Knife Reviews
The Platinum 3776 Century sits at an interesting crossroad in my personal gear journey. Drawing its name from the elevation of Mt. Fuji, it embodies several things I enjoy: Japanese craftsmanship (in food, tools, and monster movies), writing (especially with fountain pens), and wine (reds, in particular). Given that it came along at the peak ...
Formed in 1892 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Hamilton Watch Company was one of the more notable American watch manufacturing companies, cutting their teeth on pocket watches designed and targeted at the railroad industry they developed a well known and respected business. When World War 2 started Hamilton retooled and began creating wrist watches, effectively paving the ...
This is a reader request. Proof that if you twist my arm hard enough I'll review the latest full titanium Zero Tolerance flipper. Only for you guys. Buy the Zero Tolerance 0609 at BladeHQ The Zero Tolerance 0609 is an R.J. Martin design, and is another step in ZT's trend of releasing smaller, more EDC friendly ...
Last Updated August 14, 2019 Few names in the knife world garner as much respect as Jesper Voxnaes and Jens Anso. Together, they’re a veritable dynamic duo of knife design. So, when the folks at Giant Mouse Knives agreed to send over a loaner of the pair’s new ACE Nimbus model, the clouds parted and I ...
I was just reading some statistics about Great Eastern Cutlery: in 2007 GEC produced approximately 7300 knives whereas in 2017 it’s nearly 30,000 pieces. This is remarkable in today’s hyper competitive EDC pocket knife market. That’s a 310% increase over ten years for a traditional knife company. Admittedly, these numbers are based on hearsay, but ...
Imagine you can pick out anything from Kizer's lineup. I was recently put in that position. Not a bad place to be. Thumbing through their catalog yields all sorts of stuff from the pedestrian to the outlandish. The Sheepdog is more in that second camp. It's a big bold design. Not likely to dislodge something ...