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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 to the Knife Junkie podcast. I'm Bob DeMarco. On this

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edition of the show, I'm speaking with Reese of well Regulated.

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I started following Reese and his well Regulated Instagram account

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when I discovered just who it was that designed my beloved work

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tough gear v44 x Bowie knife.

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Just from that design alone, I felt I knew a few things about

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its designer. He loves Bowies as

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much or more than I do, he has a real affinity for the

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Western slash Marine Raider style of Bowie, and he

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has excellent design instincts. That last supposition

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was based on his ability to draw a meaningful and beautiful update to

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the legendary design as seen in the V44X.

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I've made a number of assumptions about Reece from his page, but you know what

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they say about assuming. So we'll meet Reese and find out about the

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man from the man himself. But before we do, be sure to like, comment,

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battlebox Reese welcome to the Knife Junkie podcast, sir.

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How you doing? I'm doing great. Thanks for joining me.

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So before we dig into the topic at hand and anyone who's watching this

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right now, people are listening. People are watching. But I know their eyes went from

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you down to those beautiful Bowies in front of you. And we'll talk about

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those in a second. But tell me first. I feel like I

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know where it comes from. But tell me about your name, your

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handle well regulated. So I

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almost made a video on that because, you know, I

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guess it can sound kind of weird and you might not understand where it comes

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from, but you know, like a second amendment, like a well regulated militia.

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So these my channel kind of started off as like a gun channel

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and but it doesn't just mean like second amendment. So like

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well regulated also means like in good working order. So it's kind of like

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a, like a Physical fitness thing like preparedness.

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This, you know, like a, it has like multiple meanings.

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So a general overall sense of well regulated. Yeah, my, my mind first went

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to the second amendment, but I figured there was, there was more to it, you

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know, more to it than that. So how did you

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get involved in designing knives?

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Well, I was, I got into an art school so

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I can, I can draw and stuff some, but I just don't

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sit down and do it a whole lot. And I didn't complete art school. I

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got in and I changed majors and.

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But as far as designing, so I was

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throwing, doing throwing knives for a while where I got pretty heavy into doing throwing

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knives and I started drawing some models of those,

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you know, just to have my own throw a knife because sometimes the,

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the distances like the lengths of the knife equate to your

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rotations. With my throw, I needed like a 15 inch knife. So I was

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kind of designing my own knife and I, I drew some stuff out,

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had to put on a file cut out of a saw blade. And

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before I started getting with work stuff gear, I also,

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there's a guy, Philip Burris, that's like a martial arts guy that does stuff in

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his garage and he's helped me with a couple prototypes and

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I mean I drew some things and had him try to do like some

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lichens, like some of the Ito wrap stuff. And

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when I really got into the Bowie, I guess designing,

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so this was like on a quest, you know, if like the perfect knife. Because

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I searched for a long time. I've had a ton of knives, nothing very

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expensive until like kind of recently where I would consider more high end.

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But I got a lot of stuff and I'd get it. And then I wasn't

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happy with it. So I decided, hey, I'm going to make a custom,

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I'm going to find a knife maker and commission a custom knife.

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And so I started drawing it kind of the way I wanted to. And that

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kind of led into me doing a review

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on the Predator Hunter and that put me in contact with Vic

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and he asked me if I wanted to do a, like a knife. So but

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when I, my original design, I wasn't sure about the knife

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materials. And the guy that I was gonna have make it, he was kind of

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starting off. So I had my, at first, my first design was to

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have Becker scales on there, but. And I had a

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BK20 that I was going to modify. But I ended up selling that because I

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didn't want to Dremel it, you know, Dremel a Choil in it. Mess up a

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collectible knife. And I wasn't crazy about the handle on

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like on the Becker. I know everybody really does like the Beckers, but I

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didn't like that it had was like kind of rounded off on the back. I

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felt like that you like lost some control. So I wanted to

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like was going to do my own knife and was going to be for other

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people. I can't use somebody else's handle. So I,

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I redrew it and when I was in

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touch with work tough here and that kind of was the base

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drawing for the B44X.

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You know, becoming a production knife because I, I'm not like a knife designer

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that works for a company or anything. I was just a knife enthusiast that

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I was doing gun reviews and gun part reviews and I had like a

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gun channel mostly. I think I had one knife that I reviewed that a

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guy from an AK part store sent me. Yeah.

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So I guess it just really. I was made. I was designing a knife for

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myself. I was asked if I'd like to make a knife with a company. And

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that's like, you know, that's something I never thought I'd be able to do. So

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when I had the chance to, you know, like I jumped to the chance and

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able to work with Vic and you know, put out the knife.

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Oh yeah. I mean work tough. Gear has been the, the greatest

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thing to hit knives, fixed blade knives in the last five years or I mean

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they haven't been around that long but man, they've made a splash. I also have

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that predator hunter Bowie. Just so people know what I've been going on and on

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about. This is the V44X Bowie. I'm sure most of you already know

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we're going to talk about this design and go into what you were, what your

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thoughts were, what your thinking was when you were redesigning it. But before we get

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to that, I want to back up a little bit. You, before we started

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rolling, you said you had 300 knives within reach. We could talk about.

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I just want to find out where you got into

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knives, how you got into knives. You got 300 of them all around you. You're

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like, you're like us. They're kind of packed up in multiple

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places and like hidden. But

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so. So

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I've always kind of been like. I've always kind of gravitated towards

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that. So when I was about 4 or 5, my dad gave me a little

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buck knife. It's one of those ones where like a long skinny one pulls it

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at one Side and a little short study and pulls out the other side. So

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I had that knife at like, you know, four or five years old, and I

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flayed my finger open with it trying to cut an oak leaf, like the Dane

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of the oak leaf. And I learned early

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on my grandma put a paper towel on it and tape.

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But I've always liked knives, and I've always. I was always asking for

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stuff, you know, like, hey, we'd go to this store called Green

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Top Sporting Goods, and I'd be like, you know, a bucket with full of

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machetes and all the displays. And I'd be like, dad, dad, you know, let me

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get a machete. You know, so right around the town that I was

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eight, I got a machete. Like, probably. I think it's probably like five or 15

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bucks, whatever, you know, budget machete is. But I had a

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machete when I was 8, and I was kind of free range or so I

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was out, you know, making forts and chopping down stuff

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and, you know,

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so. And then actually, where's that knife down here?

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This was my first, like, kind of like, you know, like a nice knife.

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I got this when I was in fifth grade. This was on Imperial.

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I guess they had a bunch of bayonet kind of

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blanks. Oh, yeah. So this Imperial is going to

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business. But I got this in fifth grade for Christmas. And it

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has like a. You know, it's a survival knife kind of with, like a compass

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and had a bunch of matches and like a magnesium thing that's like a

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hammer, like, nail call. Oh, yeah.

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So. And it's kind of funny because this is not the best,

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you know, survival knife. You know, it's like a dagger. It's

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not heavy enough to really chop, and it's not the. You know, I

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wouldn't pick this for a survival knife, but it looked cool and it was in

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my price range. This is what I got for Christmas. So that was.

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I've killed, like, snakes with these. Like, my. When I was

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younger, my buddy stepped on a snake and, like, it went to

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bite him, like, in the back of the head.

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And. But this is the, like, the first, I

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guess, like, larger knife that I got. My dad gave me. I

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didn't pull it out, but I got a K bar, like one of the Skinners.

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It has a little thumb wrap back. I think the whole thing's about, you know,

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probably like this long. He gave me one of those, too. So I had one

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of those around the same time, maybe even in earlier than fifth grades.

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And of course, I left the sheath outside. It got rained on. I think the

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dogs chewed it up. I would throw it at the bow and arrow targets and

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I lost it for a little while outside and I later,

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I later found it and it's kind of rusty because it was outside for a

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little bit and the leaves are lost in the grass. But

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I've kind of always, you know, had knives and then after I got no older

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and I didn't really have money then have a job and stuff. But

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no, I got like the, the Raider Bowie. I think I bought that in like

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98, but around 95, I bought the spec plus

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7. It's like the fi. The 7 inch fighter. So I had that.

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You're talking the Ontarios right now? Yeah, the Ontario. It's like spec, I think

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Spec Ops or Spec plus. Yeah, yep, I had it

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somewhere. But yeah, so I had that I think around

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15. So. And, but really my ceiling

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for prices was right around, I think it was like probably 50 or 60

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bucks. And I

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had a ninja sword. Of course I wasn't.

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I was around Ninja Turtle time because I'm like 45. Okay. So. So

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you know, like I begged for a ninja sword. So I got a ninja sword

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from like Smoky Mountain knife works. So. And that was really sharp.

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I cut myself pulling it out showing my grandparents because I have my

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finger over the guard. The, not the guard, but the

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scabbard. But I've just always been into knives and

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when I went to the military, like I made sure

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I had a bunch of knives on me. I have, I have my pile of

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deployment knives down there. If we can, if you want to. Buy those words,

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let's see him. You were in the United States Marine Corps,

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correct? Yep. Let me hop back up here.

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Well, as you do that, let me, let me thank you for doing that and

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for protecting my family with your body.

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We appreciate it. Like I always

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wanted, since I saw the movie Navy seals, you know, when I saw that movie

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I'm like, that's what I'm gonna do. Like I had all the plans to be

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like an AP seal, but I'm really not that good in the water.

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And I was like, man, what am I gonna do? So I was like, well,

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I'm gonna be a ranger. So right outta high school I was gonna go into

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infantry, small arms in the army. And my dad really didn't want me doing that

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at all. So he's like, hey, apply to colleges. I'll pay for your

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college. So I was like, oh, you are. So I

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got into college, went Two years. My little brother was

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going in the Marine Corps, so we went in together. Let

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me, Let me ask you this. You went in when your. When your brother did.

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Was that. Was that protective, big brother

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instinct kicking in? It's a little bit protective, competitiveness,

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trying business. I knew he had a west coast guarantee, so he was definitely going

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to Florida. I mean, he's going to California.

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So, you know, I wanted to go in. I wanted to do that anyway. And

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some stuff happened around the same time where my brother was like, you know,

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hey, just say screw it and join the Marine Corps with me. I was like,

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yeah, I don't. I didn't want to go to college anyway. What. What am I

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gonna do? Yeah, but it wasn't like a fun college. I

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was going like two days a week from like 8 to 6:45. I was working

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Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. You know, like, I didn't. I wasn't

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enjoying. I wasn't living it on campus. So I was constantly busy.

