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Coming up, I'm going to show you the 9-20-25

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Gentleman Junkie Giveaway knife. Then we're going to show you three

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great carry combos. And then lastly,

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I want to show you 10 new knives that I've gotten in the past

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week that I really like, plus something extra Special.

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I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie Podcast.

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Welcome to the Knife Junkie podcast. Your weekly dose of knife

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

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host, Bob the knife junkie DeMarco.

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Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from last week's episode on

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Grab and Go Zombie Fixed blades comes from Carino

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1. He says Jim and Bob, really great episode. Lots of fond

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memories of carrying the Made in Japan Spydercos. Another

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subject I discussed on that episode, I like them all, but a personal

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favorite is the fully serrated Calypso junior. Such an

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easy knife to carry and man does it cut.

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As for choosing a zombie slayer, everything presented in this episode was

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super mean. But my choice of them would be the tops Wild pig

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Hunter. Slashing and hacking is wasted calories. We

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have to pierce the brain to stop those jaws from chomping. So

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a very good point, Carino. Yeah, hacking, hacking and, and

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slashing. That's, that's like the workout regimen of the post

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apocalyptic zombie hunter. So, you know, maybe keep some of those slashes

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around just to stay in shape. Next comment was from

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6freak58 and I was talking about the new slabby from K

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Bar, the full, full tang K Bar. He says K Bar's

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price point of $250 is wishful thinking.

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And I'm not sure if it is because you know, there are a lot of

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real big K Bar fans out there. But I, I'm kind of with him

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in that. Presumably him. Six Freak.

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It seems like a huge price jump to go from like around

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100 bucks to 250 just to get a full tang. I know they did

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some contra, like a whole. It's a whole different knife but

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still it kind of seems a little steep. So I'm sure eventually

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it'll that price will right size with the market and with the

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knife junkies out there. All right, guys, thanks for commenting. I really

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appreciate it. Also, thanks for watching

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the videos this week. Also the shorts that I've been putting up. As

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you may know, I was kicked off of Instagram. Stayed off for

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about a month until I got frustrated with the appeals process and just

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started a new, a new page. It's

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Knife Underscore Junkie Underscore podcast. And I've been, I've been

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posting to that, uh, only a couple so far, but

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every time I post something to YouTube, I'm going to post it over there or

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post something over there on Instagram. It's a new habit I'm,

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I'm putting myself back into because I really fell off

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the wagon with Instagram for quite a long time and was just using it

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for finding new knife makers and keeping in touch with

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friends. So back on Instagram, Knife

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Underscore Junkie Underscore podcast. Check it out.

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All right, that said, let's get to a pocket check.

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What's in his pocket? Let's find out.

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Here's the knife junkie with his pocket check of knives. In my

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front right pocket I had the super cool

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brs. That's Blade Runner Systems Evolve. That's one of

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their lines of knives. Kopesh Khopesh is an

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ancient Egyptian sword. And this is taking

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visual cues, design cues from it. But more importantly,

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this is a gift for my birthday, which was a week

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ago. He got. This is from Dave of

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OG Blade Reviews. Every year it seems Dave sends me

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something really cool on my birthday and I really appreciate it.

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This one. Wow. I really, really like this one because

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it's unusual, it's large. That's a four,

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four and a quarter inch M390 blade.

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And it's totally fidgety. It's a really

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great knife to fidget with. Part of that is

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due to these really unique thumb studs. I ordinarily don't go

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for anything that isn't a cylinder as a thumb stud, but this

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works great and it looks cool. Those backward facing

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arrows really grab the fat of your thumb and make it easy to.

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G10 contour, G10 here. Titanium

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bolsters, steel liners, and it's a liner

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lock. This thing is so cool. Dave, thank you so much for this.

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I have used this several times in the short period. I've had it

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for unexpected things, mostly food. And

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ordinarily I have something different on me if

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food needs to be cut. But this has been, this has been

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doing it over this past week. As a matter of fact, just yesterday

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I cut a massive hamburger in half for my girls and

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they shared it without argument. So yep, this is

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in my front right pocket also. I'm sorry. By the way, a gimped

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pocket clip on this. I think that should be happening more often. I do

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like jimping on my pocket clip. Makes it easier to Pull out, especially if it's

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a deep carry by the by the by. And then here we have some really

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cool and sort of intricate standoffs. So a beautiful

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knife. Thank you so much, Dave. I'm going to be showing you some more stuff

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that Dave sent in a box recently today,

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later on in the show. All right, next up with

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the release of the new Rosecraft

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Blades Congress knife. I've been thinking about Congress knives.

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So I had my own. The one Congress knife I

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have is the Great eastern cutlery number 62.

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And this one is a single layer. So they

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both of those blades share the same spring. And you

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have a beautiful pen blade and an amazing

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wharncliffe here. Thing about Congress knives is they can get very

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thick. They can get to. I've seen them four springs wide where they

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have eight blades. So four on one side, four on the other.

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This is in what's called unicorn ivory.

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Micarta something. When I first got this, my

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daughters were much younger. As a matter of fact, I think when I got this,

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yeah, they were both alive, but they were both younger. And I used to like

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to tease them that unicorns had to die for this knife

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and they thought that was horrifying and then I would,

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would have to tell them I was joking. But anyway, really

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great thing and something about Congress knives is that

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the term Congress doesn't come because they're very dignified and, and

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they, they belong in our, our judicial or our

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legislative bodies. But the Congress knife it discusses

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refers, the Congress name refers to the fact that you have

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all these blades coming together from opposite sides in Congress.

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So they, they, they come together nicely, they fit together

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nicely in a relatively small package. And I

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love this GEC62. Not sure if they've done any since

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2020 when that came out, but

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yeah, great knife. And that was popping around in my pocket in a,

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in a leather slip. Thirdly in my waistband

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at the appendix position

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was my Gunfighter Customs Gunfighter

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given to me by the guys at Gunfighter Tactical

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Gunfighter Customs. I'm sure. I'm sorry. At Blade Show,

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Jared Franklin. And this was also designed by

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Michael Elliott, who is a patron and

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a great guy and also a Pikiti Tertia and other

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types of Kali master specialist.

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And this is his take. This knife is his take on the

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clinch pick. But he elongated it and you know,

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he kept a similar style egg shaped handle to nestle in

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the palm. But you have all this room to put your thumb on this knife,

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which I love. If you hold it in a sort of saber

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and you get a nice lock in with the thumb right here. Or you can

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come up in a more Filipino grip here and, and,

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and put your thumb on that thumb ramp, that forward thumb

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ramp. This one is double edged and I just

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love it. I love carrying this knife. It carries really easy. This

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smooth egg shaped handle nestles against the

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extra I have down below and

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carries comfortably. And if I ever needed a last ditch

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GTFO knife, that would be the one. All right, last up

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on me. Another great, great knife and also very

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double edged and tactical. I had for emotional support.

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My ESK today was this right here, the

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Pinkerton blades Razor. Pinkerton knives, Razorback.

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This one is in

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Elmax steel and it's got this natural canvas

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micarta. Really, really sweet, sweet blade

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as I love to talk about. Dirk Pinkerton isn't just

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making and designing incredible knives for incredible manufacturers like

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Kaiser concept, etc. He works hard at the

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grinder too and is just very talented. Makes

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incredible knives. Now he is going to be making us a custom

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knife. It might be this, there might be a different knife. We have to

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decide on it to give away on Thursday night knives to all

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comers and it's when we reach

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50,000 subscribers. I guess he

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saw that we had breached 40,000. We're at like 40,000

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nearly. 40,800 nearly. And

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he said, well, when you get another 10,000 subscribers, I'll make you a

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knife and you can give it away. And I'm really excited for that. And so

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I need to step up my game. I need to put out more

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shorts. I need to get my feelers out into the world more so that I

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get more subscribers. Maybe you could share this video with someone. Maybe they

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will subscribe and then when they do and we're up to 50,000

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subscribers, someone will win a Dirk

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Pinkerton custom fixed blade knife. We still don't know what it is.

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I keep feeling like it's going to be a Razorback but something

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cool and I cannot wait.

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Everyone should have a Dirk Pinkerton custom knife in their collection as far as

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I'm concerned. So that's what I had on me today. I had the

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Gunfighter Customs Gunfighter. I had the Razorback from

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Dirk Pinkerton knives. I had the beautiful number 62

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Congress from Great Eastern Cutlery and the

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Kopesh from BRS evolve.

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And there it is. Beautiful knife. Thank you Dave for that. Next up

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I want to show off the gentleman junkie giveaway knife for

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September 2025. After I take a sip on this delicious

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coffee. By the way, the coffee on our website

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is back up. Jim had to tweak some settings in

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the, in the. I don't know.

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He had to tweak some settings that Jim knows how to tweak. And the,

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the purchasing link for coffee

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is back online. So if you like coffee like I do, go check that out.

