Various Strider designs have met and exceeded the requirements in each of these fields.
The background of Strider Knives founders enables the company to assess requirements in diverse fields ranging from the average line soldier/marine through special operations, law enforcement and hunting to commercial diving. Others are simply the company's ability to look at a potential work environment and design a prototype to be tested and assessed by the workers of that environment. Strider is best known for their folding knives, and their offerings are hallmarked by their distinct shape, titanium frame locks, and integral G10 backspacer and scale. Founders Duane Dwyer and Mick Strider make all of their knives out of their San Marcos, California shop.
Many of Striders available edged tools are drawn from customer's specific design requirements. Strider is known for their military inspired hard use blades. found a ready market for custom-edged weapons and tools with the same component quality requirements as the first highly successful field knives. The initial goal having been met, Strider Knives Inc. The initial goal was to provide a field service knife constructed with the finest components available, yet affordable to the average enlisted man and within his maintenance abilities.
The company was founded and is currently operated by former military personnel. is a privately owned and operated company devoted solely to the development and construction of edged tools designed to survive use in the harshest of conditions.