This Demko Designed Gentleman’s Folder is as Much Fun to Play with as It is to Look at. Ocaso Knives is a new company. Ric Valdez began the company just last year after a long tenure with Cold Steel. And the difference between Cold Steel and Ocaso can’t be exaggerated. Ocaso is dedicated to a …
ESEE Made a Bushcraft Friction Folder, and We Talked to Designer Shane Adams I never thought I’d use that phrase, and I especially never thought I would like something that fell into such a category, but here we are. ESEE released the Pinhoti around the end of 2022 and I was intrigued. Then I got …
Key Knife Review Takeaways This thing is a lot to look at. By all rights I should be calling it a gimmicky toy of a thing, made more for the agitated hand than for any particular job, and maybe there would be a little truth to that. But I’ll be damned if this isn’t a …
These Are the Official Favorite Folders, Fixed Blades, and Kitchen Knives Our Groping Hands Could Find in 2022 Well, no one told us to stop since last year, so I guess we’re still doing this. Here to tell you which knives from last year performed the best in all the categories you don’t care about …
Joe Flowers Brings the Dagger to the Bush The Wreckhart is an oddly satisfying amalgamation of knife design philosophy. I’m not sure it’s the most effective amalgamation, but it’s fun, and ultimately useful. This knife is meant to be the result of a hypothetical meeting between Horace Kephart (the professional camper who wrote Camping and …
A Bushcraft Folding Knife That is Tough Enough for the Wilderness. At SHOT Show in 2020, when I got my first look at what would be the Gerber Doubledown, I was a bit giddy. This was, I thought, a 15 inch butterfly knife. Someone had finally seen the potential I’ve seen since I was 13—a …
Any discussion of the Ek Commando knives has to begin with a long line of stiletto inspired knives. Like the Fairbairn-Sykes, the Marine Raider knives, and the V42, the Ek Commando was double-edged and built for stabbing. These knives were designed for special operations units that, optimally, worked with the element of surprise and the …
The Buck 263 HiLine is a Well Designed Budget Pocket Cleaver that Should Have Been Made In Idaho. The HiLine is a good budget pocket knife, but I wish Buck would have manufactured this one in their Twin Falls Idaho factory and doubled the price. I know that sounds crazy, but this knife has the …
An Award-winning Tactical Fixed-blade Design That Turned Out To Be An Unexpectedly Good Utility/EDC Knife As Well One-and-a-half decades of experience with knives has left me with one, overriding article of faith: that your blades will, sooner or later, reveal themselves to be falling into one of three main categories. First, there are those few …
A High Class Western Chef’s Knife with a Hard Bite and Smooth Looks Cangshan has been putting out some great designs lately that showcase a genuine love and attention to detail with kitchen knives. The Thomas Keller series chef’s knife is the first one of their knives I’ve tested that felt like it was really …
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