Aggressive Carry — The Stealth
The Stealth is small enough to disappear in your hand — serious enough to end an attack. The Stealth is the most low-profile Defender we make: five inches, a narrow handle, a forward point that rides just past your fingers toward the threat. It’s built to stop punches, kicks, and grabs, break a hold, and buy you the space to get away. Against a lesser threat it’s pure control; against someone who won’t stop, it takes away his ability to keep coming. It fits smaller hands perfectly and vanishes on carry — the tool nobody sees until they need it.
At a glance:
- Built to stop a threat and get you clear — control for a lesser threat, a functional stop when it counts
- Forward point deters punches, kicks, and grabs
- Chisel-cut top edge — adds bite for control
- Offset tail for counter-grabs and steering an attacker
- Extremely low profile — the most concealable Defender we make
- Narrow handle fits smaller hands, works for larger hands too
- Non-metallic acrylic — light, durable, won’t rust
- Lanyard holes for an easy carry option
- Non-lethal — within the limits of legal self-defense
- Includes free, unlimited online Defender training
The Stealth — born by accident, built to disappear
The story
Like a lot of good inventions, the Stealth started as an accident. I was making a Defender 1 on the band saw, letting the blade do its work slow, when the head snapped clean off. I wasn’t pushing it. It just broke — and left me holding a small, sharp piece of a handle, staring at it, trying to figure out what the heck had just happened.
So I turned off the saw and looked at it. And the longer I looked, the more I saw. One fracture had left a little tail poking off the bottom. I took it inside, poured a coffee, and kept turning it over while my family got ready for the day — everybody wandering past the breakfast table wondering why I was staring at a broken piece of plastic. I had one of my twin girls hold it so I could see how it sat in a smaller hand. Then I went back out to the saw, and the tool we now call the Stealth was born.
It’s small — five inches long, a two-inch head, a handle only half an inch across. The forward point rides just past your fingers and aims at the threat, so it stops punches, kicks, and grabs the same way the bigger pointed Defenders do. The top edge of the head was the first time we ever chisel-cut an edge on a Defender — the start of what became a whole line — and it gives the tool real bite for control. The offset tail turned out to be the surprise: it works as a counter-grab, and it lets you steer an attacker, much like the talon on the Defender 1.
Here’s the idea behind it, same as every newer Defender. Not pain for its own sake, and never to punish. The Stealth is built to stop the threat — deter the attack, break the grab, push him off, and get you moving — so it’s over and you walk away. Against a lesser threat it’s a control tool: the point sets against hard, bony structure, the tail slips between the fingers of a grab and twists the hold loose so you can escape. Against someone who won’t stop for anything less, it takes away his ability to keep coming. Same small tool, your judgment, matched to the moment.
The narrow handle fits smaller hands perfectly — it’s a natural first Defender for a lot of people, and plenty of larger hands run it just fine too. It’s made from acrylic like all our tools: light, tough, and it won’t rust on you. And it’s low enough profile that it’s almost impossible to tell what you’re holding. That’s where the name came from. The Stealth.
Key features:
1. Compact: 5 in long · 2-in head · 0.5-in handle
2. Forward-facing point deters punches, kicks, and grabs
3. Chisel-cut top edge — our first chisel cut, adds bite for control
4. Square, pointed back end for close control
5. Offset tail — counter-grab and attacker-steering, like the Defender 1 talon
6. Built to stop a threat and get you clear — graduated force, your judgment
7. Extremely low profile — the most concealable Defender we make
8. Narrow handle fits smaller and larger hands
9. Non-metallic acrylic — light, durable, won’t rust
10. Lanyard holes for an easy carry option
11. Non-lethal — within the limits of legal self-defense
12. Includes free, unlimited online training, with a dedicated Stealth video.
The Stealth has become a favorite Defender for a lot of women — small, easy to carry, easy to run. And it’s discreet enough that some folks carry it tucked out of sight, even behind a work tie. Low profile, always there.
TSA
Any tool with a point can’t clear a TSA checkpoint. When you fly, pack your pointed Defenders — the Stealth included — in checked luggage rather than a carry-on.
Legal
The Stealth is meant only for genuine, responsible self-defense — to stop a threat and get you to safety, never to punish an attacker. You’re responsible for knowing and following all local, state, and federal laws on carrying and using a self-defense tool wherever you go, including TSA rules when you travel. Laws on pointed and concealed self-defense tools vary quite a bit from place to place, so check your area before you carry. Every Defender is made for ethical, legal use only.
