It’s a drop point design for ease of sharpening, with 20-degree edge angles on a flat grind. The blade holds an edge quite nicely, and it sharpens easily. The handle is constructed from Zytel, a Dupont-made glass-reinforced nylon which is damn-near indestructible. What I really love ...
Bench-Top Sharpeners:Also called “tabletop sharpeners” or “fixed-angle sharpeners,” this is a type of largely non-mobile sharpening system that — as its name suggests — is used on a bench or tabletop. Bench-top sharpeners usually see a knife clamped down before the user selects an an...
The actual cutting edge is 2.625” owing to a sharpening choil in front of the flipper tab. The blade is 0.12” thick, putting it right in the sweet spot between “so thin you worry about snapping it” and “too thick to actually cut things well.” The interesting thing about the ...
A knife is one of the most convenient and useful tools you can carry. And these are the expert-recommended pocket knives worth buying.
From what I’ve seen, their base blade stocks go through some kind of CNC production but all the polishing, handle shaping, and sharpening is done through hand grinding. As a result, all of their knives tend to run around the $200 mark, but their knives earn that price tag. Bark River...
While I have my favorites, I constantly have different pocket knives in my rotation, putting them to work opening boxes, sharpening pencils, prying things open, scraping off paint, cleaning fish, cutting meat and vegetables, and doing lots of other things that pocket knives probably aren’t ...