Kizer Halloween Wharning: A 150-Piece White Mountain Exclusive With Nitro-V, Orange and Green, and Purple Hardware

Halloween came early to White Mountain Knives. Kizer's newest dealer exclusive is the Halloween Wharning — model V3738E1 — a numbered run of 150 that dresses up the brand's Johan Jordaan-designed Wharning platform in full holiday regalia: orange and green aluminum-and-micarta scales, a black sheepsfoot blade, and purple hardware that somehow ties the whole thing together. It hit Kizer's site on September 9 at $99, and with only 150 individually numbered pieces in existence, the window to grab one at retail is likely to be short.

The specs read like a checklist of what makes a Wharning-style knife fun. The 3.40-inch blade is Nitro-V with a plain edge, flat grind and black finish, and the sheepsfoot profile gives the knife the useful, controllable cutting geometry the design is known for. The handle is aluminum and micarta in orange and green with purple hardware, carrying the holiday theme without tipping into toy territory — the color combo is loud but deliberate, and the deep-carry, non-reversible pocket clip keeps the whole 3.7-ounce package riding low in the pocket. Deployment comes from a Kizer button liner lock, the brand's fidget-friendly signature mechanism.

The exclusive context is worth understanding. White Mountain Knives has become one of the most active dealers in the knife world for exactly this kind of collaboration, and Kizer has been feeding it steadily — the same week brought a Madrac CL AirTi in M390 and a Mash exclusive in addition to the Wharning. Numbered runs like this one serve two audiences: collectors who want the specific numbered piece, and fans of the platform who would rather buy a themed edition at retail than chase one on the secondary market later. At $99 for Nitro-V, aluminum and micarta, the Halloween Wharning also undercuts what a similar custom-themed build would cost by a wide margin.

For Kizer watchers, the Wharning exclusive is another data point in the brand's aggressive dealer-exclusive strategy — PCB editions, Blade District runs and White Mountain collabs have been landing almost weekly. The Halloween angle gives it a shelf-life hook: this is a knife that makes sense in October, but the numbered run means the buy window is not seasonal, it is inventory-based. When 150 pieces of a holiday-themed knife are gone, they are gone. If the colorway does it for you, Kizer's product page is the place to act.