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Slipjoint Showdown: LionSteel BestMan VS Benchmade Proper

KnifeCenter | EDC, Photography, Podcasts, & Videos, Production Knives

I wonder how much staying power the slipjoint craze will have when it comes to the EDC production companies. Everyone seems to have one now. But when I want a slipjoint, I really prefer the traditional styles. These modern slipjoints aren’t speaking to me.

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100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway: Kizlyar Supreme Prime Winner

Knife Magazine | Housekeeping/Contests

Good evening folks. I have just drawn the Day 51 Winner. With Number 410, Thomas F. wins the Kizlyar Supreme Prime folding knife from CAS Iberia.

Day 52’s knife is a bit different, it is a G10 dagger by VG Grips. I am still finishing the writeup, but it is an interesting piece. I’d like one.

Have a good Monday everyone.

If you are not yet registered for our 100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway, you must Register for a free account, and leave a comment on our official contest thread (here)

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Say Hello to Hamomin, Cutlery-Themed Mascot of Seki, Japan

Knife News | Uncategorized

In the west there are mascots from restaurants or sports teams, but in Japan mascot culture goes way deeper: cities, towns, railways, ports, volunteer groups and more all have their own individual mascots – or yuru-chara, as they’re called. And the mascot for Seki City, world-famous for its sword and knife culture, is Hamomin.

“There’s a long history of quirky characters in Japanese folklore and traditional art, and they can be seen everywhere in modern video games, manga, and anime,” says Chris Carlier, a writer and illustrator living in Tokyo and the mind behind Mondo Mascots, which chronicles the world of yuru-chara on Instagram and Twitter. “I’d say the mascots are an extension of that.”

Hamomin is a rabbit with scissor blades or garden shears instead of typical rabbit ears. These edged ears are an obvious reference for knife nerds: Seki City has been a center of Japanese bladecraft for hundreds of years thanks to the abundant, and high quality natural resources of the area: plentiful timber for charcoal and sand rich with iron.

Mildly horrifying. Great blades come from Seki. Great Mascots, not so much.

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100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway: Hogue X-5 Winner

Knife Magazine | Housekeeping/Contests

Good evening everyone. Thank you to those who participated in our Day 50 Giveaway – the Hogue 10th Anniversary Edition X-5. Thank you to Hogue for donating both this knife and the X-1 Microflip which we gave away on Day 10. I drew #21, which means that Ashley D. is our winner.

For Day 51 we will be giving away a Kizlyar Supreme Prime.

100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway: Kizlyar Supreme Prime (from CAS Iberia)

Remember, unlike the Hogue giveaway, this one will be on our official 100 Knives in 100 Days thread. If you have already left a comment there, you are entered through the duration of the contest. If not, we’d love to have you enter.

Introducing the 100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway

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Inside Chris Reeve Knives: Where some of America’s Best Pocket Knives Are Made

Gear Patrol | EDC, Knife Stories, Production Knives

The items we shove in our pockets every morning to get us through the day — keys, phone, and if you are like me, the occasional knife — are tools. They work for us, unlocking doors (and packages) and connecting us to the rest of the world. Some are basic, but others, however discreet, are instruments of precision. For example: a knife milled and measured to within a fraction of one-thousandth of an inch and executed with a fidelity that sets an almost superhuman standard. That’s a tool we can get behind, and a company in Idaho called Chris Reeve Knives makes it.

Chris Reeve Knives (or CRK, for short) has been machining precision blades out of its Boise shop for over 30 years. Its flagship product is unequivocally the Sebenza, a folding pocket knife that it first released in 1991.

A bit of a long read, but a good one.

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Weekend Open Thread: Anyone want to talk steel?

Knife Magazine | Housekeeping/Contests, Humor

Happy Friday folks. These weekend open threads have been a bit slow getting off the ground, so I thought I would put up a meme that is a bit controversial. Of course this is the open thread, so feel free to post whatever you like. But

I am not a D2 fanboy, but I am not a hater either. It lives up to the saying “It takes a mediocre edge and holds it forever”. But whatever you think about it, it probably generates more strong opinions than most.

