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Coming up, the new JW collab. I get a new one from LT

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Wright Knives and great fixed blades for trail

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and camp. I'm Bob DiMarco. This is the Knife Junkie Podcast.

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

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

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host, Bob the knife junkie DeMarco.

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

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Lone Wolf 597 about LT Wright Knives interview. He

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says, Love LT Wright Knives. Some of the sharpest

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useful Scandi blades I own. Bob, check out the forest

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trail that might be right with a W up your alley.

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Thanks for a great interview and thank you Lone Wolf for the dad joke. I

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love a good pun. Next was from Trent

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Costello. And he just said simply cool guy. And I

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couldn't agree with you more, Trent. Not only do we agree on big

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knives, but yeah, man, LT Wright is a, is a

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very cool guy. Great story to tell. If you haven't heard the interview

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yet, definitely check it out. I am suddenly hooked on his

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knives. I've got one and we're going to be giving away one

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and hopefully I have more in my future. All right, that said,

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let's get to a pocket. What's in his pocket?

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Let's find out. Here's the knife junkie with

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his pocket. Check of knives. First up, in my front right pocket,

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I had the beautiful and once coveted

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Emerson tack. Now, I say once coveted because

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this was the Emerson Persian. It was out for

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a while, a long time ago and then it went away and everyone

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wanted one and they were very expensive and hard to find on the

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secondary market. Well, thankfully Emerson,

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Ernie Emerson and Emerson knives came back out with the

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Persian, now called the Ptac. You can see that right there,

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PTAC on the blade. They're one of the

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only blade companies, knife companies whose

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billboarding I like. It's this and Microtech and maybe

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one or two others. But this knife is great. When it first came out,

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I was so excited to see that finally there was an

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Emerson Persian or Ptac, now called

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Within Reach. Super comfortable and ergonomic,

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like most Emerson knives, puts that point, which

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is a, an upswept trailing point, something that's kind of

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trendy these days, kind of in direct contradiction

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to the trendiness of the sheep's foot in the wharncliffe over the

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past 10 years. And what I, what I was getting

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at is that ergonomic sort of pistol grip handle puts that point

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in a reasonable place, especially for thrust

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this the usual recipe. 154 cm blade

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steel with G10 and titanium liners. Yes,

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a little bit of lock stick when you first get it. All Emersons go

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through an adolescent phase, but all the great people you know and

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love today go through an adolescent phase. So

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don't, don't look down your nose at an Emerson because it's not

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immediately perfect on the action. All right,

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so that's what I had in my front right pocket. Love that thing. One of

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only two non waved Emersons in my collection.

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Next up I had the Gateway Barlow

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from Jack Wolf knives. This is from the,

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this is from their within reach. Let me

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wipe this off from there. Within reach lying

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here, the gateway line. This is The Gateway Barlow.

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154cm blade steel on that beautiful clip point

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blade. Nice plunging straight on

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that edge. Gives you a lot of life in the knife. And

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then that, that cutting trajectory bellies

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out which is great. And then puts that point nice and low

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for all sorts of utility cuts. This one of course has that

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beautiful rosewood handle there. I love that

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with the shield and the triple fluted steel bolsters.

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These are only 75 bucks. And

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if you know Jack Wolf knives, if you done your research or bought

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any, you know that the premium line is very, very expensive

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by comparison, like $300 more.

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But this is a great way to get into a Jack Wolf knife. If you

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love their designs. Love the fit

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of the Jack Wolf knives but don't want to pay for the finish and the

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materials of a premium line. I feel a sneeze coming on. So if

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I suddenly sneeze out of the blue, excuse me

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in advance. I love this thing. This is the

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one Jack Wolf knife that I don't feel obligated to drop

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in a leather pocket slip. Though I often do

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just to keep it oriented north to south in my

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pocket. Because I don't like it when, when knives are loose in your

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pocket and they just kind of fall sideways against your leg. That kind of drives

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me nuts. All right, next up, one I've been carrying non stop since

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I got it. This is one of the new production runs. This is

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a production sample of the new

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Tkal Knives Agent 001, which is on the way.

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My design collaboration with Tim of TKL Knives

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started the whole agent series based

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on the Bob Loveless sub hilt fighter. It's a slender

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double edged clip point. You're probably saying it's a drop point,

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but take it from me, the designer, it is a clip point. Love

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this thing dearly. I love the fact that it's now

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machined by Nick Chuprin of In the CC

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knives. Look at the shouldering and the, what do you

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call it, chamfering on this beauty. And then of course you've got

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the mill lines on the bevels.

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Just a gorgeous knife. This is coming out for everyone to buy

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far and wide on November 1st. Now just a

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note. I have been saying October 1st for quite a while because

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that's what Tim told me. And then he sent me a picture of his production

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calendar saying how did I screw that up? I think he thought

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10 was actually the 11th month of the year.

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So these will be out November 1st, just in time for

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Christmas. This one here is wearing that

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gorgeous battle lock handle

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scale set here. Really super grippy.

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Made by the same people who make SIG

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pistol and rifle grips. Super grippy, super

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durable FRN. I ordinarily go in for

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G10 and Micarta but I am really loving

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these Battle lock grips. They will

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be coming. They're available in like a thousand different colors.

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They can turn that fancy high end super

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ballistic plastic basically into any color. But

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I've noticed on the green and the desert tan that I have

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a super saturation even on a dullish color

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like desert tan. It the the coloring is amazing. So

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I'm really excited about the battle grips. Last

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up for emotional support today. One I haven't carried or

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put in my bag, I should say, in quite some time. I had my

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Randall made number two six seven.

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This is the number two fighting stiletto. The dash seven

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part refers to the blade length. It's a seven inch blade.

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Beautiful double or quad hollow

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ground bevels and a thick medial ridge all the way,

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nearly all the way to the tip. This thing is one hell

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of a fighting knife. One hell of a beautiful dagger.

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This is with the stacked leather

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commando style handle incidentally, or

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just if you want to know, I bought this and my other Randall made

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knife off of Knifecenter. They are one of the few

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dealers that will get advanced copies if

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you if you will, from Randall Made and they just sell them.

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Ordinarily I would have to order that

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knife from Randall and wait 7 years now to

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get my preferred version. Luckily

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knifecenter.com had my preferred version of this knife which

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is the commando grip. That's the profile of that handle with the

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stacked leather handle, the double brass quillian, et cetera,

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et cetera. So I just happened to luck out and also

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this was when I just so happened to have Randall

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made. Money in my account, my knife

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slush fund. So I got that, of course, comes with the beautiful

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leather sheath here, Q7 on the back.

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You got an Arkansas Whetstone in there. So this is what

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I had on me. My Esk was the random A2.7.

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I had the beautiful TK knives

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agent 001 here in the new version, which will be dropping

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November 1st. A refined production of this

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amazing knife. This. This

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version of it for me. I have this new

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wire horizontal Ulti clip on it.

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So awesome. Love that thing. I had the Jack Wolf knives

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Gateway Barlow. A beauty at

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a fraction of the price of a normal premium Jack Wolf

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knives knife. And then of course, I had the P tap from

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Emerson knives on. Let me know what you had on you. I'm

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very curious. Always like to find out what. What people who

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enjoy this show are carrying. All right, I

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mentioned the agent 001. I have something else

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on offer. Now, you can't buy an agent 001 through me.

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You do have to go to TKL Knives to order one of those.

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But I have something cool right here that I'm selling.

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That's a nice junkie Zippo. That's right. I just got a. A bee in

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my bonnet to get myself a

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Zippo with my logo on it beautifully

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emblazoned on there. Now this is. I put my own insert in

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there with the double jets because I like to smoke cigars and that's how I

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prefer to light them. But I. I bought

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five extras. And of course, this is the insert that actually

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comes with it. The windproof regular Zippo insert.

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I bought six of these at once. One for me, and actually someone

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else just bought the first one. So there are four of these left. If you're

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interested. Let me know. 50 bucks for the knife Junkie

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Zippo. That is a little more than what

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I paid for it. That way I can pay for shipping and have a little

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extra for my effort. Let me know if you want one. I'd be

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happy to send you one and give you the details on how to do

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so. The knife Junkie Zippo.

