Herewith, a selection of my assorted ramblings spanning many years on the topic of pocketknives, and pocketknife related accessories. These reviews are for your own entertainment only; None of this constitutes advice (ye gods, nobody should consider
me an expert, of all people) and
none of the items described are for sale!
Hightron/Hot Knives Sharplyn: Hot Knives On The Loose I've gone the motions with a knife with two names.
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SOG Ultra XR: No Fooling What might possibly be the greatest EDC folder ever has apparently just been flying under the radar this whole time.
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The 2025 Retrospective Roundup Top 3 Knife Countdown Thing It turns out I wrote about a lot of knives in 2025. These are three of my favorites. Given that more than one person told me that they bought knives based on my recommendation I imagine this must make me...
hurk
...Sorry about that. Some kind of "influencer."
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The Revo Nexus: OK, Clanker! On the nature of various models of knives actually, you know, physically existing.
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Kershaw 2025 Holiday Combo: a 3cr Christmas Card! Better than a mesh baggie full of chocolate coins, even if only barely.
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Swiss Tech Helden Kit: A Badass Holiday Chocolate Box Answering the question no one asked: Just how awful
are those holiday knife kits, anyway?
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Ozark Trail Valor: A Regular Knife Review Apparently this knife broke the Internet a while back. As usual, it seems I missed the boat.
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Send In The Clones! NoEnName_Null's Snake Knife or: "I Can't Believe It's Not A Craighill Sidewinder!" A clone that's more elegant than it has any right to be, but you can still trust the Chinese to somehow miss the point.
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Send In The Clones! CRKT Provoke Zap and Friend With
friends like these, who needs an enemy?
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QSP Penguin Glyde: A Knife Just For Me!? QSP literally made a knife called the "Penguin." Seems like these guys have got my number. But is it any good?
Spoilers: Yes, it is.
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Send In The Clones! Spyderco Para 3... Stuff like this is why we all have trust issues. Or if we haven't, we ought to.
Spoilers: Yes, it is.
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Böker 06EX229: On Value, Compromise, and Divergence at the Crotch of the Trousers of Time It seems Böker randomly decided to release the best value balisong knife in history, to little fanfare and even less attention.
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Kershaw Balanza: Baa Baa, Black Sheep Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Unless I wrote it, obviously. Then it's gospel. TL;DR: I quite like the Balanza. I might be the only one on Earth who does.
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Send In the Clones! HDD-ZH-005, or: Release The Kraken? I'd really love to own a Krake Raken, but I'm poor. Maybe if you guys all buy more stuff I'll be able to afford one.
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My Brother's Knife Where it all begain, more or less.
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HOKC Finka-C / Финка-С Model 342-009406: From Russia, With Love A really massive knife made out of D2. Where have we seen that before?
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TGZUO Q19: Singing a Familiar Tune What you probably ought to buy instead of one of mine. Lest we forget, this is what guys like me are up against.
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Ozark Trail T2203R1-11: Deftly Dynamic Discount D2 Drop-Point It is absolutely amazing what you can get for less than $10 nowadays. This is what I'm up against. Chat, am I cooked?
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Cold Steel Bush Ranger: Now THAT'S A Knoife The official carry piece of Tin Head Ned.
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Boker PSK: One Tough Ankle-Biter There are two versions of this knife. I have the good one. Not that I'm gloating or anything.
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"Stainless" Double Blade "Razor:" Just Like A Box Of Chocolates Testing the boundaries of irony.
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TheOne BM51 V6: A Moment of Zen If Benchmade still made the Model 51 you should go out and buy one. But they don't, so buy this instead. Go on, you heard me.
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Kershaw Select Fire: Dedicated to Screwing Around The hero we need, albeit not the hero we deserve.
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TheOne Balisong "BM87": The Curve, Defied When neither love nor money are enough, there's always this.
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Kershaw CQC-11K D2: Half Price Hero Why do things cost as much as they do? Now that I'm in a tiny position of authority on the matter, let me tell you all about it.
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Kershaw/Emerson CQC-4KXL: The Great Wave Worried that your CQC-6K isn't quite big enough? Brother, have I got news for you.
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Ganzo D727M: More Ganzo Journalism Hey, since when is a Chinese knockoff of something better than the original? It's straight up Horatio Alger, man.
