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Coming up, the gentleman Junkie giveaway knife for November 2025.

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The new Jack Wolf Knives Gateway slip joint. And

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then we're going to take a look at my biggest cold steel fixed

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blade knives. I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie Podcast.

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Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast, your weekly dose of knife

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

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host, Bob the knife junkie DeMarco.

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Welcome the show. One of my favorite comments this past week was from

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Michael Elliott, designer of the Gunfighter Customs Gunfighter, which will

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be giving away in December. He says, I wouldn't call it

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a journey. He's talking about Paulo Rubio. I wouldn't call it a

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journey. I would call his experience growth. I've watched

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Paulo's growth from the early days when he was a this

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wouldn't work or drills are stupid guy. And I've been

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pleased to see him grow into the instructor that he's become. Course,

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Paulo Rubio is a allotted instructor in

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knife fighting arts, chief among them the Filipino martial

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arts, as is Michael Elliot. So it's kind of cool to see

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the perspective of one teacher to another. If

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you like this kind of content and you think that talking to

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knife makers, knife fighting instructors,

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knife manufacturers and designers is

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cool, be sure to subscribe right here because

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every Sunday we do an interview show with a

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luminary like that. All right, that said, let's get to a

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pocket check what's in his pocket. Let's

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find out. Here's the Knife junkie with his pocket

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check of knives. All right, my front right pocket. Today I had

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the bbmn, a Dwayne DWI

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designed North Mountain Blade. I really love this knife.

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I got it, of course, because it's got a lot of

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strider knives, design cues.

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This, of course, designed by Dwayne Dwyer, one half of

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strider knives. And he's got.

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Custom folders that look just like this. And I knew

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from what I'd heard from friends about North Mountain blades that they make

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incredible knives. And so when I saw this one, I had to

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jump on it. Very, very nice glassy

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phosphor bronze action on this. And you've got a San

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My steel here that they call SLB

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magic. And I believe the main cutting steel is a

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VG10. And then it's got some sort of 420

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or 440 jacketed steel there. I love this

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knife. Been carrying it a lot since I. Got it this

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summer. Next up in my front

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left pocket, I had the Gateway

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Barlow from Jack Wolf knives. Knowing that I would be receiving

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another gateway knife. That very same. This very same

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day I got that I was carrying this knife

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and really enjoying it. I love the pinned

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construction of this one. Most Jack Wolf knives, the premium ones, have

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that screw construction which is also great. But it's nice to have

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a pin constructed knife. And this one

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is a modern traditional in that it uses a kick to stop

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the blade when it goes back into the handle. It is not a

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stop pin, it. Is a kick right there. So

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very, very nice knife and beautiful rosewood

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covers on this one and a. Nice big

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clip point blade there. Next up and carrying it quite a

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bit. But I went old school today and I had my

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agent 001. This is the one from the first

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run of knives that I've carried the most. You

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know. You know, I love this knife. I co designed it with

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Tim Kell. He perfected the handle and perfectly

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created the the blade that I drew out on the back of a

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cocktail napkin. That's not true. It was actually a pretty well done

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drawing. But I love this one with the

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purple burl G10. And this is like

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I said, the older one. So it doesn't have all the refinements like the

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chamfering. And it's got one extra

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gimp on here. AEDL steel.

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Just an awesome knife. If you like the agent 001,

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you can go to Tel Knives right now and purchase one

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and have your own handle material and you can choose the steel. Go to

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the knife junkie.comTK and put knife junkie

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in the coupon code section. That's all one word, all lowercase

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and. You will save 10%. So take advantage of that. We've had a

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number of people recently doing that. My emotional support knife today

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was rather large. Not sure if it's going to fit here, but

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I had the Waning Moon Yata gun from

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Apoc Survival Tools.

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A big knife. And actually I've been going to the

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gym more recently and I can already feel my

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grip improving, which is good when you're. When

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you've got the Waning Moon Yatagon on you because that

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handle is big and it is heavy. This is

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a pretty heavy blade and it's got a lot of the weight in the

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handle. So you know, eat your Wheaties and

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do your reps and. And maybe you too

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can wield the Waning Moon. The Yatagon is one of my

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favorite blade shapes out there. A lot of knives today

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are inspired by it, even if they don't know it. But

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for instance, the Vaquero series was very Yatagan

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inspired and it is a Turkish blade

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short sword and I guess it was first introduced during the

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reign of the Ottoman Empire but just a

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beautiful knife and Apoc Survival does an awesome

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job with it. You, you can't find too many Yatagons out

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there, especially in a

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non ornamental and sort of usable

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format. So definitely check out Apoc Survival for knives like

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this and, and others. So that's what I had on me today. Had the

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agent 001, I had the Apoc Yatagan,

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albeit not on my person. I had the

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Gateway Barlo from Jack Wolf knives on the

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BBMN from North Mountain Blade.

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Next up, I just wanted to show off. Oh, I don't have the actual one.

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Yes I do. Yes I do. I take it all back. Just pretend I didn't

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say that. This is the knife we're giving away this coming

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Thursday. So Thursday November 20,

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2025 as we record this, we will be giving away this

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beautiful and new Tkal knives agent

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001 to one lucky gentleman junkie winner.

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Let me just put them together so. You can see the difference between the. First

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run which is on top and. The second run which is

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on bottom. You can see the, the one on the bottom, the one we're giving

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away the new. The, the. The second run, the one that

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you can buy right now has beautiful chamfering all around, all the

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corners and edges. But I like to look at it right by the

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jimping larger jimping reduced by

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one Jim. You've got terracing on, on the bevels

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there. You can see those mill lines.

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And these are now machined by Nick Chuprin and NCC

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Knives up in New Hampshire. And he is a perfectionist, does

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an absolutely beautiful job. So I'm really looking forward

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to giving this away. This second run of TE Cal

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Knives Agent 001s designed by, by myself and Tim

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went live this November 1st, November

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1st, 2025 and they've been going like

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hotcakes. So I'm excited to be giving this away to someone

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as a thank you for supporting the show. And you can do that by

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going to the knife junkie.com Patreon I also want to show

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you, since we're talking Patreon, what we're going to be giving away in

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the month of December 2025.

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And I just showed this to you, but this is the Michael

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Elliott designed Gunfighter Customs

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Gunfighter made by Jared Franklin. The head of

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Gunfighter Customs. Just a beautiful knife that he

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made for me to give to you. A

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lucky gentleman junkie. He knows how much I love the knife he gave

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me. Get rid of this piece of Kydex off there, okay?

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He made me one of these and gave it to me at blade show the

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two of them did. And I was very, very excited about it. I've shown

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it off a lot. I've been carrying it a lot. And so he made

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another version, another specimen to give

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away to you. This one has these beautiful

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antique butterscotch micarta handles

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and that is AEBL steel.

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There's a Michael Elliott's Maker's mark. It's a chisel ground,

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wickedly sharp, kind of an improvement on the

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clinch pick, giving you a place to put your. Thumb

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and all the rest. So beautiful knife.

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say today, but it's November 15th, the birth of the

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disposable blade. Talking about shavers,

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Gillette, et cetera. And it's a very interesting

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You're listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. And now here's the

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knife junkie with the Knife life news. All right, so first

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up in knife life news today I have Rosecraft Blades,

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the Cumberland River Coke Bottle Jack.

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So as you may have heard, if you watch this show you, I know

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you've heard Rosecraft blades has given

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away. Not giving away what I want to say. They have stopped

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their line of modern folders so they will sell all the

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modern folders they've already produced. But they are doubling down

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on their slip joint game and that's what people. Go to

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Rosecraft Blades for. They love Rosecraft blades for their

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ultra robust and beautifully made

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slip joint knives. So they are doubling down on that. This new one, the Cumberland

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River Coke Bottle Jack has a 3 inch clip

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point blade of D2 steel. Really focusing

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heavily on the long straight cutting surface

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of that relatively long edge there. And,

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and then it terminating in a nice big belly and a downward

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flip. So yeah, generous belly and cutting edge. And

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then the Coke bottle shape, I love the Coke bottle

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shape. So it extends up and it extends down.

