Coming up, the new Fisher Blades McNasty. I get a
classic Spyderco that I've been wanting for years and years and
years and my most carried folders of
summer 2025. I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie
Podcast.
Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast, your weekly dose of knife
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host, Bob the Knife Junkie Demar.
Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week was
from an American father regular on Thursday night Knives, who says,
bob, I'm having a really shit day. Thanks for getting me
away for it from it for an hour. And I got to say, an
American Father. First of all, sorry your day was going so poorly,
but man, that's exactly that puts wind in my
sails. I love knowing that all this knife chat is
reaching people and hitting them where, where
you can just be distracted by it. So thanks for letting me know,
American Father and it's always good to hear from you. Second was from OG Blade
Reviews, who quips, nice collection, Bob. Did you spend out and can't
afford band aids? That was because for a second time
in that week I stabbed myself in a video and bled
right here on our mat at this table. So
I do have some band aids close at hand.
Hopefully I won't need them today. All right, guys, thanks for watching over this
past week and commenting. It's greatly appreciated. More
close up videos to come of more knives that just keep coming
in to keep your eyes peeled for those as well. All right,
that said, let's get to a pocket check
what's in his pocket.? Let's find out.
Here's the knife junkie with his pocket. Check of knives in my front
right pocket today I had the beautiful Demko knives
AD20. And I hadn't carried this one in a short
while. But I met someone on a little trip. We just took a little
family trip to the beach and I met someone in a store there.
Stephen, you know you are a great guy and a nice
dude and I could tell from the pocket clip peeking out of his pocket.
And he was also carrying an Andrew Demko or a
Demko knives 8020. His was a little bit newer than this,
more slender in the hand and in
the blade and it had really nice
finger grooves for each finger and it, it fit my hand
perfectly. So it was a really, really nice knife and it definitely
inspired me to carry mine. So I had this in my pocket
today. Great carry though, I gotta say. In light
shorts in the summertime could be a little heavy, so
keep that in mind. All right, next up as
usual per lately I had the
canine Jack from the new steel series from
Jack Wolf knives. This has, this is a mid
tier offering with 154cm blade steel. You got that full
height hollow grind with the machine ground satin and
polished steel, bolsters, liners and in this case
a beautiful yellow jigged bone.
Yellow jig bone covers. Really, really beautiful dye job
on these. I had this one on me today. This is one of the ones
that bit me a couple weeks back. Right on
camera. Next up in my waistline and I've been
carrying this the past few days. It's just been working out
great. Is the TKL knives adversary
one of the knives I said that should be in every
collection a couple of weeks back and I said this one or the
combatant. They're on the same platform, same handle, just different
blade shapes. This one always, always edges out
the combatant. For me though, that combatant is an incredibly
useful and what's the word? Multi use
blade shape. So is this worn clip and the one clip just
always captures my imagination it all. It's always
usually a counterpoint as well to the bellied other
bellied blades like the ones I have here that I was carrying.
All right, one more today for emotional support. This one has been hard
to pick out of my pocket though. It's not
really too frequently in my pocket, but you know what I mean.
I have this one with me a lot these days, my backpack and
such. This is the new to me Cold
Steel Mayhem. I realize this has been out for several years now.
One of the first releases from GSM and
their in house design team at Cold Steel.
And you know I've quipped over the years that this thing is a
bit cartoonish in its presentation. It's ham fisted
in its design. It looks like a cartoon knife and all this.
But I gotta say I really dig it a lot.
It's got that continuous belly. It. It is definitely
similar to a cutlass. To me you've got that really nice
3D ground spine. I mean I'm sorry, 90 degree
ground spine with those notches in it that work great for.
I've seen other people use barrel rods. I got the
snaggletooth MF on there and it's only fits this
knife. It's perfect and does a great job in just
opening that, waving it open on the pocket. So this is what
I had on me today. What were you carrying? I had the Cold Steel
Mayhem with all of its dangerous fidgetiness.
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K9 Jack from Jack Wolf Knives and the beautiful
Demko 8020. Let me know what you were carrying. Drop it in the
comments below. Always love to hear what you guys have on you.