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But right here is the knife we're going to be giving away. The three Dog

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knife riot. You know Mike from Northern Knives. He shows

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up every week to Thursday night knives and

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contributes conversation. We always have a great time. Plus he's been on the show.

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He's an awesome stand up dude who's been making

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custom fixed blade knives for his Northern

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Knives shops. He's got Northern Knives and three Dog

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knife is the in, in house custom brand. Well, look at this

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beautiful sheath before I pull it out. Made by

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D. Johnston of Alaska. So they're up in

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Anchorage. This whole thing is made in Alaska.

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Look at that thing. Absolutely beautiful.

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Recurve Tonto. Just a, a

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gorgeous blade. And I look at it and I think, is it tactical

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or is it outdoorsy? Because Mike does a lot of

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tontos for the outdoors and you don't see that too much. And I've always wondered

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why. But when I showed this off on Thursday Night Knives

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the other night, I believe it was Shane Gables was saying that front portion

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of the blade right there would be great for skinning small

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gain and. Well, I

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believe him. I've never done it, but I, I know he has and I,

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I believe it. So this is black cerakoted

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K110. K110 is analogous

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to D2 blade steel. It's cerakoted

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and it's got black micarta. Really beautiful. Comes with a birth

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card or dog tag. Actually dog tag, which comes

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easily off the knife so as not to scare away the game that you are

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stalking. And it rides on the belt in scout

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style. Just a really, really beautiful setup.

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And I just want to thank Mike for his generosity. He gave me one

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and now he's giving Gentleman Junkies one. You say what is it? Gentleman

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Junkie Bob? Well, that is the high tier of support on Patreon.

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We have three tiers of support. You can go over there and check it out.

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We have a lot of stuff we offer. Interview extras. Probably one of my

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extra conversation that I have with guests who come on the

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podcast. We get to stuff that we weren't able to get to in the show

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or maybe stuff that's A little sensitive or whatever, but you

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get that there. You also get nice notes and

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people have been taken to, are taking to calling Jim

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Jimmy notes. I think Carino actually is the guy who called him

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Jimmy notes on Thursday night. Knives, which I think is cool because everyone

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is loving knife notes. It's a regular addition

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new knife, it might be about a knife type like a bowie or a kukri

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it's more of a meditation. It's a, a meditation on the nature

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Knife Life news from Texas, Tejas

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Tactile knives. They have a skeletonized rock

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wall. The, the, the Tactile

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knives. Rock Wall was their first knife. It's still their flagship

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knife. And well, it all comes out

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of Tactile Turn the knife company, I mean the pen company,

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but Tactile, we all know them by now as the knife company has

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a new skeletonized rock wall. As I just said, so a very interesting

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looking knife. Here you can see all those Cutouts there. Those

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cutouts were created by accident,

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just like onion rings and so many other great things that exist.

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This was an accidental stroke of genius.

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So basically they had a bunch of handle

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scales on the mill. Something happened, they

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came out wrong and they had to pivot. The

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co founder Matt Palmore pivoted as the,

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they like to say in the corporate world and, and made a change and they

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redesigned the scales with these eight cutouts on both sides.

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It's making it, they're making a light knife already.

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Very, very light. So those eight cutouts, they

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redesigned the blade so that it fit properly

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within the handle. I'm not sure how that would change, but yeah, they

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changed the blade a little bit. Full flat ground, gave it a little swedge on

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top and made it in

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magnacut 3.4 inches there. And it comes in three

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different varieties. Stone wash as we see on screen, and then a

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dark wash and then lastly a beautiful slate blue.

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These come in at a paltry 2.4 ounces,

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so go check them out. All made in Texas. Everything made

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in Texas. A lot of it right in Dallas, right around their shop. I

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know they have to reach a little bit further afield for certain things like stop

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pins. I think at least that was, that was back in,

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back when they first started. Who knows, they might be all in house at some

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point. I guess it's time for a check in with tactile knives.

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All right, next up from Boker, this is the Mini Bronco.

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It's a rugged little Bushcraft knife and a follow up

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to their Bronco model. And this is

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a, like a mora as I'm, as I'm

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contending here, but a bit more premium and a lot

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more expensive because instead of

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how, how Boker does it with a little rat tail tang that goes halfway down

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the handle and, and, and 14C or

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12C blade steel. This is three and a half inch drop

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point blade in 3V. So it's 3V with a

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Scandi grind. And then it's got a

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handle of a tpe.

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And TPE is a sort of rubbery, kind of tacky feeling

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handle. So for all the sort of Bushcraft

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activities you're doing out there, it's not going to slip out of the hand easily.

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You got a nice big belly on that on the palm

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swell there and a tang that goes all the way

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through the handle. You can see, you can see it just at the end

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there on the pommel there. It is a stick tang, but it goes all the

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way through the handle. Something more don't do. So this is kind of an upscaled

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version of Amora, at least in my eyes. I'm not even sure if

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that's who they're trying to compete with because I know it's a much more expensive

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knife. Kydex Taco style Kydex sheath.

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And this one is made in Solingen, Germany,

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their original location. This is to come out on

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August 30th of 2025. It's a nice looking

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sheath. Looks pretty low profile. Okay, next up

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from Civivi the the ever prolific

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Civivi. They have one called the ND

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or Modern or Mdrn or

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Medium Rn. I don't know exactly how you're supposed to pronounce this, but this is

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a follow up of their super popular

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Stocken S O K N. So

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Son. I'm not even sure how you pronounce that one. But

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both are designed from Kyle Lamb who's a tactile a

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tactical specialist. I have been following him on

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Instagram for years and this looks

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different from what I would expect from him just knowing his love for

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Wharncliffe's. But you know, we, we can all grow, we can all

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like a lot of different things. And so this one is

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like I said, a larger version of the Son.

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So it has the same sort of tactical handle. You've got

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that foot shaped pommel that you can rest your thumb

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on. This also like the last knife has a nice

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big swell for the fingers there on the handle

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and those are G10 scales there. The

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original knife had a different shaped drop point. This

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is more of a spear point. The original was 2.8 inches. This is

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4.12 inches, almost twice the size

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nitro V blade steel on this. And you have a sort of

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scandi bevel with a

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micro bevel for cutting, you know, at the, at the very edge.

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So scandi s we might say or like an early tops

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Scandinavian knife. So yeah, I like the

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handle quite a bit on this. You know, as you can tell from the

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001, I go for the handles that really accommodate

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thumbs in reverse grip. This seems like more of an outdoor knife to me,

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so I'm not sure what the benefit of that is though it is

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also a big bird's beak for the pinky. So we'll definitely keep this

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knife in hand. Pretty cool. I love Civivi. I

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do love Civivi's fixed blade knives. Be cool to

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get one of these Saucons or

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moderns in hand to check out. Kydex sheath.

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3.7 ounces and available early fall of

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2025. Last up from Buck

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and famed designers and makers G and G

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Hawk, Grant and Gavin Hawk, father and son team.

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Grant has passed away. Sorry. Sorry to hear

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about that. But he. That was in 2023.

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We talked about that on the show. Not a new development.

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August 2025, buck of the month. That's what we're getting

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at. This knife, the Marksman, which is a very famous

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buck, came out originally in 2021. I

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mean, in 2014. It came back as a buck of the month in

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2021, and now it's back as another buck of the month.

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This is called by many the most accessible

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Grant and Gavin Hawk design for a couple of

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reasons. First of all, it's the least

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unusual, I think. And it's also the

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most easily attainable being made by Buck. It's not a

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super expensive custom knife. They're, they're famed for,

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for their, for their movement free,

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their wiggle free out the front and for other really

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great and unique designs and great engineering.

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This one, the real USP of this is that back strap

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lock. It's a, it's a

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piece of steel that. It's a metal back strap with a

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keyhole in it. And that keyhole fits the flipper and

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then. And then a notch in the blade tang. That's what locks it out.

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But you'll get the same length, 3.5-inch

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tungsten coated, in this case, 154cm

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drop point. So same as the original, but it has a red,

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white and black sort of

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melange G10 handle. And that's unusual.

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They are always done in aluminum. So lots of new things here.

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Paul Boss Heat treat, of course, taking that

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154cm as far as it can possibly go. Beautiful knife.

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And this is, this is one you should jump on as soon as

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possible because they go fast. And it's a

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buck of the month and it's the buck this month. So

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you got a couple of days, so go for it. Really cool knife from

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G and G Hawk and Buck. It's the Marksman. All

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right. Still to come, the state of the collection. And we're gonna look at

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some 10 new knives that I love, plus something special before

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touch and yeah, just, just

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okay, so this was inspired by a Carrie

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I very unusual carry for me this weekend

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and I'm not exactly sure

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why I I carried this, but I was inspired. I was moved to

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and or carried like this and it worked out

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great. Okay, this is what I carry. Three things.

