WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.080 Coming up, the gentleman Junkie giveaway knife for November 2025 2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:08.080 in the state of the collection, two beautiful custom fixed blade knives 3 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:11.880 that aren't mine. And then I'm joined by a beautiful and 4 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:15.680 brilliant guest in a segment I'm calling Mrs. Knife 5 00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:19.080 Junkies folders. I'm Bob DeMarco, this is the Knife Junkie 6 00:00:19.080 --> 00:00:19.600 Podcast. 7 00:00:22.880 --> 00:00:26.680 Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast, your weekly dose of knife 8 00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:30.470 news and information about knives and knife collecting. Here's your 9 00:00:30.470 --> 00:00:32.470 host, Bob the knife junkie DeMarco. 10 00:00:35.830 --> 00:00:38.910 Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week was 11 00:00:38.910 --> 00:00:42.510 from my good buddy Dave of OG Blade Reviews, talking 12 00:00:42.510 --> 00:00:46.229 about Paolo Rubio. He says, as an instructor myself for 13 00:00:46.229 --> 00:00:50.070 decades in a number of martial arts disciplines, I really like 14 00:00:50.070 --> 00:00:53.870 where Paolo is coming from and his straightforward honesty and 15 00:00:53.870 --> 00:00:57.410 self imposed hesitation and calling himself an instructor. 16 00:00:57.570 --> 00:01:01.290 Obviously he has waited and earned that privilege and I 17 00:01:01.290 --> 00:01:04.610 consider his students to be very fortunate to be guided by him. 18 00:01:04.850 --> 00:01:08.490 God bless. Well, Dave, thank you for that. And yeah, 19 00:01:08.490 --> 00:01:12.170 Paulo Rubio is amazing. And I feel like I've watched a 20 00:01:12.170 --> 00:01:15.930 long chunk of his development because when he first started he was 21 00:01:15.930 --> 00:01:19.330 just a cameraman and now he is a guru 22 00:01:19.330 --> 00:01:23.060 teaching other people the Filipino martial arts. And if you've ever 23 00:01:23.060 --> 00:01:26.620 seen Dave's channel, which I'm sure you have, you know that 24 00:01:26.860 --> 00:01:30.380 OG is really an og. He is an amazing 25 00:01:30.380 --> 00:01:33.660 martial artist as well as great collector and 26 00:01:33.820 --> 00:01:37.580 photographer. All right, that said, let's 27 00:01:37.580 --> 00:01:41.020 get to a pocket check. What's in his pocket? 28 00:01:41.180 --> 00:01:44.940 Let's find out. Here's the Knife Junkie with 29 00:01:44.940 --> 00:01:48.670 his pocket. Check of knives in my front right pocket today. One of 30 00:01:48.670 --> 00:01:52.390 my favorites from this past year, the Aelia 31 00:01:52.390 --> 00:01:56.070 from Manganes Steel. Sharif Manganis is a great 32 00:01:56.550 --> 00:01:59.670 designer and a great guy. I just love him. 33 00:02:00.230 --> 00:02:04.070 But his knives are so sweet. And this one, I think it's 34 00:02:04.070 --> 00:02:07.870 chief among them. I think it's one of the most beautiful folders I've ever seen. 35 00:02:07.870 --> 00:02:11.310 And I, I put it on the same shelf with a Chris Reeve 36 00:02:11.310 --> 00:02:14.800 Sebenza and a spartan Harsey 37 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:19.360 folder. It's just a beautiful design. I carried this today 38 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.640 because I had to look good in front of my new boss. We were having 39 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:27.320 a big old meeting today and we were all kind of dressed a little bit 40 00:02:27.320 --> 00:02:30.400 nicer, so I put this in my pocket. It's got the beautiful 41 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:35.280 titanium contoured scales, nice and rounded 42 00:02:35.600 --> 00:02:39.020 and it's got that Terzuola style clip, a 43 00:02:39.020 --> 00:02:42.860 beautiful run of jimping on that Magnacut blade. And this 44 00:02:42.860 --> 00:02:46.660 one is produced by Reate Knives. So you know what that means, 45 00:02:46.820 --> 00:02:50.620 and if you don't, they are the superlative knife makers 46 00:02:50.620 --> 00:02:53.860 in China. Just the absolute best. 47 00:02:54.260 --> 00:02:56.980 Matter of fact, speaking of Bob Terzuola, I went out to 48 00:02:57.620 --> 00:03:00.340 brunch, or actually it was more of a dinner with 49 00:03:01.300 --> 00:03:04.500 him and his wife Sue's after Blade show this past year. 50 00:03:04.980 --> 00:03:08.700 Showed him this knife. He examined it and was truly impressed and 51 00:03:08.700 --> 00:03:12.380 he is not an easy man to impress. So had this on me today, 52 00:03:12.380 --> 00:03:15.300 did a little bit of cutting, mostly food. 53 00:03:16.020 --> 00:03:19.500 Next up in my left pocket my 54 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:22.980 glasses were loose. That means I had the Victorinox 55 00:03:22.980 --> 00:03:26.540 compact on me. This is my favorite and most 56 00:03:26.540 --> 00:03:30.260 carried Victorinox knife. It is a mere two layer 57 00:03:30.910 --> 00:03:34.710 knife here with all the main tool sets 58 00:03:34.710 --> 00:03:38.550 here. It's got the large scissors, got the large blade. The 59 00:03:38.550 --> 00:03:41.950 reason I carry this most often is because it's got that little 60 00:03:41.950 --> 00:03:45.470 screwdriver that fits in the corkscrew 61 00:03:45.630 --> 00:03:48.790 and that is great for my glasses. Like all the 62 00:03:48.790 --> 00:03:52.390 Victorinox knives I carry on a regular basis, I have a pocket 63 00:03:52.390 --> 00:03:56.230 dangler on it. Otherwise it rides north to or east to 64 00:03:56.230 --> 00:03:59.640 west in the pocket and that drives me absolutely nuts. 65 00:04:00.920 --> 00:04:04.440 Next up in my pocket I had the tkal knives Nautilus. 66 00:04:04.920 --> 00:04:08.440 But alas I left it locked up in my desk at work. 67 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:13.720 But I will show you this because this is what the Nautilus comes 68 00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:17.160 from. This is the Night Stalker, the knife that made 69 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:20.520 Tekel knives. And one day accidentally he 70 00:04:20.760 --> 00:04:24.420 knocked off the finger ring and 71 00:04:24.420 --> 00:04:27.900 discovered what a great little knife this is without the fingering. So the 72 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:31.380 Nautilus is the Night Stalker without the fingering and 73 00:04:31.940 --> 00:04:35.780 an extended thumb ramp here so you can push your thumb a 74 00:04:35.780 --> 00:04:39.380 little bit forward to make more use of that three finger grip. 75 00:04:40.019 --> 00:04:43.380 So essentially this is what I had on my belt today, 76 00:04:43.700 --> 00:04:47.540 minus the ring. Such a great knife. I love the Nautilus. That's a 77 00:04:47.540 --> 00:04:51.260 brand new. It's brand new for them and it's 78 00:04:51.260 --> 00:04:54.880 kind of in the piranha size. If you know that knife, 79 00:04:54.880 --> 00:04:58.440 it's about that size. Last up, my emotional support 80 00:04:58.440 --> 00:05:02.040 knife today was the cold steel Recon 81 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.120 one xl. This in xhp. This is 82 00:05:06.320 --> 00:05:10.120 the end of the original run of these large recon ones and 83 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:13.720 XHP. So this was about 2019 in terms of 84 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:17.240 production. If you love this knife and 85 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.640 you've offered to buy it from me, like many have over the over the years 86 00:05:21.090 --> 00:05:24.850 they have re released this in the XHP steel. So 87 00:05:25.170 --> 00:05:28.930 you can now go to cold steel knives and order this. Get this 88 00:05:29.010 --> 00:05:32.850 for yourself. They did not regrettably come out with the Tanto 89 00:05:32.850 --> 00:05:36.570 version of it, but maybe Maybe they'll gauge the 90 00:05:36.570 --> 00:05:40.410 popularity of this and come out with that. So this is what I 91 00:05:40.410 --> 00:05:44.250 have in my pocket today. I had the Manganes steel Aurelia. I 92 00:05:44.250 --> 00:05:48.060 had the Victorinox compact, the Nautilus 93 00:05:48.380 --> 00:05:51.780 by TKL knives. Brand new knife. You have to go check that out. They have 94 00:05:51.780 --> 00:05:55.500 some very cool special editions of that knife, by the way. And then my 95 00:05:55.500 --> 00:05:58.860 ESK today was the cold steel 96 00:05:58.860 --> 00:06:02.579 recon one clip point exit. All 97 00:06:02.579 --> 00:06:05.980 right, next up, I want to show off the nice that we're going to be 98 00:06:05.980 --> 00:06:09.500 giving away to one lucky Gentleman Junkie on November 99 00:06:09.900 --> 00:06:13.150 20th, I believe the third Thursday 100 00:06:13.710 --> 00:06:16.910 of November we do the gentleman junkie giveaway. Not 101 00:06:17.310 --> 00:06:21.030 giveaways for the our special patrons and members 102 00:06:21.030 --> 00:06:24.190 of the channel here on the third Thursdays of the month. 