Coming up, the gentleman Junkie giveaway knife for November 2025
in the state of the collection, two beautiful custom fixed blade knives
that aren't mine. And then I'm joined by a beautiful and
brilliant guest in a segment I'm calling Mrs. Knife
Junkies folders. I'm Bob DeMarco, this is the Knife Junkie
Podcast.
Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast, your weekly dose of knife
news and information about knives and knife collecting. Here's your
host, Bob the knife junkie DeMarco.
Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week was
from my good buddy Dave of OG Blade Reviews, talking
about Paolo Rubio. He says, as an instructor myself for
decades in a number of martial arts disciplines, I really like
where Paolo is coming from and his straightforward honesty and
self imposed hesitation and calling himself an instructor.
Obviously he has waited and earned that privilege and I
consider his students to be very fortunate to be guided by him.
God bless. Well, Dave, thank you for that. And yeah,
Paulo Rubio is amazing. And I feel like I've watched a
long chunk of his development because when he first started he was
just a cameraman and now he is a guru
teaching other people the Filipino martial arts. And if you've ever
seen Dave's channel, which I'm sure you have, you know that
OG is really an og. He is an amazing
martial artist as well as great collector and
photographer. All right, that said, let's
get to a pocket check. What's in his pocket?
Let's find out. Here's the Knife Junkie with
his pocket. Check of knives in my front right pocket today. One of
my favorites from this past year, the Aelia
from Manganes Steel. Sharif Manganis is a great
designer and a great guy. I just love him.
But his knives are so sweet. And this one, I think it's
chief among them. I think it's one of the most beautiful folders I've ever seen.
And I, I put it on the same shelf with a Chris Reeve
Sebenza and a spartan Harsey
folder. It's just a beautiful design. I carried this today
because I had to look good in front of my new boss. We were having
a big old meeting today and we were all kind of dressed a little bit
nicer, so I put this in my pocket. It's got the beautiful
titanium contoured scales, nice and rounded
and it's got that Terzuola style clip, a
beautiful run of jimping on that Magnacut blade. And this
one is produced by Reate Knives. So you know what that means,
and if you don't, they are the superlative knife makers
in China. Just the absolute best.
Matter of fact, speaking of Bob Terzuola, I went out to
brunch, or actually it was more of a dinner with
him and his wife Sue's after Blade show this past year.
Showed him this knife. He examined it and was truly impressed and
he is not an easy man to impress. So had this on me today,
did a little bit of cutting, mostly food.
Next up in my left pocket my
glasses were loose. That means I had the Victorinox
compact on me. This is my favorite and most
carried Victorinox knife. It is a mere two layer
knife here with all the main tool sets
here. It's got the large scissors, got the large blade. The
reason I carry this most often is because it's got that little
screwdriver that fits in the corkscrew
and that is great for my glasses. Like all the
Victorinox knives I carry on a regular basis, I have a pocket
dangler on it. Otherwise it rides north to or east to
west in the pocket and that drives me absolutely nuts.
Next up in my pocket I had the tkal knives Nautilus.
But alas I left it locked up in my desk at work.
But I will show you this because this is what the Nautilus comes
from. This is the Night Stalker, the knife that made
Tekel knives. And one day accidentally he
knocked off the finger ring and
discovered what a great little knife this is without the fingering. So the
Nautilus is the Night Stalker without the fingering and
an extended thumb ramp here so you can push your thumb a
little bit forward to make more use of that three finger grip.
So essentially this is what I had on my belt today,
minus the ring. Such a great knife. I love the Nautilus. That's a
brand new. It's brand new for them and it's
kind of in the piranha size. If you know that knife,
it's about that size. Last up, my emotional support
knife today was the cold steel Recon
one xl. This in xhp. This is
the end of the original run of these large recon ones and
XHP. So this was about 2019 in terms of
production. If you love this knife and
you've offered to buy it from me, like many have over the over the years
they have re released this in the XHP steel. So
you can now go to cold steel knives and order this. Get this
for yourself. They did not regrettably come out with the Tanto
version of it, but maybe Maybe they'll gauge the
popularity of this and come out with that. So this is what I
have in my pocket today. I had the Manganes steel Aurelia. I
had the Victorinox compact, the Nautilus
by TKL knives. Brand new knife. You have to go check that out. They have
some very cool special editions of that knife, by the way. And then my
ESK today was the cold steel
recon one clip point exit. All
right, next up, I want to show off the nice that we're going to be
giving away to one lucky Gentleman Junkie on November
20th, I believe the third Thursday
of November we do the gentleman junkie giveaway. Not
giveaways for the our special patrons and members
of the channel here on the third Thursdays of the month.
