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Coming up, the November 2025 Gentleman Junkie Giveaway Knife.

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One of the greatest, most classic knives from the Great White North.

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And with the dropping of the agent 001 from Tel Knives, we'll

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talk about it and other great tekel knives.

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EDC blades I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie

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Podcast.

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Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast. Your weekly dose of knife

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

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host, Bob the Knife Junkie DeMarco. Marco,

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

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about my ESK episode comes from Jorge

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Fernandez, good friend of the show. He says, I have an

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SP10. That's the Marine Raider Bowie from Ontario Knife and Tool.

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My youngest son fell in love with it the moment he held it, so he

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got one. We rarely use them now because they aren't making

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them anymore. Now my ESK folder is the large

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G10 Espada. Yeah, that one. I think he means the

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XL incidentally. I liked it so much I gave one to my three

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boys, my grandson on his 21st birthday and my

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nephew. I've started this male Espada tradition thingy

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in the family. Lol. My girls like the gun sight

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so they can carry it in their bottomless pit purses. We all know what those

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are. Go figure. And the partisan that's from Station 9

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is back in stock, making it my new Esk

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fixie. I waited almost a year for it. Before that, my

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ESK was and still is my Zabo Express

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from Tops Knives, which I carry daily. The Partisan goes in

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the backpack. Great show, Bob. I work nights as an ER

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tech so sometimes things don't wind down until 3 or

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4am But I get to participate now, which I love

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doing. Thank you Jorge. I really appreciate that nice long comment.

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And I love the enthusiasm around the concept of an

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emotional support knife. That's what an EST is When you hear

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us talk about those. Those are those knives that whether whether

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it's a big beefy knife like the Partisan that you have around for

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self protection or something like this JW

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collab scuffle that you keep around a fidget with. It's the emotional

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support that matters. So everyone

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bone up on your emotional support knives and let me know what you're carrying.

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Drop it in the comments below. I really appreciate it. All right,

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time for a pocket check. What's in his pocket?

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

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his pocket check of knives in my front right pocket.

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Today was one I rarely carry. This is the

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Emerson Knives Super CQC7. The

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CQC7, the chisel ground. You can see

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that flat side Tonto. That

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really launched Emerson knives as a, not as a

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custom. You know, he was making custom knives for a long time, but the

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CQC7 was the one that really launched him into the

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public eye. That and the Commander which followed hot on the heels.

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They started making supermodels that's models with

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nearly 4 inch bladed knives

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sometime in the 90s. And this was a

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giveaway knife. This was given to us by Bill S. A long time ago

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and this was an auction knife that we did. My brother

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bought the knife and in that auction and then gifted

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it to me which was a pretty, pretty cool. No, it wasn't

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inside baseball. It was a total surprise. That's how my brother is. He's cool.

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Cool as hell. And a super generous dude. Has given me some of my absolute

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best knives. Many of them hanging behind me on the wall. This one,

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I, I don't know why I carried it today. I rarely carry this one,

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but it just sang to me. Sometimes in the morning I go through this little

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ritual where I open up my knife drawers and

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whatever just jumps out, I pick up and, and

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manipulate a little bit and it ends up going in my pocket. And that was

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this one today. The one thing I had to modify about this knife, which I

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do with most of my Emerson knives, I had to sand down the G10

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on the clip side. It is so grippy and abrasive that

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it is likely to destroy your pockets even sooner than

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the other knives will do. So had that in my pocket

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today on my belt. I had a bunch on me today. On my

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belt I had this urban edge from cold steel.

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I really love this little push dagger. It's so light and so

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easy to carry. I just have it set up with this paracord and

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it, it rides near my belt buckle. And so I had this.

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I've been carrying this more often than I even let on. It's just

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a great little self defense option if need be. Also

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though, I know that um, in the old days, I don't know if this is

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still the case, but in the cold steel warehouse, guys would like these

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because they could sign, sign purchase

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orders and stuff and then open up boxes and sign and you know, use a

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pen, use a flashlight and not have to let go of the knife.

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Sort of like a bird and trout might, might work. So

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had this on me. That is also a chisel ground. I didn't I didn't put

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that together, but flat on one side. Actually slightly concave

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on that side. Next up, I had this

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flashlight on me because I knew I was going to a

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neighbor's house tonight for cigars and whiskey. A little

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tradition. A great neighbor of mine has started and done it

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twice and I've met some really good guys doing that.

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But since it's a. It's about a half mile walk

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and part of it is through a little wooded trail. I always have this

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on me. This was given to me by Dave of OG Blade Reviews. I

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love this. This is the Night Core EDC27. It has

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three. You can basically have this button

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do a whole bunch of different things. I'll put this under the knife cam. You

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can program the main button to. To do different things like

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have different combinations of. Of lighting. I haven't really

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dug into that, but has three

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different settings where it can go super bright, a

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thousand lumens or down to like 60 lumens or something like that. If you're

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just reading a map. Don't want to give away your position. And then what I

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really love about it is that it has this instant,

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instant strobe. Hope that didn't blow out the camera, but you can just

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press this down and have a strobe immediately. To me that's like the

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greatest self defense tool going. You could blind someone, especially in the

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dark. They're coming up to you and their visual purple is.

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Is on high and you can just blind them with that and run

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away or kick them in the knee or the groin and then run away.

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But I really like that light a lot. Nice and flat

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though. I have learned not to carry it with the clip in my

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pocket because oftentimes when I sit down,

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it's close enough to my hip that it'll turn the light on and I'll be

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like, why is my thigh on fire? And I'll look down and

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see the light coming through my jeans. So I just drop it all the way

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down in the pocket and if I need it or think I might need

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it, I'll just carry it in my hand. Really great light

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when I get used to carrying it more often. Next up, my fixed blade

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knife in the three o' clock position today

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was the beautiful Nova One.

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This is the prototype of the Nova One. We sold 27 of these, I

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believe made and produced by

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Hog Tooth Knives. So this is my blade shape on his

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handle design. Him being Matt Chase of Hog tooth

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knives. That's 154cm, very sharp,

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gentle recurved bowie blade. We did this one,

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I think it was 2022 and then we did one in

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20, 23 and a half. And now we have to

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get to the Nova 3. We've been talking about it back and

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forth about what it could be. I've been giving them some

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designs but I haven't really settled on anything quite yet. But

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beautiful dark maroon micarta handles with red

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liners. The final versions that people bought had a

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slightly thinner handle but it had because the liners were

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thinner and they were a forest green with that same beautiful

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dark polished maroon micarta. Just a

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classy, classy carry. Beautifully sharp

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154cm and I just love this knife. Haven't

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carried it in a while. You know there's always something new and exciting coming

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through here and I had to just go back to basics

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with that one today. Last up, my emotional support knife

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today was the beautiful Attention to Detail Mercantile

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Medium Fighter. This was my very first custom

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knife bought from Douglas Esposito when

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he and his Attention to Detail Mercantile knife brand

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were located near me in Northern Virginia. He has since moved to

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Mississippi and has since moved on to

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exquisite folders which I have to get a new

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one. I have an older one. I think it was the first folder he ever

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made but first folder he ever

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made with inlays. Anyway, I have, I have to get a new one. He's

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been doing some incredible stuff and he's obviously gotten better with

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time and I've seen some people

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showing them off and it's making me jealous. But a

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gorgeous tortoise shell handle here with the crown

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spine. The double edged fighting blade

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S35VN. It's 5 1/2 inches long.

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Near I think it's 5 1/4 inches long actually fits in

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the hand so perfectly. And you know how it is with older stuff. You kind

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of. You don't forget you have it but you take it for granted. And

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today I just had to carry it. It's so beautiful though

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I didn't carry it, it was in my backpack. A a subtle

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little detail here. No sharpening

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choil which I'm starting to come around to. The

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sharpening toil can hang up on clothing and other things if you

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use it as a fighting knife. So that's what I had on

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me today. Let me know what you had on you. I had the super CQC7

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from Emerson Knives. I had the Urban Edge from

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Cold Steel. The push dagger right there on my belt,

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three o' clock position. I had the Nova one By myself. And Hog

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Teeth Knives, by the way, that's that giant knife

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junkie logo is just for me on the prototype. When you buy

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a Hog Tooth Knives slash knife Junkie

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collaboration, the logo is much smaller. I had the EDC

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27 from Nightcore and then the beautiful

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medium fighter from the Crunch into Detail Mercantile.

