• The Carter EDC pocket knife with a stainless blade and orange handle.
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  • The Carter XL EDC folding slide lock pocket knife with orange handle and stainless steel blade.
  • The Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife in coyote tan.
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  • The Carter EDC folding slide lock pocket knife with OD green and orange accent case and black blade.
  • The Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife with OD green micarta handle and stainless steel blade.
  • The Carter XL knife with OD green handle and stainless steel blade.
  • The Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife with black micarta handle and stainless steel blade.
  • The CarterEDC slide lock folding pocket knife with primer gray handle and stainless steel blade.
  • The Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife with black micarta handle and stainless steel blade.
  • The Carter XL modern EDC folding slide lock pocket knife with a black blade and handle.
  • The Carter XL modern EDC folding slide lock pocket knife with a stainless steel blade and black handle.
  • The Carter XL modern EDC folding slide lock pocket knife with a stainless steel blade and black handle.
  • The Carter knife with corrosion-resistant VG-10 stainless steel blade.
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  • The Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife in primer gray and stainless steel.
  • The Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife in OD green and stainless steel.
  • The Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife in orange and brown .
  • The Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife in brown, orange, and black.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife with a rose gold blade and black handle.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife with a stainless blade and black handle.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife with a serrated stainless blade and black handle.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife with a black blade and bone white handle.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife with a black blade and Carryology patterned handle.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife with a black blade and OD green handle.
  • The Carbon Fiber Carter EDC pocket knife.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife in black and stainless serrated clip up.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife in black and stainless serrated on a steel surface.
  • The pocket clip of the Carter EDC pocket knife in black and stainless serrated.
  • The pivot of the Carter EDC pocket knife in black and stainless serrated.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife in orange and stainless clip up.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife in orange and stainless on a steel surface.
  • The pocket clip of the Carter EDC pocket knife in orange and stainless.
  • The pivot of the Carter EDC pocket knife in orange and stainless.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife in black micarta and stainless clip up.
  • The Carter EDC pocket knife in black micarta and stainless on a steel surface.
  • The pocket clip of the Carter EDC pocket knife in black micarta and stainless.
  • The pivot of the Carter EDC pocket knife in black micarta and stainless.
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The Carter Sunset Sale

The Carter Sunset Sale

Our most advanced everyday-carry knife

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Color Orange + Stainless

Blade Shape Straight

Size Medium

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With the Carter you get both brawn and beauty.

Featuring a slide-lock mechanism, a corrosion-resistant VG-10 stainless steel blade, fully-profiled G10, Micarta or carbon fiber scales and a deep-carry, reversible pocket clip, the Carter is the most advanced knife we’ve ever made. It's slim and lightweight, but fully capable in any environment. It's also fully ambidextrous, and the pocket clip can easily be removed. The thumb disc design means that the Carter is easy to use with one hand, so it's at the ready in all situations. The Carter is going to immediately earn its spot in your EDC rotation.

Product details

Award Winning Everyday Carry
Our most advanced everyday-carry knife, and always a top seller.
Multiple Sizes
Available in both regular and large sizes; choose the one that fits your needs/hands the best!
Blade Options
Also available in both straight and serrated options.

Technical specifications

Blade Steel
VG-10
Blade Length
2.8" / 7.0 cm
Overall Length
6.5" / 16.7 cm
Weight
3.0 oz / 85 grams
Lock Type
Ambidextrous slide lock
Blade Shape
Drop point
Edge Type
Straight Edge
Opening Style
Ambidextrous thumb disc
Scale Material
Machined G10
Main Pivot
Stainless Steel / Torx T8
Hardware
Stainless Steel / Torx T6
Carry Style
Tip up
Clip Material
Stainless Steel
Clip Hardware
Torx T6
Bearing Style
Phosphor bronze washers
Designed In
Portland, Oregon
Made In
Yangjiang, China
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The Carter EDC folding slide lock pocket knife in XL and medium sizes.

The Carter

Length : 6.5" / 16.7 cm

The Carter XL

Length : 7.8" / 19.8 cm

A detail of The Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife in primer gray.
The pocket clip of the Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife in Natural micarta.

Form and Function.

The Carter features slide-lock technology, a first for us here at TJB. The slide-lock is secure, easy to understand and ambidextrous. It’s designed for use with one hand, and has been a staple mechanism of everyday carry knives for a long time.

A man slicing an avocado with his Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife by a river.

Ambidextrous Design

A man cutting fishing line with his Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife.

Thumb Disk

every detail considered

A sketch of the Carter EDC slide lock folding pocket knife.

Designed & Made Better

The VG-10 stainless steel blade has great edge-retention and corrosion resistance. VG-10 was designed to handle the abuse of the culinary world, but because of its amazing characteristics, it’s found a home in the world of everyday carry. The Carter is available with G10 scales or in natural Micarta; both are fully sculpted and feel amazing in hand. The opening style uses a symmetrical thumb-disc on top of the blade, making for easy, affirmative one-handed opening. The deep-carry pocket clip is our deepest ever. It’s easily reversible (using a Torx T6, not included).

The Carter is available in regular and XL sizes, so it will fit hands and jobs of all sizes. If you are looking for something that is discreet and rides easily in any pocket all day, stick with the standard Carter. If you've got bigger hands, and need a full-size knife for hardcore work day in and day out, the Carter XL is for you.

Two Carter EDC folding slide lock pocket knives on a truck bed in two sizes.

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    Caroline
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    3 months ago
    "The Goat!"

    This is seriously classy, well designed knife. The micarta finish feels great in the head & the action is super smooth. I also love the colour - some have commented they expected a more "green" looking micarta, which to be honest I had expected as well but I love the natural micarta look, so am stoked. It's "the goat!"

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    Bryan A.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    4 months ago
    Sweet little EDC knife.

    So far feels high quality, I like the grip look and feel. It’s probably going in my EDC rotation…Good stuff from the James Gang! 👍🏼😏

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    Humberto M.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    5 months ago
    Great knife, but to me the color is way off from the color shown on James' website.

    The Carter is a wonderful knife, very well made and beautiful. The only thing is the color. I was expecting a darker green color (I purchased the OD Green Micarta); it looks more brown/tan than green.

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    Lindsay R.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    6 months ago
    I sleep with this masterpiece!!!!

    This knife is nothing short of exquisite. Fits perfectly in my hand. The right amount of balance. Every time I pull it out of my pocket for use and possibly a little admiration (both, I think), I'm guaranteed the task will get finished & heads will turn. I am beyond satisfied.

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    Amer
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    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    6 months ago
    What a classy pocket knife.

    I’ve written a review of the Folsom which is my daily pocket knife. Now the Carter.

    Very attractive knife. I got it in the Damascus/black Micarta. Very well made knife. Centered blade, smooth action. And yes it is not a loud click when you open. It’s more like … muffled? Dimmed? I don’t know the word. But it’s not bad. Just a little more classy I guess.

    This would definitely be my night knife.

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