Mora Companion: The Swedish sweetheart

If you’re into bushcraft, chances are you’ve heard of Morakniv. Based in Mora, Sweden, Morakniv has been producing knives for the campsite to the kitchen since 1891. Though all of Morakniv’s offerings are superb (along with their prices), let’s focus on the knife that is looked at as the standard for affordable bushcrafting knives: theContinue reading “Mora Companion: The Swedish sweetheart”

Gerber Gator: Is a $35.00 American-made fixed blade knife too good to be true? Maybe.

Gerber is a company with a checkered past among knife enthusiasts. Alternating periods of exceptional designs with quality manufacturing and periods of questionable design choices with poor materials have shaken some customer’s trust in the nearly 80 year-old company. As of late it seems Gerber has been attempting to push into another new period ofContinue reading “Gerber Gator: Is a $35.00 American-made fixed blade knife too good to be true? Maybe.”