The Principle checks a lot of boxes for being a good bushcraft knife: It has a scandi grind, a tough steel with good corrosion resistance, a simple handle made out of a tough, grippy material, and a sheath made to carry a hundred different ways. It provides a lot of features without becoming a gimmick, …
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 Selkirk Remains Popular, but the Competition is Heating Up at Its Price Point. Buck decided to jump into the Bushcraft game a few years back when they announced the Selkirk. For the sake of better performing traditional bushcraft tasks they gave the Selkirk a full flat grind rather than their standard hollow grind. They …
What Happens When You Turn a Lumberjack into a Fixed-Blade Knife? Awhile back I played around with my brother’s Condor Swamp Romper, which is a great bushcraft knife, but pretty light in the blade. I mentioned to him how much better it would be at chopping if the blade had a thicker spine and was …
This is a Bushcraft Knife that Wants to be Carried There’s probably a name in the product design world for the way the shape something comes in can make it more salable than the quality. There’s a pilsner I sometimes buy because it comes in a smaller can and the way it allows me to …
We visited the Knafs Knives home to see their new warehouse, and ended up taking pictures of drawings and haikus. It’s a brisk, blue-skied morning outside the Knafs headquarters in Clearfield, Utah where we’re greeted by Austin Goetz, general manager and co-host of Knafs at Nite. He’s in shorts and a sweatshirt and we can …
Key Takeaways: This Smooth Carver from Olive Knives Tests the Edge of How Complex a Bushcraft Knife Should Be The Olive Arbor is by far the fanciest bushcraft knife I’ve ever used, which isn’t a word I feel like I should be using on a bushcraft knife, but here we are. It also an expensive …
Blade Show West continued to be the scrappy underdog of the trade show world. One thing that kept coming up from regulars to the show was that this year was a lot smaller. There were fewer presenters, and while there were the typical brick walls of crowds, there didn’t seem to be the same volume …
TL;DR Buck’s latest swing at making a modern folder is kind of a confusing mix of details, but it’s a well-made mix. Different parts of the Buck Range do some things really well, but it felt to me like those parts were good for conflicting things: the handle wants to be a large, upscale folder; …
TL;DR This Camping and Hunting Hybrid from MKC Left a Good First Impression This was made to be a skinning knife with a little more heft so it doubles as a camping knife. I pretty much only used it as a camping knife, unless you count opening packages holding fragile material to be an acceptable …
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