All posts tagged "knife business"
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PSA: ESEE Knives Instagram Page is Still Down
Last week we did a short post about We Knife Co.’s current struggles with their Instagram page. ESEE Knives is another company dealing with a...
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SOG VP Signs up with Boker USA as General Manager
Another former SOG employee has joined up with a different knife company following SOG’s acquisition by GSM Outdoors. Chas Fisher, SOG’s Vice President of Sales,...
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Two SOG Vets Join up with AKTI
One of last year’s biggest stories didn’t land until the end of December, when GSM Outdoors, the company that purchased Cold Steel in 2020, announced...
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Interview: GSM Talks Cold Steel, Atlas Lock, and Tri-Ad Lock
GSM Outdoors is a company that has quickly risen to the top of knife community discourse. The outdoors company acquired two major knife companies, Cold...
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GSM Outdoors Acquires SOG Knives
GSM Outdoors has purchased SOG Knives, according to posts on GSM’s official social media channels. GSM Outdoors is the same company that acquired Cold Steel...
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Knife Rights Seeks to Pass Knife Law Preemption in OH
Knife Rights is on the cusp of big things in Ohio. Following the enactment of their Ohio Knife Law Reform Bill earlier this year, a...
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Blade Show West Finds New Venue for 2021
Blade Show West, the fledgling second show under the Blade Show banner, is back and opening its doors this weekend. In a major shift, this...
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James Brand Creates New Leadership Role as It Plans for the Future
The James Brand is adding a new member to its leadership team, Tobin Teichgraeber. Teichgraeber is being brought on in a new role designed to...
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Blade Show 2021: Awards Recap
Blade Show 2021 is a wrap! The weekend-long event felt too short, but there is still much to discuss. The Blade Show awards are always...
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Buck Brings in Non-Family President for First Time in Company History
Buck is welcoming Lane Tobiassen to the team as the company’s new president. Tobiassen brings years of experience in knife-adjacent industries, and is the first...
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New Texas Bill Seeks to Lock up Knives in All Retail Environments
A new bill introduced in the Texas legislature last week would place some pretty stringent restrictions on the display of knives in a retail setting....
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Work Sharp Discusses New Direction after Sale of Darex
At the end of last year, some big changes were quietly made at Darex LLC., former parent company of Work Sharp. “Former,” because the Darex...
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New Cold Steel Owners GSM Outdoors Talk Acquisition, Future
The biggest end of the year surprise in the knife world was when Cold Steel founder Lynn C. Thompson announced the sale of his company...
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Master Knife Maker Tony Bose Passes Away
Knife lovers everywhere are mourning the loss of legendary maker Tony Bose today. Bose passed away yesterday at the age of 74. The name “Tony...
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SHOT Show 2021 Officially Cancelled
Well, it isn’t surprising, but it’s still bad news: last Friday, the NSSF announced the official cancellation of SHOT Show 2021. The decision was made...
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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...
Justin Lundquist Turns Feist Folder into Custom Fixed Blade
Justin Lundquist is giving fans of the Feist something new to fiend for with the Feist Fixed Blade. These custom pieces present the well-known design in an entirely new...
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Spartan Blades Brings on ANV Co-Founder for Slim New Flipper
Spartan Blades has teamed up with a new outside design partner, Ondřej Němec, for their latest field grade folder release. The Spartan-Němec folder brings an entirely new style of...
Kizer Huntsman Goes for Bold Blade and Big Handle
Kizer tapped a new designer for an incoming model, an imposing folder called the Huntsman. This one comes from James Lowe, and is a big, brash design named after...
Even More New Fixed Blades Coming out from Boker
Need some more outdoors knives? Good, because there’s a pair of ’em on the way from Boker. The Dasos and Lofos are two knives, in two different size classes,...
Locking Jack Wolf Knife No. 2 Arrives This Month
Almost six months to the day after the first locking release from Jack Wolf Knives, the traditional-focused outfit is prepping to release another. The After Hours Jack goes in...
Emerson Expands Tim Kennedy Collab with Fixed Blade Release
Back in April (y’know, when it was warming up instead of cooling down), we talked about the Emerson Knives TKF-1, a folding knife collaboration between the company and former...
