Screw it. We're knife hipsters now.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it half a dozen times: we never set out to be a knife store. But did we ever really stop selling knives? Did we put our pocketbooks where our mouths are? No, and not just because we don’t carry pocketbooks. Now we’re tired, so very tired, from the cognitive contortions required by our hair-splitting distinction between “knife store” and “store that regularly sells knives.” We can’t live this lie anymore.

So we’re embracing knives. Full on. Whole hog. Tang-deep. We’re speeding right past “knife enthusiast” into “knife hipster”. We’re hand-screening patches that say TODD REXFORD in olde-timey lettering, hand-sewing them onto on our fanny packs, and stuffing those packs full of Todd Rexford knives.

Oh, Todd Rexford? He’s this custom knife artisan. You’ve probably never heard of him. He’s pretty much the Banksy of knives. He gave a few video interviews, it looks like, but they’re all gone from YouTube and remain preserved only on sketchy sites with names like YoTuube.ru and WatchVidzGetVirusez. Nobody even knows what Todd Rexford looks like. He might be standing right behind you right now WITH A KNIFE.

The point is, he makes seriously old-school, analog craft knives. Yeah, he hooked up with Kershaw here for his major-label debut, but Rexford keeps it real with the Injection 3.0. The classic drop-point 3" blade opens manually, like a real knife should - none of that phony assisted-opening stuff here. This is the fixie of knives, the backyard chicken coop of knives. If it was good enough for Great-Grandpa, it’s good enough for you.

Then there’s the decorative pivot hardware, the incised cut-outs on the handle, the chamfered backspace, not to mention the inset lanyard pin and the reversible pocket clip. It’s not just a masterpiece of knifecraft. It’s also perfect for day-to-day uses like cutting the shrinkwrap off of vinyl LPs, stirring your morning cup of Sulawesi Toraja, trimming your muttonchops, and stabbing smug marketing writers who make cheap, superficial wisecracks about your lifestyle preferences, as if living conscientiously and enjoying unusual experiences is somehow hurting anyone.

Anyway, we could go on, and on, and on, but you get the idea. Todd Rexford makes authentic knives for authentic people who authentically love authentic knives. Which is totally us. Apparently.