That was interesting to me. All right, next up, I want to show
you what you stand to win in August
2025. Gentleman junkie knife giveaway. This
is the Edgy American bowie knife. Shane Gables,
the Edgy American and his new knife
outfit. He sent this to me and this thing is a beauty and
lots of greatness to this because it is a
bowie knife, a clip point blade and it's a, it's the kind of blade
that Shane explicitly dislikes and he's
done an awesome job here. I really like the look of this one. If this
were mine, as I've said a couple of times, I'd probably make a Kydex sheath
for it because it's the perfect carry size with a full four finger
grip, but pretty short handle, rounded so it's not going
to stab too much into that spare tire you've been carrying ever
since your wedding day. And this one comes with a
1931 leathers leather sheath.
Beautiful, beautiful job. If you join us on Thursday Night
Knives, you probably recognize that logo, that Frankenstein
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Junkie with the Knife Life news. The first one in Knife Life
News is an exciting one. I know I have one on the way to me.
I can't wait to check it out. This is from two people I admire
a lot in the knife world. One of them, of course, is Ben
Belkin of Jack Wolf Knives. And the other is Jacob Ginsburg,
a young California knife maker whose work I've
been admiring, well, on Instagram for quite a long time. But
what first sparked my interest in him was a knife I had
on loan from Hero Sticks, I believe it was a couple years back.
Really beautiful clean work. Does Jacob make
And his Instagram is Jacob. Jacob
creates and I always read that as Jake B
creates like his Nast last. His first name was Jake, last name began
with a B. It's Jacob. Jacob Ginsburg. Anyway, this new
collaboration is. There
it is. What a beauty. This thing is
3.14 inches in blade, length of hollow ground.
S90V. We got a modified sheepsfoot or Wharncliffe.
I don't know, you make the call. Really nice
swedge to me I would say this is more of a sheep's foot.
Comes in a number of different handle scales of five. Carbon fiber, a
titanium, a linen micarta, a kieranite.
I know that I have the purple one coming and then also a red
abalone which is just insane looking. That
Avalon not pictured here is the carbon fiber fiber.
I have the purple one enroute. I'm psych.
It comes with a le leather sheath as per Jack
Wolf Knives fixed blade regular 1.7
ounces for the knife itself. And with the full package
it's 3.5 ounces. This
drops two days from the day we record. We
drop this episode. So the 15th of
August 2025. Beautiful knife. The
JW collab collusion. I don't think I mentioned the name
collusion, but what a beauty. And that handle style
is very typical of Jacob Ginsburg's work.
All right then, next up from artisan cutlery. Now this was a knife
early on in artisans lineup that caught my eye. Never
had one, but I always thought it was cool. And
it's the orthodox. The orthodox is their
straight razor ish offering
folding locking knife. So they've made a few tweaks to
this to make it more like a straight razor. So this is
a 3.5-inch AR RPM9. That's their
sort of budget artisans
budget in house hotter
metallurgy steel offering. This is
now a thinned out blade and hollow ground. Before it was
flat ground, which to me, I mean if you're gonna make something to emulate a
straight razor, you go straight for the hollow grind. So they did that.
They changed the sort of regular arcing style handle.
And by regular I mean it looked similar to a
straight razor. And they sort of angularized it
and turned it into a sort of a modernized gun stock
handle pattern. This one comes in
G10s and that's it. No,
no wood yet. 2.7 ounces and should be
coming real soon. So I'm thinking end of August 2025.
A real nice update on that. You can see the hollow grind. And
yeah, this to me is all of a sudden a way more important Christian knife.
That's the new version of the artisanc cutlery Orthodox.
Next up from Tops Knives. This is a cool one. This is an
axe. So this one is the Tops
Wolf packs packs like Peace
Pax Axe. This one is designed by company CEO
Leo Espinosa who just came out with another
offering. A knife called the Tick. That looks very interesting.
So this one is a small lightweight 10.13
inch action as you can see from the picture here, it's got a
sharpened under, it's got a sharpened beard. So that
part as you round the tip down at the bottom
becomes sharp on the inside for all sorts of grappling
purposes, fighting purposes. I'm guessing. That's the lens. I look through
it. But I mean what else would you use the inside of the a
sharpened beard for? 3, 3 inch blade
from top to bottom there compound ground. So you've
got flat grind, you've got that inner scooping grind
and you've got micarta scales. Pretty simple affair. Very
tops ish with that 1095 blade steel
with the black traction coating. It's pretty attractive looking, I gotta
say. And it comes with a Kydex
sheath out now 20 ounces, so just
a smidgen over a pound. That's
the new tops wolf packs axe. Last up
from Sencut, one of my favorite outfits. I love the
Civivi Sencut and by extension we knife companies.