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I don't know. Does anyone still smoke out there? I don't smoke cigarettes, but

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I do like a cigar and I love the Zippo jet

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inserts. Also. You should probably always have a way to light

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your way to cut your way through something or to set stuff on fire.

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So always have a flashlight on you, always have a knife, and always have a

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lighter. And if you're gonna always have a lighter, why not make it a Zippo

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I, I mean, are you American? Get yourself a Zippo.

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And if you're not American, are you a man of adventure or a woman of

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adventure? Do you not want a lighter that you can light and then throw in

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a pool full of gasoline? If there's a villain in there, you're

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gonna want that. So check it out. Just get in touch with me

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and well, I got one for you. And if I don't, I'll

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order more. It was really fun to do that. I love Zippo

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lighters. I've always had a little collection going and I figured, why not have

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one with my boat. Okay, next

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up we're going to talk about the gentleman junkie

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giveaway. This month we are going to be giving away this

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beauty right here. This is the

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Frontier Valley from LT Wright Knives.

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So LT came on the show and he

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said he wanted to send me a knife to give away to

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someone who is helping support the show. You know, gentlemen, junkies help

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support the show no matter how they do it. You can do it through

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Patreon, you can do it through the join button here

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and become a member on YouTube. But

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for October, this is the giveaway knife. October 16th we'll be

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giving away this beautiful LT Wright Frontier

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Valley. Now, when it showed up, the handle was all nicely

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oiled up and unicolored, but I have put it in the sheath.

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The sheath has soaked up some of that oil. So a couple more times

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in the hand or re oilings of it, you'll have a

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universal color there on that gorgeous

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micarta. This thing is beautiful. This is

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AEBL steel, a full flat ground

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everyday sort of trail knife or

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you know, backpacking knife. You've got a full on 90

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degree spine for throwing sparks. You can see how

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LT put that 90 degree spine on there.

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There you have the shed or

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the shack I should say, and all the rest. I'm very proud to be giving

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this beauty away to one lucky Gentleman Junkie on

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October 16, 2025. Beautiful

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leather sheath. Also that it comes with. There's a little marking on here.

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I'm sure that'll buff out or what have you. But this is the

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way it came to me and this is how I will be giving it to

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you. Beautiful leather sheath, beautiful knife.

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I'm very proud and happy to be giving that away to one lucky

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gentleman junkie. Speaking of gentleman junkies and

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Patreon and other type things, I just want to mention

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Maker Monday, this is one of the features that Jim has come up with

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to give you value added on our patreon Page

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Maker Mondays. Here this time is Bob

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Kramer. Bob Kramer, a famed kitchen knife

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maker. Now I would love to talk with this gentleman right here

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on the show. You can check out all the information about him, his

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most collectible knives, his influences and legacy

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and all the rest. I've, I've had another

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And now here's the Knife Junkie with the Knife Life news.

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First one up in Knife Life News today fits perfectly into our

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great fixed blades for trail and camp theme today.

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This is a new one that'll be coming out in January 2026. January

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5th. So keep your eyes peeled for this. But this is called the

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Boker Brassa. The Boker Brassa, it's a compact

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fixed blade for backpacking and camping

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or anything else you need a compact fixed blade for. But this is

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designed by Thomas Ward. It's, it's quite a little beauty, I gotta

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say. 2.83 inches.

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A double jimped drop point blade of 14C

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28N bob. What do you mean by double jimped? Is that just two

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jims? No sir. That is two runs of

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jimping. So something for your thumb and something for your extended

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forefinger as you use that tip.

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This. Here it is right here. You'll see it on screen. Quite

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a beauty. I, I think is this knife a nicely

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curved yet neutral handle. You got that

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straight back and that curved grip for the fingers

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bolted on milled G10 scales. Comes with the

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Kydex sheath. Only 1.9 ounces. So

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feather light this one. The MSRP, a

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manufacturer suggested retail price of this is

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$43. So check this one out. I really like

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the look of that. I just have to say, say to editorialize here, I love

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the look of the sharpening notch and the finger grip and then the

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overall profile of the whole knife. I think it's a pretty sweet looking knife

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here. All right, next up, one you're going to see

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live and in person and in color coming up here

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shortly. The day the JW Collab

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scuffle. Now, you've been around long enough to know that JW

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Collab is the Jack Wolf knives collaboration

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branch. So this is the third in that

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series. We've seen the Tango and the

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Collusion and now we have the Scuffle. And this is with

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famed designer Nick Rogers of Niche Designs.

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Look at that beauty. Absolutely beautiful. Inspired

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by old Western Bowie style knives and

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also of course old school jack knives.

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This one though is much bigger, I gotta say, by

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comparison to most other Jack Wolf knives or all others

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actually at 3.54 inches in blade length,

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clip point, full height hollow grind. Except for

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that, that fuller there. So nearly full height. We'll say s

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90v with a fuller and a the

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first Jack Wolf knife with a traditional

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slipper tab on there. And don't make a mistake. That choil is for

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sharpening. That's a sharpening knot and not a finger choil.

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I'm sure someone's going to jam their finger in there and get cut and say,

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but really that's for sharpening. And you get years of life out of this. If

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you look at that plunge grind versus that sharpening notch

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versus the thinness of the hollow grind, you'll be able to sharpen this

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until the cows come home or at least until your

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mortal coil expires. Jack Wolf knives

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first kind of traditional old school flipper,

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but with that big, big size. Also a first with the pivot

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column. This one has ceramic bearings and

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super smooth action. A bolster lock, except for the full

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tie version which is a frame lock

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and comes in five different colorways.

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Sculpted titanium clip. These are dropping October

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3rd, 2025. So if you're watching

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this as it drops in three days, save up your shekels.

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You'll, you'll be able to get this only 3.5 ounces on

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average. They, they vary due to materials, but not by

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much. MSRP of this sucker is

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350. So a beautiful, beautiful knife

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and you'll be seeing it here shortly.

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Okay, next up, the Civivi yonder. We all know that knife. It

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won Best Buy at Blade Show

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2024. This is a

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Halloween version. Now this was designed by Zach Whitmore. You know

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him maybe as the guy who used to be in all of

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the Blade HQ videos when he was with their

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marketing team there. And Zach in the wild since he's

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left there. This Beauty is a

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2.88-inch 14C 28N

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spay style blade. A lot of people call that a reverse

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Tanto, but let's call that a spade blade with a

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continuous belly from Ricasso to tip. Really

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nice looking knife. Thumb stud actuation. Or you can

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use that ambidextrous bar lock should you prefer to

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be fancy. But this one has that Halloween theme.

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So you've got the orange G10 with the black inlays

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looking a lot like a jack. Okay. Reversible

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deep carry, bent pocket clip, 2.68

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ounces. Nice small utility

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oriented knife. Very much in keeping with

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this other Civivis. And all of a sudden I'm forgetting which

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one I'm trying to mention. You know it the one that they made

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50 million versions of. So kind of in that same

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size range and use case. This

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will be out soon because we are nearly at the end

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of September. Well, we're at the beginning of October as you

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listen to this. So this will be out in the next couple of weeks.

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$74 MSRP for the yonder

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Halloween edition. Just looking at this thing, I

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really like it. It'd be cool if they made it larger. I'm glad they

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don't because I would have to buy it if they did. Last

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up, we were just talking about Jack Wolf knives. This one I have to be

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100% honest with you. Really made me think of Jack Wolf

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knives as soon as it popped up. But this is a cool one. This is

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from Kaiser, called the Trestle A. Their

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first slip joint knife, I think. I

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mean traditionally manufactured. Not manufactured, but

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traditionally designed slip joint knife with a kick

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that stops the blade and all of that. But this is an

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Azo my design. He's the head designer at

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Kaiser as. Oh my, look at that. Now that's one of the

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limited editions you're seeing there. But this is a single bladed jack

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with a 2.9-inch quick point blade. All

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right, get ready for this. You can get this in M390

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with a camo carbon fiber. You can get this in

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S45VN with mother of

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pearl. And I believe there's a wood version of that too. You can

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get it with a Damascus with wood. You can get it in 14C

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28N with Micarta Overall, eight different

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colorways for this beauty. And

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yeah, I I've seen a few of these out there, a few videos of

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this so far and I think it's really cool. It's got an almost

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half stop meaning it's the blade does not stop at 90

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degrees. It stops at, I don't know, 110 degrees or something.