103 00:06:24.670 --> 00:06:28.150 So the gentleman junkie this month is getting none other than the 104 00:06:28.150 --> 00:06:31.990 TKL knives. Agent001. My design with Tim 105 00:06:31.990 --> 00:06:34.750 Kell, the one that launched the whole agent series, 106 00:06:35.870 --> 00:06:39.550 they just dropped November 1st. A brand new run of 107 00:06:39.550 --> 00:06:43.330 these now being machined 108 00:06:43.410 --> 00:06:47.090 by the great Nick Chuprin of NCC Knives in 109 00:06:47.090 --> 00:06:50.850 New Hampshire. You can see how they really have 110 00:06:51.010 --> 00:06:52.850 perfected this knife and really 111 00:06:54.450 --> 00:06:57.970 refined it. That's what I want to say with all that beautiful chamfering 112 00:06:57.970 --> 00:07:01.810 around the edges and the terracing on the, 113 00:07:02.370 --> 00:07:06.180 on the bevels, they're absolutely beautiful. This is 114 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:09.580 a double edged knife. If you want to order one for your own, 115 00:07:09.980 --> 00:07:13.620 for yourself from Tkal knives, but you do not 116 00:07:13.620 --> 00:07:17.420 or cannot have the double edge. You can always order this 117 00:07:17.420 --> 00:07:21.100 single edge and they'll take care of that. Best way to do that is go 118 00:07:21.100 --> 00:07:24.780 to the knifejunkie.com Tkel and that'll take 119 00:07:24.780 --> 00:07:28.260 you right to a special page where you can order any T Kel knife. And 120 00:07:28.260 --> 00:07:31.870 all you have to do is put Knife junkie in the, in the 121 00:07:31.870 --> 00:07:35.230 checkout, in the coupon code area checkout. And you save 122 00:07:35.230 --> 00:07:38.950 10%. You save 10%, Tim gets a sale 123 00:07:39.190 --> 00:07:42.910 and we're all happy. So definitely check that out. But this is 124 00:07:42.910 --> 00:07:46.670 the very one with that beautiful midnight blue handle that 125 00:07:46.670 --> 00:07:50.110 we'll be giving away on November 2nd. So if you want this knife and you 126 00:07:50.110 --> 00:07:53.870 want it for free, become a gentleman junkie. You can do 127 00:07:53.870 --> 00:07:57.630 so by joining right here on YouTube. Right down below my finger there's a place 128 00:07:57.630 --> 00:08:00.810 to join. Or you can go to Patreon. 129 00:08:01.210 --> 00:08:05.010 You go to the knife junkie.com Patreon I'll give you the details and the 130 00:08:05.010 --> 00:08:08.770 QR code coming up here shortly. But before we get there, I want 131 00:08:08.770 --> 00:08:12.250 to do another little plug for Patreon and talk about some of the stuff 132 00:08:12.490 --> 00:08:16.170 that Jim does. Amazing work on our Patreon page. 133 00:08:16.250 --> 00:08:19.690 He's got his Makers Monday and I love this feature because 134 00:08:20.010 --> 00:08:23.370 you can really learn. Do a deep dive into the maker. 135 00:08:24.340 --> 00:08:28.060 Oftentimes they're makers I cannot have as guests on the show because they are 136 00:08:28.060 --> 00:08:31.900 no longer with us. Tom Mayo, luckily, still is with us and I'd love 137 00:08:31.900 --> 00:08:34.820 to have him on the show. We just haven't quite worked out a time yet. 138 00:08:35.300 --> 00:08:37.380 But Tom Mayo, one of the original 139 00:08:38.500 --> 00:08:42.260 titanium frame lock folder. What do you want to call 140 00:08:42.260 --> 00:08:46.060 him? Luminaries. He isn't. He is a 141 00:08:46.060 --> 00:08:49.660 luminary and his work is incredible. He works out of the large 142 00:08:49.660 --> 00:08:53.360 island of Hawaii and he is known for 143 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:55.440 his super clean designs and 144 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:00.720 very, very exclusive and difficult to acquire knives. 145 00:09:00.880 --> 00:09:04.600 So if you want to learn all about Tom Mayo, you can do so on 146 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:08.000 Patreon at the Makers Monday section. 147 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:12.800 All right, how do you do that? Just go to the knifejunkie.com Patreon 148 00:09:12.880 --> 00:09:16.240 or you can scan the QR code on your screen right here. If you sign 149 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:19.780 up for for one year at the beginning, you know, in one fell 150 00:09:19.780 --> 00:09:23.620 swoop, you get 12% off. A lot of people are taking advantage of that, 151 00:09:24.260 --> 00:09:27.380 so go check that out. The Knife Junkie.com 152 00:09:28.180 --> 00:09:31.820 Patreon Adventure delivered your monthly subscription for 153 00:09:31.820 --> 00:09:35.460 handpicked outdoor survival, EDC and other cool 154 00:09:35.460 --> 00:09:39.100 gear from our expert team of outdoor professionals, the knife 155 00:09:39.100 --> 00:09:42.710 junkie.com battlebox. You're 156 00:09:42.710 --> 00:09:46.270 listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. And now here's the Knife 157 00:09:46.270 --> 00:09:50.030 Junkie with the Knife Life news. Okay, first up in the Knife 158 00:09:50.030 --> 00:09:53.670 Life news, one of my absolute favorite designers 159 00:09:53.670 --> 00:09:57.390 and makers out there, Les George, former Marine. He's an EOD 160 00:09:57.470 --> 00:10:01.310 specialist. So digging up bombs and landmines and stuff 161 00:10:01.310 --> 00:10:04.830 like that. We've known a couple of guys like that making great knives. A lot 162 00:10:04.830 --> 00:10:08.410 of Marine Corps members making knives. But Les 163 00:10:08.410 --> 00:10:12.130 George is man, he's the king. And he's got a new 164 00:10:12.130 --> 00:10:15.970 one out with Hay Bar and it's a tiny little guy. This is one 165 00:10:15.970 --> 00:10:19.490 of the few production knives that they 166 00:10:19.490 --> 00:10:23.290 produce that are forged. They are 167 00:10:23.290 --> 00:10:26.970 one of the only companies, actually the only company I can 168 00:10:26.970 --> 00:10:30.290 think of that has production runs of forged 169 00:10:30.450 --> 00:10:34.130 knives. And this latest one is called the George 170 00:10:34.400 --> 00:10:37.680 Roscoe. So George after less George, of course. Not sure what 171 00:10:37.680 --> 00:10:40.880 Roscoe means, but it is a cool little knife. And 172 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.800 like the last forged one they came out with, it looks like a tool. 173 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:48.720 Looks kind of like a wrench. This has a mini pistol grip. 174 00:10:48.800 --> 00:10:52.560 It's a fixed blade with a 1.8 inch Wharncliffe. 175 00:10:52.800 --> 00:10:55.680 Wharncliffe blade that's forged 176 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:59.560 425HC. 425HC is 177 00:10:59.560 --> 00:11:03.370 a 420 steel that we have not heard 178 00:11:03.370 --> 00:11:06.530 of for a long time. Buck used to use 179 00:11:06.530 --> 00:11:10.250 425 quite a bit on some of their folders, but this was a long 180 00:11:10.250 --> 00:11:14.010 time ago. So here it is back again. I guess it's great 181 00:11:14.010 --> 00:11:17.450 to forge. Not too many stainless or semi stainless steels 182 00:11:17.610 --> 00:11:21.450 are good to forge. This one has a finger ring and the spine side 183 00:11:21.450 --> 00:11:25.170 jimping. So you can either put your finger through that hole or you can put 184 00:11:25.170 --> 00:11:28.720 it right on top of the in the swale there on the back 185 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.920 for ultimate control. Now this one is 3.2 186 00:11:32.920 --> 00:11:36.760 ounces and that's including the. This 187 00:11:36.760 --> 00:11:40.240 is the first time I'm hearing this silicon thermoplastic 188 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.760 sheath. So something similar to Kydex. 189 00:11:43.920 --> 00:11:47.760 It's a thermoplastic sheath, but it's called Celcon. Looks a 190 00:11:47.760 --> 00:11:51.560 little different, looks a little smoother.67 is 191 00:11:51.560 --> 00:11:54.540 the MSRP. This little guy, that's the K bar. 192 00:11:54.940 --> 00:11:58.660 George Ross. Next up from Civivi. This 193 00:11:58.660 --> 00:12:02.380 one's called the Outlaw Muck. Outlaw Muck. 194 00:12:02.700 --> 00:12:06.060 This is by Trey Sprinkle, a knife 195 00:12:06.060 --> 00:12:09.900 designer and a knife maker. I'm sorry, knife designer and 196 00:12:09.900 --> 00:12:13.660 YouTuber knife YouTuber called American Outlaw. 197 00:12:14.540 --> 00:12:17.980 Mr. Sprinkle created this beautiful folding 198 00:12:18.140 --> 00:12:21.880 ness muck style knife. As a matter of fact, Civivi 199 00:12:21.880 --> 00:12:25.360 just reached out to me. They're going to be sending me one of these soon. 200 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.480 I'm looking forward to that. The Nessmuk, 201 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:32.560 very famous outdoors knife originally designed by George 202 00:12:32.560 --> 00:12:36.360 Washington Sears has seen a lot of replays 203 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:40.200 over the years and redesigns and kind of takes on the design. This is 204 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:43.920 a very interesting modernized version of that. You 205 00:12:43.920 --> 00:12:47.420 get 3.47 inches of fully flat ground. 206 00:12:47.420 --> 00:12:51.260 14C 28N blade steel. We all love that 207 00:12:51.260 --> 00:12:53.500 steel. With a harpoon Swedes. 208 00:12:54.940 --> 00:12:58.060 So you've got a lot of that nessmuk 209 00:12:58.540 --> 00:13:02.140 sort of lineage in there. But it definitely looks like a modern 210 00:13:02.460 --> 00:13:05.940 semi tactical, semi outdoor folder. It comes with 211 00:13:05.940 --> 00:13:09.580 G10 handles and on this particular one that Jim has up on 212 00:13:09.580 --> 00:13:13.180 screen, you've got sort of a piano key setup. Half black, 213 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:17.200 half white, ebony and ivory if you will. G10 setup. 