So the gentleman junkie this month is getting none other than the
TKL knives. Agent001. My design with Tim
Kell, the one that launched the whole agent series,
they just dropped November 1st. A brand new run of
these now being machined
by the great Nick Chuprin of NCC Knives in
New Hampshire. You can see how they really have
perfected this knife and really
refined it. That's what I want to say with all that beautiful chamfering
around the edges and the terracing on the,
on the bevels, they're absolutely beautiful. This is
a double edged knife. If you want to order one for your own,
for yourself from Tkal knives, but you do not
or cannot have the double edge. You can always order this
single edge and they'll take care of that. Best way to do that is go
to the knifejunkie.com Tkel and that'll take
you right to a special page where you can order any T Kel knife. And
all you have to do is put Knife junkie in the, in the
checkout, in the coupon code area checkout. And you save
10%. You save 10%, Tim gets a sale
and we're all happy. So definitely check that out. But this is
the very one with that beautiful midnight blue handle that
we'll be giving away on November 2nd. So if you want this knife and you
want it for free, become a gentleman junkie. You can do
so by joining right here on YouTube. Right down below my finger there's a place
to join. Or you can go to Patreon.
You go to the knife junkie.com Patreon I'll give you the details and the
QR code coming up here shortly. But before we get there, I want
to do another little plug for Patreon and talk about some of the stuff
that Jim does. Amazing work on our Patreon page.
He's got his Makers Monday and I love this feature because
you can really learn. Do a deep dive into the maker.
Oftentimes they're makers I cannot have as guests on the show because they are
no longer with us. Tom Mayo, luckily, still is with us and I'd love
to have him on the show. We just haven't quite worked out a time yet.
But Tom Mayo, one of the original
titanium frame lock folder. What do you want to call
him? Luminaries. He isn't. He is a
luminary and his work is incredible. He works out of the large
island of Hawaii and he is known for
his super clean designs and
very, very exclusive and difficult to acquire knives.
So if you want to learn all about Tom Mayo, you can do so on
Patreon at the Makers Monday section.
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junkie.com battlebox. You're
listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. And now here's the Knife
Junkie with the Knife Life news. Okay, first up in the Knife
Life news, one of my absolute favorite designers
and makers out there, Les George, former Marine. He's an EOD
specialist. So digging up bombs and landmines and stuff
like that. We've known a couple of guys like that making great knives. A lot
of Marine Corps members making knives. But Les
George is man, he's the king. And he's got a new
one out with Hay Bar and it's a tiny little guy. This is one
of the few production knives that they
produce that are forged. They are
one of the only companies, actually the only company I can
think of that has production runs of forged
knives. And this latest one is called the George
Roscoe. So George after less George, of course. Not sure what
Roscoe means, but it is a cool little knife. And
like the last forged one they came out with, it looks like a tool.
Looks kind of like a wrench. This has a mini pistol grip.
It's a fixed blade with a 1.8 inch Wharncliffe.
Wharncliffe blade that's forged
425HC. 425HC is
a 420 steel that we have not heard
of for a long time. Buck used to use
425 quite a bit on some of their folders, but this was a long
time ago. So here it is back again. I guess it's great
to forge. Not too many stainless or semi stainless steels
are good to forge. This one has a finger ring and the spine side
jimping. So you can either put your finger through that hole or you can put
it right on top of the in the swale there on the back
for ultimate control. Now this one is 3.2
ounces and that's including the. This
is the first time I'm hearing this silicon thermoplastic
sheath. So something similar to Kydex.
It's a thermoplastic sheath, but it's called Celcon. Looks a
little different, looks a little smoother.67 is
the MSRP. This little guy, that's the K bar.
George Ross. Next up from Civivi. This
one's called the Outlaw Muck. Outlaw Muck.
This is by Trey Sprinkle, a knife
designer and a knife maker. I'm sorry, knife designer and
YouTuber knife YouTuber called American Outlaw.
Mr. Sprinkle created this beautiful folding
ness muck style knife. As a matter of fact, Civivi
just reached out to me. They're going to be sending me one of these soon.
I'm looking forward to that. The Nessmuk,
very famous outdoors knife originally designed by George
Washington Sears has seen a lot of replays
over the years and redesigns and kind of takes on the design. This is
a very interesting modernized version of that. You
get 3.47 inches of fully flat ground.
14C 28N blade steel. We all love that
steel. With a harpoon Swedes.
So you've got a lot of that nessmuk
sort of lineage in there. But it definitely looks like a modern
semi tactical, semi outdoor folder. It comes with
G10 handles and on this particular one that Jim has up on
screen, you've got sort of a piano key setup. Half black,
half white, ebony and ivory if you will. G10 setup.
Beautiful, beautiful knife here they have four different
colorways for this reversible deep carry pocket clip.
3.74 ounces. This one is coming soon,
so I don't know exactly what that means, but hopefully I will have
mine before it drops so I can show you all. And
64 is the MSRP on one.
Next up from Forged by War, the line of
knives from Columbia River Knife and Tool.
All of these knives are designed by former
combat veterans who are also interested in designing
or making knives. This one is from
Michael Rodriguez. Now we've seen two other versions of his knife. It's the
Zolotel is what I'm thinking it is. X O L O T
L. It's a, it's named after
a, a God of the,
of the Aztec persuasion. Anyway, this one
is the out the front version of the
Zolotone. The first one that came out looked like a, it
looked a bit like a double quilling Italian
stiletto. And then they came out with a fixed blade version of that. And
now here we have an out the front automatic version, dual
action out the front meaning when you slide that actuator forward the
blade comes out. When you pull back on it the
blade comes back in. This is only the second
out the front from crkt. I believe the tie twist
from Brian Ty was the first one that they released
this in aluminum which is traditional for this
kind of knife. Aluminum handle, three and a half inch double edge
Magnacut blade. So you got the premium steel with the Magnacut
and you have a double edge. Something we all wanted from the very first
version of this one.
