Balisong Guides
Butterfly Knife Stocking Stuffers and Small Gifts for Flippers
A butterfly knife gift is one of the few presents that fits in a stocking and still gets used every day afterwards, as long as you pick...
Cheap Butterfly Knife or a Good One? What Your Black Friday Money Gets You
A cheap butterfly knife is a fine idea right up to the moment you flip it. Most budget balisongs look the part in the listing photo and...
Butterfly Knife Christmas Gifts: Balisong Gift Ideas for Him
A butterfly knife makes an excellent Christmas present for the right person and a confusing one for the wrong person. If he already fli...
Balisong vs Karambit: Origins, Geometry and How Each Cuts
A karambit is a curved, hooked blade with a finger ring, built for pulling cuts. A balisong is a straight bladed folding knife with two...
How to Spot Fake Damascus Steel Before You Buy the Knife
Real Damascus is two or more steels forge welded together, folded, drawn out and etched, so the pattern is a physical structure running...
Travelling With a Balisong: Flights, Borders and Shipping
Moving a balisong from one place to another is mostly a question of paperwork and packing, with one absolute rule sitting on top of it:...
Is a Balisong a Good EDC Knife? The Honest Case For and Against
Sometimes. That is the honest answer, and anybody giving you a flat yes is selling something. A balisong cuts as well as any other knif...
Starting a Balisong Collection: What to Buy First, Second and Third
A balisong collection goes wrong in one predictable way: you buy three knives that are basically the same knife wearing different cloth...
Knife Hardness Explained: What HRC Tells You About a Blade
HRC is a number that tells you how far a diamond point sinks into a piece of steel under a known load. That is all it is. It is not a q...
Bite Handle vs Safe Handle: The Balisong Rule That Matters
The bite handle is the one joined to the sharp edge of the blade. The safe handle is the one joined to the spine. Close a balisong onto...