This Julio Diez Knife is Basically a Machete that can Start Fires We’ve been fans of Julio Diez’s work ever since we got the Bush Slicer and the SBK and went on one of the best camping trips we’ve had in a long time. He has a functionally overbuilt sensibility with survival knives, and we …
This is the Closest Thing We Have to a True American Style Kitchen Knife It makes a weird kind of thematic sense to make a bowie chef knife, because there’s so much debate about where the original design came from, and whether it was intended for fighting or hunting, or even intended to be useful …
A Fun Budget Bowie Knife With A Comfortable Handle There are a lot of rules concerning what it takes to rightly call a knife a Bowie knife. Rules are a fun tool to use when you want to make yourself sound smart online (editor’s note: or like a tool), but in the wilderness it is …
A Good Fixed-Blade Survival Knife from a Great Folding Knife Company I think my heart stopped for a moment when I first saw pictures of the Little River Bowie by Kizer in 2018. It’s everything I think a fixed-blade knife should be, right down to the size and blade grind. It looks nice without being …
The Cold Steel 97SMBWZ Black Bear Bowie Knife is a Great Compact Machete, But Not A Great Knife Before I begin a review of a new knife I usually spend some time online finding out what people smarter than myself have to say about it. Unfortunately it was really difficult to find much in the …
The USA Knows How to Make a Large Fixed Blade Survival Bowie Knife For all the controversy around the origins of the first Bowie knife, almost everyone agrees that it was an American design. Over the years it became the American knife ideal, and now it’s the natural comparison for any large knife made for …
It Is Possible To Get A Good Budget Bowie Knife Without Spending A Lot of Money The most iconic survival knife in America sees a lot of attention from every knife company. Not all are created equal of course, and more importantly, not all of them cost the same. Some of them cost a lot. …
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