Coming up, I'm going to show you the 9-20-25
Gentleman Junkie Giveaway knife. Then we're going to show you three
great carry combos. And then lastly,
I want to show you 10 new knives that I've gotten in the past
week that I really like, plus something extra Special.
I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie Podcast.
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Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from last week's episode on
Grab and Go Zombie Fixed blades comes from Carino
1. He says Jim and Bob, really great episode. Lots of fond
memories of carrying the Made in Japan Spydercos. Another
subject I discussed on that episode, I like them all, but a personal
favorite is the fully serrated Calypso junior. Such an
easy knife to carry and man does it cut.
As for choosing a zombie slayer, everything presented in this episode was
super mean. But my choice of them would be the tops Wild pig
Hunter. Slashing and hacking is wasted calories. We
have to pierce the brain to stop those jaws from chomping. So
a very good point, Carino. Yeah, hacking, hacking and, and
slashing. That's, that's like the workout regimen of the post
apocalyptic zombie hunter. So, you know, maybe keep some of those slashes
around just to stay in shape. Next comment was from
6freak58 and I was talking about the new slabby from K
Bar, the full, full tang K Bar. He says K Bar's
price point of $250 is wishful thinking.
And I'm not sure if it is because you know, there are a lot of
real big K Bar fans out there. But I, I'm kind of with him
in that. Presumably him. Six Freak.
It seems like a huge price jump to go from like around
100 bucks to 250 just to get a full tang. I know they did
some contra, like a whole. It's a whole different knife but
still it kind of seems a little steep. So I'm sure eventually
it'll that price will right size with the market and with the
knife junkies out there. All right, guys, thanks for commenting. I really
appreciate it. Also, thanks for watching
the videos this week. Also the shorts that I've been putting up. As
you may know, I was kicked off of Instagram. Stayed off for
about a month until I got frustrated with the appeals process and just
started a new, a new page. It's
Knife Underscore Junkie Underscore podcast. And I've been, I've been
posting to that, uh, only a couple so far, but
every time I post something to YouTube, I'm going to post it over there or
post something over there on Instagram. It's a new habit I'm,
I'm putting myself back into because I really fell off
the wagon with Instagram for quite a long time and was just using it
for finding new knife makers and keeping in touch with
friends. So back on Instagram, Knife
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All right, that said, let's get to a pocket check.
What's in his pocket? Let's find out.
Here's the knife junkie with his pocket check of knives. In my
front right pocket I had the super cool
brs. That's Blade Runner Systems Evolve. That's one of
their lines of knives. Kopesh Khopesh is an
ancient Egyptian sword. And this is taking
visual cues, design cues from it. But more importantly,
this is a gift for my birthday, which was a week
ago. He got. This is from Dave of
OG Blade Reviews. Every year it seems Dave sends me
something really cool on my birthday and I really appreciate it.
This one. Wow. I really, really like this one because
it's unusual, it's large. That's a four,
four and a quarter inch M390 blade.
And it's totally fidgety. It's a really
great knife to fidget with. Part of that is
due to these really unique thumb studs. I ordinarily don't go
for anything that isn't a cylinder as a thumb stud, but this
works great and it looks cool. Those backward facing
arrows really grab the fat of your thumb and make it easy to.
To flip or middle finger. Flip this
G10 contour, G10 here. Titanium
bolsters, steel liners, and it's a liner
lock. This thing is so cool. Dave, thank you so much for this.
I have used this several times in the short period. I've had it
for unexpected things, mostly food. And
ordinarily I have something different on me if
food needs to be cut. But this has been, this has been
doing it over this past week. As a matter of fact, just yesterday
I cut a massive hamburger in half for my girls and
they shared it without argument. So yep, this is
in my front right pocket also. I'm sorry. By the way, a gimped
pocket clip on this. I think that should be happening more often. I do
like jimping on my pocket clip. Makes it easier to Pull out, especially if it's
a deep carry by the by the by. And then here we have some really
cool and sort of intricate standoffs. So a beautiful
knife. Thank you so much, Dave. I'm going to be showing you some more stuff
that Dave sent in a box recently today,
later on in the show. All right, next up with
the release of the new Rosecraft
Blades Congress knife. I've been thinking about Congress knives.
So I had my own. The one Congress knife I
have is the Great eastern cutlery number 62.
And this one is a single layer. So they
both of those blades share the same spring. And you
have a beautiful pen blade and an amazing
wharncliffe here. Thing about Congress knives is they can get very
thick. They can get to. I've seen them four springs wide where they
have eight blades. So four on one side, four on the other.
This is in what's called unicorn ivory.
Micarta something. When I first got this, my
daughters were much younger. As a matter of fact, I think when I got this,
yeah, they were both alive, but they were both younger. And I used to like
to tease them that unicorns had to die for this knife
and they thought that was horrifying and then I would,
would have to tell them I was joking. But anyway, really
great thing and something about Congress knives is that
the term Congress doesn't come because they're very dignified and, and
they, they belong in our, our judicial or our
legislative bodies. But the Congress knife it discusses
refers, the Congress name refers to the fact that you have
all these blades coming together from opposite sides in Congress.
