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Coming up, the September 2025 gentleman junkie knife.

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I get a Filipino sword I've always wanted, thanks to my

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brother. And we're going to take a look at my cold steel

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voyager collection. I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie

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Podcast.

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Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast, your weekly dose of knife

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

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host, Bob the Knife Junkie Demar.

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Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week

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of my interview with Reese of well Regulated, who designed the work

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tough gear V44X was from Jorge Fernandez, who says,

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first of all, this was a truly great interview. I've had the

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pleasure of knowing Reese since right before the first V44X

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drop, a friend of mine gave me a heads up on this sick new

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Bowie coming out at Work Tough Gear. And man, when I saw it, Van

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getting one became a mission. And one won't do. I've been very

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fortunate to have three. And he LAUGHS OUT loud. And a

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pock, a Blackwash and a K329. And

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I do mean fortunate. Reese's knives sell out in around two

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minutes. You'd be lucky to find one on ebay. And we

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want more. The field utility, the edc. I'm not the only

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one that's champing it the bit, sweating it out, waiting for their arrival.

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Epic video, Bob. Hey, Rhys, if you'd carve those other two

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models out of wood, I'd bet they'd sell out in two in two

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minutes, too. And he's referring to the fact that

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just to kind of get the feel for the knives, the

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designs that Reese has made, he's

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carved them out of wood and they look beautiful. He was showing them off on

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the. Show, so a great way to sort of mock up a knife and see

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if it feels comfortable in hand and. See if the sizes are right.

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Thank you, Jorge. And thank you one and all for watching the show, watching the

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videos, commenting, liking and subscribing. It's greatly

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appreciated. And don't forget, if you are not subscribed, subscribe,

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because when we get up to 50,000, we're gonna have

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50,000 subscribers. Dirk Pinkerton is making a custom

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knife for me to give away to any one of you. 50,000.

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So be sure to subscribe. All right,

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

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in his pocket? Let's find out.

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Here's the Knife junkie with his pocket. Check of knives in my front

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right pocket. Today is a perfect summer Knife, Warm

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weather knife. It's a, it's a great EDC period. But I've really

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grown to love this knife. This is the Buck

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Range Elite. They have a couple of

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different models in this range line. It's

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brand new from Buck. I'm fortunate enough to have received this

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from Buck along with another, another knife which has become

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my wife's favorite knife. She totally appropriated

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this right off my desk. She loves how light it is and how

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small it is with its 2.7-inch blade. It's, it's

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featherweight with the FRN handle. So. So I can basically kiss this one

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goodbye even though it's tasted my blood. And it is clearly,

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clearly mine. Anyway, this, this Buck Range

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Elite has a magnacut blade with that Paul Boss heat treat

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that is so legendary. Paul Boss knows how to heat treat anything and make

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it great. I mean look at all that. 420 buck has been selling

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forever. This one has aluminum

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handles, an ambidextrous bar lock with great, great

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action and a deep carry pocket clip that's

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mounted on the tail end there. I really, really like this knife

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and it's, it is, it's becoming

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nearer and dearer to me. I also love how thin it is and

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relatively light as well. This is a good in the waistband carry

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if that's something you like. I pretty much carry

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fixed blade knives in the waistband these days, but for many years it was always

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a slender. Folder in the waistband. I like this

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Buck range a lot and you might too.

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All right, next up, I had the second release of the Jack Wolf

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knives. Laid back jack. That is Jack Wolf knives

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swayback. And this one is awesome with this.

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Beautiful, beautiful rosewood handle. I love the way the

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rosewood looks next to that lasted titanium bolster. Of course,

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with all premium top top tier Jack Wolf knives,

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this has titanium bolsters, triple fluted with the

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integral liners there.

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Really, really nice build. I have not carried this in a long time

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and I now, I mean I have such an epic sprawling collection

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of these Jack Wolf knives thanks to Ben Belkin that I

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have started going back through the catalog to figure out what to

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carry on any given day. I love them all, I truly

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do. But this is near and dear to my heart because I

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love a swayback. Look at that gorgeous

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S 90v Wharncliffe blade with the,

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with the hand rub satin. Beautiful, beautiful blade. Of course

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that always. All these Jack Wolf knives, especially the premium ones,

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ride in their own leather slips because I don't want to ding. Them up and

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get them all snail trailed up in my pocket. Next

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up, it's fall. At least it feels like fall. Here in Northern Virginia,

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I was carrying the Ruffian by Hogtooth

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knives. This ruffian I had custom made

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for my 51st birthday a couple years back. Now

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Beautiful blue liners with the, with the 10 G10

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natural micarta here. I'm sorry, not G10 natural

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micarta. That has really taken on a

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really nice hue from my, from my hand

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oils or whatever you want to call it. Personal filth signature. It's got

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this nice red tint to it. When I first got it, it, it was much

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more tan in color. Beautiful

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154cm hollow ground blade here. I guess you could call

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it a drop point. I think it's kind of a clip point and great

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jimping and everything. And I was carrying this throughout the weekend

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and it's bled over into the week. And this weekend

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I showed this off at a party in the neighborhood

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here and people loved this knife and I thought, I thought it odd

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that I. Hadn'T shown it to them before, but. One of my all time

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favorite EDC fixed blades and probably

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on the, on the large end for what I

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can comfortably carry. And like I said, I mentioned fall. This, this

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is more of a heavy. This is like something I carry

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when I have jeans on. I'm not going to wear this with light shorts,

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but love that thing. Okay, so I've had the V44

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on my mind and so today I had this with me. This was

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my emotional support knife. Yeah, that.

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Beautiful work, tough gear. V44X Bowie. This is the

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K329 version. So I think

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this is their most premium version of this knife.

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Such a beauty. Reese of well Regulated is

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really, really deep in the Marine Raider

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Bowie thing. He's got an epic collection if you guys follow him, which you should

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on Instagram. He recently posted an overhead picture with all

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of his V44X bowies and I think it was like

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32 of them or something. All of these different

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versions of it from, well, from the World

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War II era. They're just astoundingly beautiful. And then by the way,

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he also collects a lot of other knives including K bars and he

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posted a picture of his K bars. If you like those. I

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definitely check it out. But yeah, great esk here

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in, in the V44X Bowie, if you're feeling a little insecure

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during your day, all you. Have to do is, is just put. This in your

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hand. And you're good to go. So this is what I had on me today,

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the V44X Bowie. I had the Hog Tooth knives

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Ruffian full size. He does make a small pocket

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pocket size. That's beautiful. I had

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the laid back Jack from Jack Wolf knives. This from

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their second run where they expanded the handle materials and then

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the Buck Range Elite. Loving that knife. Let me know what you

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were carrying. Drop it in the comments below. I always love to hear what you've

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been carrying. Okay, let's see. Gentleman junkie

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giveaway knife for September. Now I've been hinting at this,

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showing it off, showing off my version. This is the version

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you will be receiving. Here is the beautiful

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riot from three Dog Knife. Three Dog Knife.

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The in house custom knife brand from Northern Knives up

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in Alaska. One of the few companies if, if the

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only company, if not the only company I've ever seen making

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these really beautiful recurve Tonto Bowies.

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For all purposes, you might think that a tanto is just kind of

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self defense. But up in Alaska, three Dog knife

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is all about catering to hunters and outdoorsmen.

