WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.360 Coming up, the new Fisher Blades McNasty. I get a 2 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:07.160 classic Spyderco that I've been wanting for years and years and 3 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:10.720 years and my most carried folders of 4 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:14.200 summer 2025. I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie 5 00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:14.720 Podcast. 6 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:21.960 Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast, your weekly dose of knife 7 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.680 news and information about knives and knife collecting. Here's your 8 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:27.680 host, Bob the Knife Junkie Demar. 9 00:00:32.060 --> 00:00:34.980 Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week was 10 00:00:34.980 --> 00:00:38.540 from an American father regular on Thursday night Knives, who says, 11 00:00:39.020 --> 00:00:42.820 bob, I'm having a really shit day. Thanks for getting me 12 00:00:42.820 --> 00:00:46.500 away for it from it for an hour. And I got to say, an 13 00:00:46.500 --> 00:00:49.740 American Father. First of all, sorry your day was going so poorly, 14 00:00:50.140 --> 00:00:53.860 but man, that's exactly that puts wind in my 15 00:00:53.860 --> 00:00:57.420 sails. I love knowing that all this knife chat is 16 00:00:57.420 --> 00:01:01.090 reaching people and hitting them where, where 17 00:01:01.090 --> 00:01:04.890 you can just be distracted by it. So thanks for letting me know, 18 00:01:04.890 --> 00:01:08.490 American Father and it's always good to hear from you. Second was from OG Blade 19 00:01:08.490 --> 00:01:12.330 Reviews, who quips, nice collection, Bob. Did you spend out and can't 20 00:01:12.330 --> 00:01:16.090 afford band aids? That was because for a second time 21 00:01:16.090 --> 00:01:19.650 in that week I stabbed myself in a video and bled 22 00:01:19.890 --> 00:01:23.250 right here on our mat at this table. So 23 00:01:23.730 --> 00:01:26.050 I do have some band aids close at hand. 24 00:01:27.310 --> 00:01:31.030 Hopefully I won't need them today. All right, guys, thanks for watching over this 25 00:01:31.030 --> 00:01:34.670 past week and commenting. It's greatly appreciated. More 26 00:01:34.670 --> 00:01:38.390 close up videos to come of more knives that just keep coming 27 00:01:38.390 --> 00:01:42.110 in to keep your eyes peeled for those as well. All right, 28 00:01:42.110 --> 00:01:44.350 that said, let's get to a pocket check 29 00:01:45.710 --> 00:01:47.950 what's in his pocket.? Let's find out. 30 00:01:49.550 --> 00:01:53.350 Here's the knife junkie with his pocket. Check of knives in my front 31 00:01:53.350 --> 00:01:56.990 right pocket today I had the beautiful Demko knives 32 00:01:57.390 --> 00:02:01.110 AD20. And I hadn't carried this one in a short 33 00:02:01.110 --> 00:02:04.510 while. But I met someone on a little trip. We just took a little 34 00:02:04.750 --> 00:02:07.710 family trip to the beach and I met someone in a store there. 35 00:02:08.349 --> 00:02:12.110 Stephen, you know you are a great guy and a nice 36 00:02:12.110 --> 00:02:15.070 dude and I could tell from the pocket clip peeking out of his pocket. 37 00:02:15.870 --> 00:02:19.630 And he was also carrying an Andrew Demko or a 38 00:02:19.630 --> 00:02:23.100 Demko knives 8020. His was a little bit newer than this, 39 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:27.380 more slender in the hand and in 40 00:02:27.380 --> 00:02:29.980 the blade and it had really nice 41 00:02:31.260 --> 00:02:34.900 finger grooves for each finger and it, it fit my hand 42 00:02:34.900 --> 00:02:38.420 perfectly. So it was a really, really nice knife and it definitely 43 00:02:38.420 --> 00:02:42.180 inspired me to carry mine. So I had this in my pocket 44 00:02:42.180 --> 00:02:45.500 today. Great carry though, I gotta say. In light 45 00:02:45.580 --> 00:02:49.380 shorts in the summertime could be a little heavy, so 46 00:02:50.660 --> 00:02:53.940 keep that in mind. All right, next up as 47 00:02:53.940 --> 00:02:57.060 usual per lately I had the 48 00:02:57.780 --> 00:03:01.220 canine Jack from the new steel series from 49 00:03:01.300 --> 00:03:04.900 Jack Wolf knives. This has, this is a mid 50 00:03:04.900 --> 00:03:08.580 tier offering with 154cm blade steel. You got that full 51 00:03:08.580 --> 00:03:12.020 height hollow grind with the machine ground satin and 52 00:03:12.100 --> 00:03:15.860 polished steel, bolsters, liners and in this case 53 00:03:16.380 --> 00:03:19.020 a beautiful yellow jigged bone. 54 00:03:19.900 --> 00:03:23.180 Yellow jig bone covers. Really, really beautiful dye job 55 00:03:23.740 --> 00:03:26.900 on these. I had this one on me today. This is one of the ones 56 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:30.700 that bit me a couple weeks back. Right on 57 00:03:30.700 --> 00:03:34.380 camera. Next up in my waistline and I've been 58 00:03:34.380 --> 00:03:37.980 carrying this the past few days. It's just been working out 59 00:03:37.980 --> 00:03:40.860 great. Is the TKL knives adversary 60 00:03:41.900 --> 00:03:45.470 one of the knives I said that should be in every 61 00:03:45.470 --> 00:03:49.310 collection a couple of weeks back and I said this one or the 62 00:03:49.310 --> 00:03:52.830 combatant. They're on the same platform, same handle, just different 63 00:03:52.830 --> 00:03:55.990 blade shapes. This one always, always edges out 64 00:03:56.550 --> 00:03:59.910 the combatant. For me though, that combatant is an incredibly 65 00:04:00.550 --> 00:04:04.390 useful and what's the word? Multi use 66 00:04:05.590 --> 00:04:08.950 blade shape. So is this worn clip and the one clip just 67 00:04:09.410 --> 00:04:13.010 always captures my imagination it all. It's always 68 00:04:13.090 --> 00:04:16.610 usually a counterpoint as well to the bellied other 69 00:04:16.610 --> 00:04:20.050 bellied blades like the ones I have here that I was carrying. 70 00:04:20.290 --> 00:04:23.970 All right, one more today for emotional support. This one has been hard 71 00:04:23.970 --> 00:04:27.730 to pick out of my pocket though. It's not 72 00:04:27.810 --> 00:04:31.170 really too frequently in my pocket, but you know what I mean. 73 00:04:31.490 --> 00:04:35.290 I have this one with me a lot these days, my backpack and 74 00:04:35.290 --> 00:04:39.120 such. This is the new to me Cold 75 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.960 Steel Mayhem. I realize this has been out for several years now. 76 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:47.000 One of the first releases from GSM and 77 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.600 their in house design team at Cold Steel. 78 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:54.360 And you know I've quipped over the years that this thing is a 79 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:58.120 bit cartoonish in its presentation. It's ham fisted 80 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.840 in its design. It looks like a cartoon knife and all this. 81 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:05.270 But I gotta say I really dig it a lot. 82 00:05:05.670 --> 00:05:09.270 It's got that continuous belly. It. It is definitely 83 00:05:10.310 --> 00:05:14.150 similar to a cutlass. To me you've got that really nice 84 00:05:15.990 --> 00:05:19.510 3D ground spine. I mean I'm sorry, 90 degree 85 00:05:19.750 --> 00:05:23.510 ground spine with those notches in it that work great for. 86 00:05:23.590 --> 00:05:27.350 I've seen other people use barrel rods. I got the 87 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:32.320 snaggletooth MF on there and it's only fits this 88 00:05:32.320 --> 00:05:35.920 knife. It's perfect and does a great job in just 89 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:40.200 opening that, waving it open on the pocket. So this is what 90 00:05:40.200 --> 00:05:43.840 I had on me today. What were you carrying? I had the Cold Steel 91 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:47.600 Mayhem with all of its dangerous fidgetiness. 