When it comes to maintaining your gear in the field, everyone, for the most part, focuses on weapons maintenance. Knives will typically take a back burner to maintenance. Having the ability to keep your blades sharp is a must, especially when out in the field and away from home. I’ve used many different methods, from […]
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Lansky Diamond Bench Stone (Fine): Keep your knife sharp!
‘A sharp knife is a safe knife‘ is a common saying among survival instructors. And for good reason, a dull knife can make cutting more difficult which can cause the knife to do erratic things as you put pressure on the blade. This presents a safety hazard and all knives should be kept sharp enough […]
Viking Whetstone Pendant | Hone your Knife like a Viking Warrior
If you haven’t figured it out already I have a thing for edged weapons. I’ve done quite a few reviews on knives, both fixed blade and folding. I’ve also discussed the importance of maintaining your knives at home and in the field. I guess one of the things that really draws me to knives and […]
Sharpening your cutting tools in the field
There are multiple ways to sharpen your cutting tools. Each has their own merits. Of any job in the military I’d argue that Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape instructors likely use their cutting tools in the most extreme manner on a day-to-day basis. Going through training we are constantly assessed on our ability to sharpen […]
Loadout Room Approved Knife Sharpeners
We have recently begun a ‘Loadout Room Approved‘ series of articles where we recommend specific gear for you to purchase and use. We test and evaluate quite a bit of gear, clothing, firearms and firearms accessories. Our goal with this series is to sift through all those articles and give to you what we actually […]
Spyderco Manix 2 | The best of Spyderco’s classics
The Spyderco Manix 2 was one of my first knives, at least the first one that cost me a bit of change. It’s a great knife that has been with me for years and still finds its way into my EDC rotation more often than any other knife I own. It also happens to be […]
Sentry Solutions: Knife care and maintenance kit
Being able to maintain your knife is as important as maintaining your firearm for several reasons. You may need to transition to your knife in a defensive situation, so you’ll need to have the confidence that it will deploy when you need it and that it has a serviceable edge. In the field one of […]
Keep Your Knives Sharp | Tools of the Trade
Knife sharpening has been way over complicated in this day and age. Maintaining your knives’ edge is extremely important if you use it a lot. A dull knife can actually be dangerous to use. With a dull edge you tend to push harder when carving or cutting, which could cause your hand to slip and […]
Knife Sharpening Tools | The Lansky Puck
I’ve tried most of the more elaborate table top sharpening systems, but always find myself going back to a good ole simple sharpening stone. For a while I have been using the credit card sharpening stone by Dia-Sharp. I’ve owned the Lansky Sharpening puck for a while too, but I rarely took it out of […]
Knife Maintenance Month: Sharpening with the Work Sharp Ken Onion Edition
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 […]