3.25 ounces. This one is available now,
325 bucks but made in
USA and we know that CRKT has
used Hogue knives to build their automatics
and other folders that they make in America. So if,
if this one indeed is made by Hogue, you know it's going to be an
amazing knife. All right, last up is from
Sencut. Sencut, you know that's the little brother of Civivi.
This one's called the Glen Spa in yet another
baffling name from the Sencut Sagigi family.
This one is a 3.45-inch clip point blade. I
think it's incredibly handsome. I love this knife with a long road
jimping on for the thumb and you have that
nice fuller running down for thumb or middle
finger actuation. That's 9Cr
18Mov steel which they do a great job with. I know a
lot of people look down their nose at the CR steels but
these are. They do a great job with the heat treat. I've
never had a problem with that. This is a thumb stud actuated
knife. If you're not going to use the fuller and it's got the
ambidextrous bar lock we used to call the axis lock, when
Benchmade owned that license. A narrow G10
handle, but it also comes in Micarta, which we're seeing right here,
or shred G10, which is pretty cool. Something that
Civivi has messed around with a little bit in the recent past.
So check that out. This is coming out soon at only
45 bucks. All right, we're going to get
to the state of the collection and the first tool. But before
we do, I just want to let you know that you can check out our
newsletter. Just wanted to drop that. That comes out,
I'd say about three times a month. We're not, we're not
lambasting you with newsletters, but you get to keep up with us. We get to
keep up with you. You get some beautiful pictures. My thoughts. And usings
on some sort of knife at the time. And let's face it,
if we ever get kicked off of YouTube, it's a great way to keep in
touch. So let's do that. So coming
up in the First Tool, we're going to talk all about the
art of the grip and handle. Bizarre. You're listening to
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The First Tool The First Tool Handle Stories
the Art of the Grip there's an old saying
among knife makers. The blade does the work, but the handle
wins the heart. A knife's handle isn't just a place to hold
on. It's where craftsmanship meets comfort, where material
becomes memory. Every choice tells a
story of who made it, who carried it, and
what it meant to survive. Let's
start with stem, one of the oldest handle materials still used.
The antler, naturally textured and durable, comes
from either deer or elk. In the
1800s, it became a mark of pride on Sheffield folding
knives, each one unique, like a fingerprint from the forest.
Stagg told the world this is not a factory toy.
It's a tool born from nature, shaped by hand.
Then came bone. Humble, abundant, and surprisingly
elegant. Paddlebone could be dyed and jigged,
thus the term for carving grooves and ridges into it, giving
each knife a grip and a personality. Case.
Boker GEC and other classic
brands made bone their signature. When you see honey
yellow or crimson dyed bone, it feels like stepping into a
time machine that takes you back to your grandfather's workshop and
his pocket. In the early 20th century, new materials
joined the story. Micarta. Layers of linen or paper
soaked in resin, pressed under heat, changed everything.
It was tough, stable, didn't crack like natural materials,
and extremely Durable soldiers carried it
and outdoorsmen trusted it. It was the bridge between
traditional and modernity. Still warm to
the touch, but born in a laboratory. And then
there's G10, a cousin to micarta. Woven
fiberglass sealed in epoxy. It's not
romantic like stag or bone, but in a downpour on a mountain
ridge, that grip could save the day. In the knife world,
G10 is the modern workhorse. All function
very little fluid, of course. Some
makers circle back to wood. The eternal handle,
desert ironwood, ebony and walnut. Each has its
voice, each has its own story
in the grain. A wooden handle connects you to
earth itself. To a long line of humans who carved
tools and the history that was written in them. Every handle
material From Stag, the G10 reflects the hands
that hold it. Tradition and technology, art and
utility, nature and invention. The blade may
cut, but the handle connects. Because in the
end, a knife isn't just forged in fire.
It's shaped by the hand it grips it.
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right here. This one was sent to me by Jared Franklin and
designer Michael Elliott. This is the gunfighter, customs
gunfighter. Now you've seen me showing this knife off
or a knife just like it for all the months
since blade show. But they sent me this to give away to
one lucky gentleman junkie in December and I wish that
guy were me. Hopefully my dad wins it and he
gives it to me. Just kidding. But this thing is
absolutely beautiful. Look at the first of all, you've got the double
edged blade, this is 80 CRV2. And
then you've got this gorgeous antique micarta handle here.
It's a butterscotch micarta with got
mosaic pins in there. Just positively
beautifully made. And I have to say you can gauge
the refinement in Jared's work even
since the one that I have. And what I mean by that are there are
little tiny embellishments on this one that
are just breathtaking. Nice and slender is
that egg shaped handle. This one is sort of an improvement.