92 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.840 The Adversary from TKAL Knives. If you like TKAL knives, 93 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:55.780 we have an awesome, awesome coupon code where you save 10%. 94 00:05:56.500 --> 00:06:00.180 It's just, just Knife junkie. 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And the other is Jacob Ginsburg, 166 00:10:23.980 --> 00:10:27.820 a young California knife maker whose work I've 167 00:10:27.820 --> 00:10:31.180 been admiring, well, on Instagram for quite a long time. But 168 00:10:31.740 --> 00:10:35.459 what first sparked my interest in him was a knife I had 169 00:10:35.459 --> 00:10:39.020 on loan from Hero Sticks, I believe it was a couple years back. 170 00:10:39.420 --> 00:10:42.780 Really beautiful clean work. Does Jacob make 171 00:10:43.180 --> 00:10:46.700 And his Instagram is Jacob. Jacob 172 00:10:46.780 --> 00:10:50.300 creates and I always read that as Jake B 173 00:10:50.620 --> 00:10:54.340 creates like his Nast last. His first name was Jake, last name began 174 00:10:54.340 --> 00:10:57.500 with a B. It's Jacob. Jacob Ginsburg. Anyway, this new 175 00:10:57.500 --> 00:11:01.260 collaboration is. There 176 00:11:01.260 --> 00:11:03.820 it is. What a beauty. This thing is 177 00:11:03.980 --> 00:11:07.660 3.14 inches in blade, length of hollow ground. 178 00:11:08.060 --> 00:11:11.900 S90V. We got a modified sheepsfoot or Wharncliffe. 179 00:11:12.400 --> 00:11:16.080 I don't know, you make the call. Really nice 180 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:19.440 swedge to me I would say this is more of a sheep's foot. 181 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.760 Comes in a number of different handle scales of five. Carbon fiber, a 182 00:11:23.760 --> 00:11:27.560 titanium, a linen micarta, a kieranite. 183 00:11:27.560 --> 00:11:31.200 I know that I have the purple one coming and then also a red 184 00:11:31.280 --> 00:11:34.840 abalone which is just insane looking. That 185 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:38.570 Avalon not pictured here is the carbon fiber fiber. 186 00:11:40.010 --> 00:11:43.770 I have the purple one enroute. I'm psych. 187 00:11:44.090 --> 00:11:47.730 It comes with a le leather sheath as per Jack 188 00:11:47.730 --> 00:11:51.170 Wolf Knives fixed blade regular 1.7 189 00:11:51.170 --> 00:11:54.570 ounces for the knife itself. And with the full package 190 00:11:54.730 --> 00:11:58.250 it's 3.5 ounces. This 191 00:11:58.330 --> 00:12:01.890 drops two days from the day we record. We 192 00:12:01.890 --> 00:12:05.450 drop this episode. So the 15th of 193 00:12:05.450 --> 00:12:09.050 August 2025. Beautiful knife. The 194 00:12:09.050 --> 00:12:12.690 JW collab collusion. I don't think I mentioned the name 195 00:12:13.010 --> 00:12:16.530 collusion, but what a beauty. And that handle style 196 00:12:16.690 --> 00:12:20.370 is very typical of Jacob Ginsburg's work. 197 00:12:20.690 --> 00:12:24.490 All right then, next up from artisan cutlery. Now this was a knife 198 00:12:24.490 --> 00:12:28.210 early on in artisans lineup that caught my eye. Never 199 00:12:28.210 --> 00:12:31.660 had one, but I always thought it was cool. And 200 00:12:31.820 --> 00:12:35.380 it's the orthodox. The orthodox is their 201 00:12:35.380 --> 00:12:38.300 straight razor ish offering 202 00:12:38.860 --> 00:12:42.660 folding locking knife. So they've made a few tweaks to 203 00:12:42.660 --> 00:12:46.340 this to make it more like a straight razor. So this is 204 00:12:46.340 --> 00:12:50.100 a 3.5-inch AR RPM9. That's their 205 00:12:50.100 --> 00:12:53.420 sort of budget artisans 206 00:12:53.500 --> 00:12:56.710 budget in house hotter 207 00:12:56.710 --> 00:13:00.270 metallurgy steel offering. This is 208 00:13:00.350 --> 00:13:04.030 now a thinned out blade and hollow ground. Before it was 209 00:13:04.030 --> 00:13:07.630 flat ground, which to me, I mean if you're gonna make something to emulate a 210 00:13:07.630 --> 00:13:11.430 straight razor, you go straight for the hollow grind. So they did that. 211 00:13:11.430 --> 00:13:15.190 They changed the sort of regular arcing style handle. 212 00:13:15.190 --> 00:13:18.670 And by regular I mean it looked similar to a 213 00:13:19.070 --> 00:13:22.670 straight razor. And they sort of angularized it 214 00:13:23.150 --> 00:13:26.910 and turned it into a sort of a modernized gun stock 215 00:13:27.310 --> 00:13:30.030 handle pattern. This one comes in 216 00:13:30.590 --> 00:13:34.350 G10s and that's it. No, 217 00:13:34.350 --> 00:13:38.190 no wood yet. 2.7 ounces and should be 218 00:13:38.190 --> 00:13:41.950 coming real soon. So I'm thinking end of August 2025. 219 00:13:42.190 --> 00:13:45.630 A real nice update on that. You can see the hollow grind. And 220 00:13:46.270 --> 00:13:49.620 yeah, this to me is all of a sudden a way more important Christian knife. 221 00:13:49.620 --> 00:13:52.980 That's the new version of the artisanc cutlery Orthodox. 222 00:13:54.260 --> 00:13:57.700 Next up from Tops Knives. This is a cool one. This is an 223 00:13:57.700 --> 00:14:01.420 axe. So this one is the Tops 224 00:14:01.420 --> 00:14:04.260 Wolf packs packs like Peace 225 00:14:04.820 --> 00:14:08.660 Pax Axe. This one is designed by company CEO 226 00:14:08.660 --> 00:14:11.860 Leo Espinosa who just came out with another 227 00:14:13.060 --> 00:14:16.010 offering. A knife called the Tick. That looks very interesting. 228 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.640 So this one is a small lightweight 10.13 229 00:14:20.640 --> 00:14:24.040 inch action as you can see from the picture here, it's got a 230 00:14:24.040 --> 00:14:27.760 sharpened under, it's got a sharpened beard. So that 231 00:14:27.760 --> 00:14:31.120 part as you round the tip down at the bottom 232 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.760 becomes sharp on the inside for all sorts of grappling 233 00:14:35.760 --> 00:14:39.560 purposes, fighting purposes. I'm guessing. That's the lens. I look through 234 00:14:39.560 --> 00:14:43.220 it. But I mean what else would you use the inside of the a 235 00:14:43.220 --> 00:14:46.900 sharpened beard for? 3, 3 inch blade 236 00:14:46.900 --> 00:14:50.580 from top to bottom there compound ground. So you've 237 00:14:50.580 --> 00:14:54.140 got flat grind, you've got that inner scooping grind 238 00:14:54.620 --> 00:14:57.900 and you've got micarta scales. Pretty simple affair. Very 239 00:14:57.900 --> 00:15:01.500 tops ish with that 1095 blade steel 240 00:15:01.980 --> 00:15:05.700 with the black traction coating. It's pretty attractive looking, I gotta 241 00:15:05.700 --> 00:15:08.780 say. And it comes with a Kydex 242 00:15:09.300 --> 00:15:12.860 sheath out now 20 ounces, so just 243 00:15:12.860 --> 00:15:16.660 a smidgen over a pound. That's 244 00:15:16.660 --> 00:15:20.500 the new tops wolf packs axe. Last up 245 00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:23.540 from Sencut, one of my favorite outfits. I love the 246 00:15:23.620 --> 00:15:27.460 Civivi Sencut and by extension we knife companies. 247 00:15:29.540 --> 00:15:33.260 I don't have enough we in my collection to to truly love it, 248 00:15:33.260 --> 00:15:36.020 but I do have Sen Cuts and Civivis and I do love them. 249 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:40.120 Sencut has a new one out. It's kind of a beautiful and graceful design, I 250 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:43.640 gotta say, called the Skelfin skeleton. It's a 251 00:15:43.640 --> 00:15:47.040 3.3-inch trailing clip point blade. 252 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.840 Kind of an elegant sleek blade. 