Carpenter Technology's Micro-Melt Maxamet is a remarkable tool steel initially crafted to handle the intense task of rolling red-hot steel billets in Carpenter's mills. Spyderco stands out as the only knife manufacturer to have mastered this challenging material sufficiently to use it extensively in their production knives. The newest member of the prestigious Maxamet series is the Sage 5 Lightweight. This knife features a blade made from this exceptionally hard and durable material ground to a full-flat finish and is encased in a Lightweight handle with Bi-Directional Texturing. The Sage 5 Lightweight retains all the key elements of the standard model including nested and skeletonized stainless steel liners a robust Compression Lock fiberglass-reinforced-nylon (FRN) scales formed through injection molding and a reversible deep-pocket wire clip.The knife boasts a blade length of 3 inches crafted from Maxamet steel and includes a handle made from fiberglass-reinforced nylon. It is manufactured in Taiwan.