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A fixed blade, a Victorinox and a

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flashlight. I was going out with the wife,

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with my wife to go for a birthday party to

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karaoke and to all these things that we don't normally do anymore,

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bars and that kind of thing. And

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being the only sober person around, I felt like

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I had to be security, you know what I mean? And so this is, this

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was my layout. Now this light is brand new.

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This was a, a in the box that

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Dave sent me OG Blade review sent me and I I have

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to adopt this. This is now mine because it is

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a really cool flashlight and it's

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slender and it's, it fits in the pocket like a knife.

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But it's got something I really love, which is immediate access to

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the strobe. I think that just freaked out the camera, but

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immediate access to the strobe light. And ever since talking to Tomas

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Ellas on this podcast about an experience he had where

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he basically thwarted a

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not sure if it was going to be a carjacking or a jumping or whatever,

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he was being followed and eventually he, he

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sent them packing by blinding them with a strobe light

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on his carry flashlight. And that always left an

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impression on me. I for as much as I talk about and love tactical

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knives, never want to have to use one in anger.

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So had this on me and then I had this in

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my front right pocket right next to this, just sitting down in the

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bottom of the pocket. This of course, is my agent 001

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TKL knives agent 001. This is from the first production

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run. I'm gonna be showing you the second production run coming up here soon.

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But when I received my samples of the second production run from Tim,

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he sent me this beautiful badger claw leather sheath

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for one of them and I fell in love with this thing immediately.

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So drop this right in the pocket. The curve of this

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follows the seam of the jeans or the shape of the

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jeans pocket internally perfectly fits, nestles right

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over in the corner of your pocket. I had instant access

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to this blade right away and I just, I loved

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it. I could sit down just fine. It wasn't too big or

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anything like that. So I was really, really.

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I'm really excited about this and I'm gonna start carrying this knife this

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way a lot, I might add, just

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for safety. I might add a discreet carry

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concepts clip to just to come up and

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fasten it to the pocket just in case. But I, I feel

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at this point after carrying it well, twice that way now that it's kind

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of unneeded. But we shall see. You don't want it just

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in a moment of stress pulling out the knife and the sheath comes out with

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it. So I'll. I'll probably put one on there. And then lastly, for

473
00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:45.660
practical purposes, I had my Victorinox Cadet with me

474
00:29:46.220 --> 00:29:49.980
mainly because I thought I might have to open someone's beer or

475
00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:54.580
cut something in terms of food. And I didn't want to pull out the

476
00:29:54.580 --> 00:29:58.310
agent001 though as I'm looking at this, that nail neck is pretty

477
00:29:58.310 --> 00:30:01.790
gross. So I'm glad I didn't have to cut any food with it.

478
00:30:02.110 --> 00:30:05.350
So a great carry combo here. I'm going to keep them all on screen as

479
00:30:05.350 --> 00:30:06.350
I talk about them.

480
00:30:09.070 --> 00:30:12.110
That Agent 001,

481
00:30:12.670 --> 00:30:16.150
the Victorinox Cadet and this night Core

482
00:30:16.150 --> 00:30:19.870
EDC 27. What a great light. I'm really excited about

483
00:30:19.870 --> 00:30:23.580
it. All right, next up, gotta make this look pretty. Hang on,

484
00:30:24.380 --> 00:30:28.140
there we go. Next up, second carry combo which I've

485
00:30:28.140 --> 00:30:31.820
been carrying a lot recently. These are all brand new

486
00:30:31.820 --> 00:30:35.260
knives too. So you know, I got the

487
00:30:35.260 --> 00:30:38.940
Victorian or I got the Spyderco classic police model

488
00:30:39.100 --> 00:30:42.860
in the stainless steel handle for fully serrated blade. I've been loving this.

489
00:30:43.180 --> 00:30:46.660
It's so thin but not light. It's pretty substantial in

490
00:30:46.660 --> 00:30:50.440
pocket but it's nice and thin and lots of

491
00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:54.120
other stuff can fit in the pocket with it. So I've been carrying that

492
00:30:54.120 --> 00:30:57.120
and oddly enough a fixed blade right next to it.

493
00:30:58.240 --> 00:31:01.520
The new Jack Wolf knives

494
00:31:01.520 --> 00:31:05.200
JW Collab Collusion, a

495
00:31:05.360 --> 00:31:09.040
design collaboration with Jake. I'm sorry,

496
00:31:09.120 --> 00:31:12.480
Jacob Ginsburg, who goes by Jake. Jacob

497
00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:16.290
creates on Instagram. He just makes beautiful

498
00:31:16.930 --> 00:31:20.210
custom fixed blade knives all very usually small and

499
00:31:20.450 --> 00:31:24.170
EDC able. He's got an incredible design eye and

500
00:31:24.170 --> 00:31:27.890
his skills look super refined from what I can tell from the pictures

501
00:31:27.890 --> 00:31:31.530
in terms of the making of the knife. But in this case it's his

502
00:31:31.530 --> 00:31:34.130
design run through Ben Belkin's

503
00:31:35.090 --> 00:31:38.890
production protocol, we'll

504
00:31:38.890 --> 00:31:42.560
call it. And in this beautiful stout slim

505
00:31:42.560 --> 00:31:45.160
leather sheath. It goes great in the pocket, especially

506
00:31:46.120 --> 00:31:49.480
next to this knife. So it, so I've been double carrying

507
00:31:49.800 --> 00:31:52.440
a lot like a fixed blade and a

508
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.280
folder in the same pocket. And then just for giggles and grins and just in

509
00:31:57.280 --> 00:32:01.080
case on my belt I've had the new with this

510
00:32:01.080 --> 00:32:04.720
carry combo. The new to me urban edge from

511
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:07.750
cold steel, the little 2 inch double edged

512
00:32:09.510 --> 00:32:13.110
punch dagger really like this knife and

513
00:32:13.110 --> 00:32:16.910
I also got that at Willie Knives in Delaware on

514
00:32:16.910 --> 00:32:20.710
our, on our recent trip. So that's another great carry combo.

515
00:32:20.950 --> 00:32:24.470
No light involved which I should, I should really

516
00:32:24.550 --> 00:32:27.830
start carrying a light all the time for

517
00:32:28.150 --> 00:32:31.990
I don't really need it that much for utility. I keep a little

518
00:32:31.990 --> 00:32:35.810
light on my keys but really for that self defense thing if it

519
00:32:35.810 --> 00:32:39.490
comes up, I would much rather blind someone, kick them in the knee and then

520
00:32:39.490 --> 00:32:43.210
run away than you know, have to use

521
00:32:43.290 --> 00:32:46.730
pull out the knife that I'm carrying. All right, last

522
00:32:47.050 --> 00:32:50.770
carry combo. This is again a fixed blade and a

523
00:32:50.770 --> 00:32:54.450
folder in the same pocket. This is. I'll start

524
00:32:54.450 --> 00:32:57.890
with this. I've been carrying my AMTAC

525
00:32:57.890 --> 00:33:01.660
Northman pretty much more than ever before because I got

526
00:33:01.660 --> 00:33:04.740
a new sheath. The AMTAC Northman sheath is very cool

527
00:33:05.460 --> 00:33:09.260
and it's very useful. It's ambidextrous. It, it drops deep in the

528
00:33:09.260 --> 00:33:12.900
pocket though. And to me it, it always

529
00:33:12.900 --> 00:33:16.740
felt like I'm going to slice my pants as I, as I pull the blade

530
00:33:16.740 --> 00:33:20.260
out. So it also has a Ferro rod which is cool

531
00:33:20.660 --> 00:33:24.100
but I, I don't know, I just let it languish and,

532
00:33:24.470 --> 00:33:28.070
and then I saw an a a video

533
00:33:28.470 --> 00:33:31.830
by Armis knife and tool

534
00:33:32.470 --> 00:33:35.750
Michael Grosso and he was talking about how his

535
00:33:36.950 --> 00:33:40.550
mini VSK1 sheath fits this

536
00:33:40.550 --> 00:33:44.230
knife ambidextrously. So I ran out. I

537
00:33:44.230 --> 00:33:48.070
didn't run out, I just ran to the Internet, ran to his site and got

538
00:33:48.070 --> 00:33:51.710
that sheath and I've been loving it. And so it

539
00:33:51.710 --> 00:33:54.950
has been in the pocket like this. Let me resheath it

540
00:33:55.990 --> 00:33:58.390
like this. Set up for reverse grip,

541
00:34:00.070 --> 00:34:03.270
reverse grip draw next to this knife.

542
00:34:03.990 --> 00:34:07.710
One of My favorites of the recent past, the North

543
00:34:07.710 --> 00:34:11.470
Mountain Blades BBMN right

544
00:34:11.470 --> 00:34:14.710
next to it, both in the same pocket. Now I have to say the double

545
00:34:14.710 --> 00:34:18.460
carry that the fixed and the folder, this only really works for me when I'm

546
00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:21.740
wearing jeans, khakis and slanted handle.

