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The blogs of the BLADE editors, Steve Shackleford and Erin Healy.

NEW BLADE ON NEWSSTANDS TODAY!

    What do many of today's custom tactical folders have in common? Find out in the latest issue of BLADE® Magazine, on most newsstands TODAY!     Featuring the DMF tactical folder by Sniper Bladeworks on...

The Hunter’s Edge: 3 Hot Fixed Blades

You can't beat fixed blades for down-and-dirty, heavy-duty hunting knife use, and three hot factory examples from ShopBlade are more than ready for the woods.     Designed for fish and small game, the Buck 102BR...

Heft & Freestyle Form Define Hossom “Tanto”

Unusual? Yes, it would be no stretch to say that Jerry Hossom's "Vengeance Tanto" takes an unbeaten path from pointy tip to pointed pommel. But all along the way it's so groovalicious! Check out...

Win a Young Knife at Cal Knife Show Oct. 6-7

Meet some of the world's leading custom knifemakers at Dan and Pam Delavan's California Custom Knife Show tomorrow and Sunday, Oct. 6-7, in Anaheim.     While there, enter to win the repro of a Bob...

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    Looking for a digital version of the current newsstand issue of BLADE®? Look no further than ShopBlade for the special military annual ish.     Get it now for only $5.95!     For more info click...

Who Doesn’t Love A Mermaid … Sculpted Into A Knife?

Some of the finest artists in the world would have trouble achieving the mermaid scene carved and sculpted into the titanium grip of the Arpad Bojtos fixed blade. For that reason alone it is...

Edgecraft Founder Passes Away

EdgeCraft Corp. Founder, Chairman and CEO Daniel D. Friel, an acclaimed inventor, world-renowned for engineering the best-selling Chef'sChoice® brand of small kitchen electrics, passed away on September 21. He was 92.                 "It is...
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