So they, they, they come together nicely, they fit together
nicely in a relatively small package. And I
love this GEC62. Not sure if they've done any since
2020 when that came out, but
yeah, great knife. And that was popping around in my pocket in a,
in a leather slip. Thirdly in my waistband
at the appendix position
was my Gunfighter Customs Gunfighter
given to me by the guys at Gunfighter Tactical
Gunfighter Customs. I'm sure. I'm sorry. At Blade Show,
Jared Franklin. And this was also designed by
Michael Elliott, who is a patron and
a great guy and also a Pikiti Tertia and other
types of Kali master specialist.
And this is his take. This knife is his take on the
clinch pick. But he elongated it and you know,
he kept a similar style egg shaped handle to nestle in
the palm. But you have all this room to put your thumb on this knife,
which I love. If you hold it in a sort of saber
Grip like that, you get a longer reach with the blade
and you get a nice lock in with the thumb right here. Or you can
come up in a more Filipino grip here and, and,
and put your thumb on that thumb ramp, that forward thumb
ramp. This one is double edged and I just
love it. I love carrying this knife. It carries really easy. This
smooth egg shaped handle nestles against the
extra I have down below and
carries comfortably. And if I ever needed a last ditch
GTFO knife, that would be the one. All right, last up
on me. Another great, great knife and also very
double edged and tactical. I had for emotional support.
My ESK today was this right here, the
Pinkerton blades Razor. Pinkerton knives, Razorback.
This one is in
Elmax steel and it's got this natural canvas
micarta. Really, really sweet, sweet blade
as I love to talk about. Dirk Pinkerton isn't just
making and designing incredible knives for incredible manufacturers like
Kaiser concept, etc. He works hard at the
grinder too and is just very talented. Makes
incredible knives. Now he is going to be making us a custom
knife. It might be this, there might be a different knife. We have to
decide on it to give away on Thursday night knives to all
comers and it's when we reach
50,000 subscribers. I guess he
saw that we had breached 40,000. We're at like 40,000
nearly. 40,800 nearly. And
he said, well, when you get another 10,000 subscribers, I'll make you a
knife and you can give it away. And I'm really excited for that. And so
I need to step up my game. I need to put out more
shorts. I need to get my feelers out into the world more so that I
get more subscribers. Maybe you could share this video with someone. Maybe they
will subscribe and then when they do and we're up to 50,000
subscribers, someone will win a Dirk
Pinkerton custom fixed blade knife. We still don't know what it is.
I keep feeling like it's going to be a Razorback but something
cool and I cannot wait.
Everyone should have a Dirk Pinkerton custom knife in their collection as far as
I'm concerned. So that's what I had on me today. I had the
Gunfighter Customs Gunfighter. I had the Razorback from
Dirk Pinkerton knives. I had the beautiful number 62
Congress from Great Eastern Cutlery and the
Kopesh from BRS evolve.
And there it is. Beautiful knife. Thank you Dave for that. Next up
I want to show off the gentleman junkie giveaway knife for
September 2025. After I take a sip on this delicious
coffee. By the way, the coffee on our website
is back up. Jim had to tweak some settings in
the, in the. I don't know.
He had to tweak some settings that Jim knows how to tweak. And the,
the purchasing link for coffee
is back online. So if you like coffee like I do, go check that out.
But right here is the knife we're going to be giving away. The three Dog
knife riot. You know Mike from Northern Knives. He shows
up every week to Thursday night knives and
contributes conversation. We always have a great time. Plus he's been on the show.
He's an awesome stand up dude who's been making
custom fixed blade knives for his Northern
Knives shops. He's got Northern Knives and three Dog
knife is the in, in house custom brand. Well, look at this
beautiful sheath before I pull it out. Made by
D. Johnston of Alaska. So they're up in
Anchorage. This whole thing is made in Alaska.
Look at that thing. Absolutely beautiful.
Recurve Tonto. Just a, a
gorgeous blade. And I look at it and I think, is it tactical
or is it outdoorsy? Because Mike does a lot of
tontos for the outdoors and you don't see that too much. And I've always wondered
why. But when I showed this off on Thursday Night Knives
the other night, I believe it was Shane Gables was saying that front portion
of the blade right there would be great for skinning small
gain and. Well, I
believe him. I've never done it, but I, I know he has and I,
I believe it. So this is black cerakoted
K110. K110 is analogous
to D2 blade steel. It's cerakoted
and it's got black micarta. Really beautiful. Comes with a birth
card or dog tag. Actually dog tag, which comes
easily off the knife so as not to scare away the game that you are
stalking. And it rides on the belt in scout
style. Just a really, really beautiful setup.
And I just want to thank Mike for his generosity. He gave me one
and now he's giving Gentleman Junkies one. You say what is it? Gentleman
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Knife Life news from Texas, Tejas
Tactile knives. They have a skeletonized rock
wall. The, the, the Tactile
knives. Rock Wall was their first knife. It's still their flagship
knife. And well, it all comes out
of Tactile Turn the knife company, I mean the pen company,
but Tactile, we all know them by now as the knife company has
a new skeletonized rock wall. As I just said, so a very interesting
looking knife. Here you can see all those Cutouts there. Those
cutouts were created by accident,
just like onion rings and so many other great things that exist.
This was an accidental stroke of genius.
So basically they had a bunch of handle
scales on the mill. Something happened, they
came out wrong and they had to pivot. The
co founder Matt Palmore pivoted as the,
they like to say in the corporate world and, and made a change and they
redesigned the scales with these eight cutouts on both sides.
