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United Cutlery Bankruptcy
United Cutlery is one of the most popular producers of knives in the market, established decades ago and continued to be active in the market as far back as 2005-06. Their declaration of bankruptcy has rattled many blade collectors –…
How Good is Nitro V Stainless Steel?
Introduction With the vast amount of “boutique steel” on the market today, the knifemaker and consumer have an unprecedented ability to be choosy about the type of steel they want in their knives. Online forums are awash in back and…
M390 Knife Steel Overview
Bohler M390 Steel Introduction Bohler M390 stainless steel is one of the recent wave of “super steels” heralded by knife makers all over the world. It has characteristics of high hardness and excellent corrosion resistance. This means you’re going to…
How to Throw a Bowie Knife
Bowie knives are great weapons. That doesn’t mean you should use them as such, and furthermore, they’re not great for throwing. The Bowie knife is a sheath knife with a fixed blade that was made popular by James “Jim” Bowie…
Advantages of a Tanto Blade
A blade can be defined simply as the specific portion of a tool, machine, or weapon that has an edge designed to puncture and/or cut, slash, stab, slice, thrust, chop, or scrape the surface of various materials. Blades may be…