214 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.920 Beautiful, beautiful knife here they have four different 215 00:13:20.920 --> 00:13:24.640 colorways for this reversible deep carry pocket clip. 216 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.160 3.74 ounces. This one is coming soon, 217 00:13:29.160 --> 00:13:33.000 so I don't know exactly what that means, but hopefully I will have 218 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.480 mine before it drops so I can show you all. And 219 00:13:36.560 --> 00:13:39.570 64 is the MSRP on one. 220 00:13:40.770 --> 00:13:44.530 Next up from Forged by War, the line of 221 00:13:44.530 --> 00:13:46.930 knives from Columbia River Knife and Tool. 222 00:13:48.530 --> 00:13:51.490 All of these knives are designed by former 223 00:13:51.970 --> 00:13:55.690 combat veterans who are also interested in designing 224 00:13:55.690 --> 00:13:58.930 or making knives. This one is from 225 00:13:59.730 --> 00:14:03.490 Michael Rodriguez. Now we've seen two other versions of his knife. It's the 226 00:14:04.210 --> 00:14:07.700 Zolotel is what I'm thinking it is. X O L O T 227 00:14:07.700 --> 00:14:11.260 L. It's a, it's named after 228 00:14:11.260 --> 00:14:13.540 a, a God of the, 229 00:14:14.820 --> 00:14:18.380 of the Aztec persuasion. Anyway, this one 230 00:14:18.380 --> 00:14:21.660 is the out the front version of the 231 00:14:21.660 --> 00:14:25.500 Zolotone. The first one that came out looked like a, it 232 00:14:25.500 --> 00:14:28.860 looked a bit like a double quilling Italian 233 00:14:28.860 --> 00:14:32.460 stiletto. And then they came out with a fixed blade version of that. And 234 00:14:32.460 --> 00:14:36.210 now here we have an out the front automatic version, dual 235 00:14:36.210 --> 00:14:40.010 action out the front meaning when you slide that actuator forward the 236 00:14:40.010 --> 00:14:43.610 blade comes out. When you pull back on it the 237 00:14:43.610 --> 00:14:46.690 blade comes back in. This is only the second 238 00:14:47.250 --> 00:14:50.769 out the front from crkt. I believe the tie twist 239 00:14:51.570 --> 00:14:55.170 from Brian Ty was the first one that they released 240 00:14:55.570 --> 00:14:59.410 this in aluminum which is traditional for this 241 00:14:59.570 --> 00:15:03.060 kind of knife. Aluminum handle, three and a half inch double edge 242 00:15:03.060 --> 00:15:06.780 Magnacut blade. So you got the premium steel with the Magnacut 243 00:15:06.780 --> 00:15:10.620 and you have a double edge. Something we all wanted from the very first 244 00:15:10.860 --> 00:15:11.900 version of this one. 245 00:15:13.660 --> 00:15:16.980 3.25 ounces. This one is available now, 246 00:15:16.980 --> 00:15:20.180 325 bucks but made in 247 00:15:20.180 --> 00:15:23.900 USA and we know that CRKT has 248 00:15:23.900 --> 00:15:27.740 used Hogue knives to build their automatics 249 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.960 and other folders that they make in America. So if, 250 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.040 if this one indeed is made by Hogue, you know it's going to be an 251 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:38.200 amazing knife. All right, last up is from 252 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:41.960 Sencut. Sencut, you know that's the little brother of Civivi. 253 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:45.320 This one's called the Glen Spa in yet another 254 00:15:46.040 --> 00:15:49.560 baffling name from the Sencut Sagigi family. 255 00:15:49.880 --> 00:15:53.680 This one is a 3.45-inch clip point blade. I 256 00:15:53.680 --> 00:15:57.060 think it's incredibly handsome. I love this knife with a long road 257 00:15:57.060 --> 00:16:00.780 jimping on for the thumb and you have that 258 00:16:00.780 --> 00:16:04.580 nice fuller running down for thumb or middle 259 00:16:04.580 --> 00:16:08.302 finger actuation. That's 9Cr 260 00:16:08.498 --> 00:16:12.259 18Mov steel which they do a great job with. I know a 261 00:16:12.259 --> 00:16:16.020 lot of people look down their nose at the CR steels but 262 00:16:16.020 --> 00:16:19.700 these are. They do a great job with the heat treat. I've 263 00:16:19.700 --> 00:16:23.260 never had a problem with that. This is a thumb stud actuated 264 00:16:23.260 --> 00:16:26.990 knife. If you're not going to use the fuller and it's got the 265 00:16:27.630 --> 00:16:31.470 ambidextrous bar lock we used to call the axis lock, when 266 00:16:31.870 --> 00:16:35.350 Benchmade owned that license. A narrow G10 267 00:16:35.350 --> 00:16:38.670 handle, but it also comes in Micarta, which we're seeing right here, 268 00:16:39.150 --> 00:16:42.830 or shred G10, which is pretty cool. Something that 269 00:16:42.830 --> 00:16:46.590 Civivi has messed around with a little bit in the recent past. 270 00:16:47.310 --> 00:16:50.190 So check that out. This is coming out soon at only 271 00:16:50.650 --> 00:16:54.450 45 bucks. All right, we're going to get 272 00:16:54.450 --> 00:16:58.290 to the state of the collection and the first tool. But before 273 00:16:58.290 --> 00:17:01.970 we do, I just want to let you know that you can check out our 274 00:17:01.970 --> 00:17:04.890 newsletter. Just wanted to drop that. That comes out, 275 00:17:05.610 --> 00:17:08.810 I'd say about three times a month. We're not, we're not 276 00:17:08.970 --> 00:17:12.570 lambasting you with newsletters, but you get to keep up with us. We get to 277 00:17:12.570 --> 00:17:16.250 keep up with you. You get some beautiful pictures. My thoughts. And usings 278 00:17:16.620 --> 00:17:20.340 on some sort of knife at the time. And let's face it, 279 00:17:20.340 --> 00:17:23.060 if we ever get kicked off of YouTube, it's a great way to keep in 280 00:17:23.060 --> 00:17:26.860 touch. So let's do that. So coming 281 00:17:26.860 --> 00:17:30.660 up in the First Tool, we're going to talk all about the 282 00:17:30.660 --> 00:17:34.420 art of the grip and handle. Bizarre. You're listening to 283 00:17:34.420 --> 00:17:37.540 the Knife Junkie podcast. knife junkies. Here's some cool knife history with 284 00:17:37.540 --> 00:17:41.300 The First Tool The First Tool Handle Stories 285 00:17:41.300 --> 00:17:44.930 the Art of the Grip there's an old saying 286 00:17:44.930 --> 00:17:48.570 among knife makers. The blade does the work, but the handle 287 00:17:48.570 --> 00:17:52.330 wins the heart. A knife's handle isn't just a place to hold 288 00:17:52.330 --> 00:17:55.730 on. It's where craftsmanship meets comfort, where material 289 00:17:55.810 --> 00:17:59.610 becomes memory. Every choice tells a 290 00:17:59.610 --> 00:18:03.010 story of who made it, who carried it, and 291 00:18:03.410 --> 00:18:05.250 what it meant to survive. Let's 292 00:18:06.930 --> 00:18:10.430 start with stem, one of the oldest handle materials still used. 293 00:18:10.430 --> 00:18:13.990 The antler, naturally textured and durable, comes 294 00:18:14.310 --> 00:18:17.550 from either deer or elk. In the 295 00:18:17.550 --> 00:18:21.350 1800s, it became a mark of pride on Sheffield folding 296 00:18:21.350 --> 00:18:24.790 knives, each one unique, like a fingerprint from the forest. 297 00:18:25.350 --> 00:18:29.110 Stagg told the world this is not a factory toy. 298 00:18:29.350 --> 00:18:32.790 It's a tool born from nature, shaped by hand. 299 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.200 Then came bone. Humble, abundant, and surprisingly 300 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:40.800 elegant. Paddlebone could be dyed and jigged, 301 00:18:40.800 --> 00:18:44.480 thus the term for carving grooves and ridges into it, giving 302 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:47.760 each knife a grip and a personality. Case. 303 00:18:48.080 --> 00:18:51.520 Boker GEC and other classic 304 00:18:51.520 --> 00:18:55.160 brands made bone their signature. When you see honey 305 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:58.800 yellow or crimson dyed bone, it feels like stepping into a 306 00:18:58.800 --> 00:19:02.580 time machine that takes you back to your grandfather's workshop and 307 00:19:02.580 --> 00:19:06.340 his pocket. In the early 20th century, new materials 308 00:19:06.340 --> 00:19:10.140 joined the story. Micarta. Layers of linen or paper 309 00:19:10.140 --> 00:19:13.900 soaked in resin, pressed under heat, changed everything. 310 00:19:14.700 --> 00:19:18.220 It was tough, stable, didn't crack like natural materials, 311 00:19:18.380 --> 00:19:22.220 and extremely Durable soldiers carried it 312 00:19:22.220 --> 00:19:25.420 and outdoorsmen trusted it. It was the bridge between 313 00:19:25.500 --> 00:19:29.250 traditional and modernity. Still warm to 314 00:19:29.250 --> 00:19:33.010 the touch, but born in a laboratory. And then 315 00:19:33.010 --> 00:19:36.090 there's G10, a cousin to micarta. Woven 316 00:19:36.090 --> 00:19:39.450 fiberglass sealed in epoxy. It's not 317 00:19:39.450 --> 00:19:43.250 romantic like stag or bone, but in a downpour on a mountain 318 00:19:43.250 --> 00:19:47.050 ridge, that grip could save the day. In the knife world, 319 00:19:47.050 --> 00:19:50.330 G10 is the modern workhorse. All function 320 00:19:50.650 --> 00:19:54.020 very little fluid, of course. Some 321 00:19:54.020 --> 00:19:57.300 makers circle back to wood. The eternal handle, 322 00:19:57.620 --> 00:20:01.460 desert ironwood, ebony and walnut. Each has its 323 00:20:01.460 --> 00:20:05.220 voice, each has its own story 324 00:20:05.380 --> 00:20:08.980 in the grain. A wooden handle connects you to 325 00:20:08.980 --> 00:20:12.660 earth itself. To a long line of humans who carved 326 00:20:12.660 --> 00:20:16.300 tools and the history that was written in them. Every handle 327 00:20:16.300 --> 00:20:20.140 material From Stag, the G10 reflects the hands 328 00:20:20.140 --> 00:20:23.500 that hold it. Tradition and technology, art and 329 00:20:23.500 --> 00:20:27.220 utility, nature and invention. The blade may 330 00:20:27.220 --> 00:20:30.900 cut, but the handle connects. Because in the 331 00:20:30.900 --> 00:20:34.220 end, a knife isn't just forged in fire. 332 00:20:34.620 --> 00:20:36.940 It's shaped by the hand it grips it. 333 00:20:38.220 --> 00:20:41.300 All right, let's go take a look at some of the new knives that have 334 00:20:41.300 --> 00:20:45.070 come here at the state of the collection. Want to 335 00:20:45.070 --> 00:20:48.750 sell your custom knives online? With launch cart you can easily create 336 00:20:48.750 --> 00:20:51.750 your own e commerce store, no coding required. 