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Coming up, a very special three dog knife affiliate program.

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Ten new knives in the state of the collection. Then we're going to take a

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look. At the coolest tanto blades. I'm Bob DeMarco. This

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

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midweek supplemental on my large cold steel knives. He's talking

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about the laredo Bowie. H N

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1092 says Bagwell said that was the only thing

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he. I'm sorry. He says Bagwell said that the only thing keeping the

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Laredo Bowie from being a great fighter is the

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short guard. I think I heard Lynn talking about it too. Yeah,

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I remember hearing about how Lynn Thompson sent

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Bill Bagwell a prototype of the Laredo Bowie

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before it came to market to get his take on it. And well,

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just like you heard right there, Bagwell thought it was a pretty dang

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good blade. But you know, Bill Bagwell was known for

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his large sort of devil horn guards

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to capture the blade. And of course, the Laredo Bowie doesn't have that. Maybe that

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wasn't scalable with the manufacturing. That cold

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steel did in the day. But what a great knife the Laredo Bowie is.

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Thank you HN for that. Second one was from James

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Key5SX, who says the kitchen knives in those

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bins could have been from abusive households where people were afraid

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of a family member. And I was showing pictures,

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a picture of knives that were turned in in Great Britain in

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a, in a knife give back program

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because they're concerned about their knife crime. And I was conveying

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about how so many of them were harmless looking kitchen blades. But

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James brings up a good point. Most knife crime is

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committed in the home and it's most often

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with a kitchen knife. So that is, that is very likely.

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Got to keep the mind open. Even though I think that Great

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Britain. Has gone greatly astray. That is probably true,

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James. So thanks for your perspective on that. All right, coming up,

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let's get to a pocket check. What's in his

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pocket? Let's find out. Here's the

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knife junkie with his pocket. Check of knives in my front right

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pocket. Today I had the very, very classic

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Spyderco police model. This the original one,

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albeit a recent build of it, but this is the

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very first police model they came out with

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with the long four and a quarter inch blade with

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the swedge and the full serrations on a stainless

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steel body. I've always been a fan of this. Knife ever since

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I first spotted one. In the early 90s before these kind of

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knives were ubiquitous and I knew I had to have one

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someday. I just didn't realize it was going to take me 30 years to get

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it. But I got this one over this past summer

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and I love that knife. Takes up very little real estate I am

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noticing as the weather gets colder you pull that out of your pocket. And you

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feel the outside temperature for sure. Next up

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in my front right pocket was the new and beautiful

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Jack Wolf knives Gateway equal end Jack.

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So you can see this has that. Cigar shaped equal end handle.

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This has gabon ebony wood covers on it. So

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nicely done pinned construction like you don't see on most

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Jack Wolf knives. This Gateway series is the

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entry level series so you can get these for under 100

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bucks. Like well under 100 bucks. 75 to 80 bucks

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you get 14c28n full flat

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ground blade instead of the full hollow ground s 90v you

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get. On the premium models. And then of course the handle

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materials are also less premium with steel bolsters and

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liners and but still really really nicely done.

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This is a great knife. Super sharp, excellent fit and

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finish. So if you like Jack Wolf

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knives, that is your gateway knife in that. And now the

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Barlow. Next up on me I had the TKL knives

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agent double O1. I can't get this thing off my

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belt or out of my pocket. My design with Tim

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Kell and TKEL knives that launched the the now

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famous Agent series. I've been carrying around an agent

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007 recently too that also recently

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redropped. What a great knife that is. TEL knives. Always

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smashing it out of the park. If you like TEL knives, you can get

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mean that is nothing to sneeze at.

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So check that out. Definitely there are lots of great knives over

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there. My brother and I were pouring over the website

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this past Thanksgiving. Talk about all the knives we want. To get

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because we want them all. Last up my emotional support knife.

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This one's been getting a bit of carry recently, but I had the

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Voyager XL serrated

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vacuro from Cold Steel with the

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snaggletooth tactical pocket catch on it.

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This really does bring comfort. If you're feeling insecure about stuff,

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there's nothing like a five And a half inch Yatagon shaped

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serrated blade in your pocket. Especially when done by cold steel with. That

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ultra robust triad lock. So this is what I had on me

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today. Let me know what you were carrying. Drop it down in the comments. I

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had my Spyderco Police model, old. School with the full

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serrations. Had the Jack Wolf knives, equal end Jack from

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their Gateway series. Had the

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beautiful agent 001

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masterfully made by Tkal Knives. And then of course of course my. Cold

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steel XL Voyager with the vaquero blade fully

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serrated. All right, want to talk about something

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else before we keep going and that is we have a

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new affiliate relationship with three Dog Knife. You guys

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know Northern Knives. Mike is on Thursday Night Knives all

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the time. He's a great guy. He's donated so many like really

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super high end pieces for us to give away here on Thursday night

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knives and we're really grateful for that. But he

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turned around and said he wanted to do an affiliate program on his

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in house knife brand three Dog knife. We've

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shown and given away these two knives here on the channel.

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Different copies of them obviously. Here is the MAK,

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the multi animal knife. A beautiful hunting and all around

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outdoors knife with M390. This is the

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K110 made riot. Also a

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great outdoors knife but also wouldn't be

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bad in a back alley way. And then we have the newest

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one here. This is a collaboration knife

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a made with Trevor Barrett. Trevor Barrett is a

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knife maker who won a Forged in Fire episode

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and he's up in Alaska. I believe he's in

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Haines, Alaska. And three Dog knife

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is oem. His beautiful stuff. I say OEM but these

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are all handmade so check it out.

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I took my version of this knife. This knife will be this one in.

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Particular in my hand will be given. Away soon but I took

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mine on my Thanksgiving trek and

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loved it. Thing worked great and I'll tell you someday what I used it

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insane deal. And this thing is beautiful by the way. 52100

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steel, really nice and micarta really nicely done.

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Incredibly sharp. It's quite thin behind the edge because that

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nearly full height flat grind is. Very very

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broad and Gets quite thin behind the edge. So really

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All right, next up, I want to show you what you stand to win if

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you're a gentleman junkie. And for the gentleman junkie

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giveaway, the third Thursday of the month, this month

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of December. That's December 18th. Someone very special

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to my to me's birthday. So

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happy birthday dad in in advance. But we're gonna be

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giving this beauty away. This is the Gunfighter

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Customs Gunfighter. This is a knife designed by

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Michael Elliott and made by Jared Franklin

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of Gunfighter Customs. I got some schmutz on the blade. Let me

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wipe that off. Beautiful double edged

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version. Not version beautiful double edged take on the knife.

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Similar to the clinch pick. You've got that egg

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shaped handle that nestles beautifully in the hand.

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Impossible to, nearly impossible to disarm.

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But this one has a downward angled blade double edged.

