BladeForums.com

Post price rise we're trying to release an update, announcement, new design or giveaway once a day for 60 days!
We may need to call it early if we get swamped with orders but we're gunna do our best

60 DAYS OF UPDATES DAY 1:
SOCKET HANDLED FALO
The socket khukuri is now retired from our website and has been replaced with a socket handle option on the...

I received a text message late last night from @Spark informing me that my good friend, and a good friend to many here, Gus Kalanzis, aka "Bastid", had reportedly passed away. The information was gleaned ...

Hi mods, I tried changing my name, this was an old random name that has my real first name, and I tried to change it to Kashima which is the typical handle I go by. I’d prefer not to have my name exposed, the internet was a different place 20 years ago when I made this account. I ended up putting in my current username, paying, have receipt of the payment on PayPal, then it erro...

Recently I was able to acquire a used CATRA machine, so I heat treated just about every knife steel I had, made 57 knives with the help of knifemaker Shawn Houston, and tested them all to see which cut the longest. For a few of the steels I did multiple heat treatments to look at a couple variables and to see the effect of hardness. I also compared edge retention and toughness t...

I often feel guilty when I realise I haven’t carried a much-loved, and perhaps once regularly pocketed, knife for a while. My Radio Jack had a lot to answer for in that regard, but as new knives come along, it’s inevitable that we rotate our EDC. Short of adding more pockets, I’m not sure what the answer is, but I thought that today I’d pull out a much-loved old friend, and take...