Balisong D2 knives

We sell five steels and D2 is the one people most often buy for the wrong reason, so here is the comparison without the flattery.
D2 vs 440C. D2 holds an edge substantially longer. 440C resists rust better, sharpens far more easily, and costs less, averaging $151.99 against $177.80. If you never cut anything, 440C wins on every axis that will affect you.
D2 vs VG10. D2 for edge life, VG10 for keenness, low maintenance and price. VG10 averages $131.24.
D2 vs high carbon. High carbon is tougher and much easier to sharpen, and it will patina and can rust. D2 gives you most of the toughness and most of the rust resistance without either extreme. This is the closest call we sell.
D2 vs Damascus. Not a performance question. Damascus starts at $154.00 and is bought for a pattern that exists nowhere else. Buy Damascus for that reason or do not buy it.
47 D2 knives, $121.00 to $357.50.

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Ahas Hand Forged D2 Steel Balisong Snake Blade Knife| Stag & Brass Engraved Bolsters Handle | Premium Butterfly Knife with Snake Shape Leather Sheath BF-149

Original price was: $464.95.Current price is: $348.71.

Specifications

  • Overall Length: 11.42 inches (29 cm)

  • Blade Length: 5.51 inches (14 cm)

  • Weight: 205 grams (7.23 oz)

    • Blade Material: D2 Steel Snake KnifeHandle Material: Stag with Brass Engraved Bolsters Handle

  • Sheath: Premium Leather

Personalise it: initials or short text engraving $19, custom logo engraving $29. Choose on this page before you add to cart. Free gift box included.

Amihan Filipino Traditional Series D2 Steel Beautiful Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made With Rose Wood Handle BF-99

Original price was: $271.95.Current price is: $203.96.

Blade Materials – D2 Steel

Handle Materials – Brass with Rose Wood

Overall Length – 24cm

Blade Length -12cm

Weight – 200g

Bagani Filipino Traditional D2 Steel Beautiful Dagger Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Rose Wood Handle BF-111

Original price was: $235.95.Current price is: $176.96.

The Dagger Blade variant of our Filipino Traditional line adds a symmetrical double-edged profile to the same D2 steel, rosewood-handled build.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with rose Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 220g

Bagwis Filipino Traditional Series D2 Steel Beautiful Tanto Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made With Rose Wood Handle BF-100

Original price was: $285.95.Current price is: $214.46.

A tanto point is a flat grind meeting a short angled tip, which makes it the sturdiest tip geometry in the traditional series.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel

Handle Materials – Brass with Rose Wood

Overall Length – 24cm

Blade Length -12cm

Weight – 200g

Balete Philippine Visayan D2 Steel Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Stag Horn Handle BF-122

Original price was: $249.95.Current price is: $187.46.

Collectors reach for the BF-122 because it is the real thing: handmade start to finish in the Visayan style, with Philippine stag horn on the handles.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with stag horn
Overall Length – 29cm
Blade Length -14cm
Weight – 200g

Bundok Philippine Visayan D2 Steel Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Stag Horn Handle BF-121

Original price was: $249.95.Current price is: $187.46.

The Visayan islands developed their own reading of the balisong - longer and narrower than the Batangas standard, and lighter in hand than the length suggests.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with stag horn
Overall Length – 29cm
Blade Length -14cm
Weight – 200g

Dalisay Filipino Traditional D2 Steel Beautiful Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Rose Wood Handle BF-110

Original price was: $249.95.Current price is: $187.46.

This Filipino Traditional model pairs a durable D2 tool-steel blade with a rosewood handle for a classic Batangas-style flipper.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with rose Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 220g

Dangal Filipino Traditional Series D2 Steel Beautiful Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made With Rose Wood Handle BF-101

Original price was: $285.95.Current price is: $214.46.

Rosewood, brass, and proportions that have not shifted in generations - the BF-101 is the plain Batangas pattern, made the way it always has been.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel

Handle Materials – Brass with Rose Wood

Overall Length – 24cm

Blade Length -12cm

Weight – 200g

Giting Filipino Traditional D2 Steel Beautiful Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Rose Wood Handle BF-103

Original price was: $267.95.Current price is: $200.96.

A symmetrical dagger point, brass bolsters and rose wood left to show its own grain - the BF-103 does not modernise the Batangas pattern, it repeats it.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with rose Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 220g

Gubat Pandayan Traditional Series Hunting Balde D2 Steel Beautiful Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made With Burl Wood Handle BF-96

Original price was: $235.95.Current price is: $176.96.

Pandayan is the Filipino word for the forge itself, and the BF-96 wears it plainly: a hunting blade, narra burl and brass, nothing more.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with Narra Burl Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 200g

Habagat Pandayan Traditional Series D2 Steel Beautiful Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made With Cool Handle BF-94

Original price was: $228.95.Current price is: $171.71.

Narra burl replaces the near-black kamagong used across most of the range, so the BF-94 handle reads warmer and redder.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with Narra Burl Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 200g

Hiyas Filipino Traditional D2 Steel Beautiful Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Rose Wood Handle Best Quality Knife BF-113

Original price was: $235.95.Current price is: $176.96.