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If you look at it, there's a center palm swell that

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accommodates a the pin so that you can

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have a larger blade in the weight in the blade well

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without having it stick too far up. That's kind of the

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utilitarian purpose of that profile. But I really love the way

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that thing looks. You know, I

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love the way the utility actually looks. You've got

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pinned micarta covers or they have this beautiful

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toasted bone. Each one very unique and

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different from one another. I love the look of that. Kind of looks like stag

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and then they all have a spade shaped

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shield. 2.9 ounces. These are

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available now for $60 MSRP.

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Okay, next up, the Kaiser Topsail. This one designed

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by Newfoundlander Jonathan Styles.

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Jonathan Styles had the Newfoundland knife company

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before he became an exclusive designer for

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Kaiser Knives. He's designed both fixed blades and

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folders for Kaiser and this is his.

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So as far as he goes in the knife world, he is exclusive

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with Kaiser now. I used to follow him. I mean I still do

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follow him on Instagram and. And not only does he post

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his cool knives, but also he'll go on little motorcycle

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adventures around the beautiful lands of Newfoundland. So kind of a

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A statement piece from Kaiser. Four models, four

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versions of this. 3.1 inches on that

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drop point blade. It comes in either M390

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with an opening Hole and a front flipper. The

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scales are all titanium with inlays of either blue

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S45 or you can get it with Timascus or a.

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Zirconium one each per blade. Steel

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3.7 ounces. Available now for

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200 bucks. 200 bucks. Let's see next

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up there is a suppressor company

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called Dead Air

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Silencers. Sorry about that. Dead Air Silencers, which is a cool name.

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A Dead air is actually a broadcast industry

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term when, when the channel

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goes blank and there's nothing there. That's also a radio term that's

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called Dead air. Well, Dead Air Silencers just

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released a, a battle axe, if you will. I'm

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calling it a battle ax because what else are you going to use this to

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blow with? Winkler knives. So you've got a,

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a full slab sort of ax.

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It's, in other words, it's not a, an ax head hung on a

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haft. It is a full tang ax handle

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or axe with a, a spike

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on the back and a nice big blade on the front.

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They've made 16 or they, they have made 50. There are

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only 16 of these things left as we record this.

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A beautiful ax. You are going to pay for it because it

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is not only a Dead Air ax, but it's

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also a Winkler ax and everybody's got to get paid. So this

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battle ax is 630 bucks, but no doubt super

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capable and it will be, you know, much beloved by

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the type of guys and gals who need this

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and will use this in some sort of combative situation. I

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dare say you could use it. For other things too, but to me.

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It looks like a battle ax. So that's what I'm calling it. Maybe you call

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it a tomahawk. All right, last up, last thing I want

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to show just a little bit of personal editorial and it just made

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me so sad. So this is a picture

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of a nice turn in box in North

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Yorkshire in England. And these

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are the knives that they recovered. These are the knives that people felt

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guilty about having or, or perhaps that

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they just didn't trust themselves around the knives. I just don't understand

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how people are giving away. I see a republic, I see one

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quote unquote tactical knife. It's on the very top left and it's one of

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those hollow handle, cheesy survival knives we all had in the

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1980s if we were alive then everything else here

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is a kitchen knife. I see scissors, I see Fruit peelers.

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I see corkscrews. It's just depressing to

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me. I see. I see ice cream scoops and

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spoons in this damn picture. And a can opener. So these are

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the things that people felt so ashamed of

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having in North Yorkshire that they had to drop it in a

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collection bin for dangerous weapons. That

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is a gilded society. And I'm not in any way

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trying. I'm not trying to be

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critical of the great British people. I love the people,

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you know, you know how that is, how you feel. About the people then, versus

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the government. I love the people. And I. We know we have some friends

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in England and everything. All of those land

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acknowledgments out of the way. I just feel like this is

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pathetic. Keep your kitchen knives. You're going to need to cook

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with them. And if, heaven forbid, anyone ever

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breaks into your house, I know you have nothing else to defend your house with.

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So keep your damn kitchen knives, people. Come on.

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And definitely keep your ice cream scoops. Because how is he going to get it

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out? Especially considering you've also given your spoons away.

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So that's it for Knife Life News. Please, please, people, hold

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on to your spoons and your scoops and your knives. Especially those

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kitchen knives that you're going to need.

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So anyway, we can continue this conversation on Thursday night

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Knives every Thursday night here at 10:00pm Eastern

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Standard Time. We got the holidays coming up, so there's going to be

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one down around Thanksgiving and there's going to be one down around

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Christmas. But basically, this is my Thursday

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night readout. I love Thursday night Knives because it's my

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chance to talk live with all of y'. All.

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That's how we speak in the south of. Of. Of

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the United States. And I'm told, as I am directly south

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of the Mason Dixon, I am in the south. So join us every

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Thursday night, 10pm Eastern Standard Time, right here

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on YouTube. For Thursday night night. All right,

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let's get to the first tool. You're listening to the Knife Junkie

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

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first tool. I want you to look at this blade. Not necessarily the

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handle, but look at the blade. And let me take you

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back to the early 1940s, when the world was. Buckling

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under the weight of war. And a small workshop in

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Orlando, Florida, was about to change the story of the

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fighting knife. Bo Randall didn't set out to

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arm soldiers. He was a fisherman who bought a handmade knife

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from a craftsman named Bill Skagel. Now a

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legend that blade opened his eyes. It cut

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better, held an edge longer, felt alive in hand.

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But went home thinking, I can do this, maybe even better.

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What he did, what he didn't know was that American

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troops would soon come knocking for his knife.

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As young men prepared to ship out for World War II, they wrote

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letters to Randall asking for reliable knives,

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something tougher than the mass produced military issue.

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And so the Randall number one was born.

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The hand forged fighting knife, built one at a time, shaped

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and polished by craftsmen. Picture it 7 in

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a 7 inch blade looked exactly like this. With a gentle

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clip point sharpened, I might add, and a brass guard

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wide enough to stop the hand from slipping. A stacked

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leather handle that felt warm even in cold rain.

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Nothing fancy, nothing wasted. Just the right

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tool for a soldier. Stepping into a world of Unknowns.

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The Model 1 wasn't just a knife. It was a piece of home.

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Troops carried it in the Pacific, in Europe, and later

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in the humid jungles of Vietnam. Many

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wrote back to Randall afterwards saying the knife saved them. Cutting

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rope, opening crates, or in the worst moments, doing

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exactly what a fighting knife is designed to do.

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And here's a cool detail. Randall didn't mass produce these.

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Each knife was handmade and the wait list stretched

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for months. Even generals and astronauts wanted them.

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In fact, Randall knives went into space literally,

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carried on NASA missions as survival tools. But

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through all the fame, the Model 1 stayed true to its roots.

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A working blade built for people who needed something they could trust their

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lives with. Today, collectors chase old

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model number ones like Treasure. The grind lines,

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the handlewear, the small differences from one smith to another.

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They're all cues to who carried it, where it traveled and

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what stories it might tell. If steel could speak.

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The Randall Model 1 isn't just a fighting knife. It's

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a reminder that sometimes the best tools come from a quiet

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shop made by hands that care more about strength.

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And honesty than speed. And

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that's why even today, you have to wait for your Model

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1. But when you finally get it in hand, it's like

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feeling a soldier's handshake across time.

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Now, if you like these first tool segments,

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and if you like hearing about segments about knives

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and reading about the history of knives, or just my personal

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take on knives, you can sign up for the newsletter. You go to the knife

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junkie.com/newsletter and

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every week or so you'll get a newsletter in your inbox. I'm not asking

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for anything. It's no hard sell. It's just musings about a

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knife with. A picture, a beautiful picture or two.

