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Sinkevich Touch sets
The six California Custom Knife Show sets, 2018 to 2025, on five platforms: what each set contains, the run size, and the tool that came with it.
On this page
Since 2018 the workshop has brought one Dmitry Sinkevich collaboration set a year, or nearly, to the California Custom Knife Show, sold at the table and through a small number of dealers under the name “Sinkevich Touch.” Each set is a production-tier Shirogorov on a Sinkevich-finished platform, in a run of 38 or 50, with a Sinkevich-designed tool and, from 2021, a Cova leather pouch. Six sets exist on five platforms; the F95 has been done twice. This page is the register for the sets. The wider design collaboration, the Fit Strip, the Strip prototypes and the rest, is on the Sinkevich collaborations page, and every price is in the price record with its kind, venue and date.
The six sets
| Year, show | Platform | Blade | Bearings and lock | Run | In the set | Marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018, CCKS | F95R18 | Stonewashed; 8.5 in overall, 4.8 oz | MRBS, frame lock | 38 | Knife, COA, box; blue anodized hardware | “CCKS 2018″ on the lock side; individually numbered |
| 2021, CCKS | F95 | M398, 95 mm, stonewashed; 8.75 in overall, 4.8 oz | MRBS, frame lock | 50 | Knife, Cyber tool, Cova leather pouch, COA | Blue anodized Sinkevich hardware |
| 2022, CCKS Fall | NeOn Zero (Sinkevich Touch NeOn Zero) | S90V, 3.375 in, stonewashed; 7.75 in overall, 2.7 oz | MRBS, frame lock | 50 | Knife, Cyber tool, Cova pouch | Bronze anodized scales with a distinct milling pattern; laser engraving on both blade faces |
| 2023, CCKS Fall | Stellar | M390, 90 mm, stonewashed; 8.25 in overall, 4.2 oz | MRBS, liner lock with apron | 50 | Knife, Ambi-Tool, Cova leather pouch | Bronze anodized scales, textured milling, milled internal pockets |
| 2024, CCKS Fall | Astrum | MagnaCut, 4.00 in, stonewashed; 9.00 in overall, 3.8 oz | MRBS, liner lock with apron; some listings call it a steel tab lock | 50 | Knife, Capsule Tool, Cova leather knife-and-tool pouch | Stonewashed and anodized scales with fine textured milling |
| 2025, CCKS Fall | Q95 | M390, 3.74 in (95 mm), stonewashed; 8.75 in overall, 4.7 oz | MRBS, liner lock | 50 | Knife, Capsule Tool, Cova leather pouch, COA | Blue twill carbon fiber scales |
Listings give the NeOn Zero blade length differently; 3.375 in is the figure for this set.
The tools
The tool is what makes a Touch set a set, and it is the part most often missing on the secondary market. Three designs have shipped. The Cyber tool (2021 and 2022 sets) is a Sinkevich-designed driver that houses the bits for the collaboration’s body and pivot screws, with the handle angled so that it can be used at 90 and 60 degrees for more torque during disassembly. The Ambi-Tool (2023), a 4.25-inch stonewashed titanium driver for the Sinkevich hardware and pivots, came with the Stellar and is also sold on its own. The Capsule Tool is the enclosed capsule form that came with the Astrum in 2024 and again with the Q95 in 2025. Each is documented, with the bits it carries, on the tools page. A set listed without its tool is incomplete, and Buying, selling and value has what that does to the price; a tool listed on its own is a real item with its own asks.
What the sets are, and are not
They are production-tier knives. Every set runs MRBS, the serial bearing system, and none carries a Custom Division number or a CD marking; on the tier ladder they are show-edition sub-runs of production models, priced above the base model for the run size, the finish, the tool and the date, not for a different build tier. A Touch set is not a Sinkevich custom and is not a Custom Division piece, and a listing that says either is wrong.
“Touch” describes the finishing, not the design. The F95 and the Stellar are the workshop’s own designs (the Stellar’s factory page credits S. Shirogorov), and the Touch treatment on them is Sinkevich hardware, anodizing and engraving.
Prices
The Astrum Touch issue price at CCKS Fall 2024 (retail, October 2024) is in the price record, as are the secondary asks and ask-at-sale figures for the sets that have traded since, including the Q95 from October 2025. This page does not repeat them. The pattern is the one every limited release shows: a release-window premium, then compression; Buying, selling and value has the method.
Related, but not Touch
The workshop brought a set to CCKS 2020 as well: the HatiOn Zero in M398 with copper-toned carbon fiber, a titanium and copper pen and a Cova pouch, listed by dealers as the CCKS 2020 set and known in the community by a pandemic nickname. It carries no “Sinkevich Touch” branding on its listings and the HatiOn is a NeOn variant with one carbon fiber scale, so it is a CCKS show set, not a Touch set, and belongs to the NeOn model record rather than here. It is noted because sellers list it beside the Touch sets and buyers ask.