Recent Entries

• 6 Things to Love About REMETTE Knives

  by The Knife Connection 3 hours ago

  REMETTE Knives are not among the industry’s best known, especially alongside more commonly encountered brands like CKRT, Spyderco, and ZT (to name just three of dozens). And yet, REMETTE Knives deliver quality in relatively unconventional ways. Here are 6 things you’ll appreciate a...
• About the Fox Knives Suru Series

  by The Knife Connection Aug 12

  Jesper Voxnaes, the designer behind such popular blades as the CRKT Pilar and the Viper Knives Vox Fortis Flipper, is known for his insightful and practical designs.  At one point, he had a vision to create a small knife with a utilitarian blade that, despite its diminutive stature, still offe...
• Keeping Rust Off of (and Properly Maintaining) Your Fishing Knives

  by The Knife Connection Aug 11

  Your fishing knives are critical for preparing and cutting bait, fileting and pan dressing harvests, and for general utility, such as opening packages, trimming line, and other basic chores like that.  Fishing knives also, perhaps more than any other category of knives, are subjected...
• About Ferrocerium Fire Starters

  by The Knife Connection Aug 7

  You may have heard of flint and steel, or simply flint fire starters, as well as the potential benefits they offer to bushcrafters or survivalists, but the truth is what’s often referred to as “flint” is anything but. Here’s what you need to know. No, It’s Not Fl...
• EDC Knife Deployment: What Method Is Best?

  by The Knife Connection Aug 5

  What method an EDC knife uses for deployment is one of the key features you should evaluate before you buy, as it will impact the usability of the knife as well as the learning curve you need to surmount to become proficient with the tool.  Here are some of the more common deployment...
• About the A2 Steel Used in Many LT Wright Knives

  by The Knife Connection Jul 31

  A2 steel is a dinosaur among knife steels, but thanks to a unique combination of properties, it is still in common use as a quality tool steel that still makes a good knife.  It is also fairly commonly used in LT Wright knives, alongside other tool steels like 1075 and AEB-L.  This ...
• The Woods Monkey Kerf Carver Is the Tiny Fixed Blade You Didn’t Know You Needed

  by The Knife Connection Jul 23

  Made and finished by hand, and indicative of quality that is rare in knives nowadays, LT Wright Knives set a standard that is hard to meet. Many of their knives are designed for bushcraft and survival, and one of the best of these is a tiny knife you might not expect to make that applicati...
• 6 Things Not to Do with Your Kitchen Knives

  by The Knife Connection Jul 20

  Congratulations; you’ve just gotten a new set of kitchen knives. You can finally retire the old set, the ones with the chipped edges, stained blades, and chopped up handle scales. But what are you going to do to ensure that this new set of knives doesn’t look like the old one in a ...
• 5 Ways Custom Knife Scales Can Improve the Ergonomics and Utility of Your Knife

  by The Knife Connection Jul 16

  Suppose you have a popular knife like a Becker BK14 or an ESEE 3 or Izula. These knives come with knife handle scales from the factory that are pretty solid; but they could definitely be better.  And on that note, upgrading the handle scales for your knives is one of the simplest and...
• Sheath Materials and Blade Profiles in Hunting Knives

  by The Knife Connection Jul 14

  Two important attributes you will want to consider in any hunting knives are the blade profile and sheath material. This post will break down some of those details.  Hunting Knives and Blade Profile Four of the more common knife blade profiles in hunting knives are as follows: Dr...
• 4 Things You’ll Love About Joker Knives

  by The Knife Connection Jul 14

  Sometimes simplicity is the best policy of design. In many modern knife brands, like Becker and ESEE, this is evident. They aim to produce knives that are simple, even forgettable in aesthetic, but which are intended to perform unfailingly.  This maxim also typifies Joker Knives, known fo...
• Caring for Great Eastern Cutlery Knives

  by The Knife Connection Jul 8

  Like the traditional pocket knives of yore, Great Eastern Cutlery knives, also known as GEC, are made with a high-carbon steel alloy, 1095. This is the same steel that is commonly used in ESEE Knives, for those of you familiar.  It is also similar to the high-carbon alloys that have been ...