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So check that out. That's also a great way for, for us to keep in

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touch with you. Heaven forbid we lose contact,

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and turn your passion into a business. Okay, this

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first knife just came to me from Jack Wolf Knives

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a day ago as we record this. This is the beautiful

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new gateway equal end Jack. So

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equal end on this model refers to. Yes,

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the fact that the pommel side and the pivot side are the

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exact same and they're mirror opposites of one

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another. This is a very old style

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slip joint knife. Sometimes they're called Churchills, I believe

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after the fact that Winston Churchill

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liked smoking cigars. And this is vaguely cigar shape

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or pretty much exactly cigar shape. So this is a new

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gateway knife from Jack Wolf Knives. That means it's within

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reach. It's, it's a gateway to their

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series of knives. Whether you're going for the steel series, the

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JW Collab series or the premium slip joint series,

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these are your way in because they are the least expensive

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and made from the least precious materials.

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But they're still made by the same manufacturers with the same

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attention to fit and finish. So this here,

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here it is that beautiful drop

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point blade with the swed. So I really,

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really like this knife. It is 14C 28N blade

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steel. You've got steel bolsters and liners with in the

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construction, the premium slip joints and the

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steel series slip joints from Jack Wolf knives have

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a screw construction. So you can take them apart

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for. Whatever reason you might want to do that. And. But

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these, the gateway are pinned more like a traditional

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slip joint. And like a traditional slip joint, they use

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the kick. That's this extended part of the blade tang

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to stop the blade from slapping the liners inside instead

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of the way many modern slip joints

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use a stop pin inside. But

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I love that these use that. Traditional style

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of stopping the blade with the kick.

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This one has beautiful ebony wood with. A, with a perfectly.

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Embedded inlay there. That shield is inlaid

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perfectly. You can't feel it all the transitions from material to

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material, like from the wood onto the steel bolsters

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or across these nickel silver pins here

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or across that shield, you can't feel any of that. It's all

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hafted perfectly. Same thing with the back. If

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you look at the spring and the liners, they all look like one

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piece. And then at the half

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stop you have a fully flush lock bar

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there and not lock bar, spring bar. They call it a lock

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bar. But this is the brand new

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Jack Wolf Knives Gateway equal end. I believe this is dropping

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on the 21st of November 2025

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and you will definitely want this. So one of the ways

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they keep the cost down with the Gateway series. Now the premium

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knives are in the 300s. The Gateway series are sub

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$100. And the way they keep costs low is like

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I said, instead of S90V on the blade, it's 14C

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28N. A great blade. And by the way, this is unbelievably

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sharp. But also in the packaging, the

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packaging is a, there's a lot less packaging. You do not get the leather

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slip automatically with this like you do on the premium knives.

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So there are some ways that they can save costs to get a

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great Jack Wolf knife design and build in your

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hands. So definitely go check this out. Before I showed

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with my pocket check, I

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showed the other gateway knife. This is the Gateway

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Barlow. I was lucky enough to get wood on both of

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these, but they also come in numerous other

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more modern materials. So definitely go check these out.

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They're phenomenal. And I think you can still get. The Gateway

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Barlow if I'm not mistaken. All

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right, so that is the equal end new from Jack Wolf

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knives. Next up, I wanted to show you a new light. So I went

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out yesterday as I record this to buy

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a flashlight for a friend of mine who just had a

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birthday and he lives in the neighborhood and I see him walk his dog

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on occasion and I figured he needed a good light

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to traverse these dark suburban streets.

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And so I got him a Phoenix. And then I self one too

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because. I think they're super cool. And I've been

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talking about lights, great for self defense and all this,

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but I, I don't carry them as much as I should. And this one was

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an excellent size size. So this is the Phoenix

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LD30 and I have it set up for the, the,

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the brightest lumens here.

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I think it's 1200 or 1400 and then you can

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take it down, take it back up right here with

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this switch. You can also go to strobe And I love strobe.

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There's also an SOS mode where it does

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a slow flash and. But

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what I really like about it is that it is small enough to

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carry in the pocket without. Without me feeling like I have too much in

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there. It also has the baseball hat clip. So you can see

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this clip will fit over your pants, but if you want it to fit on

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a visor as a impromptu headlamp, the

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clip doubles over on itself. So a great feature.

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Why do I say light? For self defense. I've never used one,

481
00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:16.600
but if I needed to, I would much rather blind someone, kick them in the

482
00:30:16.600 --> 00:30:20.160
knee and run off than pull out a knife and stab them.

483
00:30:20.320 --> 00:30:24.160
Let's face it, none of us need that in our lives. That is last

484
00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:28.080
ditch. But there are lots of things you can do before that last ditch,

485
00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:31.680
like spray them with pepper spray or blind them with light and run off.

486
00:30:32.610 --> 00:30:36.370
So I figured, why not? Why not incorporate this more into my life?

487
00:30:36.530 --> 00:30:40.290
Now, I am not saying I'm becoming a flashlight nerd

488
00:30:40.290 --> 00:30:43.570
or a torch or whatever they call themselves.

489
00:30:43.970 --> 00:30:47.729
I am a. I am a knife dork.

490
00:30:47.729 --> 00:30:51.170
And. But, you know, these lights are adjacent.

491
00:30:51.330 --> 00:30:55.090
And why not? We have a lot of friends here who

492
00:30:55.250 --> 00:30:58.910
love their flashlights. So I've been taking notes. People love the

493
00:30:58.910 --> 00:31:02.670
old phoenixes here. And I got this for a somewhat reasonable

494
00:31:02.670 --> 00:31:06.270
price. Could have. Could have gotten it for a

495
00:31:06.270 --> 00:31:09.910
dollar more on Amazon, but I was right there at rei. So I bought it,

496
00:31:09.990 --> 00:31:13.830
paid the Virginia. Sales tax, and stuck his mind out. And I'm going to start

497
00:31:13.830 --> 00:31:17.430
carrying it a lot. I think this really, genuinely

498
00:31:18.230 --> 00:31:21.910
has to become part of my EDC, not just the. The smaller

499
00:31:22.470 --> 00:31:26.220
I3T I keep on my keys. I need something

500
00:31:26.220 --> 00:31:30.060
a little more robust. So I'm excited about this, and I'm. Going

501
00:31:30.060 --> 00:31:33.900
to start carrying. All right. So while I was at rei, I made

502
00:31:33.900 --> 00:31:37.700
a weird purchase. I'll say it, but I couldn't resist. I could not

503
00:31:37.700 --> 00:31:41.060
resist. It was this little opinel in the number

504
00:31:41.300 --> 00:31:45.060
six size, but it's a vegetable peeler.

505
00:31:46.260 --> 00:31:50.060
It's an opinel vegetable peeler. It's for campers. It's

506
00:31:50.060 --> 00:31:53.680
for people who find themselves, you know, with cucumbers and

507
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:57.240
potatoes in the wilderness. This is what they do to peel them.

508
00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:01.120
I have a kitchen. I've got two peelers in the kitchen. I can't decide

509
00:32:01.120 --> 00:32:04.960
which one I like better. And yet I had to bring another. Peeler into my

510
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:08.640
life. So I'm going to. After this show, after we record

511
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:11.800
this, I'm going to fold this up. I'M going to drop it in the kitchen

512
00:32:12.040 --> 00:32:15.720
drawer and I'm going to start. Using it every time I have to peel.

513
00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:19.760
I was thinking all sorts of crazy. Things when I was trying to justify this

514
00:32:19.760 --> 00:32:22.950
purchase. I was like, oh well, you know, my daughters love

515
00:32:22.950 --> 00:32:26.670
cucumbers. Instead of preparing them for lunch, for

516
00:32:26.670 --> 00:32:30.310
their school lunch, I'll give, put this in the box, you know, in their

517
00:32:30.310 --> 00:32:34.110
lunchbox and they can peel their. And I'm like, that's not. They can't open

518
00:32:34.110 --> 00:32:36.550
this up at school and say, oh, it's just a peeler.

519
00:32:37.910 --> 00:32:41.110
So you know, this is one of. Those

520
00:32:41.350 --> 00:32:45.110
uncontrollable things and I just had to

521
00:32:45.110 --> 00:32:48.930
buy it. Isn't it cool? Isn't it cute? Say yes Bob. Yes. That that

522
00:32:48.930 --> 00:32:52.410
was not. That was money well spent, Bob. Say that. Please

523
00:32:52.730 --> 00:32:54.970
just drop that in comments Making me feel better.

