Nature’s great, but it’s not as nurturing as most people seem to think these days. There’s a reason humans latched onto the dormant conveniences of modern life, and anyone who’s had to spend a rainy night in the wilderness after going a day or two without food is very familiar with that reason. With that …
A Compact Draft Horse of a Knife that’s the Proof In Steel That Fixed-Blade EDCs Do Exist Hard-earned experience – and I contend that having endured more than one season of The Walking Dead qualifies as such – suggests to the initiated that there’s basically two types of knives caused to be invented by the …
The Cooking Knife for the Off Roading Community The name of this thing might perk up the ears of someone who spends a lot of time climbing mountain sides in their trail rig. Off-road adventures checkered with fireside cookouts was apparently the use case in mind for the designer Jason Nicosa, who spends an enormous …
ESEE Made a Bushcraft Friction Folder, and We Talked to Designer Shane Adams I never thought I’d use that phrase, and I especially never thought I would like something that fell into such a category, but here we are. ESEE released the Pinhoti around the end of 2022 and I was intrigued. Then I got …
A Fixed-blade Hunting Knife That You Don’t Have To Be A Hunter To Appreciate It is an old adage in economics that every choice (or business decision) you make comes at the price of forsaking the alternative. This observation can, of course, be generalized and applied to all aspects of everyday life. Its approximate significance …
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 …
Little LionSteel Knives, Kitchen Knives from White River, and Other Stuff We were Too Drunk To Post Earlier Here’s all the other stuff we saw but didn’t have time to write about during Shot Show week. We’re still a little hungover from our week in Vegas, so bear with us. We did our best, but …
A Bushcraft Folding Knife That is Tough Enough for the Wilderness. At SHOT Show in 2020, when I got my first look at what would be the Gerber Doubledown, I was a bit giddy. This was, I thought, a 15 inch butterfly knife. Someone had finally seen the potential I’ve seen since I was 13—a …
A Classic Looking Survival Knife with an Incredible Sheath Demko showed up at Blade Show in early 2022 with the FreeReign. At the time he was calling it the AD15F because it’s essentially the same handle and blade, just fixed and a little longer. There are a couple of other key differences (besides being a …
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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