I don't have enough we in my collection to to truly love it,
but I do have Sen Cuts and Civivis and I do love them.
Sencut has a new one out. It's kind of a beautiful and graceful design, I
gotta say, called the Skelfin skeleton. It's a
3.3-inch trailing clip point blade.
Kind of an elegant sleek blade. 9Cr 18
mov, which is send cuts main steel. I think all
of my send cuts have that steel. This one has a
thumb stud and a button lock and a. This
in this case a beautiful pink color. And I
am. I used to hate pink and then I had daughters and now I'm just
very choosy about my pink. This one is nice,
almost trending towards a mauve or mauve
ma I guess it is. Comes in black, white
and this mauvy pinky color. A reversible pocket
clip, deep carry loop over pocket clip. Four point or
2.4 ounces. So a beautiful, light,
slender little, little EDC. I could see my wife loving
this one and not the pink one. She's not a pink type, but
still she likes the thin and slender knives like this that
fit in her jeans. This will be
out end of August 2025. So some really cool
stuff. I can't wait to get my. My
JW collab. I think I missed the boat on that send cut.
Or at least I haven't seen anything from them. They don't send out
every and every new release, but there you go.
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All right, first up, in the state of the collection, this beauty.
This is the new one from Fisher Blade. This is the
Fisher Blades McNasty. And
it is McNasty. This is a
tribute knife to.
Let's see, the McNasty PK is named to honor James
McNasty McNeese, a US army paratrooper and
leader of the Filthy 13 and a regular but elite
paratroop unit which was instrumental in a number of vital
combat missions during World War II. So a
very, very cool knife with a, with an excellent
and interesting lineage similar to the Beckwith Covert.
There. The Beckwith fs full size in the Beckwith
Covert, their bread and butter knives. Their flagship model
over at Fisher Blades. Based on or
named after Charles Beckwith, the guy who started Delta
Force. Yeah, Delta Force. So named after another
American military hero, the McNasty. A
really awesome little boot knife. This thing,
I mean we call it a boot knife. This is not written in my
boots. This has been in the waistband or in the pocket. This is definitely
an everyday defensive pocket carry. That's how they roll over
there at Fisher Blades. And this is, this
ambidextrous sheath is definitely set up for pocket carry,
though. I have found it really nice in the waistband especially
over this past week when I was away at the
beach. This very slender sheath here,
nicely rounded and everything was very comfortable. I carried
an appendix pretty much exclusively in the
waistband and it was really, really
nice. Since I'm talking about the sheath, let me talk about the retention.
Retention is very good on this. Even though there, there
is, you know, it kind of looks loose and open.
You've got these notches carved into the front of the
handle that correspond to
tabs in the sheath and they lock in there and
that is the main form of keeping it in. So one thing I
did notice, having this pinched between my belt and my
waistband, which you wouldn't, which you don't get in the pocket so much is this
squeezed together so it made the draw more difficult. So
I would just push on the sheath a little bit and it released perfectly. So
really nice retention. I know on a, with a double edged
dagger, you know, EDC dagger, especially when you're, you're carrying
in your pocket close to all the valuables, you know,
you want to make sure it's going to stay in the sheath. So they did
a great job on the sheath. Let's talk about the knife. Perfectly
symmetrical here. You've got a 3.4-inch
Nitro V blade, double edged ground,
25 degree bevels on the,
on the cutting edge there. And you've got nice jumping under these
quillians here. You've got the double guards here,
really nice and grippy. And then at the tail end you've got this
flare out that's great for,
for all sorts of uses for the pommel basically
in reverse grip, tapping it with the thumb works great with these
three angles here, nice platform and a nice
ascent there. But also on drawing it,
it's easy to hook your finger, your pinky or your
thumb, the web of your web between your thumb and your forefinger. However you're
drawing it, it's really easy to grab it there in that
flared pommel at the jimping. Really, really nice knife.