It's making it, they're making a light knife already.
Very, very light. So those eight cutouts, they
redesigned the blade so that it fit properly
within the handle. I'm not sure how that would change, but yeah, they
changed the blade a little bit. Full flat ground, gave it a little swedge on
top and made it in
magnacut 3.4 inches there. And it comes in three
different varieties. Stone wash as we see on screen, and then a
dark wash and then lastly a beautiful slate blue.
These come in at a paltry 2.4 ounces,
so go check them out. All made in Texas. Everything made
in Texas. A lot of it right in Dallas, right around their shop. I
know they have to reach a little bit further afield for certain things like stop
pins. I think at least that was, that was back in,
back when they first started. Who knows, they might be all in house at some
point. I guess it's time for a check in with tactile knives.
All right, next up from Boker, this is the Mini Bronco.
It's a rugged little Bushcraft knife and a follow up
to their Bronco model. And this is
a, like a mora as I'm, as I'm
contending here, but a bit more premium and a lot
more expensive because instead of
how, how Boker does it with a little rat tail tang that goes halfway down
the handle and, and, and 14C or
12C blade steel. This is three and a half inch drop
point blade in 3V. So it's 3V with a
Scandi grind. And then it's got a
handle of a tpe.
And TPE is a sort of rubbery, kind of tacky feeling
handle. So for all the sort of Bushcraft
activities you're doing out there, it's not going to slip out of the hand easily.
You got a nice big belly on that on the palm
swell there and a tang that goes all the way
through the handle. You can see, you can see it just at the end
there on the pommel there. It is a stick tang, but it goes all the
way through the handle. Something more don't do. So this is kind of an upscaled
version of Amora, at least in my eyes. I'm not even sure if
that's who they're trying to compete with because I know it's a much more expensive
knife. Kydex Taco style Kydex sheath.
And this one is made in Solingen, Germany,
their original location. This is to come out on
August 30th of 2025. It's a nice looking
sheath. Looks pretty low profile. Okay, next up
from Civivi the the ever prolific
Civivi. They have one called the ND
or Modern or Mdrn or
Medium Rn. I don't know exactly how you're supposed to pronounce this, but this is
a follow up of their super popular
Stocken S O K N. So
Son. I'm not even sure how you pronounce that one. But
both are designed from Kyle Lamb who's a tactile a
tactical specialist. I have been following him on
Instagram for years and this looks
different from what I would expect from him just knowing his love for
Wharncliffe's. But you know, we, we can all grow, we can all
like a lot of different things. And so this one is
like I said, a larger version of the Son.
So it has the same sort of tactical handle. You've got
that foot shaped pommel that you can rest your thumb
on. This also like the last knife has a nice
big swell for the fingers there on the handle
and those are G10 scales there. The
original knife had a different shaped drop point. This
is more of a spear point. The original was 2.8 inches. This is
4.12 inches, almost twice the size
nitro V blade steel on this. And you have a sort of
scandi bevel with a
micro bevel for cutting, you know, at the, at the very edge.
So scandi s we might say or like an early tops
Scandinavian knife. So yeah, I like the
handle quite a bit on this. You know, as you can tell from the
001, I go for the handles that really accommodate
thumbs in reverse grip. This seems like more of an outdoor knife to me,
so I'm not sure what the benefit of that is though it is
also a big bird's beak for the pinky. So we'll definitely keep this
knife in hand. Pretty cool. I love Civivi. I
do love Civivi's fixed blade knives. Be cool to
get one of these Saucons or
moderns in hand to check out. Kydex sheath.
3.7 ounces and available early fall of
2025. Last up from Buck
and famed designers and makers G and G
Hawk, Grant and Gavin Hawk, father and son team.
Grant has passed away. Sorry. Sorry to hear
about that. But he. That was in 2023.
We talked about that on the show. Not a new development.
August 2025, buck of the month. That's what we're getting
at. This knife, the Marksman, which is a very famous
buck, came out originally in 2021. I
mean, in 2014. It came back as a buck of the month in
2021, and now it's back as another buck of the month.
This is called by many the most accessible
Grant and Gavin Hawk design for a couple of
reasons. First of all, it's the least
unusual, I think. And it's also the
most easily attainable being made by Buck. It's not a
super expensive custom knife. They're, they're famed for,
for their, for their movement free,
their wiggle free out the front and for other really
great and unique designs and great engineering.
This one, the real USP of this is that back strap
lock. It's a, it's a
piece of steel that. It's a metal back strap with a
keyhole in it. And that keyhole fits the flipper and
then. And then a notch in the blade tang. That's what locks it out.
But you'll get the same length, 3.5-inch
tungsten coated, in this case, 154cm
drop point. So same as the original, but it has a red,
white and black sort of
melange G10 handle. And that's unusual.
They are always done in aluminum. So lots of new things here.
Paul Boss Heat treat, of course, taking that
154cm as far as it can possibly go. Beautiful knife.
And this is, this is one you should jump on as soon as
possible because they go fast. And it's a
buck of the month and it's the buck this month. So
you got a couple of days, so go for it. Really cool knife from
G and G Hawk and Buck. It's the Marksman. All
right. Still to come, the state of the collection. And we're gonna look at
some 10 new knives that I love, plus something special before
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okay, so this was inspired by a Carrie
I very unusual carry for me this weekend
and I'm not exactly sure
why I I carried this, but I was inspired. I was moved to
and or carried like this and it worked out
great. Okay, this is what I carry. Three things.