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So you have that back cutting capability that you have

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with the clinch pick but also a really

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nice full bellied front edge. All of it with

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two places to put your thumb. I love the

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clinch pick but that does not offer any place for your thumb. You got

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to grip it like this. So this could be

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yours. This beautiful custom made knife with that by the way that

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really nice antique butterscotch rich light there.

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Just become a gentleman junkie. Go to the knife junkie.com

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is awesome. I got one this year at Blade Show

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2025 and I carried it in my waistband right up front.

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Forgot all about it until I wanted. To show it off and then of course

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I'd remember. But it carries beautifully so

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Okay, I've got tons of knives to show you downstream. So we're going to blast

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through these three new and pretty cool looking knives out on the

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market. The first one is from Giant Mouse, a knife company I've never

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indulged in. One of these days, maybe this is. The one to do it. A

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Giant mouse has a new one called the Elmer Ace

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Auto. So the Elmer is named after a World War

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II vet who just went out and did his stuff without

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any sort of fanfare. Beautiful knife. This is

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OEM by Protect Protect the American

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masters of out the side automatics. Looks like

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they did an absolutely beautiful job job on this

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3.2 inch trailing point. Looks a lot like the Clyde,

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another. Model by Giant Mouse. It is in Magnacut

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and the handle is aluminum as you would expect

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from Protect. Beautiful aluminum. Either anodized blue

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like you see in this picture or black. 3.2 ounces.

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The MSRP on this is three 365 bucks. Remember

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it's two knife companies that gotta get paid and this

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is available now. That's the Giant Mouse Elmer

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Ace automatic. Next up

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from Tops. This is one that we have not seen from Tops. I really

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don't think. I know we've seen locking

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folders. Not too many. I know we've seen friction folders. Not too many.

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Here's their first slip joint. This is Tops

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new Tex Creek slip joint. And I have a Tex Creek.

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I love the original fixed blade Tex Creek. It was my

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outdoor backyard knife for a long time. Look at how tiny

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this is. It really looks like a Tex Creek. It's just tinified.

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So this is their latest variation on the Tex Creek, which gets. It

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gets a lot of some. One of their signature knives gets a lot of different

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reversions. This is designed by Leo

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Espinosa, their CEO. And it's the smallest

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tops folder ever. 2.38 inches of

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M390. It's made in Maniago, Italy. Beautiful

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drop point with the swedge and jimping. A green

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G10 handle is quite gorgeous with that beautiful

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fluting in there and a handle profile very similar

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to the original fixed blade knife. You get no

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pocket clip on this. Because it comes with that leather slip. A

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nice little knife here. 1.3 ounces, barely

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there. Available now. $190 is the

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MSRP on this slip. Hopefully it has a super stout

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string spring because that's what we come to. Tops

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for, is super stout. All right, last up. This is a

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new one from Kaiser and it's sort of filling a void

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in their lineup that a lot of. Modern companies have

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filled. And that is the luxury utility folder.

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Utility folder meaning replaceable with those utility. Razors

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that you can get at the hardware store. This is called the Kaiser

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C01C UTI2. Or

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Sheepdog Utility we'll call it here. The Sheepdog is one of

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Kaiser's three most popular knives of all time.

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Usually it has a cleaver shaped blade, but definitely

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the handle you see before you is, is

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signature to that design. This one of course has a replaceable

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utility blade that can be swapped out for a fresh blade with a push.

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Of a button that you, you can. See on the other side of the

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blade. You can see the leaf here that gets pushed out on

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the jig there that holds the.

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The new blade. This is a thumb stud opening knife. Yeah, that

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orange thing, that's the. That's the button. Opens with a thumb

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stud. It is a button lock as you can see. I like that sort

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of half moon button there. Comes in this micarta that

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you see or also in G10. And it has

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a tweezer and toothpick in the butt of the handle.

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Something we've seen a bit from Kaiser or from Civivi and

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Kaiser recently. I like that little bit of utility. If it's a

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utility style blade, why not throw a tweezer and toothpick

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in there? 2.86 ounces. So pretty darn light.

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And this is available soon. Not sure what that means,

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but it is soon. We're recording this in

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November, very, very late November of. Let's just

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say December of 2020 25. So it'll be out soon. $43

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is the MSRP. All right,

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now we're going to get to the first tool and we're going to

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talk about the Sod Buster, the farmer's quiet

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companion. You're listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. Here's some

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cool knife history with the knife junkies. The First Tool. If

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you ask a knife collector about the flashiest knife in

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their drawer, you probably we'll hear about a lot of exotic steels

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and intricate lock mechanisms. But ask a farmer or

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anyone who. Grew up working the land and you'll. Hear about something far

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simpler, far humbler, and far more beloved.

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You'll hear about the Sod Buster. Sometimes

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called the farmer's knife. This does not demand

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a lot of attention. It doesn't need engraving or fancy

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fittings. It's a stout, single bladed folder with a wide bellied

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cutting edge and a handle that feels like it grew there.

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Naturally in your hand. And for more than a century, it's been

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the trusted companion for people who make their living outdoors.

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Its story begins with the rise of industrial agriculture in the

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19th century. As farmers and ranchers pushed deeper into

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tough soils and harsher conditions, the tools in their

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pockets needed to be just as tough as the work they faced.

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The Sod Buster's defining feature is a simple

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slip joint mechanism. It made it nearly

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impossible to break under everyday use. And you make it stout

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and it'll keep on going. Drop it in the dirt, scrape it against

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fencing wire, slice it into rope or twine. It just

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keeps going. And while the name Sod Buster has an

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American twang to it, the idea behind the knife is global.

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In Germany, the Sod Buster owes its lineage to classic

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Bauernmesser, the farmer's knife of Central Europe.

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In France, you have the rustic regional folders that echo the

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same shape and purpose. Even in South Africa,

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working class folders appeared with the same familiar straight

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spine. And hard working belly. Everywhere people work

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the land, a version of this knife emerged. The Sod

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Buster also has a habit of being a part of childhood memories.

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Many knife collectors will tell you their first real pocket knife wasn't

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tactical. It wasn't some flashy safe queen. It was

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a beat up Sod Buster passed down from a dad or

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grandfather. It's a tool that carries the quiet confidence of

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people who fix their own fences, mend their own gear,

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and live by daylight and weather. Today, the Sod

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Buster isn't just a farm tool. It's become a celebration of

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honest design. Proof that a knife doesn't have to be

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complicated to be perfect at its job. And

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that's the real magic of the Sod Buster. In a world full of high

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tech blades, it remains a reminder that sometimes the

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simplest tool is the one you reach for first and the

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one you remember the longest. That's the Sod Buster.

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Now, if you like conversations like, well, this was more of a monologue. But

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if you like conversing about knives like this, or digging

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deep into topics as specific as the Sod

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Buster, join us on Thursday Night Knives. It is my

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favorite time of the week. It is that time of the week where I get

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together with you and we just talk for two hours

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straight about knives so that we're not boring our family

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or turning our wives off with this endless

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prattle about edge, geometry and heat treat. Come

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join us on Thursday Night Knives every week, Thursday night,

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10pm Eastern Standard Time, right here on YouTube and

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join the conversation live. We have a ball, believe me.

