A Classic Looking Damascus Steel Fixed Blade That Is A Handy Campsite Tool. The Forseti Steel Jim Baker would look right at home in a camping scene in an old black and white movie from the 50s. Its design lacks the popular fighter-jet aesthetic of modern tactical fixed blades, or the over simplified scaled-back barebones …
Andrew Demko’s Flagship Knife is the Hard Use Tool We All Expected It to Be This knife doesn’t hold any surprises for anyone who’s used a Demko knife before. Especially for people who already own the Cold Steel AD20. This is basically the same thick-bladed slicer with robust edge geometry and a grippy handle. It’s …
A Classic Fighting and Utility Design Made into a Gentleman’s Folder I don’t normally go in for classy knives, but if nothing else, the LionSteel Gitano was good for turning me onto navaja style knives. That’s a big piece of knife history I was largely unaware of until I looked into the inspiration behind the …
A Great Hunting and Camping Knife that’s Made for Slicing not for Hacking I love this knife and you should have it too. Full stop. End of review. I’m going to write a bunch of other words below this sentence, but only because my girlfriend is tired of hearing me rant about my surprise at …
This is a Decent Survival Knife that Tries Too Hard to Look Good I’ve wanted a Boker Arbolito knife for a while. From afar they look like the fashionable version of Condor: they’re made in South America but owned by reputable German companies based in Solingen, they have a polished if old-fashioned aesthetic, and their …
This is a Spyderco Tactical Knife, but You Should Use it for Other Stuff Too The Ronin 2 is a good purpose-driven knife. The whole design is centered around the cutting power of the edge. And that was executed well enough that the knife as a whole comes out as an incredibly useful slicer, but …
Some Knife Companies Make Better Knives for Self Defense and Other Emergencies than Others Most companies try their hand at tactical knives these days, but for some brands it’s more like an afterthought to appease the troves of spindly “self-defense” enthusiasts. When you search for “tactical” knives, you need to be careful that you don’t …
The USA Knows How to Make a Large Fixed Blade Survival Bowie Knife For all the controversy around the origins of the first Bowie knife, almost everyone agrees that it was an American design. Over the years it became the American knife ideal, and now it’s the natural comparison for any large knife made for …
If You Are Looking For An EDC, Hunting, Survival, Kitchen Or Pocket Knife Made in The USA This List Is The Best Place To Start The US has birthed a lot of great knife companies like Buck, Gerber, and SOG, which have all created iconic American knives, and maintained a certain high reputation as American …
It Is Possible To Get A Good Budget Bowie Knife Without Spending A Lot of Money The most iconic survival knife in America sees a lot of attention from every knife company. Not all are created equal of course, and more importantly, not all of them cost the same. Some of them cost a lot. …
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