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Welcome to the Knife Junkie podcast. I'm Bob DeMarco. On this
edition of the show, I'm speaking with Reese of well Regulated.
I started following Reese and his well Regulated Instagram account
when I discovered just who it was that designed my beloved work
tough gear v44 x Bowie knife.
Just from that design alone, I felt I knew a few things about
its designer. He loves Bowies as
much or more than I do, he has a real affinity for the
Western slash Marine Raider style of Bowie, and he
has excellent design instincts. That last supposition
was based on his ability to draw a meaningful and beautiful update to
the legendary design as seen in the V44X.
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they say about assuming. So we'll meet Reese and find out about the
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battlebox Reese welcome to the Knife Junkie podcast, sir.
How you doing? I'm doing great. Thanks for joining me.
So before we dig into the topic at hand and anyone who's watching this
right now, people are listening. People are watching. But I know their eyes went from
you down to those beautiful Bowies in front of you. And we'll talk about
those in a second. But tell me first. I feel like I
know where it comes from. But tell me about your name, your
handle well regulated. So I
almost made a video on that because, you know, I
guess it can sound kind of weird and you might not understand where it comes
from, but you know, like a second amendment, like a well regulated militia.
So these my channel kind of started off as like a gun channel
and but it doesn't just mean like second amendment. So like
well regulated also means like in good working order. So it's kind of like
a, like a Physical fitness thing like preparedness.
This, you know, like a, it has like multiple meanings.
So a general overall sense of well regulated. Yeah, my, my mind first went
to the second amendment, but I figured there was, there was more to it, you
know, more to it than that. So how did you
get involved in designing knives?
Well, I was, I got into an art school so
I can, I can draw and stuff some, but I just don't
sit down and do it a whole lot. And I didn't complete art school. I
got in and I changed majors and.
But as far as designing, so I was
throwing, doing throwing knives for a while where I got pretty heavy into doing throwing
knives and I started drawing some models of those,
you know, just to have my own throw a knife because sometimes the,
the distances like the lengths of the knife equate to your
rotations. With my throw, I needed like a 15 inch knife. So I was
kind of designing my own knife and I, I drew some stuff out,
had to put on a file cut out of a saw blade. And
before I started getting with work stuff gear, I also,
there's a guy, Philip Burris, that's like a martial arts guy that does stuff in
his garage and he's helped me with a couple prototypes and
I mean I drew some things and had him try to do like some
lichens, like some of the Ito wrap stuff. And
when I really got into the Bowie, I guess designing,
so this was like on a quest, you know, if like the perfect knife. Because
I searched for a long time. I've had a ton of knives, nothing very
expensive until like kind of recently where I would consider more high end.
But I got a lot of stuff and I'd get it. And then I wasn't
happy with it. So I decided, hey, I'm going to make a custom,
I'm going to find a knife maker and commission a custom knife.
And so I started drawing it kind of the way I wanted to. And that
kind of led into me doing a review
on the Predator Hunter and that put me in contact with Vic
and he asked me if I wanted to do a, like a knife. So but
when I, my original design, I wasn't sure about the knife
materials. And the guy that I was gonna have make it, he was kind of
starting off. So I had my, at first, my first design was to
have Becker scales on there, but. And I had a
BK20 that I was going to modify. But I ended up selling that because I
didn't want to Dremel it, you know, Dremel a Choil in it. Mess up a
collectible knife. And I wasn't crazy about the handle on
like on the Becker. I know everybody really does like the Beckers, but I
didn't like that it had was like kind of rounded off on the back. I
felt like that you like lost some control. So I wanted to
like was going to do my own knife and was going to be for other
people. I can't use somebody else's handle. So I,
I redrew it and when I was in
touch with work tough here and that kind of was the base
drawing for the B44X.
You know, becoming a production knife because I, I'm not like a knife designer
that works for a company or anything. I was just a knife enthusiast that
I was doing gun reviews and gun part reviews and I had like a
gun channel mostly. I think I had one knife that I reviewed that a
guy from an AK part store sent me. Yeah.
So I guess it just really. I was made. I was designing a knife for
myself. I was asked if I'd like to make a knife with a company. And
that's like, you know, that's something I never thought I'd be able to do. So
when I had the chance to, you know, like I jumped to the chance and
able to work with Vic and you know, put out the knife.
Oh yeah. I mean work tough. Gear has been the, the greatest
thing to hit knives, fixed blade knives in the last five years or I mean
they haven't been around that long but man, they've made a splash. I also have
that predator hunter Bowie. Just so people know what I've been going on and on
about. This is the V44X Bowie. I'm sure most of you already know
we're going to talk about this design and go into what you were, what your
thoughts were, what your thinking was when you were redesigning it. But before we get
to that, I want to back up a little bit. You, before we started
rolling, you said you had 300 knives within reach. We could talk about.
I just want to find out where you got into
knives, how you got into knives. You got 300 of them all around you. You're
like, you're like us. They're kind of packed up in multiple
places and like hidden. But
so. So
I've always kind of been like. I've always kind of gravitated towards
that. So when I was about 4 or 5, my dad gave me a little
buck knife. It's one of those ones where like a long skinny one pulls it
at one Side and a little short study and pulls out the other side. So
I had that knife at like, you know, four or five years old, and I
flayed my finger open with it trying to cut an oak leaf, like the Dane
of the oak leaf. And I learned early
on my grandma put a paper towel on it and tape.
But I've always liked knives, and I've always. I was always asking for
stuff, you know, like, hey, we'd go to this store called Green
Top Sporting Goods, and I'd be like, you know, a bucket with full of
machetes and all the displays. And I'd be like, dad, dad, you know, let me
get a machete. You know, so right around the town that I was
eight, I got a machete. Like, probably. I think it's probably like five or 15
bucks, whatever, you know, budget machete is. But I had a
machete when I was 8, and I was kind of free range or so I
was out, you know, making forts and chopping down stuff
and, you know,
so. And then actually, where's that knife down here?
This was my first, like, kind of like, you know, like a nice knife.
I got this when I was in fifth grade. This was on Imperial.
I guess they had a bunch of bayonet kind of
blanks. Oh, yeah. So this Imperial is going to
business. But I got this in fifth grade for Christmas. And it
has like a. You know, it's a survival knife kind of with, like a compass
and had a bunch of matches and like a magnesium thing that's like a
hammer, like, nail call. Oh, yeah.
So. And it's kind of funny because this is not the best,
you know, survival knife. You know, it's like a dagger. It's
not heavy enough to really chop, and it's not the. You know, I
wouldn't pick this for a survival knife, but it looked cool and it was in
my price range. This is what I got for Christmas. So that was.
