Benchmade's Seager Editions and Buck's Alpha Scout Elite Lead the Week

Gear Patrol's weekly roundup of knife and multi-tool releases is usually worth reading for the missed items rather than the headline ones, and this week is a good example. The two biggest names both showed up: Benchmade with a pair of limited editions and Buck with a new Buck of the Month.

Benchmade's contribution is the 940-2602 Osborne Seager and the 203-2601 Dacian Seager, limited editions that apply a Western theme to two of the company's established designs — the 940 Osborne everyone knows and the 203 Dacian fixed blade. Limited runs from Benchmade tend to sell through quickly and rarely return in the same configuration, which makes the Osborne Seager the more consequential of the two for anyone who has been waiting for a variant of that pattern. Buck's release is the 662 Alpha Scout Elite, the September 2026 Buck of the Month, following the pattern the company has used all year of putting a special configuration of an existing model into a monthly window.

The rest of the list is where the week's real variety sits. The Kith for Benchmade Yamori is a folding knife resulting from a fashion collaboration, aimed at the same gentleman's-knife buyer who has driven Benchmade's recent Japanese-inspired designs. Montana Knife Company's The Montana folding knife is back after an initial sell-through. CJRB's Building the Latitude campaign and Oknife's MK 3-in-1 multi-tool cover the budget end, and Tactile Turn's Smoking Tire Side Click Pen and Titaner's Anchor One-Press titanium belt keychain fill in the non-knife EDC category — the Anchor is a 9.6-gram springless key holder that ships with ten interchangeable rings, with a $138 double-slotted Pro version. Steelport's $740 carving set, built around a 9-inch 52100 carbon steel blade hardened to 65 HRC with a stabilized Oregon big leaf maple burl handle and a matching fork, is the most expensive thing on the list and the least likely to end up in a pocket.

The pattern across the week is a familiar one for 2026: established brands leaning on limited editions and collaborations, budget brands competing on feature count, and the premium accessories market continuing to move toward titanium hardware for tasks that used to involve a split ring and a length of cord.

Verdict: the Benchmade Seager editions are the items most likely to disappear, and the Buck 662 Alpha Scout Elite is the most straightforward buy of the group if you want a fixed blade you can use rather than store.

Limited editions and Buck of the Month runs are time-boxed — check current availability with each brand before ordering.