We have been working on this for a couple months and I am happy to finally announce that almost all of our Arc-Lock knives are now being produced with VG-10 blades. This now includes the X-Ray Vision, Vision, Mini X-Ray Vision, Pentagon Elite I and II, Spec Elite I. Also, this was done with out increasing the cost of these knives. If you have been holding off on buying one of these knives, you no longer have an excuse. We were also able to do this with out raising prices.

The blades are stamped with VG-10 and should be showing up in stores any day now.

Congratulations to denny and his images.  He won the October prize for best image in the SOG group on flickr with his picture of the Springfield Armory XD40 handgun with SOG X-Ray Vision folder and Seiko chronograph watch.   Keep the images coming and have fun.

One of the things I like about living in Washington is the great diversity of environments here. We have rain forest, wetlands, high desert, mountains with glaciers, and much more. I also like to get out from time to time and explore the wilderness in the area. Recently I friend of mine got the bug to figure out how to forage for chantrelle mushrooms. I know it sounds weird to go searching in the woods for mushrooms but it was quite fun.

This is a picture of the basket of mushrooms at the beginning of the day. We ended up getting a little over a pound of mushrooms and made a great dinner that night. We got a little skunked this time mostly because someone had been through the area the day before. We found tracks and some cut mushroom that had been dropped. On previous trips in the same area my friend had found upwards of 7 pounds of them.

I would highly recommend that if you get the chance to go out and forage for some chantrelle mushroom. For more information check out the following resources

Wild Harvest
Chantrelle on Wikipedia
The Forager Press

I know it has been a little while since I last posted a teaser image for you.  So in order to get everyone excited about upcoming items I now present you with the latest SOG teaser image.  Let me know what you think.

I just found out that one of SOG’s knives, supposedly the Twitch XL was on House the Fox TV show last night (Oct 9). I am trying to track down info on it. So if any one has a screen capture please let me know.

Update: I actually found some screen captures and it was the Twitch XL that was used in the episode. Check out some images below..

Last week we went out and took some new action shots with some of our knives. We are going to be adding them to the product image galleries over the coming weeks. In case any one is interested here is a sampling of what we have done.

SEAL Pup

Camouflage Flash II

Mini X-Ray Vision

CrossCut

SEAL Revolver

Enjoy and there will be more coming over the next couple weeks.

Received this nice story from a SOG user recently. It speaks to the benefits of having a quick access blade on you at all times.

I just wanted to let you know that I am a very proud owner of several of your knives. I also want you to know how one of your products came in handy in preventing some serious bodily injury for a parade participant during my vacation last week. While attending a Fourth of July parade in northern lower Michigan, I happened to be carrying my SOG Mini X-ray Vision. My family and I were viewing from near the staging/starting area. The parade is quite a quirky and fun exhibit of silliness, so there was a lot of unchoreographed behavior by the entrants. One of the entries was a group of clownishly dressed people following a minivan which had loudspeakers mounted to the roof and cans trailing behind attached with what turned out to be very sturdy nylon cord. As the group was awaiting their turn to step off, some of the clowns were walking around acting goofy and one became entangled in the cord. He didn’t realize that the cans had wrapped around his ankle and flipped back over the cord. He was standing there shaking his foot as the minivan driver began moving forward. Due to the loudspeakers and other noise, the driver was unable to hear the shouts of those witnessing it telling him to stop. I quickly covered the fifteen or so feet as I withdrew my knife, opened it, grabbed the cord, placed the serrations against it and severed it in one quick slice - just as the entangled clown was being pulled off of his feet. The van stopped just as the cord was cut. The crowd applauded as I quickly made my way back to my family and the parade went on. Although the crowd was applauding the avoidance of catastrophy, I was applauding the fine tool I had just reinserted into my pocket.

Thanks for making such fine products.

I just wanted to let everyone know that the SOG Kilowatt knives have begun shipping and they should be showing up in stores in the next two weeks.  If you have ordered one your wait is coming to an end.  We are very happy with this knife and think that it will be a great seller.  Any questions or comments let me know.

So I guess I have let the most recent teaser post sit long enough and let suspense build. I read though all the guesses and most people were close to being correct.

Mr Skillz was the first person with the closest answer:

Well, the handle is definitely the same as the X-ray Vision’s.I’m guessing its a new blade shape, possibly a drop point or spear point, but built on the foundation of the X-ray Vision. It could just be a new tweaked design of the X-ray Vision, with a higher grind, shortened swedge grind, and a plain edge ti-ni coated blade.

And for his extremely close guess he gets a prize.  I’ll be sending a micron to him this week.

The actual answer is below (more…)

Just wanted to leave everyone with a little something to ponder over the weekend.  Check out the image below and let me know what you think it might be.  If someone guesses it correctly I might just send them a special prize.  So get your thinking caps on and make some wild guesses.