524
00:32:56.330 --> 00:33:00.050
All right, so if you ever need a peeler on the go, check out the

525
00:33:00.050 --> 00:33:03.370
little Opinel number six vegetable peeler. It is

526
00:33:04.010 --> 00:33:07.290
stainless steel. So I mean, I'm not a total fool.

527
00:33:08.410 --> 00:33:11.530
All right, Speaking of total fool, let me show you

528
00:33:12.180 --> 00:33:15.980
how I am a. Fool for these large cold steel fixed blade knives. Before we

529
00:33:15.980 --> 00:33:19.300
do though, let me show you this latest design

530
00:33:19.460 --> 00:33:23.260
by none other than Jimmy Notes. He's got this

531
00:33:23.260 --> 00:33:26.940
S35 with a heart. It's just like who doesn't

532
00:33:26.940 --> 00:33:30.780
love S35VN, you know, for a while that was the super

533
00:33:30.780 --> 00:33:34.620
steel of mention. Everyone had to

534
00:33:34.620 --> 00:33:38.430
have S35 on their blades and then M390

535
00:33:38.430 --> 00:33:41.950
came along and. 20 CV and all these other just ruined the party.

536
00:33:41.950 --> 00:33:45.630
But S30 volts, a tougher version of S. I mean,

537
00:33:45.630 --> 00:33:49.310
S35, a tougher version of S30 volts,

538
00:33:50.030 --> 00:33:53.310
both steel inventions

539
00:33:53.710 --> 00:33:57.470
quote unquote derived from Chris Reeve knives

540
00:33:57.550 --> 00:34:01.070
and his needs for the Sebenza. So we are

541
00:34:01.070 --> 00:34:04.870
lucky to Chris. We are grateful to Chris Reeve for many reasons. But you

542
00:34:04.870 --> 00:34:08.710
can get this awesome S35 logo on a tote bag,

543
00:34:08.950 --> 00:34:12.550
on an apron, on a hat, on a T shirt,

544
00:34:13.270 --> 00:34:16.950
coffee mug, whatever you want. There you go.

545
00:34:16.950 --> 00:34:18.510
We have it for you at the knife

546
00:34:18.510 --> 00:34:22.230
junkie.com/shop. Go check it out.

547
00:34:23.350 --> 00:34:27.030
All right? Everyone knows that I love cold steel. I am not shy

548
00:34:27.030 --> 00:34:30.559
about it. Even when people were saying, well I,

549
00:34:31.279 --> 00:34:34.719
I respect the knives but I don't like the way. I don't like his

550
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:38.559
sales tactics and his marketing. I always thought, man, come

551
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:42.359
on, are you not a knife fan? Don't you love

552
00:34:42.359 --> 00:34:45.839
seeing pigs cut in half by knives? They're already

553
00:34:45.839 --> 00:34:49.239
dead and they're going to make a meal down at the

554
00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:52.159
Ventura Rescue. So why not just.

555
00:34:52.879 --> 00:34:56.079
Why not just enjoy? Let's start off with the one that

556
00:34:56.550 --> 00:35:00.350
I've carried the most and has done the most work and

557
00:35:00.350 --> 00:35:04.030
play for me. That is the cold steel trail

558
00:35:04.030 --> 00:35:07.510
master. This is a knife I would recommend to

559
00:35:07.590 --> 00:35:11.430
anyone, especially people who do things outdoors, go

560
00:35:11.430 --> 00:35:15.110
camping, go hiking, go over landing and such.

561
00:35:15.190 --> 00:35:19.030
I love this knife and you might say ounces are pounds

562
00:35:19.030 --> 00:35:22.590
and pounds are pain and that's a big knife but it is so well worth

563
00:35:22.590 --> 00:35:25.570
it. This is a quarter inch thick slab of

564
00:35:25.570 --> 00:35:29.410
SK5. Because this is a pretty old one here. This one

565
00:35:29.410 --> 00:35:33.090
is a. Is over 25 years. I'm hesitate to say

566
00:35:33.090 --> 00:35:36.770
it's 30 years old, but I. It's probably about 30 years

567
00:35:36.770 --> 00:35:40.450
old. Beautiful zero ground swedge on this.

568
00:35:40.850 --> 00:35:44.450
So equal equal parts fighting knife

569
00:35:44.690 --> 00:35:48.290
and outdoors knife. This would make an

570
00:35:48.290 --> 00:35:51.810
outstanding fighting knife there. I've put many hours into swinging

571
00:35:52.330 --> 00:35:55.050
this around shadow boxing with this knife.

572
00:35:56.650 --> 00:36:00.250
Carenza they call it. It's got a nice coffin

573
00:36:00.250 --> 00:36:04.090
shaped ray ton checkered handle. So very grippy. You can see where it's

574
00:36:04.090 --> 00:36:07.650
worn down over the years there. And in 30 years it

575
00:36:07.650 --> 00:36:11.410
hasn't become tacky and gross like some rubbers. Rubber

576
00:36:11.410 --> 00:36:14.410
materials do nice thick brass guard

577
00:36:15.210 --> 00:36:18.490
and the original leather sheath. Now I've been

578
00:36:20.040 --> 00:36:23.840
stalking ebay. I'm gonna buy another trail master. I. I

579
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:27.400
want it to be original and by that I mean I have

580
00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:31.160
reprofiled this blade so. So this blade is a little thinner

581
00:36:31.720 --> 00:36:35.280
than a standard trail master just because I've

582
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.960
sharpened it and I've chipped it and gouged it and done things to it

583
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:42.600
and had to reprofile it a few times. So when I hold it up against

584
00:36:42.680 --> 00:36:46.520
my dad's it's definitely more slender. But I want to get one that

585
00:36:46.950 --> 00:36:50.670
is old enough that it will come with the leather sheet. That may or may

586
00:36:50.670 --> 00:36:54.350
not happen. I might just buy a brand new one. But I feel like

587
00:36:54.350 --> 00:36:58.150
this is a knife that is so tried and true I can

588
00:36:58.310 --> 00:37:02.070
afford to get a second one. I'm not one of these guys who

589
00:37:02.070 --> 00:37:05.790
oh, I like this knife. I better buy two. But this one, I've had it

590
00:37:05.790 --> 00:37:09.590
for so long and it's done such great duty. Maybe I should just get a

591
00:37:09.590 --> 00:37:13.220
second. One just to be sure. But. Or just out of respect,

592
00:37:14.100 --> 00:37:17.860
but I love this thing. So beautiful. If, if you

593
00:37:17.860 --> 00:37:21.620
get anything from this list I'm giving you today, it is. Get

594
00:37:21.620 --> 00:37:23.860
yourself a trail master for sure.

595
00:37:25.220 --> 00:37:27.940
Next knife is also a nice big bowie and

596
00:37:28.500 --> 00:37:32.340
probably my second favorite though I have a lot

597
00:37:32.340 --> 00:37:36.060
of favorites. In this list. And this is an old version too. This is the

598
00:37:36.060 --> 00:37:39.570
Laredo Bowie. This is kind of a dedicated fighting

599
00:37:39.570 --> 00:37:43.210
bowie. Whereas the trail master was full tang, this is a

600
00:37:43.210 --> 00:37:46.850
cable tang, meaning the tang of the blade

601
00:37:47.090 --> 00:37:50.810
comes to about here and then there's a cable that goes from here

602
00:37:50.810 --> 00:37:54.250
to a bolt. And the idea behind that is that it

603
00:37:54.250 --> 00:37:57.810
absorbs shock. It is super strong. I mean, I've

604
00:37:57.890 --> 00:38:01.650
baton this through wood and done done some stupid stuff with this.