Michael Elliott is the designer versus makers Mark. They are,
they are partners in gunfighter customs. He
is a very well
trained martial artist, especially in Kitty Tersha, Collie
and other other knife arts. This one was
meant to perfect the clinch pick. You know the clinch pick
though one of the first bacal knives you probably ever saw. Well, this
one gives you a place to put your thumb on the back of the
blade without, without resting it on a sharp edge. And it
gives you two edges so you've got the downward cut and
backward cut and a
very small nestling in the hand package. There's
no way anyone is going to disarm this knife from you unless you
give it up because it nestles completely.
Your hand swallows it up completely and yet it's flat
enough in the handle that it's not going to twist in the
hand. So this is going to be the gentleman junkie
giveaway knife for December. Cannot wait to give this thing away
because the longer it stays in here the more likely it is to be
subsumed into my collection. Of course that's a
joke. Here's the sheath. It's really great. I've been carrying
this one quite a bit in the waistband right up front. I like it
in a. An appendix carry style. So there
it is. This is the custom gunfighter by
gunfighter customs. You will be seeing this a lot. I'll be
showing this off a lot on the midweek supplemental
after the November giveaway and I'll be showing this
off on Thursday night as well. But thank you so much
Jared and Mike, if you're watching, your generosity is,
is so greatly appreciated. This next one,
I'm sort of the yenta. I'm the, I'm the broker for this one.
My sister asked me to find a great custom
chef's knife to. She wants to buy to give to a friend
of hers who's been very generous over the years cooking her meals
and, and you know, being a good friend. And
he and she, it's a couple actually love cooking and they
love knives and well, I think
I finally got it and it's this, this beautiful
Dirk Pinkerton made custom chef's knife.
It is absolutely beautiful and feels
so good in hand and I think a lot of that has to do with
the. This area right behind the Ricasso we have
a much more gradual curve from the
blade to the handle than we normally see. And it fits in the
hand perfectly in that sort of pinch grip that we tend to use when
using and when using kitchen knives. This one has a 10
inch blade and I believe it's magnacut.
Very nice and thin with a very tall grind.
Super sharp. I use this one. You know, I had to test it. I'm not
just gonna send it along not knowing if it could cut or not. So I
used this to cut up some potatoes. This was over the
past weekend and it did great. You
know, I guess most knives will do great, but this thing just glided
through it like it wasn't even there. And then look at this beautiful GL
Hansen & Sons G Carta. That's a custom
micarta with all these different color
materials here. Really, really a beautiful, beautiful
handle. Feels great in hand. And this one, someone quipped
recently, is like a tactical kitchen knife.
I think it was the jimping that made that person say so, but
what a beautiful knife. So this goes to my sister
in short order. I have to do a close up video of it and then
I will send it along to her. But the money is already paid and
that money wasn't mine. So I can't hold on to this, this one. But it's
got me thinking. A commission is in the offing for
a dirk and another one of these gorgeous kitchen knives.
All right, we're going to get to a special
segment tonight called Mrs. Knife Junkies Folders. But before we do,
I want to show you some cool merch that Jim just came up
with. I buy knives for self defense. Sure, sure, that's
it. So you can get this on a T shirt, a
hat and apron. You know, it's still grilling season. Or a
mug or anything else you want. We've got so many different things in our merch
store. Just go to the knife junkie.com shop.
Many pages. I think we're up to 30 pages of merchandise, all
with really cool maxims like this. Pithy, pithy
maxims. And then if you like the traditional knife
junkie logo, you got to go all the way back to the beginning and you
can find that there. But I buy knives for self defense.
Sure, that's it. All right.
So you cannot live in this household, the knife junkie household,
without acquiring a knife or tea here or there.
My daughters have them. I met my wife learning how to knife fight,
so she's always been amenable. But I've really,
I've really gotten her into the game. Why don't you come on over here,
baby? Let me introduce to you, Mrs.
Knife Junkie. Yeah, it's been a, it's been a while.
Hello, everyone. All right, thank you.
Put you in the spot. Okay, so let me get my.
All right. I liked your history segment.
Oh, thank you. That was good too. Although
I, I have to disagree with you. I don't think it's still growing season for
those aprons. Oh, well, it's griddle season, let's
say. But hey, people wearing aprons inside,
you can cook inside too. I'm all for it. Yeah.
All right, well, let's talk about these knives here. We've got a bunch of them
here on the knife cam under the knife can, and
there are some that you really like, some that you barely carried. But let's talk
about them. So this is the first one. This is the buck range.
This is my favorite knife. It is my,
my current edc. I love this knife so
much. Main reason
it is light. It is so light. I have mentioned to Bob that,
you know, I usually have it clipped, you know, in my, usually
jeans. My jeans. There have been times when I've forgotten
and I've actually folded my jeans and put them away and then looked for my
knife and realized that they were still on my jeans. They're just that light. Normally
you forget to unclip your knife. You know, you feel
the weight. This is like nothing. So I
love that. I love the size of it.
