CJRB Frack J1931 Guide: Button Lock, AR-RPM9 and S90V
The CJRB Frack is the largest folding knife CJRB builds around a button lock, and it is the line where the brand stopped designing a small knife bigger and started designing a big knife properly. ...
CJRB Feldspar Guide: J1912, J1912S, and Premium Tiers
The CJRB Feldspar is the widest single knife line in this catalog, and the most confusing one to shop. A single model code, J1912, covers a $35.99 G10 liner lock, a flat-scaled carbon fiber versio...
Butterfly Knife Legality: How the Law Classifies Balisongs
Short answer: in most jurisdictions the legality of a butterfly knife is decided by a single sentence in a statute that never mentions the word balisong. The law defines whole categories of knives...
How to Disassemble a Folding Knife: Tools, Steps, and Reassembly
Most folding knife problems that send people looking for a new knife are actually two or three year maintenance problems with a fifteen minute fix. Grit in the pivot, dried lubricant, pocket lint p...
Artisan Cutlery Cygnus Buying Guide: D2, Carbon Fiber and S35VN Titanium
The Cygnus is one of the clearest examples of how Artisan Cutlery structures a knife family: one design, one 3.54 inch blade profile, and then a deliberate ladder of materials that runs from a $52 ...
How Folding Knives Are Made: From Steel Blank to Finished EDC
Every folding knife in your pocket started as a flat piece of steel and a handful of precision parts. The journey from raw material to finished EDC folder is a surprisingly involved process of cutt...