605
00:38:02.130 --> 00:38:05.250
But really, this is a fighting knife. This was a knife that

606
00:38:06.670 --> 00:38:10.430
when this prototype was first

607
00:38:10.430 --> 00:38:14.030
made years and years and years ago, Lynn

608
00:38:14.030 --> 00:38:17.550
Thompson sent this to Bill Bagwell, the legendary

609
00:38:17.950 --> 00:38:21.669
fighting bowie knife maker, and asked him for

610
00:38:21.669 --> 00:38:25.390
input and basically asked for his blessing. And

611
00:38:25.390 --> 00:38:28.910
Bagwell gave it to him. You've got a

612
00:38:29.070 --> 00:38:31.550
beautiful 10 1/4 inch

613
00:38:33.620 --> 00:38:36.700
blade here, or 10 1/2 inch. This is also

614
00:38:36.700 --> 00:38:40.100
SK5 blade. I have mine nicely

615
00:38:40.260 --> 00:38:43.980
patinaed because mine originally, when it came the

616
00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:47.700
the sheath, scratched up the blade and so I patinaed

617
00:38:47.700 --> 00:38:51.500
it and never looked back. But this is a pretty

618
00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:55.140
old girl here. It's got faux cocobolo wood.

619
00:38:55.140 --> 00:38:58.820
So it's wood that's made to look like cocobolo, but it's

620
00:38:58.820 --> 00:39:02.220
inexpensive enough that it's not knot. Beautiful grass,

621
00:39:02.460 --> 00:39:05.820
brass guard and a nice long again,

622
00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:09.460
zero ground swedge. And that is for back

623
00:39:09.460 --> 00:39:13.220
cuts. So if you are fighting with this knife,

624
00:39:13.220 --> 00:39:17.060
and this is a fighting bowie knife, you can do that back

625
00:39:17.060 --> 00:39:20.700
cut, which is you're coming in with like an angle one and

626
00:39:20.700 --> 00:39:24.180
you turn the blade over and you use that tip to

627
00:39:24.180 --> 00:39:27.280
gouge, slash, tear, slash,

628
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:31.440
cut, whatever. It comes in contact with. To do that,

629
00:39:31.680 --> 00:39:35.200
you don't really need a zero ground or sharpened swedge,

630
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:38.880
but it definitely helps. Sometimes people fight

631
00:39:39.040 --> 00:39:42.840
with bowie knives with that clip forward like this, and the

632
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:46.600
primary edge back. They call that mountain man. And you can

633
00:39:46.600 --> 00:39:50.000
get a lot of damage. It's like having a hawkbill blade here.

634
00:39:52.010 --> 00:39:55.450
This one, like I said early on in its.

635
00:39:56.010 --> 00:39:59.770
In its life, or not in its life, but in its run as a

636
00:39:59.770 --> 00:40:03.130
knife for cold steel, they were putting them out in these

637
00:40:03.210 --> 00:40:06.810
beautiful leather sheets. I mean, the sheath is gorgeous, but that big

638
00:40:07.210 --> 00:40:10.770
brass stud, you just slide this in the belt like a

639
00:40:10.770 --> 00:40:14.330
riverboat. Gambler and you are good to go. So

640
00:40:15.530 --> 00:40:19.060
probably. Well, I don't know. One of my absolute favorites

641
00:40:19.140 --> 00:40:21.460
in this lineup here.

642
00:40:23.220 --> 00:40:26.940
All right, next up, this is a tip of the hat to

643
00:40:26.940 --> 00:40:30.700
the very original six blade knife that put cold steel on

644
00:40:30.700 --> 00:40:34.420
the map. But this is a larger and more modernized version of

645
00:40:34.420 --> 00:40:38.180
it. This is the Tanto 12 so that's

646
00:40:38.180 --> 00:40:41.860
a 12 inch Tanto blade. You remember, the Americanized

647
00:40:41.860 --> 00:40:45.530
tanto is the one that puts cold steel on the map. And

648
00:40:45.850 --> 00:40:49.570
this one is just like that knife, except the

649
00:40:49.570 --> 00:40:52.650
original had a brass furniture here,

650
00:40:53.290 --> 00:40:57.090
the pommel and in

651
00:40:57.090 --> 00:41:00.850
the guard were of brass, but everything else is the same. Same

652
00:41:00.850 --> 00:41:04.090
checkered craton handle. This one, if you look

653
00:41:04.090 --> 00:41:07.810
closely near the edge, you can see two different steels. This is

654
00:41:07.810 --> 00:41:11.650
a San Mai. Call it San My3. I believe that's

655
00:41:11.810 --> 00:41:13.650
VG10 and 420

656
00:41:15.330 --> 00:41:18.930
stainless. I know they, they change it up here and there, but

657
00:41:18.930 --> 00:41:22.530
this knife is so light and agile in

658
00:41:22.530 --> 00:41:25.810
hand, light and lively in hand, if you will,

659
00:41:26.210 --> 00:41:30.050
that I could see this being an incredible fighting knife. Even though

660
00:41:30.130 --> 00:41:33.730
I prefer a bowie. Even though I prefer, prefer a

661
00:41:33.730 --> 00:41:37.190
double edged, say double sub hilt fighter

662
00:41:38.310 --> 00:41:42.030
in my imaginary knife fights. This one just moves

663
00:41:42.030 --> 00:41:45.510
around so well. It's weighted, it's, it's balanced

664
00:41:45.510 --> 00:41:48.790
slightly forward of the guard. But with a knife this large,

665
00:41:49.110 --> 00:41:52.230
it really makes that tip move around fast.

666
00:41:52.710 --> 00:41:56.430
You got some weight here in the pommel. So it's weighted more like

667
00:41:56.430 --> 00:42:00.110
a short sword than a knife. So really, really

668
00:42:00.110 --> 00:42:03.560
outstanding knife. And you've got the Yokota, that

669
00:42:03.800 --> 00:42:07.320
sub tip there, that secondary tip right up front

670
00:42:08.120 --> 00:42:11.920
that is frequently used. That of course makes the

671
00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:15.280
tip very, very stout for thrusting through

672
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:18.880
tough materials. But also that

673
00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:22.240
sub tip, that secondary tip is good for a

674
00:42:22.240 --> 00:42:26.000
percussive snap cut. Snap cut is. Imagine

675
00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:29.760
you have a drumstick in your hand and you're hitting the snare and

676
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:33.120
you're really gripping with the forefinger and the thumb

677
00:42:33.600 --> 00:42:36.880
and stopping the recoil with the rest of your hand.

678
00:42:37.520 --> 00:42:40.880
That secondary tip up front can put a nasty

679
00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:45.240
gouge in anything you snap cut it with. This

680
00:42:45.240 --> 00:42:48.880
one comes with their grivx sheath, which I'm fine with.

681
00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:53.040
I don't need leather on this style of knife, though

682
00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:55.120
my original Tanto does have leather.

683
00:42:57.110 --> 00:43:00.630
Okay, next up is the Jimmy Slash

684
00:43:00.630 --> 00:43:03.990
competition Choppa. This thing is

685
00:43:05.190 --> 00:43:08.950
what it lacks in length, it makes up for in girth. Let'S put it

686
00:43:08.950 --> 00:43:12.630
that way. Beautiful leather sheath here. And look at this

687
00:43:12.630 --> 00:43:15.430
sucker. Oh my gosh. This is a huge

688
00:43:15.910 --> 00:43:17.990
heavy slab of

689
00:43:19.190 --> 00:43:22.910
3V steel. This is 516 of an inch

690
00:43:22.910 --> 00:43:26.740
thick, so just a little bit over a quarter inch and, and

691
00:43:26.740 --> 00:43:30.460
it. This has serial number 11,

692
00:43:30.620 --> 00:43:34.060
by the way. Thank you. Jimmy Slash. He sent this to me when it first

693
00:43:34.060 --> 00:43:37.660
came out. Quite a gift. Because this is

694
00:43:37.660 --> 00:43:41.419
not an inexpensive knife that 3. There is a lot of

695
00:43:41.419 --> 00:43:45.100
3D here and 3V is an expensive steel. You can see it's,

696
00:43:45.180 --> 00:43:49.020
it's lightened with this swedge on the back for perfect

697
00:43:49.020 --> 00:43:52.220
balance. It is 10 inches in length.

