EDC

The Sitivien ST147 folding knife combines a Damascus steel blade with a Dalbergia wood handle in a compact everyday-carry format. With a listed 2.99-inch blade, 6.93-inch overall length, and 3.09-ounce weight, it is sized for users who want a lightweight folding knife for common cutting jobs without carrying a larger outdoor folder. Price: $24.99 Where […]

There are plenty of good-looking EDC folding knives that disappear into the usual sea of black-coated blades, gray titanium, and textured G10. The Trivisa Hippo-CG folding knife is not one of them. This is a medium-size pocketknife with a familiar, practical formula, thumb-stud deployment, a crossbar lock, stainless blade steel, and a pocket clip, but

Most novelty pocket knives are novelty first and pocket knives second. The Vosteed CheesePirates Porcupine does it the other way around. Vosteed CheesePirates Porcupine Price: $69 Where to Buy: Amazon This is not a new release, but it is the kind of fun EDC piece worth revisiting when you want to shake up your regular

Small folding knives are easy to carry, but they can feel undersized once the job moves beyond opening mail or trimming a loose thread. The CJRB Crag takes the opposite approach. It pairs a broad cleaver-style blade with a full-size handle and a stout pocketknife profile for buyers who want more cutting capacity without moving

A colored metal handle usually means the knife is trying to be jewelry. Most of the time that read is correct. Burnt copper anodizing looks like a shelf piece, the kind of thing people buy, photograph once, and then leave in a drawer. Benchmade Bailout 537SBK-07 Price: $350 Where to Buy: Amazon This one doesn’t

A pocket knife at $85 doesn’t usually turn heads on materials alone. Most folders in this range pick one standout feature and play it safe everywhere else: a good steel with a G10 handle, or nice handle scales wrapped around a budget blade. The QSP Dolphin ignores that calculus entirely, and it’s the kind of

Most budget folding knives chase length because length looks like value in a product photo. GOOD WORKER went the other way with this pocket knife and stopped the blade at 2.95 inches. That’s a deliberate choice, and it’s the entire reason the listing of the GOOD WORKER pocket knife puts “Legal” in the product name.

Camp knives keep getting bigger. Brands sell them as log splitters and survival props, while the cutting that actually happens at camp involves sausage skins, cordage, packaging tape, and one stubborn can lid at dusk. The Boker Treebrand Camp Knife Black Bone takes the opposite bet. Treebrand Camp Knife Black Bone Price: $104.95 Where to

Most pocket knives are built for cutting first and wire work only by accident. The SOG Kilowatt Pocket Knife shifts that job into the design: it still gives you a 3.4 inch folding blade, but the handle is built around wire stripping. Price: $49.99 Where to Buy: Amazon That makes it a more specific kind

The Smith & Wesson Extreme Ops SWA24S looks more aggressive than its job description. Under the black coating and tactical styling, it’s really a compact, inexpensive utility folder for packages, cord, straps, glove boxes, and backup kits. Price: $16.85 Where to Buy: Amazon At $16.85 on Amazon, this knife makes more sense as a simple

Here’s another new product we’re adding to our list of knives to buy: the Petrified Fish Guppy, a compact button lock folder that looks built around actually staying in your pocket. 🐟 Petrified Fish PFE19 Guppy Price: $76 Where to Buy: Amazon Most everyday carry knives stop being everyday carry the moment you notice them

Most outdoor knives make you pick a side: light enough to carry daily, or tough enough to trust when the day goes sideways. The Opinel No. 08 Outdoor refuses the choice, and it has outlasted nearly every rival that tried to force it. For $45, you get a 2.5 mm Sandvik steel blade, a 110

Most utility knives are built like shop tools first and pocket gear second. The OKNIFE U1 Pro Utility Knife flips that order: it is still a replaceable-blade cutter, but it looks and carries more like an EDC knife people might actually want to clip into a pocket. OKNIFE U1 Pro Multitool Folding Utility Knife with

The ZT 0357BW isn’t a new knife. It’s the cheapest folding knife Zero Tolerance builds in the United States, and it’s been on sale since at least 2020. Six years on, it’s still in the lineup at $188, and buyers still rate it 4.6 stars. Zero Tolerance 0357BW Price: $188 Where to Buy: Amazon For

For a while now, the WESN Allman has been hard to buy in the color you wanted. That changed on July 30. Every version is in stock again, and two G10 colors that disappeared years ago are back with them: Blacked Out OD Green and Blacked Out Mustard. Now you can buy the one you