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So it gives you even more clearance for your hands if

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you're being a fancy pants and closing it with one finger, which I've done

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many times and cut myself even on camera here, so maybe having

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a not so half half stop is a good idea. But a pretty

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long, nice beefy blade there. They range in

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price from $80 to yes,

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$300 depending on materials

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and like I said, eight varieties. These are available now

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with some limited edition versions with different

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colorways and materials in the office. So check

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business. It's time for some knife history with the first tool

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here on the Knife Junkie podcast. If you've ever slipped an opinel

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knife into your pocket, you've carried more than just a blade.

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You've carried a piece of French culture. The story begins in

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the late 19th century in the Savoie region of the French

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island Alps. A young blacksmith named Joseph Opinel

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wanted to design a knife that was simple, reliable and

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affordable for everyday people. In 1890,

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he forged the first prototype. Its beauty lay in its

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simplicity. A wooden handle, a folding blade,

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and nothing unnecessary. It was a tool made for

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farmers, shepherds and workers, not aristocrats.

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But word spread quickly. By the early 1900s, the

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Opinel had become so popular in rural France that

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it was sometimes called the knife of the peasant.

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But the design struck a chord far beyond the

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countryside. Intellectuals, artists, and even

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royalty began to carry them. Pablo Picasso

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famously used an opinel to carve his sculptures. Even

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King Charles of England, he was a prince back then,

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has been photographed with one tucked in his pocket.

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One of the Opinel's clever features is its rotating safety ring,

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the ViroBlock, patented in 1955.

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With a quick twist, the blade Locks

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open or shuts, turning a humble pocket knife into something

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sturdy enough for serious work. Yet

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despite this innovation, the overall design has barely changed in

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more than 130 years. The silhouette is instantly

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recognizable. A beechwood handle with a graceful curve and a

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sharp clip point blade. Collectors often talk

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about the numbering system. From 2 to 13, each side

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was. Each size was made for different hands and different

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tasks. The number eight, which you see right here, was just

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the right balance of size and utility. It became the

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most iconic, the most embodiment,

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the highest embodiment of the Opinel spirit right here.

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But what makes the Opinel truly special isn't just its

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design. It's the philosophy behind it.

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Joseph Opinel wanted a knife that was universal, something

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anyone could own. It was priced to be affordable, and it

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never lost that reputation. To this day, an Opinel

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costs just a few dollars. Yet it has found its way into

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museums of design and the pockets of explorers,

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hunters, artists and royalty. The knife

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born for shepherds, embraced by artists and carried across the world,

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the Opinel is proof that sometimes the

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simplest tools are the ones that last. Because when

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you carry an Opinel, you don't just hold a knife, you

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hold a tradition. And that's this week's look at knife history with

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the first tool. And now back to the Knife Junkie podcast.

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Okay, we just spoke about this knife and here it is in living

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color. The absolutely beautiful JW Collab

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scuffle. This a design

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collaboration, as the name would imply. JW Collab with

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Mitch Designs. Nick Rogers. I love his

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work. He's done a number of really great knives like the Egress

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and the Ingress. I have one of his prototypes

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from. From early on. He's done a lot of beautiful

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kitchen knives, but this one just takes the cake.

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It's very much inspired by both traditional

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slip joint knives, slip joint single bladed

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jack knives, but also western bowie knives.

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That's right, the good old fashioned fighting, hunting,

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camping all around bowie knife. And we can see that

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here. That three and a half, almost 3.6 inch blade of

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S90V with A, with a nearly full height hollow grind

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that opens so, so nicely. All right, so this one

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is the linen green linen micarta with

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stonewashed titanium bolster version.

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This is a bolster lock. As I mentioned earlier, this

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does come in a full titanium version and that is

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the only frame lock among them. They are mostly

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bolster locks. So if you look at the blade here, you'll

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notice it's got this gorgeous speckled and

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flecked stonewashed blade. It also

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comes in a grinder, satin and also a DLC

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black version. I love that swedge going down the full length of

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the straight clip there and that super

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thin S90V blade. I've had this for a

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couple of days now and have been really digging it. This is

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one that I'm proud and happy to carry in my front right

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pocket. Not that I'm not proud and happy to carry every Jack Wolf

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knife production I have, but this one really fills that

479
00:29:46.450 --> 00:29:50.250
front right pocket niche for me. Niche

480
00:29:50.250 --> 00:29:53.810
designs, but that's because of the size. I love the size

481
00:29:53.810 --> 00:29:57.290
and the rough and tumble sort of attitude

482
00:29:57.530 --> 00:30:01.250
for this. Now this one, as you can see has the bronzed

483
00:30:01.250 --> 00:30:04.010
pivot collar and the bronze

484
00:30:06.010 --> 00:30:09.810
sculpted titanium pocket clip. You can see some of my blue jeans

485
00:30:09.810 --> 00:30:13.100
right there under the clip. That's just because they're.

486
00:30:13.660 --> 00:30:17.420
I'm wearing a pair of old and busted blue jeans.

487
00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:21.420
But the clip is not that stout that it's going to tear your jeans up.

488
00:30:21.820 --> 00:30:25.580
You got a bronzed backspacer here. Two runs

489
00:30:25.580 --> 00:30:29.100
of jimping. Just an awesome, awesome nut.

490
00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:34.500
Really happy about this. As you're watching this, keep your eyes

491
00:30:34.500 --> 00:30:38.290
peeled in the next two days for a an up close

492
00:30:38.290 --> 00:30:41.970
video of this knife. Second up in the

493
00:30:41.970 --> 00:30:45.570
state of the collection. I want to show you this beauty. This is

494
00:30:46.370 --> 00:30:50.130
from LT Wright Knives. Right after I

495
00:30:50.130 --> 00:30:53.730
interviewed lt, I went on his website and bought this.

496
00:30:54.530 --> 00:30:58.050
And then he surprised me by throwing one right in the box

497
00:30:58.290 --> 00:31:01.490
for giveaway. This is the beautiful small

498
00:31:01.730 --> 00:31:05.530
northern hunter. So very much in the spirit of that

499
00:31:05.930 --> 00:31:09.570
Canadian belt knife profile. Just

500
00:31:09.570 --> 00:31:13.130
a gorgeous, gorgeous knife. I had

501
00:31:13.130 --> 00:31:16.930
the large version of this on loan for

502
00:31:16.930 --> 00:31:20.690
a while and really loved that. I think that was Kepler Nessart who loaned

503
00:31:20.690 --> 00:31:23.850
that to me and I really, really dug that knife.

504
00:31:25.370 --> 00:31:29.130
This one, I knew I had to have this profile in my collection

505
00:31:29.910 --> 00:31:33.470
so I got the mini version. Same thing as I mentioned with the other one.

506
00:31:33.470 --> 00:31:37.150
The titanium has sort of, or, I'm sorry, the

507
00:31:37.150 --> 00:31:40.950
micarta has sort of lost some of the oil when I stuck it in the

508
00:31:40.950 --> 00:31:44.070
sheath. But through carry, carry and use,

509
00:31:44.710 --> 00:31:48.230
this will all become one universal color.

510
00:31:48.470 --> 00:31:51.190
Really nice, really sharp and an excellent

511
00:31:51.830 --> 00:31:54.070
spine for throwing sparks.

512
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:59.120
All right, one, one thing to note here is that this is a

513
00:31:59.120 --> 00:32:02.840
Civivi fob. I will be putting my own leather fob on

514
00:32:02.840 --> 00:32:06.360
here soon enough. But this rides

515
00:32:06.360 --> 00:32:10.160
deeply enough in the sheath that it does require

516
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:13.280
a little something to help it tug out.