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All right, speaking of cigars, which I was just a moment ago, the

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second batch of the Knife Junkie

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Zippos has just arrived at my place. So I

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will be ready to ship these shortly. I have four people who have

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said they want them and I think I just got a fifth message.

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So they're selling out quickly. I will order more. I just didn't want to

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order too many and then have be sitting on a bunch of Zippos.

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They, they ship to you with the regular wick

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and the windproof wick. I have bought

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the jet. I like the jets for lighting cigars better than the regular

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old school wick. But I gotta say I do love

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that as well. I just wish the T it tasted better,

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the fuel. But I just want to show this up close. Look at how

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beautifully they nailed my logo. Even with those tight, tight

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lines in the background above that horizon line. They just did

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a beautiful job. This one is mine and I've had it

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rattling around in my pocket a lot and it has not scuffed yet.

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Hopefully it doesn't at all. But the logo

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has remained perfectly un.

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Unmolested. What's the word? I don't know. It just hasn't been

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nicked up. So I really like the work Zippo does. They've been

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doing this for many, many, many years and they're

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doing a beautiful job. So now we have that to offer to you. They're 50

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bucks. Knife junkie zippos for 50 bucks.

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If you want one, let me know. Email me at the knife

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junkiemail.com and if I get enough

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people, I'll. I'll make another batch. Maybe I'll make it bigger this

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time and just pock them and keep them around here and just kind of sell

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them. But it's fun to have to have

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Zippos out there with my logo on them. I've always loved Zippos.

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So there it is. All right, next up. Another thing I'm very

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proud about and happy about is on November 1st

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of 2025, the second batch of TEL

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knives agent 001s will be dropping.

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This is a version of that. We'll be showing them off

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a lot at the end of the show with some other really great

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decal knives, EDC blades. But this is the one

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we're going to be giving away on the during

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on the 20th of November 2025.

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This will be the gentleman junkie giveaway knife. But that beautiful

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blue and black layered G10

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handle though, you can get it in so many different

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materials now. Different materials and many, many different colors.

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So rest assured, if you don't like blue, you can order one in any

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other color you like. You might see some of the foreshadowing up here at

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the top of the screen. Screen. So there is the Knife

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Junkie logo. This one is in

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80 CRV2 I believe I have some that are

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AEBL stainless and 80 CRV2.

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rust resistance as they are all coated with nickel

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boron. And that nickel boron is not only a protective

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coating, it adds A to the Rockwell hardness

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and B it makes it really easy to slip in and

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out of whatever you're sticking it into. Where whether it's

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the sheath or a 50 gallon drum

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of Uzis or an opponent or whatever it is,

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it nickel boron is a material that is found in

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guns. And Tim, Tim

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Kell is a serious firearms

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aficionado and he figured why not put every blade in

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nickel bond? And I love that. So anyway, this is the

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News. All right, first up in Knife Life News, Civivi is doing

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what I love when they do that didn't sound right, but you

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know what I mean. This is one of the my favorite things about Civivi is

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that they have some really cool fixed blade knives.

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This new one that's coming out, it's not quite out yet,

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is the Civivi Coravin. It's a beautiful,

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I'm gonna call it kind of a modern looking Puukko

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with the, with the blade shape. It's, it's 3.75 inches of

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AEDL stainless steel in that drop point.

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What's kind of, I, I hesitate to call it a drop point, but that's

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what they call it. It's like a straight back sort of puukko style

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do everything utility slash outdoors knife. But the

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USP about this one is it's got serrations. This

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is only the second knife out from Civivi with serrations

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and you can see them right there by the Ricasso. Cool thing about this

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is that there are three teeth and each one of

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them are separated with a different distance. The, the

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scalloped part between the two teeth is largest on

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the serration closest to the hand. And then they get

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progressively smaller as you go forward. And

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that's kind of cool. You. So you get some real aggressive

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cutting there. Say you have to cut rope or twine on

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your outdoor adventure. That's probably the best place to do

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it. Or at least it will start the cut. Those big serrations will start the

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cut and you can finish it with the rest of that razor sharp

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AEB L. This one is

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4.34 ounces with a Kydex sheath. Beautiful

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ergonomic handle that sort of brackets the hand

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and has a nice palm swell there. Just, I mean you can just look at

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that and if you have a hand, you know it's going to be comfortable. The

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prototypes have been shown in two different handle materials

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that sort of brown. What's it called?

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Sack cloth. I guess there's another

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word for it which is escaping me. Micarta

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or that G10 that you can see in the blue and

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white. Again, not available yet, but they

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do have a price on them. These will be 94 and

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I would say well worth it. I have been so happy with the Civivi fixed

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blades I've gotten so far and I've only gotten the small fraction,

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but they are awesome. All right, next up,

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buck of the month. Now, as I record this, we are in the end

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of October 2025, but they still have some of these left.

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And it is the 101. The 101 is

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a fixed bladed version of the Emblematic,

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I guess I'll call it 110 Folding Hunter, the knife that

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really put Buck on the map in the modern era. And

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this, as you can see from the picture, is a fixed bladed version of this.

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Now they had this one out for a while and then discontinued it,

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but now it comes out every once in a while for a buck of the

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month. Last time it was a drop point, which in my

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opinion probably very, very useful and workable, but just

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not as compelling as this beautiful California clip.

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This one is now out with. That's

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7 3.75 inches of

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S35VN. Yep, yeah, S35VN on

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this 101 with the Paul Boss heat treat. Paul Boss

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is the boss when it comes to heat treating. He can even make

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420. Screamingly sharp, yes, but

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also very, very tough. So Paul

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Boss heatridon. This handle scales are El Dorado rich

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light with an Anzo pattern that, that

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Jen's Anzo was the first one to do that sort of grooved pattern. So

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it's been called the Anzo pattern for a long time. At least I still call

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it that. But that layered rich light really looks like wood.

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Looks like natural material. Perfect for the fall. Really,

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really beautiful. Comes with a distressed leather sheath.

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And there are still a few of these available at 175

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bucks. So if you're a buck guy, and I wouldn't

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necessarily call myself a buck guy, but I am a huge fan and

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appreciator of the classic Buck models. And actually their

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new range series is really sweet. But I love the old

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110, the 112, the 119, the 120 fixed blades.

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Those are awesome too. So if you're in that camp, you might really

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want to save up your shekels and get that one. But you

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better act fast because the bulk month is almost over.

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All right, next up is from Giant Mouse, a

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company that I again, Jen Zanzo, used to be a part of Giant Mouse

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for the first 10 years. I absolutely love Giant Mouse

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From a distance, I don't have any, but I just, I always love

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their designs. Luckily they, they are always pretty much out of

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my wheelhouse in terms of size. So I've never been, never had

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that moral obligation to spend the money on a Giant mouse. But they

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are beautiful. This new one is the Farley

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V1 Farley V1

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rim. It's called trim.

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If any of you know Eddie Murphy, you know, I just chuckled. Anyway, so

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the, this, the original release of the Fairly or

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Farley, I'm not sure how they actually pronounce it was in

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2022 and it was their, their answer

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to the lack of slip jointage in their lineup.

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And it had Micarta handles and then they had the v2 version

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back then which was the bolstered Micarta versions.

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So V1, no bolsters. V2 bolsters. So the

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V1 trim is actually

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now with contoured titanium. And then they

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hopefully will come out with a V2 which will have the titanium

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but also with bolsters. So this thing is

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beautiful. Nice and slim as the as the name

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would would

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betray. And it has a beautiful

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2.75 inch Elmax spear point blade. I think the

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blade is beautiful. The handle is beautiful. Again, this is ergonomics

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that the eye can sense. You have a wire clip.

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And these are available now at

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225 bucks. Now I am not sure about

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the action on these, but knowing, knowing

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Giant Mouse's reputation, I'm sure it's absolutely

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stellar. And I think that these have a stop pin. So they're

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not a traditional. They. I know they have a stop pin just from looking at

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it. They are not traditional slip joints that use the

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kick on the Ricasso to stop it, stop the blade when you close it.

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They use a stop pin against that sharpening notch. So

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absolutely beautiful Again from Giant Mouse. All

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right, last up in my in the knife

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life news today from Victorinox, a company

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that. Well, it doesn't change things too often,

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but here's a nice big change. This is their Alox

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Refined Collection Alox are those aluminum oxide

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handled knives that we all know and love. I got a bunch of them.