I've killed, like, snakes with these. Like, my. When I was
younger, my buddy stepped on a snake and, like, it went to
bite him, like, in the back of the head.
And. But this is the, like, the first, I
guess, like, larger knife that I got. My dad gave me. I
didn't pull it out, but I got a K bar, like one of the Skinners.
It has a little thumb wrap back. I think the whole thing's about, you know,
probably like this long. He gave me one of those, too. So I had one
of those around the same time, maybe even in earlier than fifth grades.
And of course, I left the sheath outside. It got rained on. I think the
dogs chewed it up. I would throw it at the bow and arrow targets and
I lost it for a little while outside and I later,
I later found it and it's kind of rusty because it was outside for a
little bit and the leaves are lost in the grass. But
I've kind of always, you know, had knives and then after I got no older
and I didn't really have money then have a job and stuff. But
no, I got like the, the Raider Bowie. I think I bought that in like
98, but around 95, I bought the spec plus
7. It's like the fi. The 7 inch fighter. So I had that.
You're talking the Ontarios right now? Yeah, the Ontario. It's like spec, I think
Spec Ops or Spec plus. Yeah, yep, I had it
somewhere. But yeah, so I had that I think around
15. So. And, but really my ceiling
for prices was right around, I think it was like probably 50 or 60
bucks. And I
had a ninja sword. Of course I wasn't.
I was around Ninja Turtle time because I'm like 45. Okay. So. So
you know, like I begged for a ninja sword. So I got a ninja sword
from like Smoky Mountain knife works. So. And that was really sharp.
I cut myself pulling it out showing my grandparents because I have my
finger over the guard. The, not the guard, but the
scabbard. But I've just always been into knives and
when I went to the military, like I made sure
I had a bunch of knives on me. I have, I have my pile of
deployment knives down there. If we can, if you want to. Buy those words,
let's see him. You were in the United States Marine Corps,
correct? Yep. Let me hop back up here.
Well, as you do that, let me, let me thank you for doing that and
for protecting my family with your body.
We appreciate it. Like I always
wanted, since I saw the movie Navy seals, you know, when I saw that movie
I'm like, that's what I'm gonna do. Like I had all the plans to be
like an AP seal, but I'm really not that good in the water.
And I was like, man, what am I gonna do? So I was like, well,
I'm gonna be a ranger. So right outta high school I was gonna go into
infantry, small arms in the army. And my dad really didn't want me doing that
at all. So he's like, hey, apply to colleges. I'll pay for your
college. So I was like, oh, you are. So I
got into college, went Two years. My little brother was
going in the Marine Corps, so we went in together. Let
me, Let me ask you this. You went in when your. When your brother did.
Was that. Was that protective, big brother
instinct kicking in? It's a little bit protective, competitiveness,
trying business. I knew he had a west coast guarantee, so he was definitely going
to Florida. I mean, he's going to California.
So, you know, I wanted to go in. I wanted to do that anyway. And
some stuff happened around the same time where my brother was like, you know,
hey, just say screw it and join the Marine Corps with me. I was like,
yeah, I don't. I didn't want to go to college anyway. What. What am I
gonna do? Yeah, but it wasn't like a fun college. I
was going like two days a week from like 8 to 6:45. I was working
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. You know, like, I didn't. I wasn't
enjoying. I wasn't living it on campus. So I was constantly busy.
Like five hours of sleep if I got it at night. So I was busy.
I wasn't having a good time. So I wanted to go to the military. So
my brother's like, hey, let's go. I was like, yeah,
okay. So like I. I had. I was enlisted in college, had a
job, and then like a large scale greenhouse.
And then I withdrew from school and I talked to my
bros recruiter on one Monday. The next Monday I was on
Paris Island. Whoa, that's fast. Very fast
turnaround. Okay, so you just pulled out some of
the knives you deployed with some of the knives you had in. In
the Marine Corps. I think I saw a little Gerber boot boot
dagger there. Yeah, I always wanted one of those. This is one
of the Gerber guardians. I had this on. I had a drop leg holster from
SOE gear, and you have like two leg straps. And I had
this knife and this Columbia River. I think this is a
Carlson or something. I had to look it back up, but of course I broke
that. But these were like my little utility, you know,
like cut MREs. You know, it's where I don't have to pull out,
you know, the big knife. But these I had on both deployments.
That's Ryan. Columbia River. Ryan.
I had that pretty much my whole enlistment. I had also one of
those Columbia river, you know, like the ones that everybody had with The Tanto. The
M16. Yeah, I had one of those two. That wasn't my
deployment knife. I kind of had that around the barracks and stuff, but I mostly
had this Guy and
my first deployment knife. I was on the 11th year
and while we were doing workups for the 11th view, that's actually when 911 happened.
I was out. I was in 29. I'm sorry, sir, what is
the 11 MU. What is that? It's the 11th Marine Expeditionary
Unit. Oh, okay. So they leave from out from the west
coast. They do like a six month float. You do like some
humanitarian stuff. You're kind of like on call doing like
circles out in the ocean around like the
like Red Sea, Persian Gulf. I think we were off the coast of Djibouti.
We did a bunch of ports. Like, one reason I wanted to California also
was because I wanted to go. Always wanted to go to Australia. And
the west coast mews, they go into Australia. So I
got to go to Australia three times. Twice on the
mew and once on the way back from my Iraq deployment.
Oh, wow, that's cool. Like, Australia was great, but
I could not. I couldn't find a knife. I went through all the gift shops.
I'm like, hey, where can I find a bowie knife? I want like a, you
know, Crocodile Dundee bowie knife. I don't have anything here. Like old
stuff, antique, like, you know, but I don't know if it's the laws,
the cities we're in. But I could not find a knife to buy.
I got a. I got a didgery doing some boomerangs. That's cool. I
didn't do an attention. I really wanted a, you know, like a,
you know, Dundee type Bowie. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. Who. Who
among us didn't? So what else do you have there from that period?
So this has a different sheath because the sheath I had fell apart.
And these are discontinued. These are like a spec ops
sheath. But the, the green one, the camos one fell
apart and I replaced the scales. I still have the black, like
rivalry scales, but I replaced them with Micarta. That's like
my spray paint camo job. But this is a Becker BK7.
So. So you carried this and you. How many knives
would you have on you at at once? Well, I had this.
