Interesting Knife FAQs

Best Pocket Knife Article from Sport Fitness Advisor

Last week Ray, one of the editors from Sport Fitness Advisor, dropped us a line to comment on some of the information that we have on our HCS website about knives. In his note Ray included a link to an article that they had recently published about Pocket Knives - to include their thoughts on the:

• Best Pocket Knife
• Second Best Pocket Knife
• Best Budget Pick
• Best Pocket Knife for Hunting
• Best Pocket Knife for EDC
• Best Pocket Knife that is also a Multi-Tool
• Best Pocket Knife for Tactical Use
• Best Pocket Knife that is Foldable and Locking
• Best Pocket Knife with a Thumb Hole

Although we’re not convinced that their pick of the Elk Ridge Personalized knife would be our pick for the best knife (but then that's the beauty of looking at and reviewing gear since it all depends on what you plan on using it for and what your specific selection criteria are), we really liked all the detailed FAQ explanations that they included in their article - especially since one of the things we always try to do is to detail the criteria we use to select our gear - and why we like the gear we eventually purchase.
 
The Sport Fitness Advisor article includes some great explanations on:

• What does tang mean in knife terms?
• What are the different kinds of locking blades out there?
• What are the advantages of fixed blade types?
• What are the pros and cons of having a pocket knife compared to using a multi-tool?
• What are the differences between fixed blades and folding types?
• What exactly is EDC? What are the common EDC?
• What are the advantages of having an EDC?
• And our favorite - since they also included the link to an article from Lansky's website from back on 5 February 2013 on "Knife Blade Profiles and Uses"
  • What are the different blade profiles to choose from?
    • https://lansky.com/index.php/blog/knife-blade-profiles-and-uses#.WiP0D3lx3IU

 
You can read the entire "Best Pocket Knife" article from Sport Fitness Advisor here.
       https://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/best-pocket-knife.html
 
In closing here’s our two cents on the best pocket knife topic. As you can see on our website’s Hiking and Camping pages we have several knives (and other bladed tools) for different jobs - but our favorite pocket knife is our Case Cutlery 135 Case Slimline Trapper. We also love our Buck 110 Auto.