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Folding Pocket Knife Handle Material Review

A high-quality blade handle is important because it ensures your grip stays tight on the pocket knife. Each material has its own advantage in terms of performance and comfort, but it can also be a matter of aesthetics and personal preferences that dictate what you decide on. Here’s a brief breakdown of the most common type of handle materials and their characteristics. AluminumLightweight and often coated with a protective film, aluminum is frequently used in newer knives. It provides excellent [...]

What You Need To Know To Kitchen Cutlery Knife Buying Guide

Choosing the best kitchen cutlery knife for your uses is one of the most important things you can do for your cooking skills. This kitchen cutlery buying guide will help you make the right choice.There’s a reason why on the show, Top Chef, the loser is told to “Please pack your knives and go.” That simple sentence is particularly, er, cutting, because knives are the backbone of any chef’s arsenal. They care for their knives obsessively, sharpening and honing them [...]

What Is The Best Multi Tool To Buy?

The multitool embodies many core principles of EDC — utility, versatility, portability. For quick fixes, tinkering, and other handy work, having a toolbox’s worth of functionality in a single pocketable tool is invaluable. Common multitool functions include pliers, screwdrivers, bottle openers, scissors, and other cutting tools. Multitools can complement the functions of  other essentials when weight and pocket space are a premium, so naturally they round out the second trinity of EDC. Multi-tools come in many shapes and sizes. The [...]

Guide To Popular Knife Steel Types

Common Knife Steel Types The most common blade steel types generally fall into the following categories:Tool Steel – primarily hard steel alloys used in cutting tools.  Some popular steels in this group include D2, O1 and Crucible’s CPM series (i.e. CPM 3V) plus more advanced high speed steels like M4. Carbon Steel – generally made for rough use where toughness and durability is important. Common in survival knives and machetes.  They take a sharp edge and are relatively easy to re-sharpen.  The trade-off is being more prone [...]

The Best Survival Folding Shovel That Fit In Your Bag

 History Of Folding Shovel In fact, shovels may rank as one of mankinds oldest tools. Throughout most of the history of mankind, shovels were the only tool for serious excavation. They made it possible to build foundations, irrigation systems, sewage troughs, etc. They allowed “ancient man” go from mud hut villages to planned cities. Right up to the second industrial revolution, shovels were the standard for excavation. At one time, manual shoveling became so important that scientists began studying the “science of shoveling.” [...]

How To Sharpen A Folding Pocket Knives

The following steps describe how to sharpen your Folding Pocket Knife. 1.  Lubricate the sharpening stone. Apply a thin layer of lubricant to both sides of your sharpening stone.  Simple.   2.  Sharpen one side of the blade using rough grit. Angle the knife blade about 15 degrees against the rough grit side of your sharpening stone.  Note the recommended angle varies depending on what type of knife you’re sharpening and how sharp you want it but in general you can stick with anywhere [...]

Knife Steel 5 Key Properties And Performance Charts

In choosing the best pocket knife you should pay particular attention to the type of steel used in the blade.  Alongside edge geometry and design, blade steel is a critical element that determines how a knife performs.  Steel is essentially an alloy (i.e. a mix) of carbon and iron that is often enriched with other elements to improve certain characteristics depending on the desired application. In the knife industry different types of steel are created by varying the types of additive elements [...]

Brief Introduction Wootz Damascus Steel Knives

History of Damascus Steel The word “Damascus” goes back to medieval western cultures and refers to an earlier style of craftsmanship that first emerged in India around 300 B.C. This craftsmanship was prolific at the time, and was likely named for the region that made it famous. Around that time, Arab culture introduced Wootz steel to the Syrian city of Damascus where the material led to a thriving industry in weaponry. Damascus imported Wootz steel from Persia and Sri Lanka for the production and [...]

Folding Pocket Knives Locking Mechanism

Folding Pocket Knives feature some sort of a locking mechanism to prevent the blade from closing on itself when performing a cutting task. Liner locks are the most common. A liner lock engages when the blade is pushed out. The lock snaps in place and engages the bottom of the blade to prevent it from closing on itself. To close the blade back, you have to manually push the liner out of the way for the blade to be able [...]

We Should Look For In A Good Survival Knives

When you’re lost in the jungle or battling the elements, there’s only one thing you should have in your hand a survival knife. Military Survival Knives not only act as durable tools to cut down branches or skin animals but they can also be the difference between life and death. And if you’re trusting your life with one of these knives, We have everything from carbon steel serrated blades to durable handles with survival kits inside. So we should look [...]