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The three test scissors sharpeners range from quick ‘n easy to sit a spell. From left: Smith’s V-Slot Knife & Scissors Sharpener, Spyderco Golden Stone and AccuSharp ShearSharp Scissors Sharpener. (Covert image)

Best Scissor Sharpeners: Where To Find Your Edge

Consider three cool tools to keep your scissors shearing sharp. I sharpen knives frequently but must admit I’m a loathsome scissors sharpener. It’s not like...
Ethan Kolar's sole-authorship Persian Style Linerlock folder offers up a blade of 160 layers of damascus in a Random Wave pattern. The handle is silver twill carbon fiber. His price for a similar model: $1,000. (SharpByCoop image)

What Goes Into Making A Good Linerlock Knife?

Go inside linerlocks to judge its operation and workmanship.
From top: CAS Iberia/APOC Wallace Smatchet, SOG BAR15T Tanto Bayonet, KA-BAR Dust II and Montana Knife Co. V24.

Combat Legacy: Modern Military Knives [Field-Tested]

Contemporary armed forces styles are chips off the old block. While U.S. troops have long had a choice of carrying alternative knives as opposed to...
Bubba Crouch Trapper Skinner

New Knives May 2025

Have the yen to build our your collection? Just need a sharp new blade? Check out these new knives for May and build out your wishlist.
McNees Knives MAC2 3.5

2025 BLADE Show Knife Debuts: What’s Coming Out!

Knife companies will debut their latest at BLADE Show 2025. Knives and plenty of them, the BLADE Show is the Mecca for anything that cuts,...
The Spika is a manageable size and has a polished 3-inch edge of forged carbon steel.

Hults Bruk Spika Review: Backwoods Beast

Sweden’s Hult Bruks Spika is a great all-purpose camping axe.
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New Knives April 2025

Consider handy custom knives ideal for outdoor & indoor use.
Three fresh assisted openers that are fun to fidget with, from top: Benchmade PSK, Kershaw Dawnstar and SOG Twitch III. The author rates them all excellent knives in terms of usefulness.

Assisted Open Knives Buyer’s Guide [Tested]

Latest assisteds have all you need in swift, sharp folders.
Dane Standen Cinquedea

Custom Knives: Reproductions Of Ancient Knife Designs

The great ancient knife designs aren't history as they top-notch reproductions prove. The ancient history of knife design is long, storied and colorful. From Bronze...
Four woods-worthy Kephart repros, from top: Bear Forest Forest Knives GT-3, ML Knives Kephart, KA-BAR/Becker BK62 and ESEE PR4.

Kephart Knife: Options In The Outdoors Do-All

Kephart Knife: Options In The Outdoors Do-All
Each of these bushcraft utility knives is in a category of its own—a cross between a small machete and a large hunting knife. From top: Condor Tool & Knife Plan A, TOPS Armageddon, ESEE Junglas and KA-BAR/Becker Knife & Tool BK9 Combat Bowie.

Best Big Bushcraft Knives: Huge Backwoods Hackers [Tested]

Part big knife/part small machete, 4 fixed blades do both well. All-terrain has been used to describe the cross between a small machete and a...
The blade got some wipe marks and edge smears on the acid finish, but that didn’t stop the H.U.T. 4 from passing the author’s tests in Bristol fashion.

B. Goode H.U.T. 4 Review: All-Star Performance

B. Goode H.U.T. 4 high steps its way through the author’s test drills
Curt Zimmerman Flipper Folder

New Knives March 2025

Today’s pocketknives come in assorted locks, no locks, blades, handles and more.
Call them by their names, clockwise from top: Rude Boy from Condor Tool & Knife, Stabby Guy by RMJ Tactical and Jank Shank S by Toor Knives.

Catchy Names On Great Knives

Recognition, catchiness and marketability are but three keys to knife names.
Four essential locking folders for everyday carry, from top: Spyderco Alcyone, KA-BAR State & Union F01OD, CRKT Ibis and CobraTec Olympian.

Locking Folders Knives: Options That Unlock EDC Ease

Four new entries help show why locking folders rule the pocketknife world.
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