Vosteed’s gift season sale takes 30% off the Raccoon TiSlim, and the cut lands where it counts. Add the knife to a cart at Vosteed’s own store and the $135 list price falls to $94.50, all on its own. No code, no coupon field.
Titanium, a crossbar lock, under a hundred dollars. That mix doesn’t surface often.
The TiSlim is the slimmed-down build of the Raccoon, the bestselling folder in Vosteed’s EDC line. It landed in our roundup of the 10 best-selling Vosteed knives earlier this year and in a run of new minimalist EDC knives before that, both times at full price. The brief behind it was simple. Take the Raccoon everybody already carries and machine the handle down until it nearly disappears in a pocket.
Vosteed Raccoon TiSlim Crossbar Lock, A4501
3.18-inch 154CM drop-point blade · solid titanium handle, 0.315 in thick · 2.69 oz
Price: $135.00
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon
Eight millimeters of titanium
Both handle slabs are solid titanium. Together they measure 0.315 inches, 8.0 millimeters in Vosteed’s own spec table.
The maker’s comparison shot makes the point faster than the number. The closed knife lies flatter than a bifold wallet and level with a short stack of coins sitting on the table next to it.
The thinness comes from the machining, not from giving anything up. Scale edges are chamfered so nothing digs into a palm, the interior is weight-tuned on the mill and pocketed where material isn’t needed, and a colored aluminum backspacer closes the spine. What survives is a 4.37-inch handle that fills a hand and a knife that vanishes against a pocket seam.
Look closer and the flat sides aren’t plain at all. Milled lines cross the scales in a layered pattern, the spine carries two runs of jimping plus a long traction strip, and the thumb studs wear a two-tone finish with a green ring at the base. It’s a lot of surface work for a knife this thin, and it keeps the TiSlim from looking like a bare slab.
The blade and the lock
Cutting falls to a 3.18-inch drop point in 154CM, flat ground from 0.087-inch stock and finished in satin. Hardness runs 60 on the Rockwell scale, plus or minus a point, the working end of what the steel does well. It comes back fast on a stone and stays stubborn through cardboard, cord, and zip ties. The flat grind keeps the edge thin behind the bevel, a slicer first and a pry tool never.
Those studs work from both sides, and the pivot rides on ball bearings, so the blade swings out on a thumb push with no wrist snap behind it. The crossbar lock runs the same in either hand. Pull the bar back, fold the blade home, done. Left-handed carriers get the whole mechanism, not a workaround version of it.
The pocket clip is titanium too, 3D-milled and reversible, mounted to a recessed plate with a single screw so it sits flat against the scale instead of stacking on top of it. The lanyard hole gets the same treatment, recessed into the butt. It also rides tip-up, so the knife comes out of the pocket already pointed the right way.
Vosteed names the carry spots plainly: a jeans coin pocket, a shirt pocket, an EDC pouch. At 2.69 ounces the pitch holds up, and a finger choil at the blade’s base gives detail work a place to choke up.
The rest of the line
The gray A4501 is one of five 154CM builds at the $135 list, alongside blue and blacked-out variants plus a carbon-fiber build, and every one of them takes the same 30% in the cart. The step up is steel. S35VN builds list at $175 and $178, and the same discount puts them at $122.50 and $124.60, acid-wash titanium included.
One caution at checkout. The Munch Munch Halloween edition from last month wears the TiSlim name too, but it’s a limited run on a different blade shape and it sits outside this pricing. The knife on sale here is the standard drop point.
Amazon’s price for the same A4501: the full $135, no sale attached.
Vosteed hasn’t posted an end date for the gift season event. The $94.50 is sitting in carts today, and it walks back to list when the event closes. Plan on the cart price, not the product page, which still shows list.
The event runs wider than this one knife, with a gift-season collection behind it, but the TiSlim is the piece in that collection carrying a flagship name.
Vosteed timed the event for gift season, and the lineup fits it. A knife in five finishes, under a hundred dollars, in the middle of gift season, aimed straight at the carrier who keeps saying his current folder is too thick. The S35VN builds at $122.50 belong in that same conversation, and it’s the easiest version of this knife to give.
Titanium this thin usually lives well past $150, and slim at this level is normally a trade against lock strength or blade stock. Here it isn’t. What’s left is a full-size crossbar folder at 2.69 ounces, priced for a short run like a budget knife.
Vosteed Raccoon TiSlim Crossbar Lock, A4501
3.18-inch 154CM drop-point blade · solid titanium handle, 0.315 in thick · 2.69 oz
Price: $135.00
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon
