All posts by KnifeNews Editorial Staff
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Trainer Knives: Are You Prepared for Live Contact?
Few people know what it means to defend your life with a knife like martial artist and knife designer Bram Frank. He is best known...
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SURVEY CONTEST: What folding knives should NEVER be discontinued?
Take the one question survey for your chance to WIN 1 of 10 Ka-Bar Tactical Sporks
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BREAKING: KAI Takes Action to Defend Sub-Framelock Patent
Multiple sources have confirmed that Kai U.S.A. LTD., maker of Kershaw, Zero Tolerance, and Shun knives, has taken action to defend its 2015 U.S. sub-framelock...
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Chris Reeve Knives Confirms What Industry Insiders Already Knew
It’s no exaggeration to say that the knife world would be very different without Chris Reeve. The fact that he is no longer heading up...
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Knife Maker Realizes Teenage Ambition
Most kids wouldn’t want a bench grinder for their fifteenth birthday, but Lee Lerman wasn’t like most kids. For Lerman, a custom maker in Netanya, Israel,...
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Blade Show Collector Scores 2 of 30 Benchmade CF Blades Before Prices Skyrocket
If SHOT Show is where companies introduce new products, Blade Show is where they embellish them. This year, Benchmade devoted their Blade Show appearance to...
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Sniper Blade Works’ New SOF Chopper Cuts the Price of Splitting Wood
The first time you see a knife designed by Lance Abernathy, owner of Sniper Blade Works, it’s sure to command your attention. His first production...
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Japanese Maker Proves Custom Knives Don’t Have to Break the Bank
In a world where custom knives cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars, Japanese knife maker Hiroaki Ohta stands apart by selling hand crafted knives that...
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Custom Makers Bring Their Best to Blade Show 2016
Blade Show, the world’s largest custom knife show, kicks off tomorrow. More than 700 custom knife makers have started descending on Atlanta, Georgia where the...
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RMJ Tactical Doubling Down on 3 New Knives
RMJ Tactical is announcing new products at a furious pace. In a single week the company, known for its tomahawks, nearly doubled the number of...
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Spyderco Announces 12 New Knives
Spyderco accelerates into the summer with their mid year product guide released online within the last hour. The supplemental catalog is a yearly tradition, an...
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Carry it Your Way With The 710 Custom Sheaths
Julio Diez, founder of The 710 Custom Sheaths, says that his business is booming because many knife companies focus on the quality of the blade and...
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Survivalist’s Dream Knife Conquers Kickstarter
“I was going to make the knife of my dreams, without compromise,” says David Polczynski, founder of the Ultimate Survival Tips. Polczynski is one half...
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CRKT’s Field Strip Technology Debuts on the Homefront
Ken Onion has spent the last 10 years working on what CRKT calls “his most significant innovation since spring-assisted knives.” Onion’s newest contribution to knife design...
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TW Brands Fiberglass Blades an Interesting Trade-Off
The idea was born out of Travis Wilson’s need for rust-resistant equipment. Living in Florida, the soon-to-be founder of TW Brands needed tools that could...
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Shop Talk: 7Forge Knives Goes from Science Project to Semi-Production
In the last five years, the knife making scene has absolutely exploded, with dozens upon dozens of new names, new talents, and new knives. One shop that gained a...
Grant Hawk Passes Away at 82
Hawk Knives delivered deeply sad news to the knife world yesterday: Grant Hawk, one of the most innovative, boundary-pushing knife makers of the 20th century, passed away earlier this...
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Christmas Shipping Special and Knife Deals Live at KSF
: Updated story with prices for Next Day Air shipping discounts Sponsored by: KnivesShipFree Christmas is nearly here, and the online shopping rush is in full swing; we’ll...
Shop Talk: Jess Hoffman’s Modern Knives Learn from the Classics
Wisconsin-based custom maker Jess Hoffman has been on a knifemaking journey for the last twelve years, honing his craft and building a portfolio of hardworking, thoughtfully-designed fixed blades. Hoffman’s...
Vosteed Corgi Returns with New Wheeler Mechanism in Place
Vosteed Cutlery has released a surprise just ahead of Christmas and the end of 2024. The Corgi V sees the design team giving one of their existing models a...
Kombou’s Prydwen Takes its Name from a Famous Virtual Vessel
The Bestech Excentric debuted recently, a collaboration model between Toni Tietzel of TNT Knives and Grzegorz Grabarski, AKA Kombou. Well, Grabarski has been a busy man, and has another...
Two Custom World Heavyweights Collaborate on Wild Bestech Excentric
Bestech is poised to release a new collaboration that is, itself, a collaboration model. Meet the Excentric, which results from the partnership of Grzegorz Grabarski, AKA Kombou Designs, and...