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All right, let's get to the state of the collection adventure Delivered your

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all right, we got a lot of knives to get to, so let me show

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you this first one. This is a beautiful Jeff Blel

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design knife from Concept. Two knives were recently sent

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to me by Concept. I've been carrying them like mad and I'm about to

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drop my my reviews on these. This one is the Deadite.

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Deadite. I'm I'm told this has something to do with the

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with a horror movie, but I'll get back to you on that. The Deadite. This

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is a beautiful 3 1/2 inch

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S35VN clip point. It almost looks

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tanto y though, because look where that straight goes into

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the. The curve that heads towards the tip. There's definitely a

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little sub tip there. But I've been carrying this thing almost

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daily for about two weeks now and I love it. I love

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concept knives. I'm a huge fan and I love the

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collaborations they do. I've been carrying the Ray Laconico around

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recently, the Bison quite a bit. This one's beautiful. Has

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a very large titanium bolster here and then this really

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cool carbon fiber. This comes in a number of different flavors

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S35 in blackened steel here. And this one is a

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bolster lock there. You can see Jeff Blauveld's Tough

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Knives logo there. Always love that logo. Gotta say,

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I've been following him since he was tough thumbs doing

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knife mods on YouTube like way more than 10 years

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ago. Great action on this. You got a, a standard

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flipper and a. What do you call that? Thumb stud.

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So that's the concept. Deadite. Next one is a fixed blade they

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sent to me. I asked if they could send me a fixed blade and this

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is what. They sent and it's pretty cool. This is called the

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Nico. The Nico. You can see some, a

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tip of the hat to the karambit. But that

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finger hole here, that finger ring is more in line with the handle.

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So less about holding like this and doing your

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karambity stuff. To me anyway, that ring is more. About

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an easy draw. Easily drawing this thing from the

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sheath. And it does do that well. This one has a very nice

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milled micarta handle. This also comes in a number of

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flavors. D2 blade steel, one continuous

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belly to that hollow

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ground swedge tip. This thing is a nasty

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piercing knife and very, very sharp.

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I feel like the balance is interesting. It's right at

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the forefinger. I say interesting because I thought it would be heavier

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towards the back. But then again there's a ring there. So of

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course it's not really, really great knife with

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an excellent Kydex sheath. This has

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had a lot of around the house carry because this clip

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slips over. Not only a belt, but you can just pop it on your

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sweatpants or your gym shorts. And it's light enough, it carries

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really nicely. Also, as you can see there, you have a

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90 degree swivel there on the clip.

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So that is the Nico from Concept.

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Next one is a new one from three Dog knife. I showed you this.

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I showed you this one. This is the one we'll be giving away, the one

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that I have kept from my collection. You'll see in a

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minute. But a beautiful outdoors tanto blade. What do you mean

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outdoors tanto? I mean that I've always wondered why

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tantos weren't more featured in outdoor

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knives. And here we have Trevor Barrett, an outdoorsman

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from Alaska and an award winning knife

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maker who won a an episode

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of Forged in Fire. He made this

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to be more of an outdoor knife. It's a chopper. You've got

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a nice long handle, 51, 52,

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100 blade steel. You have this really nice micro

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micarta and just an excellent outdoors

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blade. Ready to go. And I used mine this

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past weekend to scrape, let me just put it that way.

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Just scrape something off a soft surface and it came off

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lawlessly. This is a great knife. Super thin behind the edge. I learned

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that at that moment. And very, very sharp.

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You can get these by going to the knife junkie.com Three

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Dog Knife that takes you to the Three Dog Knife website where you can

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use knife junkie at checkout and get 25% off this

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and all the other super cool three dog knife blades

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made in Anchorage, Alaska by

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Mike of Northern Knives. So just an awesome knife. And

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by the way, I shouldn't put this away without showing you the gorgeous

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sheath they use. This sheath maker D.

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Johnson from Alaska. Who makes really

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gorgeous sheets. I love this thing, so

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definitely go check that out. This is the three dog knife

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champion. Champion fixed blade.

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All right, next up, three from Civivi sent to me and they're

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all cool, all one cooler than the next. So this first one

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is from Zack in the Wild. This is the yonder.

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One of Civivi's best selling blades these days.

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It's kind of the answer to the elementum in a

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similar size range but different blade shape. They call

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it a spay blade which I really appreciate.

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You don't hear the spay referred too much in modern

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blades but this one, you might call it a reverse tanto that.

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I never would have called it that but it's sort of Stockholm syndrome at

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this point. Beautiful contoured G10 handle. This one

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obviously red with that really nice black

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14C 28N blade. There's Zach's

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maker's mark. Really, really nice in hand deep

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carry pocket clip goes to both sides and of course you have a tab

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filler. So a very, very nice feature there. Great

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jimping. This thing is going to be awesome. I look forward to carrying this

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knife. That's the yonder. Next up. This one

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is really cool. We featured this on Knife Life News a couple weeks back and

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here it is in my hot little hand. This is

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the Outlaw Muck

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by the American Outlaw. He is a YouTuber who

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teamed up with Civivi to make this modern

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Nessmuk style folder. It's got a beautiful

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14C 28 and harpoon

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nessmuk. Never heard of that before. Harpoon Nessmuk style blaze.

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You again have a continuous belly. This. This one

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a little less extreme than the Nico going up to that

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swedged tip with the rounded off harpoon and

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comes with this beautiful two tone G10 handle.

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It also comes in Micarta and plain G10. But

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the black and white version has this two tone

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G10. I love it. Really comfortable in hand with that very

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neutral arcing handle. And here is the

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maker's mark of American Outlaw.

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There. See those two six shooters deep carry pocket clips

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swappable to both sides. Really excellent button lock.

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Super smooth. Fidgety as the day is long.

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All right, and last up from the Civivi we Send cut

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group. This is a send cut and it's my favorite of the group.

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Let me show you this. This is the Glen Spar, another one. We

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recently featured on Knifelife News. This

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one has a gorgeous 9Cr 18

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mov clip point blade with a really nice

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fuller that, yes, you can use to deploy the blade

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and a thumb stud and a

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bunch of jimping up there. Beautiful clip point blade. But the

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handle itself is so yummy in hand. It

476
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:34.560
fits. Sorry to use the word yummy, but sometimes it just fits

477
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:38.600
really, really comfortable in hand. Very nice ergonomics. And then

478
00:29:38.600 --> 00:29:41.520
this one has that shred G10.

