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Coming up, the November 2025 Gentleman Junkie Giveaway

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knife. We'll take a close look at one of my favorite backyard

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bruisers. And then my favorite esk. That's

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emotional support knife. I'm Bob demarco. This is the Knife Junkie

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Pod.

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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 the show. It's great to have you here. One of my favorite comments

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from this past week was from

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requisite and pace 73. 92.

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I'm sure I just butchered your name. Sorry about that sir, but it was about

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the kukri and he says nobody knows what the C is for

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anymore and that's that little notch right above the handle of the

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kukri. We talked about that a bit last week. I've asked the

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Gurkhas that I worked with, I've asked kukri salesman in

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Kathmandu and I've asked the Gurkha Training center in

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Pokhara, but no one knows definitively. It's

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possibly a stress relief, possibly religious. Definitely

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not to stop blood dripping because it doesn't work. I tried it with a

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Gurkha captain. The only thing people agree on is the

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purpose has been lost to time. How cool. Thank you so

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much for that comment. I don't have any of that experience and

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obviously you've, you've got a host of it. I think it's really

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cool to to hear your input on it. This is what I got. A lot

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of people commented on that little notch because I stated I didn't know what

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it was for. Also, one More comment

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from JR Bailey 3208 about the notch. He says

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the notch in the kukri is called the cho or

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cauti. It is a blood or SAP stopper from reaching

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the grip and hand. It is also a cultural aspect

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symbolizing a cow's hoof. Cows being sacred in

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Hindu in Hindu religion. Cheers. From the oil patch

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in central Wyoming. Thank you so much, junior.

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I appreciate that too. Especially the cows

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hoof bit. I have heard that before and your comment

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sort of dislodged an old memory. I

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remember hearing about that and to me that seems like,

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to me that seems like the most

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legit explanation for that notch in the shape of

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it. It doesn't really trap blades like a Spanish notch though. I like to

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think that that could be a reason also. Anyway, I love

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mystery. There's a lot. There are few things in the world these

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days that contain true mystery and that seems to be one of them.

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Something that's been lost to time. All right, after all

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that bloating, let us now get to a pocket Check.

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What'S in his pocket? Let's find out.

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

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right pocket. I have been carrying with some regularity over the past

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week this beautiful knife from pyrotech.

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This is called the Tsunami and it is a

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beautiful, beautiful knife. To me. This is the

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940 that I always wanted. It's got a really

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cool blade. It reminds, it's, it's,

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let's just say it's evocative of both the 940 and a straight

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razor. This little notch here on the back of the blade does that for

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me. Incredibly wickedly sharp S 90v blade

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and it's surprisingly sharp given the somewhat

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obtuse nature of the, of the blade. It's not obtuse

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but it's, it's at about a 20 degree angle and man,

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it is so sharp and you know, 20 CV just,

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I mean s 90 volts just keeps cutting and cutting and

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cutting. I, I have a lot of experience with it now

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with Jack wolf knives. This is an interesting knife in that

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the blade handles come off. They're on there with

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extremely strong magnets. I will not embarrass myself trying

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to pull them off here. But

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these scales come off just by pulling them

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hard. And it is a pretty cool

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way of adjusting or taking

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the knife apart or in, in this case you

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may want to replace the Omega springs just in case they break.

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They do send hardware and Omega springs in this

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whole package. This knife is really, really cool. I don't know

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much about pyrotech. One of the comments from

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last week when I showed this off was from a good friend of

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the show who does a lot of diving, has done years

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and years of diving and made friends with an octopus. I was talking about

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how my wife is obsessed with

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octopus octopi. Octopi

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and has, you know, books and documentaries and stuff and

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is convinced they're from another planet. And a lot of

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evidence kind of points in that direction. The weird thing about

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octopuses is that they don't have

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generational teaching. So each new octopus learns

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all this stuff from scratch. But to watch them

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camouflage themselves both with color and texture is pretty

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astounding. Anyway, that's long way around to say I really like

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this pyrotech knife. Pyrotech sent this to me

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and kind of out of the blue. And I'm totally impressed. I think this

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week I'll be shooting a close up video

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of it. All right. Also in my front right pocket

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was the first version of the Jack Wolf knives.

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Midnight Jack. This thing is just so

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awesome. The stout, stoutness of the spring

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on these first production runs is really

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impressive. I mean they're still very that they still have a great walk

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and talk and a very strong pull. But I feel like the

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earlier models were, were even stronger.

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So I had this on me today. I needed a straight edged knife.

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I love this knife. This is back on the

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first run. Like I said, triple fluted bolsters. It is a Barlow. You can

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tell by that one third bolster. And it's got this really nice

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canvas micarta. Love that knife. I use this to cut

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out shipping labels from my

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pirate ship. Pirate. Lots of pirates. In this episode.

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My fixed blade knife carry today. Excuse me, I think I might

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be coming down with something. Was the

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McNasty by Fisher Blades. Now I've seen the

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new McNasty FS standing for full size. The large version

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of this has come out. I've seen some of our favorite trusted

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voices showing this knife off and

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showing the new McNasty off and that definitely

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inspired me to carry the McNasty today. I love

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this thing. I love an EDC dagger. Like everybody else,

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I'm no fool. And the new one, the big one looks really

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cool. I love the shape of the handle. This is

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the perfect shape pommel for capping with

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the thumb. You've got an angle here and an

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angle here for full thumb wrappage. If

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you're using this thing in reverse grip, hopefully you don't have to,

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but there it is. And this sheath, I've learned how to use

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the. The little notch here at the front of that. The handle is what locks

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it in. So it does take a bit of training to get this

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out quickly. You can't just pull it straight out easily. You do

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have to angle it a little or push off with the thumb and that's

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a bit of a safety feature. Last up, my emotional support knife,

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which is the main topic of conversation today. So this will not appear there

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though this has done a lot of duty recently

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is the Espada. I love the XL

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Espada from cold steel. I'm not even going to try and get the whole thing

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in frame here, but it's such a. Just a great knife.

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I ate a true modern Nevaja.

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The Nevaja, the Spanish fighting knife that was

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created and adopted widely In Spain

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in the 17th century when.

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Or 18th and 17th and 18th century, when

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swords were no longer permissible to carry. To settle your beefs

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for the average citizen, they started carrying these giant

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folding knives. And the Colt Cold Steel has done a great

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job in pulling this beautiful historical knife

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into the fold. I love this thing. This is an older one.

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Oh, eight on this one.

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I remember I bought two at the time. One for me and one for my

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brother, and he's like, oh, surprise, I got you one. So we had a. We

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had a funny little. Little exchange there, but that's what I had

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on me today. My ESK was the XL

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folding spot up from Cold Steel. I had the McNasty from

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Fisher Blades right here in the

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waistband. I also had two knives in my front right

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pocket because my phone goes in my left. I wish we didn't have to carry

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around phones, but someday we'll have a chip embedded. And I'll

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say, I wish we didn't have chips embedded in our brains. I also had the

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pyrotech Tsunami. What were you guys carrying, guys and

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gals? Let me know. Drop that in the comments below. I

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just wanted to let people know that there has been some demand for the

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knife junkie Zippo. I ordered some more, but apparently I

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didn't order enough, so I will go back order more. But

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the Zippo. Awesome. We all know the wind. The

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windproof lighter. This one, I've put my own insert

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in here that has the double jets that I have to

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refill. I like the. The butane

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better when I'm smoking cigars, and that's what I use this for.

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But it will ship to you with the. With the. With the

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windproof wick. I cannot fill them up and send them to you, so

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you'll have to buy your own Zippo fluid. But I am

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astounded. I'm gonna put this under the knife cam for a sec. I'm gonna. I'm

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astounded at how detailed they were able to

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print my logo on here with those. All those tiny lines

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behind the heart. They do a beautiful job.

