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The Scariest Legal Carry Utility Knife You Can Own Off Grid describes the Black Mamba as a “compact tactical knife” which are the kind of words that always set off red flags for me. After using it, though, that really feels like an apt description. This knife is such a brutal combination of heavy duty … Read more
The Premium Gerber Knife that Isn’t a Benchmade The Sedulo is part of the first wave of Gerber’s Reserve series. It’s supposed to consist of US-made knives with high quality materials. It’s one of a handful of knives you can play with in Gerber’s Custom shop, which is a pretty cool thing if you have … Read more
My Cheap D2 Folder is Better than Your Expensive Supersteel I will die on my cheap muddy hill about this. In the right hands, D2 steel can have better edge retention and overall performance for the price than pretty much any other option on the market (but I’m also clearly biased toward budget steels). D2 … Read more
We Cover The Difference Between All The Yaxell Knife Series Including: Mon, Gou, Dragon, Ran And More Of all the kitchen knives coming out of Seki right now, Yaxell might be making some of the most approachable stuff, with the possible exception of Tojiro. Comfort Over Sharpness The handles on most of the knives out … Read more
A Classic Fighting and Utility Design Made into a Gentleman’s Folder I don’t normally go in for classy knives, but if nothing else, the LionSteel Gitano was good for turning me onto navaja style knives. That’s a big piece of knife history I was largely unaware of until I looked into the inspiration behind the … Read more
The Tactical Outdoor Knife that’s Mostly Tactical if We’re Being Honest I’m always uneasy about reviewing knives that look like this: which is to say, like something you’d see in a Call of Duty game. I can never get past that fear of reading a headline about someone who accidentally fell on their new Buck … Read more
A Great 3 Inch Folder for Big Hands and Dirty Work The Badger fits into that odd category of little big knives. If you just go by product pictures, it will either look smaller or bigger than it actually is. In fact, most of the complaints I’ve seen about it are that it was smaller … Read more
So TOPS Knives made an Outdoor Chef Knife for Some Reason This is a confusing knife at first. The handle and sheath mark this as some kind of camping or backpacking knife, but the actual shape of it seems more suited to the kitchen. Put the Frog Market Special in a line up of a … Read more
A Great Hunting and Camping Knife that’s Made for Slicing not for Hacking I love this knife and you should have it too. Full stop. End of review. I’m going to write a bunch of other words below this sentence, but only because my girlfriend is tired of hearing me rant about my surprise at … Read more
This is a Decent Survival Knife that Tries Too Hard to Look Good I’ve wanted a Boker Arbolito knife for a while. From afar they look like the fashionable version of Condor: they’re made in South America but owned by reputable German companies based in Solingen, they have a polished if old-fashioned aesthetic, and their … Read more