A fixed blade, a Victorinox and a
flashlight. I was going out with the wife,
with my wife to go for a birthday party to
karaoke and to all these things that we don't normally do anymore,
bars and that kind of thing. And
being the only sober person around, I felt like
I had to be security, you know what I mean? And so this is, this
was my layout. Now this light is brand new.
This was a, a in the box that
Dave sent me OG Blade review sent me and I I have
to adopt this. This is now mine because it is
a really cool flashlight and it's
slender and it's, it fits in the pocket like a knife.
But it's got something I really love, which is immediate access to
the strobe. I think that just freaked out the camera, but
immediate access to the strobe light. And ever since talking to Tomas
Ellas on this podcast about an experience he had where
he basically thwarted a
not sure if it was going to be a carjacking or a jumping or whatever,
he was being followed and eventually he, he
sent them packing by blinding them with a strobe light
on his carry flashlight. And that always left an
impression on me. I for as much as I talk about and love tactical
knives, never want to have to use one in anger.
So had this on me and then I had this in
my front right pocket right next to this, just sitting down in the
bottom of the pocket. This of course, is my agent 001
TKL knives agent 001. This is from the first production
run. I'm gonna be showing you the second production run coming up here soon.
But when I received my samples of the second production run from Tim,
he sent me this beautiful badger claw leather sheath
for one of them and I fell in love with this thing immediately.
So drop this right in the pocket. The curve of this
follows the seam of the jeans or the shape of the
jeans pocket internally perfectly fits, nestles right
over in the corner of your pocket. I had instant access
to this blade right away and I just, I loved
it. I could sit down just fine. It wasn't too big or
anything like that. So I was really, really.
I'm really excited about this and I'm gonna start carrying this knife this
way a lot, I might add, just
for safety. I might add a discreet carry
concepts clip to just to come up and
fasten it to the pocket just in case. But I, I feel
at this point after carrying it well, twice that way now that it's kind
of unneeded. But we shall see. You don't want it just
in a moment of stress pulling out the knife and the sheath comes out with
it. So I'll. I'll probably put one on there. And then lastly, for
practical purposes, I had my Victorinox Cadet with me
mainly because I thought I might have to open someone's beer or
cut something in terms of food. And I didn't want to pull out the
agent001 though as I'm looking at this, that nail neck is pretty
gross. So I'm glad I didn't have to cut any food with it.
So a great carry combo here. I'm going to keep them all on screen as
I talk about them.
That Agent 001,
the Victorinox Cadet and this night Core
EDC 27. What a great light. I'm really excited about
it. All right, next up, gotta make this look pretty. Hang on,
there we go. Next up, second carry combo which I've
been carrying a lot recently. These are all brand new
knives too. So you know, I got the
Victorian or I got the Spyderco classic police model
in the stainless steel handle for fully serrated blade. I've been loving this.
It's so thin but not light. It's pretty substantial in
pocket but it's nice and thin and lots of
other stuff can fit in the pocket with it. So I've been carrying that
and oddly enough a fixed blade right next to it.
The new Jack Wolf knives
JW Collab Collusion, a
design collaboration with Jake. I'm sorry,
Jacob Ginsburg, who goes by Jake. Jacob
creates on Instagram. He just makes beautiful
custom fixed blade knives all very usually small and
EDC able. He's got an incredible design eye and
his skills look super refined from what I can tell from the pictures
in terms of the making of the knife. But in this case it's his
design run through Ben Belkin's
production protocol, we'll
call it. And in this beautiful stout slim
leather sheath. It goes great in the pocket, especially
next to this knife. So it, so I've been double carrying
a lot like a fixed blade and a
folder in the same pocket. And then just for giggles and grins and just in
case on my belt I've had the new with this
carry combo. The new to me urban edge from
cold steel, the little 2 inch double edged
punch dagger really like this knife and
I also got that at Willie Knives in Delaware on
our, on our recent trip. So that's another great carry combo.
No light involved which I should, I should really
start carrying a light all the time for
I don't really need it that much for utility. I keep a little
light on my keys but really for that self defense thing if it
comes up, I would much rather blind someone, kick them in the knee and then
run away than you know, have to use
pull out the knife that I'm carrying. All right, last
carry combo. This is again a fixed blade and a
folder in the same pocket. This is. I'll start
with this. I've been carrying my AMTAC
Northman pretty much more than ever before because I got
a new sheath. The AMTAC Northman sheath is very cool
and it's very useful. It's ambidextrous. It, it drops deep in the
pocket though. And to me it, it always
felt like I'm going to slice my pants as I, as I pull the blade
out. So it also has a Ferro rod which is cool
but I, I don't know, I just let it languish and,
and then I saw an a a video
by Armis knife and tool
Michael Grosso and he was talking about how his
mini VSK1 sheath fits this
knife ambidextrously. So I ran out. I
didn't run out, I just ran to the Internet, ran to his site and got
that sheath and I've been loving it. And so it
has been in the pocket like this. Let me resheath it
like this. Set up for reverse grip,
reverse grip draw next to this knife.
One of My favorites of the recent past, the North
Mountain Blades BBMN right
next to it, both in the same pocket. Now I have to say the double
carry that the fixed and the folder, this only really works for me when I'm
wearing jeans, khakis and slanted handle.