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The one thing I don't like about the Alox models parenthetically

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is no toothpick because I use that all the time. When I have my

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slip. My Victorinox is on me and no

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tweezers but. And you think with this model they might

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figure out a way to do that, but they haven't. But that's okay. I'm not

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throwing shade. Three models in this refined

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collection. Now you're looking, if you're looking at the screen you can see that there

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are odd cutouts that we don't see ordinarily on

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Victorinox knives. The one cutout that

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concerns me is on the the

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bottom side of it because it just it you can

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see kind of the works of the slip joint there and, and I'm wondering

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if that will introduce gunk and muck into the situation

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and kind of jam up the action

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on that side of the slip joint. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

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Beautiful cutouts on the top which I like a lot. And then

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some of that knurled texturing but not on the whole thing. And

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then the rest of it has a sort of brushed bark looking texturing

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on those aluminum oxide handles. Okay, what are the

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unique selling propositions of these besides the new look? The first

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is a locking main blade. There is a locking

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leaf there. It has a tab that extends out like an

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old school liner lock and it locks that blade

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open. I love that. I love that aspect. The second

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USP here is the pocket clip. It has a

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pocket clip, kind of a deep carry loop over

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spring pocket clip. It does present the blade tip down

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but that's not such a concern in this case because it is

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a slip joint. There is no, I'm not a slip joint but it is a

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two handed opening knife. So all of the reasons

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we don't like a tip down modern folder don't really come into

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play with this one. Three models of

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this. The One Fold which is has a single blade

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locking blade. The Synergy A word I absolutely

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despise. But I can talk about that another time with a

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blade nail file, bottle opener and a flat flathead

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screwdriver. And then the boxer opener, that

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funny looking tool at the very top there. And then the

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Synergy X which has all of those tools

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plus scissors. These are available now starting at

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56 bucks for the one fold and rounding the

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corner at 96 bucks for the Synergy

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X. Very exciting news. I wish it had

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a bale. I do love the bales on my, on my

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Victorinox's, but it has a pocket clip so that sort of

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precludes the bail. Right? I mean, doesn't for me, but might

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for you. So go check those out and

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you'll be excited to see them. All right, coming up, we're going to go to

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the first tool, but I want to remind you that you can

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You get enough emails anyway. But I want to get in your email

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listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. Here's some cool knife history

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with the knife junkies. The first tool. If you ever

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hold an ulu in your hand, you'll feel something ancient,

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something older than almost any other knife design still in use.

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The ulu isn't just a tool. It's a living artifact of

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survival, culture and ingenuity, born in one

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of the harshest environments on Earth, the Arctic.

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For thousands of years, Inuit, Yuptik and Elliot

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women used the ulu for nearly everything. Skinning

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seals, cutting hair, slicing meat, shaping hides,

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even trimming the food for their children. It was a

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multi tool before multi tools existed. But its

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shape is what truly sets it apart. A crescent blade

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that rocks gracefully against a cutting surface, powered not by

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downward force, but by leverage and precision.

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Early ulus were crafted from whatever the Arctic offered.

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Before metal, there was slate, shale, or sharpened bone

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lashed to a driftwood handle. When European

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explorers brought steel to the north, the design hardly changed.

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Only the materials did. That's how perfect the

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form already was. Each ulu was personal,

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00:29:16.020 --> 00:29:19.780
passed from mother to daughter. It carried family, lineage and

471
00:29:19.780 --> 00:29:23.620
spiritual weight. Some were engraved with simple carvings,

472
00:29:23.699 --> 00:29:26.820
others decorated with ivory or antler handles.

473
00:29:27.220 --> 00:29:31.020
And when an Inuit woman passed away, if not handed

474
00:29:31.020 --> 00:29:34.740
down to the next generation, her ulu was often buried with

475
00:29:34.740 --> 00:29:38.570
her, not as a possession, but as an extension of

476
00:29:38.570 --> 00:29:42.290
who she was. There's a quiet poetry in that,

477
00:29:42.450 --> 00:29:46.130
a tool so tied to daily life that it became a symbol of

478
00:29:46.130 --> 00:29:48.770
womanhood, care and continuity.

479
00:29:49.730 --> 00:29:53.490
In the Inuit tradition, men might make the blade, but women

480
00:29:53.490 --> 00:29:57.170
gave it meaning through their work. The ulu wasn't just

481
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used, it was lived. Even today, you can find

482
00:30:00.650 --> 00:30:04.390
ulus being handmade in in Northern Alaska and

483
00:30:04.390 --> 00:30:07.750
Canada sold both as practical kitchen tools and

484
00:30:07.830 --> 00:30:11.470
cultural treasures. Modern versions may use stainless

485
00:30:11.470 --> 00:30:14.710
steel and polymer handles, but the soul of the blade,

486
00:30:15.110 --> 00:30:17.910
that perfect arc, that perfect balance,

487
00:30:18.390 --> 00:30:21.870
remains unchanged. It's rare for a design to

488
00:30:21.870 --> 00:30:25.430
survive untouched for millennia, but the ULU has done

489
00:30:25.510 --> 00:30:28.550
just that. It's an Arctic's signature tool,

490
00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:33.020
one that connects modern hands to ancestors who carved,

491
00:30:33.260 --> 00:30:37.020
fed and thrived in a frozen world. Because

492
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when a knife works perfectly, it doesn't need to

493
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evolve, it simply endures. Now let's

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store today@the knifejunkie.com launch and turn your

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passion into a business. So we're going to be talking about Tea

503
00:31:17.580 --> 00:31:21.180
Kel knives coming up here, especially their best EDC

504
00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:24.760
models. But I wanted to show you the very first

505
00:31:24.840 --> 00:31:28.520
Tekal knife I ever got. This one fascinated me

506
00:31:28.600 --> 00:31:32.360
and man, it got me. It got me

507
00:31:32.360 --> 00:31:35.640
right down the rabbit hole. This is the

508
00:31:37.560 --> 00:31:41.080
guardian. I'm sorry, I almost said defender. This is the guardian.

509
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.000
There's also a night guard which is a smaller version of this,

510
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.560
but this is the one that really fascinated me because of the

511
00:31:48.560 --> 00:31:51.760
audacity of that crazy bevel.

512
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:55.440
That bevel is just designed

513
00:31:55.840 --> 00:31:59.560
sheerly for self defense. As you can see, the bevel

514
00:31:59.560 --> 00:32:02.960
is very short, very shallow, extremely oblique.

515
00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:07.520
You can see it looks like a diamond in cross section here.

516
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:11.400
You are not cutting any salami with this. You

517
00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:14.960
are not slicing lunch meat with this. This is

518
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:18.960
100% about gashing, stabbing,

519
00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:22.560
thrusting and tearing. It is a super,

520
00:32:23.360 --> 00:32:25.920
it's a super nasty blade. It's pretty heavy,

521
00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:30.600
relatively speaking, for a knife of its size due to

522
00:32:30.600 --> 00:32:34.320
the full slab that you have

523
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:37.200
up to that oblique bevel there.

524
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.730
This thing I, when it first came out, you know, Tim, Tim of

525
00:32:41.730 --> 00:32:45.330
Tel Knives was admittedly more of a

526
00:32:45.330 --> 00:32:48.970
gun guy than a knife guy when he first started. And

527
00:32:49.450 --> 00:32:53.170
there were some things, some, some of the rules that he

528
00:32:53.170 --> 00:32:56.490
broke as a gun guy and not a knife guy really

529
00:32:57.290 --> 00:33:00.730
is what got him the attention and,

530
00:33:00.810 --> 00:33:04.650
and, and, well, I should say just the attention and

531
00:33:05.210 --> 00:33:08.340
infamy that made him who he is today.

