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Stropping is the easiest way to bring your knives to their ultimate sharpness. After shaping the edge through sharpening, stropping provides the finishing touch – honing that invisible apex to a hair-whittling, scary-sharp point. Stropping is also invaluable for restoring your edges after use. In fact, if your knives are properly sharpened, regular stropping will […]
Hawk Knife Designs has just released a revealing take down video of the Hawk Knives Deadlock automatic, the first OTF knife with a completely solid lockup. This is the first time since the Deadlock’s 2015 debut that the Hawks have uncovered the entire assembly of the innovative out-the-front mechanism. “Everyone’s seen how other OTFs work and it’s […]
A simple definition of a dividend is the amount that you want to divide up and it looks like Kershaw’s success of their made-in-the-USA Link series knives have yielded a slimmer, sleeker pocket carry, yet still built at a very affordable price called the Dividend. The Dividend is impeccable for individuals who look forward to […]
My initial impression of the Hard Head Veterans ATE Helmet This helmet is the ATE, made by Hard Head Veterans of Colorado. The ATE provides level IIIA ballistic protection and is NIJ certified by National Technical Systems. My experience with ballistic brain buckets started in 2000 with the venerable PASGT. If you’ve worn one, you […]
When we interviewed Dexter Ewing, Field Editor for BLADE Magazine and owner of Winston-Salem Knife Sharpening back in October, we learned that his business was built around the Work Sharp Ken Onion Edition Knife & Tool Sharpener. “It totally changed my sense of what ‘sharp’ is,” Ewing told us. With an endorsement like that we […]
In a recent article I wrote about the 4 must have items in a medical kit. One of those items was the tourniquet. I’ve always had a tourniquet in my medical kits, but until I had some formal training I really understood the application of them. The medical training I recently had was part of […]
We recently reached out to Joe Caswell to learn about progress of Version 2.0 (V2) of his Morphing Karambit. The knife’s unique form and spring assisted opening method stunned tactical knife enthusiasts last September. Since the initial explosion in popularity, Caswell has been relatively quiet about his progress. But thousands of would-be customers have been waiting with bated breath to find out how […]
(Article courtesy of Breach Bang Clear) Review: Gerber US-ASSIST Death Blossom [not a pseudonym, we swear] The Gerber brand can be found on Walmart and Home Depot shelves across the country and, for that reason alone, it has become a household name. If Billy Bob down the street doesn’t have a Buck knife in his […]
Thousands of years ago, before the modern bows, e.g. compound bows, become the most preferred choice for hunters, most hunters relied on the traditional recurve bow to hunt the game. Yes, it could easily take down the deer, elk as well as other big games you can think of. Sadly, most hunters tend to look down up […]
Benchmade has confirmed it is working on a smaller version of the 2016 smash hit Crooked River. The company says that it has not yet established a release date and the earliest a Benchmade Mini Crooked River could start shipping is the summer. “With Benchmade, a mini version is always a natural progression. So we knew that a smaller […]
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