479
00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:46.920
So a material we don't see often and I don't think we've

480
00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:50.320
ever seen it from Send cut. I might be mistaken. I know

481
00:29:50.610 --> 00:29:54.330
Civivi has featured a number of knives with

482
00:29:54.330 --> 00:29:57.890
this shred G10, but I am loving this little sucker,

483
00:29:57.890 --> 00:30:01.730
this sun cut, but I have a feeling I could be wrong, but I

484
00:30:01.730 --> 00:30:05.250
have a feeling my wife will glom onto this one, so this will

485
00:30:05.250 --> 00:30:08.810
probably become hers. She likes the

486
00:30:08.810 --> 00:30:12.290
slender handles north to. South and that has a nice

487
00:30:12.290 --> 00:30:15.570
slender handle. Really great ergonomics on the Glens bar.

488
00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:20.220
Next up, I just came back from Thanksgiving with the family and my

489
00:30:20.220 --> 00:30:23.620
brother, who is ever generous, he's given me. Half of the

490
00:30:23.620 --> 00:30:27.340
sweetness you see behind me and I.

491
00:30:28.220 --> 00:30:32.020
What? My brother's the man, let me just. Put it that way. He gave me

492
00:30:32.020 --> 00:30:35.580
this. He's going through an Italian automatic

493
00:30:35.660 --> 00:30:39.020
knife phase and he got me this wicked cool blade.

494
00:30:39.580 --> 00:30:43.180
This is the AKC Roma

495
00:30:43.820 --> 00:30:47.500
Automatic. Roma like Rome. This is the kind of thing you. Carry if you're

496
00:30:47.740 --> 00:30:51.340
a street brigand in. Rome with that gorgeous swing

497
00:30:51.340 --> 00:30:54.940
guard. Not sure about the blade steel. This is G10,

498
00:30:55.340 --> 00:30:58.940
a textured G10, and it comes with a leatherette

499
00:30:58.940 --> 00:31:02.780
pouch. I was carrying this around with me like a big old nerd

500
00:31:02.940 --> 00:31:06.460
all day on Thanksgiving, hoping someone needed something

501
00:31:06.540 --> 00:31:08.620
cut. My brother, who is

502
00:31:10.870 --> 00:31:14.470
fastidious, to say the least about everything and

503
00:31:14.470 --> 00:31:18.230
that's why he's such a successful guy, well, he's also

504
00:31:18.230 --> 00:31:21.590
very smart. But he, he showed me this. He's like

505
00:31:22.150 --> 00:31:25.110
guys in the know, Bob About Italian

506
00:31:25.350 --> 00:31:29.110
automatics. They do this. They close the knife, and right as they're

507
00:31:29.110 --> 00:31:32.830
closing it, they push the button in just to save the mechanism a

508
00:31:32.830 --> 00:31:36.570
little bit. So I've started doing that. So this

509
00:31:36.570 --> 00:31:40.250
thing. Super awesome. And let me show you what else he gave me

510
00:31:40.410 --> 00:31:44.170
in the same breath with that awesome automatic. He gave me

511
00:31:44.170 --> 00:31:47.370
these gorgeous brass knuckles. I mean,

512
00:31:47.370 --> 00:31:51.130
paperweight. Yeah. So really, really

513
00:31:51.130 --> 00:31:54.970
nice knuckle duster here. So look at

514
00:31:54.970 --> 00:31:58.530
that combination together. It's a handsome, if not

515
00:31:58.530 --> 00:32:02.220
rugged pairing. No? Yes. All

516
00:32:02.220 --> 00:32:06.020
right, so I got the brass knuckles and I got the really cool

517
00:32:06.980 --> 00:32:09.860
AKC automatic. He. He really wet my

518
00:32:10.180 --> 00:32:14.020
appetite for Italian automatics. I might have to go down that

519
00:32:14.020 --> 00:32:17.740
rabbit hole, but if I don't, he's taking care of that for the

520
00:32:17.740 --> 00:32:21.460
family because he's gotten a whole bunch of cool. He's into the Chris

521
00:32:22.660 --> 00:32:26.380
stilettos. It's on stilettos. He got a bunch of them. And

522
00:32:26.380 --> 00:32:30.130
he's into the crisp Filipino swords. So he got a bunch of those

523
00:32:30.130 --> 00:32:33.290
too. And he deserves them. He works hard.

524
00:32:34.010 --> 00:32:37.770
All right, let's see. Last two things I've

525
00:32:37.770 --> 00:32:41.450
gotten recently. This one. Yes, that's right. I

526
00:32:41.450 --> 00:32:45.130
finally got the cold steel special forces

527
00:32:45.290 --> 00:32:48.970
shovel. Let me put this under the knife cam and I'm gonna pull out

528
00:32:49.290 --> 00:32:52.650
my Spetsnaz shovel. This is an actual

529
00:32:53.380 --> 00:32:56.940
Spetsnaz shovel. The Spetsnaz, the. The

530
00:32:56.940 --> 00:33:00.780
Russian special forces, they have this awesome tool. My brother

531
00:33:00.780 --> 00:33:04.420
gave this to me years ago. This lives in my car, but I recently

532
00:33:04.740 --> 00:33:08.500
was putting down the base for a shed. Had to level out the ground. And

533
00:33:08.500 --> 00:33:11.780
this was the perfect shovel for kind of

534
00:33:12.820 --> 00:33:16.500
pulling up sod. I wasn't using my sod buster for.

535
00:33:16.500 --> 00:33:20.350
Pulling up sod at the right depth because it's got these super

536
00:33:20.350 --> 00:33:23.950
sharp edges. So five sharpened edges here

537
00:33:25.150 --> 00:33:27.790
and just a really sturdy, stout shovel.

538
00:33:30.350 --> 00:33:33.390
And it in. It inspired me to get this

539
00:33:33.950 --> 00:33:37.630
cold steel version with the ash handle and the

540
00:33:38.110 --> 00:33:41.950
beautiful new shovel blade. I haven't used

541
00:33:41.950 --> 00:33:45.610
it yet. It does come with a great looking. Sheath that

542
00:33:45.610 --> 00:33:49.450
works very well. So I might end up putting this in the car

543
00:33:50.250 --> 00:33:53.130
so that if my car's ever broken into, which it has been before,

544
00:33:54.570 --> 00:33:58.290
that if something is stolen, it's this and not the

545
00:33:58.290 --> 00:34:02.050
shovel. My brother got me because I'm a sentimental SAP. Would

546
00:34:02.050 --> 00:34:05.810
you hear that beautiful ring on that? When I

547
00:34:05.810 --> 00:34:09.650
ordered that, I had to do something, this is not something I

548
00:34:09.650 --> 00:34:12.800
do frequently. I'm not one of these guys who. I love that knife. So I'm

549
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:16.200
going to get two of them. But I did in this case. It's been about

550
00:34:16.200 --> 00:34:20.000
25 years since I. Got the first one, maybe more. And that

551
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:23.360
is this. I got a new Trail Master.