9Cr 18 253 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.680 mov, which is send cuts main steel. I think all 254 00:15:54.680 --> 00:15:58.360 of my send cuts have that steel. This one has a 255 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.840 thumb stud and a button lock and a. This 256 00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:05.110 in this case a beautiful pink color. And I 257 00:16:05.830 --> 00:16:09.470 am. I used to hate pink and then I had daughters and now I'm just 258 00:16:09.470 --> 00:16:12.630 very choosy about my pink. This one is nice, 259 00:16:13.030 --> 00:16:16.550 almost trending towards a mauve or mauve 260 00:16:16.870 --> 00:16:20.670 ma I guess it is. Comes in black, white 261 00:16:20.670 --> 00:16:24.470 and this mauvy pinky color. A reversible pocket 262 00:16:24.470 --> 00:16:27.510 clip, deep carry loop over pocket clip. Four point or 263 00:16:27.510 --> 00:16:30.880 2.4 ounces. So a beautiful, light, 264 00:16:30.880 --> 00:16:34.560 slender little, little EDC. I could see my wife loving 265 00:16:34.560 --> 00:16:38.400 this one and not the pink one. She's not a pink type, but 266 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:43.160 still she likes the thin and slender knives like this that 267 00:16:43.160 --> 00:16:46.960 fit in her jeans. This will be 268 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:50.800 out end of August 2025. So some really cool 269 00:16:50.800 --> 00:16:54.080 stuff. I can't wait to get my. My 270 00:16:55.400 --> 00:16:58.840 JW collab. I think I missed the boat on that send cut. 271 00:16:59.400 --> 00:17:02.920 Or at least I haven't seen anything from them. They don't send out 272 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.560 every and every new release, but there you go. 273 00:17:06.560 --> 00:17:09.840 Okay. Still to come, we have the state of the collection but before we go 274 00:17:09.840 --> 00:17:13.440 there, I want to remind you we have a newsletter that helps you keep in 275 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.760 touch with us and helps us keep in touch with you. 276 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:21.000 It comes out once a week. Sometimes we miss a week. 277 00:17:21.659 --> 00:17:24.779 Well, let's say once every other week on average 278 00:17:25.179 --> 00:17:28.859 and helps us keep in touch with you also. Another 279 00:17:28.859 --> 00:17:32.499 great way to keep in touch pretty much in real time is on 280 00:17:32.499 --> 00:17:36.299 Thursday night Knives. 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This is a 301 00:18:49.990 --> 00:18:51.870 tribute knife to. 302 00:18:53.550 --> 00:18:56.510 Let's see, the McNasty PK is named to honor James 303 00:18:56.670 --> 00:19:00.350 McNasty McNeese, a US army paratrooper and 304 00:19:00.350 --> 00:19:03.870 leader of the Filthy 13 and a regular but elite 305 00:19:03.870 --> 00:19:07.420 paratroop unit which was instrumental in a number of vital 306 00:19:07.420 --> 00:19:10.900 combat missions during World War II. So a 307 00:19:11.140 --> 00:19:14.740 very, very cool knife with a, with an excellent 308 00:19:15.060 --> 00:19:18.660 and interesting lineage similar to the Beckwith Covert. 309 00:19:18.900 --> 00:19:22.460 There. The Beckwith fs full size in the Beckwith 310 00:19:22.460 --> 00:19:25.940 Covert, their bread and butter knives. Their flagship model 311 00:19:26.260 --> 00:19:30.060 over at Fisher Blades. Based on or 312 00:19:30.060 --> 00:19:33.770 named after Charles Beckwith, the guy who started Delta 313 00:19:33.770 --> 00:19:37.570 Force. Yeah, Delta Force. So named after another 314 00:19:37.650 --> 00:19:41.170 American military hero, the McNasty. A 315 00:19:41.330 --> 00:19:44.930 really awesome little boot knife. This thing, 316 00:19:44.930 --> 00:19:48.610 I mean we call it a boot knife. This is not written in my 317 00:19:48.610 --> 00:19:52.370 boots. This has been in the waistband or in the pocket. This is definitely 318 00:19:52.610 --> 00:19:56.410 an everyday defensive pocket carry. That's how they roll over 319 00:19:56.410 --> 00:19:59.590 there at Fisher Blades. And this is, this 320 00:19:59.590 --> 00:20:03.270 ambidextrous sheath is definitely set up for pocket carry, 321 00:20:03.510 --> 00:20:07.350 though. I have found it really nice in the waistband especially 322 00:20:07.430 --> 00:20:11.030 over this past week when I was away at the 323 00:20:11.030 --> 00:20:14.710 beach. This very slender sheath here, 324 00:20:14.870 --> 00:20:18.670 nicely rounded and everything was very comfortable. I carried 325 00:20:18.670 --> 00:20:22.390 an appendix pretty much exclusively in the 326 00:20:22.390 --> 00:20:26.160 waistband and it was really, really 327 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:29.520 nice. Since I'm talking about the sheath, let me talk about the retention. 328 00:20:29.760 --> 00:20:33.360 Retention is very good on this. Even though there, there 329 00:20:33.360 --> 00:20:36.880 is, you know, it kind of looks loose and open. 330 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:40.639 You've got these notches carved into the front of the 331 00:20:40.639 --> 00:20:43.360 handle that correspond to 332 00:20:44.320 --> 00:20:48.000 tabs in the sheath and they lock in there and 333 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:51.730 that is the main form of keeping it in. So one thing I 334 00:20:51.730 --> 00:20:55.490 did notice, having this pinched between my belt and my 335 00:20:55.490 --> 00:20:59.290 waistband, which you wouldn't, which you don't get in the pocket so much is this 336 00:20:59.290 --> 00:21:03.130 squeezed together so it made the draw more difficult. So 337 00:21:03.130 --> 00:21:06.970 I would just push on the sheath a little bit and it released perfectly. So 338 00:21:06.970 --> 00:21:10.170 really nice retention. I know on a, with a double edged 339 00:21:10.890 --> 00:21:14.610 dagger, you know, EDC dagger, especially when you're, you're carrying 340 00:21:14.610 --> 00:21:18.180 in your pocket close to all the valuables, you know, 341 00:21:18.260 --> 00:21:21.340 you want to make sure it's going to stay in the sheath. So they did 342 00:21:21.340 --> 00:21:24.260 a great job on the sheath. Let's talk about the knife. Perfectly 343 00:21:24.660 --> 00:21:27.692 symmetrical here. You've got a 3.4-inch 344 00:21:27.948 --> 00:21:30.980 Nitro V blade, double edged ground, 345 00:21:31.860 --> 00:21:34.820 25 degree bevels on the, 346 00:21:36.100 --> 00:21:39.820 on the cutting edge there. And you've got nice jumping under these 347 00:21:39.820 --> 00:21:42.580 quillians here. You've got the double guards here, 348 00:21:43.670 --> 00:21:47.510 really nice and grippy. And then at the tail end you've got this 349 00:21:47.590 --> 00:21:50.310 flare out that's great for, 350 00:21:52.150 --> 00:21:55.750 for all sorts of uses for the pommel basically 351 00:21:55.990 --> 00:21:59.550 in reverse grip, tapping it with the thumb works great with these 352 00:21:59.550 --> 00:22:02.630 three angles here, nice platform and a nice 353 00:22:02.790 --> 00:22:06.150 ascent there. But also on drawing it, 354 00:22:06.310 --> 00:22:10.160 it's easy to hook your finger, your pinky or your 355 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:14.000 thumb, the web of your web between your thumb and your forefinger. However you're 356 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:17.440 drawing it, it's really easy to grab it there in that 357 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.720 flared pommel at the jimping. Really, really nice knife. 358 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:25.280 Very classic lines, very 359 00:22:25.280 --> 00:22:28.800 clean. And this is plain lines. 360 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:32.360 I, I hate to use the word plain but in this case it's a 361 00:22:32.360 --> 00:22:35.910 compliment. This is a, a useful tool for a very, 362 00:22:36.630 --> 00:22:39.750 you know, singular purpose, self defense. 363 00:22:40.150 --> 00:22:43.750 And it, there's no extra, there's, everything 364 00:22:43.750 --> 00:22:47.430 is symmetrical. It's, it's perfectly, no matter how you have it 365 00:22:47.750 --> 00:22:50.630 in hand, you know exactly what's going on and where. 