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Like five hours of sleep if I got it at night. So I was busy.

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I wasn't having a good time. So I wanted to go to the military. So

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my brother's like, hey, let's go. I was like, yeah,

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okay. So like I. I had. I was enlisted in college, had a

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job, and then like a large scale greenhouse.

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And then I withdrew from school and I talked to my

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bros recruiter on one Monday. The next Monday I was on

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Paris Island. Whoa, that's fast. Very fast

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turnaround. Okay, so you just pulled out some of

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the knives you deployed with some of the knives you had in. In

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the Marine Corps. I think I saw a little Gerber boot boot

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dagger there. Yeah, I always wanted one of those. This is one

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of the Gerber guardians. I had this on. I had a drop leg holster from

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SOE gear, and you have like two leg straps. And I had

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this knife and this Columbia River. I think this is a

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Carlson or something. I had to look it back up, but of course I broke

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that. But these were like my little utility, you know,

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like cut MREs. You know, it's where I don't have to pull out,

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you know, the big knife. But these I had on both deployments.

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That's Ryan. Columbia River. Ryan.

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I had that pretty much my whole enlistment. I had also one of

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those Columbia river, you know, like the ones that everybody had with The Tanto. The

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M16. Yeah, I had one of those two. That wasn't my

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deployment knife. I kind of had that around the barracks and stuff, but I mostly

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had this Guy and

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my first deployment knife. I was on the 11th year

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and while we were doing workups for the 11th view, that's actually when 911 happened.

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I was out. I was in 29. I'm sorry, sir, what is

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the 11 MU. What is that? It's the 11th Marine Expeditionary

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Unit. Oh, okay. So they leave from out from the west

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coast. They do like a six month float. You do like some

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humanitarian stuff. You're kind of like on call doing like

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circles out in the ocean around like the

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like Red Sea, Persian Gulf. I think we were off the coast of Djibouti.

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We did a bunch of ports. Like, one reason I wanted to California also

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was because I wanted to go. Always wanted to go to Australia. And

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the west coast mews, they go into Australia. So I

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got to go to Australia three times. Twice on the

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mew and once on the way back from my Iraq deployment.

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Oh, wow, that's cool. Like, Australia was great, but

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I could not. I couldn't find a knife. I went through all the gift shops.

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I'm like, hey, where can I find a bowie knife? I want like a, you

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know, Crocodile Dundee bowie knife. I don't have anything here. Like old

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stuff, antique, like, you know, but I don't know if it's the laws,

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the cities we're in. But I could not find a knife to buy.

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I got a. I got a didgery doing some boomerangs. That's cool. I

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didn't do an attention. I really wanted a, you know, like a,

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you know, Dundee type Bowie. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. Who. Who

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among us didn't? So what else do you have there from that period?

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So this has a different sheath because the sheath I had fell apart.

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And these are discontinued. These are like a spec ops

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sheath. But the, the green one, the camos one fell

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apart and I replaced the scales. I still have the black, like

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rivalry scales, but I replaced them with Micarta. That's like

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my spray paint camo job. But this is a Becker BK7.

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So. So you carried this and you. How many knives

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would you have on you at at once? Well, I had this.

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The way I had my gear set up. I was a saw gunner, so I

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had a machine gun. Oh, okay. So a lot of times I have had a

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gear with my. My drums on there. A lot of times I would have those

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off, but I was an mp, so I had my like pistol belt.

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So I had a pistol belt with my pistol and I had a knife on

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this side. And sometimes I would move the gas mask, like have it

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on the same belt on the drop. But when I did this deployment,

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like, I would keep this knife in my belt. And so, like,

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that way, when you're walking around base, when you don't have your long rifle, like,

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I always either had a knife or, like, a pistol on me,

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like, but no matter, like, where I was or sleeping or whatever.

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Is it true that you can't be armed on. On Marine Corps

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bases now? Well, one thing was really weird on base. So,

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you know, all of our guns are locked up in the armory.

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So it's not like you have access to your rifle, your pistol, your stuff.

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And they have really strict rules. They had, like, health and comfort inspections. So

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once I had a vehicle, I could keep stuff locked in my car. Like, I

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keep, like, my knife in my car. But they didn't even want us having, like,

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our K bars in the barracks. Really? So you think, like, oh,

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Marines, they have all their stuff, but, like, yeah, they kind of treat you like

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kids because, I mean, we act stupid and get drunk and junk off, you know,

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jump off the second deck and stuff. So. And we fight and, you know,

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everybody's drinking, Everybody's young and bored.

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So it's probably maybe. Maybe his best, but we just didn't have access to all

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that stuff. One. One of the guys that I was in

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with got in trouble because he had a foot locker. He was trying to go

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do the. The indoc. I think, to do recon, and he had pistols under

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his bed and stuff. He got caught and got in big trouble.

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Having. It was in California too. So I don't know what.

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What weight the state laws factor into the military base,

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but you just don't really have access to stuff. I bought one of my

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first. They bought my first pistol because I bought a Glock 17

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when I turned 21. And I was actually at home. If you have

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orders, you know, from to California, but your home address is Virginia, I can

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still go to Virginia and buy a pistol. So When I turned 21, I bought

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a Glock 17 and I was in California when Kimber was still

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first coming out. I bought a Kember. Custom tactical, too. Nice.

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I kept that in the, like, the gun range locker.

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And I had to check it out and, you know, shoot it and

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then put it back in my locker and crawl back to the barracks.

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But, yeah, the access to stuff is not, you know, it's

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not like we just have all of our guns and knives and we're running around

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doing stuff all the time. This is my K

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bar. I think these are discontinued. I Mean they make

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a similar blade. But this is the, this is a 1232 or something.

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1272. It's like the K Bar next

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generation fighter. Yeah. So it's like a. I think it was an 8

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inch versus like a 7 or whatever the typical K

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bar length is. It's 8. This is like the

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Kydex sheath, little rubber piece that rotted and like kind of fell off.

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But you know, that's that. This is what I brought with me my

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Iraq deployment. And actually had this mounted right here on

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my gear. Upside down, huh? Right. So because I had had like your

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interceptor bus, like the Woodland Interceptor bus with this on there. I

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had my gear set up so I could put the suspenders over top of that

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so it didn't interfere with my knife. And I'd have like my belt with my

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pistol, with the pistol mags. And usually I was in a vehicle. So

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a lot of times I would keep my gear rolled up and stuck either on

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the floor somewhere up behind the back seat or if I had to, I could

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like grab it and throw it over my shoulder and jump out if we had

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to. Like, you know, we got ambushed or something happened where

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he. We had to get out of the vehicle. So is this where you

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gained your love for the Bowie knife and

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seems like you really love that Marine Raider Bowie where

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it's got a nice dramatic clip

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and a big belly towards the front. Is

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this where this happened? Well, this. I got this knife two years

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before I joined in 98. And this is one of the first

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Raider buoys from Ontario. It wasn't

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always Cam though, but I had in the back of like my Suzuki Samurai and

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it got wet and got rusted. But I've had this since

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1998. And this is Ontario's Raider Bowie.

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So I had this for a while too before I even, you know, went

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to the Marine Corps. And I never really knew what the Marine Corps was all

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about. You know, when I was younger, um, I was always either

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thinking Navy Seals or like Army. I just knew the Marine

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Corps were guys that, you know, where they were all like crazy

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and wore blue dress blues and try to get you to sign up and do

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pull ups at football games. I didn't really know what they were about or what

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they did. So the K bar thing, I didn't know a lot about K

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bars until later. But when I was 18

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I had this. So that's. This is pretty similar

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to the like. This is like a Collins,

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like a like Raider Bowie. They call them like a bailout

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knife. The Air Force had them first like the army.

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The Army Corps of Engineers. Like the Army Air Corps of Engineers.

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They were in like survival kits and these little cutouts under the seat

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with like a survival kit like in the seat cushion. But all the times

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they got pillage and guys would take them out and stealing and carry

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them. But the second

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Raiders, this was actually on their gear list. For the second Raiders you

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have this. They had a stiletto from Camless. But this is

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always messes up. It's like a brain fart. I have. It's either Carlson

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or Carson's Raiders. I think it's Carlson's Raiders. Okay. But I

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always say the wrong thing it seems like. And I. I realize I do it

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but I always. I always mess it up. But he requested this on the gear

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list. And this is what people refer to as like a Raider Bowie or most

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people see. But there was on different contracts where

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they couldn't fulfill all the need for the military.

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So Ken folks made them Western made one called the

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Bushman BX54 case. Made one the Case

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XX and. But the original one is Collins. Collins

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had the first one and all the other ones US companies were

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fulfilling the. What they. What Collins couldn't meet.

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Um, I think they're in Hartford. They were in Connecticut.

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This one's really rusted, but that is a beauty.

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Uh, I have a. I have a Collins machete on my wall right here. This

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thing. Yeah, I've got one of those down there. It's

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a lot thicker than I thought it was going to be. I think. I can't.

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I can't believe that that was just part of someone's kit. It's so

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heavy. I would never want to carry that. Anywhere by today's standards.

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Yeah, yeah. That's why I was asking you about, you know, how

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many you carried with you when you were deployed. So yeah,

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like usually one dig knife, two little knives on my. On my

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gear. You know like on my drop leg. Just like quick, quick accessible

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pocket knife that stayed in my pocket all the time. But you take your gear

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off and it's sitting somewhere. So I always had a pocket knife and then I

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had a pair of a. They called it like a lifer tool. It's like a

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pretty much like a fold up Gerber pliers. Oh, okay. I had that on my

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gear next to my pistol belt. And you know if you're working with machine guns

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and cutting safety wire and doing stuff, it's always good to have pliers

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because stuff with machine guns gets weird. Like the, the Links get stuck in

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things, and you have to. There's stuff you have to do sometimes to fix

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things. All right, so let's. Let's fast forward to

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recently. I don't even know when. Uh, but you. You

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had the Poozan Predator Hunter Bowie from Work

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Tough Gear, you made a video, and Vic,

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whose last name escapes me, from Work Tough Gear, got in

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touch with you. How did this happen? So I bought the

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Predator Hunter and actually bought the knife by

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accident. Like, it was a night. Like.

