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Monday, November 9, 2026  · 
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New Knives: Buck's Alpha Cleaver, a Jack Wolf Gunstock and ZT Folders

A limited camp cleaver, a traditional pocketknife due Friday and tough new folders from Zero Tolerance and Kershaw.

Buck's November Buck of the Month is the 667 Alpha Cleaver, a nearly 5.5-inch cleaver in tough CPM 3V steel with a G-10 handle, 7.3 ounces, limited to 500 and available now, KnifeNews reports. Jack Wolf Knives releases its Gunstock, a traditional pocketknife with a 2.97-inch clip-point blade in 14C28N steel and eight handle materials, on Friday, November 13. Zero Tolerance's new 0316 and 0512 folders use CPM Cru-Wear blades of about 3.5 inches, and Kershaw added the CPM MagnaCut Continental and budget models including the Conduit XL, all available now. Civivi has shown prototypes of the Estoc, a 4.1-inch folder, with no release date yet.

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