The Fixed Blade Version Of The Popular Elementum Folder Delivers From A Value and Performance Standpoint CIVIVI’s Elementum folder is a familiar pocketknife design that’s become a staple for low-profile EDC. Now CIVIVI has taken the design and done what I wish every knife maker had the liberty to do and built it as a …
A Tactical Spear Point Knife that’s almost a Folding Dagger So this thing is lethal. You could say that a four inch spear point blade is good for a lot of different things, but when I look at this knife there’s always one thing that comes to mind before anything else. This is a purebred …
Bestech’s Weird Foray into Kitchen Cutlery Makes a Good Knife for Small Counters This knife is rustic and comfortable and odd for a lot of different reasons. Not least of which is that it’s made by a company started by Bestech, a name that should be familiar to anyone with a modern smooth-flipping folding knife. …
The Butterfly Brand’s New Multi Bladed Slip Joint Is Expensive Good Times Benchmade specifically describes this knife as being “tailored for weekend escapes to nature”. For some reason this triggered the mule in me to snatch up the knife and run into the mountains on a Monday evening shouting “you can’t tell me when to …
The Benchmade 430BK Redoubt. A Lightweight Black Classic Knife. Redoubt. What a strange and oddly anachronistic word. A redoubt is a fortification of sort—but without the strength or permanence of a full-sized fort. These are often temporary fortifications built by smaller, faster-moving units that need something like a fort, but who don’t have the time …
Sometimes You Need a Good Bottle Opener more than a Good Knife Probably the second most used function of a knife past opening packages is opening beers. At least it is in my life, and the fact that my knife collection is inversely proportional to both the size of my liver and my bank account …
Ka Bar and Spartan Basically Made a Small, Tactical Prybar I don’t mean that in a bad way, though. This little beater of a thing is handy to take pretty much everywhere. That’s the whole intent of the design, from the lightweight build (in spite of the thick blade stock) to the retention straps on …
A Tough Assisted Open Flipper with a Variety Blade Options This is the flipper update of the REVO Warden. The main change here is that it has a flipper tab instead of a thumb stud. Since I never handled the first version, I can’t tell you to what extent this knife is better or worse …
A Lightweight Italian Slip Joint With A Blade That Dares You To Call This Knife Pocket Jewelry The Fox Libar slip joint was released a few years ago, and I totally missed it. I was not alone in my ignorance. I am not sur sure why Fox’s marketing department felt like this knife needed to …
This is a Western Kitchen Chef Knife that Cuts like Japanese Knife What do you do with a knife like this? After hearing all the hype about Shun knives, and then hearing all the anti-hype people talk about what’s wrong with Shun knives, then watching a bunch of culinary YouTube influencers slap the Premier around …
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