Very classic lines, very
clean. And this is plain lines.
I, I hate to use the word plain but in this case it's a
compliment. This is a, a useful tool for a very,
you know, singular purpose, self defense.
And it, there's no extra, there's, everything
is symmetrical. It's, it's perfectly, no matter how you have it
in hand, you know exactly what's going on and where.
And yeah, unlike when I got the
profreco and it was single edged, you know, that One you
have to be very cognizant of where the jimping is so you know
exactly where your edges. This, this thing
is awesome. I'm really looking forward to doing a carry video of
it. I really like carrying this knife. That is the Fisher
Blades McNasty. Next up, speaking of
pocket carry, fixed blade knives, I got this sheath
from Armis Knife and Tool. This is the ambidextrous
pocket carry sheath for their knife called the
mini VSK1. But I saw a
Michael Grasso, the guy behind Armis Knife and Tool,
put it up a video saying that if you carry a Northman,
which I do, I have this amtac Northman and
it comes in its own ambidextrous pocket
sheath, but it's a deep carry pocket sheath and
these, I'm very fond of this style of sheath and this
sort of ambidextrous in the pocket carry sheath
and Yep. So Michael Grasso came out and said
this sheath works perfectly for the Northman. If you want an
option for your Northman, I did and so I bought it
and it is really awesome. Fits
perfectly. So if you like the,
if you like the Northman, I'm guessing you probably like the mini
VSK1. Very similar blade shape
and similar philosophy of handle, though the shape is
different. But really great knife, really great
setup. This sheath is awesome. And it, let me remind you, in
addition to that sheath, they sell this sheath. This
is the universal paring knife sheath. So you
travel with the sheath, you go to a grocery store, wherever you land,
go buy yourself a cheap, cheap paring knife. It'll fit in there.
You carry it around while you're in Tacoma or wherever and then you
ditch the blade before you leave, give it to a homeless guy or something.
So that is the new Armis Knife
and Tool Mini VSK
ambidextrous sheet. It's not new, it's just new new. It's now
for purchase without the knife.
Okay, next up. This one is cool. This was just sent to
us from Northern North. Northern Knives, Mike
Burton and Three Dog Knife. Three Dog Knife
is the in house brand of Northern knives. And they sent me
this riot and they sent me a second one to give away
to you. So that's going to be three for the September Gentleman
junkie night giveaway. But this is a handmade custom
just obliterator. And I say that because it's 316
of an inch thick super slab of
AEBL here. Very, very comfortable in
hand and I'm sorry, did I say.
Yeah, aebl. And it's got
cerakoted blade. It is a. It is a recurve
Tonto. This is a do everything knife.
It's called the Riot. Comes in this beautiful scout
style sheath here. It's called
the Riot. So to me that, that means urban. But
also I know that three dog knife is all about hunting and
outdoor adventures. They're up there in Anchorage, Alaska. So this
is literally a do everything knife of in the
fashion of a. The Viking sax, you know what I mean?
Have it on you, you do everything with it. And this
blade shape is amazing. Now they sent one with black
cerakote and black micarta
and that's the one we'll be giving away. Let me see the birth card
here. Comes in the form of a dog tag
and I got the steel wrong. Three Dog Knife
Riot. This is
seracoted and it's K1 10 steel.
So K110 analogous to
D2 blade steel. Really really comfortable
in hand. Nice thick handle scales.
This thing was wicked. The Riot. Yep. Comes in
the scout style carry leather sheath as well. Stout and sturdy.
Ready to go. Next up. This one I got
this past weekend. This is the cold
steel urban edge. So I always wanted one of these little
push daggers. It's a two inch double edged blade
and it's got a really nice handle
whose rubber extends up the shaft so that
the piece that's between your fingers. I, I prefer it
in a. In this grip rather than the
symmetrical grip. But it doesn't hursh your fingers.
It's hollow ground slightly on this side and then on this
side we have those double bevels. Really
profound power. You can get behind a push dagger just
from punching. This one I just loop
the little paracord on it fits right on my belt. Nice and easy, doesn't even
slide around. Great, great little knife. Cold steel, urban
edge. Good one to give for the, for the
purse, you know or the keychain or. I
guess what I'm trying to say is very intuitive knife. I'm not telling you
that you should carry it for self defense but it would be a great one.