Slanted pocket handles, slanted pocket
pants. I'm sorry, it doesn't really work very well.
Lastly, to make this more practical, I've been carrying
the DP1 also in one of these beautiful
badger claw sheaths just dropped in the pocket.
Now in this case it's been in the back pocket or in the left pocket
with my phone. But this is the small DP1 from
TKL Knives with the handle wrapped
by Tom Nugent of Knives by Nuge. I had to put
this little leather fob on because this really is a two finger knife and
that little leather fob with the knot makes it a four finger knife
and it is super practical. Great little knife to bust out if
you're in the office and you need to cut something. But you've got a lot
of pearl clutchers around you. Oh no, this will,
this will not freak anyone out. So a great little knife.
And here are three great carry combos. First one, the
Agent 001 by TKEL knives with the EDC
27 Nightcore flashlight and a Victorinox
Cadet. The second carry combo there is the
Jacob Ginsburg Design JW Collaboration
Collusion Jack Wolf knives and the
Urban Edge by Cold Steel, the Little Punch Dagger
and then of course the Police model, Classic Police model.
And then the last carry, the BVMN from North Mountain Blades, the
decal knives DP1 and the North Mountain
Blades. Or the AMTAC Northman in
the Armis sheath. Man alive. A lot of
names to remember. All right, what are your favorite carry combos? Drop them in the
comments, let me know. I love the inspiration I get
from you guys and what you carry. All right,
before we get on to 10 new knives that I love, plus something extra
special, I just want to show off this new design
by Jim Touch Grass Touch knives. Now this
comes out of a. A conversation we had on
Thursday night. Knives that I don't know if it evolved or
devolved, but we started calling us knife
touchers. I don't remember exactly how that came about, but
are you a knife toucher? Because I am. So
Jim was inspired to come up with this Touch Grass. Nah, Touch not.
So if you go to the knifejunkie.com shop, you can find this apron,
that tote bag and that T Shirt and much, much more
coffee mugs, this and that, all there. But
there are a lot of other great. If touch grass not isn't quite your thing,
you can, you can check out all the other cool things that Jim comes up
with if you want just the simple legacy
design, just the logo. You have to go to
page 21 now I believe it is the very last page.
And, and move forward from there. Check out all the cool stuff
we have. It's. It is awesome. The knife junkie.com.
okay, let me get to these 10
new things. Okay. The first, the first thing I'm gonna
show you are things. Actually it's two of them. And they
are sent to. They were sent to me from Dave of OG
Blade Reviews and they are leather saps.
Yes, I've been talking about leather saps forever. Since
before Blade show this year. I did not. Oddly enough, I did not
find any. I found one leather SAP there, didn't float
my boat and that was it. I was
expecting to find much more, but these are from Boston
Leather. By the way, that this is the Midget and this is the Denver.
But ASAP is an old school bludgeon
or Kosh. I think that's what the, with the Brits call it.
But what it is is four thick pieces of
leather sewn together with a ball of
let. Not a ball, but a lobe of lead at
the end and a strap on it. So you.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say that differently. A, A
retention strap that you get on the handle.
And this is for whacking people. Whacking
people. However you're gonna do it, wherever you're gonna do it. You can
watch a lot of staff videos online. For me,
I tend to go back to my Filipino knives training
and you know, think of doing this hitting with the edge. It's
not just hitting flat. But I gotta tell you, these things
pack a serious punch. And I'm not even sure
if they're legal in my state. I don't really plan on carrying them.
I just plan on loving them and I really dig
it. I gotta find if they're legal. If they're not legal, I'm not gonna carry
them. I don't need to go upstate on a weapons charge. Mild
mannered me. But I really do love
saps. I've always wanted one. Or blackjacks, which are
similar, but I believe they have a spring internally going from the
handle up to the weight up front. So Jim sent
me these in that box. I know he, he pays
attention you know, I bet he's got a happy wife. He
listens and he got, he, he sent
me these along. I really appreciate them. I think they're a part of his collection
that he just didn't need anymore. And here's the midget, by the way.
I guess not politically correctly named anymore,
but, but this is a smaller version and way more
pocketable. Drop this right in your pocket, pull it out. Whack.
Yeah, you just feel it all through your body when you, when you do that.
You just can feel it. All right, so that's the
first thing. Second thing, this is a knife that was
sent to me from the manufacturer and
it's a flisa knife. This is the, if you look it up on
Amazon, it's the Flissa 12 inch Bowie
12 inch, referring to the overall length. It comes in a pretty
cheesy, I, I shouldn't put it that way. It comes in a, a
somewhat cheap leather leather sheath, meaning, you know, we can tell when
something is beautiful leather or when something is sort of like particle
leather. And I think that's what this is. Doesn't matter. It's a $25
knife. And I gotta say, I have put it through some
paces. I'm going to be releasing a video that shows a lot of use of
this. I did. But, and, and here's
why you don't, you know, I don't do many videos like that. And when people
send me knives, I rarely like, take them out and pound down
them. But this Lissa brand I'm brand new to, and
I don't want to just get on and say it's a great looking
knife, which I think it is. I have to make sure that
before I say it's, it's worth your 25 bucks that it can go the distance.
So I took this. This is 7Cr 7
7Cr 18 Mov or something like that.