547
00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:25.820
Slanted pocket handles, slanted pocket

548
00:34:25.980 --> 00:34:29.420
pants. I'm sorry, it doesn't really work very well.

549
00:34:29.740 --> 00:34:33.420
Lastly, to make this more practical, I've been carrying

550
00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:37.020
the DP1 also in one of these beautiful

551
00:34:37.020 --> 00:34:40.620
badger claw sheaths just dropped in the pocket.

552
00:34:40.700 --> 00:34:44.010
Now in this case it's been in the back pocket or in the left pocket

553
00:34:44.010 --> 00:34:47.850
with my phone. But this is the small DP1 from

554
00:34:47.850 --> 00:34:51.650
TKL Knives with the handle wrapped

555
00:34:51.890 --> 00:34:55.690
by Tom Nugent of Knives by Nuge. I had to put

556
00:34:55.690 --> 00:34:59.490
this little leather fob on because this really is a two finger knife and

557
00:34:59.570 --> 00:35:03.410
that little leather fob with the knot makes it a four finger knife

558
00:35:03.410 --> 00:35:07.130
and it is super practical. Great little knife to bust out if

559
00:35:07.130 --> 00:35:10.690
you're in the office and you need to cut something. But you've got a lot

560
00:35:10.690 --> 00:35:13.930
of pearl clutchers around you. Oh no, this will,

561
00:35:14.810 --> 00:35:18.410
this will not freak anyone out. So a great little knife.

562
00:35:18.410 --> 00:35:21.810
And here are three great carry combos. First one, the

563
00:35:21.810 --> 00:35:25.410
Agent 001 by TKEL knives with the EDC

564
00:35:25.410 --> 00:35:29.250
27 Nightcore flashlight and a Victorinox

565
00:35:29.250 --> 00:35:32.810
Cadet. The second carry combo there is the

566
00:35:33.290 --> 00:35:36.170
Jacob Ginsburg Design JW Collaboration

567
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:40.560
Collusion Jack Wolf knives and the

568
00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:44.760
Urban Edge by Cold Steel, the Little Punch Dagger

569
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:48.520
and then of course the Police model, Classic Police model.

570
00:35:48.520 --> 00:35:51.960
And then the last carry, the BVMN from North Mountain Blades, the

571
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:55.440
decal knives DP1 and the North Mountain

572
00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:59.120
Blades. Or the AMTAC Northman in

573
00:35:59.120 --> 00:36:02.970
the Armis sheath. Man alive. A lot of

574
00:36:02.970 --> 00:36:06.770
names to remember. All right, what are your favorite carry combos? Drop them in the

575
00:36:06.770 --> 00:36:10.410
comments, let me know. I love the inspiration I get

576
00:36:10.570 --> 00:36:13.930
from you guys and what you carry. All right,

577
00:36:15.290 --> 00:36:18.970
before we get on to 10 new knives that I love, plus something extra

578
00:36:18.970 --> 00:36:22.650
special, I just want to show off this new design

579
00:36:22.730 --> 00:36:26.410
by Jim Touch Grass Touch knives. Now this

580
00:36:26.410 --> 00:36:30.060
comes out of a. A conversation we had on

581
00:36:30.220 --> 00:36:33.620
Thursday night. Knives that I don't know if it evolved or

582
00:36:33.620 --> 00:36:37.020
devolved, but we started calling us knife

583
00:36:37.020 --> 00:36:40.380
touchers. I don't remember exactly how that came about, but

584
00:36:41.020 --> 00:36:44.300
are you a knife toucher? Because I am. So

585
00:36:44.460 --> 00:36:48.220
Jim was inspired to come up with this Touch Grass. Nah, Touch not.

586
00:36:48.540 --> 00:36:52.300
So if you go to the knifejunkie.com shop, you can find this apron,

587
00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:55.700
that tote bag and that T Shirt and much, much more

588
00:36:55.860 --> 00:36:59.620
coffee mugs, this and that, all there. But

589
00:36:59.700 --> 00:37:03.540
there are a lot of other great. If touch grass not isn't quite your thing,

590
00:37:04.100 --> 00:37:07.580
you can, you can check out all the other cool things that Jim comes up

591
00:37:07.580 --> 00:37:10.980
with if you want just the simple legacy

592
00:37:11.220 --> 00:37:14.780
design, just the logo. You have to go to

593
00:37:14.780 --> 00:37:18.260
page 21 now I believe it is the very last page.

594
00:37:18.740 --> 00:37:22.510
And, and move forward from there. Check out all the cool stuff

595
00:37:22.910 --> 00:37:25.790
we have. It's. It is awesome. The knife junkie.com.

596
00:37:26.910 --> 00:37:30.270
okay, let me get to these 10

597
00:37:30.430 --> 00:37:34.270
new things. Okay. The first, the first thing I'm gonna

598
00:37:34.270 --> 00:37:37.990
show you are things. Actually it's two of them. And they

599
00:37:37.990 --> 00:37:41.630
are sent to. They were sent to me from Dave of OG

600
00:37:41.630 --> 00:37:45.070
Blade Reviews and they are leather saps.

601
00:37:46.040 --> 00:37:49.760
Yes, I've been talking about leather saps forever. Since

602
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:53.520
before Blade show this year. I did not. Oddly enough, I did not

603
00:37:53.520 --> 00:37:57.280
find any. I found one leather SAP there, didn't float

604
00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:00.840
my boat and that was it. I was

605
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:04.680
expecting to find much more, but these are from Boston

606
00:38:04.680 --> 00:38:07.960
Leather. By the way, that this is the Midget and this is the Denver.

607
00:38:09.080 --> 00:38:12.840
But ASAP is an old school bludgeon

608
00:38:14.250 --> 00:38:18.090
or Kosh. I think that's what the, with the Brits call it.

609
00:38:18.090 --> 00:38:21.810
But what it is is four thick pieces of

610
00:38:21.810 --> 00:38:25.610
leather sewn together with a ball of

611
00:38:25.610 --> 00:38:29.330
let. Not a ball, but a lobe of lead at

612
00:38:29.330 --> 00:38:32.810
the end and a strap on it. So you.

613
00:38:33.290 --> 00:38:36.650
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say that differently. A, A

614
00:38:36.890 --> 00:38:40.420
retention strap that you get on the handle.

615
00:38:40.660 --> 00:38:43.620
And this is for whacking people. Whacking

616
00:38:44.420 --> 00:38:47.940
people. However you're gonna do it, wherever you're gonna do it. You can

617
00:38:48.020 --> 00:38:51.860
watch a lot of staff videos online. For me,

618
00:38:51.860 --> 00:38:55.380
I tend to go back to my Filipino knives training

619
00:38:55.380 --> 00:38:59.220
and you know, think of doing this hitting with the edge. It's

620
00:38:59.220 --> 00:39:02.580
not just hitting flat. But I gotta tell you, these things

621
00:39:02.820 --> 00:39:06.670
pack a serious punch. And I'm not even sure

622
00:39:06.670 --> 00:39:10.230
if they're legal in my state. I don't really plan on carrying them.

623
00:39:10.390 --> 00:39:14.190
I just plan on loving them and I really dig

624
00:39:14.190 --> 00:39:17.790
it. I gotta find if they're legal. If they're not legal, I'm not gonna carry

625
00:39:17.790 --> 00:39:21.630
them. I don't need to go upstate on a weapons charge. Mild

626
00:39:21.630 --> 00:39:24.150
mannered me. But I really do love

627
00:39:24.950 --> 00:39:27.830
saps. I've always wanted one. Or blackjacks, which are

628
00:39:28.550 --> 00:39:32.160
similar, but I believe they have a spring internally going from the

629
00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:35.880
handle up to the weight up front. So Jim sent

630
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:39.520
me these in that box. I know he, he pays

631
00:39:39.520 --> 00:39:43.000
attention you know, I bet he's got a happy wife. He

632
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:46.799
listens and he got, he, he sent

633
00:39:46.799 --> 00:39:49.960
me these along. I really appreciate them. I think they're a part of his collection

634
00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:53.560
that he just didn't need anymore. And here's the midget, by the way.

635
00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:57.360
I guess not politically correctly named anymore,

636
00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:01.280
but, but this is a smaller version and way more

637
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:04.400
pocketable. Drop this right in your pocket, pull it out. Whack.

638
00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:08.600
Yeah, you just feel it all through your body when you, when you do that.