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And this is for that. You see

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that curve right up front? That would be great

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for skinning small game. I am told by those who have

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actually done that. And of course that recurve straight

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portion here. Recurve straight. You know what I'm saying. That recurve portion

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there would be great for carving and doing all sorts of camp

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pass. This thing is stout and sturdy as can be at

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3.8of an inch thick. And that is

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K110 steel. K110

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is analogous to

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K2D2 blade steel. So you

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can see that. And it comes with a cool little

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dog tag, AKA birth card here. So here it

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is. This will be yours. Could be yours I should say

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if you are a gentleman junkie. K110. Did I

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say K110 or K1.12? K110. This one could be yours.

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Micarta handle scales. All you got to do is become a gentleman junkie. That

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will, you will love it. And you know, if you're a

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Thursday night knives fan or you come to the show frequently, you know we

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give away a lot of knives thanks to Dave of OG Blade

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Reviews and also Mike of Northern Knives. We've had a lot of knives to

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give away and it's not letting up. So we do Give away a lot of

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knives. But that third Thursday of the month, the gentleman junkie knife

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giveaway, there's always something a little, little extra, a little more

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special to give away. And that's this month's giveaway, this month

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being September of 2025. So check

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that out. I'm going to come back to some interesting

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stuff on Patreon, but before we do, I want to show something and announce a

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date, a release date. Release date, you say? Yes.

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The agent 001 my design with Tim

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Kell knives is being re released on October 1st.

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And here is one of the four production samples that Tim sent to me.

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These are now being machined by the great Nick Chuprin up in

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New Hampshire. NCC knives. You probably remember,

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you probably know his incredible

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custom folders. He has slowed down on his own

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custom work because he's doing some incredible machining work for some of

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our favorite knife makers, Tim Kell chief among them

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here. Just look at that. Look at the terracing

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that the beautiful mill lines on this. Look at the

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chamfers on the jimping. There.

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Removed one of the gyms. Spread out the remaining four gyms and

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man alive, do they feel great in hand. They really, they're perfect

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in that they grab your thumb, which you definitely want. You don't want to

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slide up onto that wickedly sharp top edge,

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but they don't hassle, they don't, you know, they're not too

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sharp that they're going to make your thumb feel sore. But I'm really

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impressed with all this machining especially. I keep locking in on the

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chamfering on these. It's just so precise and so

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perfect. And Nick Chuprin is a perfectionist and guess

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what? So is Tim Kell. And so I, I am

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very, very thrilled to announce that the Agent 001s

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will finally be available again in their second

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production run. This one is wearing their battle lock

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handles. Now. Just looking at them online, I was kind of, you

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know, I don't know if that's a, if that's my, my cup of tea. I

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do love Micarta in G10, but it turns

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out this is so nice. It feels great in hand. It's

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sort of a mil spec type. What do

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you call it? Frn. And with the stippling in there that

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feels like skateboard tape. And his

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signature grenade grip here, that's these little scoops and divots.

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This thing locks in the hand like you wouldn't believe. I am so excited

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that these are coming back out. I also Want to show that

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you can now get a Badger Claw

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leather Badger Claw outfitters leather sheath for your

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double O1 and your other agent series knives.

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Tim sent me one. I love this. I haven't even put a

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clip on it yet. I just like dropping this in the pocket. The

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curve of this follows the seam of your. The inside seam of

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your pants and it just drops in. Then when you want to draw the knife,

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you can make it so that this kind of just wedges

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itself in under the seam of the pocket and the knife comes free.

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And you might be concerned about this wickedly

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sharp knife poking through the leather. It could under the right

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circumstances, no doubt. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna

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gloss over that. But this leather is so stout

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and sturdy, and the fit of this is so perfect that

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it would take a lot. It's got rivets, so it's not

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gonna poke through, it's not gonna cut any seams, and there's no

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masterfully made sheath on a masterfully surrounding a

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Ernest Emerson. And this is a pretty long one, I gotta say.

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It's got a bio, it's got. Got his background, and then it talks

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Life News. All right, first up in Knife Life News, a really cool

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one from Boker. I say that all the time because Boker puts out a lot

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of cool knives. But this one is the Boker mini tracker

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folder. That's right. You heard right ladies and gentlemen, they're making a tracker

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folder. If you know Boker, they do their version of the Thom Browne tracker.

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To me, I've always liked its contours or its

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profile blade profile a lot because it's. Well, it's

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like the Tom Brown tracker we all know and love but it's a little sharper,

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it's a little more tactical looking. They have come out with

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this which is so cool. Hopefully you're watching this so

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you can see the knife itself. But this is a. This has a

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3.12-inch 154cm

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blade. It's a modified tracker with a flipper. Modified

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because. Well, it's kind of a clip point. It's got a thumb swale

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there. There are some differences here obviously when

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compared to the fixed blade tracker, but it does have

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those two very distinct cutting surfaces. That front

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bellied surface and then a secondary point

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followed up by a little kind of hook if you

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will. All sharp and then a long straight,

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more robust is the grind forward and then towards

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the handle. That secondary or that straight edge there

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is much thinner. I think that this is a really cool looking knife.

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I've already seen said so I do wish the handle to blade ratio was a

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little more blade heavy if you will. But

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obviously they have, they have things considerations

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that I don't know about when. Making a design like this. But

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look at that beauty, that little hook where the straight edge

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that comes out of the Ricasso

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goes down to that secondary point. That little hook area I've seen used on

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videos for all sorts of stuff to include feather sticking, which is

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kind of alluded to in this picture. You've got a micarta

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handle with a liner lock, heat carry, pocket clip,

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3.77 ounces. So pretty light. Not

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bad at all. And it is available now. MSRP

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for this is a hundred and forty five dollars.

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So check this one out. I had a chance to see this one at the

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Boker booth and handle. It at the broken poker booth at. Late show

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in June. And I like it a lot. It is a cool knife.

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Maybe they'll come out with a plus. Size and maybe I'll be tempted. Okay, next

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up. This one is from Benchmade. This is a knife that was announced

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beginning of the year in January 2025. But only now are we

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seeing it and only now is it available. It's the Benchmade

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491 Loden. It's a

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rare axis lock flipper. Rare from,

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from Benchmade anyway. And I think it's got a stupendously

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beautiful blade. I gotta say I will not be getting this knife because it's

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not exactly my cup of tea. But I, I have to point out what is

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beautiful when I see it. And that blade is absolutely beautiful. If you're just

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listening, it's a 2.8-inch spear point with

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a full swedge. Almost a dagger grind I

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guess you could say though it's not sharp on the top obviously,

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but it's got a swedge that mimics the

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main bevel. So just a really beautiful blade.

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M390 blade steel flipper. As you

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can see, a low profile flipper with that

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axis lock. The handle is aluminum.

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Beautiful handle here, comes in red or blue. And it's got this

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center line fuller in the handle that comes from

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beneath the the clip and terminates right

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below the axis lock. So you know, if you've ever held

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a knife that has that kind of a setup, that fuller

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running down the center of the handle is just going to grab your your

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fingers. It's going to lock into your hand beautifully. We've got this little

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bulbous end, deep carry pocket clip. And

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this thing is 100% ambidextrous as our

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many axis style axis lock style knives.

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So on this one obviously the clip can go to the other side, no

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problem. 2.99 ounces.

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So nice and light. Pretty small and

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available now. MSRP on this is for

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the blue one, $320. For the red

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one, $330. So Benchmade,

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always impressing with design and price. That's

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pretty pricey. But you know, they have their reasons. And

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I am not a Benchmade fanatic. If I were, I probably would find

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that to be reasonable. But what I find

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weird is that the blue anodized version is $320

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and the red anodized version is $330.

