WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.840 Coming up, the TL29 electrician's knife. I have four new 2 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:07.200 blades in the state of the collection and kukri knives, 3 00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:11.440 ancient to Modern. I'm Bob DiMarco, this is the Knife Junkie Podcast. 4 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.680 Welcome to the Knife Junkie podcast, your weekly dose of knife 5 00:00:18.680 --> 00:00:22.400 news and information about knives and knife collecting. Here's your 6 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:24.480 host, Bob the knife junkie DeMarco. 7 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.240 Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week on 8 00:00:31.240 --> 00:00:35.060 the James Williams interview was from Sean Clark. He 9 00:00:35.060 --> 00:00:38.900 said love his intensity and boy, that's an understatement. I have 10 00:00:38.900 --> 00:00:42.540 a Williams blade, Quaken 3.5 inch apocalyptic blade 11 00:00:42.620 --> 00:00:46.420 and fat copper scales. Made by TRC. Made by 12 00:00:46.420 --> 00:00:50.220 TRC. Great EDC. Yes, he is 13 00:00:50.220 --> 00:00:53.940 quite an intense guy and man, you could, you could have 14 00:00:53.940 --> 00:00:57.620 him on a show for three hours. And not get through all he's got to 15 00:00:57.620 --> 00:01:01.160 say. Next comment was from Jason Small who says, 16 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:05.160 I've never heard of James before. And wow, what an impressive 17 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:09.000 guy. I've recently started checking out the systema. Stuff, that's that 18 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.600 Russian martial art and. It'S weird and cool. I 19 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:16.600 like James. Well, I too like James and Jason. 20 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.440 I know Jason a little bit from Thursday Night knives and I've seen his 21 00:01:20.440 --> 00:01:23.560 collection and I'm betting he knows kind. Of of 22 00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:27.920 James Williams but didn't really know the man. So I'm 23 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.560 always glad I can bring these kind of luminaries to light 24 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:35.280 here on the show. James Williams doesn't need me, 25 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:39.640 but maybe you guys need me to bring him out for all of you 26 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:43.360 to see. And to learn from. Very cool guy. A pushing 27 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:47.040 80 and still stout and sturdy and I would 28 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:50.570 never ever want. To mess with that guy. All right, that said, 29 00:01:51.130 --> 00:01:54.810 let's get to a pocket. What's in his pocket? Let's find 30 00:01:54.810 --> 00:01:58.530 out. Here's the knife junkie with his pocket. 31 00:01:58.530 --> 00:02:02.290 Check of knives in my front right pocket. One that's gotten 32 00:02:02.290 --> 00:02:06.090 a lot of carry. Since I've, I got it about two. Months ago, I guess 33 00:02:06.090 --> 00:02:09.410 I'd say at this point. The concept Bison Array 34 00:02:09.410 --> 00:02:13.210 Laconico design. That's a four and a quarter inch blade, 35 00:02:13.450 --> 00:02:17.280 beautiful S35VN Bowie style blade 36 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.320 with a very unique looking handle with the integral 37 00:02:21.320 --> 00:02:24.920 guards on the top and the bottom for your thumb and forefingers. 38 00:02:24.920 --> 00:02:28.480 This is a very elegant and also kind of 39 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:32.160 nasty knife. Nasty meaning you can sort of 40 00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:35.360 surmise some of its, its greatest qualities, 41 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.840 but not a usual sort of Ray Laconico knife. He 42 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:43.040 does oftentimes much more simple 43 00:02:44.500 --> 00:02:48.020 and elegant knives with drop points and 44 00:02:48.420 --> 00:02:51.860 Beautiful stuff. Usually much smaller than this. 45 00:02:52.340 --> 00:02:56.100 But I've always had a fascination with his knives. Don't really have 46 00:02:56.100 --> 00:02:59.780 any, I don't think, besides this one. So when this one dropped, 47 00:02:59.780 --> 00:03:03.540 I had to get it really well made from concept. One of 48 00:03:03.540 --> 00:03:06.900 my favorite Chinese production companies out there 49 00:03:07.380 --> 00:03:10.820 is concept knives made up of some 50 00:03:10.820 --> 00:03:14.620 alum from Kaiser. So they know what they're doing. All right. Next up 51 00:03:14.620 --> 00:03:18.300 in my front right pocket, right next to this one, but in a leather slip, 52 00:03:18.460 --> 00:03:22.180 I had the second knife ever released by Jack Wolf 53 00:03:22.180 --> 00:03:25.540 knives. The laid back Jack. This was back in the 54 00:03:25.540 --> 00:03:29.100 M390 blade steel days. Now they're on 55 00:03:29.100 --> 00:03:32.940 S90 volts. A majority of their knives at this point 56 00:03:32.940 --> 00:03:36.630 are S90V. Really, really 57 00:03:36.710 --> 00:03:40.070 thin, hollow ground, full height, hollow ground blade. 58 00:03:40.950 --> 00:03:42.550 Beautiful. Just sway back. 59 00:03:45.030 --> 00:03:48.750 Not construction. What's the word I'm looking for? Profile with 60 00:03:48.750 --> 00:03:52.230 a bit of a straighter handle than you see on a lot of traditional 61 00:03:52.230 --> 00:03:55.430 swaybacks. Just an awesome knife with great 62 00:03:56.870 --> 00:04:00.510 walk and talk and everything else you want out of a, out of 63 00:04:00.510 --> 00:04:03.950 a slip joint knife. I really love these. I've been revisiting 64 00:04:04.270 --> 00:04:08.030 some of my older Jack Wolves. They just keep dropping better 65 00:04:08.030 --> 00:04:11.550 and better, newer and newer. But it's nice to go back 66 00:04:11.550 --> 00:04:15.350 and see where they started and where they started. You know, they started 67 00:04:15.350 --> 00:04:18.830 on third base. Already, so just an amazing. Right there. 68 00:04:19.630 --> 00:04:22.590 Next up, this one. I don't carry too much, 69 00:04:23.230 --> 00:04:26.910 but I love this one. A much coveted knife. 70 00:04:27.070 --> 00:04:29.840 As a matter of fact, I coveted it. Coveted it 71 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.480 from others until it was very generously offered to 72 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:38.280 me in a trade by my buddy Strings right here. You 73 00:04:38.280 --> 00:04:42.040 can converse with him on Thursday night knives and he's like, I 74 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:45.720 know. You want a desperado. I've had one for years. It's in 75 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:49.360 great condition. I'll trade you. We made a trade and 76 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.000 you know like you, like you think when you make a trade. I made 77 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.840 out like a bandit. I love this knife. Hopefully he's happy with 78 00:04:56.840 --> 00:05:00.490 the knife he got. But I always wanted one of these. You know, I'm a 79 00:05:00.490 --> 00:05:04.290 huge sucker for the vaquero blade style. And this is 80 00:05:04.290 --> 00:05:08.090 the old blade style, so slightly less serpentine 81 00:05:09.130 --> 00:05:12.970 but equally wicked. And then this one with that kraton 82 00:05:13.050 --> 00:05:16.890 egg shaped handle really nestles in the hand very nicely. 83 00:05:17.770 --> 00:05:21.210 Feels great in this forward grip. I'm not so sure about it in 84 00:05:21.210 --> 00:05:25.060 reverse grip. I feel like you need some thumb pressure 85 00:05:25.060 --> 00:05:28.900 down to really shore this up so it doesn't twist in hand. 86 00:05:29.460 --> 00:05:33.140 But I haven't really tried in any sort of ballistic testing. 