, Ohio. His CRKT Side Hawg series are innovative and functional single-side knives made of high-carbon stainless steel with Zytel® sheath plates and carabiner lanyards. The new Side Hawg 3 with a modified 2.00 Tanto blade has a single-side grind in the traditional Japanese mode. Again, a textured single-side Zytel scale gives added grip. The result is a very slender fixed blade knife.