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I. I speculate it has nothing to do with the color of the anodization,

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but the processing of the hardware or. Whatever processes they

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put the hardware through. So that's just my, that's my

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speculation. But The Very Cool

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Benchmade491 Loading. They made a large

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version of that. I'd be in trouble also. So Boker and

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Benchmade keep them small. So I can keep my, my wallet set.

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Okay, next up, last up here is from terrain 365.

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This is the new DTK

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@Topo. This is the second generation of the

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DTK EDC folder, which is a

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dog tag format keychain knife kind of,

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kind of locking folder. Look at that little cheat, little stubby

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son of a gun. 1.19 inches of

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it's. It's a 1.19 inch snub nose

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drop point. That's what they're calling it of terravantium.

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Terravantium is Terrain 365's proprietary

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cobalt alloy so it won't rust. And seeing that

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it's in a titanium handle with titanium hardware, you know,

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you could wear this all year long in the, in the jungle and it'll

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be just fine. As I mentioned, titanium frame lock. But this

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one, as is evidenced by the name, has a topographic

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pattern on

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the show side. And this is a pattern that's featured on a

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lot of 365 terrain 365 knives. I find

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it to be very appealing. I do like that topographical

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pattern. And this is thinner than the previous runs of the

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DD DTK. At 0.1

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inches thick, it's 1.6 ounces. And

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available now. MSRP for this is

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189. I'm going to start giving you MSRP when I

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can, when I know what it is. And you know, I feel like that's. Information

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you might want to know. All right, still to come, we're going to

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check out the state of the collection. I got two really cool new things.

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Two knives, swords, whatever you want to call them, edged things.

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But before we get there, I just want to remind you, as I mentioned

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before, Thursday night knives, every Thursday, 10pm Eastern

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Standard Time is our live show. It is so great. You gotta join

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us. It's so much fun. As a matter of fact, I think it's probably the

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most popular thing around here lately. Besides.

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Well, it's probably the most popular. People love it because they get to come on.

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They're talking with their friends in the chat, they're talking with me, I'm reading

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their questions, answering them. And we're having a two hour

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conversation pretty much non stop. Every once in a while people will

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drop in. We just recently had Shane of Edgy

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Blade Works, Edgy American Blade Works in here. We've had Dirk

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Pinkerton. We've had a lot of people come on the show, but it's,

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it's just great. And the funny thing is is when we wrap at midnight Eastern

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standard time, I always feel like I've been sitting in a room with friends talking

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and I realize that I haven't heard anyone else's voice. I've

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just been reading comments. But still, it's a fun time.

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And we've been given away knives every week because Dave

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Bogie Blade review sends me giant boxes to give away, as does

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Mike of Northern knives. So come join us,

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join the fun, join the conversation and you'll be glad you did.

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That's Thursday Night Knives, 10pm Eastern Standard Time right here

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on the Knife junkie channel on YouTube. All right, coming up, the state of the

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junkie.com battlebox. So my brother

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Veto gave me something cool as he has done many times. You can

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see a lot of what he's given me behind me. He's given me a majority

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of those things actually. Yep. Just looking at it. I'm a lucky man.

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And when I just saw him in at our

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ancestral home, we gathered there for a family occasion.

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I knew he was going to be giving me my birthday present. And

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he said, be sure to pack extra panties. You're going to love what I got

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you. That's my brother's sense of humor. So I did it.

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And when I showed up, I was trying to guess what

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it was. He's like, you want to guess what it is? He's. And I said,

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why didn't you just mail it to me? He said it wouldn't fit easily in

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a tube. And I said, is it, is it a compilon? And he said,

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what's a compilon? He looked it up and then gave me a look. And indeed

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it was a compilon. This is the Filipino battle

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sword. And it's a very unusual sword

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for the Philippines because it's larger than their usual

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30 inches, generally speaking sword.

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And it is, it's just bigger than, than most of the swords. Now

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this one, I believe is,

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is not as big as they come, but

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because I've seen larger ones. But this thing is definitely old

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and definitely a, a real legit

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compilon. Got the beautiful handle with the alligator maw

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here, right here on the, on the pommel. Sometimes it

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has hair with that or like horse hair or

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other stuff coming off of here and various

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kind of carvings and stuff. But beautiful

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Penagong handle and nice long straight

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blade. This is the edge side down here. And then it has these,

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this funny little hook and all these jagged little things cut

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out of the top meant for. There's. There are a lot of different

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angles of attack in Filipino martial arts. And

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sometimes you're hitting with the tip, sometimes you hit with the back of the tip.

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And this is just meant to menace and, and destroy.

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It's just such a, a beautifully

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dastardly design. And I'm so happy to have this in my collection.

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Now it's going to go up on the Wall of Fame behind me though. Here's

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a little, a little foreshadowing. This room here is going to have to go

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through some changes soon, so there might be a few podcasts

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coming from it with a different background, but this will be on the Wall of

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Fame and I cannot wait. Vic, thanks for this,

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for this beautiful, beautiful sword. Now this is

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speculated that this is the same sword that,

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that killed Magellan. This not this exact one

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obviously, but Magellan died on a beach in the

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Philippines fighting. And it is speculated that this is

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the kind of sword that brought him down by

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Lapu. Lapu, a Filipino warrior

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and hero. And on a very famous sculpture in. The Philippines,

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this is what he's holding, the Campilan.

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All right, I'm going to set this over here. No room for that on the

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table. Next up. This is something I thought

466
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I never wanted until I started wanting it and then I had to get

467
00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:12.620
it. And that is the, the. The

468
00:29:12.620 --> 00:29:15.940
Counterpoint xl. So this is the Cold Steel

469
00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:19.540
Counterpoint xl. And it's kind of bringing my

470
00:29:20.340 --> 00:29:24.060
XL Cold Steel collection into the station. They're only

471
00:29:24.060 --> 00:29:26.980
if. Now all I need is a.

472
00:29:28.340 --> 00:29:31.580
Well, I need one more. And now I can't remember exactly what it is. The,

473
00:29:31.580 --> 00:29:35.220
the. The. The large ski and boo. But I can't remember what they call

474
00:29:35.220 --> 00:29:39.050
it. All these different Cold Steel names they. Kind of jumbled together

475
00:29:39.050 --> 00:29:41.850
in my mind. A beautiful 6 inch

476
00:29:42.490 --> 00:29:45.530
bayonet ground sort of Boot knife style

477
00:29:45.850 --> 00:29:49.650
folder. This one of course has the serrations I was

478
00:29:49.650 --> 00:29:53.490
originally looking for. The straight edge. I actually could not find it

479
00:29:53.490 --> 00:29:57.130
anywhere, but I'm sure that that will be remedied

480
00:29:57.130 --> 00:30:00.890
shortly. But then I started looking at my other serrated cold

481
00:30:00.890 --> 00:30:04.740
steels and I'm a sucker for their serration

482
00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:08.300
so I just. Went, I went for it here. A really nice grivory

483
00:30:08.300 --> 00:30:11.300
handle, nearly 7 inches in length.

484
00:30:12.580 --> 00:30:16.060
This one, unlike the older ones, has a very heavy

485
00:30:16.060 --> 00:30:19.780
stippling on the sides so it locks in the hand.

486
00:30:19.780 --> 00:30:23.540
It feels kind of like skateboard tape and really

487
00:30:23.540 --> 00:30:26.900
stays put. Got ambidextrous

488
00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:30.660
clip. Everything about this is ambidextrous as as it is

489
00:30:30.660 --> 00:30:34.420
on most lockback knives. It's got the triad

490
00:30:34.420 --> 00:30:37.460
lock, very stiff triad lock on this, on this one.

