We mostly started this site so we had another excuse to go into the mountains. As a result, most of the knives we talk about are made for camping and hiking. So if you’re looking for a knife that is sturdy enough to carve wood, make tools, start a fire, and ride easy on the belt, we have definitely talked about it.
Every knife we review here has been on a hike and subjected to a big log and a ferro rod. It has also probably been thrown against a tree, dulled into uselessness, sharpened again, and then used to chop a bunch of logs again.
Kaila Cumings’ First CRKT Collaboration is a Mean Carver The Bugsy is the solution for people who want a light survival knife with a smaller handle. In the right hands, this knife has a secure grip that can generate a lot of power for carving and slicing with surprisingly little effort for a sub-4-inch blade. …
This Survival Knife is all about Control and Comfort There are only so many things that can be done right or wrong on a fixed blade, but the harder you use one the more obvious (and sometimes painful) it gets when just one or two of those things are done poorly. Basically everything felt right …
Spartan Blade’s Modern Take on an American Classic Spartan Blades has a reputation for making fighting knives. The Spartan-Harsey Nessmuk draws on some of those traditions, but also pays homage to old Nessmuk himself, the 19th century outdoor icon who changed the way a generation of Americans who idolized the Bowie by introducing them to …
A Survival Knife Worth Getting Blasted out Of The Sky With The moment I first found out that I would get to review the Fällkniven F1 – a compact survival/utility blade that has, by this point, probably gotten more unforced laudation than the late and unlamented Idi Amin Dada (third president of Uganda, and generally …
The FC-PKO Survival Knife is Smaller, Lighter and One Helluva Fire Starter. White River Knife and Tool makes purpose built blades for hunting, fishing, and survival. They don’t make folders and they don’t make overtly tactical knives, but their outdoor blades have, for more than a decade now, been winning fans in the field. Their …
ESEE Made a Bushcraft Friction Folder, and We Talked to Designer Shane Adams I never thought I’d use that phrase, and I especially never thought I would like something that fell into such a category, but here we are. ESEE released the Pinhoti around the end of 2022 and I was intrigued. Then I got …
An Innovative Folding Machete That is Big on Fun, but It is Not a Giant Butterfly Knife. At SHOT Show in 2020, when I got my first look at what would be the Gerber Doubledown, I was a bit giddy. This was, I thought, a 15 inch butterfly knife. Someone had finally seen the potential …
A Classic Looking Survival Knife with an Incredible Sheath Demko showed up at Blade Show in early 2022 with the FreeReign. At the time he was calling it the AD15F because it’s essentially the same handle and blade, just fixed and a little longer. There are a couple of other key differences (besides being a …
A Lightweight Bushcraft Knife with EDC Ambitions Small fixed blades are a tricky beast to wrestle. People expect it to be rugged and comfortable like a regular sized fixed blade, but also lightweight and slicey. A lot of smaller designs end up being lightweight and rugged but with a blade that can’t do much like …
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 …
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