Takes very little know how to use and so
probably good for women as well.
Horse multiplier as they said. All right, lastly but I'm no,
I'm not a lawyer even though my shirt says I might
be. Let's see today the last one here
is the. Is a classic. This is the one that I
first saw a guy who I thought looked cool
carrying way back in the. In the. In the mid-90s
in Philadelphia in a Bike shop. He pulled this out and did a repair
with it. This is the classic stainless steel,
fully serrated Swedge Spyderco police model.
Just an awesome thing. I've been carrying this for about a
week straight now. Or no, a little less than
that, but just really, really loving it. It's thin, it's.
It's a little bit heavy. Made in Seki City,
Japan. It is just fit and finished
perfectly. Just an awesome knife. Classic,
classic EDC 4 1/4 inch
VG10 blade. Hollow ground with the full spidey
edge. I love that swedge up front
and gets nice and thin there for, for penetration. And
then a great shaped handle. Nice and long, thin but
somewhat wide. What a great knife. This will
definitely have been on my most carried
folders list of summer 2025, but I just
haven't carried it enough yet to actually qualify.
But let's get into that before we do. As
usual, Jim has been hard at work and has been creating
merchandise and he's got a new design out here.
Don't worry, I handle sharp humor too. And he's
also been doing comics which are cool knife comics.
He did some in knife notes this week. So go check those
out and go to the knife junkie.com shop and see all the
different things you can get. This and many other designs
on. It is sweet. All right, so let's get to
it. Most carried folders of summer 2025. Of course,
couple of, couple of factors play into it. First of all
is Blade Show. I always
get something that I'm very excited about at Blade show and
past couple of years I've been mostly all about the fixed blade knives.
But I always want to get a fancy titanium boulder and I end
up carrying that one, that's for sure. Another thing that plays into it
is garment weight, not
carry. I'm not wearing as many heavy
garments so the knives get lighter. Anything
else? Oh, I end up going to the pool a lot
and sweating a lot. So these all are good for
food prep pretty much as well as just
edc. All right, first up, the L U D T. The
this one, my microtech lud. This is a
Generation two and it was one of the last ones I found
before Gen 2 went away for good
pretty much. Now they're on Generation three. I'm sure it's
awesome. It just doesn't float my boat the same way this the,
the classic LEDT does. This is what the very
first ones look like. Large
Underwater Demolition Team. That's what that stands for.
L U V P And I guess this was made
for seals or people who do underwater
demolition. But it's nice and light with that aluminum handle. It
has a distal taper to it, the whole thing, which is kind of pleasing.
Lightweight with the aluminum handle. Good size at
3.4 inches. M390 blade steel.
I've got the serration, so a great sort of dual all knife,
but also the color plays into it. I did not originally
set out to get a purple L U D T,
but this is what I could find at the time
in this generation two. And I've actually really fallen in love with it.
All the other purple knives I've ever had in my life, I've gotten rid of.
But this color purple is just, I don't know, it really does it for
me. And I guess I've had a lot of lavender anodized
knives in the past. I've just always let them dangle. But this one
is just. This is a perfect summer night, I gotta say.
And perfect in Virginia. Now in Delaware, where you can carry a
switchblade is awesome. Thanks to our friends at Willie Knives.
So L U D T. Definitely here we can see from
this camera more of the purple than on the other camera.
All right, next up. Now, this was a blade show acquisition
and I was so thrilled to. Not only that I got there in time to
get this, but the circumstances. Sharif
Manganis gave me this. This is the Aurelia.
This was before it was given to me. This was
the fancy titanium folder. I was going to try and get it
Blade show. So A, I'm happy I made it before they were
all gone. And B, yeah,
it's a special gift. A really, really beautiful
magnacut clip point blade. It's a, it's a long clip
with a center line point making that point a very
utilitarian or, or good for utilitarian
tasks. You've got A, a gentle belly behind it and then a
long, straight cutting surface. It's very,
very sharp. It gets, it's a, it's a flat grind, you know,
saber grind. It gets really thin behind the edge. It is
wickedly sharp. You've got excellent ex.