337 00:20:52.630 --> 00:20:56.190 Launch cart is designed for knife makers like you with built in 338 00:20:56.190 --> 00:21:00.030 tools to showcase your craftsmanship, manage orders and grow 339 00:21:00.030 --> 00:21:03.750 your brand. It's fast, flexible and even 340 00:21:03.750 --> 00:21:07.390 includes low cost payment processing to help you keep more of your 341 00:21:07.390 --> 00:21:11.120 profits. Start your online knife store today at the knife 342 00:21:11.120 --> 00:21:14.880 junkie.com launch and turn your passion into a business 343 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:19.480 right here. This one was sent to me by Jared Franklin and 344 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:22.800 designer Michael Elliott. This is the gunfighter, customs 345 00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:26.760 gunfighter. Now you've seen me showing this knife off 346 00:21:26.760 --> 00:21:30.240 or a knife just like it for all the months 347 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:34.800 since blade show. But they sent me this to give away to 348 00:21:34.800 --> 00:21:38.580 one lucky gentleman junkie in December and I wish that 349 00:21:38.580 --> 00:21:42.260 guy were me. Hopefully my dad wins it and he 350 00:21:42.260 --> 00:21:45.700 gives it to me. Just kidding. But this thing is 351 00:21:45.700 --> 00:21:49.340 absolutely beautiful. Look at the first of all, you've got the double 352 00:21:49.340 --> 00:21:53.140 edged blade, this is 80 CRV2. And 353 00:21:53.140 --> 00:21:56.700 then you've got this gorgeous antique micarta handle here. 354 00:21:56.940 --> 00:22:00.380 It's a butterscotch micarta with got 355 00:22:00.380 --> 00:22:04.110 mosaic pins in there. Just positively 356 00:22:04.110 --> 00:22:07.870 beautifully made. And I have to say you can gauge 357 00:22:07.870 --> 00:22:11.590 the refinement in Jared's work even 358 00:22:11.590 --> 00:22:15.230 since the one that I have. And what I mean by that are there are 359 00:22:15.230 --> 00:22:18.950 little tiny embellishments on this one that 360 00:22:18.950 --> 00:22:22.670 are just breathtaking. Nice and slender is 361 00:22:22.670 --> 00:22:26.310 that egg shaped handle. This one is sort of an improvement. 362 00:22:26.310 --> 00:22:30.020 Michael Elliott is the designer versus makers Mark. They are, 363 00:22:30.020 --> 00:22:33.580 they are partners in gunfighter customs. He 364 00:22:33.580 --> 00:22:37.140 is a very well 365 00:22:37.140 --> 00:22:40.740 trained martial artist, especially in Kitty Tersha, Collie 366 00:22:40.820 --> 00:22:44.580 and other other knife arts. This one was 367 00:22:44.659 --> 00:22:48.460 meant to perfect the clinch pick. You know the clinch pick 368 00:22:48.460 --> 00:22:52.260 though one of the first bacal knives you probably ever saw. Well, this 369 00:22:52.260 --> 00:22:56.050 one gives you a place to put your thumb on the back of the 370 00:22:56.050 --> 00:22:59.650 blade without, without resting it on a sharp edge. And it 371 00:22:59.650 --> 00:23:03.490 gives you two edges so you've got the downward cut and 372 00:23:03.490 --> 00:23:06.730 backward cut and a 373 00:23:07.210 --> 00:23:11.049 very small nestling in the hand package. There's 374 00:23:11.049 --> 00:23:14.770 no way anyone is going to disarm this knife from you unless you 375 00:23:14.770 --> 00:23:18.010 give it up because it nestles completely. 376 00:23:18.490 --> 00:23:22.100 Your hand swallows it up completely and yet it's flat 377 00:23:22.100 --> 00:23:25.820 enough in the handle that it's not going to twist in the 378 00:23:25.820 --> 00:23:29.340 hand. So this is going to be the gentleman junkie 379 00:23:29.340 --> 00:23:32.820 giveaway knife for December. Cannot wait to give this thing away 380 00:23:32.820 --> 00:23:36.620 because the longer it stays in here the more likely it is to be 381 00:23:36.620 --> 00:23:40.380 subsumed into my collection. Of course that's a 382 00:23:40.380 --> 00:23:44.100 joke. Here's the sheath. It's really great. I've been carrying 383 00:23:44.100 --> 00:23:47.780 this one quite a bit in the waistband right up front. I like it 384 00:23:48.750 --> 00:23:52.470 in a. An appendix carry style. So there 385 00:23:52.470 --> 00:23:55.790 it is. This is the custom gunfighter by 386 00:23:55.790 --> 00:23:59.590 gunfighter customs. You will be seeing this a lot. I'll be 387 00:23:59.590 --> 00:24:03.110 showing this off a lot on the midweek supplemental 388 00:24:03.110 --> 00:24:06.950 after the November giveaway and I'll be showing this 389 00:24:06.950 --> 00:24:10.430 off on Thursday night as well. But thank you so much 390 00:24:10.430 --> 00:24:13.790 Jared and Mike, if you're watching, your generosity is, 391 00:24:14.460 --> 00:24:18.300 is so greatly appreciated. This next one, 392 00:24:18.300 --> 00:24:21.740 I'm sort of the yenta. I'm the, I'm the broker for this one. 393 00:24:22.380 --> 00:24:26.100 My sister asked me to find a great custom 394 00:24:26.100 --> 00:24:29.780 chef's knife to. She wants to buy to give to a friend 395 00:24:29.780 --> 00:24:33.580 of hers who's been very generous over the years cooking her meals 396 00:24:33.580 --> 00:24:36.940 and, and you know, being a good friend. And 397 00:24:37.500 --> 00:24:41.130 he and she, it's a couple actually love cooking and they 398 00:24:41.130 --> 00:24:44.970 love knives and well, I think 399 00:24:44.970 --> 00:24:48.450 I finally got it and it's this, this beautiful 400 00:24:48.450 --> 00:24:52.290 Dirk Pinkerton made custom chef's knife. 401 00:24:52.450 --> 00:24:55.890 It is absolutely beautiful and feels 402 00:24:56.050 --> 00:24:58.930 so good in hand and I think a lot of that has to do with 403 00:24:58.930 --> 00:25:02.650 the. This area right behind the Ricasso we have 404 00:25:02.650 --> 00:25:06.180 a much more gradual curve from the 405 00:25:06.180 --> 00:25:09.940 blade to the handle than we normally see. And it fits in the 406 00:25:09.940 --> 00:25:13.740 hand perfectly in that sort of pinch grip that we tend to use when 407 00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:17.420 using and when using kitchen knives. This one has a 10 408 00:25:17.420 --> 00:25:20.300 inch blade and I believe it's magnacut. 409 00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:24.300 Very nice and thin with a very tall grind. 410 00:25:24.620 --> 00:25:28.420 Super sharp. I use this one. You know, I had to test it. I'm not 411 00:25:28.420 --> 00:25:32.190 just gonna send it along not knowing if it could cut or not. So I 412 00:25:32.190 --> 00:25:35.950 used this to cut up some potatoes. This was over the 413 00:25:35.950 --> 00:25:39.670 past weekend and it did great. You 414 00:25:39.670 --> 00:25:43.350 know, I guess most knives will do great, but this thing just glided 415 00:25:43.590 --> 00:25:46.950 through it like it wasn't even there. And then look at this beautiful GL 416 00:25:46.950 --> 00:25:50.310 Hansen & Sons G Carta. That's a custom 417 00:25:50.790 --> 00:25:54.230 micarta with all these different color 418 00:25:54.230 --> 00:25:57.920 materials here. Really, really a beautiful, beautiful 419 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:01.720 handle. Feels great in hand. And this one, someone quipped 420 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:05.360 recently, is like a tactical kitchen knife. 421 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:08.880 I think it was the jimping that made that person say so, but 422 00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:12.160 what a beautiful knife. So this goes to my sister 423 00:26:13.600 --> 00:26:16.680 in short order. I have to do a close up video of it and then 424 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:20.480 I will send it along to her. But the money is already paid and 425 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:24.170 that money wasn't mine. So I can't hold on to this, this one. But it's 426 00:26:24.170 --> 00:26:27.810 got me thinking. A commission is in the offing for 427 00:26:27.810 --> 00:26:31.530 a dirk and another one of these gorgeous kitchen knives. 428 00:26:32.490 --> 00:26:35.450 All right, we're going to get to a special 429 00:26:35.930 --> 00:26:39.730 segment tonight called Mrs. Knife Junkies Folders. But before we do, 430 00:26:39.730 --> 00:26:43.410 I want to show you some cool merch that Jim just came up 431 00:26:43.410 --> 00:26:47.130 with. I buy knives for self defense. Sure, sure, that's 432 00:26:47.130 --> 00:26:50.910 it. So you can get this on a T shirt, a 433 00:26:50.910 --> 00:26:54.550 hat and apron. You know, it's still grilling season. Or a 434 00:26:54.710 --> 00:26:58.270 mug or anything else you want. We've got so many different things in our merch 435 00:26:58.270 --> 00:27:00.870 store. Just go to the knife junkie.com shop. 436 00:27:01.990 --> 00:27:05.710 Many pages. I think we're up to 30 pages of merchandise, all 437 00:27:05.710 --> 00:27:09.070 with really cool maxims like this. Pithy, pithy 438 00:27:09.070 --> 00:27:12.670 maxims. And then if you like the traditional knife 439 00:27:12.670 --> 00:27:15.900 junkie logo, you got to go all the way back to the beginning and you 440 00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:19.540 can find that there. But I buy knives for self defense. 441 00:27:20.020 --> 00:27:23.300 Sure, that's it. All right. 442 00:27:23.780 --> 00:27:27.460 So you cannot live in this household, the knife junkie household, 443 00:27:27.620 --> 00:27:30.580 without acquiring a knife or tea here or there. 444 00:27:31.780 --> 00:27:35.380 My daughters have them. I met my wife learning how to knife fight, 445 00:27:35.860 --> 00:27:39.700 so she's always been amenable. But I've really, 446 00:27:39.860 --> 00:27:43.260 I've really gotten her into the game. Why don't you come on over here, 447 00:27:43.260 --> 00:27:47.020 baby? Let me introduce to you, Mrs. 448 00:27:47.020 --> 00:27:50.860 Knife Junkie. Yeah, it's been a, it's been a while. 449 00:27:51.100 --> 00:27:54.860 Hello, everyone. All right, thank you. 450 00:27:54.860 --> 00:27:58.460 Put you in the spot. Okay, so let me get my. 451 00:28:01.100 --> 00:28:04.540 All right. I liked your history segment. 452 00:28:04.620 --> 00:28:08.200 Oh, thank you. That was good too. Although 453 00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:11.760 I, I have to disagree with you. I don't think it's still growing season for 454 00:28:11.760 --> 00:28:15.520 those aprons. Oh, well, it's griddle season, let's 455 00:28:15.520 --> 00:28:19.240 say. But hey, people wearing aprons inside, 456 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:22.600 you can cook inside too. I'm all for it. Yeah. 457 00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:26.040 All right, well, let's talk about these knives here. We've got a bunch of them 458 00:28:26.040 --> 00:28:28.840 here on the knife cam under the knife can, and 459 00:28:30.040 --> 00:28:33.780 there are some that you really like, some that you barely carried. But let's talk 460 00:28:33.780 --> 00:28:37.180 about them. So this is the first one. This is the buck range. 