All About Pocket Knives

This will be the only official thread for the 2026 AAPK Club Knife!

Work has been underway since January with Great Eastern Cutlery (GEC) and we are close to finalizing our 2026 club knife specifications. We will again be using a pre-order system like last year. This year, premium subscribers will have 1 week to pre-order 1 or 2 knives in a single order, after-which any remaining knives will be available for pre-orders by non-premium members. This "perk" allowed every premium subscriber that wanted a knife last year to get a knife, which is why we are repeating the offering this year.

In the next 30-days we will finalize the 2026 AAPK Club Knife with GEC. Shortly thereafter Bryan will send all Premium Subscribers an email to the address recorded in your AAPK profile to announces the launch of the 2026 Club Knife pre-order sales along with a link to the AAPK store listing to make your purchase. I will also be making a general announcement in this thread once pre-orders have started as our checkout software will initially only allow sales to a Premium Subscriber.

We are planning to fulfill all pre-orders well before the holiday season. Thank you for your support of this important annual club event; I believe everyone will be pleased with this years knife! Peace

As always, thanks seems insufficient. But Thank You!

Thank you so much Tom
For all of your hard work.
Steve

Many thanks! This has to be a tremendous organizational nightmare keeping track of communications with GEC, coordinating with members, etc!! Thanks for all the hard work!! Tom

Can't wait to see this year's knife.

Thanks again for your continued hard work and dedication to this project, Tom!

Hat's off to all involved in this time consuming task.

Cool. I’m quite excited to purchase my first ever Aapk club knife. Thank you Tom for all the time and effort you put forth.

Looking forward to it. Thank you!

Last year I purchased the Club knife while I was sitting in the airport at KC, awaiting a flight back to Alexandria. This year we decided to drive it, so who knows where it will happen . . .

So looking forward to it. Thank you Tom!

Can’t Wait: Thank you

New Babylons look great and would be a great choice.

wlf wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2026 10:19 pm New Babylons look great and would be a great choice.

I 100% agree Lyle but you know how this works. I’m keeping track of member input if not for 2026 then in a future year. TY for the input! Peace. Tom

The pattern 64 with nice handles would be AWESOME!! Who doesn't love a cheetah?

RedRaiderRick wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2026 11:40 pm The pattern 64 with nice handles would be AWESOME!! Who doesn't love a cheetah?

I want two. It would be nice to have two different handle options also. Yep

Looks like GEC is making 64s this year.

Always exciting news! GEC has had released some fantastic patterns this year.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2026 7:48 pm

I'm hooked!

I'm interested.

Good morning everyone, just a quick update on where we are at the end of May. The good news is that our order is in and GEC is processing it. The bad news is that I don’t have pricing yet and until that happens I cannot launch the pre-sale. I’m hoping to have pricing sometime next week, which will allow me to finalize the store listings and Bryan can send out an email to all premium subscribers announcing the start of the pre-sale. We are very close and your patience will be rewarded and some of your wishes will actually come true Peace. Tom

Thank you for the update and all the behind the scenes work to bring us the annual club knife. Enjoy your weekend.

Trapper John wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2026 12:15 pmEnjoy your weekend.

you are most welcome Trapper John and I hope you have a good weekend too!