Morakniv Garberg Review

The Morakniv Garberg full tang bushcraft knife with its blade tip stuck in a log in the forest.

Key Review Takeaways Anyone who knows much of anything about bushcraft knives knows the Morakniv brand. These knives are no-nonsense designs that keep costs modest and utilitarian features front and center. The Garberg series is one of the most robust lines to come out of Morakniv, and the knives are accompanied by a host of …

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Knafs Co Releases US Made Fixed Blade

Knafs CO just announced the release of their first fixed blade. This bushcraft style knife has a micarta handle and a Magnacut blade.

The Knafs Lulu is a Nice Surprise for Bushcraft Knife Fans Knafs founder and designer Ben Peterson took the company’s line up in a surprising new direction with the Lulu, a small fixed blade with a scandi grind designed for camping and whittling. Here’s the specs: Overall Length: 6375″ Blade Length: 2.95″ Blade Steel: Magnacut …

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CRKT Bugsy Review

The CRKT Bugsy review

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. …

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The Reiff F4 is Getting a Scandi Grind

The Reiff F4 bushcraft edition with a Scandi grind.

The F4 Embraces Its Bushcraft Side with the Release of the Scandi Grind Version. The people at Reiff Knives announced both on Instagram and their website that their releasing a new version of the F4 with a true scandi grind and Micarta scales. Everything else looks to be staying the same, but here are the …

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The Reiff F6 Gets the Micarta Treatment

The Reiff F6 is also available with green Micarta handle scales

Micarta Fans Are Getting What They Asked For The young but solid outdoor knife company, Reiff Knives, is sprucing up the handles on their biggest knife. The Reiff F6 will be available with green Micarta scales on August 11. The overall shape and size of the knife is still the same. It’s still a great …

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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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Reiff F4 Review

Basically everything felt right with the Reiff F4: The blade is sharp enough to carve easily and tough enough to chop wood without chipping, the sheaths (both of them) ride well and have excellent retention.

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 with the Reiff F4: The blade is sharp enough …

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Spartan-Harsey Nessmuk Review

The Spartan Blades Halsey Nessmuck is a modern take on an American classic and a handy survival knife for the wilderness.

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 …

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Zero Tolerance 0006 Review

The Zero Tolerance 0006 fixed blade knife shown here with its blade tip stuck in the top of a tree sump in a green field.

Key Takeaways Zero Tolerance dropped into Shot Show 2023 with this thing and the rest of us had to put on water wings to wade through the drool. It’s the slightly more camp knife-oriented version of the ZT-9 Bayonet designed by Mike Strider. It’s a little smaller and meant to be easier to choke up, …

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White River Firecraft Puukko Review

The White River Firecraft FC-PKO. A new twist on a classic design.

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 …

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