366 00:22:51.270 --> 00:22:54.790 And yeah, unlike when I got the 367 00:22:54.790 --> 00:22:58.550 profreco and it was single edged, you know, that One you 368 00:22:58.550 --> 00:23:02.230 have to be very cognizant of where the jimping is so you know 369 00:23:02.230 --> 00:23:06.070 exactly where your edges. This, this thing 370 00:23:06.070 --> 00:23:09.910 is awesome. I'm really looking forward to doing a carry video of 371 00:23:09.910 --> 00:23:13.390 it. I really like carrying this knife. That is the Fisher 372 00:23:13.390 --> 00:23:17.070 Blades McNasty. Next up, speaking of 373 00:23:17.070 --> 00:23:20.830 pocket carry, fixed blade knives, I got this sheath 374 00:23:21.470 --> 00:23:25.310 from Armis Knife and Tool. This is the ambidextrous 375 00:23:25.310 --> 00:23:28.970 pocket carry sheath for their knife called the 376 00:23:29.530 --> 00:23:33.130 mini VSK1. But I saw a 377 00:23:33.290 --> 00:23:36.570 Michael Grasso, the guy behind Armis Knife and Tool, 378 00:23:37.050 --> 00:23:40.570 put it up a video saying that if you carry a Northman, 379 00:23:40.810 --> 00:23:44.650 which I do, I have this amtac Northman and 380 00:23:44.650 --> 00:23:48.290 it comes in its own ambidextrous pocket 381 00:23:48.290 --> 00:23:51.210 sheath, but it's a deep carry pocket sheath and 382 00:23:52.260 --> 00:23:56.100 these, I'm very fond of this style of sheath and this 383 00:23:56.100 --> 00:23:59.860 sort of ambidextrous in the pocket carry sheath 384 00:24:00.020 --> 00:24:03.460 and Yep. So Michael Grasso came out and said 385 00:24:03.620 --> 00:24:07.300 this sheath works perfectly for the Northman. If you want an 386 00:24:07.300 --> 00:24:10.980 option for your Northman, I did and so I bought it 387 00:24:10.980 --> 00:24:14.660 and it is really awesome. Fits 388 00:24:14.660 --> 00:24:17.300 perfectly. So if you like the, 389 00:24:19.250 --> 00:24:22.650 if you like the Northman, I'm guessing you probably like the mini 390 00:24:22.650 --> 00:24:26.370 VSK1. Very similar blade shape 391 00:24:26.530 --> 00:24:30.250 and similar philosophy of handle, though the shape is 392 00:24:30.250 --> 00:24:33.809 different. But really great knife, really great 393 00:24:33.809 --> 00:24:37.530 setup. This sheath is awesome. And it, let me remind you, in 394 00:24:37.530 --> 00:24:41.290 addition to that sheath, they sell this sheath. This 395 00:24:41.290 --> 00:24:44.820 is the universal paring knife sheath. So you 396 00:24:44.820 --> 00:24:48.500 travel with the sheath, you go to a grocery store, wherever you land, 397 00:24:49.220 --> 00:24:53.060 go buy yourself a cheap, cheap paring knife. It'll fit in there. 398 00:24:53.060 --> 00:24:56.860 You carry it around while you're in Tacoma or wherever and then you 399 00:24:56.860 --> 00:25:00.420 ditch the blade before you leave, give it to a homeless guy or something. 400 00:25:02.020 --> 00:25:05.700 So that is the new Armis Knife 401 00:25:05.700 --> 00:25:08.260 and Tool Mini VSK 402 00:25:08.900 --> 00:25:12.480 ambidextrous sheet. It's not new, it's just new new. It's now 403 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:14.760 for purchase without the knife. 404 00:25:16.040 --> 00:25:19.680 Okay, next up. This one is cool. This was just sent to 405 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:23.320 us from Northern North. Northern Knives, Mike 406 00:25:23.320 --> 00:25:27.120 Burton and Three Dog Knife. Three Dog Knife 407 00:25:27.120 --> 00:25:30.800 is the in house brand of Northern knives. And they sent me 408 00:25:30.800 --> 00:25:34.520 this riot and they sent me a second one to give away 409 00:25:34.520 --> 00:25:38.240 to you. So that's going to be three for the September Gentleman 410 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:41.880 junkie night giveaway. But this is a handmade custom 411 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:46.440 just obliterator. And I say that because it's 316 412 00:25:46.520 --> 00:25:49.480 of an inch thick super slab of 413 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:53.520 AEBL here. Very, very comfortable in 414 00:25:53.520 --> 00:25:57.000 hand and I'm sorry, did I say. 415 00:25:57.160 --> 00:25:59.880 Yeah, aebl. And it's got 416 00:26:00.520 --> 00:26:04.200 cerakoted blade. It is a. It is a recurve 417 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:07.720 Tonto. This is a do everything knife. 418 00:26:07.800 --> 00:26:11.640 It's called the Riot. Comes in this beautiful scout 419 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:15.680 style sheath here. It's called 420 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:19.480 the Riot. So to me that, that means urban. But 421 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.840 also I know that three dog knife is all about hunting and 422 00:26:22.840 --> 00:26:26.680 outdoor adventures. They're up there in Anchorage, Alaska. So this 423 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:30.160 is literally a do everything knife of in the 424 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:33.760 fashion of a. The Viking sax, you know what I mean? 425 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.840 Have it on you, you do everything with it. And this 426 00:26:37.840 --> 00:26:41.120 blade shape is amazing. Now they sent one with black 427 00:26:41.280 --> 00:26:45.000 cerakote and black micarta 428 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.720 and that's the one we'll be giving away. Let me see the birth card 429 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:51.600 here. Comes in the form of a dog tag 430 00:26:52.560 --> 00:26:56.170 and I got the steel wrong. Three Dog Knife 431 00:26:56.490 --> 00:26:58.890 Riot. This is 432 00:27:00.330 --> 00:27:04.090 seracoted and it's K1 10 steel. 433 00:27:04.090 --> 00:27:06.490 So K110 analogous to 434 00:27:07.690 --> 00:27:11.450 D2 blade steel. Really really comfortable 435 00:27:11.450 --> 00:27:15.210 in hand. Nice thick handle scales. 436 00:27:15.210 --> 00:27:18.930 This thing was wicked. The Riot. Yep. Comes in 437 00:27:18.930 --> 00:27:22.720 the scout style carry leather sheath as well. Stout and sturdy. 438 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.440 Ready to go. Next up. This one I got 439 00:27:26.760 --> 00:27:30.600 this past weekend. This is the cold 440 00:27:30.600 --> 00:27:34.440 steel urban edge. So I always wanted one of these little 441 00:27:35.080 --> 00:27:38.440 push daggers. It's a two inch double edged blade 442 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:41.880 and it's got a really nice handle 443 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:45.960 whose rubber extends up the shaft so that 444 00:27:46.120 --> 00:27:49.930 the piece that's between your fingers. I, I prefer it 445 00:27:49.930 --> 00:27:53.210 in a. In this grip rather than the 446 00:27:53.210 --> 00:27:56.930 symmetrical grip. But it doesn't hursh your fingers. 447 00:27:57.490 --> 00:28:01.290 It's hollow ground slightly on this side and then on this 448 00:28:01.290 --> 00:28:04.290 side we have those double bevels. Really 449 00:28:06.050 --> 00:28:09.810 profound power. You can get behind a push dagger just 450 00:28:09.810 --> 00:28:13.580 from punching. This one I just loop 451 00:28:13.580 --> 00:28:17.380 the little paracord on it fits right on my belt. Nice and easy, doesn't even 452 00:28:17.380 --> 00:28:21.180 slide around. Great, great little knife. Cold steel, urban 453 00:28:21.180 --> 00:28:24.860 edge. Good one to give for the, for the 454 00:28:24.860 --> 00:28:28.620 purse, you know or the keychain or. I 455 00:28:28.620 --> 00:28:32.300 guess what I'm trying to say is very intuitive knife. I'm not telling you 456 00:28:32.300 --> 00:28:35.940 that you should carry it for self defense but it would be a great one. 457 00:28:36.340 --> 00:28:40.000 Takes very little know how to use and so 458 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:43.800 probably good for women as well. 459 00:28:44.280 --> 00:28:48.000 Horse multiplier as they said. All right, lastly but I'm no, 460 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.600 I'm not a lawyer even though my shirt says I might 461 00:28:51.600 --> 00:28:54.839 be. Let's see today the last one here 462 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:58.840 is the. Is a classic. This is the one that I 463 00:28:58.840 --> 00:29:02.280 first saw a guy who I thought looked cool 464 00:29:02.600 --> 00:29:05.890 carrying way back in the. In the. In the mid-90s 465 00:29:06.210 --> 00:29:10.010 in Philadelphia in a Bike shop. He pulled this out and did a repair 466 00:29:10.010 --> 00:29:13.490 with it. This is the classic stainless steel, 467 00:29:13.810 --> 00:29:17.490 fully serrated Swedge Spyderco police model. 