Best Knife Magazine

Tactical Knives is my favorite since it's more in my price zone. Blade Magazine seems to cater mostly to the richer folks with all there articles on "art type knives". Knives Illistrated is just kind of trashy to me. Knife World seems to usually has just 1 main article and usually leans towards collectors. I will not re-sub to Knife World since it is just a toilet paper version of Blade. By the time you browse through it your fingers and hands are black form the news print....they are not really a knife "magazine" to me.

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Ron
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My personal favorite is Tactical Knives because the knives are at lower prices than the more custom-oriented Blade; after all, how many customs can a teenage kid really afford...right now, I can only wish. I personally think Knives Illustrated is crap and has a surprisingly high number of wrong specifications and annoying typos.
 
None.The best info and pics are on this and some of the other knife forums.(I hope that is okay to mention):rolleyes:
 
Blade magaizines from the mid 80s and a few from the 90s in my collection going back to the start of some of the companies printing them have better information than current ones in my opinion.

The only one worth its salt to me is the Knife World newpaper at $2.75 per issue and its worth every cent.

KnifeWorld Publications
PO Box 3395
Knoxville TN. 37927

In my opinion many of the magazines could learn a great deal from the format followed here and I find the Knife World adds to be the smaller part of the total also. They provide pictures but the only bad thing if its considered bad by some is that its all black and white since it is in fact a newspaper and not a magazine. If you like looking at pretty pictures of art knives it may disappoint but if you like it for the information of the written word buy it.

Also, I want to add that many times for me some of the adds that ran in older magazines have come in quite handy to identify and date a knife that would otherwise have been hard to find anywhere else. So, don't discount the advertisements as a total waste of space. These come in handy and may in fact do that for any one of you ten or more years from now if you keep everything like this ole pack rat does.

STR
 
You can contact them here if the newstands don't have it.

http://knifeworld.com/

They also have some pretty good older books for collectors available at good prices. Personally for Kabar and Case collectors the older 4th through 8th editions of the Official Price Guides to Knives are some of the best ever printed. This of course is just my opinion but I wouldn't trade my 6th and 8th edition books for anything printed after these came out.

Parker Voyles printed the 6th edition from 1984 and the 8th a couple years later. The 8th may actually have a little more in it and be by someone else I'd have to look. I don't have it in front of me but seems both had Parker's name on them somewhere. After the 8th Edition they are not as good. The 9th through 12th are not anywhere near as thick or as detailed in my humble opinion; as every book printed after that was never as good or as complete.

A lot of people had a gripe with Mr. Parker when he was alive but he did do a lot of real good things for the knife industry also, like open the door to high quality Japanese cutlery which is currently something many of his biggest critics sure need to thank him for IMO, especially when you consider that the lions share of what they themselves sell of their own designs is being made in all the places Mr. Parker opened up the market to. But thats another story.

STR
 
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