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Coming up, a very special gentleman Junkie giveaway knife.

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Two interesting new civivi knives. And these

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folders should be in every collection. I'm Bob

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DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie podcast.

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Welcome to the Knife Junkie podcast, your weekly dose of knife

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news and information about knives and knife collecting. Here's your

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host, Bob the knife junkie DeMarco.

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Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comics comments from this past week

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was from my buddy Strings, who says, great episode, brother. That

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bison, he's talking about the new concept. That bison is a banger.

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I, for one, can't wait till you hit 50k. I would love to win

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a Pinkerton. That's custom knife. How awesome of him to

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make one for you to give away. And awesome for you to include us.

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Include it for us. So he's talking about

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a knife. Either this knife or another model Dirk is going to

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be making when we hit 50,000 subscribers coming

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up soon. So thank you very much, Strings. Greatly

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appreciate your comment. Next up is from Bruce,

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who says best knife content ever. This MF is

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the goat. Thank you very much, Bruce. That puts wind in my sails. Thank you

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for your kind words. All right, that said, let's get to a pocket

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check. what's in his pocket? Let's find

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out. Here's the Knife junkie with his pocket

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check of knives. In my pocket today is the beautiful

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Bison from Concept Knives. This thing is

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designed by Ray Laconico, who

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ordinarily, we kind of know him for his super clean

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and much smaller than this. Drop points. Very

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classy knives. Just an incredible designer

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Conoco. He's not just a designer, he's a custom maker as well.

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But this one is kind of out of his

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wheelhouse and I really like it. You know, sometimes as a creative person,

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you have to do something different, do something unusual

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and really great things can happen. Bison is

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definitely evidence of that. That's a four

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and a quarter inch S35VN clip point blade.

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And then of course, we know this is a titanium frame lock. Just

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such a great knife. This was. I carried this to a.

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An a. What would you call it, a crab fest

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this weekend for a friend's birthday. And it got a lot of

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oohs and ahs. A number of guys there, I got into knives

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or were already into knives, but maybe. Maybe my

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influence got them even more into them. Anyway, we were all showing each other

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our knives. It was a great love, great moment. I pulled this one

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out, of course. Ooh, it's nice and big. It's

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got that super smooth action and it is thumb stud

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only deployment and I've gotten used to it.

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But it's a little stiff on the, on the detent though. Having it for

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about two weeks at this point I, I've felt it break in

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so Great knife concept. Does amazing stuff. I

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love their work and of course Ray Laconico. I'm happy to finally have a

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Ray Laconico in my collection. Next up

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in my back, right back left pocket was the

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awesome and very, very

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highly carried. This summer I'm going to be doing a summer

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update towards the end of the summer of my most carried folders. This

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will definitely be in it most carried folders of the summer. This is the

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JW Collab Tango. Just a

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beautiful, beautiful knife. It's a collaboration with Cerberus

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Blades and I love that compound ground

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sort of sponto style blade drop point,

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deeply hollow ground, main cutting surface. And then at the tip it

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graduates to a more robust flat grind for

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piercing and tougher tasks. Really, really

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sickeningly smooth action. I love the action

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on this. I can even front flip it with my left hand. Watch this.

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I mean, you know, this old dog can hunt.

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It's got the beautiful sun pattern,

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sun ray pattern coming out of the pivot there.

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Beautiful titanium, blasted titanium

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handle. Okay, next up in my

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waistband today. I haven't carried this in a while but this is

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arguably the knife that really got me started.

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Carrying fixed blade EDPs on the regular and that

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is the hog Tooth knives EDC Tanto.

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154 cm deep hollow grind of course with that robust

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tip again for penetrating tasks and and such.

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this is that rubberized

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G10, he opted not to,

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what do you call it, you know, put grooves in there for

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gription. It already has that in the rubber that's exposed.

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It's not rubbery, but you can feel a little bit of grip

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to it. This is just such an awesome knife. This is the

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platform upon which Matt and I did the

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Nova 1 Bowie, the Nova 2 Kiridashi and

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we're working on the Nova 3. I'll let you know when that's good to go.

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This is a great knife. I've carried it so much. But also

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I have heard a, a story from Matt.

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He made one for a buddy's son who was deployed and let's just

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say it came in clutch in a, in a pinch

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and he was able to extricate himself from a

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deadly situation with that very knife. So, so

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I Like knowing. I like knowing that there's a pedigree

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to the tactical knife that carry. Last up for emotional

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support, I had the

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Voyager XL from Cold Steel. This tonto

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fully serrated and this one has a Snaggletooth MF on

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it. My Chris, my serrated and

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then two of my serrated vacuros have this on it.

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These, these pocket catches are the best. I love them.

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Rob Penna of Snaggletooth Tactical really came up with an

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awesome little device when he created that. He's got it for

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a number of different blade options, whether it

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be cold steel or any knife that has removable

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thumb studs. Speaking of cold steel, large cold steels, I just finally

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broke down in order to Mayhem. So next time you see me, I will be

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the proud owner of a Mayhem. He does make a Snaggletooth

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MF that fits the Mayhem, so I will be getting that as well.

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This I carried because on the weekend, this past weekend, I

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had my drop point Voyager in pocket for two

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days of backyard stuff,

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backyard work. And it came in very handy for

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removing several cedar limbs on a cedar tree we

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have that is just beset by. By

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creeping vines. And I had to basically take a couple of limbs off

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to. To. Well, to. To handle the situation

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that got me back into my Voyager xl. So this one I had with me

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today. Love this thing. Look at that. What a great night. Everyone

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should have one in their collection. Though this one in particular is not

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in the list. That's coming up. This is what I had on me today. What

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do you have on you? I had the XL Voyager Tanto

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version. I had the Tanto EDC Tanto from Hog

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Teeth Knives at the JW collabs Tango and the

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concept Bison. Beautiful knife. Tell

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me what you had. It's always a blast to hear what you guys carry.

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All right, next up, this is a very special giveaway knife for this

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month. That's August 2025 gentleman

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junkie knife giveaway. This comes to me courtesy

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of Shane, the edgy American of Edgy American Blade

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works. If you come to Thursday Night Knives, you know Shane

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and you probably know him anyway. He's. He's been around for the last

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for quite a while in the knife

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commentariat, if you will. But he's been making knives for

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about a year, maybe a little more. But his skills have

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really surpassed his time behind the

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grinder. This is a clip point blade,

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not his favorite style blade, but he made it just for me knowing that I

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love clip points and all of you. So this will Be going out

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as a gentleman junkie. Knife giveaway knife. Before I pull it out, I just

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want to say 1931 leather works, who also comes on Thursday

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night knives quite a bit. Made the really

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nice leather sheath. Robust, tough leather sheet. I've

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said robust thrice already in this podcast. I gotta, I gotta trim

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that word out. Really, really beautiful. Let's pull out this

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blade. Here it is. Here's your clip point blade.

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I believe this is 3V or crew wear. Now I'm,

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I'm not remembering. I. I'm pretty sure this is 3V.

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It's nice and thin. 3V or crew wear will make it tough

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and give it great edge retention. Really nice

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G10 sort of jungle handle. And then these poured.

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What do you call these pins? Poured pins. So that's

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epoxy and colored coloring in

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there and so it's all epoxied together. And then he made

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his own pins. Basically fits nicely in the hand. You get a four

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finger grip. This one I could see making a

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Kydex sheath for. And carrying in the waistband concealed. It's

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a, it's a perfect size for that. And there is his

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little stripper girl logo or. Or is that a

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mud flap logo? I mean I feel like I've seen that on the back of

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semi trucks. In any case, a classic design done

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by a great guy, great knife maker. And this thing is wickedly

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sharp with a cool sheath. So

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yeah, become a gentleman junkie and that'll, that'll

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be. You'll be in the running to win this knife right here. The edgy

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American Bowie knife. Speaking of

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on the regular. I can't even, I can't even keep up with it.

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So it's really cool. This latest one is

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on. It is a. On this day in knife history.

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July 26th, he's talking about the birth of Sheffield

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Bowie craftsman Fred James. He was a legendary

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ubiquitous knife at the time. So check it out. Check out

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And now here's the Knife Junkie with the Knife Life news..