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Kershaw Launch 9: California Dreamin' Did you know there's such a thing as a California legal switchblade? I'm just as baffled as you are.
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Kershaw Skyline: No Need To Bug Out What if Benchmade's perennially ubiquitous but pathologically disappointing EDC folder had already been upstaged... fifteen years ago?
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Benchmade 537 Bailout: Tactical Hipster Chic? No, this one is totally different. See, it is black.
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Benchmade 533 Mini Bugout: I Shall Call Him... Benchmade's Mini Bugout is a better idea than the original, at least.
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Benchmade 535 Bugout: The Official Knife of Captain Obvious At least one of my three or four reputations involves dunking on the Bugout and the rest of the 53x series at least once every other paragraph. So that totally explains why I've got one each of the damn things...
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Böker Papillon Model 06EX116SOI: Blinded By The White I think I figured out why this thing is discontinued. It's a crying shame the poor thing never had a chance.
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Ganzo G729: The Paramilitary Fighter In the realm of knocking off, Ganzo have a new way of doing it.
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Böker Plus "Tactical Small" Balisong Model 06EX227: A Butterfly Heartbreaker The other woman.
I have only three knives still sealed in their boxes. This is one of them.
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CJRB Crag: Get To The Choppa! Go on, ask me how many times I typed this as "Craig."
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Ozark Trail 6842 You've heard of Internet memes? This here's a physical one.
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Gerber Mini Remix Backsliding to my youth. Somehow I still have this thing.
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Tactical Zombie Slayer 9,000,000 This was an April Fools' post. Cut me a break.
Ha, get it? Cut?
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"Guro" Balisong I'm just as baffled by this as you are. Sometimes you just pays your ticket and you takes your ride.
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Ozark Trail 6835 Exactly as much Axis locking folder as you can buy for the cost of, what, a collect phone call these days? Is that still a thing?
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Kershaw Rake The world's leading entrant in the arena of knives named after gardening implements.
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Jin Jun Lang JL-13A: The People's Democratic Balisong What happens when the Chinese try to go it alone. Just what the proletariat ordered!
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Böker Magnum 01BO007 Champagne could be anyone's color.
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Böker Kalashnikov A knife for a good day.
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SOG Trident 2004 called.
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Kershaw Frontrunner Greetings, Earthling. Take this to your leader.
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SOG Flash I and Flash II More ruminations on a misspent and callow youth. Oh, and some old knives, too.
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Ganzo G704 A niche knockoff that reaches far into Benchmade's back catalog.
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Kershaw CQC-5K, Model 6074OLBLK You can say this about Kershaw's CQC line: They've sure got one for everybody.
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Kershaw Ion Kunai Orange pajamas not included.
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Benchmade Vex A Benchmade folder from a timeline no one knows existed. I heard in that universe, it was spelled "Bearenstein."
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Gerber EAB The quintessential knife for non-knife people. And hey, Gerber finally figured out the secret to making acceptable steel: Make it someone else's problem!
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Not A Knife November: Cold Steel Sure Strikes Not so hot at the ol' mumblypeg? Try these on for size.
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Not A Knife November: Spyderco C28 Dragonfly Kit Quite possibly the most affordable Spyderco ever. There's just one catch...
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Not A Knife November: Yet Another Balisong Some of us have a brand to maintain, alright?
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Not A Knife November: Spyderco BaliYo They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Care to test that?
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CRKT Merlin: Yer a Wizard, Gary! This is one of those ideas that must have been the culmination of an absinthe binge.
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Tekut Pecker Huh, huh, huh.
Heh, heh, heh.
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Not A Knife November: Spoon! It turns out there's a way to make a flea market balisong even worse.
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Spyderco Smallfly 2 I missed it the first time around. You won't get me with that again.
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Wish Micro Switchblades The secret is deliberately trying to get ripped off. Then you won't be.
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Benchmade Model 53 The ugly duckling of Benchmade's lineup. Won't someone love the poor little thing?
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Kershaw Cinder Proof positive that micro-knives don't have to suck.
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Böker Gnome Living dangerously, posting about fixed blades to a folding knife forum. Hey, at at least it's really small.
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Bradley Mayhem Yeah, you
wish you had a Model 42.
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Bradley Kimura The gold standard. Still. Somehow.
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Kershaw Moonsault An almighty clang.
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Böker Plus Balisong Model 06EX228 The thinking man's Model 51?
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