698
00:43:52.730 --> 00:43:56.370
As. As is all. As are all competition

699
00:43:56.370 --> 00:44:00.170
choppers for, for USA Blade sports that have to

700
00:44:00.330 --> 00:44:04.090
fit into a certain envelope here

701
00:44:04.170 --> 00:44:07.810
you've got a downward angle blade on this awesome grivx

702
00:44:07.810 --> 00:44:11.210
handle and very, very nice

703
00:44:11.370 --> 00:44:15.130
bird's beak here. Quite grippy. And then one of the things

704
00:44:15.130 --> 00:44:18.850
I really love about this is the lanyard hole

705
00:44:18.850 --> 00:44:22.490
here and the back, the pommel and then the lanyard holes here

706
00:44:22.730 --> 00:44:26.490
right near the, the ricasso. So

707
00:44:26.490 --> 00:44:30.130
you can make a sort of D guard lanyard to really keep it. On your

708
00:44:30.130 --> 00:44:33.610
hand if you're doing your competition chopping. Now

709
00:44:33.610 --> 00:44:37.410
here's a little news break. You don't have to be a competition chopper

710
00:44:37.410 --> 00:44:40.490
to use this thing. This is outstanding for

711
00:44:41.130 --> 00:44:44.810
batoning wood. As you can see, I've gotten some, some,

712
00:44:45.790 --> 00:44:49.070
I got some schmutz on there I have to remove. But this is a really,

713
00:44:49.070 --> 00:44:52.430
really great knife for all sorts of chopping

714
00:44:52.590 --> 00:44:56.150
tasks. It is heavy, it is weight forward. The

715
00:44:56.150 --> 00:44:59.830
sheath does not have a loop. It's not really meant to be carried. But you

716
00:44:59.830 --> 00:45:02.830
could do it. You could do it and this would. Be a great

717
00:45:03.310 --> 00:45:06.830
campsite knife. Say, if you're car camping, you don't want to

718
00:45:06.830 --> 00:45:10.550
carry a pound of steel. Into the, into the bush with

719
00:45:10.550 --> 00:45:13.760
you. This is the Jimmy Slash competition

720
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:17.440
chopper. Next up, back to Bowies. Because

721
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:20.840
this is cold steel. I've got a lot of cold steel Bowies. And this one

722
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:24.840
is the Western Bowie.

723
00:45:25.160 --> 00:45:28.840
Now I'm going to be saying Bowie. You could say Bowie. I've tried it.

724
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:32.360
It just doesn't work for my Yankee tongue.

725
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:36.040
To me, I say Bowie, but this beauty is

726
00:45:36.830 --> 00:45:39.950
the, the Wild West. So this is

727
00:45:40.990 --> 00:45:44.710
based on the Marine Raider style of Bowie or

728
00:45:44.710 --> 00:45:48.510
the Western W49 style of Bowie.

729
00:45:48.750 --> 00:45:52.270
So you've got a nice long straight, a decent

730
00:45:52.270 --> 00:45:55.950
belly and a widened tip. So the whole

731
00:45:55.950 --> 00:45:59.750
thing widens out towards the clip. And when you meet the apex

732
00:45:59.750 --> 00:46:03.470
of the blade here, that's where it's at its widest. This

733
00:46:03.470 --> 00:46:06.230
is made by Windlass Cutlery in India

734
00:46:07.510 --> 00:46:10.950
and they do a fantastic job with these. With these

735
00:46:10.950 --> 00:46:14.470
Bowies. There's another one I'll be showing you here soon. That they also

736
00:46:14.470 --> 00:46:16.710
make a slightly hollow ground

737
00:46:18.789 --> 00:46:22.550
bevel here. And really, really

738
00:46:22.550 --> 00:46:26.270
sure in hand grip with that bird's beak. Full tang

739
00:46:26.270 --> 00:46:29.910
here. So what you see is what you get. You got a full

740
00:46:29.910 --> 00:46:33.310
tank and then this amazing giant brass

741
00:46:33.310 --> 00:46:36.750
esgard. Just a

742
00:46:37.310 --> 00:46:41.070
wicked everything knife. I mean, you could use this

743
00:46:41.230 --> 00:46:44.950
for camp chopping chores. You could use this in a fight. You could

744
00:46:44.950 --> 00:46:48.310
use this to skin an animal. Preferably a big

745
00:46:48.310 --> 00:46:51.910
animal, I'm thinking. But it's a do all, do

746
00:46:51.910 --> 00:46:55.350
everything knife. This came with a sort of

747
00:46:55.350 --> 00:46:58.960
tacky, like they put too much coating on it. I removed

748
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:02.200
it on the handle and. Now it is perfect.

749
00:47:03.160 --> 00:47:07.000
Comes with a great leather sheath and hopefully they never change this

750
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:11.200
to the grivx. That would be a real shame. But

751
00:47:11.200 --> 00:47:13.400
a great sheath with a dangler.

752
00:47:14.680 --> 00:47:18.440
And a retention strap here.

753
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:23.560
Okay, next up is the Rondell

754
00:47:23.560 --> 00:47:26.230
dagger. Now, the Rondell dagger is

755
00:47:27.590 --> 00:47:31.070
quite a big dagger, but it doesn't. It has three

756
00:47:31.070 --> 00:47:34.150
edges to it and they're all quite oblique edges.

757
00:47:34.870 --> 00:47:38.550
Not sharp like you're not cutting cheese with them. But they are zero

758
00:47:38.630 --> 00:47:42.470
ground so that if you had to slap someone on the

759
00:47:42.470 --> 00:47:46.030
forearm with this, you would split the skin and break the

760
00:47:46.030 --> 00:47:49.830
bone. It is a nasty dagger

761
00:47:49.830 --> 00:47:53.390
meant for thrusting. Rondell, referring to both the guard

762
00:47:53.550 --> 00:47:57.310
and the pommel on this. This was the kind of dagger a,

763
00:47:57.310 --> 00:48:00.990
a knight in shining armor carried. And

764
00:48:01.150 --> 00:48:04.590
when they got in their inevitable clinch, you know,

765
00:48:05.790 --> 00:48:09.590
fighting for knights in armor, it was

766
00:48:09.590 --> 00:48:13.430
a lot of bashing. The swords were sharpened usually just at the

767
00:48:13.430 --> 00:48:17.070
tip, and the, the length of the blade was more for just smashing

768
00:48:17.070 --> 00:48:20.890
and bashing and, and also as a handle because they would also

769
00:48:20.890 --> 00:48:24.090
hit with the heavy pommels of their swords. So

770
00:48:25.290 --> 00:48:28.890
eventually, oftentimes a fight between two

771
00:48:28.890 --> 00:48:32.410
knights in armor would end in a clinch and rolling around on the ground.

772
00:48:32.810 --> 00:48:36.490
And then you pull out this Rondel dagger, which is triangular

773
00:48:36.570 --> 00:48:40.170
in cross section, and just jam it through the

774
00:48:40.170 --> 00:48:44.000
armor or preferably in the joints of the armor. And. And

775
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.480
it's meant to go through chain mail.

776
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:51.600
I dare say you don't need to be a knight in shining armor to make

777
00:48:52.080 --> 00:48:55.840
good use of this. This would make a good.

778
00:48:56.240 --> 00:48:59.080
Well, I'm not going to say what it would make. It would be good for

779
00:48:59.080 --> 00:49:02.880
all sorts of modern self defense. You could even keep this in your

780
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:06.640
car and say, oh, I'm. I'm going to a larping event if. The cop

781
00:49:06.640 --> 00:49:10.360
ever stops you. But all jokes aside, a

782
00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:13.990
really, really. Powerful thrusting weapon here. And

783
00:49:15.350 --> 00:49:18.790
not only is this going to breach armor and

784
00:49:19.830 --> 00:49:23.270
chain mail, but you could really use it to great effect

785
00:49:23.830 --> 00:49:27.470
as a bludgeoning sort of

786
00:49:27.470 --> 00:49:31.070
weapon or. As a, A. Yeah, blunt

787
00:49:31.070 --> 00:49:34.470
force weapon. All right, next up, the

788
00:49:34.470 --> 00:49:38.310
1917 Frontier Bowie. I'll show it to you in the

789
00:49:38.310 --> 00:49:41.870
beautiful leather sheath with the metal

790
00:49:41.870 --> 00:49:43.910
chape and throat here.