461 00:28:38.140 --> 00:28:41.860 This is my favorite knife. It is my, 462 00:28:41.860 --> 00:28:45.700 my current edc. I love this knife so 463 00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:49.020 much. Main reason 464 00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:53.180 it is light. It is so light. I have mentioned to Bob that, 465 00:28:53.340 --> 00:28:56.940 you know, I usually have it clipped, you know, in my, usually 466 00:28:57.100 --> 00:29:00.470 jeans. My jeans. There have been times when I've forgotten 467 00:29:00.790 --> 00:29:03.630 and I've actually folded my jeans and put them away and then looked for my 468 00:29:03.630 --> 00:29:07.030 knife and realized that they were still on my jeans. They're just that light. Normally 469 00:29:07.750 --> 00:29:11.550 you forget to unclip your knife. You know, you feel 470 00:29:11.550 --> 00:29:14.710 the weight. This is like nothing. So I 471 00:29:15.110 --> 00:29:17.910 love that. I love the size of it. 472 00:29:19.750 --> 00:29:23.110 The handle for me is nice. I have smaller hands and 473 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:28.200 I would say probably all of men, and it 474 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:32.000 works for me. Sometimes they're too big. This one is 475 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.640 just fine. The knife, the blade size for me, 476 00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:39.280 I also very much appreciate because it's, for me, it's a 477 00:29:39.280 --> 00:29:42.840 utility knife, so it's easy for me to wield. My 478 00:29:42.840 --> 00:29:46.560 one complaint about this, and it's just with the 479 00:29:46.560 --> 00:29:50.370 folders, I do like the auto flipping 480 00:29:50.370 --> 00:29:53.290 the flippers. It just, I like the sound. 481 00:29:54.170 --> 00:29:57.850 It just looks cool. It feels cool. Click. You know, it's there. 482 00:29:58.490 --> 00:30:02.250 And with this, I just, sometimes because my hands are so small, 483 00:30:02.250 --> 00:30:06.089 I, I find it difficult to manipulate the, the, 484 00:30:06.089 --> 00:30:09.770 the opener. Outside of that, I, I, I have no complaints. I love this 485 00:30:09.770 --> 00:30:13.570 mic right now. I've been carrying it for a while. I don't foresee a time 486 00:30:13.570 --> 00:30:17.080 when I would will not be carrying that. All right, 487 00:30:18.600 --> 00:30:21.720 next, the Kershaw leaf. Yes. 488 00:30:23.080 --> 00:30:26.880 I love the look of this blade. I like the length. It's 489 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.720 a little longer. Maybe it just looks longer just due 490 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:34.560 to how thin it is. I like 491 00:30:34.560 --> 00:30:37.560 this knife a lot. It's very sleek. Especially 492 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:42.240 the handle is just so smooth. It fits really nicely in the 493 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:45.840 hand. I really appreciated this knife 494 00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:49.600 because it was thin. And again, for me 495 00:30:49.600 --> 00:30:53.440 to clip onto my Clothing, I don't like to 496 00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:57.040 feel it in my hip. The knives, and 497 00:30:57.040 --> 00:31:00.680 sometimes when they're too thick, that happens. But this is so nice and 498 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:04.400 thin that it would clip in even with 499 00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:07.920 dress pants. When I go to the office, you just want it to be a 500 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:11.380 little more discreet. I'd always keep it the back. It was a little 501 00:31:11.380 --> 00:31:15.020 heavy. And that was probably one of the main reasons why I stopped wearing 502 00:31:15.020 --> 00:31:18.860 it because it was so nice. Again, I would wear it with, with non 503 00:31:18.860 --> 00:31:22.700 jeans and not as sturdy and I just 504 00:31:22.700 --> 00:31:26.540 felt like it weighed. I love the knife, though. I 505 00:31:26.540 --> 00:31:30.260 love how it looks. What do you think of the, the spring 506 00:31:30.260 --> 00:31:34.020 assist on the blue? Love it, Love it. It was, it was so 507 00:31:34.020 --> 00:31:37.210 smooth, like you almost had to, not even, you had to touch it with some, 508 00:31:37.210 --> 00:31:40.450 with some force, but it was this beautiful. Just, 509 00:31:41.170 --> 00:31:44.690 it just, just, it's so smooth. Yeah, I, I, 510 00:31:44.770 --> 00:31:48.290 I love it very much. A little closer to that line. Sure thing. 511 00:31:49.090 --> 00:31:52.770 Oh, Next up. This was designed by one of my favorite 512 00:31:53.170 --> 00:31:56.930 designers, Sinkovich from, I think he's Zela 513 00:31:56.930 --> 00:31:59.890 Russian. This is the Kershaw Atmos. 514 00:32:00.610 --> 00:32:04.250 I wore this knife when we were living in New York quite a 515 00:32:04.250 --> 00:32:07.770 bit, Quite a bit. Again, late, Very light. 516 00:32:08.090 --> 00:32:11.770 I liked that one. I like the blade. 517 00:32:12.570 --> 00:32:16.370 You can tell by its use. You know, I use that for a number of 518 00:32:16.370 --> 00:32:20.129 different, different reasons. So 519 00:32:20.129 --> 00:32:22.090 how long do I have for, like each of these knives? 520 00:32:25.930 --> 00:32:29.130 I like this knife. I like how it opened. The only thing I did not 521 00:32:29.130 --> 00:32:32.810 like about it is the design. I guess on the, on the 522 00:32:32.810 --> 00:32:36.230 handle, it just made it 523 00:32:36.550 --> 00:32:40.350 for me. And it's actually coming across so like much nicer on the, on 524 00:32:40.350 --> 00:32:44.190 the screen, but just made it look a little cheap for 525 00:32:44.190 --> 00:32:47.430 me. I don't know why. A little cheap? Yeah, it's like, like 526 00:32:47.430 --> 00:32:50.790 plasticky. We've got a, we've got 527 00:32:51.030 --> 00:32:54.550 carbon fiber overlay. So the whole thing is in carbon fiber. 528 00:32:54.710 --> 00:32:57.990 That would raise the, the price of it. It's G10, 529 00:32:58.630 --> 00:33:01.550 but then they put a little carbon fiber on top of it to make it 530 00:33:01.550 --> 00:33:05.230 look fancy. But you think it feels a little cheap. It 531 00:33:05.230 --> 00:33:08.630 just looked a little, it looked plasticky to me sometimes. Like I said on, on 532 00:33:08.630 --> 00:33:11.790 the, on the screen it looks nicer, 533 00:33:12.670 --> 00:33:15.630 but yeah, I mean, I liked it. I liked it a lot. I wore it, 534 00:33:15.870 --> 00:33:18.510 I wore it. That was my EDC for a long time. 535 00:33:19.550 --> 00:33:22.970 Yeah. And, and what do you think of the 8cr 536 00:33:23.090 --> 00:33:26.510 13 mov ski? Oh, I was hoping you'd ask me that. 537 00:33:28.580 --> 00:33:32.260 I, I, I, I, I like the, the, the blade. I thought it was 538 00:33:32.260 --> 00:33:35.900 very sharp. Fair 539 00:33:35.900 --> 00:33:39.580 enough. In Terms of like sturdiness. I mean, I, I put that, you know, 540 00:33:39.580 --> 00:33:42.900 I banged that. I banged that thing around quite a bit. 541 00:33:44.340 --> 00:33:47.140 Never, never had any issues. Felt good in the hand. 542 00:33:48.260 --> 00:33:52.020 That's. Well, that's basically what I. Why I was bringing it up because a 543 00:33:52.020 --> 00:33:55.780 lot of people like to dis 8cr13 mov. 544 00:33:56.270 --> 00:34:00.070 Because it's not, it's not a top notch steel, but for most of 545 00:34:00.070 --> 00:34:03.710 what we use our knives for, it's. Yeah, 546 00:34:03.710 --> 00:34:06.950 yeah, yeah. I mean, there's. You can tell that I used it, but there was 547 00:34:06.950 --> 00:34:10.590 never any issue with bending or anything. It kept it, 548 00:34:10.590 --> 00:34:14.310 it's kept its edge. All 549 00:34:14.310 --> 00:34:18.150 right, here's one. Here's one that I know you've used 550 00:34:18.150 --> 00:34:21.950 a lot. Designed by 551 00:34:21.950 --> 00:34:25.790 another great designer, RJ Martin. This is the Kershaw Volt 552 00:34:25.790 --> 00:34:29.590 2. The Volt 2. I do like the Volt 2. 553 00:34:29.990 --> 00:34:33.630 The opening on that one is also very 554 00:34:33.630 --> 00:34:36.630 smooth, very slick. Really 555 00:34:36.630 --> 00:34:40.230 satisfying. You know, when you do it, 556 00:34:40.390 --> 00:34:43.750 you know, you know the blade is open. You know, it's ready in your hand 557 00:34:43.910 --> 00:34:47.350 as soon as you do that. I love the handle 558 00:34:48.070 --> 00:34:50.230 on this one too. Very sturdy. 559 00:34:51.869 --> 00:34:55.629 This, this would be the type of knife that, you know, I'm 560 00:34:55.629 --> 00:34:59.069 sure Zombie apocalypse. We'd have a number of different weapons to choose from. 561 00:34:59.389 --> 00:35:03.149 That to me, would be sort of in my pocket. I actually. You added 562 00:35:03.149 --> 00:35:06.869 the. The bob. Yeah, the 563 00:35:06.869 --> 00:35:10.469 fob. Because I wanted to for some reason sometimes in my back 564 00:35:10.469 --> 00:35:12.869 pocket with that one. Because I would. I would carry it around with me if 565 00:35:12.869 --> 00:35:15.789 I was like doing stuff up in the yard or, you know, what have you. 566 00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:19.240 Uh, and I would kind of pull it out that way, but it always felt 567 00:35:19.240 --> 00:35:22.920 so sturdy and secure. This would be one that if I, I had to 568 00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.120 fight with, I mean, I'd fight with all of them, but that one just. 569 00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.440 I don't know, it. It felt really nice to hold. 570 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:35.160 What I like seeing on this is how much gunk and filth 571 00:35:35.160 --> 00:35:39.000 and mud. Sorry, I just kind of in there. I like that I don't 572 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:42.320 see my knives. You should probably clean all of those. Screws and even on the 573 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:46.150 blade, a nice hollow ground. 