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Like my grandfather was dying that night. Like, he had been. Like, it was on

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the way out that week, and I was on night shift. But I knew this

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drop was happening, and I hadn't bought a knife yet from there. So I set

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my account up attached to PayPal. That way, if I wanted to, I could do

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the knife. And all the time, I'll do this thing where, like, I'll add stuff

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to my cart, go to checkout, and, like, see what the shipping is and the

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total is. And I'm like, nah, I shouldn't do

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this. Exhale, Rob. I'm like, ah, screw it. I'm like, by now, I'm like, oh,

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I should have done, but. But this time I'm still like, I hit. I added

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to the cart, and I hit whatever the NAT button was after you add it

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to your cart. Like, check out little things start spinning. And

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it said, congratulations on your order. And I'm like, oh, my God. Like, I just

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bought a knife by accident for like 3:30. And the guys at work are

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like, you, you idiot. Like, what do you mean you bought a knife by accident?

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I'm like, I pushed checkout now, and it didn't say submit or, you know, completes

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your order. Just like, it's like, it's yours. So then I

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was, you know, I had the knife, and I was asking the guys on,

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like, my social media, which is mostly gun people, like AK people.

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I'm like, hey, should I. Should I resell this? Is this like

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a limited drop, or should I do like a use review? You guys want to

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see that? And guys were like, oh, yeah, hell yeah. You know, use the knife,

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do a review. So I did a review of the Predator Hunter,

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and I just put it up and my YouTube channel. I've been on YouTube for

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over eight years. And my first.

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First couple years, I had 25 subscribers for, like, over probably

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two years at least or more. And it's like, nobody, you know,

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nobody subscribed to myself. So my

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channel's never been monetized. YouTube has monetized some of my videos,

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but I haven't given them permission to do that. They just had done it. So.

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So, Vic, I tagged him, you know, of course, on Instagram,

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and he asked me. He's like. He's like, hey, I saw you did a

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video with a predator hunter. Is it okay if I use the video? So I

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was like, sure. You know, it's not monetized. You know, you can just do whatever

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you want with it, you know? So he had. He used the video,

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and I think it might have been. I don't know if it was a couple

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days or maybe a week or two weeks. I forget the time frame, but he's

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like, hey, would you be interested in making a knife with us? So, I mean,

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of course, I'm. I was already currently working on

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my own, you know, custom night for myself. So I was like, yeah, I

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would love to do that. You know, it's. I've always loved knives. It'd be great.

438
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Second. I started, like, kind of like a long process of getting the

439
00:27:15.650 --> 00:27:19.490
final drawing nailed down and getting the dimensions on

440
00:27:19.490 --> 00:27:23.330
the handle right. I got that

441
00:27:23.330 --> 00:27:27.100
in there somewhere. But it's like a white handle, like a 3D print. But that

442
00:27:27.100 --> 00:27:30.340
kind of started the whole process. That was a long process.

443
00:27:31.460 --> 00:27:35.180
And actually, nobody knew that I was working on that knife until blade show of

444
00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:38.020
2023, when I brought the prototype with me.

445
00:27:39.380 --> 00:27:43.140
Sing along. It's a blade show. So.

446
00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:47.060
So I was. It was probably over a year or so, you know,

447
00:27:47.060 --> 00:27:50.580
probably close to two years just getting this

448
00:27:50.580 --> 00:27:54.350
ready and then getting this turned into a 3D printed

449
00:27:54.350 --> 00:27:55.950
handle and getting the specs right.

450
00:27:58.030 --> 00:28:00.470
But, yeah, that's kind of how that worked. It was. Got kind of all by

451
00:28:00.470 --> 00:28:04.190
chance, which is funny, because when I started my YouTube channel,

452
00:28:04.590 --> 00:28:07.630
I didn't know really what I wanted, what I wanted to do or get out

453
00:28:07.630 --> 00:28:11.430
of it or do with it. I was like, well, I'll just make some videos.

454
00:28:11.430 --> 00:28:14.230
I'm shooting a lot. I think at the time I was probably shooting like a

455
00:28:14.230 --> 00:28:17.310
thousand rounds a month or something. I had a group of guys in a bunch

456
00:28:17.310 --> 00:28:21.140
of places I was shooting, shooting at. So I started recording stuff and putting stuff

457
00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:24.900
out there. And it's like, you know, who knows? Maybe some someday somebody

458
00:28:24.900 --> 00:28:28.060
will see something and it will give me open up some doors to stuff.

459
00:28:28.780 --> 00:28:32.540
And lo and behold, I end up being able to

460
00:28:32.620 --> 00:28:36.060
have, like, a production knife, which is something I didn't think, you know, was

461
00:28:36.060 --> 00:28:39.420
gonna be able to happen, so. Cool. So is this a

462
00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:43.100
prototype you're holding in your hand, right? Yes, this Is this is the prototype. And

463
00:28:45.350 --> 00:28:47.750
so this. So I originally intended the knife to have.

464
00:28:49.030 --> 00:28:52.270
Just make sure y' all can see that they have a round fuller. That looks

465
00:28:52.270 --> 00:28:55.510
good. Like. Like the K bar. Yeah. This one actually came flat because it was

466
00:28:55.510 --> 00:28:59.270
done on a belt. And I used a Dremel and rounded it off by hand.

467
00:28:59.830 --> 00:29:03.590
Oh, nice. I was a little nervous doing that because it's like a 400 prototype.

468
00:29:04.150 --> 00:29:07.950
So. So it was a. The drawing. I had the drawing in my

469
00:29:07.950 --> 00:29:11.680
closet that's a little bit off. Like, some of the clip got taken off

470
00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.240
and some of the belly got taken off doing the grinding. But

471
00:29:15.320 --> 00:29:19.080
this is, like the. The basic shape, you

472
00:29:19.080 --> 00:29:22.600
know, like, it's pretty close. It's really close to the drawing. Not

473
00:29:22.600 --> 00:29:26.400
exact. And then after I got this, when I had to do a

474
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.240
final drawing, you

475
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.560
know, I. I added the belly song and I kind of made the clip pronounced,

476
00:29:33.560 --> 00:29:36.890
and I wanted more. So this is. I don't know if you can see that,

477
00:29:36.890 --> 00:29:40.650
but this is thin. I was really worried about the

478
00:29:40.650 --> 00:29:44.050
tip, you know, being too thin.

479
00:29:44.370 --> 00:29:48.050
So I. You know, I think a swedge looks great, like on the Raider

480
00:29:48.050 --> 00:29:51.730
Bowie and stuff, but I just did not want to

481
00:29:51.730 --> 00:29:55.530
make it the tip really fragile. So on the

482
00:29:55.530 --> 00:29:59.210
production, kind of did, like, a

483
00:29:59.210 --> 00:30:02.060
really short chamfer for the.

484
00:30:02.860 --> 00:30:06.380
Like, right here. Yeah, we just did a little bit.

485
00:30:06.700 --> 00:30:09.980
Yeah. So I think on maybe the Bravo that's coming out later, that will have

486
00:30:09.980 --> 00:30:13.620
a little bit wider swedge, but it almost,

487
00:30:13.620 --> 00:30:17.420
like, tapers off into the tip, so it doesn't take any material off

488
00:30:18.060 --> 00:30:21.780
of. There is. Right. Actually, I

489
00:30:21.780 --> 00:30:25.540
put, you know, you don't know exactly how things are going to work out, but

490
00:30:25.540 --> 00:30:28.780
when I ordered this, I mean, I can. I guess I'll talk about that.

491
00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:33.020
So I was talking to the maker, and I was like, well, I might want

492
00:30:33.020 --> 00:30:36.860
to reshape things. Like, I actually got a Dremel tool and reprofiled everything.

493
00:30:38.380 --> 00:30:42.100
So I had to make the hand. The handle bigger than I wanted it. And

494
00:30:42.100 --> 00:30:45.700
it's a full tank, so there's no cutouts. So that way I

495
00:30:45.700 --> 00:30:49.020
could. I got my Dremel tool, and I would go out and chop with it

496
00:30:49.020 --> 00:30:52.220
and do a bunch of chopping and, like, you know, heavy chopping and stuff.

497
00:30:53.070 --> 00:30:56.790
And if I felt like my hand was slipping off too much or needed a

498
00:30:56.790 --> 00:31:00.590
more ramp or a more contour up here or something, I would just sit

499
00:31:00.590 --> 00:31:04.350
there. And. And so this is

500
00:31:04.830 --> 00:31:07.390
so. But, like, I shaped that with,

501
00:31:08.510 --> 00:31:11.830
like, a Dremel tool. That is cool. So this. This was a

502
00:31:11.830 --> 00:31:15.630
prototype that you had Custom made. And did you send this to

503
00:31:15.630 --> 00:31:19.440
Vic to show him? I think it would have been a lot easier to do

504
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:23.040
that than doing like, you know, doing measurements from

505
00:31:23.040 --> 00:31:26.680
millimeters to standard because I had to learn millimeters and get

506
00:31:26.840 --> 00:31:30.640
calipers to do millimeters. I didn't know, you know, the conversion. So

507
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:34.040
I had to start doing all my measurements in millimeters. But it had a. I

508
00:31:34.040 --> 00:31:36.840
had, I put jimping on there too. And

509
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:40.520
you know, if you're holding it like that and the blade would have been here,

510
00:31:40.520 --> 00:31:44.130
it's probably not bad. But when you start choking up on the choil, it just

511
00:31:44.130 --> 00:31:47.810
like eats into the web of your palm. Oh yeah, and that's just not,

512
00:31:48.130 --> 00:31:51.890
it's not, it's not cool anymore when it's like, you

513
00:31:51.890 --> 00:31:55.570
know, sawing off here on the webbing of your hand. Well, an interesting

514
00:31:55.570 --> 00:31:58.650
thing about the production, at least the one that I have here, this is from

515
00:31:58.650 --> 00:32:02.450
the second run, is that the. Almost

516
00:32:02.450 --> 00:32:06.090
the entire spine is 90 degrees. And I've started fires, a lot of

517
00:32:06.090 --> 00:32:09.650
number of fires with this just in the back, back

518
00:32:10.100 --> 00:32:13.900
yard here, but right where the thumb would be and right where

519
00:32:13.900 --> 00:32:17.460
the web between the thumb and the forefinger would be in

