Baliyo

All About BaliYo

Eric Glesser has always been quite fond of knives (he is, after all, the son of Sal Glesser, founder of Spyderco). His life pretty much revolves around them. Whether he is selling knives with his dad or designing new models, Eric is never far from something sharp.

In the mid 2000’s, he realized something was missing. Being a long time fan of butterfly knives, a knife that battles legality in many places around the world, Eric set out to develop a vastly different type of product than the knives he had designed in the past. He came back in 2008 with the BaliYo. 

Dubbed the butterfly knife pen by many, BaliYo is just that, only better. It still allows you to perform fancy tricks like the ones you can do with a butterfly knife but goes one step further. BaliYo allows you to flip in ways that would be impossible with a blade swinging all willy-nilly around your hand, making it safe and fun for just about anyone.

By replacing the blade with a pen cartridge, BaliYo successfully removes any threat of cutting off a finger or impaling a nearby friend in the face (although chances are it will still fly out of your hand on occasion), but it’s still capable of the same kind of swinging, rotating, transferring, flipping and launching (if you are really good) as a Balisong. When you carry and flip a BaliYo in public, you can draw a crowd; when you carry and flip a butterfly knife, you scare the bejesus out of the elderly, get fined and have the knife confiscated.

The BaliYo provides safe, unlimited and creative motion anytime, anywhere. The BaliYo is the first skill toy of its kind - it turns an everyday writing instrument into a skill game that will provide endless entertainment wherever you are. You don’t need a large open space or need to be standing. All you need is a BaliYo and your fingers and wrist will do the rest (after a little practice, of course!)