8cr13 mov 574 00:35:46.150 --> 00:35:49.670 blade. But I like seeing the life and the use in this. 575 00:35:49.910 --> 00:35:53.630 I have so many knives, more than maybe, you know, but 576 00:35:53.630 --> 00:35:57.150 I have so many knives and most of them don't get any 577 00:35:57.150 --> 00:36:00.230 use, let alone, you know, this much use. 578 00:36:00.870 --> 00:36:04.310 So I like seeing this. Yeah, that. That's an old 579 00:36:04.310 --> 00:36:06.630 favorite, that one. Definitely. For sure. 580 00:36:07.510 --> 00:36:11.140 Kershaw too. And it feel good in hand too. 581 00:36:12.020 --> 00:36:15.820 100% beautiful. All 582 00:36:15.820 --> 00:36:18.900 right, this next One, the Civivi Mini practice. 583 00:36:19.620 --> 00:36:23.420 I in particular like the shape of the blade on this 584 00:36:23.420 --> 00:36:26.780 one. I believe you gave me this one or you asked me what color. I 585 00:36:26.780 --> 00:36:30.540 remember saying green for my eyes. And next thing you know, I had a green 586 00:36:30.540 --> 00:36:34.260 handled knife. So this one is a just a 587 00:36:34.990 --> 00:36:38.190 fine blade. I like it very much. I do like the, 588 00:36:39.710 --> 00:36:42.670 the length of the handle as, as well. 589 00:36:44.110 --> 00:36:47.870 Not. It's not too big, it's not too small. 590 00:36:48.910 --> 00:36:51.710 The only reason I think I didn't sort of 591 00:36:52.430 --> 00:36:55.950 wear this more often than I did was just the 592 00:36:56.190 --> 00:36:59.910 width, the overall width of the. Of the blade. Just in 593 00:36:59.910 --> 00:37:01.880 terms of catching that one. 594 00:37:03.560 --> 00:37:06.600 I think there's one of them there where the main reason was the clip. And 595 00:37:06.600 --> 00:37:09.960 I know you said you could loosen the clip, but it just wouldn't kind of 596 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:13.720 give me any give to wear. So I was, it was like 597 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:16.839 fighting to kind of get it on. And I was thinking if I fight to 598 00:37:16.839 --> 00:37:20.640 get it on, I have to fight to get it off. But. But yeah, 599 00:37:20.640 --> 00:37:24.320 this one, I like this one. So you've mentioned that you 600 00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:27.740 carry in the waistband a lot. Why in the 601 00:37:27.740 --> 00:37:31.420 waistband? Tell us about women's pockets. Well, 602 00:37:31.420 --> 00:37:35.220 women's pockets are. Well, if you're lucky to 603 00:37:35.220 --> 00:37:38.980 have pockets. I know with you guys, everything you have 604 00:37:38.980 --> 00:37:42.780 is pockets and multiple pockets and pockets on pockets and pockets that 605 00:37:43.100 --> 00:37:45.580 you don't even remember what's in the pocket. But 606 00:37:46.700 --> 00:37:49.500 women's clothing. And so 607 00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:54.790 when they are performing professional pants, the pockets are usually a little lower 608 00:37:54.790 --> 00:37:58.510 to kind of like put your hands in. With blue 609 00:37:58.510 --> 00:38:01.790 jeans, they're a little higher. And. And for me, I don't 610 00:38:01.790 --> 00:38:05.430 necessarily like to show that I'm carrying for a number of different 611 00:38:05.430 --> 00:38:08.550 reasons. It could be anything from I don't want it to. I don't want to 612 00:38:08.550 --> 00:38:12.110 be a telltale sign. I don't want to give anything away. I don't want to 613 00:38:12.110 --> 00:38:15.590 be. I don't want it to also catch someone's unwanted attention. 614 00:38:17.030 --> 00:38:20.670 That could be something. Oh, look, this girl has a nice, you know, why. 615 00:38:21.630 --> 00:38:25.430 No, let's. Let's take the knife. Let's mess with her. She might 616 00:38:25.430 --> 00:38:29.150 think she thinks she knows something or people just 617 00:38:29.150 --> 00:38:32.830 being weirded out by, you know, why are you carrying a 618 00:38:32.830 --> 00:38:35.470 knife? Why. Why is a knife in here? So I usually do like to kind 619 00:38:35.470 --> 00:38:39.230 of keep it in my upper back. Again, I know it's there. I personally like 620 00:38:39.230 --> 00:38:42.870 the feel of the hip as well. Like, if I 621 00:38:42.870 --> 00:38:46.270 don't have it, I can, I can feel, you know, a little bit of that 622 00:38:47.060 --> 00:38:49.780 something feels missing. You know, it's Kind of like when you don't wear your watch, 623 00:38:50.180 --> 00:38:53.700 something's kind of off and in the pocket. You don't always, 624 00:38:54.180 --> 00:38:57.380 doesn't always happen. Also, women, 625 00:38:57.860 --> 00:39:01.580 you know, when I go to the ladies room, pants are kind of 626 00:39:01.580 --> 00:39:05.140 kind of coming on and off and in the pockets. I, 627 00:39:05.300 --> 00:39:09.020 I felt that they would fall. They would fall or they would just. 628 00:39:09.020 --> 00:39:12.830 Kind of like. I'd 629 00:39:12.830 --> 00:39:16.590 have to like readjust, so. But when they're in 630 00:39:16.590 --> 00:39:20.310 the, in the back side, it was, it was never a problem. That's 631 00:39:20.310 --> 00:39:24.150 probably more than, that's enough here. I'm sorry, I'm just talking from the female 632 00:39:24.150 --> 00:39:27.510 perspective. Like, this is stuff that, you know, with my clothes, I don't, I also 633 00:39:27.510 --> 00:39:31.070 don't normally wear a belt, so for me, the, 634 00:39:33.630 --> 00:39:37.430 you know, the clothing is usually going to be thickest 635 00:39:37.430 --> 00:39:40.310 at the waistline and so for me it's just easier. You click. 636 00:39:42.230 --> 00:39:45.950 All right, so this is the Civivi Mini Mini practice. And this, 637 00:39:45.950 --> 00:39:49.630 by the way, is based on the mate, the large Praxis or the 638 00:39:49.630 --> 00:39:53.030 regular Praxis, which is one of the first three 639 00:39:53.190 --> 00:39:56.550 Civivi knife designs that ever dropped and it's 640 00:39:56.790 --> 00:40:00.630 still super, super popular. And 641 00:40:00.630 --> 00:40:04.470 so they came out with this mini version and I love it, 642 00:40:04.720 --> 00:40:08.360 I think it's awesome. This next one you didn't even remember you 643 00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:11.800 had. This is the 644 00:40:11.800 --> 00:40:15.120 elementum. It's a shame because it looks nice. I, I, 645 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.080 I like it, I like, I like my knives on your 646 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.680 screen, on your camera. Yeah. So this one has an 647 00:40:22.680 --> 00:40:25.760 ebony wood handle. Oh, 648 00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:29.200 yeah. I guess I'll be taking this one back. I'm sorry. 649 00:40:31.290 --> 00:40:34.890 But I, I think you mentioned the width of the handle as a, 650 00:40:35.050 --> 00:40:38.090 as a bug. Yeah, I mean, take a look at, take a look at that 651 00:40:38.090 --> 00:40:41.570 one and take a look at, at like this one especially because that one was, 652 00:40:41.570 --> 00:40:43.930 you know, one of the reasons why I liked it was just, 653 00:40:45.290 --> 00:40:48.490 Yeah, I mean, big difference. So 654 00:40:48.810 --> 00:40:51.290 for, again, for me, it, it does make a difference. 655 00:40:53.050 --> 00:40:56.820 Just the size and the bulk and no, 656 00:40:56.820 --> 00:40:59.620 I'm five, two and a half, so I just, Everything's. 657 00:41:00.580 --> 00:41:04.420 Well, let me, let me tell you why I think you might like carrying this 658 00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:08.060 one. It's got a very thin. Give it back to 659 00:41:08.060 --> 00:41:11.700 me so I can try carrying it. It's got a very 660 00:41:11.780 --> 00:41:15.380 thin, hollow ground blade, so it 661 00:41:15.380 --> 00:41:19.100 is so sharp and slicy. If you, if you look at it 662 00:41:19.100 --> 00:41:22.030 from this aspect. Yeah, it's super thing. 663 00:41:22.990 --> 00:41:26.470 So. And this is also one of Civivi's 664 00:41:26.470 --> 00:41:30.230 flagship knives. They've made this in so many different 665 00:41:30.230 --> 00:41:33.950 versions, it makes your head Spin. I like the black on 666 00:41:33.950 --> 00:41:37.709 black. Yeah, it's actually dark, but we've always 667 00:41:37.709 --> 00:41:41.510 disagreed on colors. That's true. We have. We 668 00:41:41.510 --> 00:41:45.350 have. We have that weird artist eye. All right, 669 00:41:45.350 --> 00:41:48.270 well, not much to say about this. This is the elementum 670 00:41:49.030 --> 00:41:52.630 in. This is the traditional elementum with the drop 671 00:41:52.630 --> 00:41:55.190 point blade and with the 672 00:41:56.950 --> 00:42:00.750 ebony wood scales. Beautiful knife. So they've made this in 673 00:42:00.750 --> 00:42:04.589 a fixed blade version, in a tanto version, in so 674 00:42:04.589 --> 00:42:08.430 many different locks. And, you know, it's one of those knives they knew they 675 00:42:08.430 --> 00:42:12.150 had a good thing, so they make a million different versions. All 676 00:42:12.150 --> 00:42:15.430 right, this one. This is the Civivi Primatrox. 677 00:42:18.340 --> 00:42:21.220 What are your thoughts on the Perma truck? The Primatrox? 678 00:42:23.220 --> 00:42:27.060 I like this one. This, to me, is a knife that. 679 00:42:27.620 --> 00:42:29.620 Let's say we were going to go to Hirosa. 680 00:42:31.300 --> 00:42:34.580 I would put that in my designer 681 00:42:34.980 --> 00:42:37.540 handbag and try to get it in. 682 00:42:40.580 --> 00:42:44.090 For me, I find it quite easy to be able to slip knives 683 00:42:44.170 --> 00:42:47.850 into spaces sometimes because I had curses. Right. 684 00:42:47.850 --> 00:42:50.410 And so we're all dressed up and whatnot. They're going to look at Bob, and 685 00:42:50.410 --> 00:42:53.730 I'm going to see what he has. And. And so I walk through the metal 686 00:42:53.730 --> 00:42:57.330 detector, no problem. My purse is, of course, is going to go off because it 687 00:42:57.330 --> 00:43:01.090 has, you know, eyelash curlers and keys and. And what have 688 00:43:01.090 --> 00:43:04.130 you. And so usually they just look in, and I always have a little side 689 00:43:04.130 --> 00:43:07.530 pocket or whatnot, so I can put my neck draw on there. But if I'm 690 00:43:07.530 --> 00:43:10.620 going to be gifted dressed up to go out, this, to me, I thought was 691 00:43:10.620 --> 00:43:14.100 just a really beautiful. Nice. I just find it to be very 692 00:43:14.100 --> 00:43:17.700 elegant. The wood finish on it, I 693 00:43:17.700 --> 00:43:21.460 just. I really love it. I love the blade. 