639
00:40:08.600 --> 00:40:12.320
You just can feel it. All right, so that's the

640
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:16.120
first thing. Second thing, this is a knife that was

641
00:40:16.120 --> 00:40:19.920
sent to me from the manufacturer and

642
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:23.770
it's a flisa knife. This is the, if you look it up on

643
00:40:24.810 --> 00:40:28.010
Amazon, it's the Flissa 12 inch Bowie

644
00:40:28.490 --> 00:40:32.330
12 inch, referring to the overall length. It comes in a pretty

645
00:40:32.410 --> 00:40:36.170
cheesy, I, I shouldn't put it that way. It comes in a, a

646
00:40:36.170 --> 00:40:40.010
somewhat cheap leather leather sheath, meaning, you know, we can tell when

647
00:40:40.010 --> 00:40:43.770
something is beautiful leather or when something is sort of like particle

648
00:40:43.770 --> 00:40:47.530
leather. And I think that's what this is. Doesn't matter. It's a $25

649
00:40:47.770 --> 00:40:51.300
knife. And I gotta say, I have put it through some

650
00:40:51.300 --> 00:40:55.020
paces. I'm going to be releasing a video that shows a lot of use of

651
00:40:55.020 --> 00:40:58.860
this. I did. But, and, and here's

652
00:40:58.860 --> 00:41:01.940
why you don't, you know, I don't do many videos like that. And when people

653
00:41:01.940 --> 00:41:05.699
send me knives, I rarely like, take them out and pound down

654
00:41:05.699 --> 00:41:09.380
them. But this Lissa brand I'm brand new to, and

655
00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:13.380
I don't want to just get on and say it's a great looking

656
00:41:13.460 --> 00:41:17.310
knife, which I think it is. I have to make sure that

657
00:41:17.790 --> 00:41:21.630
before I say it's, it's worth your 25 bucks that it can go the distance.

658
00:41:22.110 --> 00:41:25.800
So I took this. This is 7Cr 7

659
00:41:26.003 --> 00:41:29.790
7Cr 18 Mov or something like that.

660
00:41:29.790 --> 00:41:33.510
It's a 7Cr steel from China. Took it out

661
00:41:33.510 --> 00:41:36.270
back, baton it through some seasoned wood.

662
00:41:37.390 --> 00:41:41.110
And then I made carvings, feather sticks. And I started

663
00:41:41.110 --> 00:41:44.110
a fire with it. I cut sisle rope with it

664
00:41:44.900 --> 00:41:48.180
and I did something else with it. Oh, tip test.

665
00:41:49.140 --> 00:41:52.860
Stuck it in a two by six and, and kind of, you can tell when

666
00:41:52.860 --> 00:41:56.620
you watch me do that. I was tentative at first and then I

667
00:41:56.620 --> 00:42:00.459
started going for it. This tip went the distance. This knife in

668
00:42:00.459 --> 00:42:04.100
general went the distance. I, I, I like this knife. I

669
00:42:04.100 --> 00:42:07.140
was planning on giving it to my daughter, but I, I'm

670
00:42:08.580 --> 00:42:11.780
might just have to buy her one. I really do like this knife.

671
00:42:12.180 --> 00:42:15.900
Flissa. You guys know Flissa 90 degree

672
00:42:15.900 --> 00:42:19.340
spine through sparks just fine. Thing I

673
00:42:19.340 --> 00:42:23.060
appreciate is it feels more 90 degree. I don't think this is

674
00:42:23.060 --> 00:42:26.820
by design but closer to the tip back here it feels like

675
00:42:27.460 --> 00:42:31.100
slightly more rounded in case your thumb is there. But like I

676
00:42:31.100 --> 00:42:34.740
said I think that might just be a function of this particular

677
00:42:34.980 --> 00:42:38.700
specimen. Really, really nice knife. The one thing it struggled

678
00:42:38.700 --> 00:42:42.510
through was that sisle rope and I believe it's just because it doesn't

679
00:42:42.510 --> 00:42:45.830
have a toothy edge. It had a somewhat

680
00:42:45.830 --> 00:42:49.670
polished edge. So it still glides through paper even

681
00:42:49.670 --> 00:42:53.470
after all that. But it did struggle through that

682
00:42:53.470 --> 00:42:57.190
sisle rope which you'll see. So that's the Flissa

683
00:42:57.190 --> 00:43:00.950
12 inch Bowie. I do like this and I would, I would say

684
00:43:01.350 --> 00:43:05.190
at this point I can, I can say that it's worth 25. It's worth your

685
00:43:05.190 --> 00:43:07.730
25 bucks. Be a great camp knife

686
00:43:10.210 --> 00:43:13.930
or whatever knife. I mean this would be good, good knife to

687
00:43:13.930 --> 00:43:17.610
keep by the bed, you know, that kind of thing. But I like

688
00:43:17.610 --> 00:43:21.330
it. Listen knives, I'm curious about their other fixed blades. Not

689
00:43:21.330 --> 00:43:25.090
so interested in their folders but I'd be interested to see their fixed blade.

690
00:43:25.570 --> 00:43:29.090
This was a birthday knife given to me by my brother in law who's

691
00:43:29.090 --> 00:43:32.860
an awesome dude, former marine and, and does a lot of

692
00:43:32.860 --> 00:43:36.300
interesting stuff these days that he can't tell me about. This is the

693
00:43:36.700 --> 00:43:39.740
Pinkerton designed Dirk Pinkerton designed

694
00:43:40.060 --> 00:43:43.900
artisan cutlery proponent. This

695
00:43:43.900 --> 00:43:47.260
is a hugely famous knife and famous design and

696
00:43:47.660 --> 00:43:50.220
one of the best sellers at Artisan and one of

697
00:43:50.860 --> 00:43:54.700
Dirk's bestsellers of his designs. And

698
00:43:54.700 --> 00:43:58.300
man, it is cool. It is a big knife.

699
00:43:58.710 --> 00:44:02.230
I mean this is a big knife. Even though it's much smaller than

700
00:44:02.230 --> 00:44:05.990
say a, an XL cold steel.

701
00:44:06.310 --> 00:44:10.030
This thing is just a chunker and, and I opened this up in

702
00:44:10.030 --> 00:44:13.830
front of a, a group of people and they all ouden odd because

703
00:44:14.070 --> 00:44:17.710
I received this at the pool and we had a group of friends

704
00:44:17.710 --> 00:44:21.550
around and about 20 people cried out when

705
00:44:21.550 --> 00:44:25.080
I opened this up. So I love this thing just for size

706
00:44:25.080 --> 00:44:28.600
reference. Oh this one by the way has a D2

707
00:44:28.600 --> 00:44:32.320
blade G10 steel liner lock. It is

708
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:36.080
a tonker. And here is the Mini which I always

709
00:44:36.080 --> 00:44:39.440
thought was a bit of a chunker. And I really, I, I think, I think

710
00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:42.400
I still like the Mini a little bit better but

711
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:47.400
for sentimental reasons I like, I like that one. But look at how much smaller

712
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.750
the Mini is. And yeah,

713
00:44:51.390 --> 00:44:54.510
to me it doesn't feel so many but a very sort of

714
00:44:54.510 --> 00:44:58.270
futuristic design. It's sort of like a.

715
00:44:58.670 --> 00:45:02.430
Sort of like a sax, sort of like a Wharncliffe, sort of like a,

716
00:45:03.470 --> 00:45:06.750
you know, yojimbo. So a great future

717
00:45:07.150 --> 00:45:10.910
futuristic Viking pocket knife. You will. Nice big

718
00:45:10.910 --> 00:45:14.670
clip, awesome knife, beautiful standoffs. I really like

719
00:45:14.670 --> 00:45:18.440
this thing and a bit heavy. So

720
00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:22.240
next up, same birthday, different night.

721
00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:27.960
This comes from a neighborhood friend whose father unfortunately passed

722
00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:31.760
away somewhat recently. And he gave

723
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:35.520
me this buck112 which was his

724
00:45:36.080 --> 00:45:39.760
father's. And he gave it to me

725
00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:43.610
and I'm. I'm super honored to have it. It's got the

726
00:45:43.610 --> 00:45:47.130
squared off, squared off handles

727
00:45:47.130 --> 00:45:50.570
and the zero nail neck that you'll see in

728
00:45:50.810 --> 00:45:54.470
buck 112. Rangers from the 70s,

729
00:45:54.670 --> 00:45:58.410
74 through 80. They, they first

730
00:45:58.410 --> 00:46:02.210
came out in 1974 and they had

731
00:46:02.210 --> 00:46:05.890
no nail neck. And then a marketing guy said,

732
00:46:05.890 --> 00:46:09.480
hey, let's put the nail neck on it. It'll sell like the 110. And it

733
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:13.240
didn't change sales apparently. But the nail nick is now on there

734
00:46:13.240 --> 00:46:16.640
forever, as can be seen by this newer generation

735
00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:20.560
buck 112 with the rounded handle and all that.

