Come browse around for your next tackle box tool or fillet knife. We’re always playing around with knives with great edges for gutting a fish, or enough corrosion resistance to stand up to a few days on the water.
We’ve gutted our share of trout around here, even if we don’t make it out on the water as often as we’d like. We understand the frustrations of a dull blade and a slippery handle after you’ve just reeled in a lively catch. Every knife we review or talk about on here has been carefully tested or researched for its ability to stand up to the rigors of a day on a boat or riverside.
This Pocket Nessmuk Excels at Food Prep and Camping Tasks, but Struggles to Remove Splinters. I spend a lot of time in the woods. Over the years I’ve developed some strong opinions about what makes an ideal camping knife—and there are few folders that would make the cut. The Revo Knives Ness is one I’m …
Camping with Mike Wallace’s Pennsylvania Church Knife. The Perfect Hard Use Gentleman’s Folder to Spruce Things Up Outdoors The Strategy feels like a Cold Steel knife that bought a nice suit and switched to drinking whiskey instead of beer. But the secret of this knife is that it’s not actually an EDC; it’s a camping …
A Purpose Driven Pocket Knife That is Rugged Enough for the Woods and Refined Enough for the Board Room. Rarely have I found a folder that feels as good in the hand as the Labrador. Vosteed has a track record of building solid working knives with a refined aesthetic, and the Labrador holds true to …
This Flashy Flipper Lives Up to Its Looks This thing is a lot to look at. By all rights I should be calling it a gimmicky toy of a thing, made more for the agitated hand than for any particular job, and maybe there would be a little truth to that. But I’ll be damned …
A Well Designed Pocket Bowie That May Be Civivi’s Next Classic EDC. Some folder designs seem built around a rather desperate premise: the company needs something new. Others, like this build from Civivi, strike me as instant classics–designs that will likely define a long line of successors. There’s nothing half-baked or desperate about Civivi’s Sinisys. …
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 …
This Subtle Workhorse of a Knife is a Fitting Homage to the Gun That Shares Its Name There’s a lot of crossover between those of us who are fixated by knives and those who like guns. Knife companies have long recognized this and many have tried to create gun-themed knives that are doubly appealing–something Hogue …
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 …
A Lightweight, Versatile Fixed Blade That Punches Well Above Its Price Tag After spending a few weeks with the Waxahachie, I am still not sure how to pronounce it, but I am sure this knife will become one of my most recommended budget fixed blades of all time. The excellent design of this knife results …
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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