Newcomer question - magazines

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HighlandMark

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I have collected knives and other baldes for several years, but am new to this forum.
I am looking for magazines for knife collectors. Which are best?
thnx in advance
HighlandMark
 
The only ones that I know of that are widely available are Blade and Tactical Knives. Blade gets into a wide variety of knives including what I consider
"non-using" pieces. Tactical Knives is a pretty good publication and focuses more on working knives and combat blades, some of the authors are very good in their respective specialties. My only complaint is that you very rarely get negative feedback on a product and the articles seem to be confined to "first impressions" and a commentary on the designers intent, occasionally the testing is worthwhile if not extended. The editor states that they will not do a review on a "stinker" knife and to pay attention to the blades they aren't writing about if you want to know which ones are losers. I think that leaves a lot ground uncovered personally but for the most part I enjoy TK the most of the knife publications.
 
There is a third called Knives Illustrated. I can find Blade and KI at my local Borders book store but Tactical Knives is harder to find. YMMV

PS welcome to the forums. Hope you enjoy your stay.
 
Welcome to the forums! :)

Tactical Knives is the best of the bunch.

But none of these magazines publish unbiased reviews (fearing that they might lose advertisers) and you will find more information on knives here than all issues of these publications combined can provide (use this board's search function on any knife-related keyword(s) and you'll be convinced).
 
T. Erdelyi said:
Knife World is more of a collectors magazine, but in a newspaper form.

This is one of the best I know of, a;lso it lists all the local clubs by state and shows by dates.

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Thanks for the link, T--just signed up.

I subscribe to TK, KI, and Blade. Been a subscriber to TK since ~'96 and off and on Blade subscriber for a while. First year with KI, though. I just like flipping through all of the mags.
 
even though i have had problems about 3 times with not getting the mag/billing, and have screamed "no more" i still subscribe to tactical knives, imho its the best, the others have too much stuff i'm not interested in.
 
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