SCHRADE

SCHRADE is an American knife company founded in 1904 in Walden, New York, by George Schrade and his brothers. It began with practical folders and widened into hard use outdoor tools. Today the name is tied to gear for rough work in the open rather than display pieces.

What marks its outdoor tools out technically is full tang construction: in the axes and machetes the metal is one piece from the blade edge to the end of the handle, so the blade cannot part from the handle at the join, the weakest point in any tool used by striking rather than drawing. Add blades thick enough for splitting firewood and stripping bark, and handles with a rough surface that holds in a wet or greasy hand. That suits the camper and the hunter who wants one tool for more than one job on a trip: cutting firewood, setting a fire, cleaning game. Anyone after a fine slaughtering knife or a thin kitchen knife will find a better fit from other names.

Al Huwaila is an authorised SCHRADE agent, with eight items in the hunting knives section: the BACKDRAFT, BEDROCK and SCHRADE 12 AXE axes, the BOLO MACHETE, and knives such as the Viper Out and SHIZZLE MAGIC. To ask what is in now, WhatsApp +974 5094 7142, or visit us in Souq Waqif in Doha.