520
00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:21.180
the choil grip is nicely chamfered there just for

521
00:32:21.180 --> 00:32:23.940
about an inch until it transitions into

522
00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:28.940
right there just before it transitions into the 90 degree spine. I

523
00:32:28.940 --> 00:32:32.780
love that feature. So that was actually something that, that was

524
00:32:32.780 --> 00:32:36.100
something that was Vic's idea. Like, like my way of thinking

525
00:32:37.210 --> 00:32:40.490
was, you know, hey, make it all flat if they want it

526
00:32:40.890 --> 00:32:44.210
smooth and they can knock it down with like a diamond file or, you know,

527
00:32:44.210 --> 00:32:47.930
do it themselves. But Vic really wanted to make the product, you know, like finish

528
00:32:48.490 --> 00:32:52.170
and like to come like, you know, where you don't have to modify to make

529
00:32:52.170 --> 00:32:55.890
it comfortable. So that's, that probably would have bothered people if

530
00:32:55.890 --> 00:32:59.690
they're using the choil and then they're, you know, they're getting cut

531
00:32:59.690 --> 00:33:03.220
up with a sharp spine. So was that was probably a good idea to go

532
00:33:03.220 --> 00:33:07.020
ahead and make it come that way from the, you know, like from

533
00:33:07.020 --> 00:33:10.620
the factory. So let me ask you this, Reese. You, you

534
00:33:10.620 --> 00:33:14.460
have the Marine Raider Bowie. You want to design a

535
00:33:14.460 --> 00:33:18.219
new one? What were the things about

536
00:33:18.219 --> 00:33:21.980
the original that made you make the

537
00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:24.820
changes that were incorporated into your final

538
00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:28.910
design for the V44? So

539
00:33:31.550 --> 00:33:35.070
I kind of got into Bowies. I wanted a large clip point Bowie,

540
00:33:35.470 --> 00:33:38.670
not, you know, like a W49, like the Becker BK

541
00:33:38.670 --> 00:33:42.390
2029. I like that, that shape like the

542
00:33:42.390 --> 00:33:46.230
Raider Bowie that I had. So looking

543
00:33:46.230 --> 00:33:49.830
into Ethan Becker Stuff his inspiration for the Moses and the Boondock

544
00:33:49.830 --> 00:33:53.390
Bowie. His inspiration. So

545
00:33:54.040 --> 00:33:57.080
that's when I kind of learned more about the Raider Bowies. Like I knew about

546
00:33:57.080 --> 00:34:00.800
the Marine Raider Bowie, the modern one. But I hadn't gotten into the history

547
00:34:00.800 --> 00:34:04.280
as much until I looked into Ethan Becker's inspiration

548
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:09.000
for the 20 and the 29. So when I found that and I got

549
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:12.720
the. I think the 20, that really kind of put me down the path

550
00:34:12.720 --> 00:34:16.040
of like, like, oh my gosh, now I need to get one of those.

551
00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:20.170
Like I. I found one that had like a night bone inlay of

552
00:34:20.170 --> 00:34:23.930
like a skull where a marine had like carved in and carved

553
00:34:23.930 --> 00:34:27.130
a enemy's bone and like inlaid it in the.

554
00:34:27.610 --> 00:34:31.450
Like the guard. Marines did crazy stuff. But. But

555
00:34:31.450 --> 00:34:35.290
like I really wanted the green horn handle and ended up getting.

556
00:34:35.450 --> 00:34:38.930
I think I've had three or four of those now. But what is the green

557
00:34:38.930 --> 00:34:42.730
horn handle? I don't think I have one. I didn't.

558
00:34:42.730 --> 00:34:46.369
Is it. Is it a shape or a material? Was some material. It's like a

559
00:34:46.369 --> 00:34:50.209
actual like buffalo horn. Oh. And it's like a green color. I. I

560
00:34:50.209 --> 00:34:52.609
forgot to bring. I have a whole box under there. I didn't pull it out

561
00:34:52.609 --> 00:34:56.169
from under the bed. That's all right. But it's like a. Same

562
00:34:56.169 --> 00:34:59.609
shape. Same exact shape. It just has. It's almost like a.

563
00:35:00.969 --> 00:35:04.609
Almost like a ghost shade G10 with like swirls of like white and

564
00:35:04.609 --> 00:35:08.449
yellow. And some are darker, some are gray. I had one

565
00:35:08.449 --> 00:35:12.150
that's. I have two that are gray. A lot of

566
00:35:12.150 --> 00:35:14.230
people don't know this, but most of these are brass

567
00:35:15.750 --> 00:35:19.590
and the pins are different colors. Some are. Some are brass, some are like a.

568
00:35:19.670 --> 00:35:23.430
I don't know if it's lead or steel. I think it's steel. But some of

569
00:35:23.430 --> 00:35:27.030
the guards are actually nickel plated. And so,

570
00:35:28.470 --> 00:35:31.750
you know, people. Nobody likes collectors don't like to put out their secrets because then

571
00:35:31.750 --> 00:35:35.590
everybody knows what to look for. But they had a nickel plated one.

572
00:35:35.670 --> 00:35:39.100
A lot of them were. Were for the second raiders that were ordered.

573
00:35:39.500 --> 00:35:43.260
But if you ever find one like this that has a silver like a nickel

574
00:35:43.580 --> 00:35:47.380
colored guard, those are really rare. I got

575
00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:51.060
lucky and found one on a Facebook knife herd. I found one recently

576
00:35:51.060 --> 00:35:54.700
for one of my buddies that collects knives and they needed one of those and

577
00:35:54.700 --> 00:35:58.460
they were trying to buy mine. So I found another one at an estate

578
00:35:58.460 --> 00:36:01.700
sale and they were able to get that one for there. They have a huge

579
00:36:01.700 --> 00:36:05.320
Collins Collins collection like. Like a

580
00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:08.800
basement wall and they needed that. They needed that guard.

581
00:36:09.600 --> 00:36:12.640
So I found them One for a good price. So we both have one.

582
00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:17.080
That's awesome. Can. Can you pick that knife back up? I want

583
00:36:17.080 --> 00:36:20.640
to. I want to make an observation. The pommel of this

584
00:36:20.640 --> 00:36:23.840
knife, first of all, looks. Looks.

585
00:36:24.160 --> 00:36:27.560
Looks sort of like the Western, but when I look at this

586
00:36:27.560 --> 00:36:30.160
pommel, it reminds me of the pommels of

587
00:36:31.020 --> 00:36:34.500
Filipino knives and. And

588
00:36:34.500 --> 00:36:38.060
weapons. It just kind of has that. That it's

589
00:36:38.060 --> 00:36:40.940
probably. I mean, it's kind of like. It's almost like a Latin machete, like a

590
00:36:40.940 --> 00:36:44.500
typical machete handle. But I don't know if this

591
00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:48.140
back piece here. I know one thing, like, a reason that I

592
00:36:48.140 --> 00:36:50.780
put, like, did

593
00:36:52.060 --> 00:36:55.700
so I didn't want to add stuff that didn't make sense to this thing, but

594
00:36:55.700 --> 00:36:59.220
the reason it goes down like that is so when you're chopping,

595
00:36:59.780 --> 00:37:03.220
your. Like, the fat part of your palm hits on that. So when you're going

596
00:37:03.220 --> 00:37:06.940
down like this, you just stop the knife, you know, like, that part's pushing

597
00:37:06.940 --> 00:37:10.540
into your hand, so it's. It's not, like, rotating forward or

598
00:37:10.540 --> 00:37:14.380
turning out or, like, rolling in your hand or deflecting. It actually

599
00:37:14.380 --> 00:37:17.380
helps you, like, decelerate. So I don't know if that was, like,

600
00:37:18.420 --> 00:37:22.140
you know, why they had this little extra piece, because it kind of, you know,

601
00:37:22.140 --> 00:37:25.830
hits. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why it's there,

602
00:37:25.830 --> 00:37:29.550
but. I think that makes. That makes total sense, actually,

603
00:37:30.270 --> 00:37:33.830
because without that, especially guys with bigger hands might be

604
00:37:33.830 --> 00:37:37.630
slipping off the back, and then you would have the corner of that gouging

605
00:37:37.630 --> 00:37:41.070
into your hand. This one's actually got three notches in it. Yeah.

606
00:37:41.550 --> 00:37:44.470
And I've got some other knives that have stuff carved in it, but you never

607
00:37:44.470 --> 00:37:47.710
know what it means. It could be three kills. It could be three,

608
00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:53.120
you know, deployments, Like, I don't know. But this one was

609
00:37:53.120 --> 00:37:56.760
really beat up, and it has the

610
00:37:56.760 --> 00:37:59.000
notches in there, but I don't know what they. I don't know what they're from.

611
00:37:59.240 --> 00:38:02.560
I love that. That's one of the things I love about. About the old knives

612
00:38:02.560 --> 00:38:06.120
behind me and in my collection, like, just thinking about

613
00:38:06.120 --> 00:38:09.880
what they. What they experienced. I know that's

614
00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:13.120
a weird way of putting it, but what. What these knives were used for, what

615
00:38:13.120 --> 00:38:16.940
they went through, what they meant to the person who owned them. Like. Like a

616
00:38:16.940 --> 00:38:20.540
couple of the K bars my brother has given me from World War II and

617
00:38:20.700 --> 00:38:23.980
Korea have things inscribed in the leather

618
00:38:23.980 --> 00:38:27.780
sheaths. And I don't know. I love that because

619
00:38:27.780 --> 00:38:31.060
these. These are all things that predate me. And I'm, you know, I'm Getting up

620
00:38:31.060 --> 00:38:34.900
there, I'm, I'm over a half century here and. But, but

621
00:38:34.900 --> 00:38:38.700
to think that these were used by people and relied on by people and

622
00:38:38.780 --> 00:38:42.550
you know, I, I just love that. Oh, what do you have there in front

623
00:38:42.550 --> 00:38:46.390
of you there? So a little more history because these are rare. Sometimes

624
00:38:46.390 --> 00:38:50.150
things are so rare that nobody knows what they are

625
00:38:50.150 --> 00:38:53.710
and they get listed wrong on estate sales and stuff all the time.