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Okay, first up in Knife Life news, knife that was

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released in 2024 by CRKT by

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Princeton Wong. You know him as Prince. Custom custom

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knives. This is a really cool design

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based on these Korean Mecha

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warriors. Remind me a lot of the Shogun warriors from when I was

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a kid in the 70s. These cool giant robotic

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robots. Robotic warrior robots that fight monsters and

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stuff. Anyway, it's called the Nucleus

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and we covered this on Knife Life News last year. Very cool

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futuristic design in 12C

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28 and steel. Well now they've come out with a

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fully maxed out version and this is a a

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full materials upgrade the new one. And you can get either

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depending on how much you want to spend and what materials you want on your

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knife. But the new one is Magnacut and

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titanium. So that's a 2.23-inch magnacut

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blade modified worn clif modified

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sheepsfoot. You decide. With a cool compound grind

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and flipper front flipper and a nice big opening hole for

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that reverse finger flick. And then as you move aft,

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pocket clip. 2.3 ounces. So super light.

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which is 3.1 ounces. So your choice, go to their website.

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I was checking it out. Go to their website. You can kind of outfit it

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the way you want. Beautiful black colored version there too.

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That's available now. All

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right, next up, Opinel. Opinel has been around for over 100

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years, I guess well over 100 years at this point. The

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French peasant knife or the French farmer's knife, or just the

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French everyday carry working man's knife that we all know and love.

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With the wooden handle, the carbon steel clip point blade

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with the Vibro lock, that rotating

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collar lock, it sits around the collar, right behind the tang. You

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twist it and then that blade is not shut. It will.

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After so much time they decided to give it an

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update and it's called the Neo 6. Now up and

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Opinel. Opinel has different

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sizes of the same design. Starting at three I think and going

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to 13. The number six and the number eight are

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the two most popular. So they decided to do

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an update of the number six called the NEO6. And what

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did they do? They after a hundred years of continuous tradition, they

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decided to change the lock to something called an OP

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Flex lock. Its garage got a spring loaded peg.

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When you open it that, that interrupts the,

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the blade from going back into the handle. And,

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and what else did they do? They blunted the tip. They made it a

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more people friendly knife. It's, it's sort of a, a woke French

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knife if you will. So a, a, a blunted rounded

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off tip that I gotta say that depresses me, that really bums me out

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man. You know, if you want to innovate, quote

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unquote on the, on the lock after a hundred years, okay, fine,

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do your thing. But the blunting of the blade is not an innovation. It's

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a step backward. But who am I, who am I to judge? You can still

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go to Opinel and get all of their other really, really awesome knives

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with sharp tips which comes in handy.

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That's a 2.75 inch blade up as opposed to the very

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famous number eight that I was just talking about. That's a three and a quarter

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inch. This rounded tipped Neo 6

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with the new lock called the OP Flex is available

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now. Next up, some sad news.

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John Benner, a very famous KA Bar knife

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designer has Passed away. And he

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was the man who designed the very,

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very popular TDI knives. TDI stands for

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Tactical Defense Institute. It's a

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shooting and tactical institute for civilians

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that he created after his service for the country was

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over. He was a longtime soldier, law

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enforcement officer, SWAT guy for a long time

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and, and then he retired from that to start

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the most highly, one of the most highly respected training

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organizations in, in the nation. And in doing so, he

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created the TDI knife that, that's the KA Bar

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that takes the extreme curve. It's got a pistol grip and

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it's, it was originally invented for

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police officers for gun retention. So they're in a struggle

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and someone's going for their gun. This fits right on the

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duty belt and it's shaped a lot like a gun. So it's a

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very familiar tactile

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format. They could pull that and, and use it to

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keep their gun to themselves. So I've always

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liked those knives. It really became a very large and

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successful line for K Bar. So

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best, best wishes, rest in peace, John Benner

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and best wishes to his family in this

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tough time. There he is, John Benner on screen.

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All right, lastly for Knife Life News, I just want to make a

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quick announcement that Knife Rights is Knife

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Rights's Knife Rights is running its ultimate

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steel donation drive. It's their

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annual drive where they get a hundred and twenty five

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thousand dollars, more than $125,000 in prizes

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to give away to you. The, the, the

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people who help, who donate and help Knife Rights stick around.

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I mean they have changed the knife laws in just about 40

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states now. I know they made automatic

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knives legal in my state of Virginia like 100% legal even to

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conceal. So really made a 180 in this state and

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they've done that in so many other states. If you get in there

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and donate, you double your chances to win with a tail end

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bonus drawing. So if you donate 100 bucks, you get a

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SOG knife. If you donate 200 bucks you get a Spyderco

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400, you get this cool QSP 500, you get a

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cold steel a thousand you get a Hogue. And

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then at the tail end there's a drawing to

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win the, the many, many other prizes they have. I mean they

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have donations from the likes of Kirby Lambert

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and, and K Bar and

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gun manufacturers and all sorts of

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custom knife makers who recognize the

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value of knife rights and donate a piece every year. If you go

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to Blade show and you go to the knife rights booth, you'll see all of

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these amazing prizes. And there are even more waiting in

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the wings that you could win. So definitely,

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if you value your knife rights, go to

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kniferights.org and sign up and donate to the

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Ultimate Steel 2025. Or you can go to

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kniferights.org

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ultimatesteel/2025-ultimate-steel if you're listening.

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All right, we gotta have Doug Ritter back on and we gotta talk

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about that. It's got of an annual tradition at this point and it's a

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great way to keep the knives you want in your

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pocket. All right, coming up, we have the

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state of the Collection. I got some really cool stuff to show you, but before

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we get there, just want to remind you, Thursday night knives, every Thursday, 10:00pm

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Eastern Standard Time. That's when you stand to win a

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knife. Pretty much every week we give away a knife right now because

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this is, this was not built into the original concept of a show. But

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some very, very generous friends have donated knives to this channel

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and I've got a bunch of them just sitting on a shelf over there waiting

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to be won by you. And then of course, every

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third Thursday of the month we do a special knife drawing

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for gentlemen junkies. So go to the, go to the knife

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junkie.com join to actually

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come on the show and watch. But otherwise 10pm

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Eastern Standard Time on YouTube and Facebook and you could watch

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this awesome show Thursday Night Knives. It's a great chance to meet me and

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meet other like minded individuals and just have a great hang as

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the weekend begins. All right, coming up,

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the state of the collection. If you search Google for the best knife podcast, the

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answer is the Knife Junkie podcast. First up, in the state

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of the collection, a production knife from Auxiliary

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Manufacturing. So here it is. This is from the

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Deadhead series of knives coming out,

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produced by Miguron Knives and of course

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designed by Michael Jarvis and Auxiliary Manufacturing.

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So this is a custom version, I mean, I'm sorry, a production

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version of his custom pocket Bowie.

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Here's the pocket Bowie. I just shot the old sheath

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off of it. I'll just place it down here for contrast. But

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they did an amazing job. Megaron did an amazing job of taking

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this custom knife and making it a

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production item. Really added some,

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there's some value added here. I would say this is a 99

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knife as opposed to the custom which is more and harder to

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get. They added a sharpening choil. It's

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14C28 and blade steel. This is 80CRL2

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up here. I'm sorry, this is AEBL up here. The custom

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so and then micarta handles here sculpted.

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This comes in all black. A black coated blade with black

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G10. Or you can get it in this beautiful satin

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with the green, the hunter green

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micarta. Look at that thing. That is beautiful with that recurve.

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Super sharp. I love the sweep on that clip.

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Great sheath. Taco style sheath with the thumb push off and

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a mini Tek Lok style clip on the

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back. They also are producing this in a folding

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version, a titanium frame lock folding version.

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And that thing is spectacular too. I had a chance to check that

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out at Blade Show. Those will run you 299. This will

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run you 99. So get behind this design one way

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or the other. It is a great small EDC

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fixed blade. Carry this one. For the production

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model they added jimping too, which, who doesn't love jimping?

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I love jimping. Fits great in the hand forward or reverse grip.

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You've got that coffin shaped handle. Just works like

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a dream and is super comfortable. So check this out. This is

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from Miguran and Auxiliary manufacturing. There's the

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deadhead logo. That's the series for this production.

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Coffin handled knife. All right,

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next up, I got two new Civivis from Civivi in the

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mail and they are interesting. The first one I'll, I'll show you is the

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more interesting one. This one is called the

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Natter Jack. We talk about this. We, we announced that

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this would be coming out right here on the

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midweek supplemental here of the Knife Junkie podcast. And now I

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have it in hand and I'll be a hundred percent honest.

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It's a little goofy looking, but wow. Does it feel

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great in hand? Really feels it just melts into

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my hand. So fully scalloped all the way around.

