Artisan Cutlery Fragarach vs Tomahawk: Premium Folders Compared
Artisan Cutlery's premium tier is built around titanium frame locks with high-hardness powder steels, and two of the most interesting models in that group are the Fragarach 1879G and the Tomahawk ...
Artisan Cutlery S90V Knives: The Complete Model Guide
Artisan Cutlery builds some of the most consistent production frame locks and flippers in the EDC world, and CPM S90V sits at the very top of the brand's steel lineup. If you are trying to work out...
Best S90V Knives: Artisan Cutlery & CJRB Models Ranked
S90V — usually sold as CPM S90V — is the steel that turned "super steel" from marketing talk into a measurable difference on the cutting board and the job site. In the Artisan Cutlery and CJRB line...
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...