552
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:27.959
The. The. The Cold Steel 3 v

553
00:34:27.959 --> 00:34:31.720
Trail Master. I just had to bite the bullet and get it even though I

554
00:34:31.720 --> 00:34:35.560
already had it. Oh, God, I'm so glad I did. I love

555
00:34:35.560 --> 00:34:39.340
the Trail Master. And now this is a pristine version. I

556
00:34:39.340 --> 00:34:42.820
think when I decide to use the Trail Master in the backyard,

557
00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:46.580
I'll keep using the old one since I've layered all the abuse on

558
00:34:46.580 --> 00:34:50.380
that one. But this is such a great

559
00:34:50.380 --> 00:34:54.140
knife. I wanted a pristine version of it. And

560
00:34:54.140 --> 00:34:57.860
like I said, I've used it a lot for outdoor chores,

561
00:34:57.860 --> 00:35:01.380
batoning wood and hacking through vines and stuff like that.

562
00:35:02.180 --> 00:35:05.900
But it's also a great fighting knife. I don't. Not

563
00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:09.500
that I've been in a fight with it, but just from moving around with it,

564
00:35:09.500 --> 00:35:13.340
like with my Filipino moves and my acquired

565
00:35:13.740 --> 00:35:17.580
American Bowie moves, it is. It would make a great,

566
00:35:17.580 --> 00:35:21.260
great fighting. Maybe not as cool as some of the ones with wooden handles

567
00:35:21.260 --> 00:35:24.860
or stag or some of the fancier fittings. This is

568
00:35:24.860 --> 00:35:28.620
an outstanding knife for fighting. It's got that

569
00:35:28.620 --> 00:35:32.280
zero ground swedge and it is good to go in

570
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:36.040
3V. All right, so a lot of new

571
00:35:36.040 --> 00:35:39.800
knives here. You'll be seeing reviews of some of them. Definitely the

572
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:43.640
Civivis and the Kaisers and the three Dog knife. You've

573
00:35:43.640 --> 00:35:47.080
already seen me talk in Wax Poetic about the Trail Master

574
00:35:47.640 --> 00:35:51.360
so much. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna bother with that. All right, let's get

575
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.920
to some really, really cool Tanto blades. But before we do,

576
00:35:55.080 --> 00:35:58.680
I want to show you this new design that Jim just came up with. I'd

577
00:35:58.680 --> 00:36:01.520
rather be home with my knives. And

578
00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:07.560
okay, let's face it, if we. Have wives or girlfriends, they're in

579
00:36:07.560 --> 00:36:11.320
charge of the social calendar. And let's also face it, we forget. What

580
00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:15.120
they tell us. Oh, Saturday night we're going out with a husband and we're

581
00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:18.080
going to go to this for dinner. And okay.

582
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:22.880
But then when that day comes, we'd rather be at home with our knives.

583
00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:26.880
So if you'd rather be at home with your knives, go to

584
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:30.520
the knife junkie.com shop and check out we. You can get this

585
00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:34.080
emblazoned on. We've got coasters, we've got T shirts, tote

586
00:36:34.080 --> 00:36:37.160
bags, aprons, and these awesome new beanies.

587
00:36:37.640 --> 00:36:41.440
Man, I'm pointing these awesome new beanies. They

588
00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:45.240
are built to fit for winter. And I

589
00:36:45.240 --> 00:36:48.720
will be getting mine in. Olive grab like you see on screen. So go to

590
00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:50.987
the knife junkie.com

591
00:36:51.402 --> 00:36:55.030
knifejunkie.com/shop and check out this and many

592
00:36:55.030 --> 00:36:58.870
other super cool Designs. We have 30 plus pages of

593
00:36:58.870 --> 00:37:02.670
really. Cool stuff just like this. So check it out. All right.

594
00:37:02.670 --> 00:37:06.150
Very cool Tontos. This was inspired by two knives

595
00:37:06.390 --> 00:37:09.670
that you'll see here. One by T. Kel and the first one by

596
00:37:09.670 --> 00:37:13.510
Microtech. So as I mentioned, I just came back from Thanksgiving.

597
00:37:13.990 --> 00:37:17.590
That meant a drive, a six hour drive and

598
00:37:18.050 --> 00:37:21.770
that meant this knife. Yes, I know you've been hearing about this for seven

599
00:37:21.770 --> 00:37:25.410
years, at least 13. Years if you're OGs.

600
00:37:25.890 --> 00:37:29.730
But this is my, my official road

601
00:37:29.730 --> 00:37:32.610
trip knife. If I'm in the car for longer. Than an hour,

602
00:37:34.210 --> 00:37:37.970
I pop this in my pocket. This is the SOCOM Elite

603
00:37:37.970 --> 00:37:41.330
from Microtech. This is a 202012

604
00:37:41.490 --> 00:37:44.770
version. March of 202012 it was built, you can see that

605
00:37:45.270 --> 00:37:47.510
right there on the, on the blade.

606
00:37:48.630 --> 00:37:51.190
Gorgeous aluminum and carbon fiber handle.

607
00:37:52.390 --> 00:37:55.350
One of two knives that I accept tip down

608
00:37:55.510 --> 00:37:59.270
gleefully. This and the military

609
00:37:59.350 --> 00:38:02.710
from Spyderco. Military one. But I've always

610
00:38:02.710 --> 00:38:06.350
loved that beautiful S35VN Blade.

611
00:38:06.350 --> 00:38:10.150
It is such a gorgeous design. It's a

612
00:38:10.150 --> 00:38:13.950
clip point, drop point, whatever you want to call it. But the point point of

613
00:38:13.950 --> 00:38:17.350
this tanto is straight down the center and you've got a nice

614
00:38:17.350 --> 00:38:20.470
swedge aiding in the thrust on this.

615
00:38:20.870 --> 00:38:24.230
And everything about this blade I love. It's done so much,

616
00:38:25.670 --> 00:38:29.110
it's ridden with me so much over the years. It's cut everything

617
00:38:29.350 --> 00:38:32.710
from ratchet strap to

618
00:38:32.870 --> 00:38:36.590
pancake. It has done it all. So I love

619
00:38:36.590 --> 00:38:40.150
this knife. Beautiful tanto blade. Unique

620
00:38:40.660 --> 00:38:43.220
and definitely a great way to start this list.

621
00:38:44.820 --> 00:38:48.660
Next one is a an Americanized tanto kind of

622
00:38:48.660 --> 00:38:52.260
in the classic sense but from a newish company

623
00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:55.540
and an outstanding company. This is

624
00:38:56.020 --> 00:38:59.620
the Fisher Blades Beckwith

625
00:38:59.700 --> 00:39:03.500
fs. FS meaning full size. You can also

626
00:39:03.500 --> 00:39:06.100
get this in the small version, the

627
00:39:07.290 --> 00:39:10.890
daily carry defensive version, the Beckwith

628
00:39:10.890 --> 00:39:14.410
Covert. But I decided why not? It's the same blade,

629
00:39:14.410 --> 00:39:17.530
basically just enlarged. I'd show you this one.

630
00:39:18.170 --> 00:39:20.970
You've got that excellent sub tip there

631
00:39:21.690 --> 00:39:25.290
and then a really, really nice center line point.

