Kramer By Zwilling Essential Collection Chef Knife Review

Header image for our in-depth review of the Kramer By Zwilling Euro Essential Chef Knife Review featuring the knife on a wood cutting board in front of a dark background.

The Euroline Essential Collection is the Budget Side of Bob Kramer: Great for Arthritis, and a Challenge for the Small Handed This knife has been out a long time, so there’s already been a lot of discussion about it. There was already too much discussion about the Bob Kramer / Zwilling team up before the …

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Our Search For The Best Camping Chef Knife

Our Search For The Best Camping Chef Knife - Image 1: Best Camping Chef Knife

We Have Found a Few Great Camp Cooking Knives that have their Place at the Campfire Good food needs good tools, even if it isn’t in the kitchen. The older we get the more we find we need good food on our camping trips, so we put together this list of our favorite outdoor-friendly knives …

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Imarku 16 Piece Japanese Knife Set Review

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A Large Kitchen Knife Set With a Small Price Tag and a Confusing Moniker It seems like there is a new kitchen cutlery company popping up on a weekly basis these days. I quit trying to keep track of them a long time ago. Most of the new cutlery startups disappear in a year or …

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Best Slip Joint Knives For Nostalgic EDC

Seven of our top picks for the best slip joints for EDC.

From Old School Nail Nicks to Modern Flippers, Here’s what We’d Carry if We Still Carried a Slip Joint Pocket Knife Slip joints fell out of style a while ago when we all admitted how much we disliked the blades of our folding knives coming down on our fingers. They never disappeared entirely, though, because …

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Kershaw Federalist Slip Joint Review

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A Great Gentleman’s Folder that Signals the Return of the American Made Nail Nick Knife  Kershaw hit 2022 with a bucket of slip joint designs (along with basically every other major knife company, but we aren’t complaining). Only one of them comes out of their US factory, though. In that sense, the Federalist has a …

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Katsu JT01 Camping Knife Review

Header image for our Katsu JT01 Titanium Camping Knife Review. The knife is shown here sticking out of a tree branch.

The Better Option for a Locking Higo no Kami Pocket Knife The true appeal is that it’s a well-executed update of a classic Japanese design, but it holds its own just fine as a hard-use camping folder. The JT01 cuts well, has super-smooth ball bearing action, a practical cutting edge, and it carries well thanks …

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2021 Drunken Hillbilly Knife Awards

The campfire scene of the 2021 Nothing But Knives Drunken Hillbilly Knife Awards.

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 …

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Woox Rock 62 Knife Review

Header image for our in-depth review of the Woox Rock 62 Survival knife. This image shows the knife sticking out of a tree branch in the forest.

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 …

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Cangshan TC Chef’s Knife Review

Header image for are in-depth review of the 8 inch Cangshan TC chef knife. It is shown her surrounded by orange slice it has just cut.

It’s Heavy, but It Has a Good Western Blade and a Cool Handle The main idea behind the TC chef’s knife concept was to create something that feels thin but still has the toughness of a western style kitchen knife. It’s definitely tough, but I’m personally at odds with the way it feels. The handle …

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Finch Knife Co Cimarron Review

Header image for our in-depth review of the Finch Cimarron pocket knife with G10 handle scales and a 14C28N steel blade.

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 …

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