532
00:33:08.900 --> 00:33:12.580
Who would ever put a bevel on a knife like this? Especially

533
00:33:12.580 --> 00:33:15.980
in this day and age when everyone's talking about Fin behind the edge and

534
00:33:15.980 --> 00:33:19.740
slicey. Well, Tim did and it really

535
00:33:19.740 --> 00:33:23.420
launched him. Now this is, you might look at this and

536
00:33:23.420 --> 00:33:27.220
think, well that's just too oblique. That's just too thick behind the

537
00:33:27.220 --> 00:33:31.020
edge to do anything. And all you got to do is take

538
00:33:31.020 --> 00:33:34.110
this through some spare ribs or swing at

539
00:33:34.590 --> 00:33:38.270
any soft material with this and you'll see what it does. It

540
00:33:38.270 --> 00:33:42.110
yawns open, it powers through soft materials

541
00:33:42.590 --> 00:33:46.390
like you would not believe. Actually, you can believe it. If

542
00:33:46.390 --> 00:33:49.630
you just look this knife up, you'll see videos of him

543
00:33:50.510 --> 00:33:54.190
going to town on his pork man. With this pork man is a

544
00:33:54.590 --> 00:33:58.350
couple of thick pork loins wrapped around PVC

545
00:33:58.790 --> 00:34:02.470
tubing and then wrapped with seven layers of Saran wrap to

546
00:34:02.550 --> 00:34:06.350
to this to approximate skin. And

547
00:34:06.350 --> 00:34:10.150
you, you will see what this thing does. It is admittedly

548
00:34:10.150 --> 00:34:13.110
kind of a funky looking knife. It's a three way,

549
00:34:13.910 --> 00:34:17.190
you know, tri edged sheepsfoot or

550
00:34:17.430 --> 00:34:21.030
wharncliffe. Depends on, on what you want to call it. But

551
00:34:21.430 --> 00:34:25.110
three distinct edges there. This thing is just wicked

552
00:34:25.110 --> 00:34:28.960
and nasty and I'm glad I have it. I do not carry it

553
00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:32.800
often to be 100% honest, because there are other tkal knives I just

554
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:36.280
prefer. But it's on the warthog handle.

555
00:34:36.600 --> 00:34:40.040
So if you're looking at this, you can see the purple. Here

556
00:34:40.520 --> 00:34:44.120
is the handle from the warthog which fits

557
00:34:44.120 --> 00:34:47.800
perfectly in hand and is nice and small and fits on the belt easily.

558
00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:52.160
But I do have this with the sentry grip. So you

559
00:34:52.160 --> 00:34:55.780
can see how this side of the G10, the full black side

560
00:34:56.420 --> 00:35:00.140
incorporates a ring on there and that gives you a better grip in

561
00:35:00.140 --> 00:35:03.540
standard grip like this gives you more of a pommel

562
00:35:04.100 --> 00:35:07.820
to resist centrifugal force. But also if you

563
00:35:07.820 --> 00:35:11.140
carry it in such a way that you're drawing it, ring finger,

564
00:35:11.300 --> 00:35:14.740
forefinger first, it gives you that sort of karambit style

565
00:35:14.740 --> 00:35:18.500
engagement. Now for me, I wouldn't do much flipping with this. I'm not

566
00:35:18.500 --> 00:35:22.110
much of a flipping, flipping guy. I've hurt myself enough

567
00:35:22.110 --> 00:35:25.870
with curved karambits to just resist the urge

568
00:35:25.870 --> 00:35:29.630
to flip. But that ring is superior

569
00:35:29.630 --> 00:35:33.430
for drawing the knife. I absolutely love it and I

570
00:35:33.430 --> 00:35:37.230
love it even more so on other, other knives. But.

571
00:35:38.110 --> 00:35:41.670
So this is the guardian. You can still get it. If that style

572
00:35:41.670 --> 00:35:45.350
of bevel is just not versatile enough for you and your

573
00:35:45.350 --> 00:35:49.100
purposes. Check out the night guard. It's a, it's a

574
00:35:49.100 --> 00:35:52.700
little bit shorter and it's a similar shaped handle, but it's

575
00:35:52.700 --> 00:35:56.460
or similar shaped blade but it's got a swedge and

576
00:35:56.460 --> 00:35:59.900
a much higher bevel so you can use it for more,

577
00:36:00.300 --> 00:36:03.740
more cutting chores than just defending yourself.

578
00:36:04.300 --> 00:36:07.980
So go check that out. All right, now let's talk about

579
00:36:09.260 --> 00:36:12.840
Tekal knives. But before we do, I want to show off some of the cool

580
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:16.360
merch we have. This is new stuff that Jim has just come up with.

581
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:19.640
Jim is always busy at work and

582
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.360
making, coming up with new witty maxims like these and

583
00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:28.200
designs for them. Don't make me unfold this, he says.

584
00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:31.640
And I like it because, you know, I'm especially fond

585
00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:35.760
of the more combative style knives. And here this is

586
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:39.000
a sort of a tip of the hat to those of us who like to

587
00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:42.680
carry knives for self prot protection you need. It's

588
00:36:42.680 --> 00:36:46.400
grilling season still. I mean, for me it's griddle season all

589
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.040
year round, but you're still going to be outside cooking or inside.

590
00:36:50.040 --> 00:36:53.880
I made a big pot of sauce and meatballs just this week

591
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.560
and I wish I had this apron on me because it would have saved me

592
00:36:57.560 --> 00:37:01.360
the shirt I was wearing. You can also put on a hat with this on

593
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:05.160
a T shirt or a great number of other things, mugs and other

594
00:37:05.160 --> 00:37:08.770
such stuff. So if you're a coffee maker, you're a guy who wears shirts,

595
00:37:09.010 --> 00:37:12.650
maybe you wear hats, maybe you cook. Check us out. Go to the knife

596
00:37:12.650 --> 00:37:16.250
junkie.com shop. There are many pages of

597
00:37:16.250 --> 00:37:19.330
merch there with really cool logos and,

598
00:37:20.050 --> 00:37:23.850
and art on them. So go check it out. The

599
00:37:23.850 --> 00:37:27.650
knife junkie.com shop. All right,

600
00:37:27.890 --> 00:37:31.410
so to head up this conversation about TEL knives,

601
00:37:31.490 --> 00:37:35.150
especially the EDC TEL knives, which is kind of what they're

602
00:37:35.150 --> 00:37:38.710
born and bred for, but they have expanded and they have a lot more

603
00:37:39.270 --> 00:37:42.790
larger knives out there. We're going to talk about the launch

604
00:37:43.110 --> 00:37:46.910
of the Agent 001. I just said launch like

605
00:37:46.910 --> 00:37:50.430
I'm from New York. I don't know why I said it like that. But let's

606
00:37:50.430 --> 00:37:53.750
talk about these. They are really cool, super refined.

607
00:37:54.230 --> 00:37:57.870
As I mentioned, the first one that I

608
00:37:57.870 --> 00:38:01.620
showed off today is the blue one, which we're going to be giving away

609
00:38:02.100 --> 00:38:05.780
to a lucky gentleman junkie on November 20th this

610
00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:09.580
month of in this year of 2025. But I'm going

611
00:38:09.580 --> 00:38:13.140
to show you a little cavalcade of agent

612
00:38:13.140 --> 00:38:16.740
001s here. So first off,

613
00:38:16.980 --> 00:38:20.460
you can get the 001 now with the badger

614
00:38:20.460 --> 00:38:24.220
claw leather sheath. Truth be told, this is how I've been carrying

615
00:38:24.220 --> 00:38:27.860
it. The most recent recently because this has been my main

616
00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:31.540
blade. Often times I just dropped the whole thing in my pocket.

617
00:38:31.700 --> 00:38:35.020
You can see from the shape of that sheath, it nestles down

618
00:38:35.020 --> 00:38:38.180
perfectly into the bottom of a man's

619
00:38:39.140 --> 00:38:42.660
jeans pocket. I'm not saying you got to be a man to buy this, but

620
00:38:42.660 --> 00:38:46.060
if you're a woman, you know, you don't have pockets deep enough, so you might

621
00:38:46.060 --> 00:38:49.460
just want to get a clip. But I just put it right in like this

622
00:38:50.910 --> 00:38:54.630
and I can just draw the knife directly out. So something you

623
00:38:54.630 --> 00:38:57.870
may have noticed, something I've been talking about a lot is that

624
00:38:59.470 --> 00:39:03.230
Tim has outsourced some of his milling, or

625
00:39:03.230 --> 00:39:06.909
much of his milling for his blades to Nick Chuprin

626
00:39:06.909 --> 00:39:10.750
of NCC Knives. An absolute perfectionist and

627
00:39:11.230 --> 00:39:14.870
amazing machinist. He's out of New

628
00:39:14.870 --> 00:39:17.920
Hampshire. You might know Nick from his

629
00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:21.840
beautiful folding knives. Well, he's taken all of the

630
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:27.920
meticulousness of making those knives and put it into fixed blade

631
00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:31.240
knives. Look at the beautiful chamfering on this. Look at the

632
00:39:31.240 --> 00:39:34.560
striations in the bevels here.