626
00:38:54.430 --> 00:38:57.870
So this is a aluminum. It's. It's actually pretty heavy. It's

627
00:38:57.870 --> 00:39:01.630
aluminum guard. This was the first Raider Battalion knife.

628
00:39:03.550 --> 00:39:07.280
I think it was Second Lieutenant Carl Carlson. Carlson, man,

629
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:10.440
I can't never get that right on Phil selling bakers.

630
00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:14.760
But his son, like the guy that formed 2nd Raiders, his son

631
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:18.360
was also in the Raiders, like he was an officer. So he

632
00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:22.080
commissioned a thousand of these to be made in New Zealand. And I think

633
00:39:22.080 --> 00:39:25.160
the company now is Victory. I follow them on

634
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:29.200
Instagram, but it's Victory Knives out of New Zealand. So they commissioned

635
00:39:29.200 --> 00:39:32.440
a thousand of these and see if you can see it.

636
00:39:33.260 --> 00:39:36.980
So they, the handles were OD green, but not many of

637
00:39:36.980 --> 00:39:40.780
them have the, the paint on it still. This one actually has a little bit

638
00:39:40.780 --> 00:39:44.580
of the OD green paint. And the same company

639
00:39:44.580 --> 00:39:48.140
also made a couple hundred for the.

640
00:39:48.940 --> 00:39:52.620
It's like the rnzaf. It's like the New Zealand Air Force

641
00:39:53.020 --> 00:39:56.740
because it was like a, their bailout knife for their, their pilot survival knives.

642
00:39:56.740 --> 00:40:00.060
But they, they made some too. And um, the way you can tell the difference

643
00:40:00.060 --> 00:40:03.900
is the, the ground height's different and the blades

644
00:40:03.900 --> 00:40:07.660
are different lengths. So that's how you can tell if you find

645
00:40:07.660 --> 00:40:11.180
something that looks like this. And if you have one of the,

646
00:40:11.660 --> 00:40:15.300
the scabbards for the New Zealand one, they have like kind of like a

647
00:40:15.300 --> 00:40:18.140
khaki color with like some leather on it and the back is stamped

648
00:40:18.620 --> 00:40:22.420
rnzaf. That, that's for New Zealand. But the

649
00:40:22.420 --> 00:40:25.730
ones with the green paint stuff were Raider bullies. So

650
00:40:26.130 --> 00:40:29.490
I've got two of these. I've got two of the thousand First Rigor boys.

651
00:40:29.970 --> 00:40:32.930
Wow. One I paid a lot for and I actually sold

652
00:40:33.890 --> 00:40:37.690
had a bunch of AK surplus stuff that I'd

653
00:40:37.690 --> 00:40:41.410
bought before AKs got real popular. And I sold a lot

654
00:40:41.410 --> 00:40:45.010
of money of that and where I pretty much paid for this

655
00:40:45.810 --> 00:40:49.530
when I sold the AK surplus. Are these the

656
00:40:49.530 --> 00:40:53.380
same, Are these from the same run? Because

657
00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:57.100
the. It's definitely a little different. It's definitely different.

658
00:40:57.820 --> 00:41:01.020
So this one's skinnier

659
00:41:01.180 --> 00:41:04.420
usually a lot of times you see this blade profile is more on the

660
00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:07.980
RNZF ones, but materials were

661
00:41:07.980 --> 00:41:11.700
Scarce and you know,

662
00:41:11.700 --> 00:41:15.140
like I don't know where they were sourcing the material or if they had more

663
00:41:15.140 --> 00:41:18.990
than one guy in the shop or how they were like when

664
00:41:18.990 --> 00:41:22.630
they were making the batch for the Raiders versus the New

665
00:41:22.630 --> 00:41:26.390
Zealand Air Force. I don't know like if they were making them in batches or

666
00:41:26.390 --> 00:41:29.630
if it took them a month or at all the same time. Like, I don't

667
00:41:29.630 --> 00:41:32.910
know all the details of that. It's probably in paperwork somewhere. I just don't know.

668
00:41:33.870 --> 00:41:37.150
There are different, like these are the same length

669
00:41:39.390 --> 00:41:43.160
but they're. I like the grind height is

670
00:41:43.160 --> 00:41:46.600
right. But one has more of a belly on it. Yeah, that one,

671
00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:50.720
the one in your, in your right hand, looks like it's got a

672
00:41:50.720 --> 00:41:53.720
thicker waist or a thicker Ricasso area there.

673
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:58.119
It's, it's about the same. These are actually a lot thicker. Like these.

674
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:02.080
The second, second Raider boat, like the Collins, these are about like

675
00:42:02.080 --> 00:42:05.800
an eighth of an inch, like more like a machete. But

676
00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:09.520
these are closer to like 3:16 where they're actually like

677
00:42:09.520 --> 00:42:13.240
closer to the size of like the like, like my Boeing. But this one

678
00:42:13.240 --> 00:42:17.080
has a similar swedge. Where the swedge isn't

679
00:42:17.080 --> 00:42:20.760
like, you know, it's not like a K bar,

680
00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:25.000
right. It doesn't get real thin there. You can see where it's kind of like

681
00:42:26.600 --> 00:42:30.280
it's actually pretty, it's pretty similar to this one. So when

682
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:32.720
you designed the profile for the

683
00:42:32.720 --> 00:42:36.450
V44, V44X, what was

684
00:42:36.450 --> 00:42:40.090
your. What. Was your goal in making

685
00:42:40.090 --> 00:42:43.850
such a deep belly? So

686
00:42:43.850 --> 00:42:46.530
here's where I was when I was drawing out, while I'm thinking in my head,

687
00:42:46.690 --> 00:42:48.450
like why I wanted to do certain things.

688
00:42:51.330 --> 00:42:55.010
So I wanted to make something that shopped really well but wasn't very

689
00:42:55.010 --> 00:42:58.450
heavy. So I wanted the mass of the weight to be on a certain spot.

690
00:42:59.010 --> 00:43:01.650
And if you were batoning and stuff, I wanted that to be over the top

691
00:43:01.650 --> 00:43:05.400
of certain areas too. So like you get the most efficient, you know, like

692
00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:08.880
use out of all the weight that's there. So I wanted to have

693
00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:12.760
extra material here so it'd give you like a little bit of like, you know,

694
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:16.440
chopping mass. And I wanted,

695
00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:20.160
with a tip, you know, I think like, even though it's a tool,

696
00:43:20.240 --> 00:43:23.640
it's also like, you know, a knife is defensive, maybe

697
00:43:23.640 --> 00:43:27.240
offensive, you know, if

698
00:43:27.240 --> 00:43:31.060
you're, you know, some type of environment where you're going to be stabbing like

699
00:43:31.060 --> 00:43:34.700
a pig or you know, something like, I guess something

700
00:43:34.700 --> 00:43:38.380
else. But I wanted this tip to be center lined

701
00:43:38.780 --> 00:43:42.620
so like, you know, when you're if you had to stab something, you know it's

702
00:43:42.620 --> 00:43:46.300
going to go almost like right on like a can opener, you know, it's gonna,

703
00:43:46.300 --> 00:43:49.580
it's not going to be like weird where it's kind of not gonna penetrate.

704
00:43:49.820 --> 00:43:53.580
Yeah. A lot of the clip was I wanted

705
00:43:53.580 --> 00:43:56.540
the belly there for like the weight because I wanted this. This was

706
00:43:57.850 --> 00:44:01.610
3:16, which is like 5 millimeters. And

707
00:44:02.090 --> 00:44:05.450
originally the first knife I was gonna have for myself, I was gonna do a

708
00:44:05.450 --> 00:44:09.250
quarter inch. But after handling some quarter inch knives, I

709
00:44:09.250 --> 00:44:12.890
was like, you know what? This is so heavy. Like

710
00:44:13.130 --> 00:44:16.290
after you use this for a while. I actually got tendinitis in this arm and

711
00:44:16.290 --> 00:44:19.170
it lasted for like a year. I did a video on YouTube how to fix

712
00:44:19.170 --> 00:44:22.850
tendinitis because it was so bad. Like, I could barely hold stuff

713
00:44:22.850 --> 00:44:26.350
and do certain things. So I really wanted to make a knife that was like

714
00:44:26.350 --> 00:44:30.110
not fatiguing, not gonna injure you, you know, like, you go so

715
00:44:30.110 --> 00:44:33.910
big, if you're like whaling on something, you can really hurt, you know,

716
00:44:33.910 --> 00:44:37.750
hurt your ligaments and, you know, hurt your arm, especially if

717
00:44:37.750 --> 00:44:41.590
you're not doing manual labor stuff and your body's not used to that.

718
00:44:42.790 --> 00:44:46.630
But all the shape, you know, like, I wanted the clip point,

719
00:44:47.030 --> 00:44:50.810
like, like the Raider Bowies, this one. So

720
00:44:50.810 --> 00:44:54.610
it's, it's kind of similar to that one. Yeah, it, you know

721
00:44:54.610 --> 00:44:58.410
what the, the B44 looks almost like, and forgive the

722
00:44:58.410 --> 00:45:01.810
use of this term, I don't mean it in a negative way because this is

723
00:45:01.810 --> 00:45:05.610
one of my favorite pix blade knives, but it's almost a caricature of the

724
00:45:05.610 --> 00:45:09.410
Marine Raider in that, in that it, it, it exaggerates.

725
00:45:09.410 --> 00:45:12.930
It exaggerates the lines on the, on the Marine Raider to

726
00:45:12.930 --> 00:45:16.290
massive effect. But that was kind of like the, the X part of it

727
00:45:16.620 --> 00:45:19.980
because like a B44, but it's like the extreme. Oh,

728
00:45:20.060 --> 00:45:23.820
okay. So like the kind of like the concept of the extreme part,

729
00:45:24.060 --> 00:45:27.580
I wanted to take all the stuff that I didn't like about, like, I don't

730
00:45:27.580 --> 00:45:31.340
want to talk, you know, bad about other knife designs, but after

731
00:45:31.340 --> 00:45:34.740
you've had a lot of different knives and you've chopped with stuff and some hurts

732
00:45:34.740 --> 00:45:38.460
your hand, some like come out of your hand and you know,

733
00:45:38.460 --> 00:45:42.270
or they're wearing hot spots and different things on you, you know,

734
00:45:42.270 --> 00:45:45.990
like the reason I had my own custom made was like, had so many things

735
00:45:45.990 --> 00:45:48.630
that they didn't like about other knives that I'd used in the past, you know,

736
00:45:48.630 --> 00:45:52.190
like machetes too. Like use a bunch of different machetes, you know, you Find out

737
00:45:52.190 --> 00:45:56.030
what is not comfortable. So what I really

738
00:45:56.030 --> 00:45:59.670
wanted this to do, that's why some guys wanted a guard on both sides.

