I forget the author's name, but there is a monthly section on older collectible knives, 99.9% of which are traditional knives, in Blade magazine. Ed Fowler usually has some nice old fixed blades featured.
I've never seen a bad review in TK, but I did like their writing style. I also appreciate the knowledge of some of their writers. I am frankly surprised that Steven Dick wrote what he did. I don't believe that TK is pushing for the mall ninja crowd. Mainly because I have been fortunate enough to meet a lot of the writers and makers featured in that magazine, and blessed to call some buddy and even friend. Just very surprised that the editor in chief, whose opinion I actually respect, would say that the Ben Hogan could not be easily flipped open from the pocket, that you need two hands to open it, which slows it down for a self defense knife (not verbatim from the article, but you get the gist). It just wasn't meant for that. I don't think he meant it in malice or as a bad review of the knife, just stating that the knife would not be a good self defense tool. He did a write up in the past on the Queen Mountain Man and AG's version of the Remington lockback. This was about 5-7 years ago, and I do not remember him writing about how the knives had any self defense merits. Who knows.
Blade just feels like a big catalog, just fluff. I don't even mess with Knives Illustrated anymore. Knife World is the best publication in my opinion.
Mods, if discussion of TK is not appropriate, I apologize. They used to feature a lot of traditional bushcraft blades, from traditional makers. They still have a few articles, but not many. Trying to keep the discussion focused on the article on the Ben Hogan LB.
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