Knife Fights are Like Venereal Diseases: They Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible Knife fights look cool in movies. I get a little flutter in my heart when I see two people in a movie pull bowie knives and spend the next ten minutes cutting each other up in the woods. That’s pretty much the only …
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 …
Another Great Italian Push into the American Survival Knife Market This is the first knife produced by Woox. They’re a new company that started making noise in 2020 as the knife and gun-stock centric branch of the Italian wood products company, Minelli Group. This particular branch also happens to be based in North Carolina. Right …
This is the Closest Thing We Have to a True American Style Kitchen Knife It makes a weird kind of thematic sense to make a bowie chef knife, because there’s so much debate about where the original design came from, and whether it was intended for fighting or hunting, or even intended to be useful …
A Work Horse of an EDC with Big Pocket Energy The updated version of the Sheepdog is a good example of the nice-knife paradox: it’s a great hard-use design that has come in handy on a lot of dirty jobs, but I like the knife enough that I don’t want to use it on dirty, …
This is the Budget Survival Alternative to the Esee 3 Anyone who’s ever drooled over an ESEE knife only to have their heart broken by the three-digit price tag might appreciate the Rat III for what it is: the cheaper, identical cousin of the ESEE 3 design. From afar they appear to be the same, …
The Versatile Neck Knife You Can Carry Horizontal, Vertical, and Upside Down, but Won’t Like Using The Gerber Ghostrike is a versatile fixed blade that’s made to be packed anywhere in any fashion your heart desires. It’s an odd little thing that doesn’t seem to be made for any one task specifically, but has a …
It’s a Small Machete Pretending to be a Bowie Knife There are a lot of things about the way the Battle Bowie looks that gave me pause. It has a little too much of that sword-at-a-flea-market styling for me to really expect much. The extreme curve of the handle and the way the blade basically …
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 …
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