Fixed-Blade Knives

Featured review by BrianD

Fantastic knife with excellent ergonomics and a simple, stout, and sharp blade.

With all the buzz around the word “Bushcraft“ in the past 5-10 years, it has almost become like “tactical“ (aka “tacticool”) with regard to items being marketed towards the Urban Lumberjack crowd that spends more bank on products for their beards per month than most families spend on groceries. I’m not sure which direction things like that are heading. Quite frankly, I don’t care. I needed a knife that would be used in the woods, not one that would sit on a shelf to be admired.

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Featured review by Daniel Oates

Can’t beat the price for what you get! Very sharp right from the start, it’s a great multi-purpose carbon steel knife, very functional drop point blade. From prepping camp food to cutting rope, I’d recommend for anyone’s pack.

I've had this knife for a little over three months and it has become my go-to knife both on and off the trail. From opening and breaking down cardboard boxes, to cutting lengths of rope, and even cutting some pepperoni while car camping it has performed awesome! Costing just a little over $13 from Amazon the following is what is included and its attributes: Carbon steel knife (see "Maintenance") - Made in Sweden Rubberized handle Plastic sheath 8.5 inches from handle end to blade tip Knife is 4 ounces (I do not have a digital scale, unconfirmed) You can see the comparison of its total 8.5" length and the blade height when next to a steak knife.

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Featured review by Brent Mills

Best camping knife I have ever owned.

I was given this knife about two years ago as a groomsman's gift.  It quickly replaced my old Gerber fixed blade as my favorite hiking knife. CONSTRUCTION The construction of this knife is fantastic. It has taken a serious beating from me and still looks and feels good-as-new. The blade itself holds a razor edge easily while I'm out in the woods (I usually realign it once every few months with a carbide sharpener).   While the knife does not use a full tang, the tang is well attached to the handle.

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Reviewed by Wolfed

Newest fixed blade from Benchmade.

  Today I get to give you my assessment of my newest acquisition. Always looking for the perfect knife, I've probably found it already in the past but I keep looking for the little extra.  This purchase was made for two reasons. The first, I wanted to try a fix blade for an EDC, and the second, I wanted to try the new magnacut steel. I did a lot of reading and there are a lot of choices out here to fit what I was looking for. In the end for me, Benchmade nailed the design and the look.

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Reviewed by BigRed

A Swiss-made, stylish, and very sharp knife that's small and light enough for the pack but cuts bread, cheese, and sausage with ease.

During the 20+ years that I have spent living in Norway, with occasional forays to “The Continent” (mainly the Alps), it gradually dawned on me that the real heart of European food culture consists of three items: bread, cheese, and sausage (and, well, wine of course, but I’m a teetotaler). All three require a good knife for proper European consumption. This knife slices all three in style. Charcuterie in Haute-Savoie Recently, a Swiss trio, including Matthias, whom we met and spent a few days with during our hike on the Hornstrandir Peninsula, dropped in for a couple of nights on their way to and from a ski crossing of the nearby Dovrefjell Mountains.

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Featured review by Lc14

When I think of this knife, my knife I think of the following: reliable, quality construction, consistent performance, superior value. This is the single kinfe i've recommended most and i equally recommend it to you. Best uses for me have been camping and hiking, meal preparation and fishing, and miscellaneous uses.

In my lifetime i've owned may knives from folders to fixed. I can honestly say, without a shadow of a doubt, this has got to be the best knife i've ever had and i'll tell you why. HANDLE/GRIP- this thing won't slide out of your hand even if you have fluids all over it and you can't beat the functionality of glass reinforced nylon. AESTHETICS- this things looks racy without being aggressive and superior styling makes it look elegant even dignified. BANG FOR THE BUCK- i got mine for 60 on ebay.

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Featured review by Brady Patterson

Solid, all-round bushcraft/survival knife. My go-to bush blade. Heavy enough to do most anything and lives in my pack. This knife is perfect for all but the most delicate carving tasks, and I would steer folks to this blade as a budget version of a heavy duty blade that's ready to go! No modifications are necessary.

Everything about this knife just works. I've used multiple Morakniv knives and so far, this is superior to the ones I've used.  I teach basic survival programs and this is one of the knives I suggest for the people that really dig taking this kind of training further. I supply the group with Morakniv 511's, which are great, but this is much better.  The handle feels great and I find sticks to the hand well when wet (which is normal here in the coastal rainforest of Canada).  The sharpened spine works great to shower sparks from a ferro road and for scraping bark to make tinder.

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Reviewed by Thekiller

Hello, I bought my awesome Brand New SOG Super Bowie knife (paid a hefty price for it, too) about 2 weeks ago. I bought it off of Ebay and bought it brand new.  When it arrived and I unboxed it, it was boxed and packaged very professionally and as if extreme care was used by SOG.  The knife is massive and definitely a must-have.  The blade came incredibly sharp and with an awesome, very shiny wear-resistant coating! Just from handling the SOG Super Bowie, and looking at it, you can tell that is is built extremely sturdy and rugged.

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Featured review by CatskillCrazy

Very handy and ergonomically sound camp knife. Great for performing tasks from featherstick making to cooking.

This knife is a great general purpose camp knife for backpackers and campers of all types. at under 4 inches, you wont be doing much in the sense of fire making (with the exception of feathersticks and splitting small kindling), but it is an excellent companion for all other tasks. If you are looking for a tactical looking blade to show off to your friends, look elsewhere. the field pup is about pure functionality and has none of the common hallmarks of fighting/outdoor hybrid knives we see so often.

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Reviewed by 300winmag

An excellent hunting/canoe camp knife. Very high quality and partially hand made in Norway.

My wife bought me the HELLE GT sheath knife for my birthday at the Fjallraven Store in Boulder, Colorado, this spring. The stainless steel laminated blade is its most outstanding feature as this creates a hard steel core for long lasting sharpness surrounded by resilient steel to give the core strength. While "heavy" at 7.3 oz. for a backpacking knife for the purposes I've listed above it is very well suited. My backpacking knife is a tiny Gerber folding lock blade, so tiny I had to add a braided reflective lanyard to it to prevent accidental loss.

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