The way I had my gear set up. I was a saw gunner, so I
had a machine gun. Oh, okay. So a lot of times I have had a
gear with my. My drums on there. A lot of times I would have those
off, but I was an mp, so I had my like pistol belt.
So I had a pistol belt with my pistol and I had a knife on
this side. And sometimes I would move the gas mask, like have it
on the same belt on the drop. But when I did this deployment,
like, I would keep this knife in my belt. And so, like,
that way, when you're walking around base, when you don't have your long rifle, like,
I always either had a knife or, like, a pistol on me,
like, but no matter, like, where I was or sleeping or whatever.
Is it true that you can't be armed on. On Marine Corps
bases now? Well, one thing was really weird on base. So,
you know, all of our guns are locked up in the armory.
So it's not like you have access to your rifle, your pistol, your stuff.
And they have really strict rules. They had, like, health and comfort inspections. So
once I had a vehicle, I could keep stuff locked in my car. Like, I
keep, like, my knife in my car. But they didn't even want us having, like,
our K bars in the barracks. Really? So you think, like, oh,
Marines, they have all their stuff, but, like, yeah, they kind of treat you like
kids because, I mean, we act stupid and get drunk and junk off, you know,
jump off the second deck and stuff. So. And we fight and, you know,
everybody's drinking, Everybody's young and bored.
So it's probably maybe. Maybe his best, but we just didn't have access to all
that stuff. One. One of the guys that I was in
with got in trouble because he had a foot locker. He was trying to go
do the. The indoc. I think, to do recon, and he had pistols under
his bed and stuff. He got caught and got in big trouble.
Having. It was in California too. So I don't know what.
What weight the state laws factor into the military base,
but you just don't really have access to stuff. I bought one of my
first. They bought my first pistol because I bought a Glock 17
when I turned 21. And I was actually at home. If you have
orders, you know, from to California, but your home address is Virginia, I can
still go to Virginia and buy a pistol. So When I turned 21, I bought
a Glock 17 and I was in California when Kimber was still
first coming out. I bought a Kember. Custom tactical, too. Nice.
I kept that in the, like, the gun range locker.
And I had to check it out and, you know, shoot it and
then put it back in my locker and crawl back to the barracks.
But, yeah, the access to stuff is not, you know, it's
not like we just have all of our guns and knives and we're running around
doing stuff all the time. This is my K
bar. I think these are discontinued. I Mean they make
a similar blade. But this is the, this is a 1232 or something.
1272. It's like the K Bar next
generation fighter. Yeah. So it's like a. I think it was an 8
inch versus like a 7 or whatever the typical K
bar length is. It's 8. This is like the
Kydex sheath, little rubber piece that rotted and like kind of fell off.
But you know, that's that. This is what I brought with me my
Iraq deployment. And actually had this mounted right here on
my gear. Upside down, huh? Right. So because I had had like your
interceptor bus, like the Woodland Interceptor bus with this on there. I
had my gear set up so I could put the suspenders over top of that
so it didn't interfere with my knife. And I'd have like my belt with my
pistol, with the pistol mags. And usually I was in a vehicle. So
a lot of times I would keep my gear rolled up and stuck either on
the floor somewhere up behind the back seat or if I had to, I could
like grab it and throw it over my shoulder and jump out if we had
to. Like, you know, we got ambushed or something happened where
he. We had to get out of the vehicle. So is this where you
gained your love for the Bowie knife and
seems like you really love that Marine Raider Bowie where
it's got a nice dramatic clip
and a big belly towards the front. Is
this where this happened? Well, this. I got this knife two years
before I joined in 98. And this is one of the first
Raider buoys from Ontario. It wasn't
always Cam though, but I had in the back of like my Suzuki Samurai and
it got wet and got rusted. But I've had this since
1998. And this is Ontario's Raider Bowie.
So I had this for a while too before I even, you know, went
to the Marine Corps. And I never really knew what the Marine Corps was all
about. You know, when I was younger, um, I was always either
thinking Navy Seals or like Army. I just knew the Marine
Corps were guys that, you know, where they were all like crazy
and wore blue dress blues and try to get you to sign up and do
pull ups at football games. I didn't really know what they were about or what
they did. So the K bar thing, I didn't know a lot about K
bars until later. But when I was 18
I had this. So that's. This is pretty similar
to the like. This is like a Collins,
like a like Raider Bowie. They call them like a bailout
knife. The Air Force had them first like the army.
The Army Corps of Engineers. Like the Army Air Corps of Engineers.
They were in like survival kits and these little cutouts under the seat
with like a survival kit like in the seat cushion. But all the times
they got pillage and guys would take them out and stealing and carry
them. But the second
Raiders, this was actually on their gear list. For the second Raiders you
have this. They had a stiletto from Camless. But this is
always messes up. It's like a brain fart. I have. It's either Carlson
or Carson's Raiders. I think it's Carlson's Raiders. Okay. But I
always say the wrong thing it seems like. And I. I realize I do it
but I always. I always mess it up. But he requested this on the gear
list. And this is what people refer to as like a Raider Bowie or most
people see. But there was on different contracts where
they couldn't fulfill all the need for the military.
So Ken folks made them Western made one called the
Bushman BX54 case. Made one the Case
XX and. But the original one is Collins. Collins
had the first one and all the other ones US companies were
fulfilling the. What they. What Collins couldn't meet.
Um, I think they're in Hartford. They were in Connecticut.
This one's really rusted, but that is a beauty.
Uh, I have a. I have a Collins machete on my wall right here. This
thing. Yeah, I've got one of those down there. It's
a lot thicker than I thought it was going to be. I think. I can't.
I can't believe that that was just part of someone's kit. It's so
heavy. I would never want to carry that. Anywhere by today's standards.
Yeah, yeah. That's why I was asking you about, you know, how
many you carried with you when you were deployed. So yeah,
like usually one dig knife, two little knives on my. On my
gear. You know like on my drop leg. Just like quick, quick accessible
pocket knife that stayed in my pocket all the time. But you take your gear
off and it's sitting somewhere. So I always had a pocket knife and then I
had a pair of a. They called it like a lifer tool. It's like a
pretty much like a fold up Gerber pliers. Oh, okay. I had that on my
gear next to my pistol belt. And you know if you're working with machine guns
and cutting safety wire and doing stuff, it's always good to have pliers
because stuff with machine guns gets weird. Like the, the Links get stuck in
things, and you have to. There's stuff you have to do sometimes to fix
things. All right, so let's. Let's fast forward to
recently. I don't even know when. Uh, but you. You
had the Poozan Predator Hunter Bowie from Work
Tough Gear, you made a video, and Vic,
whose last name escapes me, from Work Tough Gear, got in
touch with you. How did this happen? So I bought the
Predator Hunter and actually bought the knife by
accident. Like, it was a night. Like.