739
00:46:00.070 --> 00:46:03.430
But you know, then you can't choke up and you can't, you can't do a

740
00:46:03.430 --> 00:46:06.310
lot of stuff if you have a big guard back there. Yeah. I really wanted

741
00:46:06.310 --> 00:46:09.900
this to be like an extreme version, like a functional,

742
00:46:10.540 --> 00:46:14.100
like a hard use extreme version of like the

743
00:46:14.100 --> 00:46:17.860
regular. So I wanted the handle to be comfortable. I

744
00:46:17.860 --> 00:46:20.980
wanted it to stick in your hand. I wanted you to be able to do

745
00:46:20.980 --> 00:46:24.740
like. I know people don't like the whole term like, like one

746
00:46:24.740 --> 00:46:28.180
tool option, but like this knife compared to the

747
00:46:28.180 --> 00:46:31.980
smaller stuff I've drawn up, like this was really meant to kind of do like

748
00:46:32.700 --> 00:46:36.260
you know, multiple different things. You know, know, like do fine

749
00:46:36.260 --> 00:46:39.860
work. Yeah. Chop well like a, like a.

750
00:46:40.100 --> 00:46:43.900
The whole concept of like the American bowie knife is like a, like a do

751
00:46:43.900 --> 00:46:46.700
it all tool that you're going to have with you. You might not have other

752
00:46:46.700 --> 00:46:49.940
stuff. And let's see, where's this big knife?

753
00:46:50.819 --> 00:46:54.340
So they always say like, oh, you shouldn't do that with a knife. That's not

754
00:46:54.340 --> 00:46:57.940
what it's for. But this knife, you can see on the spine,

755
00:46:58.580 --> 00:47:02.430
it has marring marks that are actually worn down

756
00:47:02.430 --> 00:47:05.710
some. But if you're in the field, you don't have the option to like

757
00:47:06.110 --> 00:47:09.910
you might not have a hammer or you might not have a, you know, the

758
00:47:09.910 --> 00:47:13.270
stuff you need. So you just have what you have with you. So you know,

759
00:47:13.270 --> 00:47:17.070
guys would hammer with spines and do things like, you know, prior stuff and break

760
00:47:17.070 --> 00:47:20.870
tips. And one thing you can see too

761
00:47:20.870 --> 00:47:23.390
a lot on the originals, especially on the,

762
00:47:24.670 --> 00:47:28.360
the cases their tangling went down to like here.

763
00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:33.160
So they were always break right in this crack.

764
00:47:33.240 --> 00:47:37.040
Like they're either cracked or there's a ton broken that people have rehandled, but

765
00:47:37.040 --> 00:47:40.840
they would crack all the time. So the whole, I

766
00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:44.160
guess the whole thing is this is supposed to be like a more functional, like

767
00:47:44.160 --> 00:47:47.760
a, like a, like a beefed up extreme, like extreme version of like the

768
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:51.530
Raider buoy. You know, even like this, you

769
00:47:51.530 --> 00:47:55.330
know, like it's not a terrible handle. A bunch of people

770
00:47:55.330 --> 00:47:59.050
I'm sure have used this but you know, it leaves a little

771
00:47:59.050 --> 00:48:02.730
bit to be desired. Well, this one on the

772
00:48:02.730 --> 00:48:06.370
V44 you've really extended

773
00:48:06.370 --> 00:48:09.850
the. The handle itself is larger than at least the Western

774
00:48:09.850 --> 00:48:13.570
W49 I have here. And the. And the

775
00:48:14.690 --> 00:48:18.510
Ontario that you were. The SP10 you were just holding up and then you add

776
00:48:18.510 --> 00:48:22.230
the choil and that that gives it even you Know, essentially that makes the

777
00:48:22.230 --> 00:48:25.950
handle from here to here, almost like 6 inches. So a lot of

778
00:48:25.950 --> 00:48:28.670
versatility here. You can choke all the way back here

779
00:48:29.630 --> 00:48:32.670
for chopping. You have a hidden lanyard hole here. So you could.

780
00:48:34.430 --> 00:48:37.870
So I, I love the practicality of this. Now, granted, this,

781
00:48:38.750 --> 00:48:41.830
you know, every time I've used this, it's been like, ooh. I'm going out to

782
00:48:41.830 --> 00:48:45.590
use. It's not like I've needed to use this in my. But that's, that's

783
00:48:45.590 --> 00:48:49.390
how my knife collecting is. It's. But I

784
00:48:49.390 --> 00:48:53.030
do carry every day a fixed blade knife.

785
00:48:53.190 --> 00:48:56.990
And I see a little prototype in front of you, and maybe it's not

786
00:48:56.990 --> 00:49:00.830
a little prototype, but these guys or these, these guys. That right

787
00:49:00.830 --> 00:49:04.390
there. All right, so this is a knife. So I had these

788
00:49:04.390 --> 00:49:07.430
prototypes too. The EDC one, I have like readings up here,

789
00:49:07.990 --> 00:49:11.720
but this is actually one that I've like, I really

790
00:49:11.720 --> 00:49:15.440
want to have this knife made, you know, like, really, like really bad. Like, I

791
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:19.080
think this is something that I think will be more useful

792
00:49:19.080 --> 00:49:22.840
to a lot of people. It's right at like 13 inches, maybe just like

793
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:26.520
a hair under. But in comparison, what I've done is so

794
00:49:26.520 --> 00:49:30.320
like this one, when I designed this knife, it's full tang.

795
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.080
I put the hardware holes in places where they wouldn't be in thin points,

796
00:49:34.720 --> 00:49:38.500
but I wanted the knife to be. You know, when people pick this knife up,

797
00:49:38.500 --> 00:49:41.420
one of the first things they say is they're like, wow, that knife is lighter

798
00:49:41.420 --> 00:49:45.180
than I thought it would be. So that's because it's got like a. The handle

799
00:49:45.180 --> 00:49:48.980
is kind of balanced. So it's, it's making the, it's keeping

800
00:49:48.980 --> 00:49:52.460
the weight back so the knife, this part up here doesn't feel as heavy. Right.

801
00:49:52.540 --> 00:49:56.260
So. So this is a more of like a one tool option, multi grip, you

802
00:49:56.260 --> 00:49:58.540
know. But I don't need to have a long handle,

803
00:50:00.700 --> 00:50:04.260
you know, on a shorter, like a, like a seven inch blade. Like a seven.

804
00:50:04.260 --> 00:50:07.420
I think this was that seven inch of sharpened part. But you don't need all

805
00:50:07.420 --> 00:50:10.740
that handle. So I wanted this to be more compact. I want it to be

806
00:50:10.740 --> 00:50:14.100
something where the pommel was more round. That way when it's on your, on your

807
00:50:14.100 --> 00:50:17.540
side, you know, you're not like destroying your elbows when you're

808
00:50:17.540 --> 00:50:21.140
walking. People don't think about that stuff when they're adding stuff to their knives.

809
00:50:21.620 --> 00:50:25.220
I might do a slight little bump

810
00:50:25.220 --> 00:50:28.900
there and that. That was just going to be a standoff for like hammering.

811
00:50:29.550 --> 00:50:32.750
Okay. Like if you're like doing baton or something, tapping stuff Back in. Or maybe

812
00:50:32.750 --> 00:50:36.430
you gotta do a quick, you know, like, hit something, but it's not gonna be

813
00:50:36.430 --> 00:50:40.070
for, like dedicated, for like hitting people. You have a

814
00:50:40.070 --> 00:50:43.590
giant blade in your hand. If you like pummel,

815
00:50:43.590 --> 00:50:47.390
pummel crushers, that's fine. But that's not one of the things where I'm

816
00:50:47.390 --> 00:50:51.150
like, I've gotta have one of those. Or that's like a deal breaker, dude. They,

817
00:50:51.150 --> 00:50:54.910
they, they end up just hurting the person who's carrying them. Either

818
00:50:54.910 --> 00:50:58.750
wearing something or scratching up a weapon, scratching up a piece of gear, hurting your

819
00:50:58.750 --> 00:51:02.350
elbows, your arm, or heaven. Forbid, you try and use it in reverse grip and

820
00:51:02.350 --> 00:51:05.950
put the thumb back there. Yeah, like, and with this one too, you know, we

821
00:51:05.950 --> 00:51:08.310
looked at different stuff like that. But if you, like when you chop down, you

822
00:51:08.310 --> 00:51:11.870
can chop down to your pinky and stuff, and there's nothing, you know, like, hitting

823
00:51:11.870 --> 00:51:15.550
your hand. A lot of guys were like, there's no, there's no glass breaker.

824
00:51:15.550 --> 00:51:19.110
That's a deal breaker for me. Like, you have a giant knife. The whole thing

825
00:51:19.110 --> 00:51:22.770
is a glass breaker. Okay. You know, like,

826
00:51:22.930 --> 00:51:26.530
but so, so this one, this is the. And what I'm calling this one

827
00:51:26.610 --> 00:51:30.330
is the. The V44. And I've kind of been kind of funny with the

828
00:51:30.330 --> 00:51:33.970
name, but it's. I was trying, when I drew this,

829
00:51:34.770 --> 00:51:38.490
you know, similar to the Becker, you know, like my first deployment

830
00:51:38.490 --> 00:51:41.450
knife. And this is what a lot of people, they're like, hey, that's like a

831
00:51:41.450 --> 00:51:45.210
great, you know, like field utility combat, you know, like, deployment

832
00:51:45.210 --> 00:51:49.010
knife. And what I don't like about a lot of K bars and stuff

833
00:51:50.660 --> 00:51:54.180
is this is the new K bar. Lucas did these

834
00:51:54.180 --> 00:51:57.540
scales, they make this knife, it looks killer like this.