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I love Zippos. As a matter of fact, I just recently

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unearthed a trove of old lighters from high

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school when I was smoking

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cigarettes. But I was only smoking them because I loved lighters. I'd

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light one up and be like, throw it out. But at least I got to

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light it. And I found a couple of old Zippos in there too, so

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they're great keepsakes and heirlooms. Next up, I want to

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mention our Gentleman Junkie giveaway knife

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for November of 2025. That's right. If you're just listening, I

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paused dramatically to show that it is a TKAL

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knives agent 001. This one in fact with

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the black and blue

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striated G10. But these new,

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this new run will be dropping November 1st

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from TKL knives and they are now being

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machined by the great and powerful Nick Chuprin of NCC

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Knives up in New Hampshire. He does such a beautiful

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job and it's no wonder because his

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extremely sought after

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folders are really, really amazing knives. He

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does a, a bit of machining for Tkel and

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other fixed blade knife companies and he does it

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so, so incredibly well. I just want to point out the

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chamfering on that jimping and the,

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and the terracing on the bevels here. Such

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a beautiful upgrade to the original Agent

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001s, which are amazing. I mean my usual carry

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is an agent 001 from the first run.

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Here is another one. You'll be able to get it with this

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Badger Claw Outfitters sheet which I really love.

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I've been dropping this one in the pocket quite a bit. Even without a

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clip it works great. And then this is featuring

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the new battle lock GFN grips.

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Gfn. I don't like that so much. That's what I

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thought. Anyway, that's how I whined about it and then I got one in

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hand and not only does it feel great, but the colors are super

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intense and they have literally thousands of colors

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that they can make this GFN in. It's the same, same

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glass filled reinforced nylon maker for the

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bodies of certain SIG models and

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FN USA models. So really,

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really high, high impact

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gfn. So definitely, definitely check this out. This will be

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the gentleman junkie giveaway knife. This one right here, the

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blue one for November of

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News is from K Bar. This is a new folder

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folded flipper from them called the Mark 25.

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Now this is a followup from their first

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folding flipper from 2018 people

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and that was the Mark 98. Anyway, this one I think is

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really pretty. I like this pretty in a tactical way of

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course. You've got a 3.75 inch

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DT drop point blade with a fuller

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really, really good looking blade. I'm just kind of checking it out on

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screen right now. But that fuller is sort of evocative of the

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classic K bar USMC combat knife. And then it has

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a really nicely shaped handle. I've never held one of these, but I could

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just tell by looking at it it's very, very comfortable.

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GFN scales there. So glass filled reinforced, not

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glass filled nylon scales. This is

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a liner lock, a very stout deep carry

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wire clip on this one. I am looking forward to checking this

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out. I, I, I, I intend on picking this one up

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because I love the way it looks. Let's just face it, I don't need any

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more super robust folding flippers. But I love

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the way this one looks and you can tell that you can just kind of

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nestle your flipping thumb or middle finger in that

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fuller and flip that thing out. This is available now,

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86 bucks is the MSRP so

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you can probably find it cheaper elsewhere.

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Next up is from Benchmade. Now this one is a successor.

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This is called the successor and it's a successor to

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the proper, their first slip joint knife. This

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one is very much more premium,

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let's say 2.56 inches

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of M390 steel on this drop point blade. A

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very sleek and beautiful design. I have to say they

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learned a bit since the proper. I think this one

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looks more proper. You've got a nail

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neck in that blade, a sleek arcing handle. It's all

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aluminum so you have gold or blue

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anodized aluminum scales there with an

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aluminum bolster. Now this one comes

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with a leather slip With a clip. Interesting thing about

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this is that you can take the clip off of your leather

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slip and attach it to the knife

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itself. So the knife does not technically ship with a

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clip, but you can take the clip off the slip and put it

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on the knife itself. So this thing looks cool. I really

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like that sleek and slender blade and I think probably because

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it looks somewhat tactical, but it's not tactical at all. It

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is a slip joint. It's kind of a gentlemanly

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looking knife. This one is available now at

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2.28 ounces for

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MSRP.250. All right,

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last up in Knife Life News is from Copus

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Designs. This is the knife that got me very

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interested in the Pikal style of knife in general, which I

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have a sprawling collection of at this point. Should probably do an

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update show one of these days. But this is from Copus

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Designs and Ed's manifesto. That's Ed Calderon,

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Ed Calderon's company. This collaboration

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has expanded the the knife. If you're watching right now, the knife

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at the very south of the screen is the original knife

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except for the new handle color, but that's the original blade.

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They now have a bunch of updates. Here you've got

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the one with the thumb swale and then the thumb swale with

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serrations, which is already sold out by the buy. I checked it

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out. These are GFN handled knives.

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154cm blade steel at 2.5 inches

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in blade length, 1.2 ounces

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and 1.95 ounces with the sheath.

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The sheath does have a little hook on it, so you can draw

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it from your pocket without a clip and have the the

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sheath remain in your pocket and then you can go to town. These

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are defensive blades that were inspired by the

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fruit knife, the small curved fruit knife that Ed

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Calderon's mother carried in Mexico back in

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the day when he was a kid and he actually witnessed her

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defend the family from a mugging with the fruit knife she was

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always carrying around. She was carrying it around? Yeah, for

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defensive that defense in that case. But she was really

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carrying it around because it was her work knife. And he learned how

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well that style of curved small knife works,

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how easy it is to conceal on your person.

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And so he has made a career, among

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many other things from that knife design. And

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he's got that knife design across a bunch of different companies and he's

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a super cool guy. I'm sure you know who Ed Calderon is, but

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seek him out either on the Knife Junkie podcast. We had a great conversation

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with him years back. But he, he has his own podcast

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and he, he's been on everyone's podcast. So he's very

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out there kind of guy. These are available now.

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125 to 142 bucks.

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All right, we are going to get to the rest of the show.

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Coming up, we have I'm going to talk about a backyard bruiser

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knife because I didn't get anything new this week. I'm going to talk about

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some, some an excellent knife I've used recently

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to great effect. But also we're going to talk about some of

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my favorite emotional support knives. These are

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emotional support knives, Esk. I've carried a lot

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recently. But before we do, let

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us get to the first tool. You're listening to the Knife

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Junkie podcast. Here's some cool knife history with the knife junkies'

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"The First Tool". All right, first up. Not first

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up in the first tool. We're going to talk about the buck 110

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hunting. Boulder people, listen.

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It's 1963 and America

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is changing fast. The space race is on. Muscle

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cars roar down the highways and hunters across

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the country still rely on fixed blades.

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Sturdy, sure, but a pain to carry day to day.

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Out of that moment came a revolution in daily use

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knives, the Buck 110 hunting folder

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or folding hunter. Before the Buck 110,

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folding knives were convenient but not exactly

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trustworthy. They could be closed under stress

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or hard use. And most weren't strong enough

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for real field work. But Al Buck had an

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idea. Take the reliability of a fixed blade and

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make it fold without compromise. It took much design

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and engineering, but when the Buck 110 launched in

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1964, it changed everything.

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The knife was solid brass, steel and wood. No

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plastic, no gimmicks. It had a clip point blade

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of high carbon stainless steel, but most

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importantly, a rock solid lockback mechanism.

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And when that blade opened, it locked with authority.

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A sound that's as satisfying today as it

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was 60 years ago. Hunters trusted it,

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ranchers carried it, soldiers tucked it into their packs.

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And soon the buck 110 wasn't just a knife, it

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was the knife. The Buck knife.

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In fact, it became so popular that it sparked an entire

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wave of copycats. Every company wanted to sell their

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version of the Folding Hunter, but the Buck name

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engraved right there on the blade tang stood apart.

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It was tough, dependable and proudly made in the

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usa. You could spot one by its brass

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bolsters or by the worn leather sheath on a well used

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belt. Many of those knives have outlived their owners.

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Still sharp, still functional, passed down as family

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heirlooms. There's even a bit of irony here.

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The buck 110 was meant to modernize knife carry, but

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it became a classic almost instantly.

