We’re no strangers to Kizer knives here at KnifeInformer, having reviewed a fair number of the brand’s products in the past – The Ti Begleiter most recently, along with a wide array – from the avant-garde Minitherium to the fan favorite Feist front flipper. The brand was one of the first of many knife manufacturers […]
The Best Knives for Backpacking
So, the weather’s getting nice, you’re tired of being indoors, and you want to set foot into the great outdoors, get a little dirt on your hiking boots instead of staring at your phone screen while the world descends into chaos. But if you’re going hiking or backpacking, you’ve got to make sure you have […]
Spyderco Stretch 2 Review
Intro Since 1976, Sal and Gail Glesser have been selling products under the Spyderco name. Initially, their (still popular today) Tri Angle Sharpmaker was sold as their first product. “First we made things sharp, then we made sharp things”, as Sal likes to remind us as to how the company first got it’s traction. Fast […]
CJRB Pyrite Review
See @ AmazonSee @ Artisan Sometimes, as a writer, we feel the need to develop complex and verbose metaphors for the things we write about. A lot of the time, it’s to make a topic sound more interesting than it really is. Maybe it’s to make a complex topic more relatable, or maybe – as […]
Männkitchen MK9 Chef Knife
This week we stumbled on some new kitchen gear from a US -based brand, Männkitchen. While it all sounds very manly, “Männ” is actually old Norse dialect meaning my or mine and hence Männkitchen refers to “my kitchen”. We got to test out their MK9 Chef Knife which is a absolute beast of a blade that I have […]
Vosteed Raccoon Review
Vosteed have seemingly come out of nowhere – literally, the brand was formed in 2021 – and started dropping a series of absolute bombs on the EDC market. Our first taste of the new brand, with design input by the talented Yue Dong (@doctor_edc on Instagram) was the Nightshade LT just a few months ago. […]
Spyderco Swayback Review
Spyderco, the king of collabs, unique designs, and impeccable quality, has put these knife making traits into yet another folder with one of their long-term partnerships. Marcin Slysz, Polish knife maker and designer, has had several frame lock folders produced by Spyderco, with his name and logo accompanying the knife in production variants. The epic […]
WE Knife Trogon Review
To embrace the American dream, many people take the bull by the horns, and simultaneously take a big risk in their everyday lives to start a journey with a passion to start a business. And Brian Brown is the epitome of this description. A knife maker coming from a retail background, with a family to […]
Nitecore BP23 Backpack
Key Specs: Nitecore BP23 Backpack Capacity 23L Weight 2.3 lbs Dimensions 18.5×11.4×5.9 Material Poly fabric Compartments 4 Cost About $65 Nitecore does more than flashlights. Here’s a great example – their BP23 backpack. First off, this thing looks great in all black 600D polyester (waterproof) and doesn’t appear overly bulky despite it’s generous capacity. Everything […]
Fix-It Sticks Compact Ratcheting Multi-Tool Review
Here at KnifeInformer, we’ve reviewed a bunch of knife maintenance items in the past. We’ve covered the Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpener Mk2, the Lansky Deluxe Sharpening Kit, the Wicked Edge sharpener, the classic Spyderco Sharpmaker, and we also talked about some of Work Sharp’s manual sharpeners. But there are other aspects to knife […]
