Hand-forged by Filipino makers in Batangas tradition. Every order ships with tracking. Wholesale and bulk pricing
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Three people, one workshop in Memphis, and a way of building balisongs that was learned in Batangas long before any of it had a website.
Rico Delos Reyes grew up in Batangas, in the part of the Philippines the balisong actually comes from. There the knife is ordinary. Neighbours made them. Fathers made them. The sound of a blade being tuned against its pivot was something you heard from the street on an ordinary afternoon.
He learned it the way everyone there learns it: standing next to someone older, holding the work steady long before he was allowed to shape it. Handles first. Then bolsters. Then, years later, the blade. Nobody hands you the blade early.
When the family moved to the United States, most of what they owned stayed behind. The method did not. He kept building knives in Memphis exactly the way he had been taught to build them in Batangas — one at a time, by hand, with the pivot tuned until it moves the way it should and not a step before.
Balisong Butterfly grew out of that bench, and it is still a family business. The knives are built here in the United States by Filipino makers, many from families with generations behind them. Nothing ships without passing his hands first.
“A balisong that does not open right is not finished. It does not matter how it looks.”
Rico Delos Reyes
Every knife on this site passes through the same three pairs of hands. That is the whole company — and it is why we can tell you who made your knife and who packed it.
Born in Batangas, based in Memphis. He sets the standard for every knife, chooses the steel and handle material for each build, and does the last check before anything is packed.
Filipino-American, born in the United States to a Batangas family — the second generation at the bench. She runs quality control, sets out engraving layouts and handles every custom order. If you asked for initials, a date or a design, it went through her.
Memphis born and the voice on the other end of the email. He looks after the shop, the listings and the packing table, so the knife you ordered is the knife that arrives — wrapped properly and out the door in one to three days.
Knives are built in small runs at a bench, not stamped out in batches of a thousand. Small numbers are the point, not a limitation.
Function, alignment, pivot action, blade condition. Every knife, every time, before it is allowed near a box.
The method is from Batangas. The workshop is in Memphis, Tennessee. Domestic orders clear no customs and no import wait.
Emails are answered by one of the three of us, usually the same day. Nobody is passed to a queue.
159 balisongs built the way this page describes — or read the longer story of where the method came from.