491
00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:42.180
Austin A. And a proud, proud member. Now

492
00:30:42.180 --> 00:30:46.020
the reason I thought I didn't want this is because I had the 4 inch

493
00:30:46.020 --> 00:30:49.740
counterpoint and I just, just did not do it for me. Maybe it would

494
00:30:49.740 --> 00:30:52.620
do it for me now, but this was years ago. It was one of the

495
00:30:52.620 --> 00:30:55.780
few cold steels I sent back and got something else.

496
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.640
But very happy to have this one in the collection and looking

497
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:04.480
forward to having this thing broken in more. Oddly enough, it's easier for

498
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:07.720
me to open this with my left hand than my right if we're talking slow

499
00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:11.240
rolling. So very, very cool, cool knife.

500
00:31:11.879 --> 00:31:15.320
Super excited to have this. And I'm super excited to talk to you about

501
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:19.000
some other XL cold steel folders. But first

502
00:31:19.320 --> 00:31:22.970
I just want to show off this new design that Jim came up with for

503
00:31:22.970 --> 00:31:26.610
our merch. Coffee in one hand, blade in the other,

504
00:31:27.010 --> 00:31:30.570
and man alive. Is that a, is that a

505
00:31:30.570 --> 00:31:34.010
maxim I live by? For sure. All you have to do is go to the

506
00:31:34.010 --> 00:31:37.770
knife junkie.com shop and check out all the super cool

507
00:31:37.770 --> 00:31:41.410
designs and funny logos that that Jim has come up

508
00:31:41.410 --> 00:31:45.130
with. We put them on hats, we put them on aprons. You know, it's

509
00:31:45.130 --> 00:31:48.460
still grilling season. T shirts, hoodies,

510
00:31:49.260 --> 00:31:53.020
cups, mugs, all that kind of stuff. Anything you want, we

511
00:31:53.020 --> 00:31:56.820
got it with these super cool designs. So my hat is off

512
00:31:56.820 --> 00:32:00.300
to Jim for coming up with these every week and adding them to our

513
00:32:00.300 --> 00:32:03.820
store. Artists, working man and podcasting,

514
00:32:04.140 --> 00:32:07.260
to be honest. So go check that out at the knife

515
00:32:07.260 --> 00:32:09.820
junkie.com/shop.

516
00:32:11.340 --> 00:32:14.770
All right, I want to talk to you tonight, today, this day,

517
00:32:15.090 --> 00:32:17.650
about the Cold Steel Voyager series.

518
00:32:18.690 --> 00:32:22.330
I've pretty much, I've pretty much completed my

519
00:32:22.330 --> 00:32:25.930
Cold Steel Voyager collection. I know I say that, but I probably

520
00:32:25.930 --> 00:32:29.610
haven't. There's probably Something that I will circle back and get

521
00:32:29.610 --> 00:32:33.370
another one of. They all have different versions and I'm

522
00:32:33.370 --> 00:32:37.010
excited by what I already have. So anyway, let's get into

523
00:32:37.010 --> 00:32:40.400
it. First one is a vintage 4 inch

524
00:32:40.800 --> 00:32:44.240
Kanto. Now this was from before you had a

525
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:48.120
metal clip. It was also before you have a thumb stud on both

526
00:32:48.120 --> 00:32:51.520
sides. This is from 1998.

527
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.759
I remember I was working on a movie called Judy Berlin up in New

528
00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:59.600
York when I bought this at. Where did I get

529
00:32:59.600 --> 00:33:02.480
this? Doesn't matter where I got it. It's one of the few places in New

530
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:05.520
York where you could get knives. I think this was Paragons

531
00:33:05.990 --> 00:33:09.830
Sporting Goods, but I just looked it up today. This is AUS 8

532
00:33:09.830 --> 00:33:13.430
blade steel. I. I wanted to find out what. What

533
00:33:13.430 --> 00:33:16.870
was the steel they were using on Voyagers in 1998.

534
00:33:17.190 --> 00:33:20.990
And indeed it was AUS 8A. How did I know? I looked up and,

535
00:33:20.990 --> 00:33:24.310
and found the catalog online from

536
00:33:24.310 --> 00:33:27.750
1998. Cold steel. You have to do that if you like cold steel.

537
00:33:27.910 --> 00:33:31.270
If you've watched this long, you obviously like cold steel.

538
00:33:31.970 --> 00:33:35.610
Go check out all the old catalogs. I don't have many more in paper. I

539
00:33:35.610 --> 00:33:39.250
used to have them all, but now you can check them out online and see

540
00:33:39.250 --> 00:33:42.610
how relatively small their, their offerings were

541
00:33:43.170 --> 00:33:46.850
back then. Not. Not the offerings themselves, but how few

542
00:33:46.930 --> 00:33:50.370
relative to now with all the swords and spears and everything else they have.

543
00:33:51.570 --> 00:33:55.370
But in any case, I remember

544
00:33:55.370 --> 00:33:59.150
carrying this one a lot. Very, very sharp. It came so

545
00:33:59.150 --> 00:34:02.750
sharp back then. This is before knives just shipped. Razor

546
00:34:02.750 --> 00:34:06.590
sharp and cold steel always, always sent them that way. This one you can see

547
00:34:06.590 --> 00:34:10.070
has taken a lot of abuse and use and

548
00:34:10.070 --> 00:34:13.870
sharpenings. I. I even practice sharpening on this with a,

549
00:34:13.870 --> 00:34:17.190
with a consistent edge or

550
00:34:17.190 --> 00:34:20.990
consistent angle sharpener. And it is wickedly

551
00:34:20.990 --> 00:34:24.259
sharp. If even though I kind of messed up profile a touch

552
00:34:24.659 --> 00:34:26.979
super light. It's got this asymmetrical

553
00:34:28.179 --> 00:34:31.819
cross section. When you look at it from the top, which

554
00:34:31.819 --> 00:34:35.539
I've never quite figured out. I think that this right up here near

555
00:34:35.539 --> 00:34:39.139
the pivot is extra thick to accommodate the size of

556
00:34:39.459 --> 00:34:42.859
this kind of thick clip. And this is the only

557
00:34:42.859 --> 00:34:46.259
voyager here that or no, this is not. But this is the only

558
00:34:47.139 --> 00:34:50.410
small voyager. I have where I have where I where I used a

559
00:34:50.410 --> 00:34:53.730
paracord lanyard on. This because I always thought this

560
00:34:54.370 --> 00:34:58.170
kind of lacked finger protection. And if you were thrusting you

561
00:34:58.170 --> 00:35:01.890
could definitely slide up onto that and

562
00:35:01.890 --> 00:35:05.490
put a little bit of. Without the lanyard that is put a little bit of

563
00:35:05.490 --> 00:35:09.010
skateboard tape on here in lieu of jimping and

564
00:35:10.770 --> 00:35:13.170
always love this thing. Never going to get rid of this one.

565
00:35:14.530 --> 00:35:18.070
Next up is, is the modern version of the same knife.

566
00:35:18.310 --> 00:35:22.150
This is the Tanto, the large Tanto, the

567
00:35:22.230 --> 00:35:25.270
very, very current setup. This has the

568
00:35:25.670 --> 00:35:29.390
AUS 10A blade but the same thing with

569
00:35:29.390 --> 00:35:32.630
that super hollow ground, super thin hollow ground

570
00:35:33.270 --> 00:35:36.550
blade there meeting the flat ground,

571
00:35:36.950 --> 00:35:40.550
chiseled chisel like tip. But

572
00:35:41.040 --> 00:35:44.000
when they came out with these, I believe it was 2006

573
00:35:44.640 --> 00:35:47.920
if I'm not mistaken, where they, where they changed the handle design.