517
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:17.760
So we're gonna get two great fixed blade knives for trail and camp.

518
00:32:18.080 --> 00:32:21.800
But before we do Let me show you some of this cool merch that Jim

519
00:32:21.800 --> 00:32:25.020
has come up with over this past week. You can get this

520
00:32:25.180 --> 00:32:28.620
rotten around the pumpkin patch kind of a creepy design.

521
00:32:29.180 --> 00:32:32.780
Very, very seasonal and I'm loving it. You can get it on

522
00:32:32.940 --> 00:32:36.460
T shirts, you can get it on all manner of apron,

523
00:32:36.860 --> 00:32:40.060
hoodie, whatever you want. Just go to the knife junkie.com

524
00:32:40.300 --> 00:32:43.700
shop. You'll see it there amongst the many, many other

525
00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:47.500
designs that Jim has come up with for our all of our

526
00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:51.310
cool merchandise and you'll be

527
00:32:51.310 --> 00:32:54.910
a proud knife junkie merch owner. And it's a

528
00:32:54.910 --> 00:32:58.230
conversation starter so just put that on, go to the

529
00:32:58.230 --> 00:33:01.790
barbecue or the pumpkin patch or whatever you're doing to

530
00:33:01.790 --> 00:33:05.350
enjoy the fall and meet like minded people.

531
00:33:06.710 --> 00:33:10.550
Okay. So great fixed blade knives for trail and camp. Let me just,

532
00:33:10.950 --> 00:33:14.790
I'll start out with this knife. This one is awesome. Why is it

533
00:33:14.790 --> 00:33:18.640
good for trail and camp? Well because

534
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:22.440
it's got a super useful saber ground

535
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:26.000
blade, a really great shape and it's small

536
00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.400
and light just like its cousin here or brother,

537
00:33:30.120 --> 00:33:33.800
the LT Wright Frontier Valley. Now I'm showing both of

538
00:33:33.800 --> 00:33:37.520
these at once because I've talked about both of them already but these

539
00:33:37.520 --> 00:33:40.280
are the first two. I'm going to kick off this list of 11

540
00:33:41.080 --> 00:33:44.240
great trail and and camp knives

541
00:33:45.040 --> 00:33:48.720
this north so I have not really carried this one at all.

542
00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:52.440
Now the the Frontier Valley. This is going to a lucky

543
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:56.280
gentleman junkie so I'm keeping this one pristine and just

544
00:33:56.280 --> 00:34:00.120
showing it off on the show and on Thursday night knives. But

545
00:34:00.120 --> 00:34:03.880
this one I've been carrying around obsessively since I got it

546
00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:07.720
less than a week ago. And yeah, I am

547
00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:11.479
going to get around putting a different fob on it but for now I

548
00:34:11.479 --> 00:34:15.239
will leave that on there. These are perfectly sized to go

549
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:18.719
with larger knives but they're also really

550
00:34:18.879 --> 00:34:22.159
nice and light and I am told that

551
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:25.999
backpackers and and avid thru hikers like

552
00:34:26.158 --> 00:34:29.999
really light knives. So these will fit the bill. They're big enough

553
00:34:30.399 --> 00:34:34.079
at 3 1/2 inches in blade length here and 3.25

554
00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:37.910
inches in blade length here to get almost

555
00:34:37.910 --> 00:34:41.710
all the work you need with a knife done, you

556
00:34:41.710 --> 00:34:45.550
know, barring batoning and that kind of thing. But

557
00:34:45.550 --> 00:34:49.230
for food prep and for carving stakes and all that kind of thing,

558
00:34:49.230 --> 00:34:52.310
these are great whittling, what have you,

559
00:34:52.790 --> 00:34:56.550
great knives for that purpose. So these will, these

560
00:34:56.550 --> 00:34:59.830
will do you right because they're nice and light. I love

561
00:34:59.990 --> 00:35:03.720
personally this one right here is just so up my alley.

562
00:35:03.720 --> 00:35:07.480
I love that leaf shaped blade and I also love

563
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:10.960
that they both have 90 degree spines.

564
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:14.800
Lt Wright makes a special effort to, to give

565
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:18.399
them nice sharp spines for throwing sparks, for getting

566
00:35:18.399 --> 00:35:21.680
that fire start. Because you don't want to be a sucker and use your

567
00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:25.520
lighter unless it's a knife junkie zippo. You want

568
00:35:25.520 --> 00:35:28.440
to throw sparks and impress the, impress the camp.

569
00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:32.820
So definitely check out these LT Wright knives. Love this.

570
00:35:33.460 --> 00:35:36.820
And I love the other one too, though the other one is, is not mine,

571
00:35:36.980 --> 00:35:39.620
it's yours it you just don't have it yet.

572
00:35:41.540 --> 00:35:45.300
Okay, next up, the knives by Nuge Primitive

573
00:35:45.300 --> 00:35:48.980
Wicket. This one is great. It rides right

574
00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:52.700
in the pocket ambidextrously. So if you want

575
00:35:52.700 --> 00:35:55.240
to carry it normal

576
00:35:56.520 --> 00:36:00.120
for Saber draw, which is actually how I normally carry it,

577
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:05.040
you have. Either way you drop it in, it's going to work. But that's

578
00:36:05.040 --> 00:36:08.800
something I really like about that sheath, is that it's a drop in sheath,

579
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:12.560
much like a leather pouch sheath, like what we were just looking at with the

580
00:36:12.560 --> 00:36:15.400
LT Wright knives. Ease of

581
00:36:16.200 --> 00:36:19.960
resheathing. You don't have to worry about how it's going in so much.

582
00:36:20.410 --> 00:36:23.410
You just can put it down. You don't want to put this on the ground

583
00:36:23.410 --> 00:36:27.170
or whatever when you're, when you're doing work around the campsite, you want

584
00:36:27.170 --> 00:36:30.890
to just put it somewhere and it's easy to find that opening

585
00:36:31.050 --> 00:36:34.770
and easy to drop it in if you put it in reverse. You can

586
00:36:34.770 --> 00:36:38.330
always go back and change it, but the point is easily drop

587
00:36:38.330 --> 00:36:42.130
into the sheet. All right, now that, now that that's

588
00:36:42.130 --> 00:36:45.690
out of the way, here's the knife. All the

589
00:36:45.770 --> 00:36:49.520
knives by Nudes knives that have the primitive moniker

590
00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:53.440
have a jute wrapped handle which is

591
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:57.080
nice and thin, nice and grippy. And due to the broadness

592
00:36:57.080 --> 00:37:00.680
of the handle, north to south, you still get a great grip

593
00:37:00.680 --> 00:37:03.360
despite the thinness and it's quite comfortable.

594
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:07.840
This also has a very sharp 90 degree spine on that

595
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:11.360
80cr V2 blade. And being

596
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:14.160
a primitive wicket, it has the

597
00:37:15.110 --> 00:37:18.550
scandi ground load, scandi grinds, great for

598
00:37:18.550 --> 00:37:22.070
carving, great for all sorts of outdoor

599
00:37:22.070 --> 00:37:25.590
cutting tasks, but especially those kind of carving tasks

600
00:37:25.670 --> 00:37:29.270
where you're removing large pieces of wood and

601
00:37:29.430 --> 00:37:33.110
just want to get down to the, to the thick of it

602
00:37:33.110 --> 00:37:36.630
or I guess down to the thin of it. This thing

603
00:37:36.630 --> 00:37:40.480
is a beauty and it just seems to go with

604
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:44.200
the whole nature theme here. So nice and light, nice

605
00:37:44.200 --> 00:37:48.040
and thin, easy to carry in the pocket, easy to in and out of the

606
00:37:48.040 --> 00:37:51.880
sheath. No matter how you put it in, it's good to go. That is

607
00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:55.400
the primitive wicket. And just as an aside, here is

608
00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:58.720
the Primitive

609
00:37:58.720 --> 00:38:01.840
Wicket neck knife. This is the small one

610
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:06.040
and somehow the sheath is caught strangely

611
00:38:06.040 --> 00:38:09.810
on something on my desk and I can't show that to you. But this is

612
00:38:09.810 --> 00:38:13.530
the small one and this is the large one and both of

613
00:38:13.530 --> 00:38:17.090
them make great knives. And just so you know, this

614
00:38:17.250 --> 00:38:20.690
jute is very, very comfortable against the naked skin.