633
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:38.720
Beautifully, beautifully milled by Nick and NCC

634
00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:41.840
Knives as a collaboration with Tkel.

635
00:39:43.210 --> 00:39:46.890
And not only is this very much

636
00:39:46.890 --> 00:39:50.650
kinder in the hand than the first run, I love

637
00:39:50.650 --> 00:39:54.370
the first run. I still carry those all the time, but they're

638
00:39:54.370 --> 00:39:58.090
nice and soft on the edges here so they don't bite into

639
00:39:58.090 --> 00:40:01.850
the hand. He's reduced the number of gimps on the thumb

640
00:40:01.850 --> 00:40:05.290
ramp from five to four bigger gyms. I actually

641
00:40:05.370 --> 00:40:09.090
rather like that. My original design had five smaller ones.

642
00:40:09.090 --> 00:40:12.880
They've gone to four, four larger ones. And I really, really

643
00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:16.520
like it actually. It's more comfortable. And the, the thumb

644
00:40:16.520 --> 00:40:19.880
really buries deep in there. We have

645
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:23.560
battle lock grips on this one. I have a bunch of battle lock grips. I'm

646
00:40:23.560 --> 00:40:26.760
going to show you in a minute. Beautiful

647
00:40:26.760 --> 00:40:30.240
saturated color. This is something I'm loving about these battle lock

648
00:40:30.240 --> 00:40:33.880
grips. Not only does that stone texturing portion

649
00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:37.660
in the center really grip, I mean, it grips beautifully. I

650
00:40:37.660 --> 00:40:41.220
mean, like, but it doesn't harsh the hand and it

651
00:40:41.220 --> 00:40:44.540
doesn't like, destroy your jeans somehow, maybe because

652
00:40:44.860 --> 00:40:48.580
those tiny little pebbles are very, very small. But in

653
00:40:48.580 --> 00:40:52.300
addition, with the battle grip here on the

654
00:40:52.300 --> 00:40:56.060
sides, that's this tkal knives sort of patented

655
00:40:56.060 --> 00:40:59.740
grip pattern here. It just feels so good in hand.

656
00:41:00.060 --> 00:41:03.900
This is another one of those knife handles that you can just look at visually

657
00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:08.020
and tell how ergonomically sound it is. Now I,

658
00:41:08.820 --> 00:41:12.580
when presenting the original agent design

659
00:41:13.060 --> 00:41:16.860
to Tim, he said, I love that blade. We're going to, we're going to

660
00:41:16.860 --> 00:41:20.579
nail that blade. And they did exactly as I drew it.

661
00:41:20.660 --> 00:41:24.060
But he said, I think the handle needs a little work. And he went to

662
00:41:24.060 --> 00:41:27.900
town and this is what he came up with, I had

663
00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:31.700
a more severe choil here for the pinky and

664
00:41:31.700 --> 00:41:35.540
here for the four finger heat kind of made it more graceful and

665
00:41:35.540 --> 00:41:38.820
arced and man, it feels so good in hand.

666
00:41:40.100 --> 00:41:43.700
We added the jimping on the back. Three here for my wife and my two

667
00:41:43.700 --> 00:41:47.140
daughters. Three here for the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.

668
00:41:47.540 --> 00:41:50.700
It doesn't have to be for you if that's not your thing. Totally get it.

669
00:41:50.700 --> 00:41:53.820
But that's what, what my what I was thinking, I was thinking how cool it

670
00:41:53.820 --> 00:41:57.580
is that say the Kukris or all of the

671
00:41:57.580 --> 00:42:01.390
Filipino blades and the Malaysian blades have different

672
00:42:01.390 --> 00:42:05.230
spiritual aspects to the designs that you don't need to know about and

673
00:42:05.310 --> 00:42:09.110
to make them effective but they are there nonetheless. And that's what I was

674
00:42:09.110 --> 00:42:12.070
thinking when I came up with that. So don't worry, don't have to be a

675
00:42:12.070 --> 00:42:14.990
Catholic own and appreciate these.

676
00:42:15.710 --> 00:42:19.550
So let me show you this. Now this is the standard sheath.

677
00:42:19.550 --> 00:42:22.510
It ships with awesome, awesome

678
00:42:22.910 --> 00:42:26.590
slender Kydex sheaths that Tim

679
00:42:26.590 --> 00:42:30.230
has kind of made his name on for, for

680
00:42:30.230 --> 00:42:33.990
serious everyday carry. But this one, now they don't

681
00:42:33.990 --> 00:42:37.790
ship with this clip but you can, you can purchase that extra and I

682
00:42:37.790 --> 00:42:41.069
highly recommend it. I am, I'm a total convert to this.

683
00:42:41.630 --> 00:42:45.190
I love the DCC clips for vertical carry but for horizontal

684
00:42:45.190 --> 00:42:48.670
carry I am 100% behind these ulti clips here.

685
00:42:48.830 --> 00:42:52.420
This is an Ulti Clip wire clip that

686
00:42:53.060 --> 00:42:56.860
Tim co designed with the, with the

687
00:42:56.860 --> 00:43:00.660
late great gentleman who started Ulticlip,

688
00:43:00.660 --> 00:43:04.100
may he rest in peace. But this thing is great. You can

689
00:43:04.100 --> 00:43:06.980
spread it out to fit any sort of

690
00:43:07.460 --> 00:43:11.020
grommet or lashing option, you know, within

691
00:43:11.020 --> 00:43:14.780
reason. But this could go even further and

692
00:43:14.780 --> 00:43:18.180
I could put it over here if I wanted to, but it keeps it really

693
00:43:18.260 --> 00:43:21.740
close to the belt, close to the body. There's very little

694
00:43:21.740 --> 00:43:25.460
standoff distance between the blade and your belt and it

695
00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:29.220
just holds perfectly and very stout. I, I, I

696
00:43:29.220 --> 00:43:32.500
thought just from looking at it that it would turn on the belt, it would

697
00:43:32.500 --> 00:43:35.940
swivel. It doesn't at all. Keeps it right where it needs to be.

698
00:43:36.180 --> 00:43:39.900
Here again is another beautifully saturated and it's funny

699
00:43:39.900 --> 00:43:43.690
to call this saturated because I've shown you two pretty dull colors

700
00:43:43.690 --> 00:43:47.450
in that olive drab and this desert tan. But when you get

701
00:43:47.450 --> 00:43:51.210
your eyes on these as well as your hands, you'll see how really

702
00:43:51.210 --> 00:43:55.050
great these battle lock grips are. All right,

703
00:43:55.050 --> 00:43:58.850
now I'm going to show you two special editions that are shipping right now.

704
00:43:58.929 --> 00:44:02.690
So these knives as you see them right here, are shipping out soon enough

705
00:44:02.930 --> 00:44:06.130
November 1st. But you better jump on them because they're not unlimited.

706
00:44:07.490 --> 00:44:11.000
But if you want one of these two special editions right

707
00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:14.800
now, you could buy it right now because they're already ready to go.

708
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:18.440
Now how TKL knives works, you order it, say, you order it with this

709
00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:22.280
blue, blue grip. Say I want the blue

710
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:26.120
grip on the, on the 001. Then they make your knife, they have the blades

711
00:44:26.120 --> 00:44:29.800
ready to go. They put the, they select the

712
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:33.560
handle you want, make the handle, put it on, select the sheath you want

713
00:44:33.560 --> 00:44:36.200
and get all that ready. They put the edge on the knife and then the,

714
00:44:36.270 --> 00:44:39.950
they ship it to you. But these are already made. And I've got

715
00:44:39.950 --> 00:44:43.310
two special editions to show you. First has that

716
00:44:44.110 --> 00:44:47.670
beautiful cobalt blue battle

717
00:44:47.670 --> 00:44:51.430
lock grip. Again, super saturated color that I love

718
00:44:51.430 --> 00:44:54.990
so much. Check out the blade. This is

719
00:44:54.990 --> 00:44:58.670
the storm edition. I still have the oil on there. Maybe just

720
00:44:58.670 --> 00:45:01.630
for our purposes here, I'll wipe the oil off.

