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Ocaso Delivers Quick With A Demko Designed Gentleman’s Carry
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Bear Edge Is Releasing A Shiny New Framelock
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Shot Show 2023 New Knife Wrap-up
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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 …
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An Award-winning Tactical Fixed-blade Design That Turned Out To Be An Unexpectedly Good Utility/EDC Knife As WellOne-and-a-half decades of experience with knives has left me …
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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.
