This Excellent, Affordable EDC Knife’s Inspiration Is Positively Cosmic

The CJRB Lyrid offers much more than you might expect from the price tag.

Published March 21, 2025

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Not unlike some cars and early trendy websites, knife names can get weird. Sometimes it’s kinda cute, and sometimes it feels like the AI generator is just trying way too hard.

That being said, other knives have names with real thought and meaning behind them.

cjrb lyrid full — The Lyrid is available in three variants, with the blacked-out edition being perhaps the most covetable.

Which brings us to CJRB’s new Lyrid, a knife that I initially placed in the first category before learning that it belongs squarely in the second.

Because while it kinda sounds like a goofy app, this approacable EDC blade’s name has outer space origins — and the design to match.

It came out of the sky…

I only put all this together after a visit to designer Christain Porterfield’s instagram page. He recently posted about the knife and included this line in the caption: “Check out that meteor shower pattern in the scales!”

Ohhhhhh.

cjrb lyrid off side — Both sides of the handle feature the streaking “meteors,” and once you know the story, you can’t unsee them.

That’s when I Googled Lyrid and learned that the name refers to an annual meteor shower resulting from the Earth passing through debris from Comet Thatcher.

Lyrids are known for their fast and bright meteors and — mark your calendars — typically appear in late April, peaking on the 21st and 22nd.

Porterfield and CJRB surely timed the knife’s upcoming release around this event, but the knife’s name is not the only nod to it.

cjrb lyrid off side folded — The Lyrid’s durable steel pocket clip can be removed and switched to the other side in minutes.

As Porterfield alludes in that caption, the Lyrid’s G10 handle scales feature a bunch of streaking, slot-like indentations, mimicking the cosmic phenomenon.

The rest of the knife is pretty cool too. Those scales house a sturdy crossbar lock and a smooth ceramic ball bearing, enabling you to smoothly deploy the blade via ambidextrous thumb studs.

cjrb lyrid top down view — This rarely shown angle provides a nice look at the ambidextrous thumb studs and crossbar lock.

The blade itself is a formidable 3.15-inch sheepsfoot made of Artisan Cutlery’s respectable AR-RPM9 steel, which is beyond qualified for everyday cutting, chopping and slicing tasks.

Rounding out the features of this 3.14-ouncer is a reversible steel pocket clip, ensuring you’ve always got a dependable EDC knife at the ready, whether or not the sky is falling.