WE Knife Inmate: A Conviction in Knife Design Excellence
BANG! Knife review “experts”. You see them all over YouTube, droning on and on, typically doing tabletop videos with disembodied hands, gleefully showing off their massive collections of knives that the rest of us will never be able to afford. There are other, self-proclaimed “experts” who hang out for hours and hours every day in […]
Poikilo Blade Orca: Gorgeous Wolf of the Pocketknife Sea
Author’s note: The knife used in this review was purchased by me at full retail price. I only call this out because – Spoiler Alert! – I really like this knife and the review is positive. Now on with the show. Have you ever found The One? You know. The One! The One that, at […]
Benchmade Mini Crooked River: On the Hunt for Sadly Absent Value
Imagine this. It’s a beautiful, crisp autumn afternoon and you are out in the wooded foothills of the western Cascade Mountains for a week-long, solo hunting/fishing/camping trip during which you plan to live off the land. You are out for the 1st hunt, excited to be carrying your new Browning X-Bolt 2 bolt-action hunting rifle […]
Vosteed Porcupine: Cute, Little Budget Knife That Can Be a Little Bit Prickly
There comes a time in many a pocketknife enthusiast’s life when, due to continuous exposure to higher and higher end products, one’s taste grows to enjoy those finer things in life. For example, let’s say you started your journey with a cheapo knife that uses a piece of a wooden broom handle and a thin […]
FengHua TC21 S110V: A Beautiful But Enigmatic Knife with a Steep Surprise
The Chinese pocketknife brand, FengHua, is a new brand to me. There’s not much information about them online, however. Extremely little, in fact. From my understanding, FengHua appears to be the premium sub-brand of a group of brands. WIN+, another member brand I am also unfamiliar with, sells the budget-end knives of the group. Dreamtech, […]
Winterblade Factor B4: A Powerful Magnetar in the Pocketknife Cosmos
“Magnetar (mag·ne·tar). Noun – from the field of astronomy. A magnetar is a type of neutron star. A neutron star is created when an extremely large star, whose mass is 10 – 25 times that of our sun, enters a supernova event and is crushed into an object with a diameter of only ~20 kilometers […]
Kunwu Excalibur: Black Magic Wizardry from Metal Complex
Greetings to thee, gentle reader mine. I bear tidings of a tale so wondrous and grand that it shall cast into doubt the very certainty of thy senses. Attend now as I unfold before thee an illustrious chronicle of the magnificent Excalibur, most peerless marvel of bladesmith’s cunning craft e’er witnessed in all the realms. […]
Arcane Design Creature: A Mysteriously Impressive Knife
I hate to admit this, but until just recently, I was totally unfamiliar with Arcane Design. I am glad that this has changed. The company is, as far as I can tell, a one-man shop run by the founder, a clever and talented young dude named Israel Bacchus. He specializes in crafting visually provocative knife […]
Benchmade Shootout: An OTF in the Back of the Pack
Out-the-front (OTF) automatic pocketknives have a mystique about them. They are members of the switchblade family, and switchblades have been the subject of controversy and legislation for ¾ of a century now. Because of the bad boy taboo they (used to) represent, their association with lawlessness (whether or not it’s true), and the fear-inducing automatic […]
TuyaKnife Anzu: Excellent Action with a Funky Finish
TuyaKnife is not one of the major brands of popular pocketknives today, but it would be a mistake to ignore them. TuyaKnife is a small Chinese knifemaker (when I first heard the name, I thought they were a Russian knifemaker!) about which little is publicly known (and I’m here to fix that). Founded 8 years […]