Rose wood, brass, and dimensions that have not needed changing in generations - this is where to start if you want to know what a traditional Filipino balisong is.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with rose Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 220g

Kalayaan Filipino Traditional D2 Steel Beautiful Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Rose Wood Handle Best Quality Knife BF-115

Original price was: $235.95.Current price is: $176.96.

Built the ordinary way, which is the hard way - hand-cut handles, hand-fitted pivots, and rose wood set into brass.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with rose Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 220g

Kidlat Handmade Karambit Balisong Butterfly Knife | Matte Stone Washed D2 Tool Steel | Black Micarta Handle with Leather Sheath BF-176

Original price was: $305.95.Current price is: $229.46.

Stone washed D2, black micarta, no brass and no shine anywhere. If the polished ones make you nervous about the first scratch, this is the answer to that.

Blade Material – D2 Tool Steel, matte stone washed
Handle Material – Black Micarta, finger ring
Overall Length – 24 cm
Blade Length – 12 cm
Hardness – 58-60 HRC
Sheath – Fitted leather, included

Lakan Filipino Traditional D2 Steel Beautiful Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Rose Wood Handle BF-105

Original price was: $249.95.Current price is: $187.46.

Every BF-105 is made by hand rather than machined by the thousand, and the traditional Batangas outline carries nothing that does not earn its place.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with rose Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 220g

Lingkis Dagger Snake Filipino Traditional D2 Steel Beautiful Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Stag Horn Handle BF-117

Original price was: $221.95.Current price is: $166.46.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with stag horn
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 220g

Liwayway Filipino Traditional D2 Steel Beautiful Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Rose Wood Handle BF-109

Original price was: $249.95.Current price is: $187.46.

The plain Batangas outline with nothing added, where rose wood against brass keeps the BF-109 warm rather than showy.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with rose Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 220g

Marilag Filipino Traditional D2 Steel Beautiful Blade Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made Gift For Him With Rose Wood Handle BF-112

Original price was: $249.95.Current price is: $187.46.

Part of our Filipino Traditional collection, the BF-112 brings hand-fitted rosewood and dependable D2 steel to a classic balisong silhouette.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with rose Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 220g

Molave Pandayan Traditional Series Hunting Balde D2 Steel Beautiful Butterfly Balisong Knife USA Made With Rose Wood Handle BF-97

Original price was: $249.95.Current price is: $187.46.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with Rose Wood
Overall Length – 24cm
Blade Length -12cm
Weight – 200g

 

Mole Handmade D2 Tool Steel Original Filipino Balisong Butterfly Knife with Brass, Carabao Horn and Jigged Bone Handle | 29cm Full Size Collector Gift | BF-78

Original price was: $210.95.Current price is: $158.21.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with Carabao Horn & Jigged Bone Inserts
Overall Length – 29cm
Blade Length -14cm
Weight – 220g

 

Monarch Handmade D2 Tool Steel Original Filipino Balisong Butterfly Knife with Brass and Bone Handle | 29cm Full Size Collector Gift | BF-79

Original price was: $210.95.Current price is: $158.21.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with Bone Inserts
Overall Length – 29cm
Blade Length -14cm
Weight – 220g

 

Mongoose Handmade D2 Tool Steel Original Filipino Balisong Butterfly Knife with Brass, Carabao and Deer Horn Handle | 29cm Full Size Collector Gift | BF-80

Original price was: $210.95.Current price is: $158.21.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with Carabao and Deer Horn Inserts
Overall Length – 29cm
Blade Length -14cm
Weight – 220g

 

Mongrel Handmade D2 Tool Steel Original Filipino Balisong Butterfly Knife with Brass and Kamagong Wood Handle | 29cm Full Size Collector Gift | BF-81

Original price was: $196.95.Current price is: $147.71.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with Kamagong Wood Inserts
Overall Length – 29cm
Blade Length -14cm
Weight – 220g

 

Monitor Lizard Handmade D2 Tool Steel Original Filipino Balisong Butterfly Knife with Brass and Kamagong Wood Handle | 29cm Full Size Collector Gift | BF-82

Original price was: $210.95.Current price is: $158.21.

A monitor lizard is the big one in its family, and the BF-82 matches it at 29cm and 220g in D2 tool steel.

Blade Materials – D2 Tool Steel
Handle Materials – Brass with Kamagong Wood Inserts
Overall Length – 29cm
Blade Length -14cm
Weight – 220g

 

About our balisongs

The balisong began in Batangas, in the Philippines, and every knife in this collection is made in that tradition. Our knives are made by Filipino artisans and metalworkers, many from families with generations of experience, now working in the United States.

Blades are ground in 440C stainless, D2 tool steel, VG10, high carbon and Damascus steel. Handles are fitted in kamagong ebony, carabao horn, Philippine deer horn and bone, and every knife ships with a fitted leather sheath. Both live blades and trainers are offered.

Before a knife leaves the bench it passes a four-step quality process: detailed hand inspection, smoothness and pivot testing, blade alignment checks, and durability and finish quality control. If a knife doesn't meet our standards, it never reaches our customers.

Most orders ship in 1 to 3 business days and arrive in 4 to 8 business days across the USA, or 8 to 14 business days internationally. Out of stock knives are handcrafted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, and every order ships worldwide with tracking.