574
00:35:48.640 --> 00:35:52.360
And look at it. Demko got involved. They

575
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:55.680
put on the triad lock and look at how much more

576
00:35:56.080 --> 00:35:59.360
finger protection you have with this knife. You've got two

577
00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:02.840
choils. You've got this nice swale here for, for the three

578
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:06.650
fingers to, to rest in there. And then you've got this D deep

579
00:36:06.650 --> 00:36:10.330
finger finger groove here and a big

580
00:36:10.410 --> 00:36:14.090
guard, a guard that also works well as a

581
00:36:14.810 --> 00:36:18.410
sort of finger choil. So you can come up close to the

582
00:36:18.410 --> 00:36:21.610
edge there for doing your quote unquote fine work,

583
00:36:23.130 --> 00:36:26.970
but beautiful. Actually I'll put these all out at once since.

584
00:36:27.690 --> 00:36:31.490
Since they're all of a type. And then this one is the

585
00:36:31.490 --> 00:36:35.000
XL version, so. So you've got a five and a half inch blade

586
00:36:35.160 --> 00:36:38.840
of AUS10A. I opted for the fully

587
00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:42.680
serrated version on this one again being a kind of

588
00:36:42.680 --> 00:36:46.320
a nut for their serrations. And just the past two or three

589
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:49.960
years I've really come back to the. Serrations in general on

590
00:36:50.120 --> 00:36:53.880
many of my folders. This one has

591
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.680
a very similar handle with the same philosophy, except since it's

592
00:36:57.680 --> 00:37:00.840
a larger blade that curves to accommodate that

593
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:04.520
blade shape. You have different, different

594
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:08.680
areas. You can, you can grip and get. Super reach

595
00:37:09.080 --> 00:37:12.684
with this. This one here with the 5

596
00:37:12.756 --> 00:37:16.280
1/2 inch blade and the near and the 6 1/3

597
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:20.120
inch handle has a lot of grip options. You can be right

598
00:37:20.120 --> 00:37:23.240
here, close up on the

599
00:37:24.530 --> 00:37:28.290
sort of guard there, like a choil. You can be back here with which

600
00:37:28.290 --> 00:37:32.130
is sort of standard. You can come further back or you can even come

601
00:37:32.130 --> 00:37:35.850
to here, which I've seen, I've seen Lynn

602
00:37:35.850 --> 00:37:39.330
Thompson do. And when you do that, the curve of the handle

603
00:37:39.330 --> 00:37:42.770
nestles right in the. In the palm and you can get. Some

604
00:37:42.770 --> 00:37:46.530
serious thrusting power because it butts right up into

605
00:37:46.530 --> 00:37:50.290
your palm and that puts force

606
00:37:50.290 --> 00:37:54.120
all the way down your forearm and makes it super rigid. He does something like

607
00:37:54.120 --> 00:37:57.000
this where he. Puts his finger out there. I don't know if I would do

608
00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:00.720
that unless I was just, just on a

609
00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:04.200
lark. But I love all the grip options. On the

610
00:38:04.200 --> 00:38:07.880
XL Voyagers. This one is wearing an aluminum

611
00:38:10.120 --> 00:38:13.800
Snaggletooth. Tactical MF pocket opener. That

612
00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:18.200
which does two great things. A, it opens, it

613
00:38:18.950 --> 00:38:21.790
opens the blade. As you draw it from your pocket, you just snag it on

614
00:38:21.790 --> 00:38:24.870
the edge and you can also use it as a thumb wrap

615
00:38:25.350 --> 00:38:28.630
to, to sort of bolster the, the guard.

616
00:38:29.110 --> 00:38:32.710
You've got a finger guard and now you've got a thumb guard. So

617
00:38:32.710 --> 00:38:36.510
a great, great pair or set. I should

618
00:38:36.510 --> 00:38:40.230
say of knives. Now Voyagers have come in smaller

619
00:38:40.230 --> 00:38:44.070
versions but they don't anymore. Now it's just the large

620
00:38:44.430 --> 00:38:48.030
and the xl. So if you want to check out

621
00:38:48.030 --> 00:38:51.710
ebay for a smaller version, you can find them from

622
00:38:51.710 --> 00:38:55.470
time to time. You will pay dearly for them. But they,

623
00:38:55.710 --> 00:38:59.510
they are there and I have considered it. All right, next

624
00:38:59.510 --> 00:39:03.230
up, let's look at the clip point voyagers in my collection. First one,

625
00:39:03.550 --> 00:39:07.150
also a vintage one, also a single

626
00:39:07.150 --> 00:39:09.550
sided thumb stud with a

627
00:39:10.600 --> 00:39:14.240
integral nylon pocket

628
00:39:14.240 --> 00:39:17.800
clip. This is the 5 inch Voyager clip point.

629
00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:22.080
It has an extremely sharp. This has always been one of my

630
00:39:22.080 --> 00:39:25.160
sharpest knives but you know, now that I have a million knives it,

631
00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:29.240
it's, it's sort of, you know, par for the course. But

632
00:39:29.240 --> 00:39:32.960
when I got this I could not believe how sharp it was. Much like the

633
00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:36.120
Tanto Voyager, but a deeply hollow ground blade,

634
00:39:36.550 --> 00:39:40.110
gorgeous clip point profile. You've got a bit of a

635
00:39:40.110 --> 00:39:43.430
belly there, a descending straight portion of the

636
00:39:43.670 --> 00:39:47.350
edge and a very, very acute point. Again,

637
00:39:47.510 --> 00:39:50.710
I've added a little bit of skate tape to this one up here

638
00:39:51.190 --> 00:39:54.790
in lieu of jimping and then on the sides for

639
00:39:54.790 --> 00:39:58.510
gription. I always thought, you know, it needed a little more a bit

640
00:39:58.510 --> 00:40:01.910
of a finger guard and also it was a little bit hard to draw so

641
00:40:01.910 --> 00:40:05.730
I, I put that grip tape there on the end just to

642
00:40:05.730 --> 00:40:08.490
pull it out. Of the pocket and make it easier to do so.

643
00:40:09.450 --> 00:40:13.250
That was from 1999. Some of you weren't

644
00:40:13.250 --> 00:40:17.050
even alive then. Next is the

645
00:40:17.290 --> 00:40:21.130
current cold steel. Well, not so current because this is AUS

646
00:40:21.130 --> 00:40:24.970
8A but this is the current design, the

647
00:40:24.970 --> 00:40:28.690
4 inch Voyager. Large clip point blade. Again you've got

648
00:40:28.690 --> 00:40:32.530
that same exact handle that you saw on the Tanto but just with the clip

649
00:40:32.530 --> 00:40:36.170
point blade. Again a descending straight, a nice

650
00:40:36.170 --> 00:40:39.970
belly center line point and all of it extremely

651
00:40:39.970 --> 00:40:43.810
sharp. This is one that I kept for a

652
00:40:43.810 --> 00:40:47.010
long time in my bugout bag, but

653
00:40:47.890 --> 00:40:51.410
now I've replaced that with a rat one and have

654
00:40:51.570 --> 00:40:55.090
kept this in the collection. I kind of feel like it needs to be with

655
00:40:55.090 --> 00:40:58.470
its brethren, especially its biggest big brother right here.

656
00:40:58.710 --> 00:41:02.510
This is the current version of the XL. This one is

657
00:41:02.510 --> 00:41:05.990
in 10Aus 10A steel. And

658
00:41:06.070 --> 00:41:09.830
again you got that same handle. All of these have the

659
00:41:09.830 --> 00:41:13.670
same handles across, across blade profiles.

