Andrew North
This is a Great Machete, Hatchet, and Work Out Routine in One Package The Apex is a burly chopper with a surprisingly keen edge. It looks like something you slam against a rock to crack a nut for fun, but the ergonomics and the blade geometry give it a lot more utility past the typical …
An Honest Look at the Modern Benchmark for German Kitchen Knives Pick out a random line cook, ask him what a good knife is and the odds are pretty good he’ll tell you to get a Wusthof Ikon. Most of the times I asked a cook or chef what knife they used or what they …
Northern California’s First Kitchen Centric Custom Knife Show This was the second of what will hopefully be many Forged to Table events put on by knifemakers Neil Kamimura and Mareko Maumasi. It was organized locally by Gabrielle Crocker of Crocker Cutlery, a sharpener and eagle-eyed purveyor of custom knives, and hosted at A Space in …
A Tactical Spear Point Knife that’s almost a Folding Dagger So this thing is lethal. You could say that a four inch spear point blade is good for a lot of different things, but when I look at this knife there’s always one thing that comes to mind before anything else. This is a purebred …
Bestech’s Weird Foray into Kitchen Cutlery Makes a Good Knife for Small Counters This knife is rustic and comfortable and odd for a lot of different reasons. Not least of which is that it’s made by a company started by Bestech, a name that should be familiar to anyone with a modern smooth-flipping folding knife. …
The Butterfly Brand’s New Multi Bladed Slip Joint Is Expensive Good Times Benchmade specifically describes this knife as being “tailored for weekend escapes to nature”. For some reason this triggered the mule in me to snatch up the knife and run into the mountains on a Monday evening shouting “you can’t tell me when to …
Sometimes You Need a Good Bottle Opener more than a Good Knife Probably the second most used function of a knife past opening packages is opening beers. At least it is in my life, and the fact that my knife collection is inversely proportional to both the size of my liver and my bank account …
Ka Bar and Spartan Basically Made a Small, Tactical Prybar I don’t mean that in a bad way, though. This little beater of a thing is handy to take pretty much everywhere. That’s the whole intent of the design, from the lightweight build (in spite of the thick blade stock) to the retention straps on …
A Tough Assisted Open Flipper with some Blade Options This is the flipper update of the REVO Warden. The main change here is that it has a flipper tab instead of a thumb stud. Since I never handled the first version, I can’t tell you to what extent this knife is better or worse (I’m …
This is a Western Kitchen Chef Knife that Cuts like Japanese Knife What do you do with a knife like this? After hearing all the hype about Shun knives, and then hearing all the anti-hype people talk about what’s wrong with Shun knives, then watching a bunch of culinary YouTube influencers slap the Premier around …
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