Andrew North
A Good Budget K Tip Kitchen Knife from a Fresh EDC Company I like Vosteed quite a bit. The owners have a good long history in the knife world, and they seem to design their products with an enthusiast’s eye. But I was skeptical about them making a decent chef’s knife. Something about a K-tip …
A Surprisingly Comfortable, Surprisingly Tactical Budget Knife Design This is a good hard use tactical knife with a nifty steel and great ergonomics all around. It has a lot of function as a camping knife (which is how I mostly used it), but the really impressive talking point is the drawing ergos with the sheath …
This is a Pricey Hard Use Folder Wearing Tactical Clothes The Vision XR is a revision of an older design with a few changes based on user feedback. Supposedly this one is built more effectively for “professional use case situations, with a focus on general purpose utility and combative use” according to SOG’s description of …
Tactile’s Knife Company’s First Kitchen Knife Missed on Design, but the Manufacturing is on Point Tactile Knife Co. have proven themselves pretty soundly in the EDC world with their pens and their recent steps into the folding knife world. So we had high expectations for this santoku. Maybe higher than is reasonable to have for …
A Big Bushcrafter with a Perfect Scandi Grind The Ridgeback is a big knife that feels and moves like a big knife, but it cuts and carves fluidly, chops brutally, and, oddly enough, carries on the belt politely. Before I run out of adverbs, I should address the fact that we received this knife for …
A Great EDC Kukri Flipper with a Taiwanese History This knife was smaller, heavier, and thicker than I expected. That isn’t exactly a new experience for me. Shapes can be deceiving, and what seems to be thin and tall at a distance ends up having an entirely different range of curvature and weight distribution from …
The Euroline Essential Collection is the Budget Side of Bob Kramer: Great for Arthritis, and a Challenge for the Small Handed This knife has been out a long time, so there’s already been a lot of discussion about it. There was already too much discussion about the Bob Kramer / Zwilling team up before the …
Here are a Few Great Camp Cooking Knives that have their Place at the Campfire Good food needs good tools, even if it isn’t in the kitchen. The older we get the more we find we need good food on our camping trips, so we put together this list of our favorite outdoor-friendly knives to …
The Other Modern Alternative to the Buck 110 Hunter The Vanguard Slicer is Kizer’s first lock back design. Which was kind of a big deal when it came out in 2021 for a couple reasons: First, almost nothing interesting came out in 2021, so a fidget-folder company coming out with something outside their normal wheelhouse …
From Old School Nail Nicks to Modern Flippers, Here’s what We’d Carry if We Still Carried a Slip Joint Pocket Knife Slip joints fell out of style a while ago when we all admitted how much we disliked the blades of our folding knives coming down on our fingers. They never disappeared entirely, though, because …
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