Knife Knowledge

If you had asked me this question about eight months ago, I wouldn’t have known what to say. Or, maybe I would have said that serrated knives were just great for cutting bread. After all, that is what I see them used for around me most times. But then, I thought that these knives could…

There are various reasons why you might need to learn how to sharpen a knife without a sharpener. On the one hand, you might not see the importance of shelling out all that money for a knife sharpener. While that is not uncommon, it might also be that you have not found the best one…

Everyone who has ever used a knife/ blade of any kind knows that the sharper the blade, the better it is. You can get things done faster, and even safer. Yes – dull knives are a huge injury risk waiting to happen. However, how do you know if the cutting edge of your knife is…

Knife fighting looks cool in the movies, but don’t go seeking it out. If there is one thing the movies get right – from the latest installation of the Mortal Kombat series to the popular Extraction – it is that a using a knife for self defense ends with two people wounded. The only thing…

We all love our stainless steel knives – till they get dull or start showing signs of rust. In the case your knife blade was going dull, you know what to do already. But what do you do when rust starts showing its ugly face on your premium knife blade? In this piece, I’ll be…

After knife sharpening, no rule states you cannot simply go ahead and use the blade that way. However, even when you sharpen your knife blade the right way, there is a huge chance that there are some microscopic inconsistencies to take care of on the blade. Without addressing these, the knife does not give a…

In the world of sharp objects, the dagger and the knife are some mainstay citizens. There is always the debate of what makes a dagger, if it is a type of knife is and when a dagger starts becoming a knife or vice versa. Here, in this piece, is the dagger vs knife showdown that…

Some things will humble you: Trying to take anything out of a baby’s fist, thinking you can make a golf hole easily, or trying to close a pocket knife. Trust me, it looks like there is no fuss there but you need to know how to close the different kinds of pocket knives that might…

To some, it is the fan knife. Most people come to find out that it is the balisong knife after they only thought it was a butterfly knife. Maybe, like you, I am most people too. No matter what you call it, though, these knives look cool and bring an extra X factor to the…

If you’ve got a knife with the conventional edges, a quick run through the whetstone sharpening guide will have your knife back to its sharp self in no time. You might even prefer to hone the knife instead to reduce the rate at which you sharpen it. But then, the same sharpening rules do not…