TRM ATOM Liner Lock 3.5" MagnaCut, Pop Camo Carbon 3D Contoured Smooth, Titanium Liners, Made in USA (DLR-ATM-CC-3D-POP)

The folding scalpel, in Pop camo carbon.

The ATOM is TRM's flagship folder and the knife owners call a folding scalpel. It runs a 3.5 inch full flat ground CPM MagnaCut drop point on pocketed titanium liners, with titanium thumb studs and custom titanium hardware. This one wears Pop camo carbon, 3D contoured and left smooth. Made in Three Rivers, Massachusetts.

Note from Lone Star Knife & Supply: Five of these came in, which makes it the deepest single configuration in this TRM order. The ATOM is their most popular knife because it slices better than anything close to its weight, and the titanium liners and thumb studs give it an action that feels more expensive than it is.

Why This ATOM Stands Out

• 3.5" CPM MagnaCut drop point blade, full flat ground
• Pop camo carbon in purple, orange, and pink, 3D contoured smooth
• Liner lock with pocketed titanium liners
• Titanium thumb studs and custom titanium hardware
• Titanium deep carry pocket clip
• Roughly 3 oz
• Limited lifetime warranty, made in USA

Specifications

• Brand: Three Rivers Mfg
• Model: ATOM
• Blade Length: 3.5"
• Open Length: 8.19"
• Closed Length: 4.69"
• Blade Thickness: 0.090"
• Blade Steel: CPM MagnaCut
• Blade Style: Drop Point
• Blade Grind: Full Flat
• Lock Type: Liner Lock
• Liners: Pocketed Titanium
• Handle Material: Pop Camo Carbon, 3D Contoured Smooth
• Weight: Approximately 3 oz
• Pocket Clip: Titanium Deep Carry
• Warranty: Limited Lifetime
• Country of Origin: Made in USA (Three Rivers, Massachusetts)

The Pop Colorway

Purple, orange, and pink over near black. The name earns itself.

The colors come through as bright veins running across a dark field rather than as blocks of color, so the handle reads mostly black from across a room and not at all black once it is in your hand.

Why It Cuts Like It Does

The ATOM is 3.5 inches of blade at roughly 3 ounces, and the reason it gets away with that is geometry. Full flat grind on 0.090 inch stock means there is very little steel behind the edge pushing material apart as you cut.

Thin stock on a long blade only works if the rest of the knife is built to support it. The pocketed titanium liners are what keep it rigid without putting the weight back in.

What Camo Carbon Is

Camo Carbon starts as aerospace grade carbon fiber, pressed into a solid block under high heat and vacuum. That is why it comes out structural rather than decorative, and it is made in the USA.

The pattern runs all the way through the block. Nothing is printed on the surface, so what you see is whatever the milling exposed as it cut down through the layers. It cannot wear off, and no two sets come out the same. On a 3D contoured scale, where the cutter works at changing depths across the whole handle, that is at its most obvious.

Why You Will Want It

If you want one knife that handles everything a pocket knife is actually asked to do in a week, the ATOM is the TRM to start with. This is that knife in a material that keeps it from disappearing into the crowd.

About Three Rivers Mfg

Three Rivers Mfg, or TRM, is a knife company in Three Rivers, Massachusetts, founded by the Halpern family and grown out of Halpern Titanium. Les and Marianne Halpern started with titanium scraps at a kitchen table in 1997, and that shop became one of the most trusted makers of precision knife components in the industry. Every TRM knife is designed, machined, and assembled in house, with USA etched on the blade, and covered by a limited lifetime warranty.

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