A sharp knife is safer, faster, and far more satisfying to use—but only if you maintain it properly. After testing electric ...

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” No, Abraham Lincoln didn’t say that (its true origins lie with an anonymous woodsman) but the meaning is ...

Keep your blades razor-sharp.

The first knife I ever carried was a small, bone-handled pocketknife with a single two-inch blade. This occurred a couple years before I even started school, but I was allowed to carry it. I looked ...

I remember my dad giving me my first Barlow pocket knife as a child. I still have it. It is also still sharp because he taught me how to sharpen a pocket knife it on the same day, along with a strong ...