The handle for me is nice. I have smaller hands and
I would say probably all of men, and it
works for me. Sometimes they're too big. This one is
just fine. The knife, the blade size for me,
I also very much appreciate because it's, for me, it's a
utility knife, so it's easy for me to wield. My
one complaint about this, and it's just with the
folders, I do like the auto flipping
the flippers. It just, I like the sound.
It just looks cool. It feels cool. Click. You know, it's there.
And with this, I just, sometimes because my hands are so small,
I, I find it difficult to manipulate the, the,
the opener. Outside of that, I, I, I have no complaints. I love this
mic right now. I've been carrying it for a while. I don't foresee a time
when I would will not be carrying that. All right,
next, the Kershaw leaf. Yes.
I love the look of this blade. I like the length. It's
a little longer. Maybe it just looks longer just due
to how thin it is. I like
this knife a lot. It's very sleek. Especially
the handle is just so smooth. It fits really nicely in the
hand. I really appreciated this knife
because it was thin. And again, for me
to clip onto my Clothing, I don't like to
feel it in my hip. The knives, and
sometimes when they're too thick, that happens. But this is so nice and
thin that it would clip in even with
dress pants. When I go to the office, you just want it to be a
little more discreet. I'd always keep it the back. It was a little
heavy. And that was probably one of the main reasons why I stopped wearing
it because it was so nice. Again, I would wear it with, with non
jeans and not as sturdy and I just
felt like it weighed. I love the knife, though. I
love how it looks. What do you think of the, the spring
assist on the blue? Love it, Love it. It was, it was so
smooth, like you almost had to, not even, you had to touch it with some,
with some force, but it was this beautiful. Just,
it just, just, it's so smooth. Yeah, I, I,
I love it very much. A little closer to that line. Sure thing.
Oh, Next up. This was designed by one of my favorite
designers, Sinkovich from, I think he's Zela
Russian. This is the Kershaw Atmos.
I wore this knife when we were living in New York quite a
bit, Quite a bit. Again, late, Very light.
I liked that one. I like the blade.
You can tell by its use. You know, I use that for a number of
different, different reasons. So
how long do I have for, like each of these knives?
I like this knife. I like how it opened. The only thing I did not
like about it is the design. I guess on the, on the
handle, it just made it
for me. And it's actually coming across so like much nicer on the, on
the screen, but just made it look a little cheap for
me. I don't know why. A little cheap? Yeah, it's like, like
plasticky. We've got a, we've got
carbon fiber overlay. So the whole thing is in carbon fiber.
That would raise the, the price of it. It's G10,
but then they put a little carbon fiber on top of it to make it
look fancy. But you think it feels a little cheap. It
just looked a little, it looked plasticky to me sometimes. Like I said on, on
the, on the screen it looks nicer,
but yeah, I mean, I liked it. I liked it a lot. I wore it,
I wore it. That was my EDC for a long time.
Yeah. And, and what do you think of the 8cr
13 mov ski? Oh, I was hoping you'd ask me that.
I, I, I, I, I like the, the, the blade. I thought it was
very sharp. Fair
enough. In Terms of like sturdiness. I mean, I, I put that, you know,
I banged that. I banged that thing around quite a bit.
Never, never had any issues. Felt good in the hand.
That's. Well, that's basically what I. Why I was bringing it up because a
lot of people like to dis 8cr13 mov.
Because it's not, it's not a top notch steel, but for most of
what we use our knives for, it's. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I mean, there's. You can tell that I used it, but there was
never any issue with bending or anything. It kept it,
it's kept its edge. All
right, here's one. Here's one that I know you've used
a lot. Designed by
another great designer, RJ Martin. This is the Kershaw Volt
2. The Volt 2. I do like the Volt 2.
The opening on that one is also very
smooth, very slick. Really
satisfying. You know, when you do it,
you know, you know the blade is open. You know, it's ready in your hand
as soon as you do that. I love the handle
on this one too. Very sturdy.
This, this would be the type of knife that, you know, I'm
sure Zombie apocalypse. We'd have a number of different weapons to choose from.
That to me, would be sort of in my pocket. I actually. You added
the. The bob. Yeah, the
fob. Because I wanted to for some reason sometimes in my back
pocket with that one. Because I would. I would carry it around with me if
I was like doing stuff up in the yard or, you know, what have you.
Uh, and I would kind of pull it out that way, but it always felt
so sturdy and secure. This would be one that if I, I had to
fight with, I mean, I'd fight with all of them, but that one just.
I don't know, it. It felt really nice to hold.
What I like seeing on this is how much gunk and filth
and mud. Sorry, I just kind of in there. I like that I don't
see my knives. You should probably clean all of those. Screws and even on the
blade, a nice hollow ground. 8cr13 mov
blade. But I like seeing the life and the use in this.
I have so many knives, more than maybe, you know, but
I have so many knives and most of them don't get any
use, let alone, you know, this much use.
So I like seeing this. Yeah, that. That's an old
favorite, that one. Definitely. For sure.
Kershaw too. And it feel good in hand too.
100% beautiful. All
right, this next One, the Civivi Mini practice.
