The past week was positively packed with cool innovations, smart updates and a surprising number of fixed blades.

Sometimes, carrying around a cheap, “beater” pocket knife feels kind of liberating. Frequent readers of this space know I am ...

I’ve been testing knives for years, and this is the one I now recommend for most people for its modern design and smooth operation.

In a sea of pocket knives that range from light ... “It's been a great, not just good or average, knife” that started “looking cool,” which we take to mean the copper changing color ...

It’s OK to be a gear nut.

It’s OK to be a gear nut. I’ve been one since age 10 when I got my first really cool Old Timer pocket knife.

It looks like a regular, non-automatic pocket knife, but when you try to open the ... automatics kick things up a notch when it comes to switchblade cool factor. Instead of the blade swinging ...