NUMB Knifeworks N7 The Cantilever: A Beautiful Knife Underpinned by a Modernist Lock

If you have followed my content here in SharperApex.com, you know that I am a knife nerd. Heck, I’ve repeatedly said as much in my posts! I’m interested in the steel metallurgy properties of the blades, the various materials used in modern knife handles (as opposed to the broken off pieces of wooden broomsticks used […]
Poikilo Blade Tuna: A Mighty Albacore in the Ocean of Pocketknives

Back when I was a young kid, we had knives around, but things were much more basic. I remember we used hammerstones and elk antler billets for flintknapping chunks of obsidian into sharp flakes. They were glassy smooth and insanely sharp, but they had no toughness at all. Those blades would chip almost immediately if […]