721
00:45:03.480 --> 00:45:07.200
So you got a laser etched lightning pattern on

722
00:45:07.200 --> 00:45:10.360
there that is so cool. And it's perfect for this time of year.

723
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:13.880
Perfect for any time of year. But I love it for fall because,

724
00:45:14.520 --> 00:45:17.880
you know, creepy movies and thunderstorms go hand in hand.

725
00:45:19.080 --> 00:45:22.760
But you got the same super sharp blade.

726
00:45:23.240 --> 00:45:26.840
These are coming in aedl. So these are

727
00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:30.480
stainless. Am I right about that? Okay.

728
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.240
Honestly, I don't know. All TCAL knives come in

729
00:45:34.240 --> 00:45:38.000
either AEBL or ADCRV2, but they're

730
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:41.760
all coated with, with that nickel boron coating,

731
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:45.000
so it kind of doesn't matter. Do you like a tougher,

732
00:45:46.520 --> 00:45:50.320
do you like a tougher, more outdoorsy steel

733
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:54.160
in the ADC RV2 or do you like a more EDC style

734
00:45:54.160 --> 00:45:57.950
with the aebl? Uh, really, they're kind of interchangeable for me.

735
00:45:57.950 --> 00:46:01.710
They kind of don't matter. But both great steels. And

736
00:46:02.750 --> 00:46:06.190
look at that really cool lightened pattern on there.

737
00:46:06.830 --> 00:46:09.790
Of course it comes with whatever handle color you want.

738
00:46:11.630 --> 00:46:14.430
Actually, that's not true. These ready to ship ones have

739
00:46:15.070 --> 00:46:18.710
handle colors that you can choose from. It's not like getting a custom

740
00:46:18.710 --> 00:46:22.270
one here. Next one is, and I love this, especially

741
00:46:22.510 --> 00:46:26.030
for, for Halloween. You can tell from that. Again,

742
00:46:26.110 --> 00:46:29.790
super saturated lime green. You know what this is going to

743
00:46:29.790 --> 00:46:33.470
be? That's right. It's a Zombie edition. Remember

744
00:46:33.470 --> 00:46:36.950
when zombies were everywhere? I mean, not literally,

745
00:46:36.950 --> 00:46:40.790
thank God, but the zombie craze that started

746
00:46:40.790 --> 00:46:44.630
with the Walking Dead and, and ran its way through knives. There

747
00:46:44.630 --> 00:46:47.830
were, there was a long period of that. Well, at this point, this is kind

748
00:46:47.830 --> 00:46:51.650
of a tip of the hat. This is sort of a nostalgia bid

749
00:46:51.650 --> 00:46:55.370
here with the, with the Zombie Blood splatter on

750
00:46:55.370 --> 00:46:58.930
the blade. Of course, that is laser engraved

751
00:46:58.930 --> 00:47:02.650
or not engraved. Laser etched in there I guess is the word.

752
00:47:03.530 --> 00:47:07.290
And then you have that beautiful green handle. Now these, the

753
00:47:07.290 --> 00:47:10.930
zombie edition is shipping only in

754
00:47:10.930 --> 00:47:14.610
this green handle. And I love

755
00:47:14.610 --> 00:47:18.450
it. This will be what I carry on Halloween. I can't wait.

756
00:47:18.770 --> 00:47:22.290
And, well, I'll probably carry both of them, but

757
00:47:22.370 --> 00:47:26.210
I really love the look of this. I don't have too many

758
00:47:26.210 --> 00:47:29.770
zombie blades in my collection, so I'm really

759
00:47:29.770 --> 00:47:33.370
happy that the one I do have is an agent 001. How

760
00:47:33.370 --> 00:47:36.690
beautiful that is. All right, I'm gonna set this down here.

761
00:47:36.930 --> 00:47:40.770
That is representation of the full line

762
00:47:40.850 --> 00:47:43.890
of the Agent 001 series.

763
00:47:44.450 --> 00:47:48.250
You've got the Ulti clip here. And then this is

764
00:47:48.250 --> 00:47:51.570
the clip that they ship with. And this clip is actually really

765
00:47:51.570 --> 00:47:55.330
awesome. I love this. And if you have a

766
00:47:55.330 --> 00:47:58.650
couple extras of the. You could always swap. If you say you buy an

767
00:47:58.650 --> 00:48:02.490
aftermarket clip like this, you can take this off and put it on your favorite

768
00:48:02.490 --> 00:48:06.290
holster. It'll work on the holsters for in the waistband carry.

769
00:48:07.420 --> 00:48:11.100
All right, let me, let me remove these very, very, very sharp

770
00:48:11.100 --> 00:48:14.940
knives and let me do it very carefully so as not to cut

771
00:48:14.940 --> 00:48:18.220
myself. I've cut myself on, on camera here so many times

772
00:48:18.700 --> 00:48:22.540
that not all about that, as the kids say.

773
00:48:22.540 --> 00:48:26.140
Do they say that? I think they say. All right, next up is also from

774
00:48:26.140 --> 00:48:29.260
the Agent series. This is the agent 002.

775
00:48:29.740 --> 00:48:33.550
Now this is taking the agent handle to. So this handle

776
00:48:33.550 --> 00:48:37.270
that Tim and I collaborated on launched the entire

777
00:48:37.510 --> 00:48:40.790
agent series. And the second one is

778
00:48:41.270 --> 00:48:44.910
borrowing from the Night Guard. So you see that really

779
00:48:44.910 --> 00:48:48.510
great looking modified sheepsfoot modified wharncliffe

780
00:48:48.510 --> 00:48:51.910
blade on this agent

781
00:48:51.910 --> 00:48:55.510
handle. I've told the story many times, but I'll tell it again

782
00:48:55.510 --> 00:48:59.150
because that's the DeMarco way to retell stories

783
00:48:59.150 --> 00:49:02.320
over and over. Just ask my dad or my brother

784
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:06.600
or my sister. I think my mom's the only one who

785
00:49:06.600 --> 00:49:09.440
doesn't indulge in all that. But. So this is the

786
00:49:10.240 --> 00:49:13.600
knife I used to install this

787
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:16.880
flooring in our pool. My wife is a pool board member,

788
00:49:17.600 --> 00:49:21.320
much to her dismay at our local pool.

789
00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:24.760
You wouldn't believe how crazy political a pool board can be. But

790
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:28.480
anyway, so she bought a whole bunch of

791
00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:31.880
this flooring to put on the pool

792
00:49:32.200 --> 00:49:36.040
on the tiled floor in the locker rooms. And

793
00:49:36.040 --> 00:49:39.640
this knife was perfect for putting that damn

794
00:49:39.640 --> 00:49:42.760
pain in the ass together because a. This

795
00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:46.760
wharncliffe blade with that straight edge was perfect for cutting really hard

796
00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:50.600
plastic. I horsed this through a lot of really hard plastic.

797
00:49:51.160 --> 00:49:54.730
And then this awesome handle, which was originally

798
00:49:54.730 --> 00:49:58.450
designed for thumb capping for. For reverse grip,

799
00:49:58.930 --> 00:50:02.570
turned out to be a great hammer. I used this so

800
00:50:02.570 --> 00:50:05.090
much to hammer pieces of these

801
00:50:06.610 --> 00:50:10.290
floor tiles together. And the Jims

802
00:50:10.290 --> 00:50:13.850
actually worked great to grip kind of like the knurling on the

803
00:50:13.850 --> 00:50:17.690
hammer pole of a roofing hammer. It just grabbed into whatever

804
00:50:17.690 --> 00:50:20.410
I was hammering into, especially the soft.

805
00:50:21.210 --> 00:50:24.850
The. The. The tough material I was using that.

806
00:50:24.850 --> 00:50:27.050
That I was pounding this into.

807
00:50:28.410 --> 00:50:32.210
Something I failed to mention when I was showing off the 001 is

808
00:50:32.210 --> 00:50:35.610
that this terminates in a comfortable yet effective

809
00:50:35.690 --> 00:50:39.530
glass breaker here. Like when you put your thumb here, it's right

810
00:50:39.530 --> 00:50:42.410
in the nook of your thumb, so you don't even feel

811
00:50:43.690 --> 00:50:47.370
this sort of diamond shape, that pyramidal shape

812
00:50:47.370 --> 00:50:51.050
there. But it works great as a glass cutter, not glass cutter. I'm

813
00:50:51.050 --> 00:50:54.690
sorry, glass breaker. And remember, if you ever have

814
00:50:54.690 --> 00:50:58.330
to break glass in, say, a car, do it in the corner.