632
00:39:25.530 --> 00:39:29.290
You've got basically the, the setup of a delica

633
00:39:29.530 --> 00:39:32.810
here with that big thumb ramp with the downward,

634
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:38.480
with the downward spine terminating with a nearly center

635
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:42.280
line point. This thing is may and then

636
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:45.920
a downward edge which really channels materials into

637
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.720
this portion of the, of the cut. So a really almost like a

638
00:39:49.720 --> 00:39:52.960
recurve. A really effective cutter and thruster

639
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:57.120
and a super ergonomic awesome handle. This is the

640
00:39:57.120 --> 00:40:00.790
Beckwith from Fisher blades. This

641
00:40:00.790 --> 00:40:04.590
one 86 out of

642
00:40:04.590 --> 00:40:08.070
a hundred. They do batches of a hundred basically of all their knives.

643
00:40:09.590 --> 00:40:13.310
I've most recently shown the McNasty the Dagger. But they

644
00:40:13.310 --> 00:40:16.750
really made their bones on this design, the

645
00:40:16.750 --> 00:40:20.390
pocket design of this and man, I love what they do.

646
00:40:20.790 --> 00:40:24.310
The blade is awesome and the handle is also awesome.

647
00:40:24.810 --> 00:40:28.650
You've got this great place for your. Thumb in reverse grip.

648
00:40:28.890 --> 00:40:32.610
It also aids as a bird bird's beak, keeping it

649
00:40:32.610 --> 00:40:36.010
in the hand on a pressure cut or slash.

650
00:40:36.330 --> 00:40:40.170
Though this is more of a. A thruster. I'd say

651
00:40:40.650 --> 00:40:44.130
it works out amazingly well. As a slashing

652
00:40:44.130 --> 00:40:47.570
knife. That's the Beckwith FS from

653
00:40:47.570 --> 00:40:51.330
Fisher Blades. I love looking at it. Yeah,

654
00:40:51.650 --> 00:40:54.890
it's a great carry too. Let me show you the sheath. I'd be remiss if

655
00:40:54.890 --> 00:40:58.450
I didn't show you the sheath because it fits really great

656
00:40:58.770 --> 00:41:02.490
in the waistband. You can pocket carry this. I know Daniel from

657
00:41:02.490 --> 00:41:05.970
411 Outdoors does. But this one I slide in the.

658
00:41:05.970 --> 00:41:09.810
Waistband using that discrete carry concepts clip.

659
00:41:10.850 --> 00:41:14.650
All right, next up. I showed you this already. This is

660
00:41:14.650 --> 00:41:17.900
from Three Dog Knife. It's this amazing

661
00:41:18.060 --> 00:41:21.180
K110 recurve outdoors

662
00:41:21.660 --> 00:41:25.420
or back alley Tonto. I'm. I'm kind of on the fence

663
00:41:25.420 --> 00:41:28.460
about it. 316 of an inch thick, really

664
00:41:28.700 --> 00:41:32.539
sturdy and stout. Not a light knife,

665
00:41:32.539 --> 00:41:36.140
but not too heavy to ride in the scout position.

666
00:41:36.540 --> 00:41:39.740
In this beautiful D. Johnston made

667
00:41:40.380 --> 00:41:44.190
sheath. I love this sheath. Again, three dog knife

668
00:41:44.190 --> 00:41:47.990
with their gorgeous sheaths. But this one comes in a black

669
00:41:47.990 --> 00:41:51.670
coated. In this tan coated and I believe a gray.

670
00:41:52.310 --> 00:41:55.910
This is, believe it or not, black micarta.

671
00:41:56.070 --> 00:41:59.790
It will become more black, kind of like when you get it

672
00:41:59.790 --> 00:42:03.590
from tops. The longer you carry it, the gray

673
00:42:03.590 --> 00:42:07.430
turns to black as it soaks up your personal fill

674
00:42:07.430 --> 00:42:10.960
signature. You've got that recurve Tonto with that

675
00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:16.480
broad and sweeping front curve there. I've

676
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:19.920
been told this would be great for skinning smaller animals

677
00:42:20.560 --> 00:42:24.160
by people who know I do not. I've never done it though I.

678
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:28.520
Much to the horror of my wife, I intend to bag a squirrel and

679
00:42:28.520 --> 00:42:31.760
cook it over the fire pit. Just to do it, just to try it.

680
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:35.640
I know we live in the suburbs and if anyone sees me, they'll probably. Have

681
00:42:35.640 --> 00:42:39.370
me committed, but that's what happens. When you live around pearl clutches.

682
00:42:39.850 --> 00:42:42.650
I want a bag of squirrel and eat it. And if I do, I will

683
00:42:42.650 --> 00:42:46.010
use this to skin it to see if Shane was right.

684
00:42:46.810 --> 00:42:50.610
But this is the three dog knife riot. I know

685
00:42:50.610 --> 00:42:53.850
I've said it thrice today already, but if you want to get one of these

686
00:42:54.490 --> 00:42:57.450
25 off. Go to the knifejunkie.com

687
00:42:58.330 --> 00:43:02.010
three dog knife and put knife junkie at checkout

688
00:43:02.010 --> 00:43:05.730
and. That you get this for 25% off. You're going to be hearing

689
00:43:05.730 --> 00:43:09.530
this once. More so get used to it. Thank you guys

690
00:43:09.530 --> 00:43:13.290
at three Dog Knife for offering that deal. I love

691
00:43:13.290 --> 00:43:17.090
it because I love your knives and I want our listeners to.

692
00:43:17.090 --> 00:43:20.770
Also love your diet. All right, next up. This

693
00:43:20.770 --> 00:43:24.410
one all pretty much started my daily carry of fixed

694
00:43:24.410 --> 00:43:27.970
blade knives. This is the Hog Teeth Eden C Tonto.

695
00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:32.080
Also the platform upon which the Nova 1 and the

696
00:43:32.080 --> 00:43:35.880
Nova 2 were built. This

697
00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:40.560
beautiful hollow ground, 154 cm Tanto has a

698
00:43:40.560 --> 00:43:44.120
nice long swedge meeting that center line

699
00:43:44.200 --> 00:43:47.800
point or it's a little above centerline. But it's definitely

700
00:43:48.040 --> 00:43:51.880
in a great place for thrusting. And we have

701
00:43:52.120 --> 00:43:55.840
evidence that this works in a real world scenario at

702
00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:59.540
least. Matt Chase does and he told me about it.

