Southpaw Knives

"My name is Ira Mark Lipson. I make custom pocket knives for lefties and righties. This full-time home hobby business began in 2000 by customizing production right hand knives to make them lefty friendly and has evolved into creating knives from scratch utilizing my own designs. I am a one man shop, I operate out of my home. I have a shop in the basement and do my grinding in the garage. All my knives are made one at a time by hand, without computers or waterjet cutter, etc. All knives are made by me using my original designs. I use a variety of materials for handles, but frames, liners are all 6AL4V Titanium. Blades are Stainless, currently I am using CPM154CM, and on occasion I use Stainless Steel Damascus. All Stainless blades are professionally heat treated (I send them out to a knife blade heat treating company) and Cryo Tempered. Most of the knives I make are Military in design so CPM steels seem like a good fit."