Hand-forged by Filipino makers in Batangas tradition. Every order ships with tracking.
Handmade by Filipino artisans
Ships in 1 to 3 business days
Worldwide shipping with tracking
The balisong comes from a province in the Philippines. Our knives are made by Filipino artisans and metalworkers who carried that craft with them to the United States, where every one of them is built, checked and shipped.
Balisong is not a brand name. It is a place, and a craft that grew out of it. In Batangas province, south of Manila, families have been building folding knives with two rotating handles for generations, handing the geometry, the pin work and the feel of a good pivot from one bench to the next.
That lineage did not stay behind. Our knives are made by Filipino artisans and metalworkers now working in the United States, many of them from families with generations of experience building traditional Batangas balisongs. The country changed. The hands and the method did not.
We would rather carry a hundred and fifty knives we can stand behind than a thousand we cannot.
The steel decides how the knife holds an edge, how it takes a scratch and how much care it asks of you. We keep five, and we are straight about what each one is good at.
Holds a clean edge, resists rust and forgives a beginner. The steel we point most first-time buyers toward.
What Batangas makers have used the longest. Takes a very keen edge; wants a little oil and a dry pocket.
Wears harder than 440C and holds an edge longer, at the cost of a little more effort to sharpen.
Fine grain and high hardness for a refined edge. For when the knife is as much object as tool.
Layered, folded and etched so the pattern shows. No two billets ever come out the same.
Handles are cut from kamagong ebony, carabao horn, Philippine deer horn and bone. Every knife ships with a fitted leather sheath.
The knife, the steel and any engraving. A made-to-order piece begins its build the moment the order lands.
Forged, ground, drilled, pinned and hand-finished by Filipino makers here in the United States, with modern machining and tuning working alongside the traditional method.
Four checks before anything is packed: function, alignment, pivot action and blade condition.
Packed and dispatched from Memphis, Tennessee. One to three business days on in-stock knives; two to three weeks when it is made to order.
Four to eight business days across the USA. Eight to fourteen for international orders.
A balisong that looks right and moves wrong is a bad knife. So nothing leaves without going through the same four checks, by hand. If a knife does not meet the standard, it never reaches a customer.
It opens and closes the way a balisong should, latch to latch, with no catch in the swing.
Handles sit square on the blade when closed. No overhang, and nothing biting the edge.
Pivots are set so the action is smooth and even, neither loose and rattling nor stiff.
Edge, tip and finish are inspected under light before the knife goes into its box.
Balisong Butterfly LLC is based in Memphis, Tennessee. The knives are built in the United States by Filipino makers and they ship from the same country, so a domestic order never has to clear customs to reach you. International orders do, and those timings sit with the carrier.
Business days from your order to handover with the carrier.
Typical delivery window once the parcel is moving, with tracking on every order.
Typical delivery once dispatched, customs times vary. Made-to-order adds two to three weeks, engraving one to three days.
Browse the collection, or start with the guides if the balisong is new to you.