703
00:43:59.540 --> 00:44:03.300
I'll spare you the details but this is great in a

704
00:44:03.300 --> 00:44:06.660
self protection environment. Even in a

705
00:44:06.660 --> 00:44:09.820
military self protection environment where this was used

706
00:44:10.540 --> 00:44:14.220
to great aplomb. But not this one in particular but this design

707
00:44:14.780 --> 00:44:18.140
hollow grind. The hollow grind makes that a

708
00:44:18.140 --> 00:44:21.740
straight edge like super, super

709
00:44:21.740 --> 00:44:25.424
keen behind the edge. But the way Matt he treats his 154

710
00:44:25.536 --> 00:44:29.120
cm. I've used this as a feather sticker too

711
00:44:29.120 --> 00:44:32.600
around the family fire pit and it does

712
00:44:32.600 --> 00:44:36.200
amazing work. But I love that sort of wedge like

713
00:44:36.200 --> 00:44:39.920
tip. So it doesn't have a big flat portion

714
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:43.560
up front. Just the edge reminds me a little bit of

715
00:44:44.120 --> 00:44:47.760
a. An Omnimzon Tonto. The one I

716
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:50.690
have, um, but just beautiful. This one has that

717
00:44:51.890 --> 00:44:55.250
Kydex with rubber. Kind of incorporated into it.

718
00:44:55.650 --> 00:44:59.450
Fits so well. I love the EDC Tanto. I love

719
00:44:59.450 --> 00:45:03.290
it so much that we did the Nova one put the the

720
00:45:03.290 --> 00:45:07.010
recurve Bowie blade on this platform. Also

721
00:45:07.170 --> 00:45:10.890
we put the Kiridashi blade on. This platform with the Nova

722
00:45:10.890 --> 00:45:14.370
too. So such a great knife. Huge fan of this.

723
00:45:15.850 --> 00:45:19.410
This one is a revelation. I've been carrying this a lot

724
00:45:19.410 --> 00:45:23.050
since I got it a week and a half ago. I know it's been

725
00:45:23.050 --> 00:45:26.490
this long that I it took to get this knife. But this is

726
00:45:26.730 --> 00:45:30.370
the Tomas alas version of

727
00:45:30.370 --> 00:45:34.050
the agent I showed you the agent 001. This is the

728
00:45:34.050 --> 00:45:37.450
agent 007. Tomas's collaboration

729
00:45:37.850 --> 00:45:41.140
with TKEL knives. Look at that beautiful long

730
00:45:41.140 --> 00:45:44.940
slender Tanto blade designed to slip between

731
00:45:44.940 --> 00:45:48.420
the ribs people. So

732
00:45:48.580 --> 00:45:52.380
definitely a super hardcore defensive knife. You

733
00:45:52.380 --> 00:45:55.940
have the agent handle. So all the agent series

734
00:45:56.260 --> 00:45:59.980
knives a. 1 through 7 minus the 6 which doesn't quite

735
00:45:59.980 --> 00:46:03.540
exist. Exists. Yet they all are on this handle

736
00:46:03.540 --> 00:46:07.340
platform, which is excellent for reverse grip. You got a glass breaker

737
00:46:07.340 --> 00:46:11.150
here that. Does not hassle the thumb. You've got jimping here

738
00:46:11.710 --> 00:46:15.510
for the thumb and all sorts of swales and swoops to

739
00:46:15.510 --> 00:46:18.910
capture the hand. But look at the blade on this. Long,

740
00:46:19.790 --> 00:46:23.590
swedged, pointy. Super pointy. It's like almost

741
00:46:23.590 --> 00:46:27.350
like a stiletto. If a stiletto and a

742
00:46:27.350 --> 00:46:31.190
Tonto met in a bar, had a fantastic evening. And then had

743
00:46:31.190 --> 00:46:33.390
offspring, it would look like this.

744
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:38.760
Super great. But it's also not it. It's not just a

745
00:46:39.080 --> 00:46:42.280
tactical blade, it's also meant to be very

746
00:46:42.280 --> 00:46:46.120
utilitarian. You can run the finger up there, use that pretty

747
00:46:46.120 --> 00:46:49.719
stout yet slender tip to do all sorts of

748
00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:53.480
detailed cutting chores. And this

749
00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:57.240
one is wearing the battle lock grip. So really, really nicely done.

750
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:01.650
And a huge favorite of mine. I'm so glad now to have

751
00:47:01.650 --> 00:47:05.370
the 007. And I have to send one to my brother. I have to get

752
00:47:05.370 --> 00:47:09.050
one and send one to my brother. I think they're sold out,

753
00:47:09.050 --> 00:47:12.850
but who knows? Maybe I know someone who knows someone. I can't get one

754
00:47:12.850 --> 00:47:16.650
to my brother. He's. He's so into it. I was like, what about my blade?

755
00:47:16.650 --> 00:47:19.850
He's like, I already have your blade. This one's sweet. I'm like.

756
00:47:22.810 --> 00:47:26.490
So gotta get him one. If anyone has a line on a. 007,

757
00:47:26.490 --> 00:47:29.240
let me know. Next one is the Tucson

758
00:47:29.720 --> 00:47:33.520
TS336. And by the way, that last comment

759
00:47:33.520 --> 00:47:36.840
was a joke. I can get one for myself.

760
00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:41.840
This one is gorgeous. Look at that recurve,

761
00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:45.440
upswept clip point. It's like it's a bowie

762
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:49.240
and a tanto. Again, meeting in a bar and having

763
00:47:49.240 --> 00:47:53.040
a fantastic evening. But this one has a really

764
00:47:53.040 --> 00:47:56.870
nice titanium frame lock with the burlap

765
00:47:56.870 --> 00:48:00.390
micarta on it. This is the one tuson knife

766
00:48:00.550 --> 00:48:04.310
I've kept for myself. I've had a number of them here and they're great

767
00:48:04.310 --> 00:48:07.990
knives, don't get me wrong, but I didn't carry them enough. This one,

768
00:48:07.990 --> 00:48:11.430
I still don't carry that. Much, but I could not let this

769
00:48:11.430 --> 00:48:15.110
tanto blade go. Hollow ground on the recurve portion,

770
00:48:16.070 --> 00:48:19.910
flat ground on the forward to the point portion.

771
00:48:20.490 --> 00:48:24.210
It's super wicked. You've got the thumb

772
00:48:24.210 --> 00:48:27.210
stud and the flipper and some great jimping on the spine.

773
00:48:28.250 --> 00:48:31.290
I love this knife. And just having it in hand right now, I

774
00:48:31.610 --> 00:48:35.130
resolve to carry this more often. It is incredibly

775
00:48:35.130 --> 00:48:38.810
sturdy. They do great work at Tucson. And now I know

776
00:48:39.130 --> 00:48:42.490
true aficionados of Tucson like Jared of

777
00:48:42.650 --> 00:48:46.250
neeves knives has had some issues recently with the company,

778
00:48:48.030 --> 00:48:51.830
but I don't have enough to know. So this one

779
00:48:51.830 --> 00:48:55.670
is great. Love this. All right, next up,

780
00:48:55.670 --> 00:48:59.070
I want to show off just for a brief second. This is my,

781
00:49:00.270 --> 00:49:03.750
this is my three dog knife Champion

782
00:49:03.750 --> 00:49:06.510
blade champions blade from

783
00:49:07.630 --> 00:49:11.470
Trevor Barrett and three dog knife. One that you could get with the

784
00:49:11.470 --> 00:49:15.320
coupon code we mentioned before. But this knife, okay.