468 00:29:17.810 --> 00:29:21.450 Just an awesome thing. I've been carrying this for about a 469 00:29:21.450 --> 00:29:25.050 week straight now. Or no, a little less than 470 00:29:25.050 --> 00:29:28.850 that, but just really, really loving it. It's thin, it's. 471 00:29:28.850 --> 00:29:32.380 It's a little bit heavy. Made in Seki City, 472 00:29:32.380 --> 00:29:35.980 Japan. It is just fit and finished 473 00:29:36.300 --> 00:29:40.020 perfectly. Just an awesome knife. Classic, 474 00:29:40.020 --> 00:29:43.660 classic EDC 4 1/4 inch 475 00:29:43.660 --> 00:29:47.380 VG10 blade. Hollow ground with the full spidey 476 00:29:47.380 --> 00:29:49.820 edge. I love that swedge up front 477 00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:55.540 and gets nice and thin there for, for penetration. And 478 00:29:55.540 --> 00:29:59.370 then a great shaped handle. Nice and long, thin but 479 00:29:59.610 --> 00:30:03.090 somewhat wide. What a great knife. This will 480 00:30:03.090 --> 00:30:06.170 definitely have been on my most carried 481 00:30:06.490 --> 00:30:09.530 folders list of summer 2025, but I just 482 00:30:10.010 --> 00:30:13.130 haven't carried it enough yet to actually qualify. 483 00:30:13.850 --> 00:30:17.690 But let's get into that before we do. As 484 00:30:17.690 --> 00:30:21.290 usual, Jim has been hard at work and has been creating 485 00:30:21.780 --> 00:30:25.460 merchandise and he's got a new design out here. 486 00:30:25.460 --> 00:30:29.140 Don't worry, I handle sharp humor too. And he's 487 00:30:29.140 --> 00:30:32.340 also been doing comics which are cool knife comics. 488 00:30:32.820 --> 00:30:36.500 He did some in knife notes this week. So go check those 489 00:30:36.500 --> 00:30:40.220 out and go to the knife junkie.com shop and see all the 490 00:30:40.220 --> 00:30:43.780 different things you can get. This and many other designs 491 00:30:43.780 --> 00:30:47.420 on. It is sweet. All right, so let's get to 492 00:30:47.420 --> 00:30:51.130 it. Most carried folders of summer 2025. Of course, 493 00:30:52.250 --> 00:30:55.850 couple of, couple of factors play into it. First of all 494 00:30:55.930 --> 00:30:59.770 is Blade Show. I always 495 00:30:59.770 --> 00:31:03.450 get something that I'm very excited about at Blade show and 496 00:31:03.930 --> 00:31:07.290 past couple of years I've been mostly all about the fixed blade knives. 497 00:31:07.770 --> 00:31:11.610 But I always want to get a fancy titanium boulder and I end 498 00:31:11.610 --> 00:31:15.350 up carrying that one, that's for sure. Another thing that plays into it 499 00:31:15.350 --> 00:31:18.910 is garment weight, not 500 00:31:18.910 --> 00:31:22.270 carry. I'm not wearing as many heavy 501 00:31:22.430 --> 00:31:25.950 garments so the knives get lighter. Anything 502 00:31:25.950 --> 00:31:29.549 else? Oh, I end up going to the pool a lot 503 00:31:29.549 --> 00:31:33.310 and sweating a lot. So these all are good for 504 00:31:33.470 --> 00:31:36.350 food prep pretty much as well as just 505 00:31:36.590 --> 00:31:40.250 edc. All right, first up, the L U D T. The 506 00:31:40.320 --> 00:31:43.880 this one, my microtech lud. This is a 507 00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:47.600 Generation two and it was one of the last ones I found 508 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.320 before Gen 2 went away for good 509 00:31:51.320 --> 00:31:55.120 pretty much. Now they're on Generation three. I'm sure it's 510 00:31:55.120 --> 00:31:58.880 awesome. It just doesn't float my boat the same way this the, 511 00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:02.640 the classic LEDT does. This is what the very 512 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:05.680 first ones look like. Large 513 00:32:05.760 --> 00:32:09.380 Underwater Demolition Team. That's what that stands for. 514 00:32:09.380 --> 00:32:13.020 L U V P And I guess this was made 515 00:32:13.020 --> 00:32:16.620 for seals or people who do underwater 516 00:32:16.620 --> 00:32:20.420 demolition. But it's nice and light with that aluminum handle. It 517 00:32:20.420 --> 00:32:24.220 has a distal taper to it, the whole thing, which is kind of pleasing. 518 00:32:25.340 --> 00:32:29.060 Lightweight with the aluminum handle. Good size at 519 00:32:29.060 --> 00:32:31.980 3.4 inches. M390 blade steel. 520 00:32:33.020 --> 00:32:36.390 I've got the serration, so a great sort of dual all knife, 521 00:32:36.710 --> 00:32:40.470 but also the color plays into it. I did not originally 522 00:32:40.470 --> 00:32:43.270 set out to get a purple L U D T, 523 00:32:44.470 --> 00:32:47.670 but this is what I could find at the time 524 00:32:48.390 --> 00:32:52.150 in this generation two. And I've actually really fallen in love with it. 525 00:32:52.230 --> 00:32:55.510 All the other purple knives I've ever had in my life, I've gotten rid of. 526 00:32:55.830 --> 00:32:59.630 But this color purple is just, I don't know, it really does it for 527 00:32:59.630 --> 00:33:03.320 me. And I guess I've had a lot of lavender anodized 528 00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:07.160 knives in the past. I've just always let them dangle. But this one 529 00:33:07.560 --> 00:33:11.240 is just. This is a perfect summer night, I gotta say. 530 00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:14.760 And perfect in Virginia. Now in Delaware, where you can carry a 531 00:33:14.760 --> 00:33:18.600 switchblade is awesome. Thanks to our friends at Willie Knives. 532 00:33:20.040 --> 00:33:23.880 So L U D T. Definitely here we can see from 533 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:27.480 this camera more of the purple than on the other camera. 534 00:33:29.730 --> 00:33:33.490 All right, next up. Now, this was a blade show acquisition 535 00:33:34.690 --> 00:33:38.410 and I was so thrilled to. Not only that I got there in time to 536 00:33:38.410 --> 00:33:41.850 get this, but the circumstances. Sharif 537 00:33:41.850 --> 00:33:45.530 Manganis gave me this. This is the Aurelia. 538 00:33:45.530 --> 00:33:48.850 This was before it was given to me. This was 539 00:33:49.330 --> 00:33:52.970 the fancy titanium folder. I was going to try and get it 540 00:33:52.970 --> 00:33:56.730 Blade show. So A, I'm happy I made it before they were 541 00:33:56.730 --> 00:33:59.930 all gone. And B, yeah, 542 00:34:00.250 --> 00:34:03.850 it's a special gift. A really, really beautiful 543 00:34:03.850 --> 00:34:07.690 magnacut clip point blade. It's a, it's a long clip 544 00:34:08.090 --> 00:34:11.450 with a center line point making that point a very 545 00:34:11.450 --> 00:34:15.010 utilitarian or, or good for utilitarian 546 00:34:15.010 --> 00:34:18.730 tasks. You've got A, a gentle belly behind it and then a 547 00:34:18.730 --> 00:34:22.550 long, straight cutting surface. It's very, 548 00:34:22.550 --> 00:34:26.230 very sharp. It gets, it's a, it's a flat grind, you know, 549 00:34:26.230 --> 00:34:29.630 saber grind. It gets really thin behind the edge. It is 550 00:34:29.630 --> 00:34:33.390 wickedly sharp. You've got excellent ex. 551 00:34:33.390 --> 00:34:37.150 Excellent thumb jimping here. It's like the perfect texture to 552 00:34:37.150 --> 00:34:40.590 engage and to grip without being too harsh. 