791
00:49:45.670 --> 00:49:49.470
It's also got a dangler. Very, very nice sheath. But this is the

792
00:49:49.470 --> 00:49:53.190
knife right Here. So beautiful S guard

793
00:49:53.910 --> 00:49:57.550
on this. I really like the look of that guard. This one is also

794
00:49:57.550 --> 00:50:01.110
made by Windlass Cutlery in India. Again,

795
00:50:01.110 --> 00:50:04.880
it came with too much coating on the handle. I

796
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:08.800
took it off with isopropyl and got it down. This

797
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:12.440
has a channel channel

798
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:16.120
tang. So it's a full tang but it's not. The full width of

799
00:50:16.120 --> 00:50:19.920
the handle comes. All the way down to the pommel. But

800
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:23.520
like a Randall made knife, the channel

801
00:50:23.520 --> 00:50:26.800
is cut into the handle and. It is fitted over

802
00:50:27.200 --> 00:50:30.970
the over the tank. A beautiful

803
00:50:30.970 --> 00:50:34.690
blued clip point blade with a giant fuller not only

804
00:50:34.690 --> 00:50:38.450
to add rigidity but to lighten the blade itself. Make

805
00:50:38.450 --> 00:50:42.290
it a little easier to wield. A bit of

806
00:50:42.290 --> 00:50:45.610
a swashbuckler is this knife. To me this reminds me of

807
00:50:46.010 --> 00:50:49.810
the kind of knife that would have been made from a

808
00:50:49.810 --> 00:50:53.610
discarded or broken saber. It

809
00:50:53.610 --> 00:50:56.780
kind of has that effect. It is called the

810
00:50:56.780 --> 00:51:00.620
1917 Frontier Bowie. So who knows, maybe

811
00:51:00.620 --> 00:51:03.580
the thought behind that is that,

812
00:51:04.220 --> 00:51:07.980
you know, we're, we're, we're into the 20th century but there still is

813
00:51:07.980 --> 00:51:11.500
a frontier out west. So you take your old

814
00:51:11.500 --> 00:51:14.940
saber from the Civil war, cut it down and make something more

815
00:51:14.940 --> 00:51:18.780
useful of it out on the plains. I'm

816
00:51:18.780 --> 00:51:22.580
just making all this up but I love this handle. It's weird, it doesn't

817
00:51:22.580 --> 00:51:26.330
look like it. Should comfortable, but it is quite comfortable in hand.

818
00:51:26.330 --> 00:51:30.090
I've seen some people reprofile the handle or rec

819
00:51:30.090 --> 00:51:33.090
contour it but I love. I love it the way it is.

820
00:51:33.970 --> 00:51:37.090
So this is the 19 front 1917

821
00:51:37.890 --> 00:51:41.650
Frontier Bowie. A big knife. Let me tell it. Let me

822
00:51:41.650 --> 00:51:44.290
give you the measurement on this one. It is

823
00:51:45.890 --> 00:51:49.570
12 and a quarter inches long. So that's a big

824
00:51:49.650 --> 00:51:53.490
blade, 12 and. A quarter inches long. Nice

825
00:51:53.490 --> 00:51:57.130
big boat. All right, next up, this one also

826
00:51:57.930 --> 00:52:01.730
in historical piece as you see going through this. A lot of these

827
00:52:01.730 --> 00:52:03.770
have a lot of historical.

828
00:52:05.610 --> 00:52:09.290
Markers to them. This one is the chieftain Sax.

829
00:52:10.090 --> 00:52:13.210
So a sort of Viking sort of Anglo Saxon

830
00:52:13.690 --> 00:52:17.050
style blade here. Here's the sheath. Very nice sheath.

831
00:52:17.650 --> 00:52:21.410
Set up for horizontal scout carry

832
00:52:21.410 --> 00:52:25.170
hang if you will. And then here is

833
00:52:25.170 --> 00:52:28.810
the blade. Now this one is big. Let me, let me

834
00:52:28.810 --> 00:52:32.370
measure this one for you. This is a full 13

835
00:52:32.450 --> 00:52:36.170
inch blade here. Not sure if I can get the

836
00:52:36.170 --> 00:52:39.970
full thing in but it's got a beautiful rosewood handle, nicely

837
00:52:39.970 --> 00:52:43.670
carved with some sort of, I don't know, it

838
00:52:43.670 --> 00:52:47.350
looks like traditional, not runes but traditional patterns

839
00:52:47.350 --> 00:52:51.190
here. Not only on the rosewood handle

840
00:52:51.190 --> 00:52:53.990
but also on the brass guard and pommel.

841
00:52:54.870 --> 00:52:58.550
And then you've got this long brokeback Sax blade. I Always

842
00:52:58.550 --> 00:53:01.910
say it's a thin line between brokeback sacks and

843
00:53:01.910 --> 00:53:05.350
Bowie, but this one does have a very

844
00:53:05.430 --> 00:53:09.210
straight edge with an ever so slight curve up towards

845
00:53:09.210 --> 00:53:13.010
the tip. And then it's got that clip down or that drop

846
00:53:13.010 --> 00:53:16.690
down. A lot of people like to say that the sax knife

847
00:53:16.690 --> 00:53:19.610
was developed from broken swords. I think that's

848
00:53:19.770 --> 00:53:22.250
poppycock, personally, but.

849
00:53:24.250 --> 00:53:28.010
I. Mean, I think that this is a, an excellent design

850
00:53:28.010 --> 00:53:31.690
in and of itself as a knife. It doesn't have to be like a

851
00:53:31.770 --> 00:53:35.490
salvage kind of thing, but, you know, that's not to say you couldn't make

852
00:53:35.490 --> 00:53:39.160
a great sax from a salvage sword, but I just don't think the other

853
00:53:39.160 --> 00:53:42.320
proportions work in that situation. But

854
00:53:42.720 --> 00:53:45.920
this knife, this has spent many a night

855
00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:49.920
in front of the tv. This is one of my TV

856
00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:53.640
guarding the house knives. So I have plenty of stuff

857
00:53:53.640 --> 00:53:57.000
to guard the house with. But I also like to have a nice big fixed

858
00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:00.640
blade with me. And this one, I don't know, just generally tends to,

859
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:04.480
to be there with me. I think it's intimidating. It's big,

860
00:54:04.970 --> 00:54:08.770
comes out of the sheath easily. It's thin enough that you can shear through

861
00:54:08.770 --> 00:54:12.610
anything that full, flat grind. So yeah, this is

862
00:54:12.610 --> 00:54:16.410
a, this is. A personal favorite of mine. This is the

863
00:54:16.410 --> 00:54:19.690
chieftain sax. All right,

864
00:54:21.130 --> 00:54:24.970
next up, one of the, one of the OG

865
00:54:24.970 --> 00:54:28.650
beauties here. This is the Natchez Bowie.

866
00:54:28.890 --> 00:54:32.540
Now, unfortunately, this is in a securex sheath. The

867
00:54:32.540 --> 00:54:36.140
securex sheath is outstanding and the throat

868
00:54:36.140 --> 00:54:39.780
widens enough that you can use it, slip it under the belt and

869
00:54:40.020 --> 00:54:43.580
use it like a traditional studded sheath. For the

870
00:54:43.580 --> 00:54:46.980
belt for belt carry. But this one really

871
00:54:47.220 --> 00:54:50.780
deserves a leather sheath. And I have a

872
00:54:50.780 --> 00:54:54.380
line on a leather sheath that I'm going to have made

873
00:54:54.380 --> 00:54:58.140
from a great friend of

874
00:54:58.140 --> 00:55:01.900
the show here, and I'm not gonna mention him until,

875
00:55:02.140 --> 00:55:05.860
until it comes to pass because I don't want people knocking on. His door for

876
00:55:05.860 --> 00:55:09.500
a leather sheet. But I am gonna have a leather sheath made for

877
00:55:09.500 --> 00:55:12.940
this one as soon. As his books open up.

