Vg10 Super steel
“Super steel” is a phrase the knife trade uses roughly the way car dealers use the word “sport”. So here is our answer, from the grinding room rather than the catalogue.
VG10 is a fine-grained Japanese cutlery stainless, and it takes an edge most steels cannot match for sheer keenness. It comes off the stones sharper than our 440C and it gets there faster than our D2. At being sharp, it is genuinely excellent.
What it is not is the toughest steel on this site, and it is not the longest-wearing. Ask VG10 to hold that razor edge through heavy cutting and it will fade before D2 does. Drop it on concrete and it is less forgiving than our high carbon blades.
There are 30 VG10 balisongs here, $109.45 for the BF-42 Falcon up to $178.75 for the BF-31 Crocodile, averaging $131.24. That is the cheapest steel band we sell, which tells you roughly how much weight to put on the word “super”. Good steel. Fair price. It does not need the adjective.
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Common Buzzard Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-26
Cow Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-27
Crab Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-28
Crane Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-30
Crocodile Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-31
Blade Materials – Vg10 Super Steel
Deer Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-32
Dog Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-33
Donkey Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-34
Dormouse Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-35
Dragonfly Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-36
Duck Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-37
Eagle Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-38
Earwig Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-39
Eel Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-40
Elephant Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-41
Falcon Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-42
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Fire-Bellied Toad Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-43
Fly Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-44
Flying Squirrel Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-45
Fox Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-46
Frog Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-47
Gecko Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-48
Gerbil Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-49
Glass Lizard Vg10 Original Filipino Balisong butterfly Knife BF-50
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.