Category Archives: Knives

New Benchmade 909 AXIS Stryker II

Benchmade Knife Company‘s 910 Stryker debuted in the late 1990’s.  Designed by Allen Elishewitz, the original Stryker won the Shooting Industry Magazine’s Knife of the Year in 1998.  Back then, titanium liners, G-10 scales, ATS-34 steel, black blade coatings, and … Continue reading

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Brous Blades Bionic Folder

Jason Brous has created a new semi-custom flipper called Bionic.  I have written about Brous’ penchant for biomechanical design and this latest knife wears his artistic signature.  An anodized 6061 aluminum frame is machined in what I see as a … Continue reading

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New ESEE Camp-Lore Series

ESEE Knives has announced a new brand of outdoors knives called Camp-Lore, which will be aimed at the bushcraft market.  Each knife will be designed by a different outdoorsman and reflect their own personal likes in a field knife.  Made … Continue reading

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New CRKT Flavio Ikoma Fossil

Flavio Ikoma is a Brazilian knifemaker that, to my eye, is able to balance mechanical with biological styling cues.  There is an unmistakable flow to his work in lines and in texture.  His new design collaboration with Columbia River Knife … Continue reading

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Ontario Knife Company Blackbird Noir

Blackbird SK-5 is one of the Ontario Knife Company‘s fixed blade knives.  Paul Sheiter’s, the Blackbird’s designer said, “I believe the more complicated a product becomes, the more likely it is to fail when your life depends on it.  For … Continue reading

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New SOG Zoom Assisted Folders

Out on the dusty range at Media Day, SOG Knives had new wares.  Next to the SOG Kiku fixed blade were some new folding knives.  SOG representative Chris Cashbaugh showed off a new folder in the Zoom series of knives.  … Continue reading

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Zero Tolerance Also Cozies Up With Emerson

KAI Group’s Kershaw Knives has spun up a collaboration with Ernest Emerson and his resources.  KAI’s upscale brand Zero Tolerance (think Nissan/Infiniti) also gets a turn.  At SHOT Show 2014, ZT introduced its new Emerson collaborations, the models 0620CF and … Continue reading

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New Timberline BattleHog Folders

GATCO/ Timberline had a few new knives at their SHOT Show 2014 booth.  The Butch Vallotton-designed BattleHog series was so recent, Timberline’s new-for-2014 catalog insert did not contain the knives.  The BattleHogs are a 3″ bladed tactical knife with a … Continue reading

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Assembling a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife

I had to stop at the Victorinox booth at SHOT Show 2014.  Dontrese Brown was assembling Victorinox Swiss Army Knives!  Integral to the construction of a knife is the special mechanical press that mates the component parts together. Only two … Continue reading

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Spyderco Displays New Jani-Song Knife Prototype at SHOT Show 2014

I got to flip a Jani-Song at SHOT Show 2014!  Okay, let’s all just take a moment here.  I was at the smaller of the two Spyderco booths talking to knifemaker Howard Viele’s son Gene, who was manning the space.  … Continue reading

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