615
00:38:21.090 --> 00:38:24.850
I carry this neck knife often just against my

616
00:38:25.330 --> 00:38:29.090
chest without it harshing me or, or bothering

617
00:38:29.090 --> 00:38:32.730
me. You think jute might be itchy? It's not sackcloth,

618
00:38:32.730 --> 00:38:36.040
it's jute. And the way it's done, impregnated with

619
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:40.080
epoxy and then singe. It's nice and smooth but

620
00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:43.720
nice and grippy. So whether you choose the large one or

621
00:38:43.720 --> 00:38:47.080
the, or the neck knife, you're good to go with the knives by needs

622
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:49.640
Wicket or Primitive Wicket xl.

623
00:38:51.240 --> 00:38:54.800
All right, next up, you know that no list is going to be

624
00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:58.400
complete without this, so I'll just get this out of the way. I love this

625
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:02.140
knife. This is the Mora knife companion. I have

626
00:39:02.140 --> 00:39:05.620
a few other Moras. I've got that old number two with the red

627
00:39:05.620 --> 00:39:09.340
wooden handle and I've got the, the car,

628
00:39:09.580 --> 00:39:12.940
the carbon steel one. But none of them

629
00:39:13.260 --> 00:39:16.899
really do it for me like the companion does. Yeah, it's true.

630
00:39:16.899 --> 00:39:20.660
It has a three quarter tang and it does not have

631
00:39:20.660 --> 00:39:23.980
a 90 degree spine which is strange to me. It really should

632
00:39:24.300 --> 00:39:27.860
being a great camp knife but I think that would be easily

633
00:39:27.860 --> 00:39:30.690
enough done with three and a half minutes and some

634
00:39:31.330 --> 00:39:35.010
sandpaper. So I will do that

635
00:39:35.010 --> 00:39:38.770
at some point. But really this is just a great, great

636
00:39:38.850 --> 00:39:41.890
all around knife. Four and a half inches of

637
00:39:42.610 --> 00:39:46.410
of blade here and a nice scandi

638
00:39:46.410 --> 00:39:50.050
grind on it. Nice grippy rubberized handles with the

639
00:39:50.050 --> 00:39:53.770
plastic bolsters here, if you can call them

640
00:39:53.770 --> 00:39:57.500
bolsters, that's the stainless steel.

641
00:39:57.500 --> 00:40:01.020
Most of them are stainless and these things are just

642
00:40:01.020 --> 00:40:04.700
awesome. They speak for themselves. They're great outdoors knives but

643
00:40:04.700 --> 00:40:08.380
also untold by the great and powerful Ed Calderon that

644
00:40:08.380 --> 00:40:12.100
they make for great tactical knives too. If you ever, heaven

645
00:40:12.100 --> 00:40:15.340
forbid, had to fight with a knife, this would be a great one. He says

646
00:40:15.580 --> 00:40:19.180
to do it with Made in Sweden. An awesome sheath.

647
00:40:19.180 --> 00:40:22.960
All of this whole package is like just barely over

648
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:26.720
20 bucks these days with inflation.

649
00:40:26.720 --> 00:40:30.440
But I when these first came on my radar they were below 20 bucks.

650
00:40:30.680 --> 00:40:34.480
Got a nice thumb push off and a sheath that you

651
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:38.240
can just clip on anything. I've had this around on

652
00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:42.040
my gym shorts when I've been around doing chores

653
00:40:42.200 --> 00:40:45.800
around the house and it works great. This is the Mora knife

654
00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:49.970
and end next night, next one

655
00:40:50.050 --> 00:40:52.930
Is going a little more premium, a little more high end.

656
00:40:54.530 --> 00:40:58.370
This is the tops Knives Tex Creek. I just showed

657
00:40:58.370 --> 00:41:02.090
this one off recently. Last week when I was showing

658
00:41:02.090 --> 00:41:05.810
off my tops knives knife. This one has gotten a lot

659
00:41:05.810 --> 00:41:09.370
of outdoor use here. A great pouch

660
00:41:09.370 --> 00:41:12.930
style sheath. This is really what this is the knife and the

661
00:41:12.930 --> 00:41:16.680
sheath that really got me to appreciate this kind of sheet.

662
00:41:16.680 --> 00:41:19.960
I used to think, oh, it's not tactical enough. I need a strap. I need

663
00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:23.440
something to make sure it stays in when I'm doing my ops. Well, I don't

664
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:26.880
do ops so I don't have to worry about jumping out of airplanes. I don't

665
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:30.640
have to worry about running from the enemy and my knife falling out. I'm just

666
00:41:30.720 --> 00:41:34.480
putzing around the backyard. And this works great.

667
00:41:35.120 --> 00:41:38.600
So you just kind of use it, drop it in. Gravity will take it all

668
00:41:38.600 --> 00:41:42.400
the way down, but if not, it comes out nice and easily.

669
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:46.010
And you've got a beautiful full grain leather sheath

670
00:41:46.010 --> 00:41:49.810
here. But that is 1095 blade. Steel

671
00:41:49.890 --> 00:41:52.210
four. And let me measure that right here.

672
00:41:53.890 --> 00:41:57.570
Yeah, about four and an eighth, four and a quarter depending on where you measure

673
00:41:57.570 --> 00:42:01.090
it. Inch 1095 blade with that

674
00:42:01.090 --> 00:42:04.730
acid rain finish. You can see the, the hardening line, the hamon

675
00:42:04.730 --> 00:42:07.250
there kind of running down the center of that bevel.

676
00:42:07.970 --> 00:42:11.730
Beautiful G10 handle scales with the red liners.

677
00:42:12.730 --> 00:42:16.250
Really, really nice in the hand. Feels

678
00:42:16.410 --> 00:42:19.570
so good in hand. When you look at it from the top down, you'll see

679
00:42:19.570 --> 00:42:23.410
it's contoured with a palm swell. Got nice jimping

680
00:42:23.410 --> 00:42:27.250
there that engages the naked thumb. Or if you use

681
00:42:27.250 --> 00:42:31.050
this with gloves, which I have plenty of times. Feels great in

682
00:42:31.050 --> 00:42:34.410
hand that way too. And you get a lot of grip as the leather

683
00:42:34.730 --> 00:42:37.770
from your gloves sinks into those gyms there.

684
00:42:39.420 --> 00:42:43.260
Made in the usa. I like this one with the

685
00:42:43.420 --> 00:42:47.260
lanyard on it. I like to do it like this. Wrap it around

686
00:42:47.260 --> 00:42:50.860
the back of the hand like that and

687
00:42:50.860 --> 00:42:54.460
then use it like this. Or you can kind of choke back a little and

688
00:42:55.500 --> 00:42:58.940
do light chopping with it. If that looked as

689
00:42:59.260 --> 00:43:02.980
lame as it did to you, as it did me. There we go, right hand.

690
00:43:02.980 --> 00:43:06.380
That works much better. I'm a right hander, what can I say?

691
00:43:06.620 --> 00:43:10.340
But if you've got this smallish 4 inch fixed blade knife and

692
00:43:10.340 --> 00:43:14.140
you do need to engage in a little bit of chopping, just use

693
00:43:14.140 --> 00:43:17.980
that lanyard though. The handle to blade

694
00:43:17.980 --> 00:43:21.820
ratio is about one to one. That's the one reason

695
00:43:22.060 --> 00:43:25.660
I didn't daily carry this. I bought this to daily carry

696
00:43:26.140 --> 00:43:29.940
under my shirt with a very nice Kydex sheath. I

697
00:43:29.940 --> 00:43:33.650
Made for it but discovered that the handle's just too long for that.

