Matt Davidson | Knife Informer

The Best Dirt Cheap Knives

This is an amazing time to be knife enthusiast as we are in a Renaissance of sorts. The market is flooded with wonderful knives for every conceivable purpose and at every price point. Materials, design, and workmanship are all generally trending for the better. This goes double for the Chinese knife industry; there are oceans […]

Tangram Orion/Progression Review

2018 is looking like the year of the budget knife. As much growth as there’s been on the top end of the market, with crazy sculpted MokuTi clips and steels no one has ever heard of, there’s been a satisfying amount of movement down-market. Not just a flood of new gas station knives and Z-Hunters, […]

BRS E-Volve Minuteman Review

Depending on what type of knives you’re interested in, BRS is either a familiar household name, or one you may not have heard of at all. That’s because BRS – which is short for Blade Runners Systems – is primarily known for building Balisongs, or butterfly knives, typically releasing in small batches. Their Replicant, Alpha […]

Lansky Deluxe Sharpening Kit Review

Let’s talk about knife maintenance. There are a few things any knife nut needs to have in their collection of knife maintenance items: a good set of Torx bits and a driver (I recommend Wiha), some appropriate pivot oil (I often use 3-in-1, feel free to throw stones), medium-yield Loctite, and of course – a sharpener. […]

Kizer Matanzas Review

Matanzas – what a cool name. Sounds like its Italian for… mountains. Or it’s a Greek god. Maybe a species of Orchid that only grows in Nepal or something. Actually, it’s Spanish for slaughter. It’s also, as the subject of this review, the name of a new folder designed by Nick Swan and produced by Kizer. […]

The Best Kitchen Knives For Your Money

Kitchen knives are frequently overlooked by knife enthusiasts; often, people with extensive collections of folders and traditional pocket knives will have just one or two kitchen knives. They are frequently viewed more as utilitarian items, more akin to a refrigerator than a Sebenza. This is ironic, of course, because in reality kitchen cutlery gets used […]

Hogue X-1 Microflip Review

Hogue is one of the lesser-known brands when it comes to knives, but it’s a household name in the gun world, where they’re renowned for their high-quality grips and accessories. That seems to be slowly changing thanks to their innovative line of in-house-produced knives which are of almost universally excellent quality – hardly the norm […]

Steel Will Cutjack Mini Review

There was a period of time – a long one, in fact, stretching from 1998 until 2004 – where the McLaren F1 was the fastest production sports car in the world. It reached a two-way average of 240.1 miles per hour with the rev limiter raised to 8,300 rpm, it’s naturally-aspirated BMW M-built V12 cranking […]

Kizer Feist Review

The Kizer Feist is a great example of not judging a book by its cover. At first glance, there’s not much to the knife – it’s quite small, and has sparse minimalistic lines. It’s matte grey titanium with just the barest of adornment, Kizer’s decorative pivot, to spice it up. People that aren’t into knives […]

Factor Verve Review

The Verve is a relatively new offering from Factor Equipment, a subsidiary of Fenix Flashlights. After their initial product rollout with the Absolute and the (controversial) Iconic folders, Factor released a second wave of new designs last year including the miniature Bit and the value-oriented Hardened flipper. The Verve is the sleek, stylish one of the […]

Esee Zancudo D2 Review

Typically, knives are one of the few straightforward things in life. They don’t require a ton of sleuthing and extensive googling and head scratching to figure out the basics – who designed it, who made it, etc. Take the Kershaw Leek, for example. Can’t be any clearer. Ken Onion designed it, Kershaw made it, you […]

The Best Pocket Knife For Your Money

Anyone that’s new to Knife Informer or the world of knives can find it all a bit overwhelming, from the myriad of brands, material types, and terminology can all be too much. What are we even talking about? What do you need a knife for? And what should you go for when you decide to […]