Excellent thumb jimping here. It's like the perfect texture to
engage and to grip without being too harsh.
Very, very nice step thumb
studs, perfect deployment action. You can also use
the, the front flipper like that.
Very nice contoured titanium handles. OEM
on this one is reate and
all that that implies. You've got a really nice looking, sort of
Terzuola esque clip with no Hardware,
no visible hardware. That is a nice scoop out which I
love. I, I don't have any knives that have this scoop out
underneath. So it keeps everything a little bit lower profile but you can still
have thick seamed pants. Just
an exceptional, exceptional knife. I love carrying this. It's
also light. You can see that it's got a lot of
titanium removed from the inside of that handle slab.
Perfect engagement for disengaging the lock.
Great slow roll. Oftentimes
titanium frame locks don't slow roll, slow
roll well in my opinion. But this one does,
especially in the left hand. But
this one I can slow well sometimes I can slow roll
it when I'm not on camera with my right hand. Just using that
front flipper and my fork. Just an exceptional knife.
This is one to definitely keep your eye on. Sharif Manganis is
a very, very amazing designer.
Great guy and he's got a very promising
future. I think, I think he should get together with
JW Collab and do a collaboration. Speaking of
JW Collab, the Tango, their first
collaboration knife was a big, big
carry. This has been a big time carry this summer.
This has gotten me to break my 3 inch rule.
This is a 3 inch blade. Usually it's 3 1/2 and
above is where I like to be. Or 3.4 at the
minimum. This is a 3 inch blade and man
alive, I love this thing. It's a,
a, a collaboration with Cerberus Blades
logo there. All sorts of snail trails on this blasted
titanium and I like it.
I like snail trails on blasted
shows. It shows a little bit of history. This has that
beautiful radiating pattern coming from
milled from that center point which is the pivot. A
beautiful spanto style blade with that flat, flat front
and a deeply hollow ground. Main portion,
1095 blade steel. I mean 1095 sorry
s. 90v blade, steel, bronzed clip
and backspacer. Also a, you
call it hardware free clip. It's just a beautiful,
beautiful knife. Now this one
also comes mostly in bolster lock versions.
So this was the one titanium
offering from, from this run. Yeah. And that
thing's beautiful. Also a great,
great front flipper. Okay, so that is the JW
Collabs Tango. Next one. This one gets a lot of
summer Play. It's been three years running. Now this is
the UTech E F
D. This is a LionG MA design. Looks a lot like his everyday
field knife. This is
just awesome. Now why does it get a lot of carry in the summer?
This is a big time pool knife for me. We have a
thriving neighborhood pool community and we go there
a lot. And this year maybe a little less. Which is
bittersweet because it's just indicative of the fact that my
girls are growing older and are going off and doing their own thing a little
more. But anyway, I won't go down that.
This is a great everything knife. It's a great food knife, food
prep. We're always cooking at the pool. This is great for that.
This actually edged out my Civivi,
the big Ostap Hill Civivi kitchen folding kitchen knife.
Because it has a point, a centerline point. It's a spear point
blade. So heaven forbid the world starts ending while we're at the
pool. I have a, a knife that will also adequately
perform as a self defense knife. But this is just a
great utility knife. And honest to goodness, I,
I'm not so concerned about it getting stolen.
Not that things get stolen at the pool, but I just wouldn't
leave something expensive on the table and go jumping pool
because you never know. But this one has fit
the bill. I, I'm not worried about it. It's really, really
nicely done. 14C 28 and super thin.
I, I have actually hurt this blade before and kind of got
it back into tree. You can see a slight bit of wobble right around the
edge, right around there. But just a
great utility blade. Orange. It's easy to see.
Everything about this says great summer knife. It's nice and light.
Also, this one only has hardware
or liners on the clip side here.
On the show side there's nothing except right around that.
These standoffs here and up towards the pivot. So very
light. Cool design. Everything about
this knife. I like the Eutectic
efd. Oh no. There's one thing I'm not crazy about.
That jimping could be a little sharper up front, but that's a
minor. Let's see. I can still do it, so
I won't take that as a gun. All right, next up, the Civivi
baby banter. This is The
Baby Banter 2 Touch Grass model.
Hutch grass. So this is
what is up guys. There's the logo there.