698
00:43:33.650 --> 00:43:36.690
And I love this knife so much I didn't want to cut it down

699
00:43:37.250 --> 00:43:40.890
just to carry it sometimes under my shirt which upon

700
00:43:40.890 --> 00:43:44.530
reflection seemed ridiculous. This is just a great outdoor

701
00:43:44.530 --> 00:43:47.770
camping and trail sort of knife. Also

702
00:43:47.770 --> 00:43:51.330
1095 blade steel, super tough but also easy to

703
00:43:51.330 --> 00:43:54.210
resharpen. I chipped this one before hitting

704
00:43:54.930 --> 00:43:58.210
chain link fence and other stuff while chopping.

705
00:43:59.500 --> 00:44:03.220
This is the tops. Texpred next one. This

706
00:44:03.220 --> 00:44:06.980
one is new to me. I've had this for a few months now as

707
00:44:06.980 --> 00:44:10.820
we record this. But I've carried it around recently quite

708
00:44:10.820 --> 00:44:14.300
a bit and I'm loving it. This is the three dog knife

709
00:44:14.620 --> 00:44:17.900
Mac M A K which stands for multi

710
00:44:17.900 --> 00:44:21.740
animal knife. This is the in house

711
00:44:21.740 --> 00:44:25.500
brand from Northern Knives up in Alaska.

712
00:44:25.870 --> 00:44:29.630
If you spend any time here on Thursday night knives, you know Northern

713
00:44:29.630 --> 00:44:33.230
knives. And Mike comments quite a bit. He's a. He's a

714
00:44:33.230 --> 00:44:36.950
regular here on the show. He sent me this and then he sent me another

715
00:44:36.950 --> 00:44:40.510
one which we gave away to a gentleman junkie not that long

716
00:44:40.510 --> 00:44:44.350
ago. Beautiful outdoor knife. Another

717
00:44:44.430 --> 00:44:47.910
four and a quarter inch blade here. This one is M390 blade

718
00:44:47.910 --> 00:44:51.390
steel. You've got nice G10 handles, nice and

719
00:44:51.620 --> 00:44:55.300
thick so really hand filling. But you also have that

720
00:44:55.380 --> 00:44:59.140
anzo pattern ground into the

721
00:45:00.020 --> 00:45:03.780
or carved or whatever milled into the handles which give you great

722
00:45:03.780 --> 00:45:07.579
grip. But you also get this nice thumb ramp

723
00:45:07.579 --> 00:45:11.140
on the side for all your chest pulls and

724
00:45:11.140 --> 00:45:14.500
the other different kind of specialized cuts you might do with this

725
00:45:14.900 --> 00:45:18.420
M390 of course we know as the super steel holds an edge for

726
00:45:18.420 --> 00:45:22.000
a long time and is a

727
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.080
great has high corrosion resistance.

728
00:45:26.120 --> 00:45:29.760
This made in Alaska by three dog knife. Multi

729
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:33.080
animal knife is definitely meant for outdoors hunting,

730
00:45:33.160 --> 00:45:35.720
camping and all sorts of

731
00:45:36.600 --> 00:45:40.440
tasks. A great sheath here, all sorts of outdoor tasks.

732
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:44.400
Great shake. A sheath here made by D. Johnson, also an

733
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:47.850
Alaskan maker that just fits the blade beautifully.

734
00:45:48.010 --> 00:45:51.730
It's a nice blend between pouch

735
00:45:51.730 --> 00:45:55.050
sheath which is easy to return back

736
00:45:55.370 --> 00:45:59.170
to place and Kydex which is form fitting. This is

737
00:45:59.170 --> 00:46:03.010
a pretty form fitting leather sheath. So I mean this is not going to

738
00:46:03.010 --> 00:46:06.850
fall out easily at all. I'm shaking it pretty hard and

739
00:46:06.850 --> 00:46:10.490
it's not falling out at all. Whereas that Tex Creek would come

740
00:46:10.490 --> 00:46:14.170
flying out. No judgments. I like them both. But this

741
00:46:14.170 --> 00:46:17.970
is a real nice and secure knife and this is something to think about. If

742
00:46:17.970 --> 00:46:21.690
you have a lanyard on and you're walking through the woods, you don't want it.

743
00:46:21.770 --> 00:46:25.330
You don't want your knife to easily. If you Have a lanyard say for

744
00:46:25.330 --> 00:46:29.050
instance, snag on a branch as you walk by a tree and

745
00:46:29.050 --> 00:46:32.770
pull your knife out without you knowing. With this one that's more

746
00:46:32.770 --> 00:46:36.610
of a possibility because of how loose the blade sheath the

747
00:46:36.610 --> 00:46:39.560
blade is. Nishi. So just something to

748
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.280
note. Next one comes to us from

749
00:46:45.240 --> 00:46:49.080
BTS Knives in Ukraine. This is a family business out of Ukraine.

750
00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:52.920
I have two of their knives. My youngest daughter

751
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:56.480
has one of their knives. The one that's made just for

752
00:46:56.480 --> 00:46:59.960
kids. This one is great. This is called the Fin Light.

753
00:47:00.680 --> 00:47:04.200
It's a, it's a Puukko style small utility

754
00:47:04.200 --> 00:47:07.610
knife. It came with the regular blonde colored

755
00:47:07.610 --> 00:47:11.010
handles. I just sort of stained it. I like this red color

756
00:47:12.770 --> 00:47:16.530
and other than that I've used this one quite a bit. As you can

757
00:47:16.530 --> 00:47:19.490
tell from looking at the 1066 blade.

758
00:47:19.730 --> 00:47:23.570
1066 is a high carbon steel one. That

759
00:47:23.970 --> 00:47:27.490
one that I have chipped, I must be honest, not this one but

760
00:47:27.970 --> 00:47:31.340
I have their, their MP5

761
00:47:33.020 --> 00:47:36.060
knife and I have chipped that doing chopping and hitting,

762
00:47:36.460 --> 00:47:40.260
hitting objects I shouldn't have

763
00:47:40.260 --> 00:47:43.900
hit but I mean same thing has happened to me with that 1095

764
00:47:43.900 --> 00:47:47.260
from tops on the Tex Creek. So no

765
00:47:47.260 --> 00:47:50.700
judgments about the steel. It is 1095 or I mean

766
00:47:50.700 --> 00:47:54.300
610 66. So you might be

767
00:47:55.020 --> 00:47:58.460
tempted to do all sorts of stuff with these blades.

768
00:47:59.240 --> 00:48:02.840
Just know that they are susceptible to damage that all, all

769
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:05.400
types of blade steel are susceptible to.

770
00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:10.120
Very comfortable in hand with that rounded off contoured

771
00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:14.120
handle. I get a full four finger grip on it though. It's a small knife

772
00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:17.640
at three and a quarter inch. I'm guessing three and a quarter.

773
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:21.080
Let's see. Yep, three and a quarter inch blade,

774
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:25.000
Scandi grind. Just a really, really excellent

775
00:48:25.600 --> 00:48:29.200
knife. The thing I like about this is that

776
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:32.960
this beautiful sumptuous leather sheath with the white stitching. I'm a sucker

777
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:35.760
for white stitching. Has these three

778
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:40.160
holes for putting on Ulti clips or DCC

779
00:48:40.240 --> 00:48:43.280
clips or whatever kind of clip you want. But

780
00:48:43.680 --> 00:48:46.800
I've never been inspired to do that. I just like to keep this

781
00:48:47.520 --> 00:48:51.280
in the sheath and then just drop it in the pocket. It it comes

782
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.890
out easily. You can just, you can just grab the, this

783
00:48:54.890 --> 00:48:58.570
little 10, this little 550

784
00:48:58.570 --> 00:49:02.250
fob here, pull it out of the pocket and this

785
00:49:02.250 --> 00:49:04.770
will snag on the side of the pocket and then you got your knife in

786
00:49:04.770 --> 00:49:08.090
here. But a really handy, handy sheath.