87 00:05:33.780 --> 00:05:36.940 So who knows, maybe it's great in reverse grip and I just don't know it 88 00:05:36.940 --> 00:05:40.780 yet. And last up, my Esk today was. Yeah, you've been 89 00:05:40.780 --> 00:05:44.140 seeing this a lot so I hope you're not getting tired of it. But the 90 00:05:44.140 --> 00:05:47.220 positively beautiful Hog tooth knives 91 00:05:47.780 --> 00:05:51.570 Fighting Bowie. This one is a. A 92 00:05:51.570 --> 00:05:55.210 commission. I, I commissioned Matt Chase to 93 00:05:55.210 --> 00:05:58.370 make me a sort of Bagwell esque 94 00:05:58.850 --> 00:06:00.370 send up something to 95 00:06:02.610 --> 00:06:06.210 something to pay homage to Bill 96 00:06:06.210 --> 00:06:09.970 Bagwell and his beautiful Devil's horn style 97 00:06:10.690 --> 00:06:13.810 guarded fighting Bowie knives like. The Hell's Bells 98 00:06:14.210 --> 00:06:17.490 etc And this is. The beautiful thing he came up with. 99 00:06:18.090 --> 00:06:21.690 WW1 or 2, what is it? 100 00:06:21.850 --> 00:06:25.610 W1 steel, I guess. Correct me, 101 00:06:25.770 --> 00:06:29.290 I'm sure I'm wrong with the Hamon. So beautiful. And 102 00:06:29.690 --> 00:06:33.410 this Australian gidgee ringed gidgee 103 00:06:33.410 --> 00:06:36.810 wood. On that coffin shaped handle. I love this thing. 104 00:06:37.050 --> 00:06:40.850 I've been really flowing with it and. Doing my carenzo 105 00:06:40.850 --> 00:06:44.490 with it. That's basically shadow boxing with a knife and it just 106 00:06:45.420 --> 00:06:49.100 feels great in hand. And I absolutely love this knife. 107 00:06:49.100 --> 00:06:52.380 So this is what I had on me today. A happy little 108 00:06:52.380 --> 00:06:56.140 grouping. I had the Hog Tooth Fighting Bowie on me. I had the 109 00:06:56.140 --> 00:06:59.420 cold steel Desperado sadly. No longer available 110 00:06:59.900 --> 00:07:03.700 from cold steel. Better be careful sheathing that. I had the first 111 00:07:03.700 --> 00:07:07.340 run of the laid back Jack from Jack Wolf knives 112 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:11.470 and the Bison. Nice big beautiful clip point 113 00:07:11.470 --> 00:07:14.670 blade from. Ray Laconico in concept knives. 114 00:07:16.590 --> 00:07:20.030 Just a quick announcement about the knife junkie Zippos 115 00:07:20.910 --> 00:07:24.630 I have sold. I only had six of them 116 00:07:24.630 --> 00:07:28.430 made. Kept one for myself. I've sold the other five 117 00:07:28.430 --> 00:07:32.070 and I think I'm gonna make another little run of them. Seems like people 118 00:07:32.070 --> 00:07:35.870 like them, they're not like jumping off the shelves. But I've had enough people 119 00:07:36.190 --> 00:07:39.700 want to buy them. I'll, I'll do another five. People are 120 00:07:39.700 --> 00:07:42.860 interested. I'll, I'll get them out to you. 121 00:07:43.340 --> 00:07:46.220 They're 50 bucks. They cost me. 122 00:07:47.340 --> 00:07:50.820 Well less than 50 bucks. Obviously I gotta make it worth the 123 00:07:50.820 --> 00:07:54.580 shipping. These do not come 124 00:07:54.580 --> 00:07:58.420 with that jet insert. That's something I have in there for 125 00:07:58.420 --> 00:08:02.060 my cigars. You can buy those aftermarket. It comes with the traditional 126 00:08:02.060 --> 00:08:05.630 wicked. So if you like the knife junkie 127 00:08:05.630 --> 00:08:09.110 Zippos, just let me know and I. Will, I will be 128 00:08:09.110 --> 00:08:12.710 ordering more and I will get those out to you. Speaking of 129 00:08:12.710 --> 00:08:16.510 giveaways, which we weren't really doing, we were speaking about sellaways. But this is 130 00:08:16.510 --> 00:08:19.670 a giveaway for the gentleman junkie. This month, 131 00:08:20.550 --> 00:08:24.310 the month of October 2025. Lt 132 00:08:24.310 --> 00:08:26.390 Wright sent me this beautiful 133 00:08:27.510 --> 00:08:31.300 Frontier. Valley knife or me 134 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:34.980 to give away. To one of you handmade by LT Wright in his 135 00:08:34.980 --> 00:08:38.660 factory, in his facility. I guess factory would 136 00:08:38.660 --> 00:08:42.060 be, would be. A little bit much. It is a 137 00:08:42.140 --> 00:08:45.419 beautiful place from what I could see from his videos. 138 00:08:45.820 --> 00:08:49.020 And this is where he makes these gorgeous knives. 139 00:08:49.660 --> 00:08:53.380 I have had the Northern Hunter, the. Small Northern Hunter for a few 140 00:08:53.380 --> 00:08:56.540 weeks. Now and I'm absolutely crazy about it. This is his 141 00:08:56.950 --> 00:09:00.550 highest selling knife right now. It's sort of a do everything 142 00:09:00.550 --> 00:09:04.230 sort of EDC fixed blade for camp, for. 143 00:09:04.230 --> 00:09:07.630 Trail, for around the house. This is an 144 00:09:07.630 --> 00:09:11.470 AEBL and it's a full height flat grind with 145 00:09:11.470 --> 00:09:15.230 a 90 degree spine that throws sparks like they're. Going 146 00:09:15.230 --> 00:09:18.870 out of style. I've been keeping this in the sheath so 147 00:09:18.870 --> 00:09:22.630 it has drawn some of the oil. This was 148 00:09:22.630 --> 00:09:26.270 freshly oiled when it showed up to me out of the micarta. But 149 00:09:26.670 --> 00:09:30.390 that'll you, you can oil it. Up when you win it 150 00:09:30.390 --> 00:09:34.230 or it will, you know, quick enough. The more you use it, it will 151 00:09:34.230 --> 00:09:37.990 take on your own oils and that micarta 152 00:09:37.990 --> 00:09:41.430 will become darker. I really, really love 153 00:09:41.430 --> 00:09:44.750 LT Wright knives. I love the sheaves and 154 00:09:45.070 --> 00:09:48.350 he himself. Is a great guy and I'm really. 155 00:09:48.590 --> 00:09:52.110 Honored to be giving this away. And thank you so much LT for 156 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:56.400 sending this to me to send along to one of my lucky gentleman 157 00:09:56.400 --> 00:09:59.920 junkies. 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And now here's the 188 00:11:51.160 --> 00:11:54.720 Knife Junkie with the Knife Life news. Okay, first 189 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.240 up in Knife Life news, from Tashi Baruch 190 00:11:58.640 --> 00:12:02.400 and Civivi comes the. I'm 191 00:12:02.400 --> 00:12:05.600 not sure how you pronounce it, but I'm a big fan of Tashi 192 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.040 Baruch's designs and he's also a super cool and classy 193 00:12:09.040 --> 00:12:12.520 gentleman out of France who's been designing and making 194 00:12:12.520 --> 00:12:15.480 knives. I don't know, I guess 195 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:19.880 15, 20 years at this point. But he's like 196 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.840 a serious designer and architect type and he's got a 197 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.680 serious career outside of knives. This is just kind of 198 00:12:27.680 --> 00:12:31.440 something cool that he does, which is impressive to me. But he's got 199 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.280 a, his first collaboration with Civivi and this 200 00:12:35.280 --> 00:12:38.750 is his modernized. Take on the Higo Nokami. 201 00:12:39.140 --> 00:12:42.860 And you know, the Higo no Kami, that's like the Japanese version of the. 202 00:12:42.860 --> 00:12:46.300 Open M. You know, it's been around. For a little bit over a hundred years. 203 00:12:46.300 --> 00:12:49.980 It's a folding knife, it's a friction folder, and it has 204 00:12:49.980 --> 00:12:53.580 a sort of vaguely upswept 205 00:12:53.580 --> 00:12:57.300 chief's point blade. Well, that's what he's doing here. He's, he's making 206 00:12:57.300 --> 00:13:00.340 a very small version of the Higo no Kami for 207 00:13:00.340 --> 00:13:03.940 Civivi. So this is 2 inches of blade 208 00:13:03.940 --> 00:13:07.410 steel. That's a full flat ground. A blade of nitro V. 209 00:13:07.410 --> 00:13:11.010 Again, a modified sheep's foot. Now 210 00:13:11.090 --> 00:13:14.930 it has a flipper, but it's very subtle. You'll see it when 211 00:13:14.930 --> 00:13:18.770 it's closed. And it's not jimped like the, like. 212 00:13:18.770 --> 00:13:22.490 The pommel there, where you would think. That that's like a 213 00:13:22.490 --> 00:13:26.170 front flipper, but it's not, at least not yet. And we are still 214 00:13:26.170 --> 00:13:29.410 in prototype form. Here, so we'll see. That might change. 215 00:13:30.370 --> 00:13:34.160 Yeah. So as you see the picture there. You can, 216 00:13:34.160 --> 00:13:37.640 you can see it all laid out. So a 217 00:13:37.640 --> 00:13:41.120 liner lock instead of a. Friction folder from a traditional Higo 218 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:44.800 Nokami. This is coming with wood or carbon fiber 219 00:13:44.800 --> 00:13:48.119 scales. So far you know how it is with 220 00:13:48.119 --> 00:13:51.960 Civivi though. I'm sure they are likely to bust out a whole bunch of 221 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:54.640 different cover materials and colorways. 