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You've got scalloping on the spine of the blade which,

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which trans transforms into

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little Anzo style grooves coming onto the

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surface of the G10 handle slab. But 1, 2, 3,

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4, 5 scallops on the spine. You've got four corresponding

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scallops on the bottom for your fingers and it really, it

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nestles in there nicely. I, I, I gotta say, I'm not

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crazy about how it looks, but I love how it feels. It's like that

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line from Pulp Fiction.

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Spine of the blade has a couple of scallops too. Looking a little bit

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like a SOG MACV SOG bow with one extra peak

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clip point blade. 14C 28 and button lock. Awesome

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action. They've really nailed the button lock. It's a

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bb. Comes in four different colorways. I Got this nice

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storm cloud blue. I like saying it like

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that. Or it's just gray. If you're looking it up and you want to buy

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it, just gray. The great pocket clip. I love this

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Civivi pocket clip. Very plain loop over pocket clip

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without any, any writing or billboarding on it.

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Standoffs there. No place to put a lanyard.

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So tough for you though this, this one

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here might be a, a place you could put a lanyard. It's between

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those two thick standoffs. But

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yeah, I'm. I'm digging it. I didn't think I would. And now

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that I have it, I like it. But again, not crazy about the looks, but

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crazy about the feels. I have not used this yet. This

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just came in as I record that. I'm recording this so

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haven't had a chance to use this yet. You'll see a

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close up video coming up soon. Okay, next up

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also from Civivi. This one has gotten carried. I carried this

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yesterday. This arrived yesterday for me as I record

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this. This is called. What is this thing called

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again? This is the Guile. The Guile.

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A really, really nice Little Wharncliffe

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that's 14C28 and designed by Sean

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Ashmore. Sorry, I had to, I had to refer to the spec sheet

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here. Shawn Ashmore. Ceramic bearings.

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Really nice wharncliffe shaped blade with an excellent

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cutout here for reverse finger flicking or thumb

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flicking or slow rolling however you want to open it. This

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really works well. And one thing I like about the opening hole

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here is that it's nice and sharp on the edge so it really

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catches your thumb and or

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forefinger for an easy flick out. Comes with

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G10 handles. I opted for this obnoxious green. I really like

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it for some reason. Same really great loop over

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pocket clip. Here's Mr.

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Ashmore's maker's mark there. And

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yeah, the blade is excellent. Very acute point.

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I. I dare say it would be great in reverse grip in a pinch if

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you needed to use this defensively. Did I mention

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14C 28N? I think I did. Open flow through

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construction as most civivis with standoffs.

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So this one is cool. Also comes in a number of colorways.

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Highly recommend this so far. I mean with me

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civivi is fire and forget.

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If you will like. If you like the design,

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you're gonna like the knife because it's going to be a great. I haven't had

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one lemon yet. Knock on wood from

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Civivi yet. So really great knife front

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flips. Well, despite my poor performance on screen There we

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go. All right, so that's from Civivi and it's called

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the Guile. Civivi's got a knife in this next list coming

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up. We're going to get to that in a second. But before we talk about

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folders that should be in every collection, want to show you

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this new design from Jim. Ask me about

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my Rockwell Hardness. Yeah,

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great, Great tagline. I like the tagline. Let everyone know

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that you're still a, a virile dude

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and wear this hat or, or T shirt

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or what have you. So this is at the knife

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00:29:46.760 --> 00:29:50.440
junkie.com shop. You get the design

477
00:29:50.440 --> 00:29:53.680
on anything you want, basically. You can get mugs, you can get

478
00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:59.200
aprons, hats, T shirts, hoodies, long sleeve T shirts, all

479
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:02.920
sorts of stuff. I am currently. I just,

480
00:30:03.080 --> 00:30:06.800
I just recently went looking for the Knife Junkie logo.

481
00:30:06.800 --> 00:30:10.320
That's on page 20 all the way back at the beginning. So many pages of

482
00:30:10.320 --> 00:30:13.800
cool designs that Jim has come up with. Check it out.

483
00:30:14.600 --> 00:30:17.080
Ask me about my Rockwell Hardness

484
00:30:18.360 --> 00:30:22.110
classic. I. I shouldn't say any more about that. All right.

485
00:30:22.110 --> 00:30:25.870
Speaking of classics, these are knives. These are folders that should

486
00:30:25.870 --> 00:30:29.470
be in every collection. That said, I'm not saying you need to have all of

487
00:30:29.470 --> 00:30:33.110
these in your collection, but these are the ones that, to

488
00:30:33.110 --> 00:30:36.710
me, these are folders that are just hit on all,

489
00:30:36.950 --> 00:30:40.790
all cylinders and are standards for their type.

490
00:30:41.110 --> 00:30:44.630
First up, predictably, is the buck

491
00:30:44.630 --> 00:30:48.310
110. And for a lot of these, I'm going to present

492
00:30:48.390 --> 00:30:52.120
alternatives. So here is the buck 110. Not

493
00:30:52.120 --> 00:30:55.280
sure why that's not showing up exactly.

494
00:30:55.840 --> 00:30:59.280
Clearly. And as an alternative, you can get the

495
00:30:59.280 --> 00:31:02.960
smaller buck 112. Now the

496
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:06.760
112 and the 110 are

497
00:31:06.760 --> 00:31:09.600
pretty much the same knife. Just the 112 is

498
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:13.720
shrunk, shrunk down. That's called the Ranger oftentimes. And this is called

499
00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:17.290
the Folding Hunter 110 Folding Hunter 112 Ranger.

500
00:31:17.850 --> 00:31:20.570
Really great knives. I put one of those aftermarket

501
00:31:21.690 --> 00:31:23.530
thumb studs on the 112.

502
00:31:25.450 --> 00:31:29.130
They've been around a long time. 420HC steel. They

503
00:31:29.130 --> 00:31:32.970
come with beautiful leather sheaths. To quote

504
00:31:32.970 --> 00:31:36.610
Rob Bixby of the Apostle P. This is old school

505
00:31:36.610 --> 00:31:40.250
redneck tactical folders. And they're great.

506
00:31:40.840 --> 00:31:44.680
They are heavy. They are not easy to just drop in

507
00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:48.240
pocket. They are pretty solid and dense though. These days

508
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.520
Bucks makes a lot of different versions of these in lighter

509
00:31:51.520 --> 00:31:54.520
materials. But this is the classic and they're

510
00:31:54.600 --> 00:31:58.360
extremely sharp, deeply hollow ground. You get a great

511
00:31:59.320 --> 00:32:03.040
cutting edge on these knives. So I highly

512
00:32:03.040 --> 00:32:06.200
recommend them. They're back locks, you just gotta have one.

513
00:32:06.800 --> 00:32:09.280
And a friend of mine is

514
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:14.080
liquidating some knives that his father had, may

515
00:32:14.080 --> 00:32:17.400
he rest in peace. And he's got a couple of one

516
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:21.240
12s and I, I think he's offering me

517
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:24.520
one to buy and I'm definitely going to buy it. This one is a little

518
00:32:24.520 --> 00:32:28.080
bit older from the 80s when things weren't rounded off

519
00:32:28.320 --> 00:32:32.080
as much on the handle and they were more squared off. So I'm

520
00:32:32.080 --> 00:32:35.760
excited to get one of those in my collection if he can part with

521
00:32:35.760 --> 00:32:39.520
it and if he can't, I can't blame him. That would be an incredibly

522
00:32:39.520 --> 00:32:43.360
sentimental thing for me. Next up, kind of going

523
00:32:43.360 --> 00:32:46.960
in the opposite direction. That 112 has been around for over 50

524
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:50.680
years and now we're coming to one that's pretty new and it's

525
00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:54.160
from Civivi. And I know a lot of people consider

526
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:57.960
this the best Civivi out there. This is

527
00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:01.460
the Vision fg designed by Snacks,

528
00:33:02.020 --> 00:33:05.300
Malaysian knife designer. This thing is

529
00:33:06.500 --> 00:33:10.340
really great. It's got a neutral style handle. It's got

530
00:33:10.340 --> 00:33:14.100
a blade that will pretty much do anything from

531
00:33:15.539 --> 00:33:19.260
penetrating tasks with that tip to all sorts of

532
00:33:19.260 --> 00:33:22.820
cutting tasks with that very, very gradually

533
00:33:22.820 --> 00:33:26.500
bellied blade. It's 14C 28 and blade

534
00:33:26.500 --> 00:33:30.000
steel, great blade steel. There's snacks

535
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.320
design here. And it's got this super lock which is a very strong

536
00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:38.120
lock mounted on the spine. Does not interfere at all with

537
00:33:38.120 --> 00:33:41.680
your grip. You don't feel it. It's kind of like the shark

538
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:45.360
lock in terms of placement. It will not

539
00:33:45.600 --> 00:33:48.120
though. It looks like it should kind of get in the way. It does not

540
00:33:48.120 --> 00:33:51.840
get in the way because of how the rest of the handle is designed.