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Today, whether you're buying A brand new 110 from Post

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Falls, Idaho, this is somewhat brand new. Or

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carrying your grandfathers from the 70s, the buck 110 is

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more than brass, steel and wood. It's a piece of American

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knife history. The knife that proved a folder can be as

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tough as any fit. And that's why the

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buck 110 folding hunter doesn't just cut.

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It defines an era. Now let's get to

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the state of the collection. Knife themed shirts, hoodies,

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mugs, water bottles and more. Thenifejunkie.com

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shop. You know you're a knife junkie if you love your knives more

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than your spouse. Right here, people. Right here. Speaking

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of classic knives, I had this all

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weekend long with me. I did a bit of

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outdoor fall cleanup. I've been sort of

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neglecting the backyard because the front yard was on

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display. We've got a bit of our, our, what do you call

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it, the Halloween decorations and that kind of stuff out. And

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sometimes when time is tight, I mow the front yard

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but not the back just because people can't see the back because of our

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fence. But this weekend we did.

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I did a whole bunch of backyard cleanup and this is what I used.

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I used the SP10 Raider

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Bowie by Ontario Knife and Tool. And I just wanted to show it off

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because every time I use this knife, I'm

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incredibly impressed by it. The coating, as you can see,

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has worn off because I use this as a

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wood batoner. Not only was I cleaning up the

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back, but I was also burning a bunch of stuff and I

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always baton these nasty

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logs I've had stocked up. They they're really hard and,

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and kind of old and seasoned wood and they are

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a pain in the butt to baton through. But I use this

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1095 blade to span those,

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span those logs and knock them in half and

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well, that's what it does to the blade. And this is one of

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the few coated blades I have that is this well used.

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And so I kind of proudly show it off. I really,

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really love this knife. I kind of wish Ontario Knife and Tool

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didn't go out of business and then sell the Blue Ridge knives and then

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move their most of their production overseas. It is hard to find these

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right now. Hopefully they come back in full force at some

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point. I wanted to show off this Handle. This

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solid and thick rubberized handle is really,

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really great for absorbing the shock of

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batoning this knife through hard wood. However, it

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is so grippy that it's sometimes uncomfortable to the naked hand.

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So I have wrapped it in that baseball tape just to keep it

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from crushing my hands. My.

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My relatively soft and suburban hands,

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I must admit. But that tape does a great job

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on this knife. And if you look at the knife right now, it has a

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beautiful Marine Raider Bowie profile.

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And I. I'm absolutely smitten with this knife. Every time

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I pull it out to use it, I love it more and more. I

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do plan on seeking out other SP knives

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from the spec. Plus, that's what SP stands for. Light

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up. I think at this point, ebay is probably my

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best choice. When the news in 2023 came out that they were

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selling the Blue Ridge knives, it's just

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breaks the heart. All of the other SP knives

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sold out super fast, and so they're harder and harder

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to find. But I do intend to hit up ebay to

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see what I can find on the used secondary market. So

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does anyone here have a. AN ONTARIO KNIVES

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SP10 Raider Bowie? I'd be interested

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and I'd also like to find out, you know, what you think of

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it. Do you love it as much as I do? Probably

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so. And by the way, this is one of those good knives to kind of

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do this with. You just kind of hold

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it up and twist it a little bit in the light. It's got such a

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cool bow. All

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right, we're going to get to my most carried esk.

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Esk, if you're new to the show, stands for emotional support

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knife. But first, I want to show off some cool

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merch that Jim just came up with. My other hobby, the

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strop. So not only do I collect, I strop

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and I do, almost to the point of

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diminishing returns. So be careful how much you strop.

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You might create such a polished edge that you can't even cut

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with it. It's so damn sharp. I know, I know. It's a.

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It's a. An enigma wrapped in a mystery. But

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anyway, you can get this really cool logo and

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maximum emblazoned on a

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tote bag, a backpack. You can get it on a hat, you can get it

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on a mouse pad, a hot drink

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holder called a cup or a. A

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T shirt or a apron, whatever it is, that's your

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pleasure. Now that it's getting cool again outside, I'm outside using the

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Blackstone griddle a lot. Any excuse to Use the griddle

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and cook outside. So if you're like me or you like your

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grill. Kind of suck at grilling, but I do love

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having a. A an apron on.

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So go to the knife junkie.com/shop and check out all

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the different stuff we have on our 25 pages

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of merch. Now go check that out. You'll be

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happy you did. If you want their traditional knife junkie logo,

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you got to go way back to the beginning when we first

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started putting out merchandise. All right, let's get to

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emotional support knives. What's an emotional support knife, Bob? Well, it could

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be anything. Actually, it started as fidgety knives like

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this, where you can just open them and close them and open them

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00:29:45.750 --> 00:29:49.190
and close them. I'm gonna fiddle with this for a second. Sorry, guys.

482
00:29:49.750 --> 00:29:53.310
I feel like this is falling down, and I want to make sure you

483
00:29:53.310 --> 00:29:57.050
hear these dulcet towns. Okay, Open, close. Open,

484
00:29:57.050 --> 00:30:00.650
close. That was my first sort of version of emotional

485
00:30:00.650 --> 00:30:04.410
support knife, and a lot of that came from writing

486
00:30:04.410 --> 00:30:07.490
at work and needing something to fidget with and.

487
00:30:07.970 --> 00:30:11.770
But it's changed my emotional support knife now, as

488
00:30:11.770 --> 00:30:15.090
you'll see from this list, is more what can I

489
00:30:15.490 --> 00:30:19.210
defend home and hearth with? Or more importantly, what can

490
00:30:19.210 --> 00:30:22.970
I defend myself with on the go? So these emotional support knives,

491
00:30:22.970 --> 00:30:26.640
all but one I pretty much don't carry on my person, but

492
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.200
I usually have in my personal EDC backpack.

493
00:30:31.320 --> 00:30:34.960
First up is no stranger to the show recently. It's

494
00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:38.520
my beloved and newest favorite

495
00:30:38.520 --> 00:30:41.800
Bowie knife. This is my Hog Tooth Knives

496
00:30:42.120 --> 00:30:45.720
fighting Bowie. This one is an homage to the

497
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:49.480
Bagwell Hells Bells style of Bowie. Already starting to

498
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:53.260
get a little munged up here on the handle, but that's okay. That's why

499
00:30:53.260 --> 00:30:56.860
I had Matt Chase of Hog Tooth Knives

500
00:30:57.100 --> 00:31:00.860
make this in monosteel and not his preferred

501
00:31:00.860 --> 00:31:04.180
Damascus, because I did not want this to be

502
00:31:04.180 --> 00:31:07.820
precious to me. Yes, it is precious. I paid a

503
00:31:07.820 --> 00:31:11.500
pretty penny for it, and it took a while to get, and it is a

504
00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:15.020
fine, fine knife, but I wanted this knife to be

505
00:31:15.260 --> 00:31:19.100
more of a go to fighting knife if need be. Of course,

506
00:31:19.100 --> 00:31:22.780
I don't have a go to because I don't get a knife fights. But

507
00:31:22.860 --> 00:31:26.660
in this imaginary world in my head, I thought, I want a

508
00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:29.900
Bowie. That that is a dedicated fighting knife,

509
00:31:30.620 --> 00:31:34.420
but that isn't so precious, like with all

510
00:31:34.420 --> 00:31:38.140
the fancy, fancy materials that I would be afraid to use it.

511
00:31:38.140 --> 00:31:41.700
So this is W2 blade steel, the beautiful

512
00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:45.460
hormone across not only the primary edge, but also the back

513
00:31:45.460 --> 00:31:48.820
edge. I told him I wanted this with a sharpened

514
00:31:48.820 --> 00:31:52.300
Swedge to which he obliged in

515
00:31:52.300 --> 00:31:55.980
spades. It's, it's nice and sharp for that obtuse angle.

516
00:31:56.540 --> 00:32:00.220
And then I wanted a coffin shaped handle and he gave me this

517
00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:03.580
beautiful handle with a ringed gidgee wood from Australia.