835
00:51:58.260 --> 00:52:02.100
But this is more, you know, it's not a very heavy blade. It's more of

836
00:52:02.100 --> 00:52:05.820
like a stabber. You can do utility and cutting, but this is more like a

837
00:52:05.820 --> 00:52:09.380
combat knife. So if you had to like chop down a tree

838
00:52:09.780 --> 00:52:13.140
or, you know, do anything else, and it's not really much of a

839
00:52:13.140 --> 00:52:16.730
slasher, you know, like a heavy, like, belly slasher. Yeah. So

840
00:52:17.290 --> 00:52:18.890
what I wanted to do is get a.

841
00:52:20.810 --> 00:52:24.610
I'm calling this the D44 field utility. So it's like

842
00:52:24.610 --> 00:52:28.450
a field utility knife that can like kind of fill a bunch of roles.

843
00:52:28.450 --> 00:52:32.210
Like a shrunk down version of the V44X. But stuff you can,

844
00:52:32.210 --> 00:52:35.450
like, if you had to, you know, you can like chop down a tree, clear,

845
00:52:35.450 --> 00:52:38.930
like shooting lanes, clear places for like a mortar, like, do like

846
00:52:38.930 --> 00:52:42.710
heavier utility, utility work, but still have something that, you

847
00:52:42.710 --> 00:52:46.550
know it will Fit on your belt. Yeah. Field utility knife. That's a,

848
00:52:46.550 --> 00:52:50.230
that's a, it's got a great acronym too. You know, everyone could, you know, shorten

849
00:52:50.230 --> 00:52:54.070
it and just. Yeah, I was calling it like Joe Flame, like

850
00:52:54.070 --> 00:52:56.830
the field utility combat knife. But that's.

851
00:52:58.830 --> 00:53:02.550
I like the shape of the wedge on this one too. It's a, the clip

852
00:53:02.550 --> 00:53:06.390
is a slightly different shape. It's a. Yeah, I've had to like Dremel it

853
00:53:06.390 --> 00:53:10.040
in. So this is. No, I'm talking about the, the clip at the front of

854
00:53:10.040 --> 00:53:13.160
the blade. Oh, that's, yeah. So. So I made this out of wood.

855
00:53:13.560 --> 00:53:17.240
So it was a knot. So I, I, I like made this out of wood.

856
00:53:17.720 --> 00:53:20.320
I just painted it so you could kind of, you know, it would look more

857
00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:22.760
like a knife. Yeah, I made the, I made this out of a two by

858
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:26.360
four. Nice. That was under my shed.

859
00:53:27.160 --> 00:53:30.800
We're, we're coming, we're coming close to our time here. And I do want to

860
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:34.410
see your prototypes for your EDC model. Oh, this

861
00:53:34.410 --> 00:53:38.010
is, this is the blank that I had cut for this

862
00:53:38.010 --> 00:53:41.530
guy. Oh, nice. So that's a little bit more. This is, I did this with

863
00:53:41.530 --> 00:53:45.130
wood, but you can see that. Yeah, I'm gonna do

864
00:53:45.130 --> 00:53:48.970
one. I'm probably gonna finish one of these myself. I had two done. I just

865
00:53:48.970 --> 00:53:51.570
haven't had anybody here. I haven't had time to go out and do it yet.

866
00:53:53.010 --> 00:53:55.290
But this is the EDC version, the

867
00:53:55.290 --> 00:53:58.930
V44C. Like Compact,

868
00:53:59.010 --> 00:54:02.850
carry concealed, you know, like a smaller, like

869
00:54:02.850 --> 00:54:06.090
pocket bowie. Yeah. This is the first one I did.

870
00:54:07.130 --> 00:54:10.490
That is so. And this one too. I had the guy do this,

871
00:54:10.890 --> 00:54:14.610
the guy from Papa Bear Knives, he had it more squared off

872
00:54:14.610 --> 00:54:18.130
and left it kind of like, you know, it wasn't rounded and contoured. I took

873
00:54:18.130 --> 00:54:21.810
my Dremel tool and, and like shaped like a

874
00:54:21.810 --> 00:54:25.570
contour, like hook bottle. And I did the same thing where, like,

875
00:54:25.570 --> 00:54:29.250
I felt it, it didn't feel right. I'd take some more off, felt it. Go

876
00:54:29.250 --> 00:54:33.010
ahead and use this on. And when I was using this, one

877
00:54:33.010 --> 00:54:36.850
thing I didn't like about this where the lack, it was a lack of a

878
00:54:36.850 --> 00:54:40.490
guard. I've been using it some. I was stabbing into a

879
00:54:40.490 --> 00:54:44.290
log. And if you grab it like this, the way

880
00:54:44.290 --> 00:54:47.290
you can get around that, if you do a thumb over the top or if

881
00:54:47.290 --> 00:54:51.090
you grab back farther where it's like hanging off. Yeah. So you put your

882
00:54:51.090 --> 00:54:54.740
pinky on it instead of chirping all the way up. You can prevent slippage like

883
00:54:54.740 --> 00:54:58.460
that, like going onto the blade, but that's a really dangerous thing to.

884
00:54:58.460 --> 00:55:01.980
That's. You don't want to ruin your index finger. That's an important hand point to

885
00:55:01.980 --> 00:55:05.540
finger. So. So what I did with this, I didn't like it. It didn't have

886
00:55:05.540 --> 00:55:08.420
a guard. Even though you can get like, you know, right up on the blade.

887
00:55:09.059 --> 00:55:11.780
Like if you run Bushcraft stuff, that's probably, maybe better,

888
00:55:13.380 --> 00:55:16.900
but. So this is

889
00:55:17.300 --> 00:55:21.030
sad at a guard. Cool. So wait, have these been made? I feel like

890
00:55:21.030 --> 00:55:23.870
I've seen people like, like

891
00:55:25.070 --> 00:55:28.550
Scott from Choir Boys. I feel like I've seen him with one of these or

892
00:55:28.550 --> 00:55:32.110
maybe someone else. Might have had one at Blade Show. Ankura Josh

893
00:55:32.110 --> 00:55:35.950
Mankura knives helping make a small batch of these before Blade

894
00:55:35.950 --> 00:55:39.590
Show. Okay. And Jason from Straight Edge Knives, he has

895
00:55:39.590 --> 00:55:43.270
one. Oh yeah. A couple guys have one. Lucas, Carol to the scales for

896
00:55:43.270 --> 00:55:46.630
me. And this is. There's a little

897
00:55:46.790 --> 00:55:49.990
slight changes with this. Like, it's supposed to be like the, the grind's supposed to

898
00:55:49.990 --> 00:55:53.830
be a little higher, but this is essentially what the production will look like.

899
00:55:54.550 --> 00:55:57.750
And the blanks they have cut now are in K329.

900
00:55:59.190 --> 00:56:02.830
And so this is the, you know, that's what it will mostly look like

901
00:56:02.830 --> 00:56:06.470
that. And this is, you know, meant to be in like a pocket sheath.

902
00:56:07.430 --> 00:56:11.270
And I wanted a full grip but with no extra, like, handle. Like nothing

903
00:56:11.270 --> 00:56:15.080
extra. And. But I wanted a big enough blade where, you know,

904
00:56:15.080 --> 00:56:18.800
it felt like you actually had something substantial. Like I have knives

905
00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:22.120
that have like a 2 inch,

906
00:56:23.240 --> 00:56:25.960
you know, like I had this little pocket Bowie I got from a guy in

907
00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:29.800
Ukraine and it's a cool knife, but I don't feel

908
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:33.640
like I have something capable of like defense with that.

909
00:56:34.920 --> 00:56:37.160
Like, so I like to have something a little bigger

910
00:56:39.170 --> 00:56:42.970
and so that's where that came from. So we're about to wrap, but I

911
00:56:42.970 --> 00:56:45.490
want to, I want people to know, do you have.

912
00:56:46.690 --> 00:56:49.970
Are there plans for this in the works? Is this something. I know

913
00:56:50.130 --> 00:56:53.810
production with big companies say, like with worktop, you can never tell when it's going

914
00:56:53.810 --> 00:56:57.090
to happen. And they have their own schedules and setbacks and all.

915
00:56:57.410 --> 00:57:01.090
But is this going to be something. Oh, that's a cool grind. Is this something

916
00:57:01.090 --> 00:57:03.890
that's going to be available on a wider scale?

917
00:57:05.030 --> 00:57:08.630
So this one, the blanks are cut for this one, so work

918
00:57:08.630 --> 00:57:12.390
tough gears make. Gonna make this. The blanks have been cut for

919
00:57:12.390 --> 00:57:15.670
a little bit, so they, they have these. And this is a Jofu leather

920
00:57:16.230 --> 00:57:19.550
sheath. This is kind of how I intended it to be carried. You know, where

921
00:57:19.550 --> 00:57:22.310
it's like in your pocket. You can grab it.

922
00:57:25.670 --> 00:57:29.270
We'll start a pressure campaign to get work tough gear to

923
00:57:29.350 --> 00:57:32.470
start moving on this. Well, the date is looking like

924
00:57:34.950 --> 00:57:38.630
right then. Well, the date is like tentative, you know, because you don't know. You

925
00:57:38.630 --> 00:57:41.950
can't control everything that happens. But summer of

926
00:57:41.950 --> 00:57:45.510
2026 is, is the

927
00:57:45.510 --> 00:57:49.229
ETA for the EDC and this knife,

928
00:57:49.229 --> 00:57:52.950
this one is from Jed Hornbeak. Oh God, I love his knives.

929
00:57:52.950 --> 00:57:56.710
I sent him this blank and he's actually working on. He's supposed to be

930
00:57:56.710 --> 00:58:00.510
working on a batch of these in 3B but he just

931
00:58:00.510 --> 00:58:04.270
moved. He's very busy. I haven't been bothering him. But he, he made

932
00:58:04.270 --> 00:58:07.350
this for me. Just sent it to me and did this sheath

933
00:58:07.910 --> 00:58:11.590
and green shark skin and this sheath. Talk

934
00:58:11.590 --> 00:58:14.749
about like nice. I got this was in my mailbox when I came back from

935
00:58:14.749 --> 00:58:18.590
Blade Show. Like just like on like the jimping,

936
00:58:18.590 --> 00:58:22.310
the machining on the jimping that goes from a hollow grind to a flat.