541
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:56.030
You've got a clip up towards the top which always was vexed

542
00:33:56.030 --> 00:33:59.790
me a little bit. It doesn't, it doesn't interfere too much, but I

543
00:33:59.790 --> 00:34:03.350
can feel the clip ever so slightly. I always wonder why they didn't just

544
00:34:03.350 --> 00:34:06.710
center it, but they didn't. Really, really

545
00:34:07.270 --> 00:34:10.630
fidgety blade, I gotta say. With this lock style,

546
00:34:11.429 --> 00:34:14.830
you can open it with the lock, close it

547
00:34:14.830 --> 00:34:18.190
obviously with the lock, or you can use that thumb stud. But how it works

548
00:34:18.190 --> 00:34:21.880
is there's that notch on the tang on the back of the

549
00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:23.920
blade here. And as it opens up,

550
00:34:26.160 --> 00:34:29.720
this lock has a little tab on it that falls into that

551
00:34:29.720 --> 00:34:33.480
slot and then is held down with a spring. And then

552
00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:37.120
of course, holding the knife itself reinforces the

553
00:34:37.120 --> 00:34:40.920
lock. So a great locking mechanism. Very stylish and

554
00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:44.520
cool looking. So you'll get, you get some of that in. Ooh. And ah,

555
00:34:44.520 --> 00:34:47.690
cred when you pull it out. Oh, that's a cool knife, but not too

556
00:34:47.690 --> 00:34:50.410
threatening, I would say. And then a

557
00:34:50.970 --> 00:34:54.810
universally useful blade. The blade is just awesome. And then

558
00:34:54.810 --> 00:34:58.290
Civivi, of course, grinds everything nice and thin, nice and

559
00:34:58.290 --> 00:35:02.010
slicey. And for the most part, from what I've seen from other

560
00:35:02.010 --> 00:35:05.690
people who, who really put them to the test, they heat treat their

561
00:35:05.690 --> 00:35:09.050
steels magnificently. So the Vision

562
00:35:09.050 --> 00:35:12.730
FG from Civivi is a knife that should

563
00:35:12.730 --> 00:35:16.280
be in every collection. And one other thing I will add there also,

564
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:20.280
it's designed by a really great and innovative

565
00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:23.400
designer who, if you want to get one of his custom knives,

566
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:28.600
save up and wait forever is what I got to say, because he only makes

567
00:35:28.600 --> 00:35:32.360
like 10 of them at a time or something like that. So the SNEX design

568
00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:36.200
Vision FG from Civivi. Next up is

569
00:35:36.520 --> 00:35:39.800
no surprise. It's the Chris Reeve knives,

570
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:43.620
Sebenza, in this case the 21. Of course, you

571
00:35:43.620 --> 00:35:47.260
can get the 31 or the one that preceded this. A 21

572
00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:50.700
stands for how many years it was in production when it was

573
00:35:51.180 --> 00:35:54.860
redesigned and. And then the 31, same thing.

574
00:35:55.180 --> 00:35:58.820
The difference, one of the differences between the 21 and the

575
00:35:58.820 --> 00:36:02.460
31 is in the interface here,

576
00:36:02.940 --> 00:36:05.900
the detent ball instead of being down here

577
00:36:07.510 --> 00:36:11.150
on the lock, the. I'm sorry, on the locking

578
00:36:11.150 --> 00:36:14.910
leaf bar here, it's on the corner and it's a ceramic ball. So

579
00:36:14.910 --> 00:36:18.470
much like the Umnum Zan and

580
00:36:20.150 --> 00:36:23.190
other Chris Reeve knives, it's now what the

581
00:36:23.830 --> 00:36:27.270
ceramic ball is what interfaces with the steel

582
00:36:27.270 --> 00:36:30.230
tang instead of the

583
00:36:30.630 --> 00:36:34.320
titanium. That said, there has never been an issue

584
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.440
with mine and I haven't really heard of anyone else having an issue

585
00:36:38.080 --> 00:36:41.680
with any sort of lock stick on their Chris Reeve knives.

586
00:36:41.680 --> 00:36:45.440
Sebenza with the titanium lock

587
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:49.280
bar engaging with the blade tang. Little schmutz in there. I

588
00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:52.960
need to clean this out. This gets a fair amount of

589
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:56.800
use. I come in and out of

590
00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:01.080
use with this. I'm seasonal with this. I just can't define the

591
00:37:01.080 --> 00:37:04.830
season. Oftentimes it'll start with some sort of dressy occasion

592
00:37:05.150 --> 00:37:08.430
where I think the most classy, most understated,

593
00:37:09.150 --> 00:37:12.230
awesome knife that I have for the occasion would be the

594
00:37:12.230 --> 00:37:16.030
Sebenza. I carry it to whatever that occasion is and then

595
00:37:16.110 --> 00:37:19.470
it stays in the pocket for a while because it's just such an awesome knife.

596
00:37:19.470 --> 00:37:22.590
And it's one of those knives against which all other

597
00:37:23.070 --> 00:37:26.670
modern folding, locking, tactical, esque knives

598
00:37:26.750 --> 00:37:30.580
are measured. It really is a do everything knife.

599
00:37:32.820 --> 00:37:36.220
This one is the black Micarta

600
00:37:36.220 --> 00:37:39.740
version which they came the scales came gray, these little

601
00:37:39.740 --> 00:37:43.460
inlays came gray and immediately blackened up from

602
00:37:43.460 --> 00:37:47.180
my hand and funk. So I

603
00:37:47.180 --> 00:37:51.020
love the Chris Reeve knives. I, I have two and I feel like that's

604
00:37:51.020 --> 00:37:54.760
pretty much all I need though. Every once in a while I'll start, I'll

605
00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:58.600
get a wild hair up my bottom and I'll, I'll start looking at

606
00:37:58.600 --> 00:38:01.920
Chris Reeve knives. But then I back off. I'm like, you don't carry them that

607
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:05.560
much that you need to go buy another Chris Reeves. Two

608
00:38:05.560 --> 00:38:08.840
should suffice. Okay, next up is the

609
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:12.600
Kershaw Leek. This is my

610
00:38:12.600 --> 00:38:16.280
wife's Kershaw Leak. Used to be mine, but she really

611
00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:19.960
loved how thin this aluminum handle is and. Or

612
00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:23.550
this, this is steel. How thin this steel handle is.

613
00:38:23.790 --> 00:38:27.510
You know how ladies have really, really shallow pockets on

614
00:38:27.510 --> 00:38:31.150
their jeans. Well, my wife has taken to

615
00:38:31.150 --> 00:38:34.670
carrying her knives in the waistband and this

616
00:38:34.670 --> 00:38:38.190
nice thin and smooth knife was probably the one she

617
00:38:38.190 --> 00:38:41.950
discovered that form of carry with really

618
00:38:41.950 --> 00:38:45.750
nice wharncliffe blade. It's got a bit of a belly, so you might,

619
00:38:45.750 --> 00:38:49.480
you know, it's just a very slight belly. So you might not call this

620
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:53.320
a wharncliffe if you're gonna really nerd out about it, but we can, we

621
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:56.560
can, we can let that slide. 14C

622
00:38:56.720 --> 00:39:00.440
28N on this blade. And I think they've made a number of

623
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:04.079
different versions of the Leak. I mean many, many different versions of the Leak

624
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.680
to include different steels. But it's got that

625
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:11.600
speed safe assisted opening, a hollow ground blade

626
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.760
and thumb stud opening too. Which is probably

627
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:19.160
my favorite way to open this because it just snaps up so, so

628
00:39:19.160 --> 00:39:22.920
readily. If this, if you're, if this is a little too small

629
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:26.640
or you're not into the speedsafe assisted

630
00:39:26.640 --> 00:39:30.400
opening. The other Kershaw that

631
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:33.800
I would say should be in every collection is in is a newish one

632
00:39:34.040 --> 00:39:37.760
within the last two years. And I absolutely love this knife. This

633
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:40.200
is the USA made Iridium.