8Cr13Mov is another one that has a fair number of detractors and supporters.

Let us know your opinions in the comments.

I am not going to post everything from our Events Calendar for the weekend, so if you haven’t seen it, check it out. You can find it under Events & Orgs –> Events Calendar. You can filter by type of event (Club Meeting, Knife Show, Hammer-In, Bladesports cut, etc), dates, and even geographic distance from your home.

Here are some of the highlights coming up this weekend:

Indiana Knife Collectors Knife Festival

Moran Museum & Foundation Membership Meeting

Micro Invitational Knife Show

There are some regional collector club meetings and other gatherings as well. So be sure to have a look. If you have a club meeting or show to submit, you can do so under the Events & Orgs tab as well.

Have a great weekend everyone.

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100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway: Browning Pursuit winner

Knife Magazine | Housekeeping/Contests

It is that time again. The sun has set on Day 49, and I drew #59 for our 100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway nightly drawing. Congrats to Nicole M, who is the winner of the Browning Pursuit flipper.

It is a fun little budget knife, one of the smaller ones to contain bearings as opposed to bushings. It is really quick to open, and would make a great light duty EDC or backup.

Saturday marks our halfway point. Day 50, and we are giving away a Hogue X-5 10th Anniversary Edition.

100 Knives in 100 Days: Day 50 coming up, Hogue Anniversary Edition X-5 Giveaway

Remember, you need to comment on the specific Hogue Thread at the link above or by clicking here.

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Meanwhile in the UK…

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Modern Welding (KY) creates ‘largest pocket knife’

Messanger-Inquirer | Knives in the News

Guinness World Records says, “The world’s largest pocket knife measures 17 feet, 33 inches when open and has a steel blade 8 feet, one inch long.”

It’s in Pink Square Mall in Jaipur, India.

But it won’t be the world’s largest pocket knife for long.

Owensboro-based Modern Welding Co.’s Elizabethtown plant recently made a 37-foot (when open) long pocket knife that weighs roughly 4,500 pounds for Red Hill Cutlery of Radcliff.

The blade is 17.5-feet long.

“We made the blade,” Ronnie Lanford, plant manager in Elizabethtown, said last week. “This is the first time we’ve made a knife. But we’ve made a lot of different things in the past, including several steel sculptures.”

USA! USA!

Finding a quench tank for that thing is going to be a b@tch.

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UK Knife Crime Hits Record High, Despite London Mayor’s ‘Knife Control’

Daily Caller | Knives in the News

Knife crime in both England and Wales is up 8% from April 2018 to May 2019. U.K. police reports from 43 departments recorded 47,136 incidents involving sharp objects, an Office of National Statistics crime report says.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan implemented blade bans in London in April 2018, but doesn’t appear to be working as intended. Blades found on one’s person have increased 21% since 2018, the report details.

The 8% rise is calculated to equate to an increase of over 3,300 knife-related incidents compared with this time last year. It’s supposed that even more stabbings or cuttings occurred and went unrecorded, as the U.K.’s Greater Manchester Police was excluded from the data for undercounting, according to the report.

The UK continues to fetishize the tools used, rather than focus on the nature of the perpetrators. At the same time they have cut back on the number of police officers on the beat, and their jails are a revolving door.

What could go wrong?

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Slipjoint Showdown: LionSteel BestMan VS Benchmade Proper

100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway: Kizlyar Supreme Prime Winner

Say Hello to Hamomin, Cutlery-Themed Mascot of Seki, Japan

100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway: Hogue X-5 Winner

Inside Chris Reeve Knives: Where some of America’s Best Pocket Knives Are Made

Weekend Open Thread: Anyone want to talk steel?

100 Knives in 100 Days Giveaway: Browning Pursuit winner

Meanwhile in the UK…

Modern Welding (KY) creates ‘largest pocket knife’

UK Knife Crime Hits Record High, Despite London Mayor’s ‘Knife Control’