I in particular like the shape of the blade on this
one. I believe you gave me this one or you asked me what color. I
remember saying green for my eyes. And next thing you know, I had a green
handled knife. So this one is a just a
fine blade. I like it very much. I do like the,
the length of the handle as, as well.
Not. It's not too big, it's not too small.
The only reason I think I didn't sort of
wear this more often than I did was just the
width, the overall width of the. Of the blade. Just in
terms of catching that one.
I think there's one of them there where the main reason was the clip. And
I know you said you could loosen the clip, but it just wouldn't kind of
give me any give to wear. So I was, it was like
fighting to kind of get it on. And I was thinking if I fight to
get it on, I have to fight to get it off. But. But yeah,
this one, I like this one. So you've mentioned that you
carry in the waistband a lot. Why in the
waistband? Tell us about women's pockets. Well,
women's pockets are. Well, if you're lucky to
have pockets. I know with you guys, everything you have
is pockets and multiple pockets and pockets on pockets and pockets that
you don't even remember what's in the pocket. But
women's clothing. And so
when they are performing professional pants, the pockets are usually a little lower
to kind of like put your hands in. With blue
jeans, they're a little higher. And. And for me, I don't
necessarily like to show that I'm carrying for a number of different
reasons. It could be anything from I don't want it to. I don't want to
be a telltale sign. I don't want to give anything away. I don't want to
be. I don't want it to also catch someone's unwanted attention.
That could be something. Oh, look, this girl has a nice, you know, why.
No, let's. Let's take the knife. Let's mess with her. She might
think she thinks she knows something or people just
being weirded out by, you know, why are you carrying a
knife? Why. Why is a knife in here? So I usually do like to kind
of keep it in my upper back. Again, I know it's there. I personally like
the feel of the hip as well. Like, if I
don't have it, I can, I can feel, you know, a little bit of that
something feels missing. You know, it's Kind of like when you don't wear your watch,
something's kind of off and in the pocket. You don't always,
doesn't always happen. Also, women,
you know, when I go to the ladies room, pants are kind of
kind of coming on and off and in the pockets. I,
I felt that they would fall. They would fall or they would just.
Kind of like. I'd
have to like readjust, so. But when they're in
the, in the back side, it was, it was never a problem. That's
probably more than, that's enough here. I'm sorry, I'm just talking from the female
perspective. Like, this is stuff that, you know, with my clothes, I don't, I also
don't normally wear a belt, so for me, the,
you know, the clothing is usually going to be thickest
at the waistline and so for me it's just easier. You click.
All right, so this is the Civivi Mini Mini practice. And this,
by the way, is based on the mate, the large Praxis or the
regular Praxis, which is one of the first three
Civivi knife designs that ever dropped and it's
still super, super popular. And
so they came out with this mini version and I love it,
I think it's awesome. This next one you didn't even remember you
had. This is the
elementum. It's a shame because it looks nice. I, I,
I like it, I like, I like my knives on your
screen, on your camera. Yeah. So this one has an
ebony wood handle. Oh,
yeah. I guess I'll be taking this one back. I'm sorry.
But I, I think you mentioned the width of the handle as a,
as a bug. Yeah, I mean, take a look at, take a look at that
one and take a look at, at like this one especially because that one was,
you know, one of the reasons why I liked it was just,
Yeah, I mean, big difference. So
for, again, for me, it, it does make a difference.
Just the size and the bulk and no,
I'm five, two and a half, so I just, Everything's.
Well, let me, let me tell you why I think you might like carrying this
one. It's got a very thin. Give it back to
me so I can try carrying it. It's got a very
thin, hollow ground blade, so it
is so sharp and slicy. If you, if you look at it
from this aspect. Yeah, it's super thing.
So. And this is also one of Civivi's
flagship knives. They've made this in so many different
versions, it makes your head Spin. I like the black on
black. Yeah, it's actually dark, but we've always
disagreed on colors. That's true. We have. We
have. We have that weird artist eye. All right,
well, not much to say about this. This is the elementum
in. This is the traditional elementum with the drop
point blade and with the
ebony wood scales. Beautiful knife. So they've made this in
a fixed blade version, in a tanto version, in so
many different locks. And, you know, it's one of those knives they knew they
had a good thing, so they make a million different versions. All
right, this one. This is the Civivi Primatrox.
What are your thoughts on the Perma truck? The Primatrox?
I like this one. This, to me, is a knife that.
Let's say we were going to go to Hirosa.
I would put that in my designer
handbag and try to get it in.
For me, I find it quite easy to be able to slip knives
into spaces sometimes because I had curses. Right.
And so we're all dressed up and whatnot. They're going to look at Bob, and
I'm going to see what he has. And. And so I walk through the metal
detector, no problem. My purse is, of course, is going to go off because it
has, you know, eyelash curlers and keys and. And what have
you. And so usually they just look in, and I always have a little side
pocket or whatnot, so I can put my neck draw on there. But if I'm
going to be gifted dressed up to go out, this, to me, I thought was
just a really beautiful. Nice. I just find it to be very
elegant. The wood finish on it, I
just. I really love it. I love the blade.