222 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:58.960 1.57 ounces. And though there is no 223 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:02.760 release date, there is a price and the MSRP. For this will 224 00:14:02.760 --> 00:14:06.600 be $70. Next up, another prototype 225 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:10.280 from Civivi. This also has no release date. This one 226 00:14:10.280 --> 00:14:14.040 looks really cool, especially the blade. This is 227 00:14:14.040 --> 00:14:17.840 called the Lunaris. It's an in house design 228 00:14:19.040 --> 00:14:22.760 from Civivi. And they do awesome stuff when they. Keep it 229 00:14:22.760 --> 00:14:26.160 in house. And as I mentioned, this is also in prototype form. 230 00:14:26.900 --> 00:14:29.620 This is a 3.43-inch 231 00:14:30.820 --> 00:14:34.420 modified Wharncliffe. Modified just because it's got all of. The 232 00:14:34.820 --> 00:14:38.220 cool features to it like the. Finger 233 00:14:38.220 --> 00:14:41.780 choil, the flipper, traditional flipper and that curving 234 00:14:43.540 --> 00:14:47.380 fuller. Very, very nice looking knife. So this is 235 00:14:47.380 --> 00:14:50.660 a liner lock with a flipper and that fuller is 236 00:14:51.060 --> 00:14:54.370 intended for middle finger flickage and slow 237 00:14:54.370 --> 00:14:58.210 rollage with the thumb. The prototypes 238 00:14:58.210 --> 00:15:02.050 so far are coming in this purple or also purple 239 00:15:02.050 --> 00:15:05.810 and yellow. Are also a red and black and. I have to say, a little 240 00:15:05.810 --> 00:15:09.570 dizzy. Too many notes for me personally on the handle. But I love that 241 00:15:09.570 --> 00:15:13.330 blade so much. I, I'd like to get a 242 00:15:13.330 --> 00:15:16.530 crack. At this one when it comes out. G10 243 00:15:17.330 --> 00:15:20.710 and deep carry pocket clip though on this a 244 00:15:20.710 --> 00:15:24.550 prototype format. It is not ambidextrous 245 00:15:24.550 --> 00:15:28.350 but who knows how that'll change. Again, no date 246 00:15:28.510 --> 00:15:32.310 release for this, but we do have a price 247 00:15:32.310 --> 00:15:35.630 and that is $90. So 248 00:15:36.189 --> 00:15:39.990 tell me what you think about that. I think it's pretty cool. Let 249 00:15:39.990 --> 00:15:43.230 me, let me pull up something here. 250 00:15:44.110 --> 00:15:47.910 I know this is, this is bad tv, but I wanted 251 00:15:47.910 --> 00:15:51.750 to read you a quote and it just. There 252 00:15:51.750 --> 00:15:55.430 we go. All right, last up in knife life 253 00:15:55.430 --> 00:15:59.150 news, this is kind of interesting news from Rosecraft 254 00:15:59.150 --> 00:16:02.350 and I have to say I'm not a hundred percent surprised 255 00:16:02.910 --> 00:16:06.470 by this. Rosecraft is discontinuing its 256 00:16:06.470 --> 00:16:09.470 modern folder lineup and 257 00:16:10.190 --> 00:16:12.590 I have one modern 258 00:16:14.020 --> 00:16:17.820 Rosecraft knife. I've heard good things about them, high quality and all 259 00:16:17.820 --> 00:16:21.620 that, but I always thought that they were definitely living in the 260 00:16:21.620 --> 00:16:23.860 shadow of their traditional slip joint 261 00:16:24.820 --> 00:16:28.420 offerings. And apparently that's how the company feels. And that's how the public 262 00:16:28.420 --> 00:16:32.140 feels at large. So they are discontinuing the 263 00:16:32.140 --> 00:16:35.980 modern folders and for a while knives like the one you see 264 00:16:35.980 --> 00:16:39.820 on screen will be available and they will be at, you 265 00:16:39.820 --> 00:16:43.220 know, discounts for sure until they are. Done 266 00:16:44.180 --> 00:16:47.860 with, with that. And here's a quote from the company. 267 00:16:48.740 --> 00:16:52.460 While our modern knives have the same quality of materials and 268 00:16:52.460 --> 00:16:56.100 workmanship, our Customers seem to love other categories 269 00:16:56.260 --> 00:16:59.620 way more, especially our traditional slip joint knives. 270 00:17:00.260 --> 00:17:03.820 This is something they wrote on the website. That's why we've 271 00:17:03.820 --> 00:17:07.380 decided to move from the modern knives altogether and focus on our 272 00:17:07.380 --> 00:17:10.770 traditional, modern, traditional and fixed blade 273 00:17:10.850 --> 00:17:14.490 lines. Gotta say, I am, like I said, not 274 00:17:14.490 --> 00:17:17.330 surprised. But also, I'm not mad. I. 275 00:17:19.490 --> 00:17:23.250 The, the, the modern style knives that they make 276 00:17:23.250 --> 00:17:26.850 never really resonated with me. And I guess they haven't resonated with 277 00:17:26.850 --> 00:17:30.370 others. At least not nearly as much as they're really, 278 00:17:30.370 --> 00:17:34.130 really cool and beautifully designed and well 279 00:17:34.130 --> 00:17:37.960 executed traditional slip joint style knives. 280 00:17:39.320 --> 00:17:43.160 All right, still to come, we have the state of the collection. I have 281 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:46.440 four new blades I'm going to show off. We're going to take a look at 282 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:50.040 some kukri knives. But before we get there, let's take 283 00:17:50.040 --> 00:17:53.600 a look at the TL29 electrician's 284 00:17:53.600 --> 00:17:57.360 knife. You're listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. Here's some cool 285 00:17:57.360 --> 00:18:01.159 knife history with the knife junkies. The first tool the TL29 286 00:18:01.275 --> 00:18:04.470 electrician's knife knife okay, picture this. 287 00:18:05.030 --> 00:18:08.510 It's the 1940s. A soldier crouches in a muddy 288 00:18:08.510 --> 00:18:12.350 foxhole in Europe. In his hand isn't a rifle or a 289 00:18:12.350 --> 00:18:16.110 grenade, but a humble folding knife stamped with a 290 00:18:16.110 --> 00:18:19.670 simple code TL29. To most 291 00:18:19.670 --> 00:18:23.190 people, it looks like any other pocket knife, but to 292 00:18:23.190 --> 00:18:26.870 electricians, linemen and soldiers alike, it was a 293 00:18:26.870 --> 00:18:30.630 tool of survival. The TL29 was born 294 00:18:30.630 --> 00:18:34.190 out of necessity. In the early 20th century, as a world 295 00:18:34.430 --> 00:18:38.190 wired itself with telegraphs, telephones and electricity, 296 00:18:38.430 --> 00:18:42.110 the US Military realized it needed. A dependable knife 297 00:18:42.190 --> 00:18:46.030 for its signal core. Something compact, rugged and 298 00:18:46.030 --> 00:18:49.750 specialized. So around World War I, the quartermaster 299 00:18:49.750 --> 00:18:53.310 issued a specification tool lineman's 300 00:18:53.390 --> 00:18:56.400 number 29. And that's where the name comes from. 301 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.960 TL29. At first glance, it's unassuming. 302 00:19:00.040 --> 00:19:03.560 A two bladed folder, one standard spear point blade for 303 00:19:03.560 --> 00:19:07.040 cutting and one flathead screwdriver that could also be 304 00:19:07.040 --> 00:19:10.440 locked in place for prying, scraping, 305 00:19:10.840 --> 00:19:14.520 and other sorts of jobs with insulated wires. 306 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.520 That screwdriver blade even had a notch for stripping. Simple 307 00:19:18.600 --> 00:19:22.040 but effective. Pair that with durable wooden scales, 308 00:19:22.550 --> 00:19:26.350 usually blackened for a no nonsense look and you have a knife that 309 00:19:26.350 --> 00:19:30.150 could take a beating. By World War II, millions of 310 00:19:30.150 --> 00:19:33.910 TL29s were in circulation. Electricians carried 311 00:19:33.910 --> 00:19:37.190 them, yes, but also so did mechanics, 312 00:19:37.430 --> 00:19:40.910 radio operators, and everyday GIs who found 313 00:19:40.910 --> 00:19:44.750 100 uses for that screwdriver blade in the field. And because they 314 00:19:44.750 --> 00:19:48.590 were government issued, they. Were built by dozens of American cutlery 315 00:19:48.590 --> 00:19:52.210 companies. Camillus, Ulster, Kingston, Imperial 316 00:19:52.290 --> 00:19:55.890 Case or cutmaster. This was my grandfather's. 317 00:19:57.090 --> 00:20:00.450 For collectors Today, that means TL29s exist 318 00:20:00.690 --> 00:20:04.410 in a wide range of subtle variations, each stamped with 319 00:20:04.410 --> 00:20:07.730 a maker's mark and. Each telling its own story. 320 00:20:08.610 --> 00:20:11.850 But here's the charm of the TL29. It wasn't 321 00:20:11.850 --> 00:20:15.170 glamorous. It wasn't a bowie or a stiletto. 