Like my grandfather was dying that night. Like, he had been. Like, it was on
the way out that week, and I was on night shift. But I knew this
drop was happening, and I hadn't bought a knife yet from there. So I set
my account up attached to PayPal. That way, if I wanted to, I could do
the knife. And all the time, I'll do this thing where, like, I'll add stuff
to my cart, go to checkout, and, like, see what the shipping is and the
total is. And I'm like, nah, I shouldn't do
this. Exhale, Rob. I'm like, ah, screw it. I'm like, by now, I'm like, oh,
I should have done, but. But this time I'm still like, I hit. I added
to the cart, and I hit whatever the NAT button was after you add it
to your cart. Like, check out little things start spinning. And
it said, congratulations on your order. And I'm like, oh, my God. Like, I just
bought a knife by accident for like 3:30. And the guys at work are
like, you, you idiot. Like, what do you mean you bought a knife by accident?
I'm like, I pushed checkout now, and it didn't say submit or, you know, completes
your order. Just like, it's like, it's yours. So then I
was, you know, I had the knife, and I was asking the guys on,
like, my social media, which is mostly gun people, like AK people.
I'm like, hey, should I. Should I resell this? Is this like
a limited drop, or should I do like a use review? You guys want to
see that? And guys were like, oh, yeah, hell yeah. You know, use the knife,
do a review. So I did a review of the Predator Hunter,
and I just put it up and my YouTube channel. I've been on YouTube for
over eight years. And my first.
First couple years, I had 25 subscribers for, like, over probably
two years at least or more. And it's like, nobody, you know,
nobody subscribed to myself. So my
channel's never been monetized. YouTube has monetized some of my videos,
but I haven't given them permission to do that. They just had done it. So.
So, Vic, I tagged him, you know, of course, on Instagram,
and he asked me. He's like. He's like, hey, I saw you did a
video with a predator hunter. Is it okay if I use the video? So I
was like, sure. You know, it's not monetized. You know, you can just do whatever
you want with it, you know? So he had. He used the video,
and I think it might have been. I don't know if it was a couple
days or maybe a week or two weeks. I forget the time frame, but he's
like, hey, would you be interested in making a knife with us? So, I mean,
of course, I'm. I was already currently working on
my own, you know, custom night for myself. So I was like, yeah, I
would love to do that. You know, it's. I've always loved knives. It'd be great.
Second. I started, like, kind of like a long process of getting the
final drawing nailed down and getting the dimensions on
the handle right. I got that
in there somewhere. But it's like a white handle, like a 3D print. But that
kind of started the whole process. That was a long process.
And actually, nobody knew that I was working on that knife until blade show of
2023, when I brought the prototype with me.
Sing along. It's a blade show. So.
So I was. It was probably over a year or so, you know,
probably close to two years just getting this
ready and then getting this turned into a 3D printed
handle and getting the specs right.
But, yeah, that's kind of how that worked. It was. Got kind of all by
chance, which is funny, because when I started my YouTube channel,
I didn't know really what I wanted, what I wanted to do or get out
of it or do with it. I was like, well, I'll just make some videos.
I'm shooting a lot. I think at the time I was probably shooting like a
thousand rounds a month or something. I had a group of guys in a bunch
of places I was shooting, shooting at. So I started recording stuff and putting stuff
out there. And it's like, you know, who knows? Maybe some someday somebody
will see something and it will give me open up some doors to stuff.
And lo and behold, I end up being able to
have, like, a production knife, which is something I didn't think, you know, was
gonna be able to happen, so. Cool. So is this a
prototype you're holding in your hand, right? Yes, this Is this is the prototype. And
so this. So I originally intended the knife to have.
Just make sure y' all can see that they have a round fuller. That looks
good. Like. Like the K bar. Yeah. This one actually came flat because it was
done on a belt. And I used a Dremel and rounded it off by hand.
Oh, nice. I was a little nervous doing that because it's like a 400 prototype.
So. So it was a. The drawing. I had the drawing in my
closet that's a little bit off. Like, some of the clip got taken off
and some of the belly got taken off doing the grinding. But
this is, like the. The basic shape, you
know, like, it's pretty close. It's really close to the drawing. Not
exact. And then after I got this, when I had to do a
final drawing, you
know, I. I added the belly song and I kind of made the clip pronounced,
and I wanted more. So this is. I don't know if you can see that,
but this is thin. I was really worried about the
tip, you know, being too thin.
So I. You know, I think a swedge looks great, like on the Raider
Bowie and stuff, but I just did not want to
make it the tip really fragile. So on the
production, kind of did, like, a
really short chamfer for the.
Like, right here. Yeah, we just did a little bit.
Yeah. So I think on maybe the Bravo that's coming out later, that will have
a little bit wider swedge, but it almost,
like, tapers off into the tip, so it doesn't take any material off
of. There is. Right. Actually, I
put, you know, you don't know exactly how things are going to work out, but
when I ordered this, I mean, I can. I guess I'll talk about that.
So I was talking to the maker, and I was like, well, I might want
to reshape things. Like, I actually got a Dremel tool and reprofiled everything.
So I had to make the hand. The handle bigger than I wanted it. And
it's a full tank, so there's no cutouts. So that way I
could. I got my Dremel tool, and I would go out and chop with it
and do a bunch of chopping and, like, you know, heavy chopping and stuff.