660
00:41:13.670 --> 00:41:17.190
And I think that that's cool. That's a great way to do a business, especially

661
00:41:17.350 --> 00:41:21.150
if you're a company like cold steel and you're putting out so many

662
00:41:21.150 --> 00:41:24.800
different unique blades. To have a similar platform

663
00:41:25.120 --> 00:41:28.840
or, or the same platform with different blades is just the way

664
00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:32.480
to go. It makes sense. I am a huge fan of

665
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:36.320
this clip point profile here.

666
00:41:37.120 --> 00:41:40.800
This in particular, I must say I, I like it even a little bit better

667
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:44.320
than the profile on the, on the

668
00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:48.080
Recon 1 XL. This has a full

669
00:41:48.080 --> 00:41:51.770
flat ground blade. Different. Flat. Differently different from

670
00:41:52.170 --> 00:41:55.650
the old school where they had the saber ground

671
00:41:55.650 --> 00:41:59.130
hollow laid right there. So you might be

672
00:41:59.130 --> 00:42:02.770
sacrificing a touch of thinness behind the edge, but you

673
00:42:02.770 --> 00:42:06.290
have incredible shearing power with that triangular

674
00:42:06.290 --> 00:42:09.930
cross section that you get on a, on a full

675
00:42:09.930 --> 00:42:13.730
flat ground blade. And let's just be straight, a little bit

676
00:42:13.730 --> 00:42:17.490
more strength to the blade itself. You could

677
00:42:17.490 --> 00:42:21.250
see how a very thin hollow ground blade could end up

678
00:42:21.970 --> 00:42:25.410
under, under duress, chipping or, or

679
00:42:25.410 --> 00:42:28.930
breaking a little bit easier. So let's put this down for a family portrait.

680
00:42:29.090 --> 00:42:32.810
These are the clip point voyagers I have and I'll

681
00:42:32.810 --> 00:42:36.410
take this opportunity to say that the

682
00:42:36.410 --> 00:42:39.970
Tanto comes in the fully serrated but the clip point

683
00:42:39.970 --> 00:42:43.590
no, as does the Vaquero, which we'll see in a minute. But the clip

684
00:42:43.590 --> 00:42:47.270
point version does not anymore and I'm not sure why, but

685
00:42:47.350 --> 00:42:50.870
thankfully they don't because I would have to buy that. So they saved me

686
00:42:50.950 --> 00:42:54.550
80 bucks or whatever it costs. So these are the clip points.

687
00:42:56.230 --> 00:42:59.990
All right, next up, this next one is a, a one off

688
00:43:00.070 --> 00:43:03.590
so far in the voyager world. One off for them

689
00:43:03.590 --> 00:43:07.350
anyway. And that is the Chris. So they have a

690
00:43:07.350 --> 00:43:11.040
Chris in the Pilite series, but this is

691
00:43:11.040 --> 00:43:14.640
the Voyager Chris. And man, what a beautiful

692
00:43:14.640 --> 00:43:18.480
blade that is. Look at that undulating profile

693
00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:22.240
there. You've got. It's a re. Re. Re. Recurve. It's got

694
00:43:22.240 --> 00:43:25.920
the recurve here, the recurve here and the recurve here at the tip

695
00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:29.520
with that downward sort of hawkbill facing tip. That's how I think

696
00:43:29.520 --> 00:43:33.040
Chris's should be. Chris's should not terminate in an

697
00:43:33.040 --> 00:43:36.890
upswept tip. They should terminate in a down word kind

698
00:43:36.890 --> 00:43:40.490
of nasty hawkbill tip. This one is

699
00:43:40.490 --> 00:43:44.290
AUS 10A and they do not make a large version.

700
00:43:44.290 --> 00:43:47.770
They do not make a 4 inch version of this. Why? I don't know, but

701
00:43:47.770 --> 00:43:51.610
it's utter madness. This one also has the

702
00:43:51.610 --> 00:43:54.930
Snaggletooth MF on it, which in my opinion

703
00:43:55.410 --> 00:43:59.250
really completes this design. It looks beautiful. And if you know what a

704
00:44:00.370 --> 00:44:04.210
Indonesian or Malaysian or Filipino Chris looks like,

705
00:44:04.460 --> 00:44:07.980
you know that they have very ornate hilts with

706
00:44:08.300 --> 00:44:11.900
angles and jagged bits. And this is

707
00:44:11.900 --> 00:44:15.620
just adds a little bit more to the design and makes. It look a

708
00:44:15.620 --> 00:44:18.780
little bit more or. Makes it evocative of those,

709
00:44:20.060 --> 00:44:23.340
the, of the inspirational knives from which this was

710
00:44:23.580 --> 00:44:26.900
drawn. Same sort of handle again with the different

711
00:44:26.900 --> 00:44:30.540
grips, but a really wicked and

712
00:44:30.540 --> 00:44:34.080
nasty blade shape. This one should also come in

713
00:44:34.080 --> 00:44:37.600
a serrated version. If it were up to me, it would.

714
00:44:37.680 --> 00:44:41.200
The Tilite Chris comes in the serrated version. Why not Voyager

715
00:44:41.200 --> 00:44:45.040
Chris? And if you're, if you have any doubt, you're

716
00:44:45.040 --> 00:44:48.680
looking at that just thinking it's a mall ninja type knife or it's

717
00:44:48.680 --> 00:44:52.400
a, it's crazy. And they're just making it just to be different or to

718
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.280
prove that they can. It's not true. This is a,

719
00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:59.750
a battle tested design and not just in the,

720
00:44:59.750 --> 00:45:03.470
in Southeast Asia or not just in the Philippines and Malaysia. And

721
00:45:03.630 --> 00:45:07.190
you know, think of the flambear sword and, and the other, those big

722
00:45:07.190 --> 00:45:10.910
German broadswords with the wavy blades. It's like a giant bread

723
00:45:10.910 --> 00:45:14.510
knife, you know that you're dragging across someone

724
00:45:15.470 --> 00:45:19.070
and as you thrust with something like this, it opens up

725
00:45:19.070 --> 00:45:22.110
a wound channel that is just gassing. So

726
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:26.600
as is the word, the term wound channel, just utterly

727
00:45:26.600 --> 00:45:30.400
ghastly. Something I didn't point out before is that the

728
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:33.920
grip on all of these modern, you know, current

729
00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:37.360
day voyagers is exceptional with that iron

730
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:39.240
cross style

731
00:45:41.080 --> 00:45:44.760
pattern there. It really is grippy, it feels great. Which

732
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:48.940
leads to these things, thread pockets. So

733
00:45:48.940 --> 00:45:52.700
usually when I get them, I will loosen up

734
00:45:52.700 --> 00:45:55.980
the clip a little bit, leave a little bit of space there. Now if you

735
00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:59.700
ever watch nothing Fancy, you know that he, he like sands it down

736
00:45:59.700 --> 00:46:03.420
and he puts JB Weld on it, does this whole thing where he modifies

737
00:46:03.420 --> 00:46:07.100
it. I just, I just make it a little less tight. And with these

738
00:46:07.100 --> 00:46:10.860
xls it works out fine because they're so large and long,

739
00:46:10.860 --> 00:46:13.700
they're not going to just come out. Of your pocket easily.

740
00:46:14.910 --> 00:46:18.550
So this is the Voyager Chris xl and

741
00:46:18.550 --> 00:46:21.870
they need to come out with a Voyager Chris L if you ask me.