553 00:34:41.390 --> 00:34:44.710 Very, very nice step thumb 554 00:34:44.710 --> 00:34:48.560 studs, perfect deployment action. You can also use 555 00:34:48.560 --> 00:34:52.280 the, the front flipper like that. 556 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:56.280 Very nice contoured titanium handles. OEM 557 00:34:56.360 --> 00:35:00.200 on this one is reate and 558 00:35:00.200 --> 00:35:03.760 all that that implies. You've got a really nice looking, sort of 559 00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:07.400 Terzuola esque clip with no Hardware, 560 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:11.040 no visible hardware. That is a nice scoop out which I 561 00:35:11.040 --> 00:35:14.680 love. I, I don't have any knives that have this scoop out 562 00:35:14.680 --> 00:35:18.520 underneath. So it keeps everything a little bit lower profile but you can still 563 00:35:18.520 --> 00:35:22.040 have thick seamed pants. Just 564 00:35:22.200 --> 00:35:25.920 an exceptional, exceptional knife. I love carrying this. It's 565 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:28.920 also light. You can see that it's got a lot of 566 00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:33.080 titanium removed from the inside of that handle slab. 567 00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:36.680 Perfect engagement for disengaging the lock. 568 00:35:37.330 --> 00:35:39.970 Great slow roll. Oftentimes 569 00:35:41.250 --> 00:35:44.690 titanium frame locks don't slow roll, slow 570 00:35:44.690 --> 00:35:48.450 roll well in my opinion. But this one does, 571 00:35:49.010 --> 00:35:50.770 especially in the left hand. But 572 00:35:53.970 --> 00:35:57.810 this one I can slow well sometimes I can slow roll 573 00:35:57.810 --> 00:36:01.530 it when I'm not on camera with my right hand. Just using that 574 00:36:01.530 --> 00:36:05.300 front flipper and my fork. Just an exceptional knife. 575 00:36:05.300 --> 00:36:09.020 This is one to definitely keep your eye on. Sharif Manganis is 576 00:36:09.020 --> 00:36:12.660 a very, very amazing designer. 577 00:36:12.820 --> 00:36:16.660 Great guy and he's got a very promising 578 00:36:16.740 --> 00:36:20.060 future. I think, I think he should get together with 579 00:36:20.060 --> 00:36:23.500 JW Collab and do a collaboration. Speaking of 580 00:36:23.500 --> 00:36:26.180 JW Collab, the Tango, their first 581 00:36:26.500 --> 00:36:29.920 collaboration knife was a big, big 582 00:36:30.160 --> 00:36:33.280 carry. This has been a big time carry this summer. 583 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.440 This has gotten me to break my 3 inch rule. 584 00:36:37.680 --> 00:36:41.240 This is a 3 inch blade. Usually it's 3 1/2 and 585 00:36:41.240 --> 00:36:44.680 above is where I like to be. Or 3.4 at the 586 00:36:44.680 --> 00:36:48.240 minimum. This is a 3 inch blade and man 587 00:36:48.240 --> 00:36:51.120 alive, I love this thing. It's a, 588 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.960 a, a collaboration with Cerberus Blades 589 00:36:57.990 --> 00:37:01.470 logo there. All sorts of snail trails on this blasted 590 00:37:01.470 --> 00:37:05.030 titanium and I like it. 591 00:37:05.030 --> 00:37:07.590 I like snail trails on blasted 592 00:37:08.870 --> 00:37:12.390 shows. It shows a little bit of history. This has that 593 00:37:12.390 --> 00:37:15.270 beautiful radiating pattern coming from 594 00:37:15.990 --> 00:37:19.430 milled from that center point which is the pivot. A 595 00:37:19.430 --> 00:37:23.190 beautiful spanto style blade with that flat, flat front 596 00:37:23.190 --> 00:37:26.870 and a deeply hollow ground. Main portion, 597 00:37:27.430 --> 00:37:30.870 1095 blade steel. I mean 1095 sorry 598 00:37:31.510 --> 00:37:35.350 s. 90v blade, steel, bronzed clip 599 00:37:35.510 --> 00:37:39.230 and backspacer. Also a, you 600 00:37:39.230 --> 00:37:42.790 call it hardware free clip. It's just a beautiful, 601 00:37:42.790 --> 00:37:44.790 beautiful knife. Now this one 602 00:37:46.710 --> 00:37:50.540 also comes mostly in bolster lock versions. 603 00:37:51.180 --> 00:37:54.660 So this was the one titanium 604 00:37:54.660 --> 00:37:58.260 offering from, from this run. Yeah. And that 605 00:37:58.260 --> 00:38:01.820 thing's beautiful. Also a great, 606 00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:04.860 great front flipper. Okay, so that is the JW 607 00:38:04.940 --> 00:38:08.580 Collabs Tango. Next one. This one gets a lot of 608 00:38:08.580 --> 00:38:12.340 summer Play. It's been three years running. Now this is 609 00:38:12.340 --> 00:38:16.070 the UTech E F 610 00:38:16.070 --> 00:38:19.630 D. This is a LionG MA design. Looks a lot like his everyday 611 00:38:19.630 --> 00:38:21.990 field knife. This is 612 00:38:23.750 --> 00:38:27.270 just awesome. Now why does it get a lot of carry in the summer? 613 00:38:27.350 --> 00:38:30.390 This is a big time pool knife for me. We have a 614 00:38:30.630 --> 00:38:34.310 thriving neighborhood pool community and we go there 615 00:38:34.310 --> 00:38:37.670 a lot. And this year maybe a little less. Which is 616 00:38:38.390 --> 00:38:41.890 bittersweet because it's just indicative of the fact that my 617 00:38:42.050 --> 00:38:45.290 girls are growing older and are going off and doing their own thing a little 618 00:38:45.290 --> 00:38:47.650 more. But anyway, I won't go down that. 619 00:38:49.170 --> 00:38:53.010 This is a great everything knife. It's a great food knife, food 620 00:38:53.010 --> 00:38:56.530 prep. We're always cooking at the pool. This is great for that. 621 00:38:56.690 --> 00:38:59.970 This actually edged out my Civivi, 622 00:39:01.570 --> 00:39:05.410 the big Ostap Hill Civivi kitchen folding kitchen knife. 623 00:39:05.810 --> 00:39:09.350 Because it has a point, a centerline point. It's a spear point 624 00:39:09.350 --> 00:39:13.070 blade. So heaven forbid the world starts ending while we're at the 625 00:39:13.070 --> 00:39:16.430 pool. I have a, a knife that will also adequately 626 00:39:16.990 --> 00:39:20.830 perform as a self defense knife. But this is just a 627 00:39:20.830 --> 00:39:24.390 great utility knife. And honest to goodness, I, 628 00:39:24.390 --> 00:39:27.790 I'm not so concerned about it getting stolen. 629 00:39:28.750 --> 00:39:32.510 Not that things get stolen at the pool, but I just wouldn't 630 00:39:33.070 --> 00:39:36.410 leave something expensive on the table and go jumping pool 631 00:39:38.330 --> 00:39:42.050 because you never know. But this one has fit 632 00:39:42.050 --> 00:39:45.450 the bill. I, I'm not worried about it. It's really, really 633 00:39:45.450 --> 00:39:48.890 nicely done. 14C 28 and super thin. 634 00:39:49.450 --> 00:39:53.250 I, I have actually hurt this blade before and kind of got 635 00:39:53.250 --> 00:39:56.610 it back into tree. You can see a slight bit of wobble right around the 636 00:39:56.610 --> 00:40:00.330 edge, right around there. But just a 637 00:40:00.330 --> 00:40:03.200 great utility blade. Orange. It's easy to see. 638 00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:07.520 Everything about this says great summer knife. It's nice and light. 639 00:40:08.160 --> 00:40:11.520 Also, this one only has hardware 640 00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:15.680 or liners on the clip side here. 641 00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:20.160 On the show side there's nothing except right around that. 642 00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:25.120 These standoffs here and up towards the pivot. So very 643 00:40:25.120 --> 00:40:28.780 light. Cool design. Everything about 644 00:40:28.780 --> 00:40:31.740 this knife. I like the Eutectic 645 00:40:31.980 --> 00:40:35.100 efd. Oh no. There's one thing I'm not crazy about. 646 00:40:36.300 --> 00:40:39.980 That jimping could be a little sharper up front, but that's a 647 00:40:39.980 --> 00:40:43.180 minor. Let's see. I can still do it, so 648 00:40:43.979 --> 00:40:47.740 I won't take that as a gun. All right, next up, the Civivi 649 00:40:47.740 --> 00:40:50.540 baby banter. This is The 650 00:40:51.340 --> 00:40:54.700 Baby Banter 2 Touch Grass model. 651 00:40:55.890 --> 00:40:58.530 Hutch grass. So this is 652 00:41:01.170 --> 00:41:04.530 what is up guys. There's the logo there. 