Ben Peterson designed this. What is up guys was his
kind of come outline his tagline when he was on the
blade on Blade hq. Anyway, this is
his baby banter design with the clip point which
I really like. I like it better than the spear point baby
banter myself. Very small knife. It's a
sub 2 inch blade here. In terms of cutting
edge, you've got a nice 5050 choil here.
Really, really great action for a
ambidextrous bar lock with such a
small blade. I mean that's the crazy thing. The blade is so small
and has basically zero weight, but it falls right
in. So they have it extremely dialed in. Civivi
does. You've got really nicely bronzed
thumb studs here. Excellent jimping. Great engagement on the
jimping. I can get all four fingers on when I'm up in that,
in that choke up position there and then
really nice grass, textured G10. TG
stands for touch grass as I mentioned. So a call to the
outdoors. Call the action, get outside, touch grass,
get a grip. A two layer, two layer G10. You've got
that sort of Indian red core with the, with the hunter
green on the outside. Loop over pocket clip with the,
with the plate cover there. And then this one has a
toothpick on that side
and a tweezers over here.
So right under the, right
under the scales like a Swiss army knife. Nice pocket clip. Everything
about this is great. This has been a back left
pocket carry for two months. I
jacked up the pocket clip as you can see, but kind of bent it
back into shape. Okay, next up. Now
this one started. I started carrying this one
at the beginning of the summer and in the, in the late spring.
And the cool thing about this is it's a knife that I've had for a
while but really never carried much at all. But
Rob Penna of Snaggletooth Tactical and Alien
Scales sent me these beautiful boot
wood scales. And so when
Rob Penna isn't busy making snaggletooth
MFs, the, the pocket snap pocket catch
I was talking about right here for various knives with the
removable thumb studs. He's making beautiful scales for
different handles for different knives. And one of them
is the 4Max Scout. The fit
is perfect. It is of
as if this were custom made for this particular
Formax Scout. So the fit is perfect. The wood is
beautiful. It's nicely chamfered, it's very comfortable and it
just, I don't know, it takes this relatively
generic but super tough and awesome. A useful tool
and makes it special. Got a little bit of a finger
well here as you can see if I turn it on that angle,
everything's rounded really nicely. So it really got me
to carry this somewhat heavy and large knife
quite a bit. It's even not bad in shorts. Now I'm not
sure because I haven't done the measurements, but I feel like the wood
which is counterintuitive might be lighter than the
dense plastic FRN handle that this came
with. Or maybe it's just lighter. Like, he's not heavy. He's
my brother. Super thick scales here,
thick spring. Perfect mount up for the clip.
So I would check out Alien scales. Really
awesome stuff. And of course, snaggle feedback is awesome.
They make pocket catches that fit all cold
steels that don't have the plates, basically, and many
other knives. But this was definitely one of the most
carried knives of summer. 2025.
All right, next up, this was also a blade show acquisition.
Oh, by the way, the coffee website is now fixed. So
if you've been trying to get our coffee, which I highly recommend you
do, you can do that now. Jim just fixed
this. This is the Sting from DC
Blades. I have loved this design ever since
it was announced. And I saw, I believe I saw some
in the process design picks from. From
Justin Carvin of DC Blades. And. And
he came out with this. They came out with this and the Vendetta
around the same time. Made by Meguron, masterfully made
by Miguran. Both really awesome knives.
That other one, the Vendetta, is a pacal. But this one, to me
is just a perfect and beautiful design.
It's very dramatic, but it's not too large.
So it's that sort of upsweep is
just perfect for the size. Any larger, you'd have to
adjust all these perfect angles. I gotta say, great
in reverse grip and perfect
position of that point there. Really, really nice.
You've got a compound ground blade with a swedge so
thinner right here towards the ricasso, like really thin
and hollow ground. And then this portion up here is flat,
flat ground M390 blade steel.
Really well worked titanium. It's knurled on
all the surfaces that aren't inlaid with that really cool
composite material. You've got the DC
Blades sculpted clip. You see this clip show up on a
bunch of their designs. This I love because it's a great
flipper. But also under that,
under that thumb, thumb
rest there, you've got a great wave feature. Just a
beautiful knife. Carry this one a lot. Nice and light. Fits in
the shorts, pockets and everything. It's nice and
compact, but also it's a statement.