878
00:55:13.900 --> 00:55:17.620
Beautiful, beautiful Musso style Bowie. You've got

879
00:55:17.620 --> 00:55:21.100
a Coke, Coke bottle handle here. I know that's not what they call it on

880
00:55:21.100 --> 00:55:24.820
Bowies, but that's basically what it is because you've got the palm and the

881
00:55:24.820 --> 00:55:28.670
finger swell here and then a sort of coffin style termination.

882
00:55:29.630 --> 00:55:32.670
Nice big guard on this knife both

883
00:55:33.390 --> 00:55:37.230
north and south of the edge, but also east and west. So

884
00:55:37.230 --> 00:55:40.990
you've got a, a little bit of protection on the side of the

885
00:55:40.990 --> 00:55:44.830
hand. This is also. Oh, wait, don't

886
00:55:44.830 --> 00:55:46.110
want to talk out of school here.

887
00:55:49.150 --> 00:55:52.864
It's a quarter Inch. It's, it's maybe between a quarter inch and 5

888
00:55:52.916 --> 00:55:56.210
16. It is damn thick. You've got a nice

889
00:55:57.250 --> 00:56:00.770
swooped clip here and that is also zero

890
00:56:00.770 --> 00:56:04.210
ground. So you want to talk back cut with this knife. There's,

891
00:56:04.450 --> 00:56:07.890
there's a lot of weight in that blade and a sharp enough

892
00:56:08.130 --> 00:56:11.930
clip that if you were to land a back cut with

893
00:56:11.930 --> 00:56:15.250
this, it would be absolutely devastating.

894
00:56:15.490 --> 00:56:19.260
Very sharp knife. Now this comes in 3V. I did not

895
00:56:19.260 --> 00:56:22.420
opt for 3V, which is way more expensive than the

896
00:56:22.420 --> 00:56:25.900
4034 stainless steel. But

897
00:56:26.620 --> 00:56:29.900
for me, I see this with its cable tang

898
00:56:30.220 --> 00:56:33.900
as a fighting knife. This is not an outdoors

899
00:56:33.900 --> 00:56:37.580
knife. For me, it could be. You know, I could, I have

900
00:56:37.580 --> 00:56:41.380
once baton with this just to make sure it could. But

901
00:56:41.380 --> 00:56:44.536
this to me is not that kind of knife. So I do not need 3

902
00:56:44.624 --> 00:56:48.380
3V. To me, this is a knife fighting. That is a bowie. This is a

903
00:56:48.380 --> 00:56:52.060
dueling knife. So I don't need the 3D.

904
00:56:52.060 --> 00:56:55.700
I've got hardened 4034, which I believe is a

905
00:56:55.700 --> 00:56:59.020
Krupp steel. The Germans know their steel and

906
00:56:59.420 --> 00:57:03.260
cold steel knows it's heat treat. So that,

907
00:57:03.260 --> 00:57:06.940
that together works great. Works well enough for me,

908
00:57:06.940 --> 00:57:10.420
let's put it that way. So beautiful micarta

909
00:57:10.420 --> 00:57:13.790
handle. I absolutely love this knife.

910
00:57:14.270 --> 00:57:18.030
All right. Second to last in this list was a gift from my

911
00:57:18.030 --> 00:57:20.590
brother. This is the Chaos Kukri.

912
00:57:21.630 --> 00:57:23.870
Nice giant blade here.

913
00:57:25.550 --> 00:57:29.390
Here it is. The Chaos has a cast aluminum

914
00:57:29.630 --> 00:57:33.350
D guard handle for protecting your hands in the

915
00:57:33.350 --> 00:57:36.990
bush or protecting your hands against the face of people

916
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:41.080
that you are fighting in the trench. Whatever. Whatever you

917
00:57:41.400 --> 00:57:44.760
what? Whatever is your use case. This a 13

918
00:57:44.920 --> 00:57:47.080
inch SK5, I believe.

919
00:57:50.200 --> 00:57:53.880
Kukri blade with that extreme recurve, that

920
00:57:54.120 --> 00:57:57.880
low tip and the deep belly. People think of these

921
00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:01.720
as choppers only or slashers only. But I'll have you know

922
00:58:02.200 --> 00:58:05.860
they make. For great flavor thrusters. So on a thrust

923
00:58:05.860 --> 00:58:09.300
on a stab with a knife like this, not only can you do it in

924
00:58:09.300 --> 00:58:13.100
a snapping sort of way and use some of that, the momentum

925
00:58:13.100 --> 00:58:16.700
of the weight of this to penetrate, but also you could just go

926
00:58:16.700 --> 00:58:19.660
straight in because your wrist doesn't need to change

927
00:58:20.460 --> 00:58:23.820
posture because you've got that extreme curve in the blade.

928
00:58:25.020 --> 00:58:28.780
This is one of those zombie knives. This is one of those last

929
00:58:28.780 --> 00:58:31.970
ditches, the world's ending. Grab something big and

930
00:58:32.130 --> 00:58:35.730
furious to take out the door with you. This would definitely

931
00:58:36.530 --> 00:58:40.210
fall into that category. Also has an attitude adjuster

932
00:58:40.210 --> 00:58:43.810
as a pommel nut here. So this thing is just

933
00:58:44.530 --> 00:58:48.250
chaotic all the way around. Actually, it's not chaotic at all it's very

934
00:58:48.250 --> 00:58:52.010
well thought out. Chaos is what it's called. This is

935
00:58:52.010 --> 00:58:55.330
what you reign. This is what brings order to chaos

936
00:58:56.170 --> 00:58:59.930
right here. Nice big chaos kukri.

937
00:59:00.410 --> 00:59:03.850
All right, last up, this is another historical piece and

938
00:59:04.650 --> 00:59:08.490
one that is very. Close to my heart because this is.

939
00:59:08.490 --> 00:59:11.970
The Italian fixed blade

940
00:59:11.970 --> 00:59:15.330
EDC for self protection in the

941
00:59:15.330 --> 00:59:18.890
16th century. 16th and 17th centuries. This is

942
00:59:18.890 --> 00:59:22.660
the Cinquea, which means five fingers

943
00:59:22.900 --> 00:59:26.660
because of the width of the blade. A lot of people like to quip

944
00:59:26.660 --> 00:59:29.780
that, oh, it's an Italian knife. It looks like a slice of pizza.

945
00:59:30.500 --> 00:59:34.180
And actually I, I, I like that. I like pizza, I like

946
00:59:34.180 --> 00:59:37.900
being Italian. I'm proud of my heritage. And sure,

947
00:59:37.900 --> 00:59:41.660
okay, it looks like a slice of pizza. Also looks like a slice of Roman.

948
00:59:41.660 --> 00:59:45.220
Cheesecake if you want. But really what it is is a

949
00:59:45.220 --> 00:59:48.540
deadly double edged, super wide dagger

950
00:59:49.100 --> 00:59:52.820
used in duels and all sorts of sort of back

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alley engagements. Here

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you've got a nice big guard, a beautiful handle here with

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the studs for extra

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grip. This is more comfortable with a glove than not. I will have.

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You know, I've done a lot of shadow boxing with this one too, and I

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always end up putting my workout gloves, which are just workout work

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gloves on to, to

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keep it in hand. Without it harshing my skin

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and hurting. So you got the double guard, you've got the super

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wide blade, you've got two edges and

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a really nice heavy pommel which weights it like a

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short sword so that you can

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have that. Tip move around exactly where you need it to go.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is my trip down

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the big cold steel fixed blade lane. Hope you enjoyed it.

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Hope you yourself have a big cold steel. And if you don't

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and you're looking to get one, remember the first one. To get is

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the Trail. A true masterpiece. All right, I'm

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Bob DeMarco signing off here saying for

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Jim who works his magic behind the switcher, have a great week

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and we will see you next time. Thanks for listening to the Knife Junkie

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