And if I felt like my hand was slipping off too much or needed a
more ramp or a more contour up here or something, I would just sit
there. And. And so this is
so. But, like, I shaped that with,
like, a Dremel tool. That is cool. So this. This was a
prototype that you had Custom made. And did you send this to
Vic to show him? I think it would have been a lot easier to do
that than doing like, you know, doing measurements from
millimeters to standard because I had to learn millimeters and get
calipers to do millimeters. I didn't know, you know, the conversion. So
I had to start doing all my measurements in millimeters. But it had a. I
had, I put jimping on there too. And
you know, if you're holding it like that and the blade would have been here,
it's probably not bad. But when you start choking up on the choil, it just
like eats into the web of your palm. Oh yeah, and that's just not,
it's not, it's not cool anymore when it's like, you
know, sawing off here on the webbing of your hand. Well, an interesting
thing about the production, at least the one that I have here, this is from
the second run, is that the. Almost
the entire spine is 90 degrees. And I've started fires, a lot of
number of fires with this just in the back, back
yard here, but right where the thumb would be and right where
the web between the thumb and the forefinger would be in
the choil grip is nicely chamfered there just for
about an inch until it transitions into
right there just before it transitions into the 90 degree spine. I
love that feature. So that was actually something that, that was
something that was Vic's idea. Like, like my way of thinking
was, you know, hey, make it all flat if they want it
smooth and they can knock it down with like a diamond file or, you know,
do it themselves. But Vic really wanted to make the product, you know, like finish
and like to come like, you know, where you don't have to modify to make
it comfortable. So that's, that probably would have bothered people if
they're using the choil and then they're, you know, they're getting cut
up with a sharp spine. So was that was probably a good idea to go
ahead and make it come that way from the, you know, like from
the factory. So let me ask you this, Reese. You, you
have the Marine Raider Bowie. You want to design a
new one? What were the things about
the original that made you make the
changes that were incorporated into your final
design for the V44? So
I kind of got into Bowies. I wanted a large clip point Bowie,
not, you know, like a W49, like the Becker BK
2029. I like that, that shape like the
Raider Bowie that I had. So looking
into Ethan Becker Stuff his inspiration for the Moses and the Boondock
Bowie. His inspiration. So
that's when I kind of learned more about the Raider Bowies. Like I knew about
the Marine Raider Bowie, the modern one. But I hadn't gotten into the history
as much until I looked into Ethan Becker's inspiration
for the 20 and the 29. So when I found that and I got
the. I think the 20, that really kind of put me down the path
of like, like, oh my gosh, now I need to get one of those.
Like I. I found one that had like a night bone inlay of
like a skull where a marine had like carved in and carved
a enemy's bone and like inlaid it in the.
Like the guard. Marines did crazy stuff. But. But
like I really wanted the green horn handle and ended up getting.
I think I've had three or four of those now. But what is the green
horn handle? I don't think I have one. I didn't.
Is it. Is it a shape or a material? Was some material. It's like a
actual like buffalo horn. Oh. And it's like a green color. I. I
forgot to bring. I have a whole box under there. I didn't pull it out
from under the bed. That's all right. But it's like a. Same
shape. Same exact shape. It just has. It's almost like a.
Almost like a ghost shade G10 with like swirls of like white and
yellow. And some are darker, some are gray. I had one
that's. I have two that are gray. A lot of
people don't know this, but most of these are brass
and the pins are different colors. Some are. Some are brass, some are like a.
I don't know if it's lead or steel. I think it's steel. But some of
the guards are actually nickel plated. And so,
you know, people. Nobody likes collectors don't like to put out their secrets because then
everybody knows what to look for. But they had a nickel plated one.
A lot of them were. Were for the second raiders that were ordered.
But if you ever find one like this that has a silver like a nickel
colored guard, those are really rare. I got
lucky and found one on a Facebook knife herd. I found one recently
for one of my buddies that collects knives and they needed one of those and
they were trying to buy mine. So I found another one at an estate
sale and they were able to get that one for there. They have a huge
Collins Collins collection like. Like a
basement wall and they needed that. They needed that guard.
So I found them One for a good price. So we both have one.
That's awesome. Can. Can you pick that knife back up? I want
to. I want to make an observation. The pommel of this
knife, first of all, looks. Looks.
Looks sort of like the Western, but when I look at this
pommel, it reminds me of the pommels of
Filipino knives and. And
weapons. It just kind of has that. That it's
probably. I mean, it's kind of like. It's almost like a Latin machete, like a
typical machete handle. But I don't know if this
back piece here. I know one thing, like, a reason that I
put, like, did
so I didn't want to add stuff that didn't make sense to this thing, but
the reason it goes down like that is so when you're chopping,
your. Like, the fat part of your palm hits on that. So when you're going
down like this, you just stop the knife, you know, like, that part's pushing
into your hand, so it's. It's not, like, rotating forward or
turning out or, like, rolling in your hand or deflecting. It actually
helps you, like, decelerate. So I don't know if that was, like,
you know, why they had this little extra piece, because it kind of, you know,
hits. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why it's there,
but. I think that makes. That makes total sense, actually,
because without that, especially guys with bigger hands might be
slipping off the back, and then you would have the corner of that gouging
into your hand. This one's actually got three notches in it. Yeah.
And I've got some other knives that have stuff carved in it, but you never
know what it means. It could be three kills. It could be three,
you know, deployments, Like, I don't know. But this one was
really beat up, and it has the
notches in there, but I don't know what they. I don't know what they're from.
I love that. That's one of the things I love about. About the old knives
behind me and in my collection, like, just thinking about
what they. What they experienced. I know that's
a weird way of putting it, but what. What these knives were used for, what
they went through, what they meant to the person who owned them. Like. Like a
couple of the K bars my brother has given me from World War II and
Korea have things inscribed in the leather
sheaths. And I don't know. I love that because
these. These are all things that predate me. And I'm, you know, I'm Getting up
there, I'm, I'm over a half century here and. But, but
to think that these were used by people and relied on by people and
you know, I, I just love that. Oh, what do you have there in front
of you there? So a little more history because these are rare. Sometimes
things are so rare that nobody knows what they are
and they get listed wrong on estate sales and stuff all the time.
So this is a aluminum. It's. It's actually pretty heavy. It's
aluminum guard. This was the first Raider Battalion knife.
I think it was Second Lieutenant Carl Carlson. Carlson, man,
I can't never get that right on Phil selling bakers.
But his son, like the guy that formed 2nd Raiders, his son
was also in the Raiders, like he was an officer. So he
commissioned a thousand of these to be made in New Zealand. And I think
the company now is Victory. I follow them on
Instagram, but it's Victory Knives out of New Zealand. So they commissioned
a thousand of these and see if you can see it.
So they, the handles were OD green, but not many of
them have the, the paint on it still. This one actually has a little bit
of the OD green paint. And the same company
also made a couple hundred for the.
It's like the rnzaf. It's like the New Zealand Air Force
because it was like a, their bailout knife for their, their pilot survival knives.
But they, they made some too. And um, the way you can tell the difference
is the, the ground height's different and the blades
are different lengths. So that's how you can tell if you find
something that looks like this. And if you have one of the,
the scabbards for the New Zealand one, they have like kind of like a
khaki color with like some leather on it and the back is stamped
rnzaf. That, that's for New Zealand. But the
ones with the green paint stuff were Raider bullies. So
I've got two of these. I've got two of the thousand First Rigor boys.