694 00:43:22.100 --> 00:43:25.620 It's a little bigger than I would like to carry. So again, 695 00:43:25.620 --> 00:43:29.060 would. I would have that in my purse if, 696 00:43:29.220 --> 00:43:32.420 especially wearing a dress or something going out, still want to have, 697 00:43:33.460 --> 00:43:37.190 you know, know, some steel on me. But, yeah, this. This is more of 698 00:43:37.190 --> 00:43:40.910 like a going out to a nice place kind of nice. 699 00:43:40.910 --> 00:43:44.710 All right, let me ask you this question. This, like most of your 700 00:43:44.710 --> 00:43:48.430 knives, has a liner lock. It's this right here. 701 00:43:49.230 --> 00:43:53.070 And then this one, your favorite, your favorite 702 00:43:53.070 --> 00:43:56.910 knife, right. Has the ambidextrous Barlow. 703 00:43:56.990 --> 00:44:00.700 Yeah. What do you like better? Oh, 100% 704 00:44:00.860 --> 00:44:04.460 the. Yes. The liner lock. 705 00:44:05.500 --> 00:44:08.380 I have smaller fingers so that, you know, 706 00:44:09.020 --> 00:44:12.820 small hands are, I think, impediment sometimes. But I 707 00:44:12.820 --> 00:44:16.620 do think the smaller fingers are very workable with 708 00:44:16.780 --> 00:44:19.500 knives. And so I can kind of get in there, except for the thumb with 709 00:44:19.500 --> 00:44:23.180 the open still. Yes. Yeah. 710 00:44:24.300 --> 00:44:27.960 But that Being said, I, I, I don't know, maybe 711 00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:30.480 it's because I don't have a lot of experience with 712 00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:35.080 the, the box closing system. I really 713 00:44:35.080 --> 00:44:38.520 don't. That's, I think the only one that I've ever had. So maybe I just 714 00:44:38.520 --> 00:44:42.119 need to practice with it. So that way, you know, I get more 715 00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:45.960 comfortable. I always feel like I'm going to cut myself. And so I 716 00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:49.560 find myself kind of like enclosing it 717 00:44:49.560 --> 00:44:53.240 up while the other ones for me it's just, it's very easy. Well, the 718 00:44:53.240 --> 00:44:56.720 funny thing is with the liner lock, your 719 00:44:56.720 --> 00:45:00.480 finger is in the path of the blade. But with this, your 720 00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:02.480 finger is never in the path of the blade. 721 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:09.240 So we'll get you to practice more. And I was also 722 00:45:09.240 --> 00:45:13.080 showing Mrs. Knife Junkie that 723 00:45:13.080 --> 00:45:15.920 you can pull this back and just whip it out like that. 724 00:45:18.810 --> 00:45:22.410 Kind of cool. All right, I will, I will. Look, I will, I will, I 725 00:45:22.410 --> 00:45:26.090 will pitch it with it. I will, I will fuss with it. That's your assignment. 726 00:45:26.250 --> 00:45:29.370 All right, so this is the Primitrox from Civivi. 727 00:45:30.010 --> 00:45:31.770 Only, only when we go to the 728 00:45:33.850 --> 00:45:37.450 next up, the 729 00:45:37.450 --> 00:45:41.130 sencut cities. Love this knife. Love this 730 00:45:41.130 --> 00:45:44.860 knife. Look how pretty it is at the blade. I think it 731 00:45:44.860 --> 00:45:48.620 looks neat. I, I love it. I think because of 732 00:45:48.620 --> 00:45:51.820 the cutout again it, there's just less weight 733 00:45:52.300 --> 00:45:55.980 than, than you would expect. It's just so 734 00:45:56.060 --> 00:45:59.180 slick. It just looks sleek. 735 00:45:59.580 --> 00:46:03.260 It looks like a nail almost to me. Like it would 736 00:46:03.260 --> 00:46:06.620 be, it would be. This is, I don't know, I'm thinking 737 00:46:06.700 --> 00:46:10.510 faster movement. I just love this knife. I find it 738 00:46:10.510 --> 00:46:14.070 very light as well or actually 739 00:46:14.310 --> 00:46:18.030 not as heavy. I love how it opens. I 740 00:46:18.030 --> 00:46:21.710 just, I love this knife. So this one, we 741 00:46:21.710 --> 00:46:25.510 also, we have coupon codes for this so you can go to the 742 00:46:25.510 --> 00:46:28.870 knife junkie.com send cut and get one of these. 743 00:46:29.670 --> 00:46:33.350 Actually this is sadly discontinued but they have a lot of really cool 744 00:46:33.350 --> 00:46:37.000 knives. I'll have suckers that I got one. This 745 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:40.360 was the, this was the gift I got you. 20, 23 746 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:44.600 blade show. Oh. Figured you'd like it. I figured it 747 00:46:44.600 --> 00:46:48.320 would fit in your waistband well, your pockets. Well, I like 748 00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:51.800 it, I like it. It's. I think that one, 749 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:56.760 in fact I think that was what I was carrying 750 00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:00.440 before I got the buck. Any range 751 00:47:01.210 --> 00:47:03.850 and so it says something about the buck but, but 752 00:47:05.530 --> 00:47:09.370 the send cut is, is, it's a long time favorite. I remember 753 00:47:09.370 --> 00:47:12.930 you, you felt you lost this for a while. You found it in a 754 00:47:12.930 --> 00:47:16.650 bag. Yes, yes. Remember I talked about 755 00:47:16.650 --> 00:47:20.010 like, you know, I can kind of get, get away with getting Knives in through 756 00:47:20.170 --> 00:47:23.890 bags. And so I put that in one of my little special 757 00:47:23.890 --> 00:47:27.530 pockets in my, in my bag and forgot about 758 00:47:27.530 --> 00:47:31.250 it. And then it wasn't until we went on a trip, I can't remember where 759 00:47:31.250 --> 00:47:35.010 I was going. So I went to pull down the bag and I was like, 760 00:47:35.730 --> 00:47:39.090 so it's like better than the 20 761 00:47:39.330 --> 00:47:41.810 in your Jean pocket when you go out. And I was like, oh, I found 762 00:47:41.810 --> 00:47:45.570 a knife. Awesome. Way better than, way, way better than 20. 763 00:47:45.570 --> 00:47:48.850 Yes. All right, so this next one was your 764 00:47:48.850 --> 00:47:52.450 2025 late show gift 765 00:47:52.690 --> 00:47:56.130 knife. And this is an exclusive. This is the. 766 00:47:56.130 --> 00:47:59.090 Yes, this is the Guardian Tactical 767 00:47:59.650 --> 00:48:02.690 GTX025. 768 00:48:03.330 --> 00:48:07.170 That just amazes me that you know. All this stuff reading. No, but still, 769 00:48:07.250 --> 00:48:10.090 you know what I mean? But before you talk about it, let me tell you 770 00:48:10.090 --> 00:48:13.730 why I bought this for you. Now I thought that this would make it 771 00:48:13.730 --> 00:48:17.570 excellent running knife. This is knife junkie likes to go running. 772 00:48:17.810 --> 00:48:21.580 And, and I figured this one is nice and light and it's 773 00:48:21.580 --> 00:48:25.380 got a glass breaker here. I like that. Carry it like this and use 774 00:48:25.380 --> 00:48:28.860 it as an impact tool. And then heaven forbid you need a knife. 775 00:48:29.500 --> 00:48:32.700 It has a very easy to actuate blade. 776 00:48:34.300 --> 00:48:38.140 So what do you think? I like this, this knife 777 00:48:38.140 --> 00:48:41.940 is, is, is fun. It's very fun to play with. It's 778 00:48:41.940 --> 00:48:45.680 a louder click and you, you, you see feel it in a different way sometimes 779 00:48:45.680 --> 00:48:48.840 I feel with the folders you feel it kind of click open and it makes 780 00:48:48.840 --> 00:48:51.920 it sturdy and secure. This one just kind of clicks, 781 00:48:53.040 --> 00:48:56.720 I don't know, differently. It's, it's, it's not making the, 782 00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:59.680 the knife any sturdy. It's coming straight out versus the 783 00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:03.840 swinging. Anyway, this one's fun to, fun to play with. It is 784 00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:07.040 thicker but I, I, I like it. 785 00:49:07.040 --> 00:49:10.800 Interestingly enough. I had this with me at a barbecue 786 00:49:12.290 --> 00:49:16.010 and I had it, I had to bring it 787 00:49:16.010 --> 00:49:19.770 out and use it for, for some reason. And some of the ladies, my 788 00:49:19.770 --> 00:49:21.170 cool friend ladies, 789 00:49:23.810 --> 00:49:26.570 they're like, oh, let me, let me look at that, let me look at that. 790 00:49:26.570 --> 00:49:30.050 And they found it very difficult to open and close 791 00:49:30.370 --> 00:49:34.050 opening. Eventually they got it, but the closing was really difficult for their 792 00:49:34.050 --> 00:49:37.830 thumbs. And I was surprised. I'm not 793 00:49:37.830 --> 00:49:41.630 hearing hanging out with a bagariac ooh. Or anything. So I was just surprised that 794 00:49:41.630 --> 00:49:45.350 they found it difficult. I do not find it difficult at all. Yeah, this 795 00:49:45.350 --> 00:49:48.670 is the easiest out the front I've ever experienced and 796 00:49:48.910 --> 00:49:52.590 this makes me want to get my own garden tactical of course in a 797 00:49:52.590 --> 00:49:56.430 double edged and maybe a bigger size. But I love this knife. 