322 00:20:15.650 --> 00:20:19.490 It was a working man's knife. Soldiers came home and kept them in 323 00:20:19.490 --> 00:20:22.770 their toolbox. Linemen hooked them to the belt with. A 324 00:20:22.930 --> 00:20:25.250 bale rig, this bale ring right here. 325 00:20:26.610 --> 00:20:30.370 Farmers tossed them into their overalls pockets. It became one of those 326 00:20:30.370 --> 00:20:34.130 knives that simply did the job. Even today, the 327 00:20:34.130 --> 00:20:37.970 TL29 design lives on. Some companies make electricians 328 00:20:37.970 --> 00:20:41.700 knives in that same pattern a century later. Because 329 00:20:41.860 --> 00:20:44.660 when something works well, why change it? 330 00:20:46.420 --> 00:20:50.260 The TL29 rather reminds us that knives aren't 331 00:20:50.260 --> 00:20:54.020 always about flash or fame. Sometimes the most important 332 00:20:54.100 --> 00:20:57.900 blade is the quiet one, the tool that keeps the. Lights on, the 333 00:20:57.900 --> 00:21:01.220 radios working and the wires humming. The 334 00:21:01.220 --> 00:21:04.860 TL29 is a knife that powered. A 335 00:21:04.860 --> 00:21:08.510 newly wired wire world. Now 336 00:21:08.510 --> 00:21:12.230 let's get to the state of the collect adventure. Delivered your monthly 337 00:21:12.230 --> 00:21:16.030 subscription for handpicked outdoor survival, EDC and 338 00:21:16.030 --> 00:21:19.550 other cool gear from our expert team of outdoor professionals. 339 00:21:19.710 --> 00:21:22.990 The knife junkie.com battlebox 340 00:21:23.550 --> 00:21:27.150 this first one comes to me from James. 341 00:21:27.950 --> 00:21:31.470 Yes, that's right. Jim was fixing his garage, going through his 342 00:21:31.470 --> 00:21:35.270 garage, getting rid of some old empty boxes and, and, you 343 00:21:35.270 --> 00:21:38.830 know, taking care of business on a Saturday. And look at what he came up. 344 00:21:38.830 --> 00:21:42.670 With, look at what he found. And he knew that I would love this thing. 345 00:21:43.150 --> 00:21:46.830 Now this is a straight razor from Sheffield, England and 346 00:21:46.830 --> 00:21:50.430 it's very hard to read. I have yet to, 347 00:21:50.910 --> 00:21:54.510 I've yet to polish this. I am a little worried that when I do 348 00:21:54.510 --> 00:21:58.360 it will remove some of the, some of 349 00:21:58.360 --> 00:22:01.880 the writing here. So I gotta be very careful. But it is 350 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:05.160 very sharp, especially now. That I've run it over the 351 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:09.560 ceramic. And the strop and it's got this beautiful 352 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:14.560 early acrylic style handle. Just a gorgeous, 353 00:22:14.560 --> 00:22:18.360 gorgeous razor. Incidentally, before I could 354 00:22:18.600 --> 00:22:22.400 shave myself, when I was like 12 or so in the, in the 355 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:25.590 middle of the 80s and GQ was a big, 356 00:22:26.630 --> 00:22:30.390 a big magazine, I thought when I'm older, I'm going to be a classy 357 00:22:30.390 --> 00:22:34.190 gentleman and. The only thing I'm going to do is shave with straight razors. 358 00:22:34.190 --> 00:22:37.350 And I've tried it a few times and 359 00:22:38.310 --> 00:22:41.630 it hasn't gone well for me. So I like to go to the. Barber every 360 00:22:41.630 --> 00:22:45.430 once in a while for a razor shave. But Is that not totally 361 00:22:45.430 --> 00:22:48.310 sweet? And yet again, thank you, Jim, for this. 362 00:22:49.030 --> 00:22:52.320 I told him I should probably keep. It in my boot. Is the kind of 363 00:22:52.320 --> 00:22:55.560 thing you pull out when someone knocks you down and they think they. They got 364 00:22:55.560 --> 00:22:59.240 the drop on you, and suddenly you got this razor. I'm gonna cut 365 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:02.960 you. So. So thank you very much, Jim. I love this thing. 366 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:06.440 And next time you all see it. It will be polished up and I'll. I'll 367 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:10.160 know what the name is. But like I said, I'm worried of. I'm worried. 368 00:23:11.360 --> 00:23:14.160 I'm worried about abrading the name. 369 00:23:15.040 --> 00:23:18.480 All right, next up. This just arrived. Like, I've had this for 370 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:21.740 an hour in my possession and it is 371 00:23:22.220 --> 00:23:26.020 super cool. This is from Pirate Tech. This is called 372 00:23:26.020 --> 00:23:29.700 the Tsunami and it is a beautiful s 373 00:23:29.700 --> 00:23:32.620 90v blade. Reminds me a little bit of the 940 374 00:23:33.580 --> 00:23:37.300 and a titanium body here. Now, I've seen other 375 00:23:37.300 --> 00:23:40.780 people with this knife mention that the scales 376 00:23:40.940 --> 00:23:44.140 are held on by magnets and that they come off. 377 00:23:45.020 --> 00:23:48.380 I have no evidence of that yet. I have not been able to pull these 378 00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:52.060 handles up just by, like going like this. But I 379 00:23:52.060 --> 00:23:55.820 also see no hardware, so I don't know how they're staying on. And 380 00:23:55.820 --> 00:23:59.580 maybe I'm just not giving it. As much juice as I 381 00:23:59.580 --> 00:24:03.140 need to. But I really, really like this 382 00:24:03.140 --> 00:24:06.940 thing. So this was the company. Piratek reached out to me and 383 00:24:06.940 --> 00:24:10.580 asked. If I wanted to see this. And I. I just about 384 00:24:10.660 --> 00:24:13.940 did a spit take when I saw that. Spit my coffee out at the computer. 385 00:24:13.940 --> 00:24:17.610 Because this thing is beautiful and I've seen it 386 00:24:17.610 --> 00:24:21.330 on other people's channels and was very excited. They reached out to me. 387 00:24:21.410 --> 00:24:25.170 I love their logo. It's an octopus and it's engraved in 388 00:24:25.170 --> 00:24:28.850 that titanium. So that's in relief. You can feel 389 00:24:28.850 --> 00:24:32.650 it. I have a special affinity towards octopi 390 00:24:32.650 --> 00:24:36.330 these days. My wife is really into octopuses. 391 00:24:36.330 --> 00:24:39.810 She's been reading books and watching video 392 00:24:39.810 --> 00:24:43.490 series and stuff about octopuses. And she's convinced that they 393 00:24:43.490 --> 00:24:47.340 come from another planet. And I am not. I'm 394 00:24:47.340 --> 00:24:51.140 not gonna fight her on that. A, she's done more research and B, you 395 00:24:51.140 --> 00:24:54.860 ever see an octopus change color or texture as 396 00:24:54.860 --> 00:24:58.460 it. As it walks across the sea floor? It's crazy. 397 00:24:58.700 --> 00:25:02.540 And sometimes just out of fun, for fun, they'll punch fish. 398 00:25:02.700 --> 00:25:06.220 They'll curl up their little tentacles and bang, just punch a fish. 399 00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:10.380 Now, I could see that. I could see wanting to punch a fish. If you're 400 00:25:10.380 --> 00:25:13.820 an octopus all the time getting overshadowed by the. 401 00:25:15.180 --> 00:25:18.700 By the fish swimming through the reef. Why not? Why not? 402 00:25:18.940 --> 00:25:22.620 It's not like they're gonna sue you. So this is the 403 00:25:23.020 --> 00:25:26.860 pyrotech tsunami hidden hardware. And I'm gonna get to the bottom of 404 00:25:26.860 --> 00:25:30.140 this and figure out if this is indeed the model that 405 00:25:30.700 --> 00:25:33.580 has scales. Held on by, by 406 00:25:34.220 --> 00:25:37.380 magnets. Very, very cool and beautiful knife. And to 407 00:25:37.380 --> 00:25:41.110 pyrotechnic I say thank you very much. I can't wait to really dig into 408 00:25:41.110 --> 00:25:44.230 this, carry this around and do my review. 409 00:25:46.390 --> 00:25:49.670 Next up, as you may have remembered, we just had 410 00:25:49.670 --> 00:25:53.510 Amazon prime day and this had been in 411 00:25:53.510 --> 00:25:57.150 my cart for a long time and it was even cheaper than 412 00:25:57.150 --> 00:26:00.470 usual. So I just bit the bullet and bought it. 413 00:26:00.870 --> 00:26:04.590 This is the cold steel kudu. Now you might be saying, 414 00:26:04.590 --> 00:26:08.420 bob, you. Already have a kudu. I've seen it. Well, that's the slip joint 415 00:26:08.420 --> 00:26:12.180 version where the blade stays in just 416 00:26:12.180 --> 00:26:15.620 with this back strap. This is the real traditional 417 00:26:16.260 --> 00:26:19.860 or, or their version of the traditional okapi knife. 418 00:26:19.860 --> 00:26:23.300 No copy. Is that kind of animal, that sort of 419 00:26:24.180 --> 00:26:27.980 savannah deer kind of thing that runs fast. And here's 420 00:26:27.980 --> 00:26:31.580 a stylized version of it on the handle. The okapi knife. We did 421 00:26:31.580 --> 00:26:35.070 a, we did a bit about that here. On the first tool 422 00:26:35.470 --> 00:26:39.270 is a peasants knife from South Africa. So today 423 00:26:39.270 --> 00:26:43.030 we, we, I mentioned the Higo no Kami, which is a sort of 424 00:26:43.030 --> 00:26:45.950 peasant or worker's knife from Japan. The 425 00:26:46.350 --> 00:26:49.790 okapi OK API 426 00:26:50.270 --> 00:26:53.550 is that sort of knife except from South Africa. 