736
00:46:21.520 --> 00:46:25.280
So great knife. Really excited to have this one. Now that I've shown

737
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:29.080
it up on all the shows and have made videos about it and stuff,

738
00:46:29.080 --> 00:46:32.560
it's time to clean it up because it still has usage

739
00:46:32.720 --> 00:46:36.440
gunk on the blade, which is kind of interesting because.

740
00:46:38.200 --> 00:46:41.840
And, and it also has gunk on the handle. And I say it's interesting because

741
00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:45.600
I. It reminds me of how I got my

742
00:46:45.600 --> 00:46:49.280
grandfather's shaver, you know, electric shaver after

743
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:53.000
he passed away. And I remember blowing it and

744
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:56.440
a bunch of his hair came out and I don't know,

745
00:46:56.680 --> 00:47:00.330
it was interesting. Just a little bit of legacy stuff there. Anyway,

746
00:47:00.330 --> 00:47:03.730
next up vintage was the buck 112.

747
00:47:04.130 --> 00:47:07.930
Modern and current and dropping. Well, just

748
00:47:07.930 --> 00:47:11.250
dropped on Monday the 25th is the buck

749
00:47:11.570 --> 00:47:15.170
range and the Mini range. And I.

750
00:47:15.569 --> 00:47:18.530
This was just sent to me from Buck. I'm really impressed with this knife.

751
00:47:19.330 --> 00:47:23.130
It's. It's a modern buck and Buck has a lot of

752
00:47:23.130 --> 00:47:26.380
modern knives. It's just I haven't indulged in them yet.

753
00:47:27.180 --> 00:47:31.020
I'm really happy about this knife. This is the range and

754
00:47:31.020 --> 00:47:34.220
this is the Mini range. Now these are.

755
00:47:35.340 --> 00:47:38.940
This one is a magnacut blade, 3.4 inches

756
00:47:39.420 --> 00:47:43.180
saber grind, really thin blade stock. Great jimping on top by the

757
00:47:43.180 --> 00:47:46.940
way. Really thin blade stock comes down to a wickedly sharp

758
00:47:46.940 --> 00:47:50.500
edge. Thin behind that edge, anodized

759
00:47:50.500 --> 00:47:54.200
aluminum handle with a crossbar lock which works

760
00:47:54.200 --> 00:47:57.680
great. At first it was sticking a lot and

761
00:47:58.240 --> 00:48:01.840
as I thought it. That has pretty much worked itself

762
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:04.240
out. Sometimes if I really horse it open,

763
00:48:06.160 --> 00:48:09.680
you Get a little bit of blade stick but that will, that will eventually

764
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:13.600
wear away. Deep carry pocket clip is mounted on the

765
00:48:13.600 --> 00:48:17.440
pommel which I love. I love that style of deep carry clip goes

766
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:21.190
in there without any hassle. No need to make an

767
00:48:21.190 --> 00:48:24.870
inset notch that you have to cover up on the other side or leave uncovered

768
00:48:24.870 --> 00:48:28.670
on the other side and it goes in there. Extra deep sort of

769
00:48:28.670 --> 00:48:31.590
clamshell construction on this one. Liners only

770
00:48:32.310 --> 00:48:35.750
where they are needed to accommodate that lock.

771
00:48:36.390 --> 00:48:40.190
And then here is the mini range. The mini range

772
00:48:40.190 --> 00:48:43.910
is what gave me that nice little wound on my thumb muscle there.

773
00:48:44.550 --> 00:48:48.350
This is the first day without putting super glue on

774
00:48:48.350 --> 00:48:51.510
it and bandaging it up. It's start. It's pretty,

775
00:48:52.230 --> 00:48:56.070
getting pretty healed by the way. Super glue. That's why it was invented. So

776
00:48:56.390 --> 00:49:00.030
don't be shy. This is 154cm

777
00:49:00.030 --> 00:49:03.830
blade steel. You can see there. Paul Boss heat treat as

778
00:49:03.830 --> 00:49:07.630
both have. And then this has a different clip set up. It's

779
00:49:07.630 --> 00:49:11.430
loop over deep carry but kind of a thick clip so you

780
00:49:11.430 --> 00:49:14.890
feel it a little bit when you stick it in, in in the pants pocket.

781
00:49:14.890 --> 00:49:18.650
But at least those are not button screw heads. They are inset

782
00:49:18.650 --> 00:49:21.530
screws. Nice glass filled

783
00:49:22.090 --> 00:49:25.810
nylon handle and great action on

784
00:49:25.810 --> 00:49:29.210
this no lock stick from the start and

785
00:49:29.849 --> 00:49:31.690
a light little blade. So this one

786
00:49:33.850 --> 00:49:37.650
I'm, I'm still working in it. It doesn't drop shut when you pull them

787
00:49:37.650 --> 00:49:40.890
back but it, it does whip in there pretty easy.

788
00:49:41.980 --> 00:49:45.260
Two really, really great knives from Buck. I'm really

789
00:49:45.820 --> 00:49:49.020
happy, I don't know happy to have these

790
00:49:49.420 --> 00:49:52.540
because I've seen a lot of modern bucks that don't quite do it for me

791
00:49:52.540 --> 00:49:56.060
but these, these definitely do. I feel like the design

792
00:49:56.220 --> 00:50:00.020
discipline here is right on. You can see

793
00:50:00.020 --> 00:50:03.860
the anvil on the clip and what do you mean by that Bob? I mean

794
00:50:03.860 --> 00:50:07.250
I felt like some of the, I feel like some of the more modern bucks

795
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:10.360
Buck designs are awkward in one way or another.

796
00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:15.120
These are not. These are great and I really dig them. All right next up.

797
00:50:15.120 --> 00:50:18.120
This was in the box that Dave sent me

798
00:50:18.920 --> 00:50:22.520
and this is probably slated for giveaway but I

799
00:50:22.600 --> 00:50:26.440
really really like this knife. This is the

800
00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:30.200
Kaiser Mercury designed by Alex Berkowitz.

801
00:50:30.600 --> 00:50:33.080
A really cool looking

802
00:50:34.200 --> 00:50:37.240
straight razor Y type type knife. Obviously takes

803
00:50:37.560 --> 00:50:40.360
inspiration from the straight razor. Has a nice

804
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:44.200
thinly hollow ground blade. There's Mr. Berkowitz's

805
00:50:45.560 --> 00:50:49.080
maker's mark Mercury. Look at how thin it gets

806
00:50:49.160 --> 00:50:52.440
at the blade. See if you can see it at the edge.

807
00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:57.800
You can feel that hollow grind. Really really cool knife.

808
00:50:58.120 --> 00:51:01.560
Gold anodized aluminum handle here. I think it's

809
00:51:01.560 --> 00:51:05.340
aluminum. You know what, I don't quote

810
00:51:05.340 --> 00:51:08.500
me on that. Actually it feels more like titanium. It feels like it has the

811
00:51:08.500 --> 00:51:12.100
weight of titanium, sort of a faux

812
00:51:12.180 --> 00:51:15.460
integral. You can see it's clamshell again, so no

813
00:51:15.460 --> 00:51:19.140
backspacer. And. And on the inside it's nicely

814
00:51:19.620 --> 00:51:22.100
milled where those two pieces come together.

815
00:51:23.220 --> 00:51:26.820
Beautiful knife. S35VN

816
00:51:26.820 --> 00:51:29.420
steel here. Nice action.

817
00:51:30.300 --> 00:51:34.060
Somewhat thin. It's sort of CEO style in terms of its thinness.

818
00:51:34.140 --> 00:51:37.860
This is one that I feel you could definitely wear in

819
00:51:37.860 --> 00:51:41.380
the boardroom. Carry in the boardroom. And because it's nice and

820
00:51:41.380 --> 00:51:45.020
slender and it's pretty and you could, you could

821
00:51:45.340 --> 00:51:49.140
kind of rock it like you rock a CEO style knife. But I gotta

822
00:51:49.140 --> 00:51:52.940
say, you also get a touch of menace with the blade shape.

823
00:51:53.590 --> 00:51:57.070
Even though it isn't pointy. It looks like Demon Barber of Fleet

824
00:51:57.070 --> 00:51:59.030
Street's favorite weapon.

825
00:52:01.190 --> 00:52:04.630
Really nice knife. Okay, so that is the Mercury from

826
00:52:04.630 --> 00:52:08.310
Kaiser. Next up, sent to me by

827
00:52:08.310 --> 00:52:11.590
Apoc Survival is the breeding.

828
00:52:12.470 --> 00:52:16.030
What is this? This is the Whisper Goo. Really

829
00:52:16.030 --> 00:52:19.830
cool knife designed by Kim Breeden. I believe his name is

830
00:52:21.550 --> 00:52:25.270
really, really Japanese in inspiration.

831
00:52:25.270 --> 00:52:28.190
It looks like a traditional tanto with that

832
00:52:28.910 --> 00:52:32.430
upswept non faceted blade of.

