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A lot has been written about 8Cr13MoV vs D2, here we try and demystify things a bit. Reading the information on our knives you will often see a reference to the type of steel that the blade is made of. There are many knife steels out there. Honey Badger Knives launched using only one knife […]

In 2019 Honey Badger released their new handle design that allowed for moving the pocket clip for both right and left hand carry. All handle sets that were released since then were designed to only fit these new models. The most obvious way to see if you have an old or a new model knife […]

We have written a number of articles on the value of stropping to maintain the edge on your knife. Preparing your strop leather is a very important step before actually making your strop. Remember, casing and rolling the leather is just to compress it, making it a more firm substrate for stropping, reducing roll-over of […]

We have written a number of articles about keep your Honey Badger Knives sharp, here we take a look at the use of Diamond Polishing Paste. Stropping a knife edge removes very little metal but is still very useful to maintain a shaving sharp edge. The only proviso is that the edge is not badly […]

Why Strop Your knife? Honey Badger Knives come really sharp right out of the box. Strop your knife to get the edge even more refined. We have written a number of articles about how to maintain the edge of your Honey Badger Knife. By far the easiest way to keep your knives sharp is to […]

Honey Badger Knives are pretty slick straight out of the box with a smooth opening and closing action and you should not need to tune your Honey Badger Knife. For those of you who would like to go a step further here are 5 ways to tune your Honey Badger Knife. This is a quick […]

We have previously written about the various types of sharpeners on the market. Here we take a look at one of the very well priced systems in the market. We use one of the Edge Pro Apex kits to show how easy it is to restore the original factory shaving sharp edge to your Honey […]