634
00:39:41.410 --> 00:39:42.930
Iridium is an awesome

635
00:39:45.890 --> 00:39:48.770
non assisted so bearings and

636
00:39:49.250 --> 00:39:53.010
ambidextrous bar lock here. Just a great knife.

637
00:39:53.010 --> 00:39:56.849
This has got the best, smoothest bar lock I have.

638
00:39:57.010 --> 00:40:00.170
Period bar none to include

639
00:40:00.170 --> 00:40:03.490
Benchmade and Hogue and Civivi.

640
00:40:03.810 --> 00:40:07.650
This one is the, the butteriest. And I gotta say every

641
00:40:07.650 --> 00:40:11.210
time I, I pull it out and I check it, I check the,

642
00:40:11.850 --> 00:40:15.450
the blade for wobble, it's so free falling,

643
00:40:15.450 --> 00:40:18.890
but it's not wobble. It's just awesome engineering and

644
00:40:19.130 --> 00:40:22.970
really great build. So I would say the Iridium, if you

645
00:40:22.970 --> 00:40:26.650
don't like the Kershaw Leak get the Iridium. But you should

646
00:40:26.650 --> 00:40:30.330
have an a USA made Kershaw in your collection

647
00:40:30.810 --> 00:40:33.060
and these fit the bill.

648
00:40:35.300 --> 00:40:38.540
It doesn't have to, it doesn't have to be USA made. They make a lot

649
00:40:38.540 --> 00:40:41.940
of cool knives in China too. But Kershaw and,

650
00:40:42.420 --> 00:40:45.740
and some of these classics. I'd say the Iridium is the new

651
00:40:45.740 --> 00:40:49.460
classic and definitely the Leaf designed by Ken Onion is

652
00:40:49.460 --> 00:40:53.300
a classic classic. So you gotta have one of those two. Next up

653
00:40:53.300 --> 00:40:57.100
is the Ontario Rat series. I have a RAT

654
00:40:57.100 --> 00:41:00.840
one that's in my Bugout bag in my car. My get home

655
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:04.680
bag in my car. But this is the two, the RAT

656
00:41:04.680 --> 00:41:08.000
two with the three inch blade still you have those

657
00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:11.680
nylon handles. Now this one is an older one so it's Aus

658
00:41:11.680 --> 00:41:14.680
8. You can still get it in Aus 8 but now you can get it

659
00:41:14.680 --> 00:41:18.000
in D2 as well. And D2 I just think is a

660
00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:21.720
superior steel. Really great ergonomics on this knife.

661
00:41:22.040 --> 00:41:25.580
Just a classic full flat ground blade.

662
00:41:26.620 --> 00:41:30.060
This is. It's got to be 20 years this has been kicking it now

663
00:41:30.460 --> 00:41:34.220
you've got just the right size here and that

664
00:41:34.220 --> 00:41:38.060
upward angled. It's not upward angled but it's

665
00:41:38.060 --> 00:41:41.900
upset a little high and I kind of like that. Gives you a

666
00:41:41.900 --> 00:41:44.940
great place for the thumb. Gives you a very

667
00:41:46.220 --> 00:41:49.100
useful drop point blade and

668
00:41:50.160 --> 00:41:53.480
you can get it in all different color ways. This pink and black was a

669
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:57.200
gift from my older daughter via my wife

670
00:41:57.200 --> 00:42:00.880
when she was a baby and wanted to give me a pink knife.

671
00:42:02.080 --> 00:42:05.560
I suggested this one. I nicknamed this one Pinky

672
00:42:05.560 --> 00:42:09.240
Tuscadero ages ago. And so that's what it is. We used to

673
00:42:09.240 --> 00:42:13.080
name my knives around here. You may remember Sleepy

674
00:42:13.080 --> 00:42:16.600
Bear, which will come up here soon. Soon. Both

675
00:42:16.600 --> 00:42:20.240
named by by by my daughter. Really nice

676
00:42:20.240 --> 00:42:23.960
knife. Everyone should have a rat 2 or a rat 1. It's. It's

677
00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:27.440
that bang around knife that you don't feel guilty banging around

678
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:31.360
and that once it has some scars

679
00:42:31.439 --> 00:42:34.080
from usage you're proud to to show off.

680
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:39.240
Next up, the Benchmade Bugout. This is the only Benchmade

681
00:42:39.240 --> 00:42:43.060
on this list and it for me it beats out

682
00:42:43.060 --> 00:42:45.980
pretty much all of them. I'm not a huge Benchmade fan as you probably know,

683
00:42:45.980 --> 00:42:49.740
but I'm a huge fan of the Bugout and I also like the

684
00:42:49.740 --> 00:42:53.420
Bailout quite a bit. I don't own one of those. This one has

685
00:42:53.420 --> 00:42:57.180
been kind of tweaked to my liking. Of course you see the snaggletooth MF on

686
00:42:57.180 --> 00:43:00.580
there because I carry this often in the back pocket or

687
00:43:00.820 --> 00:43:04.660
in the inside pocket of my Winter jackets and I like just

688
00:43:04.660 --> 00:43:07.950
having that automatic open feature. It, it

689
00:43:08.590 --> 00:43:12.230
acts much like a wave to open it, snag it on your

690
00:43:12.230 --> 00:43:15.950
pocket. I also got Allen Putnam scales here. So these are

691
00:43:16.270 --> 00:43:19.630
aftermarket canvas Micarta

692
00:43:19.630 --> 00:43:23.070
scales designed by and made by Alan

693
00:43:23.230 --> 00:43:26.510
Putnam. I got them on Blade hq, I think.

694
00:43:26.830 --> 00:43:30.670
And then of course you've got that short clip. I love the short benchmade

695
00:43:30.670 --> 00:43:34.460
clip s 30v is what this one is made of. It

696
00:43:34.460 --> 00:43:38.300
comes in other steels, a very smooth axis lock. Of course they were

697
00:43:38.300 --> 00:43:41.380
the guys who invented the ambidextrous bar lock.

698
00:43:43.620 --> 00:43:46.740
And here it is on my favorite Benchmade

699
00:43:47.700 --> 00:43:51.540
Benchmade knife. If you want something super light, super thin,

700
00:43:51.700 --> 00:43:55.380
very, very capable and fun to. Fun to

701
00:43:55.380 --> 00:43:58.980
use and fidget with. The Benchmade bugout should be in every

702
00:43:58.980 --> 00:44:02.600
collection. Next up, I spoke of Sleepy Bear before.

703
00:44:02.600 --> 00:44:05.480
That's this. It's my Spyderco Delica.

704
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:10.040
In this case the Delica Endela which I don't have, or

705
00:44:10.040 --> 00:44:12.680
the Endura should be in every

706
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:17.800
everyone's collection here. Got a.

707
00:44:19.240 --> 00:44:22.440
A beautiful two versions of it with the blue and the purple.

708
00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.720
This is a universally awesome knife. Full flat ground.

709
00:44:28.770 --> 00:44:32.570
You've got a 3.75 inch blade on the Endura. It's got a 3 inch

710
00:44:32.570 --> 00:44:36.250
blade on the Delica. And then in the middle at

711
00:44:36.250 --> 00:44:39.250
three, three and a quarter you've got the Endela.

712
00:44:39.890 --> 00:44:43.570
All great knives. You've got the FRN handles with the multi directional

713
00:44:43.570 --> 00:44:47.290
texturing. So it grabs your thumb going this

714
00:44:47.290 --> 00:44:50.930
way, grabs your hand going that way and nice and light.

715
00:44:51.010 --> 00:44:54.570
Comes in a variety of colors. Cheerful, totally

716
00:44:54.570 --> 00:44:58.410
unassuming. This one is my painting knife. So anytime

717
00:44:58.570 --> 00:45:02.330
I have painting to do around the house, which isn't frequent, but

718
00:45:02.330 --> 00:45:05.410
you know, every couple of years we decide to repaint a room or a hallway

719
00:45:05.410 --> 00:45:09.250
or something. And this is the knife that goes in my pocket. I

720
00:45:09.250 --> 00:45:12.890
don't know how that tradition started, but it did

721
00:45:13.210 --> 00:45:16.490
and I love it. Very, very useful.

722
00:45:16.890 --> 00:45:19.930
Thin, light, strong back lock knife.