427 00:26:54.030 --> 00:26:56.750 Traditionally they have this ring here which 428 00:26:57.310 --> 00:27:00.960 disengages the lock and 429 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:04.600 allows you to shut it. This has a ratchet, 430 00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:09.080 so it's got about six stops open and closed. 431 00:27:10.760 --> 00:27:14.480 And when it's fully opened, it's, it's locked 432 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:17.720 nicely. Now these knives are known for being ultra 433 00:27:18.040 --> 00:27:20.920 super inexpensive and cheap. And that's why they are a 434 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:24.970 favorite of the street 435 00:27:24.970 --> 00:27:28.610 gangs of South Africa. As a matter of fact, there's a semi 436 00:27:28.690 --> 00:27:32.370 codified version or style of knife 437 00:27:32.370 --> 00:27:36.130 fighting called Piper, which specializes in 438 00:27:36.130 --> 00:27:39.410 using this knife. And I'll have you know 439 00:27:39.970 --> 00:27:43.730 that the sound that the ring makes 440 00:27:43.730 --> 00:27:47.570 when it rattles is a big part of Piper. 441 00:27:47.970 --> 00:27:51.720 You'll, you'll see guy, Piper, guys doing this, shaking it around and 442 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:55.280 being very elusive with it. That's about as far as my 443 00:27:55.280 --> 00:27:58.960 Piper knowledge goes. But we did have Brian Kanata 444 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:02.480 of American Khalis on here, Southern Calis, 445 00:28:02.800 --> 00:28:06.400 and. He talked a lot about Piper. So a very cool fighting 446 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:10.120 system. And I love the okapi knife. I don't have a traditional 447 00:28:10.120 --> 00:28:13.520 one, but. Now I have this cold steel version. 448 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:18.730 And last up in the state of the collection is 449 00:28:18.730 --> 00:28:22.530 this, this little beauty. I've wanted 450 00:28:22.530 --> 00:28:26.250 this for quite some time. This is the Raja 3 451 00:28:26.570 --> 00:28:30.370 and this is the knife that inspired my look into Kukris 452 00:28:30.370 --> 00:28:34.090 today. But this was also a Amazon prime 453 00:28:34.570 --> 00:28:37.850 day purchase. It was, it was 454 00:28:38.410 --> 00:28:42.010 kind of cut. Rate and I didn't know they 455 00:28:42.010 --> 00:28:45.850 still made this. Frankly, I thought that this was discontinued a while ago, but 456 00:28:46.630 --> 00:28:49.310 indeed it is not. Still going strong in 457 00:28:49.310 --> 00:28:52.910 AUS10A steel. You've got 458 00:28:52.910 --> 00:28:56.710 great, great triad lock action, 459 00:28:56.790 --> 00:29:00.230 some of the most fidgety triad action out there. 460 00:29:00.550 --> 00:29:03.350 I know people don't think of back locks as 461 00:29:03.910 --> 00:29:07.510 fidgety, but as with all of the 462 00:29:07.590 --> 00:29:11.190 triad locks in the cold steel lineup, if you put your finger up 463 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:15.720 in the front of the finger well and drop the blade, it will 464 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:19.440 not cut you. So you can open and close these one handed 465 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.360 all day long and they're very fun. And 466 00:29:23.760 --> 00:29:27.480 you know, this knife is just wickedly sharp and you can tell 467 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:31.320 from. That Kukri style blade that it is a high 468 00:29:31.320 --> 00:29:35.000 performer. Also very, very comfortable in my 469 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:38.280 medium, sometimes large size hand, 470 00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:41.160 sometimes large when I'm retaining water. 471 00:29:42.840 --> 00:29:46.360 All right, so that said, I want to get to the kukri but first 472 00:29:46.520 --> 00:29:50.080 check out these awesome T shirts 473 00:29:50.080 --> 00:29:53.880 and hats and aprons and things that Jim's. Come up with 474 00:29:54.120 --> 00:29:57.640 this week. I'm into long blades and short 475 00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:01.320 conversations. Yes sir, I do understand that. I mean 476 00:30:01.320 --> 00:30:04.580 I like myself a good chin wag. I like a good long 477 00:30:04.580 --> 00:30:08.300 conversation, especially. When talking about knives. But sometimes 478 00:30:08.300 --> 00:30:12.060 you just, you just don't. Want to be bothered. And this is 479 00:30:12.060 --> 00:30:15.740 for those times. Tell everyone what you stand for. Meet 480 00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:18.860 like minded people. Go to the knife junkie.com 481 00:30:19.340 --> 00:30:22.700 shop and check out the pages and pages and we've got over 482 00:30:22.700 --> 00:30:26.460 25 pages of merch there with lots of cool messages 483 00:30:26.540 --> 00:30:30.390 and lots of beautiful designs. So go check them out. And 484 00:30:30.390 --> 00:30:34.110 who knows, you might be out there in public with your knife junkie gear 485 00:30:34.110 --> 00:30:37.630 on. You're going to see someone else and it's going to be an 486 00:30:37.630 --> 00:30:41.230 instant connection. So hopefully she's 487 00:30:41.230 --> 00:30:44.950 not just kidding. All right, so first up, let's talk about the kukri. 488 00:30:45.350 --> 00:30:48.630 Now we know that the Kukri is the knife of the 489 00:30:48.630 --> 00:30:52.150 Gurkha, the legendary soldier from Nepal. 490 00:30:52.550 --> 00:30:56.210 The special soldiers from Nepal, now they. Become became a part of the 491 00:30:56.210 --> 00:30:59.530 British. Empire's fighting force and 492 00:31:00.010 --> 00:31:03.730 still are. And my brother in law, actually when. 493 00:31:03.730 --> 00:31:07.530 He was in the Marine Corps in. The early 2000s, he was 494 00:31:07.530 --> 00:31:11.129 teamed up with some Kukris and I tried to. Get a hold of his 495 00:31:11.129 --> 00:31:14.890 Gurkha kukri but I could not get it in time. 496 00:31:15.850 --> 00:31:19.490 They, they issued Kukris to all the 497 00:31:19.490 --> 00:31:23.280 Marines. The Kukris to all the Marines. Yeah, so it's a 498 00:31:23.280 --> 00:31:26.480 pretty cool thing. But the first, I'm going to take you through 499 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.160 traditional and also. Modern 500 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.640 and new ones. But these two here are the 501 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:37.360 traditional type. And I got this first one from my mom 502 00:31:37.360 --> 00:31:40.880 and dad when they went to India and 503 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:44.600 nepal in the 80s. I was but a. But 504 00:31:44.600 --> 00:31:48.120 a pup. And they brought this back. And I had only 505 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:51.600 seen this knife in pictures and thought it was kind. Of 506 00:31:51.600 --> 00:31:55.400 ugly and weird. And that's because I was ugly 507 00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:58.880 and weird. I was just a dumb adolescent kid. I had no 508 00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:02.480 idea the beauty and. The power I was staring at. And then 509 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:06.319 they brought this home. They brought one home for my brother too. And 510 00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:10.120 we were just gobsmacked, like, oh. My gosh, these 511 00:32:10.120 --> 00:32:13.960 are amazing. And they didn't have very sharp edges, but we 512 00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:17.730 changed that. We put very, very sharp edges on. This is still pretty damn 513 00:32:17.730 --> 00:32:21.450 sharp, but. This is the one. This is one of my oldest knives. In my 514 00:32:21.450 --> 00:32:25.010 collection period. I've had this one for a 515 00:32:25.010 --> 00:32:28.690 long time. But you can see that it's got the traditional. 