798 00:49:57.550 --> 00:50:00.830 These are made In Pennsylvania too. Soup to nuts. 799 00:50:01.310 --> 00:50:04.750 Yeah, I think, I think another one with this is again the cutout 800 00:50:05.500 --> 00:50:09.220 in, in the blade, you know, helps, helps with the lightness, but 801 00:50:09.220 --> 00:50:12.700 you still get that, that little sharp, nasty little 802 00:50:12.780 --> 00:50:16.460 bite. You know, this is, you know it's gonna hurt like, you know it's gonna 803 00:50:16.460 --> 00:50:19.100 hurt when you hear it. It's like old, like modern day, 804 00:50:21.180 --> 00:50:24.980 you know, 50s ganger gangs when you know with their, with their, with their, their 805 00:50:24.980 --> 00:50:28.660 pompadours and whatnot. And you get in their way and like, you know, and they 806 00:50:28.660 --> 00:50:32.380 got, and opens up like that, you know, kind of like the switchblade but, but 807 00:50:32.620 --> 00:50:36.380 like 20, 25. That's what that reminds me of. 808 00:50:36.460 --> 00:50:39.260 It actually says on the hollow ground, blade, 809 00:50:39.980 --> 00:50:43.580 blade show 20 twizzled five. Number 73 810 00:50:43.580 --> 00:50:47.420 of 120. So they only get 120. Look at that. And I got 811 00:50:47.420 --> 00:50:51.180 one hot little hands on one. I do, I do like 812 00:50:51.180 --> 00:50:54.780 the, the, yeah, the glass paper. 813 00:50:54.940 --> 00:50:58.700 I, I, I do, I do like that, that, 814 00:50:58.700 --> 00:51:02.490 that's something that you can just a feature that you 815 00:51:02.490 --> 00:51:06.290 can use. Excuse me, to, to stun somebody and you know, you 816 00:51:06.290 --> 00:51:09.130 can. I, for me, that's something that I can keep in the palm of my 817 00:51:09.130 --> 00:51:12.770 hand and I don't necessarily, again, I don't want to escalate by, by bringing out 818 00:51:12.770 --> 00:51:16.450 a knife because you know, you know, if someone is looking 819 00:51:16.450 --> 00:51:20.170 to, to mess with me, could escalate it quickly. But 820 00:51:20.170 --> 00:51:23.970 that is something that if you know, my, my, my spider senses 821 00:51:23.970 --> 00:51:26.090 are up and I just don't like the situation. I can just have it in 822 00:51:26.090 --> 00:51:29.280 my hand and it's hidden and if someone does happen to either grab you, what 823 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:33.000 have you, they're not going to expect to feel that. And it might be enough 824 00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:36.560 to kind of startle them and you know, 825 00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:40.560 grant some time. So I like, I like that knife and I like 826 00:51:40.560 --> 00:51:44.240 that feature on knives. It's like, why not put, you know, something 827 00:51:44.240 --> 00:51:48.040 on there? And it doesn't, it doesn't change the design that much. It's just 828 00:51:48.040 --> 00:51:51.720 another feature to have. And not for nothing, I 829 00:51:51.720 --> 00:51:55.410 like that you can actually put your thumb on it without hurting 830 00:51:55.490 --> 00:51:59.330 your thumb. A lot of glass breakers are just 831 00:51:59.330 --> 00:52:02.530 painful to have the thumb on. So. 832 00:52:03.650 --> 00:52:06.770 All right, second to last here, second to last one. 833 00:52:07.970 --> 00:52:11.450 This was a Christmas gift a few years ago. A number of you, you know, 834 00:52:11.450 --> 00:52:14.850 it before. But I was surprised. 835 00:52:15.250 --> 00:52:18.930 Not a guilt trip, but I was surprised that this didn't get more carried. 836 00:52:18.930 --> 00:52:22.620 And I got it so that you could wave it out of your pocket 837 00:52:22.860 --> 00:52:26.660 using the Emerson Wave. Yeah, I've seen you 838 00:52:26.660 --> 00:52:30.300 do the wave, you know, 839 00:52:30.300 --> 00:52:33.740 open and whatnot. And it's very gunslinger. 840 00:52:35.980 --> 00:52:39.780 Not really what I'm going for. I'm going for 841 00:52:39.780 --> 00:52:41.260 like undercover assassin. 842 00:52:43.420 --> 00:52:46.960 And that's more like this, 843 00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:50.400 this knife ended up being a purse knife, 844 00:52:51.040 --> 00:52:54.880 and then it stopped being that as well. The, the hook on it 845 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:59.240 would just, you know, I know it's supposed to catch on stuff, but anytime I 846 00:52:59.240 --> 00:53:02.160 put it in any sort of clothing, even putting it on in clay, it's just 847 00:53:02.160 --> 00:53:05.760 always caught on something. And the, the 848 00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:09.560 width of it. This is the, this is like the wide. Yes, exactly. That's 849 00:53:09.560 --> 00:53:13.330 just so wide. And I found it to be very uncomfortable to 850 00:53:13.330 --> 00:53:16.170 carry. Pain in the ass to kind of put on, 851 00:53:17.370 --> 00:53:20.090 you know, for, for my needs, just not, 852 00:53:21.130 --> 00:53:24.890 it was just too wide. So I like the design though, right? I, 853 00:53:24.890 --> 00:53:28.530 I like the design of the, of the blade itself. So I, I 854 00:53:28.530 --> 00:53:31.930 liked that. It's small, it's tiny. It's, it's, you know, it's quick. 855 00:53:32.970 --> 00:53:35.210 I love the little spider on the Spydercos, 856 00:53:36.820 --> 00:53:40.420 you know, so I appreciated the blade. 857 00:53:40.580 --> 00:53:44.100 Just that, that extra little, little, little bit there. So I started to put it 858 00:53:44.100 --> 00:53:47.260 in my purse and I was like, more of like an everyday Chris Carey, like, 859 00:53:47.260 --> 00:53:50.740 oh my gosh, accidentally forgot to put a knife on. But I always have 860 00:53:52.580 --> 00:53:56.100 a purse, so that was kind of like a backup knife. I just kind of 861 00:53:56.100 --> 00:53:58.740 kept it in. But eventually 862 00:54:00.900 --> 00:54:04.620 that started the hook started to hook on other things 863 00:54:04.620 --> 00:54:08.320 in my purse as well. So that was retired. I would say 864 00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:11.960 for this one, it'd be best to put it in a pocket, clip it 865 00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:15.120 to an internal pocket in the purse and 866 00:54:15.520 --> 00:54:19.280 shove it over to the side of that pocket. And maybe that's 867 00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:22.759 probably the safest way to keep it so that it can open up 868 00:54:22.759 --> 00:54:26.560 automatically. That's the Spyderco Delica. 869 00:54:26.560 --> 00:54:29.960 Okay, now this is the one that you carry. Well, I don't want to say 870 00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:33.330 the most, but this one, I'm the most bright grateful that you carry. 871 00:54:33.570 --> 00:54:37.290 Talk about this one. So this, this, this is 872 00:54:37.290 --> 00:54:41.010 my running knife. This is the knife that I carry 873 00:54:41.490 --> 00:54:45.090 every, every run that I go out, keep it in my hand 874 00:54:45.250 --> 00:54:48.890 when I run. And it's now just part of my gate. It's part 875 00:54:48.890 --> 00:54:52.410 of, you know, I, I, I have certain gear I 876 00:54:52.410 --> 00:54:56.010 wear, and that absolutely is in my right hand at all 877 00:54:56.010 --> 00:54:59.780 times. And it's become something for me to kind of grip onto. 878 00:54:59.780 --> 00:55:03.420 And I just am trying real hard to push through something 879 00:55:03.420 --> 00:55:06.940 and get through something. So it, it just has such a comfort feel 880 00:55:07.820 --> 00:55:11.420 in my hand when 881 00:55:11.420 --> 00:55:14.980 I, when I want to distract myself sometimes while I'm running on my, on my 882 00:55:14.980 --> 00:55:18.700 slower runs, I will, you know, think 883 00:55:20.220 --> 00:55:23.980 a da. A dog comes around the corner. And not that I want to hurt 884 00:55:23.980 --> 00:55:27.180 a dog, let's say a bear. A bear comes around the corner and I'm fighting 885 00:55:27.180 --> 00:55:29.680 for my life, you know, like, what would I do? Like, how would I open 886 00:55:29.680 --> 00:55:32.720 it? How would I have it? What would I do in that situation? I also 887 00:55:32.720 --> 00:55:35.840 do like the squareness of the, 888 00:55:37.520 --> 00:55:39.360 that's Kydex, the sheath. 889 00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:44.800 Because that's also something that I can keep, you know, in, in my hand. 890 00:55:45.600 --> 00:55:49.360 And if I need to, you know, it, you know, it fits in 891 00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:53.200 where I can just hit, hit, hit someone hit an animal that's coming at 892 00:55:53.200 --> 00:55:55.280 me, charging at me. At that point, they're 893 00:55:57.160 --> 00:56:00.760 close. I would do something different than. Anyway, 894 00:56:01.560 --> 00:56:05.160 so. I love this knife. I love this knife. I feel secure 895 00:56:05.160 --> 00:56:08.800 with it. I appreciate it. It's like, I think you called it my cat's 896 00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:11.880 claw. God. I never have to use it, 897 00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:16.600 but you can also tell that I've not cleaned it in a long time. That's 898 00:56:16.600 --> 00:56:20.200 B2. So it's a semi stainless steel, mostly not 899 00:56:20.200 --> 00:56:23.890 stainless at all. And you can see where your sweat has probably 900 00:56:24.210 --> 00:56:27.250 come through and has 901 00:56:28.370 --> 00:56:32.130 affected the blade. This is the. I had this knife also, 902 00:56:32.850 --> 00:56:36.050 and I don't know if you remember this, but I buried it 903 00:56:36.370 --> 00:56:39.570 in a flower bed at Universal Studios 904 00:56:39.890 --> 00:56:43.410 and someone saw me do it, I guess, and it wasn't there when I came 905 00:56:43.410 --> 00:56:47.260 back. Was so furious. Yeah, Thought it could be 906 00:56:47.330 --> 00:56:51.050 crumbles. I remember that. So we called this Mrs. Knife Junkies 907 00:56:51.050 --> 00:56:54.530 folders. But this is not a folder. But it had to be in this because 908 00:56:54.690 --> 00:56:58.490 you carry it. So I do love it. That, that is my, my 909 00:56:58.490 --> 00:57:01.010 cat's claw. I, I, I, I don't feel comfortable 910 00:57:01.970 --> 00:57:04.610 ever on a run without it. I, I won't. I'll come back. 911 00:57:06.530 --> 00:57:09.730 So it's traveled with me as well when I, you know, when I run 912 00:57:09.810 --> 00:57:13.500 places. But yeah, it is, it's part of my 913 00:57:13.500 --> 00:57:16.820 friend. Well, thank you, 914 00:57:16.820 --> 00:57:20.620 Bella, so much for being on the Knife Jackie podcast. Thank you for having 915 00:57:20.620 --> 00:57:24.340 me. 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