518
00:32:04.540 --> 00:32:08.060
And then the guard, I wanted that sort of

519
00:32:08.060 --> 00:32:11.740
devil's horn style guard with the accompanying

520
00:32:11.900 --> 00:32:15.600
Spanish knot. And when you have that Spanish notch and

521
00:32:15.600 --> 00:32:18.960
a guard like this, you want the guard to be a little bit taller than

522
00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:22.680
the notch so you can apply pressure and leverage on a

523
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:26.280
blade that may get trapped in there. That hasn't

524
00:32:26.280 --> 00:32:29.800
happened yet. But if I get in the knife duel,

525
00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:33.720
this is the one I'm going to bring with me and I'm, I

526
00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:37.120
will also bring my sub hilt folder or a sub hilt

527
00:32:37.120 --> 00:32:40.710
fighter also from Hog 2 sheath knives which I rarely

528
00:32:40.710 --> 00:32:44.030
carry as an esk because it does have those precious

529
00:32:44.030 --> 00:32:47.710
materials. And let's face it, I'm, I have a

530
00:32:47.710 --> 00:32:51.550
lot of safe means here. But before I put this away, look at

531
00:32:51.550 --> 00:32:55.190
this beautiful sheath he made. Really, really dark brown

532
00:32:55.670 --> 00:32:59.230
leather, beautifully tooled. And then he turned that

533
00:32:59.230 --> 00:33:02.910
belt stud from wrought iron

534
00:33:02.910 --> 00:33:06.410
and brass. Beautiful, beautiful sheath,

535
00:33:06.410 --> 00:33:10.130
beautiful knife. This one not only brings emotional support for its

536
00:33:10.130 --> 00:33:13.690
capabilities, but also for its pure beauty.

537
00:33:15.370 --> 00:33:19.210
Next up, the only folder on this list, because I've been

538
00:33:19.210 --> 00:33:23.050
carrying it a lot because it's new ish to me, is

539
00:33:23.130 --> 00:33:26.690
the Mayhem from Cold Steel. This one is the

540
00:33:26.690 --> 00:33:30.370
Mayhem and I got the Snaggletooth

541
00:33:30.370 --> 00:33:33.420
MF on there. Fits absolutely perfectly. This is

542
00:33:34.060 --> 00:33:37.900
custom, not custom made for me, but this model of the

543
00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:41.620
Snaggletooth is made to fit the Mayhem Mayhem

544
00:33:41.620 --> 00:33:45.380
only. This was a knife I put off buying for a long time.

545
00:33:45.380 --> 00:33:49.180
But I'm really glad I finally got it. It is

546
00:33:49.260 --> 00:33:52.300
beautiful. You've got AUS 10

547
00:33:53.820 --> 00:33:57.260
on this version. They do. They did make a special version with

548
00:33:57.260 --> 00:34:00.590
S35en, but that's a 6 inch

549
00:34:01.070 --> 00:34:04.030
clip point blade. A bit of a swashbuckler with that

550
00:34:04.990 --> 00:34:08.750
full belly. The whole thing is belly and then you've got

551
00:34:08.750 --> 00:34:12.190
that really dramatic swedge. These three

552
00:34:12.190 --> 00:34:15.950
notches on the top are not jimping for the thumb

553
00:34:15.950 --> 00:34:19.310
I don't think because that's a 90 degree spine, you can

554
00:34:19.310 --> 00:34:22.790
definitely throw sparks with it. And those three little

555
00:34:22.790 --> 00:34:26.320
notches are great for trapping the ferro rod and,

556
00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:29.920
and throwing sparks with though I can't imagine this being anyone's

557
00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:33.880
primary camping knife or survival knife. I mean

558
00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:37.560
it could be, could be used. It's very, very tough with that Atlas

559
00:34:37.560 --> 00:34:40.640
lock which is sort of a, an a

560
00:34:42.240 --> 00:34:45.440
riff on the shark lock.

561
00:34:46.080 --> 00:34:49.600
I know it's got some differences, but definitely inspired by the

562
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:52.870
Demko Shark lock and a Great

563
00:34:53.750 --> 00:34:57.190
and big G10 handle here. You can

564
00:34:57.510 --> 00:35:01.310
choke all the way up here. You can come back here or

565
00:35:01.310 --> 00:35:05.030
you can go to the back and get some serious reach

566
00:35:05.270 --> 00:35:08.630
with that 6 inch blade. That's about 10 inches of reach here

567
00:35:09.830 --> 00:35:13.550
with this knife. So you can see why this has ridden in my

568
00:35:13.550 --> 00:35:16.950
pocket but more frequently in my backpack front

569
00:35:16.950 --> 00:35:19.960
pocket. As an emotional support knife.

570
00:35:20.520 --> 00:35:24.200
It gives me that emotional support to know that if

571
00:35:24.200 --> 00:35:28.000
any huge task comes up with the knife, I

572
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.720
could handle it with this and it'll stay locked shut.

573
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:36.080
All right, next up. This is one I've had for quite a while, but I've

574
00:35:36.080 --> 00:35:39.640
been falling back in love with.

575
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.400
And that is the partisan,

576
00:35:43.940 --> 00:35:47.780
the number two knife from Station 9.

577
00:35:48.100 --> 00:35:51.820
Station 9 has a bunch of models of a knives but

578
00:35:51.820 --> 00:35:55.580
also self defense implements. And they number each one, which I

579
00:35:55.580 --> 00:35:59.060
think is cool. This is the number two called the Partisan

580
00:35:59.459 --> 00:36:02.980
and it's inspired by the knives that French

581
00:36:03.060 --> 00:36:06.820
soldiers carried into the trenches in World War I.

582
00:36:07.300 --> 00:36:11.080
Oftentimes modified chef's knives,

583
00:36:11.160 --> 00:36:14.920
modified butcher knives, kitchen knives. This one

584
00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:18.640
modified with a swedge making it easier to

585
00:36:18.640 --> 00:36:22.120
thrust. This is 1095 blade steel, super,

586
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:26.120
super tough and springy. The way this is heat treated and I'm

587
00:36:26.120 --> 00:36:29.160
not saying that from personal experience, but I've seen a lot of people

588
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:33.600
use and abuse these. Chief among them Volwest and

589
00:36:33.600 --> 00:36:37.190
Tony Lopez, the two guys involved in

590
00:36:37.190 --> 00:36:40.830
Station 9. I've seen them put their partisans through

591
00:36:40.830 --> 00:36:44.550
hell and they just keep coming back for more. This is one of

592
00:36:44.550 --> 00:36:48.190
the original ones with that stonewash coated

593
00:36:48.190 --> 00:36:51.710
1095 blade steel and then also beautiful

594
00:36:52.270 --> 00:36:55.990
canvas micarta handle scales. Now they're out with

595
00:36:55.990 --> 00:36:59.230
a new run of these. These went away for a while, but there's a new

596
00:36:59.230 --> 00:37:03.030
run and I just got a sneak peek at that because my good

597
00:37:03.030 --> 00:37:06.760
buddy Jock from Jocks knives had

598
00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:09.920
one sent to me before. I'm going to send it along to him. And that's

599
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:13.680
got a green G10 handle scale and it

600
00:37:13.680 --> 00:37:17.320
does not have or handle scales I should say. And it does

601
00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:20.520
not have this belt,

602
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:24.720
what are we going to call that slip thing on the sheath.

603
00:37:24.720 --> 00:37:28.360
But the sheath is the same shape. Everything about it is pretty much the same

604
00:37:28.600 --> 00:37:32.390
except for the handle scales and the with that. And

605
00:37:32.390 --> 00:37:35.310
this leather sheath

606
00:37:36.110 --> 00:37:39.830
belt holder thing is great. Especially if you like to

607
00:37:39.830 --> 00:37:43.670
carry your belts under or carry your sheaths under the

608
00:37:43.670 --> 00:37:47.150
belt. And that's how I like to do it. So that works out really great.