653 00:41:06.450 --> 00:41:09.650 Ben Peterson designed this. What is up guys was his 654 00:41:11.010 --> 00:41:14.810 kind of come outline his tagline when he was on the 655 00:41:14.810 --> 00:41:18.610 blade on Blade hq. Anyway, this is 656 00:41:18.610 --> 00:41:22.240 his baby banter design with the clip point which 657 00:41:22.240 --> 00:41:26.040 I really like. I like it better than the spear point baby 658 00:41:26.040 --> 00:41:29.640 banter myself. Very small knife. It's a 659 00:41:29.720 --> 00:41:33.280 sub 2 inch blade here. In terms of cutting 660 00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:36.760 edge, you've got a nice 5050 choil here. 661 00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:41.880 Really, really great action for a 662 00:41:42.200 --> 00:41:45.880 ambidextrous bar lock with such a 663 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:49.650 small blade. I mean that's the crazy thing. The blade is so small 664 00:41:49.970 --> 00:41:53.810 and has basically zero weight, but it falls right 665 00:41:53.810 --> 00:41:57.530 in. So they have it extremely dialed in. Civivi 666 00:41:57.530 --> 00:42:00.610 does. You've got really nicely bronzed 667 00:42:02.610 --> 00:42:06.210 thumb studs here. Excellent jimping. Great engagement on the 668 00:42:06.210 --> 00:42:09.410 jimping. I can get all four fingers on when I'm up in that, 669 00:42:10.050 --> 00:42:13.820 in that choke up position there and then 670 00:42:13.820 --> 00:42:17.660 really nice grass, textured G10. TG 671 00:42:17.740 --> 00:42:21.420 stands for touch grass as I mentioned. So a call to the 672 00:42:21.420 --> 00:42:25.020 outdoors. Call the action, get outside, touch grass, 673 00:42:25.420 --> 00:42:29.140 get a grip. A two layer, two layer G10. You've got 674 00:42:29.140 --> 00:42:32.620 that sort of Indian red core with the, with the hunter 675 00:42:32.620 --> 00:42:36.460 green on the outside. Loop over pocket clip with the, 676 00:42:38.150 --> 00:42:41.830 with the plate cover there. And then this one has a 677 00:42:41.830 --> 00:42:44.630 toothpick on that side 678 00:42:45.910 --> 00:42:49.270 and a tweezers over here. 679 00:42:50.070 --> 00:42:53.710 So right under the, right 680 00:42:53.710 --> 00:42:57.350 under the scales like a Swiss army knife. Nice pocket clip. Everything 681 00:42:57.350 --> 00:43:00.870 about this is great. This has been a back left 682 00:43:00.870 --> 00:43:04.370 pocket carry for two months. I 683 00:43:04.370 --> 00:43:08.090 jacked up the pocket clip as you can see, but kind of bent it 684 00:43:08.090 --> 00:43:11.930 back into shape. Okay, next up. Now 685 00:43:11.930 --> 00:43:14.810 this one started. I started carrying this one 686 00:43:15.610 --> 00:43:19.370 at the beginning of the summer and in the, in the late spring. 687 00:43:19.769 --> 00:43:23.090 And the cool thing about this is it's a knife that I've had for a 688 00:43:23.090 --> 00:43:26.410 while but really never carried much at all. But 689 00:43:27.290 --> 00:43:30.890 Rob Penna of Snaggletooth Tactical and Alien 690 00:43:31.300 --> 00:43:35.140 Scales sent me these beautiful boot 691 00:43:35.140 --> 00:43:38.340 wood scales. And so when 692 00:43:38.820 --> 00:43:41.540 Rob Penna isn't busy making snaggletooth 693 00:43:42.260 --> 00:43:45.860 MFs, the, the pocket snap pocket catch 694 00:43:46.180 --> 00:43:49.820 I was talking about right here for various knives with the 695 00:43:49.820 --> 00:43:53.660 removable thumb studs. He's making beautiful scales for 696 00:43:53.660 --> 00:43:57.380 different handles for different knives. And one of them 697 00:43:57.650 --> 00:44:01.250 is the 4Max Scout. The fit 698 00:44:01.250 --> 00:44:04.770 is perfect. It is of 699 00:44:05.090 --> 00:44:08.930 as if this were custom made for this particular 700 00:44:09.410 --> 00:44:12.890 Formax Scout. So the fit is perfect. The wood is 701 00:44:12.890 --> 00:44:16.650 beautiful. It's nicely chamfered, it's very comfortable and it 702 00:44:16.650 --> 00:44:19.250 just, I don't know, it takes this relatively 703 00:44:20.370 --> 00:44:24.140 generic but super tough and awesome. A useful tool 704 00:44:25.340 --> 00:44:29.020 and makes it special. Got a little bit of a finger 705 00:44:29.020 --> 00:44:32.700 well here as you can see if I turn it on that angle, 706 00:44:33.420 --> 00:44:37.140 everything's rounded really nicely. So it really got me 707 00:44:37.140 --> 00:44:40.540 to carry this somewhat heavy and large knife 708 00:44:41.100 --> 00:44:44.860 quite a bit. It's even not bad in shorts. Now I'm not 709 00:44:44.860 --> 00:44:48.380 sure because I haven't done the measurements, but I feel like the wood 710 00:44:49.750 --> 00:44:53.350 which is counterintuitive might be lighter than the 711 00:44:53.350 --> 00:44:57.070 dense plastic FRN handle that this came 712 00:44:57.070 --> 00:45:00.830 with. Or maybe it's just lighter. Like, he's not heavy. He's 713 00:45:00.830 --> 00:45:03.990 my brother. Super thick scales here, 714 00:45:04.310 --> 00:45:08.150 thick spring. Perfect mount up for the clip. 715 00:45:08.710 --> 00:45:12.150 So I would check out Alien scales. Really 716 00:45:12.150 --> 00:45:15.750 awesome stuff. And of course, snaggle feedback is awesome. 717 00:45:16.870 --> 00:45:20.430 They make pocket catches that fit all cold 718 00:45:20.430 --> 00:45:24.070 steels that don't have the plates, basically, and many 719 00:45:24.070 --> 00:45:27.830 other knives. But this was definitely one of the most 720 00:45:27.990 --> 00:45:31.670 carried knives of summer. 2025. 721 00:45:33.430 --> 00:45:37.270 All right, next up, this was also a blade show acquisition. 722 00:45:40.310 --> 00:45:44.100 Oh, by the way, the coffee website is now fixed. So 723 00:45:44.100 --> 00:45:47.820 if you've been trying to get our coffee, which I highly recommend you 724 00:45:47.820 --> 00:45:51.460 do, you can do that now. Jim just fixed 725 00:45:51.460 --> 00:45:54.900 this. This is the Sting from DC 726 00:45:54.900 --> 00:45:58.660 Blades. I have loved this design ever since 727 00:45:58.660 --> 00:46:02.260 it was announced. And I saw, I believe I saw some 728 00:46:02.580 --> 00:46:06.180 in the process design picks from. From 729 00:46:06.180 --> 00:46:09.550 Justin Carvin of DC Blades. And. And 730 00:46:09.950 --> 00:46:13.710 he came out with this. They came out with this and the Vendetta 731 00:46:13.710 --> 00:46:17.510 around the same time. Made by Meguron, masterfully made 732 00:46:17.510 --> 00:46:21.270 by Miguran. Both really awesome knives. 733 00:46:21.270 --> 00:46:24.750 That other one, the Vendetta, is a pacal. But this one, to me 734 00:46:25.070 --> 00:46:28.510 is just a perfect and beautiful design. 735 00:46:28.750 --> 00:46:32.430 It's very dramatic, but it's not too large. 736 00:46:32.750 --> 00:46:36.280 So it's that sort of upsweep is 737 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:40.800 just perfect for the size. Any larger, you'd have to 738 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:44.480 adjust all these perfect angles. I gotta say, great 739 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:48.120 in reverse grip and perfect 740 00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:52.040 position of that point there. Really, really nice. 741 00:46:52.600 --> 00:46:55.800 You've got a compound ground blade with a swedge so 742 00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:59.600 thinner right here towards the ricasso, like really thin 743 00:46:59.600 --> 00:47:02.790 and hollow ground. And then this portion up here is flat, 744 00:47:03.430 --> 00:47:06.150 flat ground M390 blade steel. 745 00:47:07.350 --> 00:47:11.030 Really well worked titanium. It's knurled on 746 00:47:11.030 --> 00:47:13.990 all the surfaces that aren't inlaid with that really cool 747 00:47:17.190 --> 00:47:20.950 composite material. You've got the DC 748 00:47:20.950 --> 00:47:24.710 Blades sculpted clip. You see this clip show up on a 749 00:47:24.710 --> 00:47:28.240 bunch of their designs. This I love because it's a great 750 00:47:28.240 --> 00:47:30.960 flipper. But also under that, 751 00:47:32.560 --> 00:47:36.000 under that thumb, thumb 752 00:47:36.160 --> 00:47:39.760 rest there, you've got a great wave feature. Just a 753 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:43.480 beautiful knife. Carry this one a lot. Nice and light. Fits in 754 00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:46.480 the shorts, pockets and everything. It's nice and 755 00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:49.280 compact, but also it's a statement. 756 00:47:51.120 --> 00:47:54.560 All right, next up, because I did so much driving, we did a number of 757 00:47:54.560 --> 00:47:57.990 road trips this summer. And I just love this knife. So I find myself 758 00:47:58.220 --> 00:48:00.700 carrying it a lot still after 759 00:48:01.900 --> 00:48:05.100 12 years of ownership. This is the 760 00:48:05.340 --> 00:48:09.140 Microtech Socom Elite. The old 761 00:48:09.140 --> 00:48:12.620 style Tanto blade. One of my favorite all time 762 00:48:12.620 --> 00:48:16.140 tantos. There s 35vn. You got the aluminum 763 00:48:16.140 --> 00:48:19.900 handle, nice and light. I mean, it's been faking me. Want to buy a new 764 00:48:19.900 --> 00:48:22.620 one of these? Why? I don't know. Why not? 765 00:48:24.490 --> 00:48:28.290 I guess because they have a different grip and a different blade design. I 766 00:48:28.290 --> 00:48:32.130 would like to get the clip point. But anyway, this one 767 00:48:32.130 --> 00:48:35.610 got a lot of Perry. I love it. Starting to get 768 00:48:35.610 --> 00:48:38.810 genuine wear on some of the corners. 