In the Kitchen with the Paudin Universal Collection. This is a situation where things work well enough. The knives are sharp. They will cut what you need in the kitchen, but the geometry is a little weird, which means difficulty increases exponentially as foods get trickier to cut. But they’re lightweight with a nice blade-centric …
The Joker Bushcrafter looks like a mid-sized bushcraft knife should look. It is free of any tactical incumbrancers that plague more than a few modern fixed blades. The Bushcrafter is sleek, barebones and all business. After several months of use I have found myself recommending the Joker Bushcrafter more than any other bushcraft knife in …
This LionSteel EDC Sports Some Unique Design Elements That Make It Cool, But There are Issues. Why don’t we start with a spoiler: this is a cool knife that I love. Which makes it being terrible all the more infuriating. Which has a lot to do with why I hate it so bad. And I’m …
A Middle of the Road German Chef’s Knife with a Nice Look As far as full-bolster German chef’s knives go, Gude’s Alpha series is mostly what you should expect: It’s heavy and durable and great for rock chopping. It’s not the finest cutter compared to other German-style knives, but it’s the one I’m most inclined …
Here’s a Rundown of the Hunting, Camping, and EDC Fixed Blade Knives from Kizer Kizer has always had good sense with fixed blade design. In the early days the releases were pretty minimal, but around the 2023 mark they started pushing into the space more ambitiously, and now they have a respectable line up of …
If You’re Looking for Tough Knives for the Kitchen Made in Germany, this guide is a Good Place to Start. German knives are great options for a workhorse in the kitchen. When you want to cut up any kind of squash or melon or break down a large cut of meat that still has bone …
It’s a Big Blade that’s Good for Cooking and Okay at Most Everything Else at the Campsite Key Takeaways: There’s nothing quite like a big, bone-cracking, cleaver-esque knife with a gut hook for campfire cooking. That’s mostly all I wanted to do with this Maxsa Blade, but Maxsa themselves tout this thing as the “perfect …
One of the Most Thought Out Camping Knives I’ve Ever Used As the biggest fixed blade made by Schwarz knives so far, I had some big expectations about the Lost Trail 5, especially because TJ Schwarz gave a detailed run down of the knife when he announced it. The short version of that video is …
An Unexpected Classic Outdoor Knife, but a Welcome One The Cloud Peak continues a tiny section of Civivi’s line that I have always wanted them to expand on: Normal looking fixed blades. Up to now, they’ve mostly put out fixed blades that look like rejected Star Trek prototypes (with all due respect to Maciej Torbé; …
The Mini-Speed Goat 2.0 takes MKC’s lightweight model down another size category, and it’s available as of Thursday (that’s July 18, for the readers from the future). Here are the highlight features: The sheath design might be the bigger announcement, though, as MKC put quite a bit of effort into making it smaller and lighter …
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