It's a 7Cr steel from China. Took it out
back, baton it through some seasoned wood.
And then I made carvings, feather sticks. And I started
a fire with it. I cut sisle rope with it
and I did something else with it. Oh, tip test.
Stuck it in a two by six and, and kind of, you can tell when
you watch me do that. I was tentative at first and then I
started going for it. This tip went the distance. This knife in
general went the distance. I, I, I like this knife. I
was planning on giving it to my daughter, but I, I'm
might just have to buy her one. I really do like this knife.
Flissa. You guys know Flissa 90 degree
spine through sparks just fine. Thing I
appreciate is it feels more 90 degree. I don't think this is
by design but closer to the tip back here it feels like
slightly more rounded in case your thumb is there. But like I
said I think that might just be a function of this particular
specimen. Really, really nice knife. The one thing it struggled
through was that sisle rope and I believe it's just because it doesn't
have a toothy edge. It had a somewhat
polished edge. So it still glides through paper even
after all that. But it did struggle through that
sisle rope which you'll see. So that's the Flissa
12 inch Bowie. I do like this and I would, I would say
at this point I can, I can say that it's worth 25. It's worth your
25 bucks. Be a great camp knife
or whatever knife. I mean this would be good, good knife to
keep by the bed, you know, that kind of thing. But I like
it. Listen knives, I'm curious about their other fixed blades. Not
so interested in their folders but I'd be interested to see their fixed blade.
This was a birthday knife given to me by my brother in law who's
an awesome dude, former marine and, and does a lot of
interesting stuff these days that he can't tell me about. This is the
Pinkerton designed Dirk Pinkerton designed
artisan cutlery proponent. This
is a hugely famous knife and famous design and
one of the best sellers at Artisan and one of
Dirk's bestsellers of his designs. And
man, it is cool. It is a big knife.
I mean this is a big knife. Even though it's much smaller than
say a, an XL cold steel.
This thing is just a chunker and, and I opened this up in
front of a, a group of people and they all ouden odd because
I received this at the pool and we had a group of friends
around and about 20 people cried out when
I opened this up. So I love this thing just for size
reference. Oh this one by the way has a D2
blade G10 steel liner lock. It is
a tonker. And here is the Mini which I always
thought was a bit of a chunker. And I really, I, I think, I think
I still like the Mini a little bit better but
for sentimental reasons I like, I like that one. But look at how much smaller
the Mini is. And yeah,
to me it doesn't feel so many but a very sort of
futuristic design. It's sort of like a.
Sort of like a sax, sort of like a Wharncliffe, sort of like a,
you know, yojimbo. So a great future
futuristic Viking pocket knife. You will. Nice big
clip, awesome knife, beautiful standoffs. I really like
this thing and a bit heavy. So
next up, same birthday, different night.
This comes from a neighborhood friend whose father unfortunately passed
away somewhat recently. And he gave
me this buck112 which was his
father's. And he gave it to me
and I'm. I'm super honored to have it. It's got the
squared off, squared off handles
and the zero nail neck that you'll see in
buck 112. Rangers from the 70s,
74 through 80. They, they first
came out in 1974 and they had
no nail neck. And then a marketing guy said,
hey, let's put the nail neck on it. It'll sell like the 110. And it
didn't change sales apparently. But the nail nick is now on there
forever, as can be seen by this newer generation
buck 112 with the rounded handle and all that.
So great knife. Really excited to have this one. Now that I've shown
it up on all the shows and have made videos about it and stuff,
it's time to clean it up because it still has usage
gunk on the blade, which is kind of interesting because.
And, and it also has gunk on the handle. And I say it's interesting because
I. It reminds me of how I got my
grandfather's shaver, you know, electric shaver after
he passed away. And I remember blowing it and
a bunch of his hair came out and I don't know,
it was interesting. Just a little bit of legacy stuff there. Anyway,
next up vintage was the buck 112.
Modern and current and dropping. Well, just
dropped on Monday the 25th is the buck
range and the Mini range. And I.
This was just sent to me from Buck. I'm really impressed with this knife.
It's. It's a modern buck and Buck has a lot of
modern knives. It's just I haven't indulged in them yet.
I'm really happy about this knife. This is the range and
this is the Mini range. Now these are.
This one is a magnacut blade, 3.4 inches
saber grind, really thin blade stock. Great jimping on top by the
way. Really thin blade stock comes down to a wickedly sharp
edge. Thin behind that edge, anodized
aluminum handle with a crossbar lock which works
great. At first it was sticking a lot and
as I thought it. That has pretty much worked itself
out. Sometimes if I really horse it open,
you Get a little bit of blade stick but that will, that will eventually
wear away. Deep carry pocket clip is mounted on the
pommel which I love. I love that style of deep carry clip goes
in there without any hassle. No need to make an
inset notch that you have to cover up on the other side or leave uncovered
on the other side and it goes in there. Extra deep sort of
clamshell construction on this one. Liners only
where they are needed to accommodate that lock.
And then here is the mini range. The mini range
is what gave me that nice little wound on my thumb muscle there.
This is the first day without putting super glue on
it and bandaging it up. It's start. It's pretty,
getting pretty healed by the way. Super glue. That's why it was invented. So
don't be shy. This is 154cm
blade steel. You can see there. Paul Boss heat treat as
both have. And then this has a different clip set up. It's
loop over deep carry but kind of a thick clip so you
feel it a little bit when you stick it in, in in the pants pocket.
