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Good Looking, Tough And Easy To Carry. The lionSteel T5 is The Knife We All Aspire To Be The lionSteel T5 is a good looking knife. It is also relatively expensive. This is a combination that often gets me in trouble when writing a review. It is just too easy to make excuses for a … Read more
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
This Beefy Tactical Hunting Hybrid Knife is a Fun Work Horse, but It’s Tough to Find If You Drop It At Night. The Backcountry is refreshing as a modern design that is clearly meant for gritty uses. I recently watched a flashy video promo for a popular knife company. It was part lifestyle, part knife … 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
A Tough Alternative To Shun Classic The 8 inch Mon chef knife is a pretty knife that’s comfortable and cuts well in that order. It’s not a high performance chef knife, but it is a durable knife that requires a minimal amount of maintenance compared to other kitchen knives in the same price range. And … Read more
A Work Horse of an EDC with Big Pocket Energy The updated version of the Sheepdog is a good example of the nice-knife paradox: it’s a great hard-use design that has come in handy on a lot of dirty jobs, but I like the knife enough that I don’t want to use it on dirty, … Read more
A Capable Survival Tactical Hybrid That Makes A Great Camping or Backpacking Companion There are few combinations that have been as successful as Ka-Bar and Ethan Becker. You could make a strong case for peanut butter and jelly, or penicillin and prostitution, but the Becker Ka-Bar collaboration has arguably had a bigger impact in the … 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