Category: Knife of the Week (Page 12 of 35)

A few years back, the zombie craze took the knife world by storm. No company upped the zombie killer game better than KA-BAR.

Although the fad has mostly died out, one knife from the KA-BAR Zombie Killer collection remains a fan favorite — the KA-BAR Swabbie.

The Swabbie is a long fixed blade that’s based off the curved short sword known as the scimitar. The blade stretches 12.5 inches and is made of 1095 Cro-Van steel, a popular steel among KA-BAR fixed blades. The scimitar blade shape is surprisingly versatile with a deep slicing belly and a piercing point.

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The Spyderco Paramilitary 2 is widely hailed as one of the best pocket knives ever made. For a long time, knife nuts demanded a smaller version of the iconic knife. Sal and Eric Glesser finally answered with the Para 3.

The Para 3 uses the same basic design of the PM2 but distills its essence into a smaller package. With a blade at just under 3 inches, the Para 3 uses the same shape and S30V blade as the original PM2.

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The Badass Knife of the Week is a simplified fixed blade with a wicked design that you can carry securely around your neck.

Modeled after the claws of big cats in Southeast Asia, the Schrade SCH111 is as ferocious as it sounds. This karambit-styled knife is designed by Joshua Waggoner and features a 2.97-inch blade made from 9Cr18MoV stainless steel with a hawkbill curve.

The skeletonized handle not only reduces the overall weight of the knife, which comes in at a little more than 3 ounces, but it also offers versatility to the user.

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No one has swagger like our Badass Knife of the Week.

All right, all right, despite the admittedly silly name, the Gerber Swagger is a slim and stylish everyday carry option that’s inexpensive but gets the job done.

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For a company known for its tactical knives and fixed blade Bowie designs, it might be surprising that one of its best models is a relatively unassuming folder.

But that’s exactly what this Badass Knife of the Week is.

The SOG Twitch II is an excellent everyday carry option that won’t win awards for innovation or style but gets the job done without hesitation.

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You’d be hard-pressed to find someone better at making functional outdoor fixed blades than the great Ethan Becker.

Just take a look at the KA-BAR BK16 Short Becker, for example.

The Short Becker is a moderately sized fixed blade you can feel comfortable taking on all your outdoor adventures.

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The sway back is a traditional knife design with curves from tip to butt. Who better to create a modern version of the classic knife than Mr. Curves himself — Ken Onion.

The CRKT Swindle updates the classic design with a few modern marvels, including a blade that springs to life using a flipper tab and IKBS ball-bearing pivot system and a frame lock.

The knife’s 3.2-inch blade features surprisingly subtle curves for an Onion design that’s almost a cross between a drop point and Wharncliffe blade profile. This allows for a nice cutting belly along with a piercing point.

Using functional 8Cr14MoV steel, the blade locks in place securely with a frame lock. The handle itself is stainless steel and provides a nice weight to the knife.

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George Sears was an early conservationist and a pioneer of ultralight backpacking. Writing under the pen name “Nessmuk” in the 1880s for what would later become Field & Stream, he extolled the virtues of carrying a trio of outdoor tools, which included a fixed blade that could do it all.

That fixed blade has since become a generic design that’s simply known as the Nessmuk. Few companies make a Nessmuk better than Condor Tool & Knife.

This Nessmuk boasts a nearly 4-inch blade made from 1075 high carbon steel. The unusual blade shape lends itself more to skinning but it works well as an all-around bushcrafting knife.

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Finding a solid everyday carry knife you can use reliably at work that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg is no easy task. Fortunately for you, our Badass Knife of the Week is that knife.

The Kershaw Link is the missing link between cheap foreign-made knives and expensive premium knives not meant to be used.

Featuring the product number 1776, the Link is an American-made knife with a 3.25-inch drop point blade made from 420HC stainless steel, a very capable workhorse steel that’s easy to maintain.

The simplified blade springs to life with the help of a flipper tab and the reliable SpeedSafe assisted-opening mechanism. A liner lock keeps it engaged.

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House cats are known as soft and cuddly little domestic pets, but the truth is they wouldn’t be opposed to eating your eyes and limbs once you die. That’s when house cats tap into the dark side of their ancestors — the wildcat.

The Boker Plus Wildcat shares many commonalities with the notoriously difficult to tame wildcats of Europe. The Wildcat is adaptable, fierce, and impossible to nail down.

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Designed by Boris Manasherov, the Wildcat is a folding karambit inspired by the claws of the bigs cats in the jungles of Indonesia. The 2.8-inch blade is made from D2 steel and opens softly with the help of an oval thumb hole or quickly with a flipper tab. Ball bearings make either option smooth as butter.

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