But at least those are not button screw heads. They are inset
screws. Nice glass filled
nylon handle and great action on
this no lock stick from the start and
a light little blade. So this one
I'm, I'm still working in it. It doesn't drop shut when you pull them
back but it, it does whip in there pretty easy.
Two really, really great knives from Buck. I'm really
happy, I don't know happy to have these
because I've seen a lot of modern bucks that don't quite do it for me
but these, these definitely do. I feel like the design
discipline here is right on. You can see
the anvil on the clip and what do you mean by that Bob? I mean
I felt like some of the, I feel like some of the more modern bucks
Buck designs are awkward in one way or another.
These are not. These are great and I really dig them. All right next up.
This was in the box that Dave sent me
and this is probably slated for giveaway but I
really really like this knife. This is the
Kaiser Mercury designed by Alex Berkowitz.
A really cool looking
straight razor Y type type knife. Obviously takes
inspiration from the straight razor. Has a nice
thinly hollow ground blade. There's Mr. Berkowitz's
maker's mark Mercury. Look at how thin it gets
at the blade. See if you can see it at the edge.
You can feel that hollow grind. Really really cool knife.
Gold anodized aluminum handle here. I think it's
aluminum. You know what, I don't quote
me on that. Actually it feels more like titanium. It feels like it has the
weight of titanium, sort of a faux
integral. You can see it's clamshell again, so no
backspacer. And. And on the inside it's nicely
milled where those two pieces come together.
Beautiful knife. S35VN
steel here. Nice action.
Somewhat thin. It's sort of CEO style in terms of its thinness.
This is one that I feel you could definitely wear in
the boardroom. Carry in the boardroom. And because it's nice and
slender and it's pretty and you could, you could
kind of rock it like you rock a CEO style knife. But I gotta
say, you also get a touch of menace with the blade shape.
Even though it isn't pointy. It looks like Demon Barber of Fleet
Street's favorite weapon.
Really nice knife. Okay, so that is the Mercury from
Kaiser. Next up, sent to me by
Apoc Survival is the breeding.
What is this? This is the Whisper Goo. Really
cool knife designed by Kim Breeden. I believe his name is
really, really Japanese in inspiration.
It looks like a traditional tanto with that
upswept non faceted blade of.
This is D2 and you have two layers
of G10. A thin maroon layer as
a liner basically. And then this really nicely
contoured and cut out handle scale on top.
Obviously taking its design cues from
traditional Japanese knives made in China. Right there.
I mentioned that on Thursday night knives. That's the one part I don't like. Not
that it's made in China, but that's where they put it. I just don't like
that as a spot to put writing at all actually.
Be nice to have jimping there seeing as there's no guard.
But so very
nice action on the thumb studs and on the clothes. Really
smooth. And then on this side you've got the loop
over deep carry pocket clip. Very cool. And I love this touch
that, that Japanese cherry blossom there looks
really cool. All right, the next.
I got three knives from APOC Survival, all designed, all
breed in designs. This next one is a neck knife. I took the
chain off. I, I don't think I'm going to use this as a neck knife,
but a really cool Japanese inspired
utility knife. Again we get that same
G10 treatment where you get two layers of G10. This time the
top layer is thinner and you get relief
cut holes going all the way through. Let's see.
Can we see them? Let's See all the way through the handle. There we go
right there. Very, very nice. Little sharp,
wickedly sharp and pointy utility knife. This would make a
great drop in pocket fixed blade.
That's probably how I'm going to use this one. I've been taking to drop in
knives in the pocket as is evidenced by the DP1
and others. And I think this will make a great, great knife for that
purpose. Last up in the breeding
group of knives, Breeding design group of knives I got from APOC
Survival is this really cool fixie. This
is called the Torrent. The Torrent. It comes
first of all in this great sheath with this nylon setup.
Nylon nylon belt loop that can
come on or off the knife if you want to mount this
somewhere and or use different style clips. You're totally set up for
that with the four slots and the six grommets all spaced
for Tek Lok. But here is the blade
again, Japanese inspired, beautiful. Sort of
almost looks like a drop. Looks like there's a little bit of
a drop in the point or to the point right there. But
traditional style tanto blade, D2 blade
steel. Again, made in China right there. Again that's
okay. But a really nice handle. It's
again like the Whisper folder. It's contoured and it's
double layered. So you got the beautiful maroon and then the black
with the cutouts. This one, like the neck knife also
has the cutouts all the way through the blade or all the way through the
handle. Really nice in hand
and I like this. I'm a sucker for the forward thumb ramp,
the forward back facing thumb ramp. So this one has a thumb ramp here
and then a little area to put your thumb here and pull back
against that peak there. Apoc Survival has been
doing some really, really cool stuff. They are a company of past
Iberia. We had a conversation with Patrick
Shipley of APOC on this show. It was great. He's
a cool dude and has great ideas and they're
doing great collaboration. Knives with the demos or
with Andrew Demco, with Mike Wallace, with
Mr. Breeden here and others. And they're doing some really
cool, unique stuff all meant for,
you know, when the crap hits the fan type scenarios,
but also in recognition of the fact that that doesn't happen
every day are also very practical,
practical knives. So APO Survival
loving their knives and I'm really psyched about this latest
group of knives they sent out. All
right, penultimate in this list. Another sip of coffee here.
