Dirk Pinkerton Knife Designs: Artisan Cutlery Collaborations
Dirk Pinkerton is one of the designers whose work shaped the modern Artisan Cutlery and CJRB catalogs. His fingerprints are on the Proponent, the Santee, the Banjaara prototype, the Arroyo, the Tac...
Liner Lock Knives Explained: Design, Lockup, Buying Guide
The liner lock is the quiet workhorse of the folding knife world. It is the mechanism in the majority of everyday carry folders on the market, it is the lock most people learn to close first, and i...
CJRB Knives Guide: J-Codes, Steels, and Where They Are Made
CJRB is the easiest brand in this catalogue to misunderstand. It shares a factory with Artisan Cutlery, it shares a website, and its knives are priced like imports — which leads people to assume i...
Artisan Cutlery Butcherling Review: S35VN Titanium Cleaver
The Artisan Cutlery Butcherling (ATZ-1881) is one of the most unusual folders in the brand's current lineup: a futuristic cleaver with a tanto blade, a full titanium handle, and a crossbar lock, al...
Artisan Cutlery Wreckhart Review: AR-RPM9 Fixed Blade EDC
The Artisan Cutlery Wreckhart (1855B) is a modernized take on a classic Kephart-style fixed blade, designed by Joe Flowers and built around a 4.41-inch AR-RPM9 spear point blade with a black PVD co...
Artisan Damascus Folding Knives: Best Models & What to Know
What Makes a Damascus Folding Knife Special Modern damascus — often called pattern-welded steel — is made by forge-welding two or more different steels together, then folding, twisting, and grindi...