All right, next up, because I did so much driving, we did a number of
road trips this summer. And I just love this knife. So I find myself
carrying it a lot still after
12 years of ownership. This is the
Microtech Socom Elite. The old
style Tanto blade. One of my favorite all time
tantos. There s 35vn. You got the aluminum
handle, nice and light. I mean, it's been faking me. Want to buy a new
one of these? Why? I don't know. Why not?
I guess because they have a different grip and a different blade design. I
would like to get the clip point. But anyway, this one
got a lot of Perry. I love it. Starting to get
genuine wear on some of the corners.
And this thing has cut everything, everything
from rope to pancakes to waffles,
St steak. A lot of food. It's cut a lot of food. Probably more food
than. Than other stuff. But bungee cords, it's cut.
I think this may have cut wire, something with a wire in it. But I
can't remember if it's this or something else. Here
we've got a window punch.
So this one is the first in in the collection. Carbon fiber,
S35EN bearings on
the pivots and glass breaker.
Love this knife. Nice and big. It will always be in
my collection. Always one of my favorites. All right, now
this one I've been excited about ever since it was announced and we talked about
it here on the show. But I finally got off my duff and
bought one. This is the Ray Laconico designed concept
bison. Just a big,
beautiful bowie holder. I love this thing. It.
It's also. I love the way it looks. I love
everything about it. I love how it functions. But I also appreciate
that it's a Ray Laconico out of his wheelhouse. This is not
one that I would necessarily call out as a
Ray Laconico design, but it's a very, very smart design
for a pocket bowie. Got some interesting features. And
I'll start with the handle. The handle is actually
kind of a modernized gun stock handle.
Again, the gun stock with the double groove here for the front
fingers and then the longer platform up here for
the rest of the hand. Sort of emulating a gun
stock, an old lever action gun stock, but,
you know, stylized with the curves and everything. This one has
a really nice finger guard, comfortable to put your thumb up
against. And a quill, sort of a quillian
effect down on the bottom too, in case you have to thrust
this knife. And the. The blade here
is a S35VN. It's four and a quarter
inches. So another big knife
and a perfectly done and quite thin
and sharp bowie blade. Let me show you just
as an example, here is another 4 inch blade, the
4 max. So that goes to show you how
big the concept bison is. But
it's Obviously more slender and less
beefy than, than this knife, but on overall size,
pretty big. But they do the, they do a good job of lightening it
with lightening out the titanium slabs
by milling patterns out in there.
And just a really compelling knife. I love it. I love the action,
I love the way it looks.
And if I ever needed to pull out a fancy titanium
knife to duel with, this would be a, a fine
choice. All right, last up, and this one
came right about the same time as that Spyson
is the North Mountain Blade
bbmn. This is designed by Dwayne Dwyer,
the guy that started Strider with Mick
Strider. So a lot of his design influence in those
Strider designs. This one is
a really cool production version of a model of a custom model
that makes. And it is really,
really cool. You've got strider
sort of effect all day long in that portion, but
actually the whole damn thing looks very stridery.
I, I would say that the handle is a little different
than a regular like SMF or sng,
but it's based more on a Dwayne Dwyer
custom where he changes up the handle.
So a really beautiful tanto blade here. Drop point
tanto with a centerline point, if not even a little lower.
And you've got that SLD magic. So there's a hard,
cool steel in the center jacketed by two softer
steels. And you can see that Amon line where the steels come together
on that flat ground
bevel there. Super sharp, super acute.
Great ergonomics, as you would expect from a strider
and, but better, I think less blocky because of
this swoop here on the lower portion. I do
love all this milling. That jimping is functional and comfortable.
The blade shape is just so exciting to me. I always wanted a
tanto strider and
this is just butter. Buttery, buttery smooth
on washers. You can see those big
bronze washers there and nice lockup. Thick
slabs of titanium. No weight release
in there, so it gives it a super solid feel. I
am very much in love with this knife and all the knives that have been
in this list. And as I mentioned before, I
suspect that this police model is going
to be right up there in the most carried to close
out the summer. Though I do have a birthday coming up.
I, I have to. I'm sure I'll get something there
too, but this police will join that list.
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