TL;DR It’s a Strong Contestant in the Military Survival Category, Even if the Price Might Make Admission Tough I’ve come to count on Reiff knives to do at least one thing exceedingly well: make me like a knife the more I use it. The Vicon is a step in a slightly different direction for them, …
Melissa Backwoods Finally Designed a Knife. It’s Small, A Little Weird, and A lot of Fun Key Takaways A Bushcraft Mind Makes a Solid Fixed Blade EDC Melissa Backwoods has come out of the wilderness to show our pockets what rugged efficiency really means. She isn’t the first survivalist to design an EDC knife, but …
The ideal pocket fixed blade according to Best Damn EDC is out now. After a few years of prototyping, Tactile Knife Co. is finally releasing the Redhawk, designed by Taylor Martin. It saw light of day for the first time at Blade Show Texas where a lucky few got to handle it, but now it’s …
Key Takeaways What Is This? A Tactical Nessmuk? This is a small variation (and I think improvement) on Off Grid’s Backcountry design, which is possibly one of the best survival knives in Off Grid’s line up. The handle on the SideKick is the same overall shape (with the angle of the curve and the flared …
A Little Champion of the EDC Spey Blade Most people with a little experience in the kitchen could probably tell you that it’s easy to cook an egg, but it’s hard to cook an egg well. In that same vein, these days it’s easy to design a knife, but there are a lot of things …
Here’s a Rundown of the Hunting, Camping, and EDC Fixed Blade Knives from Kizer Kizer has always had good sense with fixed blade design. In the early days the releases were pretty minimal, but around the 2023 mark they started pushing into the space more ambitiously, and now they have a respectable line up of …
It’s a Big Blade that’s Good for Cooking and Okay at Most Everything Else at the Campsite Key Takeaways: There’s nothing quite like a big, bone-cracking, cleaver-esque knife with a gut hook for campfire cooking. That’s mostly all I wanted to do with this Maxsa Blade, but Maxsa themselves tout this thing as the “perfect …
An Unexpected Classic Outdoor Knife, but a Welcome One The Cloud Peak continues a tiny section of Civivi’s line that I have always wanted them to expand on: Normal looking fixed blades. Up to now, they’ve mostly put out fixed blades that look like rejected Star Trek prototypes (with all due respect to Maciej Torbé; …
Gerber just announced an update to their staple fixed blade knife: The StrongArm Camp is the bushcraft edition: It’s smaller and geared more toward processing wood, carving tools. The quick specs: Overall Length: 8.98″ Blade Length: 4.1″ Blade Steel: 420HC Handle Material: GFN w/ rubber overmold Sheath: Plastic w/ nylon back Made in: Portland, OR …
Back Again, Late and Uninvited: The Least Anticipated Knife Awards Show in the Industry This year we sent out a survey to pick the best knives of the year, but the only response we got back was a dirty napkin that said “Tall Jeb says watch your back” written in purple sharpie. So we went …
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