Wow. One I paid a lot for and I actually sold
had a bunch of AK surplus stuff that I'd
bought before AKs got real popular. And I sold a lot
of money of that and where I pretty much paid for this
when I sold the AK surplus. Are these the
same, Are these from the same run? Because
the. It's definitely a little different. It's definitely different.
So this one's skinnier
usually a lot of times you see this blade profile is more on the
RNZF ones, but materials were
Scarce and you know,
like I don't know where they were sourcing the material or if they had more
than one guy in the shop or how they were like when
they were making the batch for the Raiders versus the New
Zealand Air Force. I don't know like if they were making them in batches or
if it took them a month or at all the same time. Like, I don't
know all the details of that. It's probably in paperwork somewhere. I just don't know.
There are different, like these are the same length
but they're. I like the grind height is
right. But one has more of a belly on it. Yeah, that one,
the one in your, in your right hand, looks like it's got a
thicker waist or a thicker Ricasso area there.
It's, it's about the same. These are actually a lot thicker. Like these.
The second, second Raider boat, like the Collins, these are about like
an eighth of an inch, like more like a machete. But
these are closer to like 3:16 where they're actually like
closer to the size of like the like, like my Boeing. But this one
has a similar swedge. Where the swedge isn't
like, you know, it's not like a K bar,
right. It doesn't get real thin there. You can see where it's kind of like
it's actually pretty, it's pretty similar to this one. So when
you designed the profile for the
V44, V44X, what was
your. What. Was your goal in making
such a deep belly? So
here's where I was when I was drawing out, while I'm thinking in my head,
like why I wanted to do certain things.
So I wanted to make something that shopped really well but wasn't very
heavy. So I wanted the mass of the weight to be on a certain spot.
And if you were batoning and stuff, I wanted that to be over the top
of certain areas too. So like you get the most efficient, you know, like
use out of all the weight that's there. So I wanted to have
extra material here so it'd give you like a little bit of like, you know,
chopping mass. And I wanted,
with a tip, you know, I think like, even though it's a tool,
it's also like, you know, a knife is defensive, maybe
offensive, you know, if
you're, you know, some type of environment where you're going to be stabbing like
a pig or you know, something like, I guess something
else. But I wanted this tip to be center lined
so like, you know, when you're if you had to stab something, you know it's
going to go almost like right on like a can opener, you know, it's gonna,
it's not going to be like weird where it's kind of not gonna penetrate.
Yeah. A lot of the clip was I wanted
the belly there for like the weight because I wanted this. This was
3:16, which is like 5 millimeters. And
originally the first knife I was gonna have for myself, I was gonna do a
quarter inch. But after handling some quarter inch knives, I
was like, you know what? This is so heavy. Like
after you use this for a while. I actually got tendinitis in this arm and
it lasted for like a year. I did a video on YouTube how to fix
tendinitis because it was so bad. Like, I could barely hold stuff
and do certain things. So I really wanted to make a knife that was like
not fatiguing, not gonna injure you, you know, like, you go so
big, if you're like whaling on something, you can really hurt, you know,
hurt your ligaments and, you know, hurt your arm, especially if
you're not doing manual labor stuff and your body's not used to that.
But all the shape, you know, like, I wanted the clip point,
like, like the Raider Bowies, this one. So
it's, it's kind of similar to that one. Yeah, it, you know
what the, the B44 looks almost like, and forgive the
use of this term, I don't mean it in a negative way because this is
one of my favorite pix blade knives, but it's almost a caricature of the
Marine Raider in that, in that it, it, it exaggerates.
It exaggerates the lines on the, on the Marine Raider to
massive effect. But that was kind of like the, the X part of it
because like a B44, but it's like the extreme. Oh,
okay. So like the kind of like the concept of the extreme part,
I wanted to take all the stuff that I didn't like about, like, I don't
want to talk, you know, bad about other knife designs, but after
you've had a lot of different knives and you've chopped with stuff and some hurts
your hand, some like come out of your hand and you know,
or they're wearing hot spots and different things on you, you know,
like the reason I had my own custom made was like, had so many things
that they didn't like about other knives that I'd used in the past, you know,
like machetes too. Like use a bunch of different machetes, you know, you Find out
what is not comfortable. So what I really
wanted this to do, that's why some guys wanted a guard on both sides.
But you know, then you can't choke up and you can't, you can't do a
lot of stuff if you have a big guard back there. Yeah. I really wanted
this to be like an extreme version, like a functional,
like a hard use extreme version of like the
regular. So I wanted the handle to be comfortable. I
wanted it to stick in your hand. I wanted you to be able to do
like. I know people don't like the whole term like, like one
tool option, but like this knife compared to the
smaller stuff I've drawn up, like this was really meant to kind of do like
you know, multiple different things. You know, know, like do fine
work. Yeah. Chop well like a, like a.
The whole concept of like the American bowie knife is like a, like a do
it all tool that you're going to have with you. You might not have other
stuff. And let's see, where's this big knife?
So they always say like, oh, you shouldn't do that with a knife. That's not
what it's for. But this knife, you can see on the spine,
it has marring marks that are actually worn down
some. But if you're in the field, you don't have the option to like
you might not have a hammer or you might not have a, you know, the
stuff you need. So you just have what you have with you. So you know,
guys would hammer with spines and do things like, you know, prior stuff and break
tips. And one thing you can see too
a lot on the originals, especially on the,
the cases their tangling went down to like here.
So they were always break right in this crack.
Like they're either cracked or there's a ton broken that people have rehandled, but
they would crack all the time. So the whole, I
guess the whole thing is this is supposed to be like a more functional, like
a, like a, like a beefed up extreme, like extreme version of like the
Raider buoy. You know, even like this, you
know, like it's not a terrible handle. A bunch of people
I'm sure have used this but you know, it leaves a little
bit to be desired. Well, this one on the
V44 you've really extended
the. The handle itself is larger than at least the Western
W49 I have here. And the. And the
Ontario that you were. The SP10 you were just holding up and then you add
the choil and that that gives it even you Know, essentially that makes the
handle from here to here, almost like 6 inches. So a lot of
versatility here. You can choke all the way back here
for chopping. You have a hidden lanyard hole here. So you could.
So I, I love the practicality of this. Now, granted, this,
you know, every time I've used this, it's been like, ooh. I'm going out to
use. It's not like I've needed to use this in my. But that's, that's
how my knife collecting is. It's. But I
do carry every day a fixed blade knife.
