Superthin Vosteed Parallel Gets Performance-Oriented Revision

Vosteed is getting ready to ship out the revised edition of the Parallel, an everyday carry piece built to be as thin as possible. The 2025 Parallel comes with a boost to the blade steel that should make this compact companion work in role even better.

In recent times, Vosteed has begun infusing its catalogue with designs from outside collaborators, including TuffKnives and Ray Laconico. But the core of their offerings consist of designs from the in-house team, lead by Yue Dong, who was an online knife community stalwart – known as Doctor EDC – before he became the owner of his own knife company. The Parallel was not the first Vosteed release (which, if you’ll recall, was a kitchen knife funded through Kickstarter), but it embodies the Vosteed interest in practical EDC pieces built from solid materials and flaunting clean, modern lines.

The major update on the 2025 Parallel revision is the blade – not the shape or size, however, which remains the same. The Parallel’s got a 2.9-inch blade, and you can tell this is a knife made by enthusiasts because the blade shape is the reverse tanto, a format very much appreciated by cutlery cognoscenti. The same should be pleased with the bumped up steel here: S35VN steps in for the 154CM of the original, nudging the performance metrics up by a not inconsiderable amount.

The handle – including its impressively thin .28” thickness (a thin thickness?) – has been carried forward, and the original construction material for the scales, titanium, remains. However, Vosteed gave the S35VN Parallel a fresh coat of paint, with a new ano job and blade coating to go along with it.

Interested in this one? It will be available tomorrow, Thursday February 27th.

Knife in Featured Image: Vosteed Cutlery 2025 Parallel

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