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 …
Northern California’s First Kitchen Centric Custom Knife Show This was the second of what will hopefully be many Forged to Table events put on by knifemakers Neil Kamimura and Mareko Maumasi. It was organized locally by Gabrielle Crocker of Crocker Cutlery, a sharpener and eagle-eyed purveyor of custom knives, and hosted at A Space in …
The Fixed Blade Version Of The Popular Elementum Folder Delivers From A Value and Performance Standpoint CIVIVI’s Elementum folder is a familiar pocketknife design that’s become a staple for low-profile EDC. Now CIVIVI has taken the design and done what I wish every knife maker had the liberty to do and built it as a …
Bestech’s Weird Foray into Kitchen Cutlery Makes a Good Knife for Small Counters This knife is rustic and comfortable and odd for a lot of different reasons. Not least of which is that it’s made by a company started by Bestech, a name that should be familiar to anyone with a modern smooth-flipping folding knife. …
The First Japanese Kitchen Knife with Some Western Toughness This is the knife that brought Japanese cutlery into western kitchens. It was also one of the best arguments that stamped blades aren’t worse than forged blades by default. The G-2 was groundbreaking in the 80’s, and it still holds its own pretty well today, although …
Our Top Picks For Folding, Fixed Blade and Kitchen Knives Released in 2021 There are probably some knife awards out there that knife manufacturers actually care about and are proud to win. The Drunken Hillbilly Knife Awards is not one of those. In fact, we are expecting to get a couple of emails from knife …
A Surprisingly Tough Hiking Gentleman’s Carry Finch pushes this as a knife for the “day hiker and the extreme adventurist”. That was surprising to me, because this knife looks and feels like something I should be wearing in a blazer, if I were the kind of idiot who wore blazers. The Cimarron came off as …
The Most Aggressively Full Tang Finnish Hunting Knife is Also Their Weirdest Looking It feels rude to say Marttiini is the better looking but lesser-known Mora alternative, but that’s how it’s been for a while. At least, it was until the YouTubers discovered them. Also until now, Marttiini has mostly made half to three-quarter tang …
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 …
A Surprisingly Good Fixed Blade Camp Knife from a Folding Knife Company It’s weird to see a knife this big come from the same company that makes the Elementum, but here we are. Civivi made a big camp knife, and it oddly looks and feels exactly like you would expect a big, fixed-blade Civivi knife …
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