Oxidizer Customs

Controlled corrosion.

Hand-picked knives, stripped back to bare titanium and re-coloured by electric current. One piece at a time, in Lausanne.

Watch the grey metal turn into a unique EDC item See what's ready

Who we are

At Oxidizer Customs, we love knives, titanium, and useful EDC gear.

We handpick pieces we like and give them our own look — one piece at a time, in our workshop.

Every item gets our own little twist, so no two are exactly the same. They’re not necessarily rare — just carefully chosen, fine-tuned, and made a bit more special than the one you’d get straight out of the box.

We’re not here just to sell knives and gear. We want to meet people who are just as crazy about knives and EDC as we are, share ideas, and build a community around the things we love, need and use every single day.

So if you’re into knives, EDC, and cool gear — welcome. You’re among friends.

The Oxidizer Customs battle badge: a steel dog tag in a black silencer, the mark and the name etched in, stamped with a member number

The battle badge

Join the crew and this goes on your chain: steel, the mark etched in, your own member number stamped deep. Wear it like you earned it.

Philosophy

Oxidation usually means wear, age and decay. On titanium it means colour. A measured current grows an oxide skin thinner than a soap bubble, and that skin has no colour of its own. It bends the light, and the light does the rest.

The process is only half of it. Oxidizer Customs is a family workshop built on one idea: a good knife can become a personal one. We start with pieces we genuinely like, a Spyderco, a Microtech, a McNees, whatever earns a place on the bench, and give each one our own interpretation. Chosen by hand, worked by hand, anodized one at a time.

We’re not chasing perfect. We’re chasing yours. The small variations, the slips, the marks the process leaves behind stay where they fall. They are the character, and they are why no two pieces match.

We make individual pieces.

And we’re not collecting customers. We’re looking for people who care about good knives, titanium, everyday carry and the craft behind them, and who want to carry something nobody else has.

It started with a love for the things we carry every day. We’re building it the same way: one piece, one person, one friendship at a time.

Before the current.
After it.

  1. Spyderco with bare, grey titanium scalesRaw Ti
  2. The same knife at 15 volts, bronze15V bronze
  3. At 20 volts, violet20V violet
  4. Finished at 28 volts, deep blue28V blue

Spyderco, titanium scales. The blue is the real piece; the voltages and earlier stages are illustrative.

Survivors,
re-coloured.

  • RareClaimed
    No. 01 Spyderco Deep Water Slate blue, with tridents and turtles masked in gold.
  • EpicClaimed
    No. 02 Prybar Spectrum The whole voltage chart on one bar, bronze through violet to teal.
  • RareClaimed
    No. 03 Microtech SOCOM Frame taken to blue and violet, carbon fibre left raw.
  • EpicClaimed
    No. 04 Prybar Bears Copper bleeding into violet. The bears stay bare metal.
  • LegendaryClaimed
    No. 05 Spyderco Jolly Roger Bronze scales, skulls and crossbones cut back to raw titanium.
  • RareClaimed
    No. 06 Prybar Koi Deep blue into violet. One koi swims upstream in bare metal.
  • EpicClaimed
    No. 07 Cleaver Zigzag Violet, with lightning zigzags masked across the scale.
  • EpicClaimed
    No. 08 Prybar Static Lightning veins over a blue-to-violet fade.
  • LegendaryClaimed
    No. 09 McNees Knives MAC 2 Grid masked by hand, two tones from one bath.
  • RareClaimed
    No. 10 Prybar Leaves Violet into teal, with leaves of raw titanium.
  • LegendaryClaimed
    No. 11 Spyderco Hornet Hammered scales taken to yellow, a lanyard to match.

Flip it.
Open it.

One pivot, one titanium handle, and every colour the current can give it.

28V blue

Stitched shut.
Grinning anyway.

  • Boneink on paper
  • Toxicred on yellow
  • Oxbloodyellow on rust
  • 00V · raw

How a piece
is made.

  1. 01

    Strip

    The knife is taken apart and the old finish goes back to bare titanium.

  2. 02

    Texture

    Blasted, stonewashed or left scarred. The surface decides how the colour will read.

  3. 03

    Current

    Into the bath, voltage dialled in. The oxide grows and the colour follows it.

  4. 04

    Ready

    Reassembled, checked, and on the shelf, waiting for the one person it fits.

Contact

Every piece here is finished and one of a kind. See one you like? Contact us.

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Every dog needs a home. So does every vault hunter.

A magenta rat sneaking off with a stolen knife
The workshop guardian: an English bulldog sitting in the light, painted for Oxidizer Customs
The workshop guardian