815
00:50:59.050 --> 00:51:02.850
You'll. You'll see a lot of great videos of people trying to break the

816
00:51:02.850 --> 00:51:06.570
glass right in the center. Doesn't work, but once you do it in the

817
00:51:06.570 --> 00:51:10.250
corner, just shatters easily. Also, you don't want to do it in the

818
00:51:10.250 --> 00:51:13.520
middle because if you did make it through, you'd be smacking whoever's in there in

819
00:51:13.520 --> 00:51:17.080
the face with the butt of your knife. But the beautiful

820
00:51:17.080 --> 00:51:20.800
agent 002 right here. Love this

821
00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:23.880
knife. Now, this is wearing the. The

822
00:51:25.080 --> 00:51:28.840
woodland burl G10. So tan, brown

823
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:32.640
and black, all swirled together. Not in layers like you saw on

824
00:51:32.640 --> 00:51:36.320
the blue and black, blue and black, blue and black. But each layer

825
00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:39.770
has swirls. And this is something that Tim worked with the

826
00:51:39.770 --> 00:51:43.330
G10 supplier to actually create. So really, really

827
00:51:43.330 --> 00:51:46.570
cool. All right, next up is the

828
00:51:46.570 --> 00:51:50.290
agent 003. Now, the 003

829
00:51:51.170 --> 00:51:54.889
is with the night Stalker blade,

830
00:51:54.889 --> 00:51:58.490
the very popular night stalker blade on that

831
00:51:58.490 --> 00:52:01.810
agent handle. So here it is.

832
00:52:02.210 --> 00:52:05.490
You can see this one is when they first started working

833
00:52:06.150 --> 00:52:08.790
with ncc. You can see the, the.

834
00:52:10.950 --> 00:52:14.390
The milling lines on the bevel, but a little more subtle.

835
00:52:14.870 --> 00:52:18.550
Everyone loved the mill line, so they made them slightly more pronounced. Now

836
00:52:18.710 --> 00:52:21.909
has great, great jimping. Really

837
00:52:21.909 --> 00:52:25.670
grabs the. Grabs the thumb, though. I have it on

838
00:52:25.670 --> 00:52:29.510
good word that the new ones will have more chamfering on the side

839
00:52:29.510 --> 00:52:33.270
of those jimps, making them less sharp on the sides, but

840
00:52:33.770 --> 00:52:37.490
still as effective. This is wearing blue jean

841
00:52:37.490 --> 00:52:40.690
Micarta. I love, love denim

842
00:52:40.690 --> 00:52:44.450
Micarta. I'm a huge Micarta fan. I

843
00:52:44.450 --> 00:52:46.810
love the burlap. I love the canvas. I love the.

844
00:52:48.490 --> 00:52:52.210
The linen with that real tight weave. But I'm especially fond

845
00:52:52.210 --> 00:52:55.850
of the denim. I'm a big blue jeans wearer

846
00:52:56.170 --> 00:52:59.930
as it is for most of us are. But I love the look

847
00:52:59.930 --> 00:53:02.830
of it. It's, it's. I don't know, it's wistful

848
00:53:03.390 --> 00:53:06.950
and. But what's really the, the special part about this

849
00:53:06.950 --> 00:53:10.710
blade is about this knife is that blade. You've got a

850
00:53:10.710 --> 00:53:14.550
beautiful drop point. It almost looks like a clip point to me. With a full

851
00:53:14.550 --> 00:53:18.150
length swedge. This is great for piercing. You've got a

852
00:53:18.150 --> 00:53:21.910
center line point. If you align the point with the screws on

853
00:53:21.910 --> 00:53:25.670
the handle, it's exactly down the center. So you get great

854
00:53:25.670 --> 00:53:29.360
utility, great self defense capability in this and

855
00:53:29.520 --> 00:53:31.440
then just great everyday carry

856
00:53:33.040 --> 00:53:35.920
utility out of this. Admittedly, the

857
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:39.440
agent001 is a bit combative with its double edge.

858
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:43.600
This one can do double duty. It's combative

859
00:53:43.600 --> 00:53:47.280
but also utilitarian. Also it's

860
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:50.760
probably more legal in some areas as it's single

861
00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:54.000
edge. Okay. Last of my collection

862
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:58.680
of the agent series Tim just sent to me. And this thing

863
00:53:58.680 --> 00:54:02.000
is so sweet. This is the agent 004. Now the

864
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:05.320
004 is based on the Puukko

865
00:54:05.640 --> 00:54:09.240
blade. The Puukko from. From Northern Europe.

866
00:54:09.560 --> 00:54:13.160
Kind of a do everything outdoors blade. This

867
00:54:13.160 --> 00:54:16.960
one with that super saturated pink bad

868
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:20.670
lock. Yes. My daughters want this when I die. Yes. I

869
00:54:20.670 --> 00:54:24.430
mean it's gonna. Yeah. Every time you try, you take off a

870
00:54:24.430 --> 00:54:28.110
sheath, it'll fly off the tcal unless you stop

871
00:54:28.110 --> 00:54:31.910
it from doing so. So there it is. Now this one is just

872
00:54:31.910 --> 00:54:35.710
under 3 inches and I got a little, little

873
00:54:35.710 --> 00:54:39.270
cloth stuck in that battle rock. I'll have to, I'll have to get out later.

874
00:54:39.910 --> 00:54:43.350
But this is just under 3 inches. So if you're

875
00:54:43.350 --> 00:54:47.100
concerned about knife lengths in

876
00:54:47.100 --> 00:54:50.700
your area, this one will probably pass muster.

877
00:54:50.940 --> 00:54:54.220
You've got a beautiful straight back blade there.

878
00:54:54.540 --> 00:54:56.940
Oh, that will drive me nuts. Let me just try it.

879
00:54:58.780 --> 00:55:02.420
All right. This is not. There it goes. Thank you. Thank

880
00:55:02.420 --> 00:55:05.980
you. You got that beautiful straight back Puukko blade,

881
00:55:05.980 --> 00:55:09.700
very high bevel. So nice and slicey for such a

882
00:55:09.700 --> 00:55:13.090
thin blade. You've got the quad gimps there,

883
00:55:13.090 --> 00:55:16.890
nicely chamfered. And that beautiful hand. You

884
00:55:16.890 --> 00:55:20.250
know you don't have to get the pink. I recommend it. I think it's

885
00:55:20.250 --> 00:55:24.050
wistful. I've used that word twice. I think it's kind of

886
00:55:24.290 --> 00:55:28.090
fun and, and fanciful. That's the word I'm looking for.

887
00:55:28.090 --> 00:55:31.850
Fanciful looks really cool too with the black bolts.

888
00:55:31.850 --> 00:55:35.690
I'm a big fan of pink when it's with black or that color

889
00:55:35.690 --> 00:55:39.530
combination. Used to hate pink altogether, but then had daughters, had to learn to

890
00:55:39.530 --> 00:55:43.120
love it. And that hot pink, man, that is

891
00:55:43.120 --> 00:55:46.760
something. You will see it a mile away though. So if your intention is

892
00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:50.400
to carry this surreptitiously on your person

893
00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:54.240
for self defense, you might want to shy away from that. But if you're

894
00:55:54.240 --> 00:55:57.160
taking this out as an everyday carry and you're going in the woods with it

895
00:55:57.160 --> 00:56:00.480
and stuff, which, this would make a pretty good little woods knife.

896
00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:05.000
You might buy something like this or that. Blaze orange or

897
00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:08.700
something in case you drop it. I dare say this would be even better

898
00:56:08.700 --> 00:56:12.420
than blaze orange because if it's in the fall, it won't get lost

899
00:56:13.220 --> 00:56:16.900
with the orange leaves on the ground. So this is the agent 004.