It's a little bigger than I would like to carry. So again,
would. I would have that in my purse if,
especially wearing a dress or something going out, still want to have,
you know, know, some steel on me. But, yeah, this. This is more of
like a going out to a nice place kind of nice.
All right, let me ask you this question. This, like most of your
knives, has a liner lock. It's this right here.
And then this one, your favorite, your favorite
knife, right. Has the ambidextrous Barlow.
Yeah. What do you like better? Oh, 100%
the. Yes. The liner lock.
I have smaller fingers so that, you know,
small hands are, I think, impediment sometimes. But I
do think the smaller fingers are very workable with
knives. And so I can kind of get in there, except for the thumb with
the open still. Yes. Yeah.
But that Being said, I, I, I don't know, maybe
it's because I don't have a lot of experience with
the, the box closing system. I really
don't. That's, I think the only one that I've ever had. So maybe I just
need to practice with it. So that way, you know, I get more
comfortable. I always feel like I'm going to cut myself. And so I
find myself kind of like enclosing it
up while the other ones for me it's just, it's very easy. Well, the
funny thing is with the liner lock, your
finger is in the path of the blade. But with this, your
finger is never in the path of the blade.
So we'll get you to practice more. And I was also
showing Mrs. Knife Junkie that
you can pull this back and just whip it out like that.
Kind of cool. All right, I will, I will. Look, I will, I will, I
will pitch it with it. I will, I will fuss with it. That's your assignment.
All right, so this is the Primitrox from Civivi.
Only, only when we go to the
next up, the
sencut cities. Love this knife. Love this
knife. Look how pretty it is at the blade. I think it
looks neat. I, I love it. I think because of
the cutout again it, there's just less weight
than, than you would expect. It's just so
slick. It just looks sleek.
It looks like a nail almost to me. Like it would
be, it would be. This is, I don't know, I'm thinking
faster movement. I just love this knife. I find it
very light as well or actually
not as heavy. I love how it opens. I
just, I love this knife. So this one, we
also, we have coupon codes for this so you can go to the
knife junkie.com send cut and get one of these.
Actually this is sadly discontinued but they have a lot of really cool
knives. I'll have suckers that I got one. This
was the, this was the gift I got you. 20, 23
blade show. Oh. Figured you'd like it. I figured it
would fit in your waistband well, your pockets. Well, I like
it, I like it. It's. I think that one,
in fact I think that was what I was carrying
before I got the buck. Any range
and so it says something about the buck but, but
the send cut is, is, it's a long time favorite. I remember
you, you felt you lost this for a while. You found it in a
bag. Yes, yes. Remember I talked about
like, you know, I can kind of get, get away with getting Knives in through
bags. And so I put that in one of my little special
pockets in my, in my bag and forgot about
it. And then it wasn't until we went on a trip, I can't remember where
I was going. So I went to pull down the bag and I was like,
so it's like better than the 20
in your Jean pocket when you go out. And I was like, oh, I found
a knife. Awesome. Way better than, way, way better than 20.
Yes. All right, so this next one was your
2025 late show gift
knife. And this is an exclusive. This is the.
Yes, this is the Guardian Tactical
GTX025.
That just amazes me that you know. All this stuff reading. No, but still,
you know what I mean? But before you talk about it, let me tell you
why I bought this for you. Now I thought that this would make it
excellent running knife. This is knife junkie likes to go running.
And, and I figured this one is nice and light and it's
got a glass breaker here. I like that. Carry it like this and use
it as an impact tool. And then heaven forbid you need a knife.
It has a very easy to actuate blade.
So what do you think? I like this, this knife
is, is, is fun. It's very fun to play with. It's
a louder click and you, you, you see feel it in a different way sometimes
I feel with the folders you feel it kind of click open and it makes
it sturdy and secure. This one just kind of clicks,
I don't know, differently. It's, it's, it's not making the,
the knife any sturdy. It's coming straight out versus the
swinging. Anyway, this one's fun to, fun to play with. It is
thicker but I, I, I like it.
Interestingly enough. I had this with me at a barbecue
and I had it, I had to bring it
out and use it for, for some reason. And some of the ladies, my
cool friend ladies,
they're like, oh, let me, let me look at that, let me look at that.
And they found it very difficult to open and close
opening. Eventually they got it, but the closing was really difficult for their
thumbs. And I was surprised. I'm not
hearing hanging out with a bagariac ooh. Or anything. So I was just surprised that
they found it difficult. I do not find it difficult at all. Yeah, this
is the easiest out the front I've ever experienced and
this makes me want to get my own garden tactical of course in a
double edged and maybe a bigger size. But I love this knife.
These are made In Pennsylvania too. Soup to nuts.
Yeah, I think, I think another one with this is again the cutout
in, in the blade, you know, helps, helps with the lightness, but
you still get that, that little sharp, nasty little
bite. You know, this is, you know it's gonna hurt like, you know it's gonna
hurt when you hear it. It's like old, like modern day,
you know, 50s ganger gangs when you know with their, with their, with their, their
pompadours and whatnot. And you get in their way and like, you know, and they
got, and opens up like that, you know, kind of like the switchblade but, but
like 20, 25. That's what that reminds me of.