723
00:45:21.700 --> 00:45:25.500
And here is the Endura again. This was. I

724
00:45:25.500 --> 00:45:28.980
want to get daddy a purple knife. And so I recommended this knife

725
00:45:29.140 --> 00:45:32.860
and she promptly named it Sleepy Bear. That was back in

726
00:45:32.860 --> 00:45:36.420
her Care Bear days. Spyderco

727
00:45:36.420 --> 00:45:39.940
Endura and Spyderco Delica or Indella

728
00:45:40.020 --> 00:45:43.820
I guess, even though that's a late comer, relatively speaking, should

729
00:45:43.820 --> 00:45:47.470
be in every collection. Next up, in

730
00:45:47.470 --> 00:45:51.150
lieu of the Spyderco, I mean of the Benchmade Griptilian,

731
00:45:51.870 --> 00:45:55.390
is The Hogue Ritter RSK Mark 1.

732
00:45:56.350 --> 00:46:00.150
This is what used to be called the Ritter grip

733
00:46:00.150 --> 00:46:03.550
when it was made by Benchmade but this is

734
00:46:03.630 --> 00:46:07.310
Doug Ritter of Knife Rights. This is his

735
00:46:08.590 --> 00:46:12.430
knife idea. So he, he designed this drop point blade

736
00:46:13.090 --> 00:46:16.730
and wanted to have it manufactured by the best manufacturers out

737
00:46:16.730 --> 00:46:20.370
there. Back in the day it was Benchmade. He, he said just

738
00:46:20.370 --> 00:46:23.890
use the griptilian handle. It's already there. It's

739
00:46:23.890 --> 00:46:27.650
inexpensive, it's lightweight. But we're going to

740
00:46:27.650 --> 00:46:31.050
make this different shaped blade with a super

741
00:46:31.050 --> 00:46:34.690
steel. And at the time, you know, I think it was S30B was the first

742
00:46:35.090 --> 00:46:38.830
incarnation of it. It went through a number of different steels with Benchmade and

743
00:46:38.830 --> 00:46:42.630
then Benchmade stopped making OEM knives and he

744
00:46:42.630 --> 00:46:46.070
landed at Hogue, which was awesome because in my opinion,

745
00:46:46.070 --> 00:46:49.750
Hogue makes a better crossbar lock.

746
00:46:49.750 --> 00:46:53.430
They call it the Able Lock Ambidextrous bar lock

747
00:46:53.430 --> 00:46:57.070
enhanced. That's what Able stands for. This

748
00:46:57.070 --> 00:47:00.910
is the small and then here's a larger version of it. This

749
00:47:00.910 --> 00:47:04.350
one is an automatic, but you can get it, you can get it in the

750
00:47:04.350 --> 00:47:08.180
regular manual version.

751
00:47:08.500 --> 00:47:12.140
This one has a magnacut blade. Such a great

752
00:47:12.140 --> 00:47:15.940
knife. The ergonomics are awesome. Hogue extended

753
00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:19.660
the handle ever so slightly as compared to the Benchmade

754
00:47:19.660 --> 00:47:22.420
version of this. They added this

755
00:47:23.140 --> 00:47:26.660
contoured radial pattern pattern

756
00:47:26.660 --> 00:47:30.460
here milled into the handle. It just melts into the

757
00:47:30.460 --> 00:47:34.010
hand. Feels great. Such a useful blade shape

758
00:47:34.170 --> 00:47:38.010
and a very robust knife. This is a do everything

759
00:47:38.090 --> 00:47:41.450
style folder from tactical to

760
00:47:41.690 --> 00:47:45.530
practical and everywhere in between. A great backpacking

761
00:47:45.530 --> 00:47:49.210
knife, a great camping knife. So I would highly

762
00:47:49.210 --> 00:47:52.730
recommend that you get one of these Hog Ritter

763
00:47:52.890 --> 00:47:56.690
RSK mark ones in your collection if you don't already

764
00:47:56.690 --> 00:47:59.170
have one. Lot of people have them, by the way. This

765
00:48:00.530 --> 00:48:04.210
automatic version does come with a lock here, so you don't want it going

766
00:48:04.210 --> 00:48:07.810
off in your pants pants pocket, which it's not going to

767
00:48:08.050 --> 00:48:11.730
unless you're doing something crazy. That's a good way to stop

768
00:48:11.730 --> 00:48:14.850
it. All right, next up

769
00:48:15.730 --> 00:48:19.530
is the off grid Knives Stinger. This is a

770
00:48:19.530 --> 00:48:23.170
big knife that's a full 4 inch blade. And this is the

771
00:48:23.170 --> 00:48:26.670
second incarnation of this knife with that

772
00:48:26.830 --> 00:48:30.670
full flat ground drop point blade. The first version had

773
00:48:31.870 --> 00:48:34.830
more of a bayonet grind, but this thing and

774
00:48:35.390 --> 00:48:38.590
all off grid knives as far as I'm concerned are the best.

775
00:48:39.470 --> 00:48:43.230
They're just such great slicers. They're

776
00:48:43.230 --> 00:48:46.990
my favorite knives to cut cardboard with. And so I

777
00:48:46.990 --> 00:48:50.280
feel you should have an off grid knife in your

778
00:48:50.600 --> 00:48:53.880
collection. The Stinger. This model here

779
00:48:54.200 --> 00:48:55.400
is the most

780
00:48:58.040 --> 00:49:01.880
universally, it's, it's kind of the most regular.

781
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:06.160
So you've got Extreme Wharncliffe's, you got extreme Bowies and other stuff,

782
00:49:06.160 --> 00:49:10.000
but this one in this drop point is the most useful, I gotta

783
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:13.160
say. Really great. Comes in a large and a small.

784
00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:16.410
You decide which one fits you best.

785
00:49:17.690 --> 00:49:21.210
14 or 154 cm on this blade.

786
00:49:21.530 --> 00:49:25.050
I love 154 cm and it

787
00:49:25.050 --> 00:49:28.650
sharpens up easily, takes a great edge. The

788
00:49:28.970 --> 00:49:32.570
pocket clip is loop over deep carry inset in

789
00:49:32.570 --> 00:49:36.290
the G10 and very widely

790
00:49:36.290 --> 00:49:39.450
chamfered blades. Makes it feel concord, but

791
00:49:39.850 --> 00:49:43.640
leaves you with enough flat surface on the G10 to not have

792
00:49:43.640 --> 00:49:47.400
it twist in your hand in hard use. And I've used these, I

793
00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:51.160
don't want to say hard, but like, I haven't used

794
00:49:51.160 --> 00:49:54.880
them like cutting tires and stuff like that, but I've

795
00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:58.560
used them to carve wood and feather sticks and

796
00:49:58.560 --> 00:50:02.400
I've used them for just tons and tons and tons and tons of

797
00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:05.960
cardboard. We get a lot of big double

798
00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:08.040
wall corrugated boxes here.

799
00:50:09.940 --> 00:50:13.700
And this is what, this is what I use to break them down. So

800
00:50:13.700 --> 00:50:17.460
I love these knives, plus just luscious action. OEM

801
00:50:17.700 --> 00:50:20.580
either in Taiwan at one of

802
00:50:21.700 --> 00:50:25.180
one of the great manufacturers in Taiwan, or Best

803
00:50:25.180 --> 00:50:28.540
Tech. He uses key meaning carry

804
00:50:28.540 --> 00:50:31.380
orifice. The guy who designs and owns the company

805
00:50:32.180 --> 00:50:35.940
has a Taiwan manufacturer make them and Best Tech

806
00:50:35.940 --> 00:50:38.810
make them. Next up is

807
00:50:40.090 --> 00:50:43.410
the Microtech SOCOM Elite. A lot of great

808
00:50:43.410 --> 00:50:47.250
microtechs out there. You might, you might choose a different knife, but this is

809
00:50:47.250 --> 00:50:50.850
the one of all my microtechs that would stay if I had to give them

810
00:50:50.850 --> 00:50:52.890
all away. This is my

811
00:50:54.410 --> 00:50:58.250
first microtech. I've had this one for over 10 years at this point.

812
00:50:58.730 --> 00:51:01.370
And this was a first in a lot of ways. My first

813
00:51:01.860 --> 00:51:05.660
S35VN knife. This was my first knife with bearings in the

814
00:51:05.660 --> 00:51:09.260
pivot. First knife with carbon fiber. It's just a great

815
00:51:09.260 --> 00:51:13.020
knife. You can get this in a Tanto. The Tanto

816
00:51:13.020 --> 00:51:16.740
now looks a little different, has a different profile on the newer versions.

817
00:51:17.620 --> 00:51:20.980
And it doesn't have the carbon fiber, it has more of a grip tape here.