787
00:49:08.730 --> 00:49:10.970
Beautiful. Made out of that leather.

788
00:49:12.890 --> 00:49:16.730
These BPs knives out of Ukraine family business as

789
00:49:16.730 --> 00:49:20.290
I mentioned, very, very reasonably priced, I

790
00:49:20.290 --> 00:49:23.410
dare say inexpensive. So check them out,

791
00:49:24.050 --> 00:49:27.730
especially if you're someone who talks about supporting Ukraine, support them this way.

792
00:49:27.890 --> 00:49:31.690
Also, it's, they're really, really good

793
00:49:31.690 --> 00:49:34.610
knives. And I'm a sucker for a family knife business.

794
00:49:35.250 --> 00:49:38.370
We know that. All right, next up. Now this one

795
00:49:39.890 --> 00:49:43.570
is the only cold steel in this list. I've decided to keep this

796
00:49:43.570 --> 00:49:47.330
list to one representative per brand.

797
00:49:47.970 --> 00:49:51.370
And I know you're thinking, oh, it's an SRK or it's the trail

798
00:49:51.370 --> 00:49:55.050
master. It's one of those knives that Bob talks about all the time. Well,

799
00:49:55.050 --> 00:49:58.690
it's not. It is the roach

800
00:49:58.690 --> 00:50:02.290
belly. This one of course has a sheath I made myself.

801
00:50:02.690 --> 00:50:04.850
But the sheath that comes with is pretty darn good,

802
00:50:05.970 --> 00:50:09.810
albeit cheap. And I've also wrapped it with jute

803
00:50:09.810 --> 00:50:13.460
cord. This is just personal modifications, but

804
00:50:14.420 --> 00:50:17.980
the reason I, I put this knife on here is that A,

805
00:50:17.980 --> 00:50:20.660
it's super light, B, it's got that

806
00:50:21.060 --> 00:50:24.780
1060, I'm sorry, 4166

807
00:50:24.780 --> 00:50:28.380
Krupp steel from Germany. So it's a nice tough,

808
00:50:28.380 --> 00:50:32.140
cheap stainless steel that sharpens really easily. It holds

809
00:50:32.140 --> 00:50:35.860
a pretty decent edge, gets wickedly sharp. But the

810
00:50:35.860 --> 00:50:39.120
reason I have this on here is because I knew someone

811
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:43.800
back in my former days of New York City who, he was a

812
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:47.560
cousin of a friend of mine who had spent some two, two and

813
00:50:47.560 --> 00:50:51.320
a half, three years backpacking across the country, living on

814
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:54.880
his wits and his know how in the woods.

815
00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:58.800
And this was his one and only knife. Not this one in particular, but the

816
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:03.160
cold steel roach belly. And he just loved it. And I've

817
00:51:03.160 --> 00:51:06.870
had this, this is written in my, in my car for years now. And

818
00:51:06.870 --> 00:51:10.470
I've used it for odds and ends here and there. But I

819
00:51:10.470 --> 00:51:14.270
love knowing that this, I'll

820
00:51:14.270 --> 00:51:17.870
say it, cheapo cold steel knife, which you can still get for

821
00:51:17.870 --> 00:51:21.509
under 20 bucks, just goes the distance. I

822
00:51:21.510 --> 00:51:24.870
know someone for whom it went the distance for more than three years

823
00:51:25.270 --> 00:51:29.030
of everything, whether it's cutting food or cutting wood or making

824
00:51:29.670 --> 00:51:33.210
stakes for the tent or whatever it was, you know, was doing with these,

825
00:51:33.290 --> 00:51:37.090
with this thing. It's a really robust, cheap

826
00:51:37.090 --> 00:51:40.810
little knife. Also, not for nothing, would

827
00:51:40.810 --> 00:51:44.610
make a pretty decent self defense knife if heaven forbid, you needed a

828
00:51:44.610 --> 00:51:47.530
knife for that purpose. But just a really

829
00:51:48.249 --> 00:51:52.050
outstanding blade. I always wish they'd make a fancier version

830
00:51:52.050 --> 00:51:55.810
of this. 4 and 4.6 blade inches

831
00:51:55.810 --> 00:51:59.460
in blade length and a nice clean curved cutting edge.

832
00:51:59.460 --> 00:52:03.300
Great point, nice jimping. It has

833
00:52:03.300 --> 00:52:06.940
a smooth FRN handle with some sort of wood

834
00:52:06.940 --> 00:52:10.420
grain texturing in it. But I did my own little

835
00:52:10.740 --> 00:52:14.180
carving in there and then wrapped this jute and just

836
00:52:15.140 --> 00:52:18.980
it's not coming out of the hand now. I mean it's so, so perfectly

837
00:52:20.900 --> 00:52:24.660
tractionist. I just made that word up. It has really great

838
00:52:24.660 --> 00:52:28.360
traction, especially now with the little modifications

839
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:32.200
I've done. But this is a great knife also. If you've just

840
00:52:32.200 --> 00:52:34.880
got a hankering for a new knife but you don't have a lot of money

841
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:38.680
to spend, what a great knife to get. I highly,

842
00:52:38.680 --> 00:52:42.000
highly recommend the Roach Belly. I do have its brother, the,

843
00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:46.160
the Finn whatever Finn Wolf I think it is. And, and then

844
00:52:46.160 --> 00:52:49.680
the Canadian belt knife and the other knives in this

845
00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:54.090
cheapo line or high value line. But this one is

846
00:52:54.090 --> 00:52:57.610
by far my favorite. I got it

847
00:52:57.610 --> 00:53:01.250
originally to test out making Kydex sheaths, but it's

848
00:53:01.250 --> 00:53:02.530
become one of my favorites.

849
00:53:05.010 --> 00:53:08.730
Okay, next up. This one is from off grid knives. This is

850
00:53:08.730 --> 00:53:12.130
the tracker and I've used this one quite a bit too.

851
00:53:12.690 --> 00:53:15.650
You know I have a lot of knives in my collection. I don't use them

852
00:53:15.650 --> 00:53:18.610
all but this in this

853
00:53:19.170 --> 00:53:22.380
list. Most of these I've used quite a bit. Absolutely.

854
00:53:22.860 --> 00:53:26.700
And this one, the Tracker, I have it used. This

855
00:53:26.700 --> 00:53:30.380
one now comes in an XXL version. So a much

856
00:53:30.380 --> 00:53:34.220
larger version of this. But I love this knife

857
00:53:34.220 --> 00:53:37.660
first of all very hand filling and comfortable handle here

858
00:53:38.140 --> 00:53:41.180
with the milled and textured sort of

859
00:53:41.740 --> 00:53:43.980
lizard scale. G10 here

860
00:53:46.620 --> 00:53:50.240
bunky pen G10 or Micarta. I just frankly I

861
00:53:50.240 --> 00:53:53.320
can't tell and I don't know. But you got a full

862
00:53:54.200 --> 00:53:57.720
flat grind here on that. Nice drop point blade. Kind of

863
00:53:57.720 --> 00:54:01.160
reminiscent of like an SE or something like that. Really great

864
00:54:01.160 --> 00:54:04.680
jimping. That's D2 Blade Steel Cryo D2

865
00:54:06.120 --> 00:54:09.920
and a very comfortable knife in reverse grip. Not that I really

866
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:13.480
see you using this in reverse grip. You never know when you might have

867
00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:17.070
to power down on something. This one I've used

868
00:54:17.070 --> 00:54:20.870
for saplings, I've used this one on for vines. I've

869
00:54:20.870 --> 00:54:24.470
also used this to make kindling and

870
00:54:24.870 --> 00:54:28.230
what do you call them? Feather sticks. So just a really

871
00:54:28.550 --> 00:54:32.270
great all around knife. Really excellent taco folded

872
00:54:32.270 --> 00:54:35.910
over taco style sheath here with the

873
00:54:35.910 --> 00:54:39.030
belt loop. You can of course remove the belt loop and put it on

874
00:54:39.510 --> 00:54:43.210
your belt in another way or just drop it in your pack. One

875
00:54:43.210 --> 00:54:47.050
thing I like about these drop loops is this velcro

876
00:54:47.050 --> 00:54:50.650
snap situation here. So you don't have to take your belt off.

