Wes Siler is your guide to leading a more exciting life in the great outdoors. As Outside’s outdoor lifestyle columnist, he writes about the intersections of science, news, politics, gear, vehicles ...

I love splitting wood by hand. For me, it takes me back to a time in my life with my father and brothers when we would put in a few hours together on a Saturday morning reducing logs to carefully ...

There are plenty of pocket knife enthusiasts in the world, but not nearly as many knife sharpening enthusiasts. This means many knife owners are walking around with dull pocket knives, and they’re not ...

Whether you're a knife sharpening beginner or expert, there are a few tips steps that are unique to sharpening pocket knives.

As someone who cooks at home regularly, I stand by the idea that the most dangerous tool in a kitchen is a dull knife. Regardless of your experience level, a dull knife makes it easy to accidentally ...

“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 ...

Vincent Lau’s job is to restore and maintain the blades of hundreds of clients a week. At Korin, the Japanese knife and kitchenware emporium where Lau does his work, you won’t find him using some ...