742
00:46:22.990 --> 00:46:26.790
All right, next up, this one they have come out with a large version of

743
00:46:26.790 --> 00:46:30.270
and I totally forgot that. So now I need to get a large version of

744
00:46:30.270 --> 00:46:33.630
this just to truly, truly complete the collection.

745
00:46:34.190 --> 00:46:37.470
This is the drop point Voyager and if you

746
00:46:38.030 --> 00:46:41.560
ask me again, I, I will Tell you they should call this the Barong

747
00:46:42.200 --> 00:46:45.560
because it's got that beautiful long leaf shaped blade

748
00:46:45.720 --> 00:46:49.240
and it's evocative of the Barong sword from the Philippines.

749
00:46:49.720 --> 00:46:53.400
And I'm sure that was in Lynn Thompson's mind when

750
00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:56.760
this came out. But this one is a

751
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:00.760
saber ground, so you, you're not getting that full flat grind. It's a little bit

752
00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:04.440
beefier of a blade back here and, but still

753
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:08.210
wickedly, you know, acute and sharp. You've got

754
00:47:08.210 --> 00:47:11.690
a center line point on this one, on this drop, and then

755
00:47:11.770 --> 00:47:15.450
you have jimping. Yeah, that's right, Jimping on this

756
00:47:15.450 --> 00:47:19.050
knife. This is the one voyager model with

757
00:47:19.050 --> 00:47:22.810
jimping. This and the large version of this. And

758
00:47:22.970 --> 00:47:26.650
it's curious, I wonder why it's the only one. Maybe

759
00:47:26.970 --> 00:47:30.730
when they've sold all of the other voyagers that

760
00:47:30.730 --> 00:47:33.810
have been manufactured already, who knows, maybe on the next,

761
00:47:34.370 --> 00:47:38.130
next time they have to make some, they'll, they'll put that awesome jimping, but

762
00:47:38.450 --> 00:47:41.810
generous run of jimping that feels great on the thumb

763
00:47:42.130 --> 00:47:45.930
and maybe they put that there because this could be seen as the

764
00:47:45.930 --> 00:47:49.490
most pedestrian blade design, the least combative,

765
00:47:49.810 --> 00:47:53.650
so maybe the most likely to be used by campers and that kind of thing,

766
00:47:54.450 --> 00:47:58.290
those, those kind of activities. In which case you really will be coming

767
00:47:58.290 --> 00:48:02.080
up here, maybe you're making feather sticks or something and that

768
00:48:02.080 --> 00:48:05.840
jimping really will come in handy. But I don't know, I'd love jimping

769
00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:09.560
on everything. Why not again, triad lock. And

770
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:13.320
all the, all the things that you've come to love about

771
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:17.040
the Voyager XL is in

772
00:48:17.040 --> 00:48:20.680
this knife with that beautiful Barong shape or drop point

773
00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:24.760
leaf shape. And if you look at this one, it's got a continuous

774
00:48:25.390 --> 00:48:29.030
belly. From the sharpening choil to the

775
00:48:29.030 --> 00:48:31.950
tip, you have a continuous belly. So very cool knife.

776
00:48:34.590 --> 00:48:38.310
All right, next up. This is a family. This is a family

777
00:48:38.310 --> 00:48:40.910
coming up here. And I'm going to start with

778
00:48:42.030 --> 00:48:45.270
these two knives because these are not technically

779
00:48:45.270 --> 00:48:48.950
voyagers, but they have been brought into the

780
00:48:48.950 --> 00:48:52.100
voyager fold. This is from

781
00:48:52.580 --> 00:48:55.780
both from 1999. These are vintage cold steels.

782
00:48:56.820 --> 00:49:00.260
This is the El Hombre and this is

783
00:49:01.700 --> 00:49:05.380
the Vaquero Grande. Six

784
00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:09.180
inches on the Vaquero Grande, four inches blade length

785
00:49:09.180 --> 00:49:12.860
on the Elombre. These were my EDCs. Well, this one

786
00:49:12.860 --> 00:49:16.580
especially for a long time I carried this one for,

787
00:49:16.660 --> 00:49:20.100
I don't know, at least two years straight. I love the jimping on the back

788
00:49:20.100 --> 00:49:23.150
of this handle. It's sort of traditional file work there.

789
00:49:24.190 --> 00:49:27.390
This one even fell onto a subway track. I had to retrieve,

790
00:49:28.030 --> 00:49:31.550
retrieve it and fully Serrated here,

791
00:49:31.870 --> 00:49:35.470
fully serrated on the Vaccaro Grande. This one

792
00:49:36.190 --> 00:49:39.950
was a, A, an E. I didn't

793
00:49:39.950 --> 00:49:43.430
carry it all the time, but living in New York City, when I went would

794
00:49:43.430 --> 00:49:46.990
go out at night, I would put this in the waistband appendix.

795
00:49:47.590 --> 00:49:50.670
And now I can't believe I did that. I say that every time I talk

796
00:49:50.670 --> 00:49:54.430
about this knife. I would have ended up in Rikers island if they caught

797
00:49:54.430 --> 00:49:57.670
me with this. You know how New York City is. But

798
00:49:58.230 --> 00:50:01.750
this is pre. This is before this,

799
00:50:02.070 --> 00:50:05.910
before the Voyager series had the Vacuro blade and

800
00:50:05.910 --> 00:50:09.630
before the Triad lock. And I gotta say, these were

801
00:50:09.630 --> 00:50:12.470
still incredibly strong lockback knives.

802
00:50:13.200 --> 00:50:16.840
Triad has just sort of sent it into the stratosphere with how strong

803
00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:20.560
it is, but really, really strong

804
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:24.600
lockbacks on these. So I wanted to show these as sort of an

805
00:50:24.600 --> 00:50:28.240
introduction to the Vaquero blade style.

806
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:32.560
The blade has changed a little bit, but they still

807
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:37.640
are featured in the Voyage. Now they are featured in the Voyager shoes. You

808
00:50:37.640 --> 00:50:40.970
can see that it is now a little bit more upswept on this

809
00:50:40.970 --> 00:50:44.810
Voyager up here and it's a little

810
00:50:44.810 --> 00:50:48.610
more uniform in its curvature here. The one

811
00:50:48.610 --> 00:50:52.330
on the bottom, I think it's pretty

812
00:50:52.330 --> 00:50:56.050
cool. I love the way they both look. I gotta say, sometimes I

813
00:50:56.050 --> 00:50:59.890
think I like the old style a little bit better because of the how the

814
00:50:59.890 --> 00:51:03.650
tip is, but I think I'm just. But that's

815
00:51:03.650 --> 00:51:07.380
just on this 4 inch version here. This one I

816
00:51:07.380 --> 00:51:10.900
sold for a while to my friend Ian and then I bought it back from

817
00:51:10.900 --> 00:51:14.700
him. It came back as dull as a spoon. I

818
00:51:14.700 --> 00:51:18.540
put a new edge on it and have never looked back. That was

819
00:51:18.540 --> 00:51:22.220
when I decided, why are you selling cold steels? That's it. No more selling

820
00:51:22.220 --> 00:51:25.620
cold steels. So I'm going to get these, the El

821
00:51:25.620 --> 00:51:29.420
Hombre and the Vaquero Grande out

822
00:51:29.420 --> 00:51:33.160
of the way. They were made in Japan. And then here, now

823
00:51:33.160 --> 00:51:37.000
I'm going to show you my xls here. I have three of them to

824
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.720
bring them over here. The first XL to show you is the

825
00:51:41.040 --> 00:51:44.160
plain version and this is in AUS

826
00:51:44.240 --> 00:51:47.920
8a. Now the length of this blade

827
00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:52.240
as compared to the 4 inch makes the

828
00:51:52.240 --> 00:51:55.360
Vaquero XL a more appealing

829
00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:59.750
blade to both look at and use, in my opinion.