And I see a little prototype in front of you, and maybe it's not
a little prototype, but these guys or these, these guys. That right
there. All right, so this is a knife. So I had these
prototypes too. The EDC one, I have like readings up here,
but this is actually one that I've like, I really
want to have this knife made, you know, like, really, like really bad. Like, I
think this is something that I think will be more useful
to a lot of people. It's right at like 13 inches, maybe just like
a hair under. But in comparison, what I've done is so
like this one, when I designed this knife, it's full tang.
I put the hardware holes in places where they wouldn't be in thin points,
but I wanted the knife to be. You know, when people pick this knife up,
one of the first things they say is they're like, wow, that knife is lighter
than I thought it would be. So that's because it's got like a. The handle
is kind of balanced. So it's, it's making the, it's keeping
the weight back so the knife, this part up here doesn't feel as heavy. Right.
So. So this is a more of like a one tool option, multi grip, you
know. But I don't need to have a long handle,
you know, on a shorter, like a, like a seven inch blade. Like a seven.
I think this was that seven inch of sharpened part. But you don't need all
that handle. So I wanted this to be more compact. I want it to be
something where the pommel was more round. That way when it's on your, on your
side, you know, you're not like destroying your elbows when you're
walking. People don't think about that stuff when they're adding stuff to their knives.
I might do a slight little bump
there and that. That was just going to be a standoff for like hammering.
Okay. Like if you're like doing baton or something, tapping stuff Back in. Or maybe
you gotta do a quick, you know, like, hit something, but it's not gonna be
for, like dedicated, for like hitting people. You have a
giant blade in your hand. If you like pummel,
pummel crushers, that's fine. But that's not one of the things where I'm
like, I've gotta have one of those. Or that's like a deal breaker, dude. They,
they, they end up just hurting the person who's carrying them. Either
wearing something or scratching up a weapon, scratching up a piece of gear, hurting your
elbows, your arm, or heaven. Forbid, you try and use it in reverse grip and
put the thumb back there. Yeah, like, and with this one too, you know, we
looked at different stuff like that. But if you, like when you chop down, you
can chop down to your pinky and stuff, and there's nothing, you know, like, hitting
your hand. A lot of guys were like, there's no, there's no glass breaker.
That's a deal breaker for me. Like, you have a giant knife. The whole thing
is a glass breaker. Okay. You know, like,
but so, so this one, this is the. And what I'm calling this one
is the. The V44. And I've kind of been kind of funny with the
name, but it's. I was trying, when I drew this,
you know, similar to the Becker, you know, like my first deployment
knife. And this is what a lot of people, they're like, hey, that's like a
great, you know, like field utility combat, you know, like, deployment
knife. And what I don't like about a lot of K bars and stuff
is this is the new K bar. Lucas did these
scales, they make this knife, it looks killer like this.
But this is more, you know, it's not a very heavy blade. It's more of
like a stabber. You can do utility and cutting, but this is more like a
combat knife. So if you had to like chop down a tree
or, you know, do anything else, and it's not really much of a
slasher, you know, like a heavy, like, belly slasher. Yeah. So
what I wanted to do is get a.
I'm calling this the D44 field utility. So it's like
a field utility knife that can like kind of fill a bunch of roles.
Like a shrunk down version of the V44X. But stuff you can,
like, if you had to, you know, you can like chop down a tree, clear,
like shooting lanes, clear places for like a mortar, like, do like
heavier utility, utility work, but still have something that, you
know it will Fit on your belt. Yeah. Field utility knife. That's a,
that's a, it's got a great acronym too. You know, everyone could, you know, shorten
it and just. Yeah, I was calling it like Joe Flame, like
the field utility combat knife. But that's.
I like the shape of the wedge on this one too. It's a, the clip
is a slightly different shape. It's a. Yeah, I've had to like Dremel it
in. So this is. No, I'm talking about the, the clip at the front of
the blade. Oh, that's, yeah. So. So I made this out of wood.
So it was a knot. So I, I, I like made this out of wood.
I just painted it so you could kind of, you know, it would look more
like a knife. Yeah, I made the, I made this out of a two by
four. Nice. That was under my shed.
We're, we're coming, we're coming close to our time here. And I do want to
see your prototypes for your EDC model. Oh, this
is, this is the blank that I had cut for this
guy. Oh, nice. So that's a little bit more. This is, I did this with
wood, but you can see that. Yeah, I'm gonna do
one. I'm probably gonna finish one of these myself. I had two done. I just
haven't had anybody here. I haven't had time to go out and do it yet.
But this is the EDC version, the
V44C. Like Compact,
carry concealed, you know, like a smaller, like
pocket bowie. Yeah. This is the first one I did.
That is so. And this one too. I had the guy do this,
the guy from Papa Bear Knives, he had it more squared off
and left it kind of like, you know, it wasn't rounded and contoured. I took
my Dremel tool and, and like shaped like a
contour, like hook bottle. And I did the same thing where, like,
I felt it, it didn't feel right. I'd take some more off, felt it. Go
ahead and use this on. And when I was using this, one
thing I didn't like about this where the lack, it was a lack of a
guard. I've been using it some. I was stabbing into a
log. And if you grab it like this, the way
you can get around that, if you do a thumb over the top or if
you grab back farther where it's like hanging off. Yeah. So you put your
pinky on it instead of chirping all the way up. You can prevent slippage like
that, like going onto the blade, but that's a really dangerous thing to.
That's. You don't want to ruin your index finger. That's an important hand point to
finger. So. So what I did with this, I didn't like it. It didn't have
a guard. Even though you can get like, you know, right up on the blade.
Like if you run Bushcraft stuff, that's probably, maybe better,
but. So this is
sad at a guard. Cool. So wait, have these been made? I feel like
I've seen people like, like
Scott from Choir Boys. I feel like I've seen him with one of these or
maybe someone else. Might have had one at Blade Show. Ankura Josh
Mankura knives helping make a small batch of these before Blade
Show. Okay. And Jason from Straight Edge Knives, he has
one. Oh yeah. A couple guys have one. Lucas, Carol to the scales for
me. And this is. There's a little
slight changes with this. Like, it's supposed to be like the, the grind's supposed to
be a little higher, but this is essentially what the production will look like.
And the blanks they have cut now are in K329.
And so this is the, you know, that's what it will mostly look like
that. And this is, you know, meant to be in like a pocket sheath.
And I wanted a full grip but with no extra, like, handle. Like nothing
extra. And. But I wanted a big enough blade where, you know,
it felt like you actually had something substantial. Like I have knives
that have like a 2 inch,
you know, like I had this little pocket Bowie I got from a guy in
Ukraine and it's a cool knife, but I don't feel
like I have something capable of like defense with that.