516 00:32:31.730 --> 00:32:34.490 I, I'm not even sure what that is. I mean, we look at this today, 517 00:32:34.490 --> 00:32:38.250 we think it's a sharpening notch. I heard someone say not too long. 518 00:32:38.250 --> 00:32:42.050 Ago, I said, a whiskey and cigar hang. Someone mentioned the kukri and how 519 00:32:42.050 --> 00:32:45.880 this. Is for when the blood runs down. The blade, it stops there 520 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:49.640 and drips down and doesn't get your hands wet. Not. I was like, 521 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:53.120 I'm not even going to engage this. I just like that the guy know. Knows 522 00:32:53.120 --> 00:32:56.240 about kukris. I. I think it has 523 00:32:56.320 --> 00:32:59.800 symbolism. I also think it could be used. As a blade catch if you go. 524 00:32:59.800 --> 00:33:03.280 And blade against blade, like a, like a Spanish notch. But 525 00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:07.200 I highly doubt that either of. Those are the reason. I think it's probably 526 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.850 more of a symbolic thing. This 527 00:33:10.850 --> 00:33:13.930 one is marked India and 528 00:33:14.570 --> 00:33:18.130 has that arrow. And the arrow makes me 529 00:33:18.130 --> 00:33:21.610 feel like this was at least 530 00:33:21.770 --> 00:33:24.170 made to look like part of the 531 00:33:25.290 --> 00:33:27.930 British. What do you want to call it? 532 00:33:28.810 --> 00:33:32.650 Supply. Because if you look at certain things. From World 533 00:33:32.650 --> 00:33:36.390 War II and maybe beyond, I'm not sure. But 534 00:33:36.710 --> 00:33:40.270 on British watches that were, that were given to commandos 535 00:33:40.270 --> 00:33:43.990 issued commandos, they. Had the arrow, the upward pointing arrow 536 00:33:43.990 --> 00:33:47.430 that, that indicated that this was a. Property of the crown. 537 00:33:47.510 --> 00:33:51.230 And when you're done using it in service of the crown, you 538 00:33:51.230 --> 00:33:54.630 give it back. So I, I kind of wonder if that's what that is. 539 00:33:55.590 --> 00:33:58.710 I also think that this one happens to be a tourist piece, 540 00:33:59.110 --> 00:34:00.950 so probably not. 541 00:34:03.760 --> 00:34:06.720 All right, I'm going to put these away. These are the traditional style 542 00:34:07.040 --> 00:34:10.720 Nepalese pukris. Oh and by the way, this one. Has 543 00:34:10.720 --> 00:34:14.560 the, the full leather scabbard with. 544 00:34:14.560 --> 00:34:18.080 The two little knives in there. I 545 00:34:18.160 --> 00:34:21.680 a long time ago wrapped them with duct tape. That duct tape is 546 00:34:22.240 --> 00:34:25.880 possibly older than some of the audience, but it has kept 547 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:29.630 those two knives together. So there they are. All right, 548 00:34:29.630 --> 00:34:33.230 I mentioned the Raja 549 00:34:33.790 --> 00:34:37.470 3 pocket Kukri. Here is the Raja 550 00:34:37.470 --> 00:34:41.310 2. This is a beautiful 551 00:34:42.030 --> 00:34:45.670 kukri folding kukri made by cold steel. And 552 00:34:45.670 --> 00:34:48.910 this One is in AUS 8 blade steel with the blasted 553 00:34:48.990 --> 00:34:50.990 blade. So this is an older one. 554 00:34:53.560 --> 00:34:56.520 See my brother gave this to me about 13 years ago when we moved into 555 00:34:56.520 --> 00:35:00.120 the house we live in right now. This one has that beautiful 556 00:35:00.600 --> 00:35:04.320 long clip that really allows you to be versatile 557 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:08.160 with the pockets you put it in. That's one complaint I have about 558 00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:11.880 some of the XL's, XL cold steels. When they have these 559 00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:15.720 small clip high. Mounted it can be difficult to find the 560 00:35:15.720 --> 00:35:19.560 right pants. This will fit into any, any pair. 561 00:35:19.560 --> 00:35:23.230 Of pants though it might pop out 562 00:35:23.230 --> 00:35:27.070 the top. You, you've got what mimics a traditional. 563 00:35:27.070 --> 00:35:30.190 Sort of horse hoof handle here. It really 564 00:35:30.510 --> 00:35:34.030 gives you with this upswell here on the pommel 565 00:35:34.110 --> 00:35:37.710 and that pinky ring, it gives you a not ring but 566 00:35:37.710 --> 00:35:41.150 that pinky notch there, it gives you great 567 00:35:43.630 --> 00:35:46.990 leverage when chopping. This is a great knife to, 568 00:35:47.450 --> 00:35:51.050 to. Cheat your, your hand back on to. Get the most, 569 00:35:52.010 --> 00:35:55.130 the most out of your swing. 570 00:35:55.610 --> 00:35:58.490 You can come all the way up here. If you're using this like a camp 571 00:35:58.490 --> 00:36:02.250 knife and you need to get close. You can come back here which 572 00:36:02.250 --> 00:36:06.010 is. Kind of the standard way to hold it or I like to have it 573 00:36:06.010 --> 00:36:09.810 back here. Now I mentioned camp use and that's the thing about 574 00:36:09.810 --> 00:36:12.650 the Kri. A lot of people think it was 575 00:36:13.460 --> 00:36:17.300 maybe derived from the Copus, the sword that Alexander 576 00:36:17.300 --> 00:36:21.020 the Great brought into India because it had that same 577 00:36:21.020 --> 00:36:24.420 sort of. Or falcata had that same sort of 578 00:36:24.820 --> 00:36:28.420 downward heavy, forward heavy chopping 579 00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:32.660 blade. But these and the kukris are 580 00:36:32.660 --> 00:36:36.500 not intended to just be weapons though they are fierce weapons 581 00:36:36.740 --> 00:36:40.350 and have a storied past as being weapons. There are 582 00:36:40.350 --> 00:36:44.150 also straight up camp knives, chopping 583 00:36:44.150 --> 00:36:47.870 knives for kindling, skinning animals, 584 00:36:47.870 --> 00:36:51.350 all all your knife chores. This is like the Nepalese 585 00:36:51.590 --> 00:36:55.430 bowie knife. If you will. And this 586 00:36:55.430 --> 00:36:58.870 just happens to be an awesome folding representation of it. The 587 00:36:58.870 --> 00:37:02.470 Raja 2 and the Raja 3. Next 588 00:37:02.470 --> 00:37:06.320 up another folder. This one is called the Kami 589 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:10.160 K A M I. This is designed by 590 00:37:10.640 --> 00:37:14.000 the great Dirk Pinkerton and it is 591 00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:17.920 emulating a Kukri 592 00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:22.040 Kami K A M I is the knife 593 00:37:22.040 --> 00:37:25.200 maker. The Nepalese knife makers who make 594 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:28.880 kukris, they're called kamis. And just in 595 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:32.750 speaking with Dirk and and also seeing the 596 00:37:32.750 --> 00:37:36.430 name, I know that kukris were heavy on his mind. When he 597 00:37:36.430 --> 00:37:39.990 was making this. He did. Or when he was designing this, he did 598 00:37:40.230 --> 00:37:44.030 throw in some, some changes to. The blade to make it more of. An 599 00:37:44.030 --> 00:37:47.830 EDC friendly knife. For instance, he put that tip 600 00:37:47.830 --> 00:37:50.870 in the center line instead of pointing downward 601 00:37:52.070 --> 00:37:55.510 so that you would get more EDC usage out of it. More 602 00:37:56.400 --> 00:38:00.160 universally, easily used. This one is 603 00:38:00.160 --> 00:38:03.920 in Titanium with S35VN. It also 604 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:07.760 came in a. This is titanium and micarta. Excuse 605 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:11.560 me, with S35. This one also came in a 606 00:38:11.560 --> 00:38:15.120 full. Titanium with S 90v blade steel, I believe. 607 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:19.560 Really excellent knife. The handle 608 00:38:19.560 --> 00:38:22.970 encapsulates the hand really, really well between the 609 00:38:22.970 --> 00:38:26.570 flipper tab and the. Bird'S beak pommel here. It also 610 00:38:26.570 --> 00:38:30.410 makes it excellent for reverse grip. If you want to 611 00:38:30.410 --> 00:38:34.250 put that thumb right there on the pommel. Really, really 612 00:38:34.250 --> 00:38:37.930 great, great knife. One of my favorites from 613 00:38:37.930 --> 00:38:40.890 the year. 2024 is this 614 00:38:42.090 --> 00:38:45.770 Hami. Oh man, look at that. Beautiful micro milling 615 00:38:46.090 --> 00:38:48.230 all over this. Heavily chamfered. 616 00:38:50.540 --> 00:38:54.300 Gorgeous, gorgeous. All right, this next one is I think, 617 00:38:54.860 --> 00:38:58.500 my absolute favorite folding cupri and it 618 00:38:58.500 --> 00:39:01.900 is the Jason Knight 619 00:39:01.980 --> 00:39:04.860 design Elements 620 00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:09.020 MK Ultra made by Fox. It's got a lot of names to it, but 621 00:39:09.580 --> 00:39:13.420 when this came out, this was the Night Elements MK Ultra. Now I 622 00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:17.260 think you can just buy. This straight from Fox, but don't quote me on 623 00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:20.900 that. It's got that beautiful kukri blade with the 624 00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:24.740 harpoon swedge and the very large fuller, 625 00:39:25.380 --> 00:39:29.220 very much in the Jason Knight design language. 