609
00:37:47.790 --> 00:37:50.990
Just like Jeremiah Johnson carried his knife.

610
00:37:52.270 --> 00:37:55.790
That's the Station nine number two

611
00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:59.960
hardens it. Next up is

612
00:37:59.960 --> 00:38:03.680
a knife from one of my absolute favorite people

613
00:38:03.680 --> 00:38:07.360
out there in the world and also one of my favorite knife makers

614
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.520
and also one of my favorite knives. This is from TEL

615
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:12.599
Knives. This is the

616
00:38:14.040 --> 00:38:17.720
Outrider. The Outrider, which is the

617
00:38:17.720 --> 00:38:21.520
updated version of the Sapper. You'll know you,

618
00:38:21.520 --> 00:38:24.970
you have a sapper when you see that engraved line,

619
00:38:25.130 --> 00:38:28.610
not engraved, but laser etched line going down the

620
00:38:28.610 --> 00:38:31.930
blade for poking around in the sand for

621
00:38:32.010 --> 00:38:35.730
landmines. This is the updated version of

622
00:38:35.730 --> 00:38:39.450
that. Because there aren't too many landmine hunters or sappers

623
00:38:39.450 --> 00:38:42.690
out there, they have sort of rebranded this as the

624
00:38:42.690 --> 00:38:46.250
Outrider. This is based on the,

625
00:38:46.330 --> 00:38:50.010
the collaboration design between Emory Morgenstern.

626
00:38:50.680 --> 00:38:54.360
That's his, that's his maker's mark right there.

627
00:38:54.520 --> 00:38:57.560
He's an IDF soldier who is a

628
00:38:58.280 --> 00:38:59.480
specialist in

629
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:05.720
eod, so explosive Ordinance Disposal. And

630
00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:09.480
so that's why it was the original version of this was called the Sapper

631
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:13.840
and Tim renamed this knife the Outrider

632
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:17.600
because Emory is also an outrider. He's a badass and he's

633
00:39:17.600 --> 00:39:20.960
a. After October 7th, two years ago, he

634
00:39:21.040 --> 00:39:24.640
moved back to Israel and has been fighting the good fight over

635
00:39:24.640 --> 00:39:28.400
there. And this is his knife design

636
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:32.160
with him. I really love this. You know, you can tell it's got that

637
00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:35.720
center line point, the swedge. It's like a clip point and a

638
00:39:35.720 --> 00:39:39.520
kukri put together. So a recurve clip point. I don't know what you want to

639
00:39:39.520 --> 00:39:42.960
call it, but just a great blade shape.

640
00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:46.960
A lot of people use this as their prime outdoors

641
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:50.760
knife. Tim has learned this would make an awesome camp

642
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:54.600
knife. I bet to me it looks like an awesome fighting knife.

643
00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:58.560
You've got a great handle, you've got a finger guard, but also a

644
00:39:58.560 --> 00:40:01.960
finger choil that you could ride up and do your

645
00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:06.080
close up tasks at the camp or whatever. Nice

646
00:40:06.080 --> 00:40:09.920
bird's beak pommel and a rounded pommel. That pommel was

647
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:13.690
originally rounded for this purpose right here to nestle

648
00:40:13.690 --> 00:40:17.250
in the palm. When you're poking around in the sand, you want to know

649
00:40:17.250 --> 00:40:20.890
exactly where that point is. And you get feedback through that

650
00:40:20.890 --> 00:40:24.610
curved pommel into the palm of your hand, all the way up

651
00:40:24.610 --> 00:40:28.210
your forearm. So beautiful design.

652
00:40:28.610 --> 00:40:32.410
I think these are on offer currently. You know, TKL knives,

653
00:40:32.410 --> 00:40:36.250
they're semi custom, semi meaning they

654
00:40:36.250 --> 00:40:39.730
do batches of knives and you have to kind of catch them

655
00:40:40.700 --> 00:40:44.540
when they're releasing the knives you want. And I believe that

656
00:40:44.540 --> 00:40:48.380
the Outrider is a, is a currently available

657
00:40:48.620 --> 00:40:52.060
knife. If you want one you can go to the knife junkie.com

658
00:40:52.300 --> 00:40:55.980
teak hell. And we have a coupon code there. Knife

659
00:40:56.060 --> 00:40:59.620
junkie in the coupon, a little, little bar

660
00:40:59.620 --> 00:41:03.460
there. You save 10 off your purchase, I get

661
00:41:03.460 --> 00:41:07.160
a little kickback and Tim gets a sale. So it

662
00:41:07.160 --> 00:41:10.800
we all win here. Made in the USA, of course. And

663
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:14.560
that this one is 80 CRBT. And I have to

664
00:41:14.560 --> 00:41:18.200
thank Tim. He gave this one to me and

665
00:41:18.200 --> 00:41:21.840
he'd given me a number of knives in my day and I really appreciate

666
00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:25.600
that. But this one especially, I always wanted one

667
00:41:25.600 --> 00:41:28.760
of these. And when I saw him at Blade show, he knew that. He's like,

668
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:32.530
here, take this. I was like, oh, I couldn't possibly. Okay,

669
00:41:32.530 --> 00:41:36.290
thanks. You know, I don't want to be rude. All right,

670
00:41:36.290 --> 00:41:39.890
next up. This is probably, I think this is the smallest

671
00:41:39.890 --> 00:41:43.450
one in the line. But this one's been getting a bit of carry

672
00:41:43.450 --> 00:41:47.209
especially since my most recent interview with

673
00:41:47.770 --> 00:41:51.290
James Williams. This is the HZ6

674
00:41:51.690 --> 00:41:55.210
from CRKT. Look at that. I mean there's one

675
00:41:55.210 --> 00:41:58.340
purpose for this knife. You can just tell by looking at it.

676
00:41:58.980 --> 00:42:02.100
The, the, the

677
00:42:02.100 --> 00:42:05.140
HZ6 is based on a

678
00:42:05.140 --> 00:42:08.820
traditional Japanese fighting knife.

679
00:42:09.300 --> 00:42:13.140
And this style is a shrunk

680
00:42:13.140 --> 00:42:15.940
down version of something that was a bit of a short sword

681
00:42:17.220 --> 00:42:20.820
and, but also a smaller

682
00:42:20.820 --> 00:42:23.860
tanto. This also comes in a 4 inch version, the

683
00:42:23.860 --> 00:42:27.660
HZ4 or from CRKT or you can go to

684
00:42:27.660 --> 00:42:31.260
James Williams Design and see if they have.

685
00:42:31.260 --> 00:42:34.940
They sell out like hotcakes right quick. But he does some of

686
00:42:34.940 --> 00:42:38.660
these with other makers and they

687
00:42:38.660 --> 00:42:42.420
are so fun. They're, they're, you know,

688
00:42:42.420 --> 00:42:46.180
more custom and more refined than the CRKT. But

689
00:42:46.180 --> 00:42:49.780
the CRKTs are awesome, I gotta say. I have an

690
00:42:49.780 --> 00:42:52.810
old Hisatsu also from James Williams

691
00:42:54.250 --> 00:42:58.090
and CRKT does an especially great job with these James

692
00:42:58.090 --> 00:43:01.890
Williams knives. But I'm showing this the spine of the blade right

693
00:43:01.890 --> 00:43:05.330
now. You can see that full length swedge and you can see how

694
00:43:05.330 --> 00:43:09.170
stout the blade remains right up to the tip. This is definitely

695
00:43:09.170 --> 00:43:12.850
a thrusting knife. You're going to have no trouble getting into

696
00:43:12.850 --> 00:43:16.410
whatever you're trying to get into with this thing. You've got that

697
00:43:16.410 --> 00:43:19.710
traditional style handle with sort of a

698
00:43:19.710 --> 00:43:23.550
symbolic representation of the Tsukamaki

699
00:43:23.550 --> 00:43:27.230
wrap you'll see on a traditional Japanese knife. And

700
00:43:27.230 --> 00:43:30.990
then you have incredible jimping on the top, which is also part of

701
00:43:30.990 --> 00:43:34.470
that Tsukamaki design. But

702
00:43:34.790 --> 00:43:38.550
it gives you jimping all the way up and down the spine and the belly

703
00:43:38.870 --> 00:43:42.710
of this handle. So even though it has no guard, which is there

704
00:43:42.710 --> 00:43:46.430
on purpose, so it doesn't snag up on anything. If

705
00:43:46.430 --> 00:43:50.150
you're carrying this concealed but need to draw it to use it and

706
00:43:50.230 --> 00:43:53.590
the jimping your the fat of your hands

707
00:43:53.750 --> 00:43:57.390
and your fingers will sink into that jimping and

708
00:43:57.390 --> 00:44:00.710
really keep you on that handle.

