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 …
Time has been kind to the ESEE 4. That has a lot to do with ESEE’s move to make their knives easy to modify, and offer a dozen different handle, blade, and sheath options for all their designs. The ability to customize an ESEE 4 pushes it from being a $120 pry bar to something …
It’s a Nice 2-Inch Japanese Friction Folder to Put on Your Desk I enjoy this knife more for what it is than what it can actually do. It’s been sitting on my desk on letter opening duty since I stopped actively testing it because there’s just no convenient way to carry it. But it looks …
The Principle checks a lot of boxes for being a good bushcraft knife: It has a scandi grind, a tough steel with good corrosion resistance, a simple handle made out of a tough, grippy material, and a sheath made to carry a hundred different ways. It provides a lot of features without becoming a gimmick, …
This Bushcraft Chef Knife Hybrid May Be The Ultimate Option For Survival Food Prep Or Just A Really Practical Camping Knife The Bush Slicer is a fixed blade Swiss Army knife. It is tough versatile and fun. Initially I despised the blade notch, and I would still probably prefer a version without it. But it …
The 4 Max Scout May Be The Ultimate Hard Use Pocket Knife This beast of a folder was released over 12 years ago, but it remains the king of pocket knives from a toughness and durability standpoint. Key Knife Review Takeaways The original Cold Steel 4MAX was released a few years back to much fanfare, …
The Buck Compadre Is Equal Parts Camping, Bushcraft, Survival, and Hunting Knife. The Buck Compadre very much the kind of knife that we all love around here. Almost every element of it is exactly the kind of thing we hope to see and feel in a camping knife: It’s the kind of knife that, at …
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 …
Kitchen Knives And Sets By Companies Like Buck, Kershaw, Spyderco, TOPS and More There’s an odd, little-known trend among the EDC knife makers of the world: A lot of tactical, hunting and gentleman’s folder pocket knife companies like Buck, Case, Boker, and Cold Steel make kitchen knives. Every now and then you’ll catch a company …
A Great Looking Pocket Knife That Is Surprisingly Capable I like big knives. You can chalk that fact up to overcompensation, insecurity, or maybe even practical application. I spend a lot of time in the woods, and big knives tend to get stuff done better than small knives. In general I avoid gentleman’s folder style …
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