833
00:52:33.390 --> 00:52:37.230
This is D2 and you have two layers

834
00:52:37.230 --> 00:52:40.910
of G10. A thin maroon layer as

835
00:52:40.910 --> 00:52:43.710
a liner basically. And then this really nicely

836
00:52:44.110 --> 00:52:47.520
contoured and cut out handle scale on top.

837
00:52:47.520 --> 00:52:51.200
Obviously taking its design cues from

838
00:52:51.200 --> 00:52:55.000
traditional Japanese knives made in China. Right there.

839
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:58.760
I mentioned that on Thursday night knives. That's the one part I don't like. Not

840
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:02.360
that it's made in China, but that's where they put it. I just don't like

841
00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:04.560
that as a spot to put writing at all actually.

842
00:53:06.160 --> 00:53:09.760
Be nice to have jimping there seeing as there's no guard.

843
00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:14.130
But so very

844
00:53:14.130 --> 00:53:17.610
nice action on the thumb studs and on the clothes. Really

845
00:53:18.170 --> 00:53:21.850
smooth. And then on this side you've got the loop

846
00:53:21.850 --> 00:53:25.450
over deep carry pocket clip. Very cool. And I love this touch

847
00:53:25.690 --> 00:53:29.490
that, that Japanese cherry blossom there looks

848
00:53:29.490 --> 00:53:32.890
really cool. All right, the next.

849
00:53:33.130 --> 00:53:36.810
I got three knives from APOC Survival, all designed, all

850
00:53:36.810 --> 00:53:40.600
breed in designs. This next one is a neck knife. I took the

851
00:53:40.600 --> 00:53:43.800
chain off. I, I don't think I'm going to use this as a neck knife,

852
00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:47.480
but a really cool Japanese inspired

853
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:51.000
utility knife. Again we get that same

854
00:53:51.400 --> 00:53:55.200
G10 treatment where you get two layers of G10. This time the

855
00:53:55.200 --> 00:53:59.000
top layer is thinner and you get relief

856
00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:02.720
cut holes going all the way through. Let's see.

857
00:54:02.720 --> 00:54:06.280
Can we see them? Let's See all the way through the handle. There we go

858
00:54:07.330 --> 00:54:10.850
right there. Very, very nice. Little sharp,

859
00:54:10.850 --> 00:54:14.690
wickedly sharp and pointy utility knife. This would make a

860
00:54:14.690 --> 00:54:18.490
great drop in pocket fixed blade.

861
00:54:18.490 --> 00:54:22.170
That's probably how I'm going to use this one. I've been taking to drop in

862
00:54:22.170 --> 00:54:25.970
knives in the pocket as is evidenced by the DP1

863
00:54:26.290 --> 00:54:29.890
and others. And I think this will make a great, great knife for that

864
00:54:29.890 --> 00:54:33.410
purpose. Last up in the breeding

865
00:54:34.010 --> 00:54:37.770
group of knives, Breeding design group of knives I got from APOC

866
00:54:37.770 --> 00:54:41.490
Survival is this really cool fixie. This

867
00:54:41.490 --> 00:54:45.130
is called the Torrent. The Torrent. It comes

868
00:54:45.130 --> 00:54:48.970
first of all in this great sheath with this nylon setup.

869
00:54:49.529 --> 00:54:53.210
Nylon nylon belt loop that can

870
00:54:53.210 --> 00:54:56.810
come on or off the knife if you want to mount this

871
00:54:56.810 --> 00:55:00.570
somewhere and or use different style clips. You're totally set up for

872
00:55:00.570 --> 00:55:04.330
that with the four slots and the six grommets all spaced

873
00:55:04.330 --> 00:55:07.730
for Tek Lok. But here is the blade

874
00:55:08.050 --> 00:55:11.410
again, Japanese inspired, beautiful. Sort of

875
00:55:12.850 --> 00:55:16.570
almost looks like a drop. Looks like there's a little bit of

876
00:55:16.570 --> 00:55:20.130
a drop in the point or to the point right there. But

877
00:55:20.450 --> 00:55:24.290
traditional style tanto blade, D2 blade

878
00:55:24.290 --> 00:55:28.110
steel. Again, made in China right there. Again that's

879
00:55:28.110 --> 00:55:31.550
okay. But a really nice handle. It's

880
00:55:31.710 --> 00:55:35.390
again like the Whisper folder. It's contoured and it's

881
00:55:35.390 --> 00:55:39.190
double layered. So you got the beautiful maroon and then the black

882
00:55:39.190 --> 00:55:42.990
with the cutouts. This one, like the neck knife also

883
00:55:43.070 --> 00:55:46.270
has the cutouts all the way through the blade or all the way through the

884
00:55:46.270 --> 00:55:50.110
handle. Really nice in hand

885
00:55:50.110 --> 00:55:53.950
and I like this. I'm a sucker for the forward thumb ramp,

886
00:55:54.060 --> 00:55:57.820
the forward back facing thumb ramp. So this one has a thumb ramp here

887
00:55:57.820 --> 00:56:01.260
and then a little area to put your thumb here and pull back

888
00:56:01.580 --> 00:56:05.420
against that peak there. Apoc Survival has been

889
00:56:05.500 --> 00:56:09.180
doing some really, really cool stuff. They are a company of past

890
00:56:09.260 --> 00:56:12.980
Iberia. We had a conversation with Patrick

891
00:56:12.980 --> 00:56:16.780
Shipley of APOC on this show. It was great. He's

892
00:56:16.780 --> 00:56:20.530
a cool dude and has great ideas and they're

893
00:56:20.770 --> 00:56:24.610
doing great collaboration. Knives with the demos or

894
00:56:24.610 --> 00:56:27.810
with Andrew Demco, with Mike Wallace, with

895
00:56:28.130 --> 00:56:31.970
Mr. Breeden here and others. And they're doing some really

896
00:56:31.970 --> 00:56:34.450
cool, unique stuff all meant for,

897
00:56:36.530 --> 00:56:39.730
you know, when the crap hits the fan type scenarios,

898
00:56:40.290 --> 00:56:43.850
but also in recognition of the fact that that doesn't happen

899
00:56:43.850 --> 00:56:47.100
every day are also very practical,

900
00:56:48.460 --> 00:56:51.820
practical knives. So APO Survival

901
00:56:51.980 --> 00:56:55.740
loving their knives and I'm really psyched about this latest

902
00:56:56.060 --> 00:56:59.780
group of knives they sent out. All

903
00:56:59.780 --> 00:57:03.500
right, penultimate in this list. Another sip of coffee here.

904
00:57:06.060 --> 00:57:09.860
Give me the strength to carry on. This was also in the

905
00:57:09.860 --> 00:57:12.550
box from Dave. Wow. How cool is this?

906
00:57:13.590 --> 00:57:17.390
This is the Rosecraft blades Clinch river mt. Now I'm not a

907
00:57:17.390 --> 00:57:21.150
huge fan of Rosecraft's modern knives

908
00:57:21.150 --> 00:57:24.830
but I am a huge fan of their traditional slip joint knives. And

909
00:57:24.830 --> 00:57:28.550
this started out life as a traditional

910
00:57:28.550 --> 00:57:32.270
slip joint kind of swayback that they do the

911
00:57:32.270 --> 00:57:35.750
clinch river and they dressed it up. This is

912
00:57:35.750 --> 00:57:39.200
M390 blade steel. It's a

913
00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:43.200
very thin, beautifully machine satin

914
00:57:43.680 --> 00:57:47.520
wharncliffe blade with a nice big finger choil and

915
00:57:47.600 --> 00:57:51.200
of course titanium bolsters and

916
00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:55.680
a button lock. Now this is. This button lock is much

917
00:57:55.680 --> 00:57:59.320
like the Civivi elementum

918
00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:02.760
button lock in that you. Sorry, that

919
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:06.470
thumb you need to press in the button. Oh my gosh, I'm

920
00:58:06.470 --> 00:58:09.590
making a mess of it. You need to press in the button to get this

921
00:58:09.590 --> 00:58:13.350
to open up and then obviously press in the button to

922
00:58:13.350 --> 00:58:16.790
relock it. I'm going to do this here for a sec. So

923
00:58:19.509 --> 00:58:23.310
that's how it works. And man, it is so beautiful.

924
00:58:23.310 --> 00:58:26.910
I love the look of that hunter

925
00:58:26.910 --> 00:58:30.600
green. It's like an OD green hunter green micarta.

926
00:58:30.600 --> 00:58:34.200
It's like a, it's like an. It's like an olive drab but

927
00:58:34.200 --> 00:58:37.720
with a little bit more blue in it. So you know,

928
00:58:38.120 --> 00:58:41.560
is it for an army vehicle or is it for a Range Rover? I don't

929
00:58:41.560 --> 00:58:45.320
know. You decide. But it's a beautiful color. This knife feels

930
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:49.000
great in hand and it's just a. It's just

931
00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:52.360
a really cool knife. So I think

932
00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:54.440
probably slated for giveaway.