900
00:56:17.140 --> 00:56:20.740
I'm a huge fan of this blade design and I'm

901
00:56:20.740 --> 00:56:24.420
very grateful that Tim sent it to me to check out. Thank you, Tim. All

902
00:56:24.420 --> 00:56:28.100
right, next up, I just want to show real briefly. Here is the

903
00:56:28.100 --> 00:56:31.820
new version of the Night Stalker, also with the battle

904
00:56:31.820 --> 00:56:35.580
lock grips. What's new about this? It's the thinness of the blade, a

905
00:56:35.580 --> 00:56:39.340
little more svelte. They have a number of different versions of this

906
00:56:39.340 --> 00:56:43.060
knife, but this is now with thicker blades for,

907
00:56:43.140 --> 00:56:46.900
for more hardcore scenarios. But this is the

908
00:56:46.900 --> 00:56:50.660
standard version and it has a slimmer blade

909
00:56:50.660 --> 00:56:54.460
stock and I really like it. Super, super light. This is the

910
00:56:54.460 --> 00:56:58.020
knife that inspired the 001 in terms of

911
00:56:58.370 --> 00:57:02.090
carry length. It fits in the

912
00:57:02.090 --> 00:57:05.410
same carry envelope I was, I had my

913
00:57:05.650 --> 00:57:09.490
original Nightstalker, which I don't have on the table here. I was carrying it

914
00:57:09.490 --> 00:57:12.930
all the time. So when I proposed

915
00:57:13.170 --> 00:57:16.290
doing a collaboration with Tim, I told him

916
00:57:16.770 --> 00:57:20.410
this is fits right in the carry envelope of Night

917
00:57:20.410 --> 00:57:24.140
Stalker and I, I just,

918
00:57:24.140 --> 00:57:27.780
it's the perfect length and I love this blade. This is the one that really

919
00:57:27.780 --> 00:57:31.500
sold me on rings. Again, I started shying away from rings

920
00:57:31.500 --> 00:57:35.100
and karambits and then I got this and it, it

921
00:57:35.100 --> 00:57:38.940
reignited my love of the utility

922
00:57:38.940 --> 00:57:42.220
of the ring, not the fancy flipping and that kind of thing.

923
00:57:43.260 --> 00:57:47.100
All right, next up is new. This is the Nautilus

924
00:57:47.580 --> 00:57:51.390
and this is based on the Night Stalker.

925
00:57:51.390 --> 00:57:55.110
It's just a ring delete with a little change of the handle here and

926
00:57:55.110 --> 00:57:58.870
then pushing the thumb ramp forward so you

927
00:57:58.870 --> 00:58:02.550
could get good purchase on this three finger knife. Yeah, this is a,

928
00:58:03.030 --> 00:58:06.710
this is a little big knife if ever I've had one.

929
00:58:07.670 --> 00:58:11.510
Really only three fingers on there, but the, the pinky braces

930
00:58:11.510 --> 00:58:15.110
against the pommel so you get a really,

931
00:58:15.110 --> 00:58:18.870
really excellent grip on this. The thumb is able to Extend

932
00:58:18.870 --> 00:58:22.550
forward and you get the full

933
00:58:23.430 --> 00:58:27.190
night stalker blade on there. Just a little less on

934
00:58:27.190 --> 00:58:30.750
top to accommodate the thumb. So same cutting edge, same

935
00:58:30.750 --> 00:58:34.550
point, same blade, basically. And same handle

936
00:58:34.550 --> 00:58:37.230
in a lot of ways. I know you tweaked the handle once he deleted the

937
00:58:37.230 --> 00:58:40.790
ring, but this thing is awesome. The Nautilus, it's a

938
00:58:40.790 --> 00:58:44.520
great, super subtle on the belt, very

939
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small, easy to carry. I mean this is a great office fixed

940
00:58:48.320 --> 00:58:51.560
blade. If you have a sweater on and you can just kind of COVID up

941
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the knife, this will not print at all. It's so small

942
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yet so, so right. I don't know, it just fits the hand

943
00:58:59.960 --> 00:59:03.640
perfectly. And most three finger rings I

944
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want to put a fob on just for extra grip. You could

945
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with those rings there, those bolts, ring bolts. But

946
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I have no desire to do so on this. It just feels great in

947
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hand. There it is. That's the

948
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Nautilus. Brand new. And now I'm

949
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going to show you my FLN and just let you know that they have

950
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come out with the new FLN 2.0. They are hollow

951
00:59:29.580 --> 00:59:32.180
ground. So much more effective

952
00:59:33.140 --> 00:59:36.860
slicer. This, I mean, this is pretty damn effective as it, as

953
00:59:36.860 --> 00:59:40.350
it is, but this is the first version and then this is a

954
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collaboration with Neves Knives, as you can see there.

955
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And the new one has a hole cutout, which is great

956
00:59:48.510 --> 00:59:52.230
because it, it really makes the sheathing much better. The

957
00:59:52.230 --> 00:59:55.830
sheath on this is okay, but it's

958
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the, it's it something about it just not as

959
00:59:59.670 --> 01:00:03.430
good as the new ones. I experienced the new ones at Blade show, they are

960
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now out, so you can order one. The new FLN with

961
01:00:07.270 --> 01:00:11.030
the, with the high hollow grind and the, and

962
01:00:11.030 --> 01:00:14.830
the blade hole for retention. So check that out. These things are

963
01:00:14.830 --> 01:00:18.430
wicked. Jared Neeve just did a video showing it off against

964
01:00:18.510 --> 01:00:22.350
a ballistics dummy and yeah, it's pretty damn cool.

965
01:00:22.830 --> 01:00:25.590
Last up, I'm just going to show you these. I'm not sure when these are

966
01:00:25.590 --> 01:00:29.230
available again. I know they had a recent run of them, but I absolutely

967
01:00:29.230 --> 01:00:32.900
love them. Some of my very favorite EDC knives at

968
01:00:32.900 --> 01:00:36.580
all. Here's the Adversary. And on the

969
01:00:36.580 --> 01:00:40.140
same platform is the combatant. Now, the combatant was the first

970
01:00:40.140 --> 01:00:43.780
one and this is the second iteration of the karambit of the

971
01:00:43.780 --> 01:00:47.620
combatant. They did change the blade a little bit, gave it a swedge and

972
01:00:47.620 --> 01:00:51.260
a, a lower point, more of a spear point. But these things

973
01:00:51.260 --> 01:00:54.980
just melt in the hand. They are outstanding

974
01:00:54.980 --> 01:00:58.790
knives. I think the Adversary is my favorite because of that

975
01:00:58.790 --> 01:01:02.630
thumb swale and that beautiful wharncliffe blade. If You've

976
01:01:02.630 --> 01:01:06.430
got giant meat hooks and. And this is just going to be too

977
01:01:06.430 --> 01:01:09.910
small for you. I can get four fingers on it, but you have big hands.

978
01:01:10.070 --> 01:01:13.870
You can get a sentry grip for this. So that adds the. No, actually

979
01:01:13.870 --> 01:01:17.630
it's not a sentry grip. It's just an extended grip. So it doesn't have

980
01:01:17.630 --> 01:01:20.630
a ring. It just extends this handle a little bit.

981
01:01:21.270 --> 01:01:24.470
And it's just done with G10 and it's super solid.

982
01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:28.680
Again, that's something I got to experience at Blade Show. I don't have one for

983
01:01:28.680 --> 01:01:31.920
my knife, but I don't want the longer handle on this. I love how

984
01:01:32.080 --> 01:01:35.920
discreet the carry is on the combatant and the

985
01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:39.760
adversary. All right, if you want any of these knives,

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especially the 001 dropping on

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998
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you did this. Looks like we've, we've crossed the

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43,000 subscriber line in the last

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24 hours as I record this. Very excited and happy about

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that. But I want you to

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know, spread the word because when we get to 50,000

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subscribers, Dirk Pinkerton, the great and powerful and

1004
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awesome Derek Pinkerton will be making us a custom knife

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to give away. And that's, that's to anyone on the third

1006
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Thursday of the month or no, we'll do a special giveaway for that.

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That's, that's reserved for gentleman junkies. This is for everyone. So

1008
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we'll, we'll find a day. I'll announce it. I'll do a close up video of

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whatever that custom knife is. We're going to decide together. It'll be

1010
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something big and cool and we're going to give that away when we hit

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50,000 subscribers. All right, thank you for

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joining me and thanks for checking out all these beautiful tel

1013
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edc knives. They are great. I love Tim and I love

1014
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his work. And I am so smitten with this design

1015
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and how it comes out. And this second run is even better

1016
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than the first. So go check them out. They do drop on the TKL

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website November 1, 2025. Or if you want a Zombie or a

1018
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Storm edition just in time for Halloween, they are available.

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

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DeMarco saying until next time, don't take Dull for

1021
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