Like, so I like to have something a little bigger
and so that's where that came from. So we're about to wrap, but I
want to, I want people to know, do you have.
Are there plans for this in the works? Is this something. I know
production with big companies say, like with worktop, you can never tell when it's going
to happen. And they have their own schedules and setbacks and all.
But is this going to be something. Oh, that's a cool grind. Is this something
that's going to be available on a wider scale?
So this one, the blanks are cut for this one, so work
tough gears make. Gonna make this. The blanks have been cut for
a little bit, so they, they have these. And this is a Jofu leather
sheath. This is kind of how I intended it to be carried. You know, where
it's like in your pocket. You can grab it.
We'll start a pressure campaign to get work tough gear to
start moving on this. Well, the date is looking like
right then. Well, the date is like tentative, you know, because you don't know. You
can't control everything that happens. But summer of
2026 is, is the
ETA for the EDC and this knife,
this one is from Jed Hornbeak. Oh God, I love his knives.
I sent him this blank and he's actually working on. He's supposed to be
working on a batch of these in 3B but he just
moved. He's very busy. I haven't been bothering him. But he, he made
this for me. Just sent it to me and did this sheath
and green shark skin and this sheath. Talk
about like nice. I got this was in my mailbox when I came back from
Blade Show. Like just like on like the jimping,
the machining on the jimping that goes from a hollow grind to a flat.
It's just like this knife is really cool as like
sure grip. He wanted me to test that out. It's like a
rubbery 10. Yeah. I have, I have one Jed
Hornbeak knife and he only four of the model that I have and
I man, it is one of my prized prize knives.
Man. I've had a ball talking to you. We got a lot more to talk
about. We're gonna, we're gonna do an extra 10 minutes for our, our
patrons and, and maybe we'll do a part two down the road
because, because I feel like you're a wealth of knowledge
especially about Bowies but about, about this,
this style of Bowie especially. But I know you've got a cabinet full of stuff
and we need to talk some more. But for
now do you have any plans to. To. To work
broader on different designs, say non Bowie
designs so as can run. Over there and grab a
quen and my. Having my, my gear over there. But
I, I'd have to go off camera but I, I have done stuff with
like a clinch pick type design that I made for actually that was
one of the first knives I did like a real knife I designed for somebody.
I have a buddy that used to do contracting work and he wanted like a
clinch pick like from Shiv Works, but he wanted a, a double sided
Tanto. So I drew one up. I sent the drawing to
the guy I know, Philip Burris in Florida and he made it, sent it to
him, his buddy one on one. He made another one and then he just sent
me one for free. He's like, hey, thanks for Sending me the business. Here's an.
Like, I. I have that knife in there. Let me grab him real quick.
Sure, go ahead. And as you do,
I'll just remind people that they can. Right now,
they have to look at the secondary market to find these. But
the V44 Bowie is most
definitely something worth seeking out. The
V44X from. From Reese and
Worktop Gear. You know, I'm not a hard user, but I've.
I've baton this through some nasty old wood, and you can barely
see any marks on it, and it flies through. And by the way, work
tough gear just puts an amazing edge on our knives. So
let's. Let's see this one before we roll out of here. So this was actually
my EDC Bowie. I brought this one to Blade show in
2023, and I had drawn this, you know, years in advance,
but I wanted, like, a wrap. Like a Bowie with like an ITO wrap. Oh,
yeah. So he doesn't. This guy doesn't have a machine shop, so he didn't have
him a. You know, he doesn't have a. A mill.
But he did that for me. And it's like kind of the same type of
concept. I just kind of more refined it to, like,
carry. But I did that one. This is the one I
did for my buddy. Oh, that is cool.
This is. This is meant to be worn like, you know, like
you have it on your belt and it hangs down and you reach up, you
grab it, and you can, like, hit legs or. It's kind
of like a distancing tool. Like, hey, I'm tangled up pokey a couple
times, get my gun, you know, and this is
one. I wanted this made. So this is supposed to have
two edges. It's supposed to go up here, be an angle, then be come up
here and have another. Another angle where there's like a, you know, like a line,
like an angle change. I was calling this the. The
death finger. And this is supposed to be like a,
you know, like an edc, you know, like a qui gon, you know,
long enough where it can, like, get. That would do some damage. But
the concept of this, if you ever try to cut something with like a round
belly, if it's not really sharp, sometimes it won't bite in. If you're
cutting hair, like on an animal, it will just roll right over that hair, roll
right over the clothes. So this is supposed to have an angle here, like a
tanto edge, and another one there. That way, when you're
slicing, those edges will bite. You can really get, like, you know, like, deeper
in. So it's like. This is not a. No,
this was wrapped. I just wrapped it in some on, like, some goon tape,
but it has the Edo wrap under there. It's khaki and OD green,
but it's. Wrapped up with that. But this is just like a.
Like a defensive. More like a combat EDC knife.
But this was, I don't know, six
months or more before I did anything with the Bowies,
because I do, like, you know, like, you know, katanas and
Japanese stuff. Eater, like, I really like Eater wraps.
I've got a bunch of Williams design stuff. Love his stuff.
And I met him at Blade Show. Him and his sons, like, they're. They're really
cool. He, like, did some, like, comfrey stuff on me.
Yeah, this is pretty cool. Stab you from across the room.
He's. That guy's crazy. He's really tall, too. He's like. He's probably
like six, three or something, maybe. Yeah. And he has an eerie calm about
him. He's a W. He's listening. If you're talking,
he's listening and, like, he's, like, watching you, and you can tell he's like.
He's processing everything. How could I dismantle this person?
Hey, Reece, thank you so much for joining me on the Knife Junkie podcast.
I've really enjoyed talking to you about the V44X, but also just
the history of the Marine. Marine Raider Bowie. I'd love to have you back on
sometime. Talk K bars, talk all the other stuff you got in there. Oh,
all these are K bars. And
it's a World War II. It's a Japanese fuse palm. I got a
bunch of those. That's cool. A lot of people don't know what those are, but
I got. I. I do. Those probably got multiple things
in there. Well, let's talk again, sir. Thank you so much for coming
on the show. I appreciate you, man. All right. Yeah, it was great. Thanks for
having me. My pleasure. Visit the Knife junkie@the
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More V44X bowies to come and. And then
further on out, the EDC Bowie. I cannot wait.
Definitely, definitely. Well worth the purchase, even if you're not a
big Bowie guy. Like I say, every household needs a big Bowie.
This would be a great choice. All right, thanks for watching
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