626 00:39:29.460 --> 00:39:32.900 Jason Knight is just a cool guy. I gotta have him back on the show. 627 00:39:33.700 --> 00:39:36.740 Very nice guy, very chill and just. An 628 00:39:36.740 --> 00:39:40.540 incredible forger of beautiful blades. And a 629 00:39:40.540 --> 00:39:44.300 lot of them look a lot like this. So it was no 630 00:39:45.420 --> 00:39:49.100 surprise when he. Came out with this folder. It just really 631 00:39:49.660 --> 00:39:53.420 captures the spirit not only of his knives and his sort 632 00:39:53.420 --> 00:39:57.180 of modernized take on the kukri, but the kukri itself. Look at 633 00:39:57.180 --> 00:40:00.620 the handle. The handle is, is a perfect folding 634 00:40:00.620 --> 00:40:04.340 representation of a kukri handle. Here it is with 635 00:40:04.340 --> 00:40:06.220 the more traditional style handle. 636 00:40:08.120 --> 00:40:11.880 That flare, you get a lot of. That same thing happening there. 637 00:40:13.080 --> 00:40:16.600 And made by Fox Knives, it's got really nice action, 638 00:40:17.080 --> 00:40:20.120 great fit and finish. Beautiful titanium, 639 00:40:22.120 --> 00:40:25.920 cerakoted everything. Good to go. What is the blade steel on 640 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:29.560 this M690Co? As to be expected from Fox 641 00:40:29.560 --> 00:40:33.360 knives. I think that's pretty much all they use. Maybe, maybe an occasional 642 00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:36.780 M390. But yeah, N690CO 643 00:40:36.940 --> 00:40:40.700 is the ticket over there. And this one I've had long enough. 644 00:40:40.860 --> 00:40:44.140 This was a birthday gift from my. Wife, who is 645 00:40:45.020 --> 00:40:48.700 the second biggest Forged in Fire fan that I know and 646 00:40:48.700 --> 00:40:52.540 she loved Jason Knight. And when I said, oh well, Jason Knight's got 647 00:40:52.540 --> 00:40:56.220 a knife I'd love to have for Christmas, she, she, 648 00:40:56.700 --> 00:41:00.340 she obliged. And it's always nice to have that sort of buy 649 00:41:00.340 --> 00:41:04.160 inside, you know, educate your ladies or if you're a 650 00:41:04.160 --> 00:41:07.920 lady, educate your man on knives and, and. Then get them 651 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:11.720 excited and the gifts will keep coming. I 652 00:41:11.720 --> 00:41:15.440 work with a guy, great guy, whose wife is a fan 653 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:18.920 of this show and he is not a knife guy. So 654 00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:22.720 he'll come to me occasionally for gift ideas. 655 00:41:22.720 --> 00:41:25.480 And I love that. All right, so this is the 656 00:41:26.690 --> 00:41:30.530 Knight Elements MK Ultra Folding Kukri 657 00:41:31.490 --> 00:41:35.170 made by Fox 9 and taking on quite a. Nice little bit of 658 00:41:35.650 --> 00:41:39.250 wear on the corners. I love that. Okay, next 659 00:41:39.250 --> 00:41:42.650 up is a modernized version of the Kukri. This time a 660 00:41:42.650 --> 00:41:46.370 fixed modernized version of the Kukri and from 661 00:41:46.610 --> 00:41:50.370 one of my all time favorite knife designers, period, Bill Harsey 662 00:41:50.370 --> 00:41:54.220 Jr. Yep, you know it. This 663 00:41:54.220 --> 00:41:57.420 is the Spartan Blades RC Kukri. 664 00:41:59.340 --> 00:42:01.900 Another great modification in this 665 00:42:03.100 --> 00:42:06.660 style of knife. I mean, I feel like this style of knife has 666 00:42:06.660 --> 00:42:09.820 legs, is the day is long. 667 00:42:10.700 --> 00:42:14.500 You've got a deep recurve here, but you still have 668 00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:18.220 that point on or close to the center line. It's a little bit 669 00:42:18.220 --> 00:42:21.730 below if I'm looking at the screws in the handle. Yeah, it's a little bit 670 00:42:21.730 --> 00:42:24.730 below. But the blade overall and the knife 671 00:42:25.050 --> 00:42:27.690 overall has a straight form factor. 672 00:42:29.210 --> 00:42:32.050 It, yes, it does curve down a little bit and it does have that deep 673 00:42:32.050 --> 00:42:35.809 recurve. But all things considered, it's, it's a pretty straight 674 00:42:35.809 --> 00:42:39.650 knife. So I feel like it walks of the, the tightrope really 675 00:42:39.650 --> 00:42:43.370 well. We could see, we could imagine that 676 00:42:43.370 --> 00:42:46.880 a heavily curved blade is going to. Be more 677 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:50.440 specialized, more specialized for chopping. And slashing, 678 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:54.520 less so for thrusting though. I, I have an argument about that. I 679 00:42:54.520 --> 00:42:58.320 think kukris are quite easy to. Thrust and you can do so 680 00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:02.000 without. Even like canting your wrist at all. But to 681 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.160 those of us who are familiar with a more traditional 682 00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:08.920 straight overall profile knife, this kukri 683 00:43:09.080 --> 00:43:12.040 designed by Bill Harzy and masterfully 684 00:43:12.600 --> 00:43:15.880 produced by Spartan Blades really nails it. 685 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:19.160 You have a very emblematic 686 00:43:20.200 --> 00:43:23.880 signature style. Handle from Bill Harsey. I mean, his Gerber 687 00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:27.240 Rock from back in the day is a cheap big box 688 00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:31.200 store Knife from Gerber, designed by Bill Harzy, 689 00:43:31.200 --> 00:43:34.840 had that same sort of profiled handle. It just 690 00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:38.560 works great jimping here, great finger 691 00:43:38.560 --> 00:43:42.300 protection, and then great palm swells that flare 692 00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:46.140 out not only at the palm but also at the pommel. So it makes 693 00:43:46.140 --> 00:43:49.900 it that much more difficult to loose 694 00:43:49.900 --> 00:43:53.660 this from your hand. When you're swinging, shopping, and coming into contact 695 00:43:53.740 --> 00:43:57.340 with things. This one, to me, I gotta say. Is 696 00:43:57.340 --> 00:44:00.780 more combat than utility blade. That's. 697 00:44:00.780 --> 00:44:04.580 Maybe that's the lens through which I look at knives, but to 698 00:44:04.580 --> 00:44:07.180 me, this one favors the combat part. 699 00:44:08.230 --> 00:44:11.910 First, though, in utility. I have heard from 700 00:44:11.990 --> 00:44:15.750 many people that this is a great knife. As you can tell 701 00:44:15.750 --> 00:44:19.030 by looking at my example, I have not done much. 702 00:44:19.750 --> 00:44:22.230 Except maybe swipe a few vines with it. 703 00:44:23.510 --> 00:44:27.270 The one thing that sticks in my craw about this knife is 704 00:44:27.270 --> 00:44:30.950 in the sheet. And I know that a 705 00:44:30.950 --> 00:44:34.750 lot of. This is not exclusive to this 706 00:44:34.830 --> 00:44:38.470 sheath. See that? It's got a little thing you gotta 707 00:44:38.470 --> 00:44:42.190 push to release the blade. I think they have that on the new 708 00:44:42.670 --> 00:44:45.870 KA Bar Slabby. I know they have this on the. Other. 709 00:44:47.710 --> 00:44:50.990 Bill Harsey design Spartan blades. I do not like that. 710 00:44:51.550 --> 00:44:55.150 I don't think that you should have to rely on 711 00:44:55.630 --> 00:44:59.470 this sort of thumb manipulation to draw the knife. 712 00:45:00.490 --> 00:45:04.290 I can see that on like a. A holster or something that a 713 00:45:04.290 --> 00:45:07.610 cop is carrying, a police officer is carrying. With a pistol or whatever. 