Give me the strength to carry on. This was also in the
box from Dave. Wow. How cool is this?
This is the Rosecraft blades Clinch river mt. Now I'm not a
huge fan of Rosecraft's modern knives
but I am a huge fan of their traditional slip joint knives. And
this started out life as a traditional
slip joint kind of swayback that they do the
clinch river and they dressed it up. This is
M390 blade steel. It's a
very thin, beautifully machine satin
wharncliffe blade with a nice big finger choil and
of course titanium bolsters and
a button lock. Now this is. This button lock is much
like the Civivi elementum
button lock in that you. Sorry, that
thumb you need to press in the button. Oh my gosh, I'm
making a mess of it. You need to press in the button to get this
to open up and then obviously press in the button to
relock it. I'm going to do this here for a sec. So
that's how it works. And man, it is so beautiful.
I love the look of that hunter
green. It's like an OD green hunter green micarta.
It's like a, it's like an. It's like an olive drab but
with a little bit more blue in it. So you know,
is it for an army vehicle or is it for a Range Rover? I don't
know. You decide. But it's a beautiful color. This knife feels
great in hand and it's just a. It's just
a really cool knife. So I think
probably slated for giveaway.
I have to be careful about what I adopt these days because I have too
much and so much of it I don't carry. But I'm really
impressed by that swedge. The Swedish is just so
nummy. And also this would make a great
self defense knife if it's open. I don't know. As you can see,
I've been having trouble opening it. But that's just user error. But
I mean this thing in reverse pacal style grip like this
just feels great. Melts right in. So kind of a gentleman's knife that
can transition into something else if need be.
Again, a good one for the boardroom. All
right, last up and this is the very special thing.
This is the new
agent 001 from Tkal Knives. I
have it in four different handle
materials. Let me show them to you. This just
arrived yesterday as I record this
and here they are. They are stunningly beautiful.
So and I will compare them to the old, old model
or the original production run model. Yeah, here they
are together. So
the new ones are now and many of them
Tekel knives. Knives are being made by
Nick Chuprin's company, NCC Knives up
in New Hampshire. And this man is a
serious perfectionist and a serious machinist.
Look how beautiful that is. Look at the,
look at the chamfering on the jimping. Look at the,
at the milling lines on the bevels.
It is just gorgeous. I am so excited. I am not
sure when these are dropping. This is a decision that
I will only. Okay. But it's not, definitely not up to me,
or I should say only announce it is not up to me. Obviously I'm
not making them. TKL knives is not my company. This is just my
design. But man, am I thrilled with how these have come out.
They are just beautiful.
Inspired originally by the Love Loveless sub hilt
fighter in that sort of long, slender, clippish point,
double edged blade made in the usa. Here, there's my
maker's mark. And this is.
What does that say? Oh, this is Nitro
V. That's what that is. Nitro V with a little American
flag next to it. You got Nitro V. And
this is that G10 burl handle. They have
27 different G10 slash micarta. And
then this whole new battle lock, which I'll show you in a second, this
is obviously layered G10 blue and black and
also nitro V. How gorgeous that is,
man. And I'm not, I'm not saying it's gorgeous and
complementing my design. I'm saying it's gorgeous and
complimenting Tim and Nick's ability to make
knives. These are just so beautiful. Again, nitro
V. Now this is that glass filled nylon
battle Battle lock handle. So this area
right here that's not smooth is really, it's got
that skateboard texture, skateboard tape texture. And
it does truly lock in the hand. I have to be a thousand percent
honest. When I first heard about this handle,
about these handles, I was like, I don't like GFN. I'd much
prefer Micarta or, or G10. And in a sense
that is true. But man, if you really need this knife
for usage like, and you're not just a collector like
myself, these battle lock handles are
amazing. They are so grippy. They are so grippy and nice.
So there it is. And this will become, this will
be available when it's available, which is very soon as I record
this. So probably very, very early September or late August
2025. They all ship with a Kydex sheath
like this. With the cool horizontal mount, these things work
great. But also you can get it with the
badger claw sheath, a little extra.
And then I gotta show you this before I sign off.
They all come in a. In one of these zipper cases. Like, I think all
Tkel knives now come in these really great zipper cases.
And. But this is how this one arrived. He sent.
They sent me a. One of these newer
Ulti clips, which I gotta check out. It's like a wireless in the waistband clip.
And look at all the band aids. Look at all the don't be dumb or
be less dumb band aids I got. And that's because
Vinnie in their shop says Bob, a few extras
of these to help with future mishaps. Because Vinnie.
Thank you, Vinnie. I appreciate it. He's been a friend of the
channel, watching the channel for a long time. And Vinnie of the
TKL knives team has seen me cut myself many times on
camera. But most especially in the last couple of weeks, it's happened
twice. And. And the one time
all I had close to me was a paper towel. I had no band aids.
So Vinnie's hooking me up with the, with the Tekal band
aids. I really appreciate it. But again,
keep your eyes out for the release of the new Tekel Knives Agent
Double01, designed by yours truly and Tim in
a true creative collaboration. So proud of this
design and this knife and so proud to be associated with. With and
a friend of Tim Kell. So really go
check them out. They are sweet. Look at that. So beautiful. All right.
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