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CRKT Adds to Their Premium Lineup with some Michael Walker Collaborations
CRKT is Blade Show Ready With New Premium Pocket Knife Releases CRKT is going …
NBK Custom Knifemaker Spotlight on Scott Gallagher
Mastering Identity and Craftsmanship in the World of Damascus Blades Every artist must create …
NBK Custom Knifemaker Spotlight on Liam Walle
This Young New Zealander Has Skills Far Beyond His Years There is an outstanding …
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The Buck 263 HiLine is a Well Designed Budget Pocket Cleaver that Should Have Been Made In Idaho.The HiLine is a good budget pocket …
A Lightweight Italian Slip Joint With A Blade That Dares You To Call This Knife Pocket JewelryThe Fox Libar slip joint was released a few …
Our Latest Knife Reviews
This Survival Knife is all about Control and ComfortThere are only so many things that can be done right or wrong on a fixed blade, …
Spartan Blade’s Modern Take on an American ClassicSpartan Blades has a reputation for making fighting knives. The Spartan-Harsey Nessmuk draws on some of those traditions, …
A Survival Knife Worth Getting Blasted out Of The Sky WithThe moment I first found out that I would get to review the Fällkniven F1 …
This is a Set of True Kitchen Essentials in a Very Tall PackageMost chefs and knife makers (custom makers, anyway) will tell you that you …
Another Military Fixed Blade Design Evolved for the CampgroundZero Tolerance dropped into Shot Show 2023 with this thing and the rest of us had to …
A Big Handled Kitchen Knife that Cuts Above Its Price TagThe Artisan Chef’s knife is the purebred Western knife in Cutluxe’s modest line up.Currently their …
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Every knife we review here has been taken to a kitchen, campsite, mountain pass, office party, backyard barbecue, and beyond and thoroughly tested on practical (and not-so practical), real world tasks.
We are first hand campers, hikers, butchers, cooks, and whiskey drinkers. For everything else we are arm chair academics. We write about things as we use them, and when it comes to more specific things like steel composition, history, and manufacturing methods we rely heavily on information we read in various books, forum discussions, videos, and personal conversations with people who are smarter than us.