709
00:44:01.110 --> 00:44:04.750
Also I love that this thing has a pommel. Has

710
00:44:04.750 --> 00:44:05.750
pommel. Gyms

711
00:44:08.470 --> 00:44:12.240
Williams Design 2927 is the model

712
00:44:12.240 --> 00:44:15.560
of this. If this is too much for you at that 6 inch blade length,

713
00:44:16.040 --> 00:44:19.800
check out the HZ4 which came out recently.

714
00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:23.480
Here's the sheet and I have a discreet Carry Concepts

715
00:44:23.720 --> 00:44:27.480
style clip on it. This one by the way makes a

716
00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:31.160
great sweatpants or running shorts or

717
00:44:31.160 --> 00:44:34.960
round the house pajama knife, I'll put it that

718
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:38.610
way. Next up, this is a classic. I mean this is one of

719
00:44:38.690 --> 00:44:42.290
this has been an ESK for many years, but it's been back in

720
00:44:42.290 --> 00:44:45.770
heavy rotation. This is the Praether War

721
00:44:45.770 --> 00:44:49.490
Bowie by Tops Knives. I just

722
00:44:49.490 --> 00:44:53.170
featured this recently on another podcast

723
00:44:53.170 --> 00:44:56.570
or no no in my collection

724
00:44:56.570 --> 00:45:00.250
selection videos. I love this knife. Everyone's a

725
00:45:00.250 --> 00:45:04.010
huge fan of this knife. This was back by popular demand. I know

726
00:45:04.010 --> 00:45:07.120
it went away for a while. I was lucky to get one

727
00:45:07.600 --> 00:45:11.360
before they put this on hiatus, but they got

728
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:15.040
such a hue and cry about it being gone that they came

729
00:45:15.040 --> 00:45:18.880
back out with it. Just a beautiful bowie knife. That's a 7

730
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:22.720
inch blade, 1095 blade steel

731
00:45:22.720 --> 00:45:26.480
with that high traction black coating there. Real long

732
00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:30.160
swedge, which I say this every time. I wish that were sharper came

733
00:45:30.160 --> 00:45:33.190
with an option for it but the swedge is

734
00:45:33.750 --> 00:45:37.150
thick enough that that's not even they don't even intend that to be

735
00:45:37.150 --> 00:45:40.710
sharpened. Very, very sharp. I've seen

736
00:45:40.710 --> 00:45:44.230
this being used by outdoorsmen as

737
00:45:44.310 --> 00:45:48.150
a great outdoors knife, batoning with it and all that. But

738
00:45:48.150 --> 00:45:51.870
to me this is a trident. Well, it's not

739
00:45:51.870 --> 00:45:55.390
tried and true by me. This is a born and bred fighting

740
00:45:55.390 --> 00:45:59.030
knife. You've got sort of a French profile with the

741
00:45:59.460 --> 00:46:03.140
blade being a lot wider and broader than

742
00:46:03.140 --> 00:46:06.740
the tapered portion of the handle and that acts as the

743
00:46:06.740 --> 00:46:10.540
guard widens out towards the pommel

744
00:46:10.540 --> 00:46:13.700
in sort of a coffin handle shape

745
00:46:14.100 --> 00:46:17.820
which we're which resists centrifugal force. If

746
00:46:17.820 --> 00:46:20.660
you're swinging this and slashing and hacking and chopping.

747
00:46:22.020 --> 00:46:25.810
Just a beautiful, beautiful knife and it instills me

748
00:46:25.810 --> 00:46:29.650
with confidence and that's a huge part of what an ESK

749
00:46:29.650 --> 00:46:32.730
is supposed to do. Like I said, whether it's the

750
00:46:32.890 --> 00:46:36.690
fidgety thing to dispel excess energy or it's

751
00:46:36.690 --> 00:46:40.370
the just in case I want to make sure I have a knife that I

752
00:46:40.370 --> 00:46:43.850
can go to war with on me at the time. And that's what

753
00:46:43.930 --> 00:46:47.570
my esks have been lately. This is the Praether War

754
00:46:47.570 --> 00:46:50.810
Bowie wearing one of the best Kydex

755
00:46:51.140 --> 00:46:54.980
sheaves I've ever made, which I'm happy

756
00:46:54.980 --> 00:46:58.500
about because they send that in one of those kind of lame spec

757
00:46:59.940 --> 00:47:02.180
ops or whatever they call them.

758
00:47:03.540 --> 00:47:07.340
Nylon sheaves. I just don't like them. Not. Not befitting such an

759
00:47:07.340 --> 00:47:11.180
awesome knife. Anyway. Next up. This

760
00:47:11.180 --> 00:47:14.580
was one that I put off buying for a long time and then

761
00:47:14.580 --> 00:47:18.180
finally pulled the trigger on. I love this

762
00:47:18.180 --> 00:47:21.930
knife. It's probably my favorite Ka Bar knife. I'm being 100%

763
00:47:21.930 --> 00:47:24.770
honest and I'm barring all sentimental

764
00:47:25.170 --> 00:47:28.810
attachment to my other K bars which have a lot more sentimental

765
00:47:28.810 --> 00:47:32.610
value to me than this. But I really, really love this one.

766
00:47:32.610 --> 00:47:36.370
This is the Doghead K Bar and this

767
00:47:36.370 --> 00:47:40.210
was design and designed and intended

768
00:47:40.210 --> 00:47:43.730
for those who love using their K bars for

769
00:47:43.810 --> 00:47:47.590
camping and out outdoorsy bushcrafting of

770
00:47:47.590 --> 00:47:51.150
stuff. To me it's still just an awesome version of a

771
00:47:51.150 --> 00:47:54.750
fighting knife. But the what they did to

772
00:47:54.750 --> 00:47:57.230
make this more outdoors friendly is

773
00:47:58.670 --> 00:48:02.390
make it a, a, an asymmetrical guard. So the top

774
00:48:02.390 --> 00:48:05.790
guard for the thumb is very small. So if you want to use it

775
00:48:06.110 --> 00:48:09.950
in a saber grip and, and push your thumb against the guard and still

776
00:48:09.950 --> 00:48:13.230
have something to view, something to push against there.

777
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:17.760
But if you want to use this for close in kind of carving chores

778
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:19.960
and that kind of thing and you want your thumb on the back of the

779
00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:23.440
blade, you don't have a huge thumb side guard

780
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:27.520
to or dorsal guard to, to put your thumb

781
00:48:27.520 --> 00:48:31.240
over it works really great for that. Also the guard is much

782
00:48:31.240 --> 00:48:35.040
thicker and the four finger guard extends

783
00:48:35.520 --> 00:48:39.160
considerably. You've got that stacked leather handle which I'm an

784
00:48:39.160 --> 00:48:42.940
absolute sucker for. I love it. I, I love it. I'm

785
00:48:42.940 --> 00:48:46.780
a huge fan of stacked leather in general, but Ka bar does

786
00:48:46.780 --> 00:48:50.300
a superlative job with that. And then the, the

787
00:48:50.300 --> 00:48:53.660
butt cap here is thicker than the usual Ka bar

788
00:48:53.900 --> 00:48:57.180
and it extends into sort of a teardrop shape

789
00:48:57.580 --> 00:49:00.940
and you can use this to hammer in tent stakes or

790
00:49:01.100 --> 00:49:04.580
whatever you might use your pommel for in a

791
00:49:04.580 --> 00:49:07.950
hammering sort of fashion. So these are all the

792
00:49:07.950 --> 00:49:11.630
reasons why they consider this sort of their bushcraft knife.

