Nabalis Canyon Balisong Trainer Butterfly Knife Balisong, With Stainless Steel Handle & Blade Balisong Trainer, Unsharpened, for Practicing Flipping, Blunt Practice, No Edge Tool

I will write more details later but just wanted to say; I've got Balisongs approaching $1k. I've been on a tear recently buying a lot of sub-$40.00 knives, and continue to be floored by the quality and value you can get for under $40.00 Particularly when it comes to Balisongs, I'm extremely picky, and we have that luxury; the bali market / community has positively exploded over the past ~10+ years and there are thousands, if not tens of thousands of options. Many hand-made in very small batches, producing exquisite balisongs that are absolutely amazing to flip. I own around 30+ balis and have flipped a ton more than that, so I can confidently say that this Nabalis Canyon is positively sublime. It's amazing. I absolutely love it. It has become my new favorite balisong, hands down. At first, I was a little dismayed & disappointed by the heavier than anticipated weight & how quiet it was. One of my favorite things about balis are the sounds; the crispy click-clack; the musical wind chime, etc. The Canyon is very quiet. However, the more I played with this, the more I grew to love it. What I thought were the 2 biggest negatives, actually ended up becoming my favorite aspects of this Nabalis Canyon! I actually flip better now because it is heavier; my fingers & hands feel stronger - literally like I'm exercising them with heavier weights - hey, an oz or two is a lot for your fingers! And the fact it's so quiet means I can flip it at work, while on the phone, which I can NOT do with the vast majority of my other balis!!! Trust me; I've tried. :-\ People can always hear the lovely, but prominent sounds in the background. Not so with the Canyon. In fact, I purposely seek out & buy the loudest, most wind chime-y, click-clackiest balis I can. I love it! The sounds are just delightful. So, I was initially disappointed with how quiet the Canyon is.....again; until I realized that means I can flip it more places, more often! Including at work & on the phone / zoom! Again; I'll try to write more later, but the overall point is this Nabalis Canyon has become my absolute favorite balisong. I love it so much I went to their site & bought the Cheese - which is also amazing - and another Canyon with the actual blade with false edge (unsharpened). They really, truly hit it out of the park with the Canyon. and for $40.00...... I don't understand. I don't get how they can make a decent profit, but hey....keep doing what you are doing, Nabalis, because this thing is almost as joyous to flip as my $8-900 customs....... Almost....

For $40 this is the best trainer ive ever felt. Its pretty much on par with with more expensive balisongs. To me it’s probably on par and possibly better than the steel Kershaw Lucha. The Canyon is lighter and more nimble feeling. It doesnt bash your knuckles like a heavier steel balisong (especially ones on bearings). It feels really nice because of the chamfering and speed channels. Its slightly thinner than I imagined but in a good way. They really got the balance and feel down. Best stainless steel balisong ive tried. Tolerances out of the box were very good. No tap and little play. Id consider the tolerances amazing for $40 and very good for any price point. Comes with a cool box and extra hardware, lube, blue threadlocker, and even the torx bit. Very very nice attention to detail. If you are looking for a beater balisong to practice and you dont want to spend a ton of money or waste money on cheap crap buy this immediately. You will 100% not regret this. Ive had tons of balisongs hundreds of dollars more expensive and this $40 trainer is imo incredible for the price.

I have a dozen balis, This being the cheapest next to a Theone Falcon, all the way to an Alpha Beast. This is by far my favorite trainer I own to flip; I own 3 Glidrcos' and a Squid Industries Mako (the Mako and Glidr Bermuda being some of my favorites). I bought this because the skeletonized channel steel is a very interesting construction that I haven't seen before. Typically, steel is a poor choice for handle material because of the weight, my Kershaw Lucha is on Flytanium Aluminum handles for this exact reason... The Lucha is stock form flips like a school bus. Weight isn't an issue on the Canyon because they pretty much removed all of it, all sides are effectively speed channeled. What you get out of this is a very neutral flipping knife that carries momentum exceptionally well (ever so slight handle bias). Around the same time I impulse purchased a Flytanium Zenith (same price range $60), which flips the worst out of all of my trainers. It carries exactly zero momentum, feels closer to a Squiddy than a typical aluminum knife, love it's ring though... This thing Chaplin's well, does rolls like butter and I personally have no issues with grip on ladders. Fans nicely too. The exact reason I love this thing though, comes from the Zippy inserts I put in it. Amazon won't let me add a photo to show, buy I opted for the trainer blade over the false live for this reason. The Zippy inserts make this thing sound very close to a titanium knife when tuned and oiled. It's wicked, no bali this cheap has any right sounding this good. Will mention, it sounds horrific without the inserts, so definitely recommend at least the speed Channel inserts by Zippy. Channel steel needs to become more mainstream. The build quality isn't great, you can see obvious residual steel from casting but this doesn't bother me because of the price. I'd pay double for better quality and a polished (obviously it'll oxidized, not a realistic thing to manifacture) finish with a blade style similar to the Nabalis Hydra. It's my go to trainer, could absolutely not recommend it enough. Just don't drop it on something hard. I've seen quite a few posts online of these things breaking the cast handles. Quite an unusual issue for a steel knife, it's cheap for a reason.

I had just ordered about 7 Balisong trainers to find one that is both good quality AND has more handle bias, and this is it! I just ordered the Trident, which is good, but kinda light and doesn't swing as much. This one is even better AND more than half the price. Absolutely a good value. Super smooth flipping. Absolutely recommend for beginners. Nice twangy sound too it as well.