714 00:45:08.010 --> 00:45:11.690 Yeah, you might want that little extra bit of. But what if you're carrying 715 00:45:11.690 --> 00:45:14.810 this and you need to draw it in reverse grip or need to. 716 00:45:15.210 --> 00:45:18.810 You know, even if you had this thing lashed to your leg, 717 00:45:19.610 --> 00:45:23.450 if you needed to draw this and you didn't have that thumb available 718 00:45:24.250 --> 00:45:27.620 to push off, you're kind of out of luck 719 00:45:28.420 --> 00:45:32.260 unless you just get rid of it all together. So that's one thing I'm 720 00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:36.020 not crazy about. I do understand that it precludes the need to have 721 00:45:36.020 --> 00:45:38.980 a strap to lash. It down and all that, 722 00:45:40.900 --> 00:45:44.380 whatever that. Implies, and you don't need something going around the 723 00:45:44.380 --> 00:45:47.940 handle. But as a trade off, I don't think 724 00:45:47.940 --> 00:45:51.380 that's fair because I would rather have something with a 725 00:45:51.380 --> 00:45:55.140 strap that I don't have engaged or buckled and be 726 00:45:55.140 --> 00:45:58.220 able to pull it out and drop it back in without it. 727 00:45:59.980 --> 00:46:03.340 Without needing that manipulation. Maybe I've gone too far, but 728 00:46:04.540 --> 00:46:08.180 the rest of the knife really outshines that. One little 729 00:46:08.180 --> 00:46:11.980 tarnished spot on the sheath. What do you think of this 730 00:46:11.980 --> 00:46:15.740 knife? All 731 00:46:15.740 --> 00:46:19.330 right, next up. This one is. This was a gift 732 00:46:19.570 --> 00:46:23.250 from my good friend Dave of OG Blade reviews. 733 00:46:24.050 --> 00:46:27.330 And this thing is huge. This is the biggest KUKRI I have. 734 00:46:27.970 --> 00:46:31.250 And I have, I have some other Bud K 735 00:46:31.890 --> 00:46:35.650 style cookies. I have one that a. Another listener sent me, 736 00:46:36.050 --> 00:46:39.370 and unfortunately I have it stashed in an 737 00:46:39.370 --> 00:46:43.050 emergency spot. But this one is the biggest. Now 738 00:46:43.050 --> 00:46:46.280 this is made by a company called Traditional 739 00:46:46.520 --> 00:46:49.960 Filipino Weapons. Now, before you start typing, 740 00:46:50.200 --> 00:46:53.520 it's not a Filipino nut. It's so funny how many times I've shown this knife 741 00:46:53.520 --> 00:46:56.840 and said, this is a kukri, 742 00:46:57.080 --> 00:47:00.840 a traditional Nepalese knife made by smiths 743 00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:04.440 in the Philippines for a company called Traditional Filipino Weapons. 744 00:47:04.680 --> 00:47:07.720 It's a lot. I, I get it. But this, this is 745 00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:12.210 a. You know how we're American perhaps, and we make 746 00:47:12.210 --> 00:47:15.890 knives that might be an ode to Japan or anywhere 747 00:47:15.890 --> 00:47:19.530 else. It's kind of the same thing here. Traditional Filipino 748 00:47:19.530 --> 00:47:23.290 Weapons making a traditional Nepalese weapon. They do, they 749 00:47:23.290 --> 00:47:27.009 do a lot of other non Filipino weapons as well, 750 00:47:27.009 --> 00:47:30.650 but everything they do is just awesome. Including this 751 00:47:30.650 --> 00:47:34.410 kukri. Incredibly sharp. I mean, they, 752 00:47:34.410 --> 00:47:38.030 they do not half. Step it with the edge. And it's got a 753 00:47:38.030 --> 00:47:41.710 lot of weight. Up front, a lot of mass. And then it's got this beautiful. 754 00:47:42.190 --> 00:47:45.910 I think this is kamagong wood, that super hardwood from 755 00:47:45.910 --> 00:47:49.550 the Philippines. And then you have some traditional file. 756 00:47:49.550 --> 00:47:52.830 Work up the back of the handle there. Some 757 00:47:52.830 --> 00:47:56.550 jimping just because. And then there's 758 00:47:56.550 --> 00:48:00.390 the traditional Filipino weapons logo. It's 759 00:48:00.390 --> 00:48:02.350 a crossed Chris and 760 00:48:03.650 --> 00:48:07.250 Taliban or something or some other knife, 761 00:48:07.730 --> 00:48:11.530 some other big Filipino sword. But 762 00:48:11.530 --> 00:48:14.930 this one here, I'm gonna show this on the big screen so that. You can 763 00:48:15.170 --> 00:48:17.890 see how big this thing is. I mean, this is a large, 764 00:48:18.849 --> 00:48:22.610 large knife. Is it a short sword? Not quite yet, 765 00:48:23.330 --> 00:48:26.610 but it's getting there. And 766 00:48:26.930 --> 00:48:30.750 it's incredibly intense. Intimidated in, menacing. Comes 767 00:48:30.750 --> 00:48:34.310 in a great sheath, too. A leather wrapped wooden sheath. 768 00:48:34.950 --> 00:48:38.230 Most of the traditional Filipino weapons like you see on the wall, 769 00:48:38.550 --> 00:48:42.270 have a wooden sheath. So this is pretty much the 770 00:48:42.270 --> 00:48:46.070 same. It doesn't have the two little accessory blades on it, 771 00:48:46.150 --> 00:48:49.830 but I don't even know what those things are for, frankly. 772 00:48:51.110 --> 00:48:54.810 All right, I'm gonna put this one away before I hurt myself. This is the 773 00:48:54.810 --> 00:48:58.050 traditional Filipino Weapons made kukri. 774 00:48:59.330 --> 00:49:02.930 All right, Last up in this cavalcade of kukris 775 00:49:03.890 --> 00:49:07.650 is cold steel. Yes. You know, it's going to be a cold steel. 776 00:49:07.890 --> 00:49:11.690 This is the most ridiculous and possibly the most intimidating 777 00:49:11.690 --> 00:49:15.330 kukri in my collection. And it is the cold 778 00:49:15.330 --> 00:49:19.090 steel Chaos kukri. And 779 00:49:19.090 --> 00:49:22.360 like all Chaos models, it comes with this cast 780 00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.920 aluminum D guard for protecting your 781 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:29.640 hands and smashing things. It is 782 00:49:29.640 --> 00:49:32.320 really stout and sturdy and. 783 00:49:33.520 --> 00:49:37.320 Like I said, very intimidating. It's got a full tang that comes all the 784 00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:41.120 way through the handle. You've got two mechanical connections here with these 785 00:49:41.120 --> 00:49:44.840 bolts and then a third mechanical. Connection here with 786 00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:48.650 the, with the skull crusher that is 787 00:49:48.650 --> 00:49:52.170 screwed on there. These are 788 00:49:52.170 --> 00:49:55.290 SK5 blade steel. So a 789 00:49:55.930 --> 00:49:59.770 carbon steel. So tough these will take a 790 00:49:59.770 --> 00:50:01.610 lot. Of abuse and. 791 00:50:04.330 --> 00:50:08.090 And you've got that. Incredibly weight forward tip down, 792 00:50:08.730 --> 00:50:12.540 heavy chopping, curved blade. I gotta say 793 00:50:12.540 --> 00:50:16.180 this, this would be. One heck of a melee weapon. 794 00:50:16.740 --> 00:50:19.780 I think it's, I think it's complete with this, 795 00:50:20.580 --> 00:50:24.140 with this D guard. The thing I like about the D guard on the Chaos 796 00:50:24.140 --> 00:50:27.940 series is that it splits the hand. You're, you're not trying to 797 00:50:28.420 --> 00:50:32.140 make your finger go into each individual hole when you 798 00:50:32.140 --> 00:50:35.700 do that. Hand size matters too much. Like for instance 799 00:50:36.020 --> 00:50:39.550 this 1918 trench dagger fits my 800 00:50:39.550 --> 00:50:42.070 hand perfectly. But most corn fed 801 00:50:43.110 --> 00:50:46.070 modern guys who. Are giant, that would be too small. 802 00:50:46.790 --> 00:50:50.230 So I guess I would have fit. In size wise in World War I. 803 00:50:50.790 --> 00:50:54.630 Here we have room much, we have a lot of 804 00:50:54.630 --> 00:50:58.310 room on both sides of this center partition to put your 805 00:50:58.310 --> 00:51:01.950 finger, to put your fingers and they fit. You can 806 00:51:01.950 --> 00:51:05.090 fit a big, big pot and there. 807 00:51:05.650 --> 00:51:09.290 So that's, that's what I love about this. I don't think it looks as cool 808 00:51:09.290 --> 00:51:12.770 as the individual knuckle duster 809 00:51:12.850 --> 00:51:16.570 finger holes. But sometimes it's not about looks. 810 00:51:16.570 --> 00:51:20.130 Sometimes it's about utility. And this screams 811 00:51:20.690 --> 00:51:24.490 utility. Yes, that's my cold steel 812 00:51:24.490 --> 00:51:28.330 chaos gookery. Here's the securex sheath. It works great. I like the way 813 00:51:28.330 --> 00:51:32.170 it has a little arrow. Careful. Do not put your hand 814 00:51:32.170 --> 00:51:35.770 here when you're drawing it out or you will get sliced. All right, 815 00:51:35.770 --> 00:51:39.530 tell me about your kukris. I know you guys are dying too because we 816 00:51:39.530 --> 00:51:43.170 got some kukri lovers in the audience here and I, I, I suspect 817 00:51:43.170 --> 00:51:47.010 I haven't shown enough traditional kukris for the liking 818 00:51:47.010 --> 00:51:50.730 of this crowd, but let me know. Drop it in the 819 00:51:50.730 --> 00:51:54.384 comments below. We're at 42000 subs. When we get to 50, 820 00:51:54.476 --> 00:51:58.250 000, Dirk Pinkerton is going to make a custom knife 821 00:51:58.810 --> 00:52:02.250 for me to give to you. Any one of you. You don't even have to 822 00:52:02.250 --> 00:52:06.050 be a member or a gentleman junkie. You just have to be a 823 00:52:06.050 --> 00:52:09.810 subscriber. 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