making it a poor choice for every day or rough use. It is, however a good choice for knives used around salt water (diving) and for decorative knives because of its rust resistant qualities. It is often used in cheap imports. This is probably the steel they ...
No, “forged”/smithed knives are not stronger, sharper, or in any shape or form better than knives made using the stock removal method. As a matter of fact, custom knives in general are not stronger, sharper, or in any shape or form better than knives made using the stock removal met...
Veff serrations, designed by Tom Veff, are exclusively found on CRKT knives. These knives have a very uniform and distinct style of equally distanced backward-facing indentures. They kind of look like a set of waves, all perfectly distanced from each other, running up the blade. They are a...
It is, however a good choice for knives used around salt water (diving) and for decorative knives because of its rust resistant qualities. It is often used in cheap imports. This is probably the steel they are referring to when a company advertises “Surgical Steel.” It dulls quickly and...
Spyderco Brouwer like many modern knives have lockbar inserts to prevent lock stick. Another is the actual lock geometry. There’s a delicate balance between just how much a lockbar should interface with the tang of the blade. In some cases where too much of the lockbar is touching the bl...
In Canada, I’d regularly find myself with either aSpyderco Sage 1, aCRKT Ripple, or aKershaw Shufflein my hand, though there were plenty others – and these knives would usually be thrown into my purse on the way out the door when I was off someplace. At one point, I got sick of...
Here are my favorite knives for bushcraft: Tomahawk or Hatchet As I discussed in my article “How To Choose The Best Tomahawk” (check it out here), a small axe is a highly versatile bushcraft tool. Generally the design of a bushcraft axe makes it best suited for heavier duty tasks: ...
making it a poor choice for every day or rough use. It is, however a good choice for knives used around salt water (diving) and for decorative knives because of its rust resistant qualities. It is often used in cheap imports. This is probably the steel they ...