Among other things, Great Eastern Cutlery knives are known for their traditional patterns, like Stockman knives, and for the fact that GEC makes them with 1095 steel blades.
This is an affordable alloy and a tough one, one that will hold an edge reasonably well while still being fairly easy to resharpen.
Especially considering the low price of 1095, there are a lot of positive attributes....
A bushcraft knife tends to be a generalist by design, which makes it highly utilitarian for a wide range of tasks.
That said, here are 8 things you can use a bushcraft knife for.
Starting a Fire
A good bushcraft knife can help you practice firecraft in more than one way. The most straightforward way is to use the spine to shave sparks off of a ferrocerium rod, but some...
White River Knife and Tool is a small, family-owned company based in Michigan. They produce a wide variety of knives primarily for hunting and fishing, though they also make knives for camp chores, survival, EDC, and other disciplines and applications.
As you might expect, quality and customer satisfaction are at the heart of this small company’s identity. Here are 5 things...
There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and similarly, there’s more than one way to sharpen a knife. That being said, keeping a knife sharp is a matter of responsible knife ownership as well as safety, since a sharp knife cuts more easily. Of course, there is more than one type of knife sharpener; here are 5 of the most common along with some things you should know about...
The ESEE Laser Strike may not be the brand’s most popular entry, but as a bushcraft knife, it is certainly highly versatile and is made with a bunch of features that certainly give it an edge over the competition, even popular models like the ESEE 3, 4 and Izula.
Here are 6 aspects of this knife, some of which it shares in common with other ESEE Knives and others that are unique to...
A bushcraft knife might sport full tang construction, be made from a high-end steel alloy that resists corrosion, and generally hang with the worst abuse and conditions you can throw at it, but there are still some things you will want to avoid doing with it if you can.
Here are some of them.
Throw It
Throwing knives are made with softer steels and more accommodating tempers than...
Many Boker Knives are excellent, and the company sits squarely on a strong foundation, and is historically known for producing some of the finest knives and bladed tools in the world.
This post will focus the spotlight on one specific Boker knife, the Arbolito Hunter with stag scales, which is like a smaller, toned-down version of the Esculta, but which is nonetheless an excellent...
While The Knife Connection is a great place to get some of the best knives and tools in the industry, from great brands like Boker, ESEE, OKC, Buck, LT Wright, axSpyderco, Cold Steel and countless others, there are many, many other supporting accessories (and cool things) you can get there as well.
Here are just a few of them:
Axes and tomahawks: A knife can do a lot, and a skilled...
There are a lot of things to love about the Bradford Guardian 3, one of the company’s best-selling patterns. Among these are the facts that, like other Bradford Knives, they are hand-finished, made in America, and made with top-quality materials.
But, beyond that, we’ve enumerated some of the best features of these popular knives here.
The size and weight are perfect....
You know the Tom Brown Tracker by TOPS Knives? We all do; it is one of the most recognizable knife patterns of all time, and very distinct. Even the silhouette is as recognizable as that of a Nessmuk-style Skinner or Buck 119 Special.
It is a versatile knife, but it is also a bloody behemoth, and there are times when you might want to be served by that level of versatility without the...
There are few knives in history with profiles as immediately recognizable as the USMC Fighting Knife from KA-BAR Knives. Perhaps the Buck 110 Folding Hunter can rival it, but the pickings are certainly slim.
Either way, the USMC Fighting Knife is an infamous knife. That’s partially due to its history, and partially due to the features it possesses that make it practical for the...