937
00:58:22.630 --> 00:58:25.910
It's just like this knife is really cool as like

938
00:58:26.300 --> 00:58:30.060
sure grip. He wanted me to test that out. It's like a

939
00:58:30.060 --> 00:58:33.900
rubbery 10. Yeah. I have, I have one Jed

940
00:58:33.900 --> 00:58:37.660
Hornbeak knife and he only four of the model that I have and

941
00:58:37.660 --> 00:58:41.100
I man, it is one of my prized prize knives.

942
00:58:41.260 --> 00:58:44.340
Man. I've had a ball talking to you. We got a lot more to talk

943
00:58:44.340 --> 00:58:47.580
about. We're gonna, we're gonna do an extra 10 minutes for our, our

944
00:58:47.580 --> 00:58:51.260
patrons and, and maybe we'll do a part two down the road

945
00:58:51.260 --> 00:58:54.310
because, because I feel like you're a wealth of knowledge

946
00:58:55.110 --> 00:58:58.950
especially about Bowies but about, about this,

947
00:58:59.670 --> 00:59:03.390
this style of Bowie especially. But I know you've got a cabinet full of stuff

948
00:59:03.390 --> 00:59:07.230
and we need to talk some more. But for

949
00:59:07.230 --> 00:59:10.710
now do you have any plans to. To. To work

950
00:59:10.710 --> 00:59:14.550
broader on different designs, say non Bowie

951
00:59:14.550 --> 00:59:18.120
designs so as can run. Over there and grab a

952
00:59:18.120 --> 00:59:21.960
quen and my. Having my, my gear over there. But

953
00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:25.520
I, I'd have to go off camera but I, I have done stuff with

954
00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:31.720
like a clinch pick type design that I made for actually that was

955
00:59:31.720 --> 00:59:34.560
one of the first knives I did like a real knife I designed for somebody.

956
00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:38.320
I have a buddy that used to do contracting work and he wanted like a

957
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:41.680
clinch pick like from Shiv Works, but he wanted a, a double sided

958
00:59:41.680 --> 00:59:45.530
Tanto. So I drew one up. I sent the drawing to

959
00:59:45.530 --> 00:59:49.370
the guy I know, Philip Burris in Florida and he made it, sent it to

960
00:59:49.370 --> 00:59:52.290
him, his buddy one on one. He made another one and then he just sent

961
00:59:52.290 --> 00:59:54.890
me one for free. He's like, hey, thanks for Sending me the business. Here's an.

962
00:59:55.050 --> 00:59:58.090
Like, I. I have that knife in there. Let me grab him real quick.

963
00:59:58.570 --> 01:00:01.370
Sure, go ahead. And as you do,

964
01:00:02.090 --> 01:00:05.850
I'll just remind people that they can. Right now,

965
01:00:05.850 --> 01:00:09.430
they have to look at the secondary market to find these. But

966
01:00:09.430 --> 01:00:13.230
the V44 Bowie is most

967
01:00:13.230 --> 01:00:16.590
definitely something worth seeking out. The

968
01:00:16.590 --> 01:00:20.110
V44X from. From Reese and

969
01:00:20.110 --> 01:00:23.670
Worktop Gear. You know, I'm not a hard user, but I've.

970
01:00:23.670 --> 01:00:27.470
I've baton this through some nasty old wood, and you can barely

971
01:00:27.470 --> 01:00:31.110
see any marks on it, and it flies through. And by the way, work

972
01:00:31.110 --> 01:00:34.840
tough gear just puts an amazing edge on our knives. So

973
01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:38.160
let's. Let's see this one before we roll out of here. So this was actually

974
01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:41.680
my EDC Bowie. I brought this one to Blade show in

975
01:00:41.680 --> 01:00:45.200
2023, and I had drawn this, you know, years in advance,

976
01:00:45.600 --> 01:00:49.160
but I wanted, like, a wrap. Like a Bowie with like an ITO wrap. Oh,

977
01:00:49.160 --> 01:00:52.560
yeah. So he doesn't. This guy doesn't have a machine shop, so he didn't have

978
01:00:52.560 --> 01:00:54.720
him a. You know, he doesn't have a. A mill.

979
01:00:56.320 --> 01:00:59.640
But he did that for me. And it's like kind of the same type of

980
01:00:59.640 --> 01:01:02.300
concept. I just kind of more refined it to, like,

981
01:01:03.180 --> 01:01:06.940
carry. But I did that one. This is the one I

982
01:01:06.940 --> 01:01:10.380
did for my buddy. Oh, that is cool.

983
01:01:10.620 --> 01:01:14.420
This is. This is meant to be worn like, you know, like

984
01:01:14.420 --> 01:01:17.940
you have it on your belt and it hangs down and you reach up, you

985
01:01:17.940 --> 01:01:21.780
grab it, and you can, like, hit legs or. It's kind

986
01:01:21.780 --> 01:01:25.460
of like a distancing tool. Like, hey, I'm tangled up pokey a couple

987
01:01:25.460 --> 01:01:29.040
times, get my gun, you know, and this is

988
01:01:29.040 --> 01:01:32.840
one. I wanted this made. So this is supposed to have

989
01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:36.440
two edges. It's supposed to go up here, be an angle, then be come up

990
01:01:36.440 --> 01:01:39.320
here and have another. Another angle where there's like a, you know, like a line,

991
01:01:39.720 --> 01:01:43.520
like an angle change. I was calling this the. The

992
01:01:43.520 --> 01:01:47.360
death finger. And this is supposed to be like a,

993
01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:51.080
you know, like an edc, you know, like a qui gon, you know,

994
01:01:51.080 --> 01:01:54.550
long enough where it can, like, get. That would do some damage. But

995
01:01:54.710 --> 01:01:58.470
the concept of this, if you ever try to cut something with like a round

996
01:01:58.630 --> 01:02:02.390
belly, if it's not really sharp, sometimes it won't bite in. If you're

997
01:02:02.390 --> 01:02:05.830
cutting hair, like on an animal, it will just roll right over that hair, roll

998
01:02:05.830 --> 01:02:09.310
right over the clothes. So this is supposed to have an angle here, like a

999
01:02:09.310 --> 01:02:13.150
tanto edge, and another one there. That way, when you're

1000
01:02:13.150 --> 01:02:16.990
slicing, those edges will bite. You can really get, like, you know, like, deeper

1001
01:02:16.990 --> 01:02:20.720
in. So it's like. This is not a. No,

1002
01:02:21.200 --> 01:02:24.400
this was wrapped. I just wrapped it in some on, like, some goon tape,

1003
01:02:25.200 --> 01:02:28.720
but it has the Edo wrap under there. It's khaki and OD green,

1004
01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:32.560
but it's. Wrapped up with that. But this is just like a.

1005
01:02:33.040 --> 01:02:36.400
Like a defensive. More like a combat EDC knife.

1006
01:02:37.040 --> 01:02:40.600
But this was, I don't know, six

1007
01:02:40.600 --> 01:02:43.840
months or more before I did anything with the Bowies,

1008
01:02:44.610 --> 01:02:48.450
because I do, like, you know, like, you know, katanas and

1009
01:02:48.930 --> 01:02:51.810
Japanese stuff. Eater, like, I really like Eater wraps.

1010
01:02:52.530 --> 01:02:56.370
I've got a bunch of Williams design stuff. Love his stuff.

1011
01:02:56.370 --> 01:02:59.970
And I met him at Blade Show. Him and his sons, like, they're. They're really

1012
01:02:59.970 --> 01:03:03.490
cool. He, like, did some, like, comfrey stuff on me.

1013
01:03:03.570 --> 01:03:06.850
Yeah, this is pretty cool. Stab you from across the room.

1014
01:03:07.410 --> 01:03:11.200
He's. That guy's crazy. He's really tall, too. He's like. He's probably

1015
01:03:11.200 --> 01:03:14.920
like six, three or something, maybe. Yeah. And he has an eerie calm about

1016
01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:18.760
him. He's a W. He's listening. If you're talking,

1017
01:03:18.760 --> 01:03:22.320
he's listening and, like, he's, like, watching you, and you can tell he's like.

1018
01:03:23.200 --> 01:03:26.480
He's processing everything. How could I dismantle this person?

1019
01:03:27.200 --> 01:03:31.040
Hey, Reece, thank you so much for joining me on the Knife Junkie podcast.

1020
01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:35.720
I've really enjoyed talking to you about the V44X, but also just

1021
01:03:35.720 --> 01:03:39.210
the history of the Marine. Marine Raider Bowie. I'd love to have you back on

1022
01:03:39.210 --> 01:03:43.050
sometime. Talk K bars, talk all the other stuff you got in there. Oh,

1023
01:03:43.050 --> 01:03:46.170
all these are K bars. And

1024
01:03:48.490 --> 01:03:52.250
it's a World War II. It's a Japanese fuse palm. I got a

1025
01:03:52.250 --> 01:03:55.130
bunch of those. That's cool. A lot of people don't know what those are, but

1026
01:03:55.130 --> 01:03:58.970
I got. I. I do. Those probably got multiple things

1027
01:04:00.090 --> 01:04:03.890
in there. Well, let's talk again, sir. Thank you so much for coming

1028
01:04:03.890 --> 01:04:07.230
on the show. I appreciate you, man. All right. Yeah, it was great. Thanks for

1029
01:04:07.230 --> 01:04:10.350
having me. My pleasure. Visit the Knife junkie@the

1030
01:04:10.510 --> 01:04:13.950
knifejunkie.com to catch all of our podcast episodes, videos,

1031
01:04:13.950 --> 01:04:17.350
photos, and more. There he goes, ladies and gentlemen, Reese. Well

1032
01:04:17.350 --> 01:04:21.110
regulated. That's how you know him on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.

1033
01:04:22.470 --> 01:04:26.230
More V44X bowies to come and. And then

1034
01:04:26.470 --> 01:04:30.070
further on out, the EDC Bowie. I cannot wait.

1035
01:04:31.120 --> 01:04:34.960
Definitely, definitely. Well worth the purchase, even if you're not a

1036
01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:38.160
big Bowie guy. Like I say, every household needs a big Bowie.

1037
01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:42.720
This would be a great choice. All right, thanks for watching

1038
01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:46.680
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1039
01:04:46.680 --> 01:04:50.480
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1040
01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:54.040
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1041
01:04:54.040 --> 01:04:57.850
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1042
01:04:57.850 --> 01:05:01.530
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