793
00:49:11.630 --> 00:49:15.310
But like I said to me, this is still a combat knife. It's

794
00:49:15.310 --> 00:49:19.070
just a different iteration of it comes with the

795
00:49:19.070 --> 00:49:22.590
usual great leather Ka Bar basic Ka Bar

796
00:49:22.590 --> 00:49:26.070
sheath. But I mean you don't need more than this. This thing is

797
00:49:26.070 --> 00:49:29.910
awesome. And yeah, this has gone in my backpack and done

798
00:49:30.550 --> 00:49:33.270
Esk duty A lot since I've gotten it.

799
00:49:34.410 --> 00:49:38.090
I just. I don't know, man. Something about this has an extreme

800
00:49:38.090 --> 00:49:41.890
charm. It's

801
00:49:41.890 --> 00:49:45.730
got these. The unsharpened swedge that you're

802
00:49:45.730 --> 00:49:49.489
finding now on all the modern K bars. I do have a K

803
00:49:49.489 --> 00:49:53.210
bar that was released in the early 90s, maybe

804
00:49:53.210 --> 00:49:56.930
1990, and it was a

805
00:49:56.930 --> 00:50:00.600
reissue of the 1941 or 1942

806
00:50:00.600 --> 00:50:04.320
design with that sharpened swedge. I love that too. It'd be

807
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:08.160
cool if they came out with a dog head with a sharpened swedge, but they're

808
00:50:08.160 --> 00:50:11.640
not doing the sharpened Swedes at all these days, so that won't happen.

809
00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:16.680
Doghead. I love it. All right, next up, this one is

810
00:50:16.680 --> 00:50:20.520
from Spartan Blades. This is the Les George Raider

811
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:24.600
Dagger. They call it the Spartan George Raider

812
00:50:24.600 --> 00:50:28.390
Dagger for short, but here it is. This is

813
00:50:28.950 --> 00:50:32.630
a modern full tang. Full tang to the point where the,

814
00:50:32.790 --> 00:50:36.230
the tang even extends to the very length of both guards.

815
00:50:36.870 --> 00:50:40.630
But this is a modern full tang version of the Raider

816
00:50:40.790 --> 00:50:44.590
Dagger which saw some production and some

817
00:50:44.590 --> 00:50:48.310
use at the beginning of World War II. It was quickly phased

818
00:50:48.310 --> 00:50:51.590
out for the M3 trench knife which had a.

819
00:50:52.240 --> 00:50:55.920
A half sharpened back edge. These were known

820
00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:59.600
to be very delicate and the tips would break off, so guys

821
00:50:59.600 --> 00:51:03.400
would break it off before the fact and

822
00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:07.200
then sharpen the front into a sort of a chisel, the

823
00:51:07.200 --> 00:51:10.880
front tip into a sort of chisel. They also

824
00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:14.080
had these very brittle aluminum

825
00:51:14.640 --> 00:51:18.480
handles that had another. They were aluminum alloy

826
00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:22.240
and I can't remember what the secondary metal was in it, but that

827
00:51:22.240 --> 00:51:25.960
metal would start to flake as it oxidized and the

828
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:29.600
handles would crumble and the blades would break it. It was just kind of

829
00:51:29.600 --> 00:51:33.440
a. A misstep in manufacturing because at

830
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:37.239
the beginning of our involvement, all being the United States

831
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:40.960
involvement In World War II, materials were going to a lot of other

832
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:44.680
places than knives and compromise really

833
00:51:44.680 --> 00:51:47.880
showed in the, in the knife itself. I'm holding it on the side. You can

834
00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:51.500
see the beautiful swelled a palm

835
00:51:51.500 --> 00:51:55.300
swell handle. So contouring is just beautiful no matter

836
00:51:55.300 --> 00:51:58.900
how you turn this knife. And you've got

837
00:51:59.300 --> 00:52:02.900
jimping all the way around. So really

838
00:52:02.980 --> 00:52:06.260
great grip on this knife. And these

839
00:52:06.260 --> 00:52:09.620
GRN handles are nicely knurled. You get great

840
00:52:09.780 --> 00:52:13.420
grip. It's an outstanding thrusting knife.

841
00:52:13.420 --> 00:52:17.110
And of course you've got a bit of belly, not too much,

842
00:52:17.110 --> 00:52:20.750
but you could still use this in a slash, but all day

843
00:52:20.750 --> 00:52:24.470
long. This is a rusting knife for

844
00:52:24.470 --> 00:52:28.190
those sort of chores that a Marine raider might find

845
00:52:28.190 --> 00:52:31.870
themselves being pressed into. Also has a great

846
00:52:31.870 --> 00:52:35.070
Kydex. This is not Kydex. A a great

847
00:52:35.790 --> 00:52:38.910
thermomolded plastic sheath that

848
00:52:40.340 --> 00:52:44.140
it. It does not seem like any extra even though it

849
00:52:44.140 --> 00:52:47.900
is a pancake style sheath. But it also has a lot

850
00:52:47.900 --> 00:52:51.540
of different lashing options. I have it with the.

851
00:52:51.540 --> 00:52:55.300
This one of these sort of cheap clips on here and this one also

852
00:52:55.300 --> 00:52:59.020
works great as an around the house gym shorts or

853
00:52:59.020 --> 00:53:02.740
sweatpants or pajamas knife. And yes, I'm

854
00:53:02.740 --> 00:53:06.420
always, always armed, does not matter. Don't always have a

855
00:53:06.420 --> 00:53:10.050
gun on me, but I'm always armed with a knife. It doesn't matter what I'm

856
00:53:10.050 --> 00:53:13.810
doing or where I am unless I'm at the airport

857
00:53:14.130 --> 00:53:17.330
in which case I've forgotten to disarm myself. And they've taken.

858
00:53:17.730 --> 00:53:21.330
That has happened. So. All right, penultimate in this

859
00:53:21.330 --> 00:53:24.730
list is the Black

860
00:53:24.730 --> 00:53:27.930
Bear classic. The cold steel

861
00:53:27.930 --> 00:53:31.690
classic classic cold steel version

862
00:53:31.690 --> 00:53:35.210
of a classic knife. The Loveless Sub

863
00:53:35.210 --> 00:53:38.830
hilt Fighter. This is one of my favorite knives period

864
00:53:38.990 --> 00:53:42.750
in my collection. I love this. I took so long to

865
00:53:42.750 --> 00:53:46.470
get one of these. So long that for years and years and years they

866
00:53:46.470 --> 00:53:49.470
haven't had this leather sheath. I had to find it on

867
00:53:49.710 --> 00:53:53.230
ebay and I did and there it is. And it is

868
00:53:53.470 --> 00:53:56.830
fantastic. I love this. This one is in a 440

869
00:53:57.630 --> 00:54:00.830
stainless steel. I think it's 440C.

870
00:54:02.040 --> 00:54:05.480
It's been ages since cold steel has used 440

871
00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:09.720
blade steel. That just goes to show how old this one is. Someone kept

872
00:54:09.720 --> 00:54:13.040
it in their basement which is apparent from the smell on the sheath which is

873
00:54:13.040 --> 00:54:16.600
basically all but gone away. And

874
00:54:16.680 --> 00:54:20.360
it's got this gorgeous polished G10 handle.