877
00:54:50.650 --> 00:54:54.050
But it's nice and sturdy and will

878
00:54:54.850 --> 00:54:57.970
under the pressure of your belt will definitely stay

879
00:54:59.010 --> 00:55:02.730
locked down. Very nice fit into the

880
00:55:02.730 --> 00:55:06.570
sheath itself and a great press off point for

881
00:55:06.570 --> 00:55:10.420
the thumb. The so this is the tracker. If

882
00:55:10.420 --> 00:55:13.620
this is too small for you at five and four and a half inches, you

883
00:55:13.620 --> 00:55:17.180
can check out the XL or XXL version of this, which is

884
00:55:17.260 --> 00:55:20.900
a pretty big beefy knife. But to me this one is

885
00:55:20.900 --> 00:55:24.700
just hits that sweet spot. Off

886
00:55:24.700 --> 00:55:28.460
grid knives, tracker and ultimate. Here

887
00:55:28.780 --> 00:55:31.980
is the Apoc Survival Wallace

888
00:55:32.380 --> 00:55:35.930
Fuko. Now I'm showing you this one. This is the

889
00:55:35.930 --> 00:55:39.330
4 1/2 inch version, but the one I've used actually

890
00:55:40.290 --> 00:55:43.930
is the very small version. This one is really

891
00:55:43.930 --> 00:55:47.770
nice, they're both really great, but I guess you

892
00:55:47.770 --> 00:55:51.250
want the larger one for the most all around useful.

893
00:55:51.490 --> 00:55:54.850
But this one is nice and light and you could actually clip this

894
00:55:55.410 --> 00:55:59.010
to your, the straps of your backpack. It has

895
00:55:59.010 --> 00:56:02.470
a very useful ferro rod here and a

896
00:56:02.470 --> 00:56:06.190
sharpener attached to the side so you're out in the

897
00:56:06.190 --> 00:56:09.950
field. It gets dull, you can just run it over that and

898
00:56:09.950 --> 00:56:13.550
give yourself a restored edge. Now the one thing about

899
00:56:13.550 --> 00:56:17.190
these Apoc knives that is slightly

900
00:56:17.190 --> 00:56:20.710
bewildering is that they don't have the 90

901
00:56:20.710 --> 00:56:23.390
degree spine. You can still throw sparks with them though,

902
00:56:24.510 --> 00:56:28.280
oddly enough I have with this one. But when you feel it,

903
00:56:28.360 --> 00:56:32.120
it doesn't quite feel sharp. So maybe that's the best

904
00:56:32.120 --> 00:56:35.840
of both worlds. It's more comfortable on the thumb, yet it can

905
00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:39.480
still throw sparks. You've got a saber

906
00:56:39.480 --> 00:56:43.240
grind on both of these, sort of emulating a

907
00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:46.840
Scandi grind, which we all know is great for woodwork and

908
00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:52.240
all sorts of outdoor tasks. But they do have a micro

909
00:56:52.240 --> 00:56:56.050
bevel at the very tip and I mean at the very

910
00:56:56.050 --> 00:56:59.610
edge. Keeping it maybe a little bit more

911
00:56:59.610 --> 00:57:03.330
robust by making that edge a little more oblique than it would

912
00:57:03.330 --> 00:57:07.050
be with a straight up scandi. Both of them

913
00:57:07.050 --> 00:57:10.770
come with the same setup. Very nice Kydex sheath, the

914
00:57:10.770 --> 00:57:14.330
sort of mini Tek Lok style belt

915
00:57:14.330 --> 00:57:16.610
attachment and then the ferro rod.

916
00:57:17.970 --> 00:57:21.440
So you, you choose your size, but I'm going to go with the Apocalypse

917
00:57:21.590 --> 00:57:25.390
Survival Wallace Puukko. That's Mike Wallace and not

918
00:57:25.390 --> 00:57:28.950
the guy from 60 Minutes. All right, last up, I have a

919
00:57:28.950 --> 00:57:32.310
couple of Bark river knives that would fall nicely into this

920
00:57:32.310 --> 00:57:35.830
category. For instance, this

921
00:57:35.830 --> 00:57:39.270
beauty here, this, this sort of just outdoor

922
00:57:39.270 --> 00:57:42.950
wharncliffe, great little side knife. But I'm

923
00:57:42.950 --> 00:57:46.710
going with this. This is the Boon 2. I love this. This is the

924
00:57:46.710 --> 00:57:48.310
largest one in this category.

925
00:57:50.470 --> 00:57:54.150
The boon to just a super classic

926
00:57:54.390 --> 00:57:58.190
outdoor knife. The kind of knife that the, that a lot of

927
00:57:58.190 --> 00:58:01.510
young GIs were bringing at the beginning of World War II with them

928
00:58:01.510 --> 00:58:04.949
overseas. This is the kind of hunting

929
00:58:04.950 --> 00:58:08.510
outdoors clip point knife from the early 20th century

930
00:58:08.510 --> 00:58:12.270
that eventually led to the K bar in a lot of

931
00:58:12.270 --> 00:58:16.020
ways. And I just love it. I just love this nug. You've

932
00:58:16.020 --> 00:58:19.660
got stack leather handles, so sort of traditional in that

933
00:58:19.660 --> 00:58:23.300
way. Aluminum butt cap and aluminum double guard. This one

934
00:58:23.300 --> 00:58:27.060
has 3V blade with the appleseed edge

935
00:58:27.060 --> 00:58:30.740
or convex edge. Of course. It's a clip

936
00:58:30.740 --> 00:58:34.580
point style blade with the fuller so that fuller lightens things up.

937
00:58:34.660 --> 00:58:38.220
No, it's not for channeling blood out of whatever you

938
00:58:38.220 --> 00:58:41.170
stab. It is not a blood groove. It is a fuller,

939
00:58:42.530 --> 00:58:46.130
but just an overall super robust knife. It's got a

940
00:58:46.690 --> 00:58:50.370
rat tail tang, but I have baton this

941
00:58:50.770 --> 00:58:54.570
through wood. And I gotta say, to be 100% honest, these

942
00:58:54.570 --> 00:58:58.130
little spacers have come loose and I've had to re glue them.

943
00:58:58.610 --> 00:59:02.330
But I think that's an anomaly. I know bark river knives from my own

944
00:59:02.330 --> 00:59:05.010
experience and what I've heard from other people who

945
00:59:06.140 --> 00:59:09.980
handle their knives in a lot rougher way than I, that they are

946
00:59:09.980 --> 00:59:13.180
extremely robust knives, especially with that

947
00:59:13.500 --> 00:59:16.780
convex edge. So that is the boon 2

948
00:59:17.420 --> 00:59:20.940
a knife anyone would be proud and happy to carry on their

949
00:59:20.940 --> 00:59:24.500
belt at the campsite. All right, thanks for

950
00:59:24.500 --> 00:59:28.100
joining me on this little jaunt down the

951
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trail for great fixed blade knives for trail and

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camp. I really appreciate it. Not just the knives, it's also the

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sheets. They really have a lot to do with how great these knives

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are. Let me know what you think the best outdoors knives are.

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I'm open. I'm way open. A because I want to get more

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and you know, I want to increase my collection with more

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outdoors knives. But also you guys probably have more outdoors experience.

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So I want to hear it. Let me know. All right. Don't forget

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about the the Zippo lighter. The Knife Junkie

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Zippo lighter. We'll see how these go. This one of course, has that

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double insert. That is something that I have for myself. This does not

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ship with that, but do check that out if you want

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it. Let me know and we'll let range

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postcast. All right. For Jim working his magic behind the switcher, I'm Bob

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DiMarco saying until next time, don't take dull for an

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answer. Thanks for listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. If you

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