Our Favorite Bushcraft Knives At Almost Every Price Point

We tested dozens of bushcraft knives and picked the best ones at every price point.

This Is Our Attempt To Help You Find The Best Bushcraft Knife For Your Budget in 2024. There’s surviving and then there’s thriving, and a good bushcraft knife is mostly about the latter. Whether you’d like to sit around the campfire whittling a spoon or want to make small game traps or a strong shelter, …

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Our Incomplete Coverage of Blade Show 2023

Blade Show 2023 Highlights and more.

Highlights from Atlanta’s Sharpest Event The biggest knife show in America probably saw its biggest turnout post-Covid this year, which meant it was a hip-to-crotch affair with all of us grubby knife nerds clambering over each other to rub our dirty hand oils on the newest Magnacut blade. As we are not very good at …

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2022 Drunken Hillbilly Knife Awards

The Nothing But Knives Drunken Hillbilly Knife Awards of 2022 featuring the our favorite pointy things of last year.

These Are the Official Favorite Folders, Fixed Blades, and Kitchen Knives Our Groping Hands Could Find in 2022 Well, no one told us to stop since last year, so I guess we’re still doing this. Here to tell you which knives from last year performed the best in all the categories you don’t care about …

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Shot Show 2023 Day 4

SHOT Show 2023 Day 3 Update

Condor and Artisan, but Mostly Joe Flowers & Jason Breeden if We’re Being Honest You know you’re in for a special conversation when you walk up to a booth and see Joe Flowers talking to Ben Peterson with the Big Banter stuck into a log surrounded by thin curls of wood. We didn’t pry into …

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Blade Show West 2022 Recap and News

The Salt Flats with Schenk Knives outside of Salt Lake City after Blade Show West 2022

Playing with Sharp Things in Salt Lake City We took a desert trek over to Utah this weekend to go to our first Blade Show West event. We missed the first three because we were either too drunk, too poor, or just didn’t want to go to southern California. The Salt Flats seemed a lot more appealing …

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Work Tuff Gear Apex Review

The Work Tuff Gear Apex is big, effective and fun.

This is a Great Machete, Hatchet, and Work Out Routine in One Package The Apex is a burly chopper with a surprisingly keen edge. It looks like something you slam against a rock to crack a nut for fun, but the ergonomics and the blade geometry give it a lot more utility past the typical …

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Off Grid Ridgeback Review

Header image for our in-depth review of the Off-Grid Ridgeback bushcraft knife.

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 …

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Our Search For The Best Camping Chef Knife

Best Camping Chef Knife

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 …

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Condor Plan A Bowie Review

Header image for our Condor Plan A Bowie Review showing a profile of the entire knife.

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 …

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The Ultimate Knife Gift Guide For 2023

2021 Knife Gift Guide

Gift Ideas For Knife Lovers. We Tested All Kinds of Knives From Kitchen Cutlery to EDC To Make This 2023 Guide. There are so many choices in 2023 when it comes to choosing the perfect knife to give as a birthday or holiday gift. We understand that it can be overwhelming, so each year the …

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