875
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:25.040
Look at the palm swell on there. This thing is so comfortable in

876
00:54:25.040 --> 00:54:27.960
hand and you've got the dual

877
00:54:29.130 --> 00:54:32.850
edges. Very, very sharp, long slender clip point

878
00:54:32.850 --> 00:54:36.610
blade. Those are hollow ground bevels. So you

879
00:54:36.610 --> 00:54:40.410
have quad hollow ground bevels. And then the Ricasso

880
00:54:40.410 --> 00:54:44.050
is crowned. So you have a nice rounded

881
00:54:44.050 --> 00:54:47.210
off Ricasso. Really, really awesome

882
00:54:47.210 --> 00:54:50.850
aluminum double quillian guard and

883
00:54:50.850 --> 00:54:54.700
aluminum sub hilt here. The fit and finish

884
00:54:54.700 --> 00:54:58.460
of this is awesome. Like I said, it was obviously in someone from

885
00:54:58.460 --> 00:55:02.100
the box and the sheath obviously in someone's basement for a long

886
00:55:02.100 --> 00:55:05.940
time nothing has separated. Everything is still

887
00:55:05.940 --> 00:55:09.740
fully flush in those handle materials. These are

888
00:55:09.740 --> 00:55:13.580
complex builds. If you look at this, you've got 1, 2, 3,

889
00:55:13.660 --> 00:55:17.460
4, 5, 6 pieces here and then

890
00:55:17.460 --> 00:55:21.220
seven with the, with the lanyard hole. And

891
00:55:21.220 --> 00:55:24.940
then you have so like 12 pieces all together

892
00:55:24.940 --> 00:55:28.740
including the pins. Pretty complicated handles on some hilt

893
00:55:28.740 --> 00:55:32.460
fighters and none of that has separated. It's just beautifully

894
00:55:32.460 --> 00:55:36.100
manufactured in Taiwan. Here's the

895
00:55:36.100 --> 00:55:39.860
leather sheath with the D guard and the Dangler belt

896
00:55:39.860 --> 00:55:43.540
loop here and then you've got a really nice Arkansas

897
00:55:43.540 --> 00:55:47.270
Whetstone in that in that pouch there on

898
00:55:47.270 --> 00:55:50.990
the front. If you love the Black Bear Classic,

899
00:55:50.990 --> 00:55:54.630
I do suggest you get one. Whether you get

900
00:55:54.630 --> 00:55:58.190
the the one with the new modern sheath

901
00:55:58.430 --> 00:56:02.109
which to me does not fit the whole look of the blade,

902
00:56:02.109 --> 00:56:05.550
but you might not be as concerned about that. I can't

903
00:56:05.550 --> 00:56:09.310
recommend this thing more. It is an impressive knife

904
00:56:09.310 --> 00:56:12.960
and beautiful to look at and really just feels great

905
00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:16.680
in hand. If you're someone who likes to practice your knife

906
00:56:17.240 --> 00:56:20.920
skills in the air, this, this one is great.

907
00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:24.760
I do do recommend it. I'm a huge sucker for the Loveless

908
00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:29.240
designs, especially the the sub hilt fighter and

909
00:56:29.240 --> 00:56:33.040
the New York Special. I think it was called the New York Special and

910
00:56:33.040 --> 00:56:36.400
then the shoot knife, all three of them super cool. Bob

911
00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:40.160
Loveless design. Bob Loveless was one of the original members

912
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:43.680
of the or formative founders

913
00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:47.760
of the American Bladesmith Society along with a couple of other

914
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:51.600
people. Yeah, chief among them, Bill

915
00:56:51.600 --> 00:56:55.440
Bagwell. He was a part of that scene too. All right, last up, my

916
00:56:55.680 --> 00:56:59.440
most. One of my most carried esks recently has

917
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:03.040
been this beast. This Speaking of Marine

918
00:57:03.120 --> 00:57:05.840
Raider Bowies, this is the

919
00:57:07.410 --> 00:57:11.130
work tough gear V44X. This is in

920
00:57:11.130 --> 00:57:14.850
the K329 steel, which I'm told

921
00:57:14.850 --> 00:57:18.530
is a really, really awesome steel. I'm not sure about

922
00:57:18.530 --> 00:57:22.210
that, but I do know it has lived up to the limited abuse I've given

923
00:57:22.210 --> 00:57:25.410
it. I've pounded this through endless logs

924
00:57:26.370 --> 00:57:29.930
in the backyard. Maybe not endless, but many, many logs in the

925
00:57:29.930 --> 00:57:33.660
backyard. I've also used it for sapling removal and

926
00:57:33.660 --> 00:57:37.260
we have these fast growing sumac trees here and

927
00:57:37.420 --> 00:57:40.780
it's done a beautiful job on that. It's just a

928
00:57:41.100 --> 00:57:44.780
great excuse to have an awesome raider style Bowie on you.

929
00:57:45.420 --> 00:57:49.140
Designed by Reese of well Regulated. You

930
00:57:49.140 --> 00:57:52.780
can see his incredible collection of

931
00:57:54.380 --> 00:57:57.900
vintage Marine Raider Bowies. He's a former Marine

932
00:57:58.300 --> 00:58:01.660
on Instagram if you go to well underscore Regulated

933
00:58:02.270 --> 00:58:05.870
and he's been on the show here recently talking about this design

934
00:58:07.470 --> 00:58:11.270
and others. He's. He's got a pocket version of

935
00:58:11.270 --> 00:58:15.070
this, a 4 inch bladed version of this knife that's kind of.

936
00:58:15.550 --> 00:58:19.350
Well, he's had a number of customs made of it and we're

937
00:58:19.350 --> 00:58:23.070
hoping to see Work Tough Gear release it sometime

938
00:58:23.070 --> 00:58:26.750
soon. I know that they have plans to do so, but we

939
00:58:26.750 --> 00:58:30.510
just haven't seen it yet. A great handle,

940
00:58:30.510 --> 00:58:33.830
G10 contoured. You got a bit of a palm swell there.

941
00:58:34.230 --> 00:58:37.510
Fits great in hand all the way back here

942
00:58:37.990 --> 00:58:41.790
to chop. You've got this kind of straight back

943
00:58:41.790 --> 00:58:45.630
for recoil and then this hook here to keep it in

944
00:58:45.630 --> 00:58:49.430
hand. Excellent knurling on the handle itself and

945
00:58:49.430 --> 00:58:52.910
a beautiful orange liners. You can see also here

946
00:58:52.910 --> 00:58:56.750
it's chamfered where the thumb goes, but you have a,

947
00:58:58.030 --> 00:59:01.870
a very sharp 90 degree spine for throwing sparks

948
00:59:01.870 --> 00:59:05.590
and other and other for shaving

949
00:59:05.590 --> 00:59:09.270
off bits of fatwood or whatever you're going to use that

950
00:59:09.270 --> 00:59:13.030
spine for. But very nice sharpened spine. Great chamfered

951
00:59:13.030 --> 00:59:16.750
choil here and a nice finger guard. This thing

952
00:59:16.750 --> 00:59:20.190
is the perfect representation of a modern

953
00:59:20.750 --> 00:59:24.490
Marine Raider Bowie designed by a modern

954
00:59:24.490 --> 00:59:27.850
Marine, former Marine, but I guess once a Marine,

955
00:59:28.410 --> 00:59:32.010
always a Marine. All right, guys, thank you so much for joining me on my

956
00:59:32.090 --> 00:59:35.570
Esk journey. I use Journey with a little bit of

957
00:59:35.570 --> 00:59:39.090
irony. But. But do you have an Esk? Do you have an

958
00:59:39.090 --> 00:59:42.810
emotional support knife? You carry a knife that you're most likely

959
00:59:42.890 --> 00:59:46.650
not going to use, but you use it to bring your, bring

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your mood, stabilize your mood because it's a fidgeter, or

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stabilize your mood because it's something that you could defend your life with

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even, even though you know that that will probably not come up

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hopefully. Let me know. Drop it in the comments below.

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I'd love to know what your esk is and maybe we'll

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mention it next week in our next midweek

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supplemental of the Night Junkie podcast. All right, for

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Jim working his magic behind the switcher, I'm Bob DeMarco saying until

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next time, don't take Dull for an answer. Thanks

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