Sturdy construction, long blades, and swing power make machetes ideal for clearing tasks. The best machete should make your work easier. You can use one to clear brush, blazing trails, cutting tree branches — to name a few. It can however be challenging for most to pick the right tool for the job, especially for […]
Tools have played a central role in the survival of man. Since we started using them, tools helped to blaze trails, hunt, and fend off enemies. Over the years, we found ways to make tools better. More efficient. And with the discovery of metal in the 9th millennium came a turning point in the history […]
The best survival knife is designed to assist you when you find yourself in a survival situation, especially in the wild. It will become handy when you are cut out from the rest of your team, caught by bad weather, or when you need to create shelter, light a fire, or dress injuries with a […]
Summer is upon us and so is camping and hunting season what better way to enjoy a beautiful summer night than under the stars next to a camp fire right , July 30th is the earliest open day for hunting in the USA starting off earliest in Florida. So while I was looking through my […]
CONDOR TOOL & KNIFE traces its proud history back to 1787, the year GEBR WEYESBERG COMPANY was founded in Solingen, Germany. The quality of the swords, military knives, agricultural tools and household cutlery they manufactured made Solingen the cutlery capital of the world. Over the generations, the world’s largest manufacturer of swords and knives found […]
In this modern age society has progressed to the point, in part thanks to FEMA’s education efforts, that even the average citizen knows what a bug out knife and bag are, and hopefully has one. If not, perhaps this article will aid in putting one together, sooner rather than later. One of the first, if […]
Being a self proclaimed knife geek, I have to admit that I have the best job I can possibly imagine. As a writer for KnifePlanet.net, not only do I get to talk knives all day, I also get the chance to review some pretty cool knives. In this instance I get to review a knife […]
According to archeological records from around the world, the hunting knife is one of Man’s oldest cutting tools. However, as useful as a hunting knife is, there are certain situations in which even the largest hunting knife is simply not large enough. But, it was not until Man progressed from the Bronze Age to the […]
strange to some, but hiking, as a sport, is a fairly recent innovation. Of course, people have always walked through the woods, but until the 20th century, in the US at least, hiking was regarded as merely a form of transportation. For most of our history, the US was largely rural, and most of it’s […]
Some people are obsessive about what they pack when they go hiking. Things like a Sterno Stove, fuel pellets, some sort of commando machete/combat knife, tent, sleeping bag, ground pad, etc…. Even people who pack a bit more reasonably spend considerable time and thought on what to take on the trail. But there is one […]
When it comes to knife blades, it would seem that there are as many different types of blade shapes and blade grinds as there are knives; limited only by the designer’s imagination. But, in truth, all knife blades can be classified as falling into one of ten different blade shape categories and as having one […]
Few things are more thrilling than a kayak, or canoe ride through some fast-water. But, without proper preparation and planning, it can be a nightmare. Most people understand about wearing a PFD (Personal Flotation Device, for those who are uninitiated….), and maybe even having an emergency whistle, but one often over-looked item is a knife. […]
Many popular bushcraft knives commonly used are not supplied with their own sheath. Two very popular such knives are the Old Hickory 7 inch butcher made by Ontario Knife Company and the Green River 5 inch hunter made by Russell Harrington Cutlery (now called Dexter-Russell). They are reliable, easy on the wallet, and made in […]
Having a bushcraft/survival knife and using one are two different things. Much like owing a gun and practicing with it, practice is needed with a survival knife. There are safety concerns, different grips, and different cutting techniques employed to effectively and safely use that knife. In this article I will discuss the main thoughts behind […]
The term “boot knife” comes from a time in American history where violence was not uncommon and thus, a person often needed to defend himself from aggressors. However, the firearms of the time were often far less than reliable and, due to the poor state of metallurgy back then, they were sometimes prone to explode […]
When you are out in the field, whether it be camping, hiking, on a military exercise, or some other outing that removes you from the convenience of civilization, keeping your knives sharp is a daily requirement. With repeated use they quickly dull and need to be maintained. Most likely you will not have access to […]
In the bushcraft, survival, and prepper communities people commonly talk about the “One Tool Option” or “One Knife Option”. Almost always it relates to the most useful tool one can take into the woods and still survive. And almost always people choose some sort of knife. While I feel the one tool option idea is […]
Many people in the survival and bushcraft communities talk at length about batoning. What is batoning? Batoning a knife is the process of using a wooden mallet (referred to as a baton) to strike the spine of a knife blade in order to drive the edge into a log so the wood can be split. […]
When most people envision a Bowie Knife, they tend to picture a large knife with heavy, clip point, blade since that is believed to be the original design. However, since the knife that Jim Bowie used to dispatch is assailants during the infamous “Sand Bar” fight which took place on a sandbar in the Mississippi […]
Knives have played a very important part in the history of the far Northern reaches, with its cold and forbidding environment. The cutlery of these cultures evolved into very unique and distinctive styles which today, represent some of the most outstanding general-purpose blades available. Scandinavia is not a country per se, but is a reference […]