769 00:48:41.370 --> 00:48:45.050 And this thing has cut everything, everything 770 00:48:45.050 --> 00:48:47.770 from rope to pancakes to waffles, 771 00:48:49.290 --> 00:48:53.060 St steak. A lot of food. It's cut a lot of food. Probably more food 772 00:48:53.060 --> 00:48:56.340 than. Than other stuff. But bungee cords, it's cut. 773 00:48:58.580 --> 00:49:02.220 I think this may have cut wire, something with a wire in it. But I 774 00:49:02.220 --> 00:49:05.940 can't remember if it's this or something else. Here 775 00:49:05.940 --> 00:49:09.380 we've got a window punch. 776 00:49:10.100 --> 00:49:13.900 So this one is the first in in the collection. Carbon fiber, 777 00:49:13.900 --> 00:49:17.720 S35EN bearings on 778 00:49:17.720 --> 00:49:20.880 the pivots and glass breaker. 779 00:49:21.680 --> 00:49:25.480 Love this knife. Nice and big. It will always be in 780 00:49:25.480 --> 00:49:29.320 my collection. Always one of my favorites. All right, now 781 00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:32.520 this one I've been excited about ever since it was announced and we talked about 782 00:49:32.520 --> 00:49:36.360 it here on the show. But I finally got off my duff and 783 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.080 bought one. This is the Ray Laconico designed concept 784 00:49:40.080 --> 00:49:42.920 bison. Just a big, 785 00:49:43.240 --> 00:49:46.960 beautiful bowie holder. I love this thing. It. 786 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:50.680 It's also. I love the way it looks. I love 787 00:49:50.680 --> 00:49:54.480 everything about it. I love how it functions. But I also appreciate 788 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:58.280 that it's a Ray Laconico out of his wheelhouse. This is not 789 00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:02.200 one that I would necessarily call out as a 790 00:50:02.600 --> 00:50:06.280 Ray Laconico design, but it's a very, very smart design 791 00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:09.860 for a pocket bowie. Got some interesting features. And 792 00:50:10.820 --> 00:50:14.420 I'll start with the handle. The handle is actually 793 00:50:14.500 --> 00:50:18.060 kind of a modernized gun stock handle. 794 00:50:18.060 --> 00:50:21.500 Again, the gun stock with the double groove here for the front 795 00:50:21.500 --> 00:50:25.300 fingers and then the longer platform up here for 796 00:50:25.300 --> 00:50:28.740 the rest of the hand. Sort of emulating a gun 797 00:50:28.740 --> 00:50:32.580 stock, an old lever action gun stock, but, 798 00:50:32.580 --> 00:50:36.160 you know, stylized with the curves and everything. This one has 799 00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:40.320 a really nice finger guard, comfortable to put your thumb up 800 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:44.400 against. And a quill, sort of a quillian 801 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:48.000 effect down on the bottom too, in case you have to thrust 802 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:51.720 this knife. And the. The blade here 803 00:50:51.720 --> 00:50:55.280 is a S35VN. It's four and a quarter 804 00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:57.120 inches. So another big knife 805 00:51:00.090 --> 00:51:03.530 and a perfectly done and quite thin 806 00:51:03.850 --> 00:51:07.130 and sharp bowie blade. Let me show you just 807 00:51:07.450 --> 00:51:11.250 as an example, here is another 4 inch blade, the 808 00:51:11.250 --> 00:51:14.850 4 max. So that goes to show you how 809 00:51:14.850 --> 00:51:18.650 big the concept bison is. But 810 00:51:18.650 --> 00:51:22.290 it's Obviously more slender and less 811 00:51:22.290 --> 00:51:25.930 beefy than, than this knife, but on overall size, 812 00:51:26.350 --> 00:51:30.190 pretty big. But they do the, they do a good job of lightening it 813 00:51:30.350 --> 00:51:33.470 with lightening out the titanium slabs 814 00:51:34.030 --> 00:51:37.310 by milling patterns out in there. 815 00:51:38.030 --> 00:51:41.550 And just a really compelling knife. I love it. I love the action, 816 00:51:41.710 --> 00:51:43.630 I love the way it looks. 817 00:51:45.950 --> 00:51:49.710 And if I ever needed to pull out a fancy titanium 818 00:51:49.710 --> 00:51:53.290 knife to duel with, this would be a, a fine 819 00:51:53.290 --> 00:51:56.930 choice. All right, last up, and this one 820 00:51:56.930 --> 00:52:00.250 came right about the same time as that Spyson 821 00:52:00.730 --> 00:52:03.290 is the North Mountain Blade 822 00:52:04.010 --> 00:52:07.210 bbmn. This is designed by Dwayne Dwyer, 823 00:52:07.770 --> 00:52:11.450 the guy that started Strider with Mick 824 00:52:11.450 --> 00:52:15.130 Strider. So a lot of his design influence in those 825 00:52:15.130 --> 00:52:17.690 Strider designs. This one is 826 00:52:20.070 --> 00:52:23.870 a really cool production version of a model of a custom model 827 00:52:23.870 --> 00:52:27.510 that makes. And it is really, 828 00:52:27.510 --> 00:52:30.470 really cool. You've got strider 829 00:52:31.190 --> 00:52:35.030 sort of effect all day long in that portion, but 830 00:52:35.030 --> 00:52:38.390 actually the whole damn thing looks very stridery. 831 00:52:38.790 --> 00:52:41.110 I, I would say that the handle is a little different 832 00:52:42.470 --> 00:52:46.190 than a regular like SMF or sng, 833 00:52:46.430 --> 00:52:50.270 but it's based more on a Dwayne Dwyer 834 00:52:50.270 --> 00:52:52.990 custom where he changes up the handle. 835 00:52:53.870 --> 00:52:57.430 So a really beautiful tanto blade here. Drop point 836 00:52:57.430 --> 00:53:00.910 tanto with a centerline point, if not even a little lower. 837 00:53:01.230 --> 00:53:04.510 And you've got that SLD magic. So there's a hard, 838 00:53:05.070 --> 00:53:08.790 cool steel in the center jacketed by two softer 839 00:53:08.790 --> 00:53:12.290 steels. And you can see that Amon line where the steels come together 840 00:53:13.010 --> 00:53:16.530 on that flat ground 841 00:53:16.770 --> 00:53:20.450 bevel there. Super sharp, super acute. 842 00:53:20.850 --> 00:53:24.690 Great ergonomics, as you would expect from a strider 843 00:53:25.090 --> 00:53:28.890 and, but better, I think less blocky because of 844 00:53:28.890 --> 00:53:32.650 this swoop here on the lower portion. I do 845 00:53:32.650 --> 00:53:35.970 love all this milling. That jimping is functional and comfortable. 846 00:53:36.780 --> 00:53:40.380 The blade shape is just so exciting to me. I always wanted a 847 00:53:40.940 --> 00:53:44.460 tanto strider and 848 00:53:44.540 --> 00:53:48.300 this is just butter. Buttery, buttery smooth 849 00:53:48.300 --> 00:53:50.860 on washers. You can see those big 850 00:53:51.500 --> 00:53:55.300 bronze washers there and nice lockup. Thick 851 00:53:55.300 --> 00:53:59.020 slabs of titanium. No weight release 852 00:53:59.100 --> 00:54:02.950 in there, so it gives it a super solid feel. I 853 00:54:02.950 --> 00:54:06.510 am very much in love with this knife and all the knives that have been 854 00:54:06.510 --> 00:54:09.630 in this list. And as I mentioned before, I 855 00:54:09.630 --> 00:54:13.350 suspect that this police model is going 856 00:54:13.350 --> 00:54:17.190 to be right up there in the most carried to close 857 00:54:17.190 --> 00:54:20.190 out the summer. Though I do have a birthday coming up. 858 00:54:20.990 --> 00:54:24.550 I, I have to. I'm sure I'll get something there 859 00:54:24.550 --> 00:54:27.630 too, but this police will join that list. 860 00:54:28.450 --> 00:54:32.050 All right, thank you for joining me on this 861 00:54:32.050 --> 00:54:35.690 version this episode of the Knife Junkie. 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