818
00:51:21.140 --> 00:51:24.820
But the point is. Oh, this is also my first knife with the

819
00:51:25.220 --> 00:51:28.350
glass breaker. That's why this is my, my

820
00:51:28.750 --> 00:51:32.110
official road trip knife. I have to have this in my pocket

821
00:51:33.310 --> 00:51:36.750
on road trips. Kind of become a superstition at this point,

822
00:51:37.630 --> 00:51:41.350
but just a great all around robust knife. I've never had

823
00:51:41.350 --> 00:51:43.630
any issues with this knife and I've carried it

824
00:51:44.990 --> 00:51:48.790
probably more than any of my fancy expensive knives. And

825
00:51:48.790 --> 00:51:52.430
I consider this fancy and expensive. These come in around 300

826
00:51:52.430 --> 00:51:56.270
bucks I believe at this point. Very, very good ergonomics.

827
00:51:56.270 --> 00:51:59.990
It's the one knife, one of two Knives I'll give a pass or

828
00:51:59.990 --> 00:52:03.710
tip down only. But if you get the SOCOM Bravo made

829
00:52:03.710 --> 00:52:06.710
by Reich Knives you can have it with the clip.

830
00:52:08.470 --> 00:52:10.710
Great knife, aluminum, nice and light,

831
00:52:11.750 --> 00:52:14.310
extremely robust. There are a number of

832
00:52:14.950 --> 00:52:18.230
destruction test videos of this knife online.

833
00:52:18.630 --> 00:52:22.140
Made by by by D.

834
00:52:22.140 --> 00:52:25.900
Ring who works with a gentleman who

835
00:52:25.900 --> 00:52:29.580
works with Microtech and he's just put them through the ringer and they come out

836
00:52:29.580 --> 00:52:32.860
swinging every time. Next up

837
00:52:33.180 --> 00:52:36.860
is a protect and I love protect

838
00:52:36.860 --> 00:52:40.700
knives and and you might decide that a different protac is what

839
00:52:40.700 --> 00:52:44.020
you want. But to me the one that should be in your

840
00:52:44.020 --> 00:52:47.330
collection, in every collection is the Protect

841
00:52:47.330 --> 00:52:51.050
TR3. It's the perfect size and

842
00:52:51.050 --> 00:52:54.890
design and ergonomics and blade design as far

843
00:52:54.890 --> 00:52:58.610
as I'm concerned from them. This one is an automatic

844
00:52:58.610 --> 00:53:02.290
and most of them throughout history are automatics. But now

845
00:53:02.290 --> 00:53:06.130
they have a really great button lock version of

846
00:53:06.130 --> 00:53:09.890
this TR3. This is the SWAT version. So it's all

847
00:53:09.890 --> 00:53:13.270
black. They come with iridium. Some of them come with

848
00:53:13.270 --> 00:53:16.590
iridium dials or buttons. You can get them in fish

849
00:53:16.590 --> 00:53:20.190
scale milling which is really cool. But I like this

850
00:53:20.350 --> 00:53:23.790
sort of plain Jane version of this where you have

851
00:53:24.190 --> 00:53:27.990
these great grooves milled into the

852
00:53:27.990 --> 00:53:31.790
handle and when you reach around like this holding it in the

853
00:53:31.790 --> 00:53:35.310
right hand, it's just great grip. The

854
00:53:35.310 --> 00:53:39.150
fingers sink into those little fullers there and it just

855
00:53:39.350 --> 00:53:41.830
is comfortable and grippy and will just

856
00:53:44.310 --> 00:53:47.950
be comfortable for lots of use. Reverse

857
00:53:47.950 --> 00:53:50.870
grip is nice.3 and

858
00:53:51.030 --> 00:53:54.790
3.4 inch blade. So just about right in terms

859
00:53:54.790 --> 00:53:58.550
of size you've got the standard sort of Emerson style clip

860
00:53:58.550 --> 00:54:02.390
here. Emerson benchmade protect style clip and

861
00:54:02.390 --> 00:54:06.120
then a great firing action. I

862
00:54:06.120 --> 00:54:09.800
have heard that the button lock versions are great too. I just haven't

863
00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:13.600
experienced them. You should have a pro tech and if you get a protect

864
00:54:13.680 --> 00:54:17.480
you should have a TR3. All right. Next up

865
00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:21.320
is slightly more generic and that is slip joints. You should

866
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:24.240
have a slip joint whether it's high end or

867
00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:28.400
more val high value. And I'll show you what I mean by that.

868
00:54:28.720 --> 00:54:32.170
Here we have my two favorite slip joint companies.

869
00:54:33.770 --> 00:54:37.450
Gec, Great Eastern Cutlery. This is my absolute favorite slip

870
00:54:37.450 --> 00:54:40.730
joint. Besides the ones given to me my by my grandfather

871
00:54:41.450 --> 00:54:45.010
in my collection. This is the the Great eastern cutlery number

872
00:54:45.010 --> 00:54:47.930
15. It's just got such incredible

873
00:54:49.290 --> 00:54:52.410
scales. I think the scales are so beautiful. A beautiful

874
00:54:52.410 --> 00:54:56.170
1095 blade steel. This one is set up like a

875
00:54:56.170 --> 00:54:59.700
trapper. So it's got a clip point blade and a

876
00:54:59.700 --> 00:55:03.500
spade blade. That was known as the farmer's boys knife when that

877
00:55:03.500 --> 00:55:07.260
came out or you can get the less expensive farm and

878
00:55:07.260 --> 00:55:11.100
field gecs. So this is a

879
00:55:11.100 --> 00:55:14.860
sod buster. I was talking about the Opinel before. This is the American version of

880
00:55:14.860 --> 00:55:18.420
that kind of a knife, sort of an everyman's working

881
00:55:18.900 --> 00:55:22.700
knife, farmer's knife. So you can get the sod buster or something

882
00:55:22.700 --> 00:55:26.160
like this. They just came out with a new knife in their farm and field

883
00:55:26.160 --> 00:55:29.920
line. And the other version

884
00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:33.280
is of this high end or

885
00:55:34.080 --> 00:55:37.720
high value is Jack Wolf knives. Here is a premium

886
00:55:37.720 --> 00:55:39.760
Jack Wolf knives, Big bro

887
00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:44.320
Barlow Jack here in that beautiful clip point

888
00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:47.920
blade. Or then that sells for. This has

889
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:51.720
bone, a bone handle. This sells for about 300, 350,

890
00:55:51.720 --> 00:55:54.880
something like that. Or you can go to the

891
00:55:55.120 --> 00:55:58.160
Gateway series from Jack Wolf knives which is

892
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:02.480
$70. So you decide pretty much a

893
00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:06.240
very similar in terms of design, this one just

894
00:56:06.240 --> 00:56:09.040
has lesser materials and less packaging

895
00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:14.160
and still it has that classic perfect fit and finish

896
00:56:14.560 --> 00:56:18.240
that Jack Wolf knives has come to be known for.

897
00:56:18.880 --> 00:56:22.400
So every, every collection should have a slip joint knife. And

898
00:56:23.040 --> 00:56:26.640
I, I personally posit that you should have a high end and,

899
00:56:26.720 --> 00:56:30.520
and low end. Not low end, high value or high

900
00:56:30.520 --> 00:56:34.120
end, either way, you need something like this. You

901
00:56:34.120 --> 00:56:37.040
just do. I thought about putting

902
00:56:38.560 --> 00:56:42.160
Victorinox. Great walk and talk. Very satisfying.

903
00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:45.900
I thought about putting Victorinox in this lineup here

904
00:56:46.700 --> 00:56:50.460
as a slip joint, but it is and it is a slip

905
00:56:50.460 --> 00:56:53.940
joint, but that's more of a multi tool. So I'm assuming you have a

906
00:56:53.940 --> 00:56:57.580
Victorinox, but if you don't get a Victorinox too.

907
00:56:58.860 --> 00:57:01.900
Okay, next up, zero tolerance. This,

908
00:57:02.540 --> 00:57:06.060
this covers the zero tolerance base and it covers the

909
00:57:06.060 --> 00:57:09.780
Ernest Emerson base. Because I love

910
00:57:09.780 --> 00:57:13.550
zero tolerance and especially some of their

911
00:57:13.550 --> 00:57:17.190
older knives and this, I feel like they really peaked with this one. I know

912
00:57:17.190 --> 00:57:20.750
they're, they've come back and put out some pretty cool knives since this,

913
00:57:20.910 --> 00:57:24.550
but to me this is probably my favorite zero tolerance. It's

914
00:57:24.550 --> 00:57:27.950
the Ernest Emerson designed 0640.