It actually says on the hollow ground, blade,
blade show 20 twizzled five. Number 73
of 120. So they only get 120. Look at that. And I got
one hot little hands on one. I do, I do like
the, the, yeah, the glass paper.
I, I, I do, I do like that, that,
that's something that you can just a feature that you
can use. Excuse me, to, to stun somebody and you know, you
can. I, for me, that's something that I can keep in the palm of my
hand and I don't necessarily, again, I don't want to escalate by, by bringing out
a knife because you know, you know, if someone is looking
to, to mess with me, could escalate it quickly. But
that is something that if you know, my, my, my spider senses
are up and I just don't like the situation. I can just have it in
my hand and it's hidden and if someone does happen to either grab you, what
have you, they're not going to expect to feel that. And it might be enough
to kind of startle them and you know,
grant some time. So I like, I like that knife and I like
that feature on knives. It's like, why not put, you know, something
on there? And it doesn't, it doesn't change the design that much. It's just
another feature to have. And not for nothing, I
like that you can actually put your thumb on it without hurting
your thumb. A lot of glass breakers are just
painful to have the thumb on. So.
All right, second to last here, second to last one.
This was a Christmas gift a few years ago. A number of you, you know,
it before. But I was surprised.
Not a guilt trip, but I was surprised that this didn't get more carried.
And I got it so that you could wave it out of your pocket
using the Emerson Wave. Yeah, I've seen you
do the wave, you know,
open and whatnot. And it's very gunslinger.
Not really what I'm going for. I'm going for
like undercover assassin.
And that's more like this,
this knife ended up being a purse knife,
and then it stopped being that as well. The, the hook on it
would just, you know, I know it's supposed to catch on stuff, but anytime I
put it in any sort of clothing, even putting it on in clay, it's just
always caught on something. And the, the
width of it. This is the, this is like the wide. Yes, exactly. That's
just so wide. And I found it to be very uncomfortable to
carry. Pain in the ass to kind of put on,
you know, for, for my needs, just not,
it was just too wide. So I like the design though, right? I,
I like the design of the, of the blade itself. So I, I
liked that. It's small, it's tiny. It's, it's, you know, it's quick.
I love the little spider on the Spydercos,
you know, so I appreciated the blade.
Just that, that extra little, little, little bit there. So I started to put it
in my purse and I was like, more of like an everyday Chris Carey, like,
oh my gosh, accidentally forgot to put a knife on. But I always have
a purse, so that was kind of like a backup knife. I just kind of
kept it in. But eventually
that started the hook started to hook on other things
in my purse as well. So that was retired. I would say
for this one, it'd be best to put it in a pocket, clip it
to an internal pocket in the purse and
shove it over to the side of that pocket. And maybe that's
probably the safest way to keep it so that it can open up
automatically. That's the Spyderco Delica.
Okay, now this is the one that you carry. Well, I don't want to say
the most, but this one, I'm the most bright grateful that you carry.
Talk about this one. So this, this, this is
my running knife. This is the knife that I carry
every, every run that I go out, keep it in my hand
when I run. And it's now just part of my gate. It's part
of, you know, I, I, I have certain gear I
wear, and that absolutely is in my right hand at all
times. And it's become something for me to kind of grip onto.
And I just am trying real hard to push through something
and get through something. So it, it just has such a comfort feel
in my hand when
I, when I want to distract myself sometimes while I'm running on my, on my
slower runs, I will, you know, think
a da. A dog comes around the corner. And not that I want to hurt
a dog, let's say a bear. A bear comes around the corner and I'm fighting
for my life, you know, like, what would I do? Like, how would I open
it? How would I have it? What would I do in that situation? I also
do like the squareness of the,
that's Kydex, the sheath.
Because that's also something that I can keep, you know, in, in my hand.
And if I need to, you know, it, you know, it fits in
where I can just hit, hit, hit someone hit an animal that's coming at
me, charging at me. At that point, they're
close. I would do something different than. Anyway,
so. I love this knife. I love this knife. I feel secure
with it. I appreciate it. It's like, I think you called it my cat's
claw. God. I never have to use it,
but you can also tell that I've not cleaned it in a long time. That's
B2. So it's a semi stainless steel, mostly not
stainless at all. And you can see where your sweat has probably
come through and has
affected the blade. This is the. I had this knife also,
and I don't know if you remember this, but I buried it
in a flower bed at Universal Studios
and someone saw me do it, I guess, and it wasn't there when I came
back. Was so furious. Yeah, Thought it could be
crumbles. I remember that. So we called this Mrs. Knife Junkies
folders. But this is not a folder. But it had to be in this because
you carry it. So I do love it. That, that is my, my
cat's claw. I, I, I, I don't feel comfortable
ever on a run without it. I, I won't. I'll come back.
So it's traveled with me as well when I, you know, when I run
places. But yeah, it is, it's part of my
friend. Well, thank you,
Bella, so much for being on the Knife Jackie podcast. Thank you for having
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