830
00:52:00.230 --> 00:52:03.990
But designed and inspired by the

831
00:52:03.990 --> 00:52:07.550
Yatagan from Turkey and I also think from

832
00:52:07.550 --> 00:52:10.790
some Mexican style blades. But really,

833
00:52:11.350 --> 00:52:15.110
if you ask Lynn Thompson, he'll tell you the Yatagan was the

834
00:52:15.110 --> 00:52:16.710
main influence in this blade design.

835
00:52:18.710 --> 00:52:22.190
A great knife, super wickedly sharp with that deep

836
00:52:22.190 --> 00:52:25.940
recurve and that fat belly and the centerline point.

837
00:52:25.940 --> 00:52:29.540
It's, it is a fighting blade all day long and it is the

838
00:52:29.540 --> 00:52:33.180
knife that Lynn Thompson carries two

839
00:52:33.260 --> 00:52:36.940
of on him all the time. You know, Lynn Thompson,

840
00:52:37.020 --> 00:52:40.740
he carries many, many knives at once. Like a lot of knives at

841
00:52:40.740 --> 00:52:44.260
once and a lot of big knives. But he always has

842
00:52:44.260 --> 00:52:47.260
two Voyager XLs on him and usually

843
00:52:47.900 --> 00:52:51.740
they are the serrated version. So I had to get the serrated version and

844
00:52:51.740 --> 00:52:55.340
I also had to put a snaggle teeth MF on it for. Waving

845
00:52:55.340 --> 00:52:59.180
out of the pocket. It also, as I mentioned earlier, gives

846
00:52:59.180 --> 00:53:02.220
a great thumb ramp or thumb stop to, to,

847
00:53:03.660 --> 00:53:07.420
to accentuate the stopping power of this guard here, this

848
00:53:07.420 --> 00:53:09.740
forward knot. AUS10 a

849
00:53:10.860 --> 00:53:14.580
beautiful knife you've got. Again you've got the one hand. I

850
00:53:14.580 --> 00:53:18.270
didn't mention this before, these Triad lock knives, all of

851
00:53:18.270 --> 00:53:21.910
them, pretty much all of them including the counterpoint and

852
00:53:21.990 --> 00:53:25.830
the knives far from the Voyager collection. They're

853
00:53:25.830 --> 00:53:29.630
all one hand closable. So there's always a

854
00:53:29.630 --> 00:53:33.350
bit of ricasso there that will stop the blade

855
00:53:33.750 --> 00:53:37.190
from cutting you. If you put your finger forward in that choil

856
00:53:37.430 --> 00:53:41.070
and deploy the lock and let it drop, you can see that non

857
00:53:41.070 --> 00:53:44.740
sharp part stops on your finger. And then you can just

858
00:53:44.980 --> 00:53:48.740
close it or let it drop. Letting it drop of course

859
00:53:48.740 --> 00:53:52.500
is always risky seeing as they could really, really give you,

860
00:53:52.980 --> 00:53:56.660
give you some pain there. The third of my XL

861
00:53:57.140 --> 00:54:00.020
Voyager vaqueros is

862
00:54:00.980 --> 00:54:04.740
the Lynn Thompson signature edition. Again

863
00:54:04.740 --> 00:54:08.420
I've got a snaggletooth MF on it. This one is one of their nylon,

864
00:54:08.420 --> 00:54:11.610
you know, plastic ones. They have pretty much moved

865
00:54:12.730 --> 00:54:15.770
to aluminum for the snaggle fuse

866
00:54:16.090 --> 00:54:19.770
altogether. But a very handsome knife is this with

867
00:54:19.770 --> 00:54:23.130
the green handle. I love the look of that green handle.

868
00:54:23.690 --> 00:54:27.490
And then the black CTS xhp. Always hard

869
00:54:27.490 --> 00:54:31.330
for me to say CTS XHP blade made in

870
00:54:31.330 --> 00:54:34.970
Taiwan. It is really beautiful and I'm glad I

871
00:54:34.970 --> 00:54:38.730
snagged this when I did. They're numbered. I'm not sure how many they made,

872
00:54:39.130 --> 00:54:40.370
but this is number

873
00:54:40.370 --> 00:54:44.410
126-0126.

874
00:54:44.410 --> 00:54:47.930
And then of course it's one of the numerous

875
00:54:48.970 --> 00:54:52.770
signature editions of cold steel knives that are out there now. There's a,

876
00:54:52.770 --> 00:54:55.770
it's a growing list. I, I can think of four right now.

877
00:54:57.210 --> 00:54:59.770
The Coban, the Tilite, the,

878
00:55:00.810 --> 00:55:04.600
the, the Leatherneck XL Bowie and then this

879
00:55:04.600 --> 00:55:08.320
one. And I think it's charming that Lynn Thompson's signature

880
00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:11.680
is on it, especially because he's got the beautiful cursive

881
00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:15.360
of a first grade teacher. So it's, it's kind of an,

882
00:55:15.520 --> 00:55:18.080
it's got that sort of innocent looking

883
00:55:19.600 --> 00:55:23.080
signature on it, but it's on just an astoundingly

884
00:55:23.080 --> 00:55:26.840
wicked blade with those serrations. And before we wrap, let me just show

885
00:55:26.840 --> 00:55:30.640
you decelerations up close. You've got big

886
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:34.000
sharpened scoops and then five little peaks

887
00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:39.040
and then, you know. And then you go back to the little scoop. So it's

888
00:55:39.040 --> 00:55:42.760
a. Or the big scoop. It's a pretty nasty setup

889
00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:46.400
here. And those little teeth, though, hard to sharpen when. When you end up

890
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:50.120
mangling them, they really go the distance. They go

891
00:55:50.120 --> 00:55:53.910
a long time. And they keep these knives sharp for a

892
00:55:53.910 --> 00:55:57.470
long time. Much longer than if you were to dull the

893
00:55:57.470 --> 00:56:00.830
plain edge version of this knife. You could just keep going.

894
00:56:02.590 --> 00:56:06.310
So now I realize I have to get the 4 inch drop point to really

895
00:56:06.310 --> 00:56:10.150
make it complete. And then I'll start doing my ebay searches for the little

896
00:56:10.150 --> 00:56:13.750
3 inch versions and all that means I will have more knives in the

897
00:56:13.750 --> 00:56:17.510
collection. And that means I'm going to have to get rid of some. And I've

898
00:56:17.510 --> 00:56:20.340
been saying this for years. Not easy for me to do,

899
00:56:21.140 --> 00:56:24.420
but I think it is something I do need to do. It's true.

900
00:56:24.580 --> 00:56:28.340
Jim's back there saying, oh, Bob, stop it, stop it. You're not

901
00:56:28.340 --> 00:56:31.620
selling any knives. Not yet, but

902
00:56:31.940 --> 00:56:35.260
it's. It's in my plans. All right, that's it. Thank you so much for

903
00:56:35.260 --> 00:56:38.660
indulging me and letting me show you my voyager collection.

904
00:56:38.980 --> 00:56:42.580
I'll give you updates as I get others. But really, this. This is

905
00:56:42.580 --> 00:56:46.360
pretty much. This is pretty much all I need. And I think it's

906
00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:49.880
pretty much all there is except for that 4 inch. Drop point, which now I'm

907
00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:52.760
going to start obsessing until I get it.

908
00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:57.080
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