Real Steel – The Story of the Rokot Knife

From a technical standpoint, the Rokot is perfect. It has the right balance between tactical and functional while at the same time staying true to the designer Ivan Braginet’s aesthetic feel.

Rokot is still a young product in our lineup. The Rokot designed by Ivan Braginets is unlike his other models in many ways, while at the same time still looking exactly like an ‘Ivan Braginets’ design. We love the Rokot for all the same reasons our fans doo. The modern and futuristic design, the number of deployment options, the morse code handle and clip, and of course that action. The action that every EDC and tactical pocket knife needs. The story of the Rokot is not long but it is one filled with some awesome creations and fantastic pocket knife variations

Everything started with the first Rokot folding knife; Rokot G10. Ivan brought this knife to us and when we first looked at the drawings we were somewhat dumbfounded. What are these lines and dashes on the handle? This was something we had not seen before and wanted to know more from Ivan about it. It turned out as we all know now that these lines were dots and dashes, Morse code that spelled out the name of the designer on the handle. Something you do not see every day and we loved this idea. Let’s be honest we are not all sailors and Morse code doesn’t come to a lot of us easily, but what a way to make your mark on something you have made than to have your name printed all over it, but not in an offensive in your face way. Once we had ironed out the small details, handle material, and blade material we went ahead with production.

The first release of the Rokot did not go well for us. The knife at first look did not seem to strike a chord with our fans and the knife community generally. We were unsure why and wanted to know more. At the time Ivan was an upcoming designer with a few pocket knives under his belt, but a huge amount. We thought it might be this, but it wasn’t. We eventually found out that it was due to lack of exposure of the knife in the knife community, as on the face of things the knife isn’t conventional and a lot of people did not take to it because of that, but once the community started to see how functional and well done the knife was, and how good the action of the Rokot was then things started to change and the Rokot was taken in by all in the knife community, which we were extremely happy about. From a technical standpoint, this knife is one of our best, the engineering and work that goes into this knife is of an extremely high level. As Ivan also has a strong background in CNC and manufacturing a lot of the drawings were of high quality some needed to match this and excel it.

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