Budget Pocketknife Blade Steel Round-Up 2024: What’s Out There & Performance Factors (Part 1 of 3)
What would you do if you had a new C-note, a genuine Benjamin burning a hole in your pocket and you wanted to buy a new budget pocketknife? Would you know which to pick? Do you know what blade steel to get? Yes, buying a new knife can be a lot more complicated than a […]
Benchmade Mini Adamas: Mammoth MagnaCut at a Problematic Price
Early last year (2023), after reading so many posts on Larrin Thomas’ KnifeSteelNerds.com blog, I decided I wanted to see for myself what all the hype was about with MagnaCut steel. When I began looking, everyone’s favorite super steel wasn’t nearly as available as it is this year. Only a few brands had knives with […]
Civivi Vision FG: A Superior Knife with a Superlock
For a special occasion, I was recently offered a gift knife by a dear friend. They had heard me talk about the Civivi Vision FG in Ultem a few times, and they asked if that was what I’d like. For a micro-second, I considered mentioning the Kizer Militaw in S45VN with a mirror DLC finish […]
Mikov Kostka: New Take on an Old Knife Design
I saw Seth V of KnifeCenter do their New Knives of the Week video a few weeks ago and one of the knives he showed us was what he called a “Funny Folder” knife. I was not familiar with that term, but he showed us a beautiful, little Czech-made knife by Mikov s.r.o. called the […]
Spyderco Native Chief: Anatomy of a Counterfeit Knife
We have a problem. Follow me on this. Imagine that you are a fantastic and creative home cook, especially with making delicious barbeque. You have a passion for making people happy and satisfied with the dishes you make. You are so talented with your combination of creative art and technical craft that you decide to […]
CMB Made Knives Revives the Legendary Fulcrum Knife
I somehow recently stumbled upon, totally by accident, one of the more interesting rarities of the pocketknife design world: an actual new fulcrum action folding knife. It’s the Equator, model CMB-01, from CMB Made Knives. Let me tell you about it. TL;DR The Equator is a very interesting knife. It employs a genuinely unique piece […]
Falling in Love with the Viper Moon
I recently purchased a new flipper knife from Viper Knives, a company that seems to be far below everyone’s radar. Let’s take a long look at this new Italian marvel. TL;DR The upshot is I adore this knife. The Viper Moon is endowed with a beautiful design, is marvelously curvaceous, sports premium materials, and offers […]
Welcome to My Blog!
Hello! I’m SharperApex (aka the Knife Karen, and even sometimes, the Bevel Bitch!), and I’m really glad you’re here! My goal for this blog is to post original product reviews and articles with deeper-than-usual technical data about both folding and fixed-blade knives, blade steels, folding knife lock mechanisms, related materials and technologies, blade sharpening how-to […]