933
00:58:56.370 --> 00:58:59.530
I have to be careful about what I adopt these days because I have too

934
00:58:59.530 --> 00:59:03.050
much and so much of it I don't carry. But I'm really

935
00:59:03.050 --> 00:59:06.290
impressed by that swedge. The Swedish is just so

936
00:59:07.410 --> 00:59:11.090
nummy. And also this would make a great

937
00:59:11.090 --> 00:59:14.890
self defense knife if it's open. I don't know. As you can see,

938
00:59:14.890 --> 00:59:18.730
I've been having trouble opening it. But that's just user error. But

939
00:59:18.730 --> 00:59:22.210
I mean this thing in reverse pacal style grip like this

940
00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:26.600
just feels great. Melts right in. So kind of a gentleman's knife that

941
00:59:26.600 --> 00:59:30.160
can transition into something else if need be.

942
00:59:30.160 --> 00:59:33.880
Again, a good one for the boardroom. All

943
00:59:33.880 --> 00:59:36.840
right, last up and this is the very special thing.

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This is the new

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00:59:41.160 --> 00:59:45.000
agent 001 from Tkal Knives. I

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00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:48.650
have it in four different handle

947
00:59:48.650 --> 00:59:52.090
materials. Let me show them to you. This just

948
00:59:52.090 --> 00:59:55.890
arrived yesterday as I record this

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00:59:57.170 --> 01:00:00.370
and here they are. They are stunningly beautiful.

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So and I will compare them to the old, old model

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01:00:04.850 --> 01:00:08.570
or the original production run model. Yeah, here they

952
01:00:08.570 --> 01:00:12.370
are together. So

953
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the new ones are now and many of them

954
01:00:15.770 --> 01:00:19.530
Tekel knives. Knives are being made by

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01:00:20.250 --> 01:00:23.930
Nick Chuprin's company, NCC Knives up

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01:00:23.930 --> 01:00:27.770
in New Hampshire. And this man is a

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01:00:27.770 --> 01:00:31.529
serious perfectionist and a serious machinist.

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01:00:31.770 --> 01:00:35.530
Look how beautiful that is. Look at the,

959
01:00:35.530 --> 01:00:38.970
look at the chamfering on the jimping. Look at the,

960
01:00:40.010 --> 01:00:42.730
at the milling lines on the bevels.

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01:00:43.980 --> 01:00:47.700
It is just gorgeous. I am so excited. I am not

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01:00:47.700 --> 01:00:51.460
sure when these are dropping. This is a decision that

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01:00:51.460 --> 01:00:55.100
I will only. Okay. But it's not, definitely not up to me,

964
01:00:55.100 --> 01:00:58.780
or I should say only announce it is not up to me. Obviously I'm

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01:00:58.780 --> 01:01:02.300
not making them. TKL knives is not my company. This is just my

966
01:01:02.620 --> 01:01:06.340
design. But man, am I thrilled with how these have come out.

967
01:01:06.340 --> 01:01:08.510
They are just beautiful.

968
01:01:10.100 --> 01:01:13.940
Inspired originally by the Love Loveless sub hilt

969
01:01:13.940 --> 01:01:17.660
fighter in that sort of long, slender, clippish point,

970
01:01:17.660 --> 01:01:21.060
double edged blade made in the usa. Here, there's my

971
01:01:21.060 --> 01:01:24.260
maker's mark. And this is.

972
01:01:24.820 --> 01:01:28.500
What does that say? Oh, this is Nitro

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01:01:28.500 --> 01:01:32.020
V. That's what that is. Nitro V with a little American

974
01:01:32.020 --> 01:01:35.260
flag next to it. You got Nitro V. And

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01:01:35.660 --> 01:01:39.260
this is that G10 burl handle. They have

976
01:01:39.260 --> 01:01:42.980
27 different G10 slash micarta. And

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01:01:42.980 --> 01:01:46.740
then this whole new battle lock, which I'll show you in a second, this

978
01:01:46.740 --> 01:01:50.540
is obviously layered G10 blue and black and

979
01:01:50.620 --> 01:01:53.660
also nitro V. How gorgeous that is,

980
01:01:54.860 --> 01:01:57.940
man. And I'm not, I'm not saying it's gorgeous and

981
01:01:57.940 --> 01:02:01.180
complementing my design. I'm saying it's gorgeous and

982
01:02:01.180 --> 01:02:04.820
complimenting Tim and Nick's ability to make

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01:02:04.820 --> 01:02:08.620
knives. These are just so beautiful. Again, nitro

984
01:02:08.620 --> 01:02:12.460
V. Now this is that glass filled nylon

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01:02:13.420 --> 01:02:17.060
battle Battle lock handle. So this area

986
01:02:17.060 --> 01:02:20.780
right here that's not smooth is really, it's got

987
01:02:20.780 --> 01:02:24.540
that skateboard texture, skateboard tape texture. And

988
01:02:24.540 --> 01:02:28.300
it does truly lock in the hand. I have to be a thousand percent

989
01:02:28.300 --> 01:02:31.640
honest. When I first heard about this handle,

990
01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:35.400
about these handles, I was like, I don't like GFN. I'd much

991
01:02:35.400 --> 01:02:39.160
prefer Micarta or, or G10. And in a sense

992
01:02:39.160 --> 01:02:42.840
that is true. But man, if you really need this knife

993
01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:46.360
for usage like, and you're not just a collector like

994
01:02:46.360 --> 01:02:49.880
myself, these battle lock handles are

995
01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:53.720
amazing. They are so grippy. They are so grippy and nice.

996
01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:58.550
So there it is. And this will become, this will

997
01:02:58.550 --> 01:03:02.150
be available when it's available, which is very soon as I record

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01:03:02.150 --> 01:03:05.950
this. So probably very, very early September or late August

999
01:03:05.950 --> 01:03:08.990
2025. They all ship with a Kydex sheath

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01:03:09.550 --> 01:03:13.230
like this. With the cool horizontal mount, these things work

1001
01:03:13.310 --> 01:03:16.830
great. But also you can get it with the

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01:03:16.990 --> 01:03:20.110
badger claw sheath, a little extra.

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01:03:20.590 --> 01:03:23.310
And then I gotta show you this before I sign off.

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01:03:24.410 --> 01:03:27.930
They all come in a. In one of these zipper cases. Like, I think all

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01:03:27.930 --> 01:03:30.970
Tkel knives now come in these really great zipper cases.

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01:03:31.850 --> 01:03:35.530
And. But this is how this one arrived. He sent.

1007
01:03:35.930 --> 01:03:39.690
They sent me a. One of these newer

1008
01:03:41.770 --> 01:03:45.530
Ulti clips, which I gotta check out. It's like a wireless in the waistband clip.

1009
01:03:45.770 --> 01:03:49.010
And look at all the band aids. Look at all the don't be dumb or

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01:03:49.010 --> 01:03:51.880
be less dumb band aids I got. And that's because

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01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:55.960
Vinnie in their shop says Bob, a few extras

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01:03:56.120 --> 01:03:59.480
of these to help with future mishaps. Because Vinnie.

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01:03:59.640 --> 01:04:03.400
Thank you, Vinnie. I appreciate it. He's been a friend of the

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01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:07.040
channel, watching the channel for a long time. And Vinnie of the

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01:04:07.040 --> 01:04:10.560
TKL knives team has seen me cut myself many times on

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01:04:10.560 --> 01:04:14.280
camera. But most especially in the last couple of weeks, it's happened

1017
01:04:14.280 --> 01:04:18.100
twice. And. And the one time

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01:04:18.100 --> 01:04:21.900
all I had close to me was a paper towel. I had no band aids.

1019
01:04:21.980 --> 01:04:25.660
So Vinnie's hooking me up with the, with the Tekal band

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01:04:25.660 --> 01:04:28.380
aids. I really appreciate it. But again,

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01:04:29.340 --> 01:04:32.940
keep your eyes out for the release of the new Tekel Knives Agent

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01:04:32.940 --> 01:04:36.700
Double01, designed by yours truly and Tim in

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01:04:36.700 --> 01:04:40.540
a true creative collaboration. So proud of this

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01:04:40.540 --> 01:04:44.330
design and this knife and so proud to be associated with. With and

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01:04:44.330 --> 01:04:48.170
a friend of Tim Kell. So really go

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01:04:48.170 --> 01:04:51.850
check them out. They are sweet. Look at that. So beautiful. All right.

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For Jim working his magic behind the switcher, I'm Bob DeMarco saying until

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next time, please don't take dull for an

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01:04:59.250 --> 01:05:02.770
answer. Thanks for listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. If you

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