This is a Thorough Look at Every Kitchen Cutlery Series and Knife Set Zwilling Makes Right Now Zwilling is the other staple of German kitchen knives. They feel like the Pepsi to Wusthof’s Coca Cola. Or maybe it’s the other way around. I can never remember which one is more popular these days. The point …
A Great All Around EDC Pocket Knife That is Easy To Carry and Tough to Categorize The Civivi Relic refuses to be defined by an intended use. This makes it tough for lazy knife bloggers to categorize and then criticize it. Unfortunately I drew the short straw here at NBK (which means I lost a …
This Gentleman’s Multitool is a Surprisingly Good Alternative to Swiss Army Knives The Civivi Crit looked neat from a distance, and I was under the impression that I was just getting a neat knife when I picked it up. But every little thing I’ve encountered in using this knife has been a new, pleasant surprise: …
This Front Flipper Pocket Knife is Small and Weird and Good for Carrying to the Office I’m not used to reviewing gentleman folders, but this thing is cool. I’ve always appreciated Sam Abderahman’s designs from afar, but he’s a custom maker which means that his knives have always kept me at a distance with custom …
A Tough Capable Chef Knife That Falls Short of the Marketing Hype Direct to consumer knife company marketing tends to be fairly hyperbolic. I assume this is because they can not depend on the promotional efforts of their resellers, so they really talk the knives up in the limited marketing real-estate available to them. It …
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 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 …
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 …
3V Gear’s First Knife Offers A Lot Of Options The 3V Gear React was announced in early 2021. It is 3V Gear’s first foray into the world of knife manufacturing. I assume the React will be followed by more models if this one is successful. While there is nothing groundbreaking about the React from a …
A Capable EDC Knife With High End Steel And A Low End Price. Call me crazy, but I try to balance quality with affordability as much as possible; I want as much for my buck as I can get. I don’t always need the latest and greatest tech or materials, but I want the things …
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