915
00:57:28.430 --> 00:57:31.550
Buttery, smooth, super robust.

916
00:57:32.110 --> 00:57:35.950
I did swap out the split pea soup

917
00:57:36.110 --> 00:57:39.850
carbon fiber scales for Micarta scales

918
00:57:40.250 --> 00:57:42.970
and I put a deep cherry pocket clip on it.

919
00:57:44.250 --> 00:57:47.970
But just a great, great do all knife. It's kind of

920
00:57:47.970 --> 00:57:51.730
the sort of knife similar to a Sebenza. You can dress it up, you can

921
00:57:51.730 --> 00:57:55.450
carry this, you know, with a, with a, to a nice

922
00:57:55.450 --> 00:57:59.170
occasion or it's equally comfortable out

923
00:57:59.170 --> 00:58:02.810
in the field. Great clip point blade. This is 20cv

924
00:58:02.810 --> 00:58:05.390
blade steel. So it's good to go and

925
00:58:06.270 --> 00:58:09.990
just awesome, awesome action. A great thing about this

926
00:58:09.990 --> 00:58:13.390
is that it's, it's a frame lock, but it's covered with scales

927
00:58:14.190 --> 00:58:17.550
so it's not. I wouldn't call this a liner lock, more of a frame lock.

928
00:58:17.870 --> 00:58:21.270
But what I love about that is you can slow rope, slow roll it

929
00:58:21.270 --> 00:58:24.910
easily without worrying about pushing the lock

930
00:58:24.910 --> 00:58:27.390
bar and the detent ball into the blade.

931
00:58:28.510 --> 00:58:32.100
That's the Ernest Emerson designed ZT Zero

932
00:58:32.100 --> 00:58:35.820
Tolerance 0640. Next up,

933
00:58:35.980 --> 00:58:39.780
every collection should have a cold steel and I

934
00:58:39.780 --> 00:58:43.580
would say a cold steel recon one. This

935
00:58:43.580 --> 00:58:47.100
comes in a micro, a mini, this regular full

936
00:58:47.100 --> 00:58:50.620
size and then you can get the xl. Now

937
00:58:50.700 --> 00:58:54.540
they have the XL back on the market in XHP steel.

938
00:58:55.580 --> 00:58:59.020
This is just a super robust large 4 inch

939
00:58:59.020 --> 00:59:02.280
bladed, pretty thin and light to carry.

940
00:59:02.600 --> 00:59:06.440
Linerless G10 knife. It comes in clip point,

941
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:10.520
drop point and Tanto. I only have the clip

942
00:59:10.520 --> 00:59:13.400
point used to have the tanto. Sadly I gave that away.

943
00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:17.320
This one is an older 1 so AUS

944
00:59:18.040 --> 00:59:21.880
8 blade steel. It had that super cheesy coating

945
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:26.120
that I, I just took it off and discovered a beautiful

946
00:59:27.230 --> 00:59:30.950
stone wash finish underneath. I've

947
00:59:30.950 --> 00:59:34.590
had this one for over 10 years I guess I'd say triad

948
00:59:34.590 --> 00:59:38.430
lock. So it's going to be the strongest lock here, arguably

949
00:59:38.430 --> 00:59:41.230
the strongest lock here and,

950
00:59:42.750 --> 00:59:46.590
and very comfortable in hand with those double finger choils and that

951
00:59:46.590 --> 00:59:49.950
long finger well in the back. Really, really

952
00:59:50.430 --> 00:59:53.800
robust, really really beautiful

953
00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:57.960
and very comfortable in all types

954
00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:01.640
of tasks. Of course if you go up to the Recon 1 XL

955
01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:05.360
with that 5 1/2 inch blade you will have a fully flat

956
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:09.200
ground blade at this point. Not the, not

957
01:00:09.200 --> 01:00:12.520
the hollow grind. All right, last up,

958
01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:16.520
last classic knife here that deserves to be in every

959
01:00:16.520 --> 01:00:19.970
collection is a Demko knife

960
01:00:20.530 --> 01:00:24.370
similar to the Recon one which is a Demko knife made by cold steel.

961
01:00:24.610 --> 01:00:28.210
This is the 8020. Yes. This is an

962
01:00:28.210 --> 01:00:31.570
expensive knife. This is a machine ground

963
01:00:31.650 --> 01:00:34.370
8020 meaning the blade was,

964
01:00:35.250 --> 01:00:39.090
was not beveled by hand. If you get one beveled by hand that's even more

965
01:00:39.090 --> 01:00:42.930
expensive. But this is straight out of their Wampum PA Shop

966
01:00:43.860 --> 01:00:47.620
Demko knives. And on the back Wampum ea.

967
01:00:48.580 --> 01:00:52.420
This features the shark lock. The incredible strong

968
01:00:52.820 --> 01:00:53.780
shark lock

969
01:00:56.820 --> 01:01:00.420
actuated by this shark's fin tab

970
01:01:00.420 --> 01:01:04.100
up here on top. Similar to the FG in terms

971
01:01:04.100 --> 01:01:07.780
of, in terms of how it presents but a

972
01:01:07.780 --> 01:01:11.510
different lock and in the guts. Now if

973
01:01:11.510 --> 01:01:15.350
this is too rich for your blood, I, I bought this for

974
01:01:15.350 --> 01:01:18.990
400 bucks and at the time I was so craving one

975
01:01:18.990 --> 01:01:22.710
that I did it without blinking an eye. And this

976
01:01:22.710 --> 01:01:25.230
was back when I had less money so

977
01:01:26.270 --> 01:01:30.030
I really kind of went out on a limb to get this. And then

978
01:01:30.030 --> 01:01:33.352
later the. The 80.8,

979
01:01:33.628 --> 01:01:36.980
0.5 came out with thinner

980
01:01:36.980 --> 01:01:40.820
handle, shorter blade, and lighter materials.

981
01:01:40.980 --> 01:01:44.700
So way more in reach. So you can

982
01:01:44.700 --> 01:01:48.380
get this in this version, which is harder to find

983
01:01:48.380 --> 01:01:51.780
and more expensive, or you can get it in the now made in Taiwan

984
01:01:51.780 --> 01:01:55.460
80, 20.5 iteration. They're both great.

985
01:01:55.700 --> 01:01:59.340
I have them both and I highly recommend them. You should

986
01:01:59.340 --> 01:02:02.340
have a Shark lock. You should have a Demto knives

987
01:02:02.900 --> 01:02:06.420
knife in your collection. All right,

988
01:02:06.420 --> 01:02:10.020
thank you so much. I hope you don't think that I'm being judgy or

989
01:02:10.020 --> 01:02:13.820
being elitist by saying, you should have this. Of course,

990
01:02:13.820 --> 01:02:17.380
it's all a matter of taste. I'm sure people are saying, what about the PM2?

991
01:02:17.460 --> 01:02:21.260
What about the Griptilian? What about the Roosevelt? What about. You know, there's

992
01:02:21.260 --> 01:02:25.020
so many knives that should be in every collection, but these to me, are the

993
01:02:25.020 --> 01:02:28.820
ones that before you start going off in your own direction

994
01:02:29.210 --> 01:02:33.050
and deciding, you know, that you have a, a thing for

995
01:02:33.050 --> 01:02:36.770
any, any given knife, all of these kind

996
01:02:36.770 --> 01:02:40.530
of hit, strike on. On hit all bases.

997
01:02:40.530 --> 01:02:44.250
What am I trying to say? Fire on all cylinders. So do

998
01:02:44.250 --> 01:02:48.010
check them out. Let me know what you think should be in every

999
01:02:48.010 --> 01:02:51.210
collection. I'd be interested to know what you think I missed here.

1000
01:02:52.250 --> 01:02:55.970
And I'll, I'll talk about. We'll talk about that on Thursday

1001
01:02:55.970 --> 01:02:59.700
night. Knives. All right, Coming up On Sunday, episode 614,

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Jacob, a suite of very good knife company. What a great

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01:03:03.500 --> 01:03:07.220
guy making this amazing or very good knives,

1004
01:03:07.620 --> 01:03:11.420
let's put it that way. Great interview. I really enjoyed that. So be sure

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to check in with the interview

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podcast. All right. For Jim working his magic behind the switcher, I'm Bob

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DeMarco saying until next time, don't take dull for an

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