Matt Davidson | Knife Informer

Kershaw Bareknuckle Review

Bareknuckle is a pretty aggressive moniker for a pocket knife, referring to a fist fight sans gloves – an “only real men” kind of thing. You go bareknuckle to settle a dispute like it’s the wild west, punching someone in the face knowing it’s gonna hurt them, but it’ll hurt you more as well. I […]

Tangram Vector Review

The past year has seen a pretty glorious resurgence of high-quality affordable (or budget) knives, which has been a refreshing change from previous year’s trends of a never-ending pile of contoured titanium framelock flippers with crazy steels and $400 MSRP’s. It’s not that I don’t like Spyderco Nirvanas, but the knives people actually buy – […]

The Best Knife Sharpener For Your Money

We spend a lot of time talking about knives here, and not a lot of time talking about knife maintenance. Knives are fairly simple to maintain, though: keep the body screws tight, keep the lint out of them, oil the pivot, set the pivot screw, clean the tape goo off the blade – oh, and […]

Kizer Guru Review

What is a Guru? In Buddhist and Hindu religions, a Guru is a spiritual teacher or leader. It’s also used in less specifically religious context to refer to an influential teacher in a certain sphere – like a “Guru of building model cars” or that type of thing. It’s also a maker-collaboration knife between Matt […]

Kershaw Atmos Review

The Kershaw Atmos is the Porsche 912E of pocket knives. Wow, you think! I can get a Porsche for $30! Let me go buy one now! Well, understanding the importance of this metaphor depends on how well you know your old Porsches. The 912E was an unusual vehicle for Porsche, made for one year only – […]

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 […]