Spyderco Street Beat

When Spyderco quit production of the Fred Perrin designed FB04, they quickly came out with a replacement, the Street Beat, also a Perrin design.  The Street Beat is a smaller version of the FB04 with a 3.5” blade versus the 5” blade of... Read More...

Keyring Tool Evaluation: Part 2

In the previous post I began the first of a two part series on keyring tools.  The Sebertech M2 was reviewed.  This post will focus on its’ competition, the Swiss-Tech 6-in-1 tool.               At first... Read More...

Keyring Tool Evaluation: Part 1

Not everyone wants to carry a full size multi-tool on their person.  A small, unobtrusive tool is often preferred.  With that in mind, this is the first of two posts on the two most popular keyring plier tools.  This post covers the Sebertech... Read More...

Spyderco Barong

Another Spyderco and Ed Schempp collaboration, as previously mentioned, is out now; the barong.  Like the name implies, the knife is a folding barong tactical folder with a traditional leaf-shaped blade.  The VG-10 blade is four inches long... Read More...

Chris Reeve Umnumzaan

One of the most talked about knives of the 2008 Blade Show was the Chris Reeve Umnumzaan, which won Overall Knife of the Year.  Production versions of the Umnumzaan are now slowly trickling out of the Chris Reeve facility and the initial comments... Read More...