785
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:19.000
I brought this one on my trip, my Thanksgiving trip

786
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:22.680
with me, just so I could be with it because it arrived the day before

787
00:49:22.680 --> 00:49:26.280
I left and I just wanted to, I wanted to give away the

788
00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:30.040
black version. This is me falling on my sword. Because I'm such a

789
00:49:30.040 --> 00:49:33.760
good guy. I think the black version looks better. I've always been more

790
00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:36.800
into black blades than tan blades, but I've somehow

791
00:49:37.120 --> 00:49:40.670
bonded with these three dog knife tan blades. I already

792
00:49:40.670 --> 00:49:44.190
have. Well, I have one of them already and I figured why not

793
00:49:44.350 --> 00:49:48.150
add this to it. This is another super

794
00:49:48.150 --> 00:49:51.870
excellent outdoor tanto. I always think of tantos as a.

795
00:49:51.870 --> 00:49:55.630
Fighting knife, but. That'S because you

796
00:49:55.630 --> 00:49:59.230
don't see too many outdoor tantos. But it's a great blade

797
00:49:59.230 --> 00:50:02.910
shape for outdoor work. I mean, as

798
00:50:02.910 --> 00:50:05.470
far as I've heard and then as far as I know

799
00:50:07.500 --> 00:50:11.140
you, the one thing that maybe the, the point on this might be a

800
00:50:11.140 --> 00:50:14.220
little high for bow drill

801
00:50:16.540 --> 00:50:20.100
platform making or something, you know, drilling holes. You might have to

802
00:50:20.100 --> 00:50:23.420
readjust your grip and readjust your thinking for about

803
00:50:24.380 --> 00:50:28.060
10 seconds before you discover where that tip is. It's

804
00:50:28.060 --> 00:50:31.580
not a drop point like many outdoors knives, but you have this

805
00:50:31.660 --> 00:50:35.020
really nice gently swept straight

806
00:50:35.660 --> 00:50:39.420
portion of the blade that is incredibly thin but robust. Behind the edge

807
00:50:39.420 --> 00:50:43.260
because you have a. 316 of an inch blade of

808
00:50:43.580 --> 00:50:46.940
K1 52100 ball bearing steel.

809
00:50:47.180 --> 00:50:50.700
Super tough stuff. So

810
00:50:50.940 --> 00:50:54.580
great carving but also great batoning with

811
00:50:54.580 --> 00:50:58.300
this. And then the swedge itself, the harpoon swedge

812
00:50:58.300 --> 00:51:02.000
is nice and flat so you're not going to chew up your baton. But then

813
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.840
up front you have this situation here, you have

814
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:09.520
this extra jimping here and a plate so a

815
00:51:09.520 --> 00:51:13.240
place to get purchased with your finger and a nice curved surface here

816
00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:17.280
for skinning animals. You know,

817
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:20.960
don't ask me, I'm not the outdoorsman. Alaska guys

818
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:24.720
have come up with these really cool outdoor tontos and I

819
00:51:24.720 --> 00:51:28.170
think they, they seem to fit the bill beautifully.

820
00:51:28.650 --> 00:51:32.010
Now what I use this for was so domestic

821
00:51:32.330 --> 00:51:36.130
and so suburban girl, dad, you're not going

822
00:51:36.130 --> 00:51:39.770
to believe it, but I'll tell you anyway. The

823
00:51:39.770 --> 00:51:43.370
room we stay in with my parents has a nice Persian rug in it.

824
00:51:43.450 --> 00:51:47.090
One of my Daughters dropped a big jug

825
00:51:47.090 --> 00:51:50.890
of. Or a big tub of cerave, which is like a.

826
00:51:50.970 --> 00:51:54.340
A face cream on that rug.

827
00:51:54.580 --> 00:51:58.300
And a bunch of that crap slopped out onto

828
00:51:58.300 --> 00:52:01.940
the rug. And yeah, I knew my mom wouldn't care,

829
00:52:01.940 --> 00:52:05.780
but the girls were all freaked out. So I got down on the floor

830
00:52:05.940 --> 00:52:09.660
and used this awesome blade to scrape that stuff up.

831
00:52:09.660 --> 00:52:13.300
And I know it doesn't sound like much to you, but

832
00:52:13.300 --> 00:52:16.580
perhaps it's like scraping the viscera

833
00:52:17.060 --> 00:52:20.820
from the inside of an elk. I'm not sure. But I gotta say, it cleaned

834
00:52:20.820 --> 00:52:24.660
up that Persian rug beautifully. I know it sounds bougie, and

835
00:52:24.660 --> 00:52:28.380
I don't mean it to sound that way, but this thing did

836
00:52:28.380 --> 00:52:32.100
an awesome job on that. So it. What I'm getting at

837
00:52:32.100 --> 00:52:35.779
is it's extremely sharp, but also thin behind the

838
00:52:35.779 --> 00:52:39.460
edge, but also gets thick beyond the edge. Quick enough

839
00:52:39.780 --> 00:52:43.300
to be used for batoning, which I'm doing today

840
00:52:43.620 --> 00:52:47.320
because we're going to have a. We just got a solo solo stove. And

841
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:50.520
we're gonna have a little fire today and drink some cocktails

842
00:52:51.640 --> 00:52:55.320
because it's the end of Thanksgiving break and this. Is what I'm using

843
00:52:55.320 --> 00:52:58.520
for that. I'll let you know how it turns. Out on Thursday night. Knives.

844
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:03.560
But the gorgeous three Dog Knife Champions blade

845
00:53:03.880 --> 00:53:07.560
designed by Trevor Barrett and made.

846
00:53:07.720 --> 00:53:11.520
By three Dog Knife. Super awesome knife and

847
00:53:11.520 --> 00:53:15.330
a gorgeous. And by the way, I am warming

848
00:53:15.330 --> 00:53:18.970
up to the desert can. All right, next up, you've seen this

849
00:53:18.970 --> 00:53:22.690
one a bunch of time, thousand times. Since we

850
00:53:22.690 --> 00:53:26.410
started this show. But I think my

851
00:53:27.530 --> 00:53:31.370
arguably the most beautiful folding tanto blade

852
00:53:31.370 --> 00:53:35.210
here is the Riat K2 gorgeous deep

853
00:53:35.210 --> 00:53:38.890
hollow ground S35VN blade. Hollow ground. That is

854
00:53:38.890 --> 00:53:42.650
until you get to the tip where it's nice and flat ground. And then

855
00:53:42.650 --> 00:53:46.490
you have that gorgeous swedge running nearly running

856
00:53:46.490 --> 00:53:49.850
the perfect length of the. Of the spine of the blade,

857
00:53:50.170 --> 00:53:53.850
meaning they leave you a little bit of room for that jimping

858
00:53:54.170 --> 00:53:57.850
and for more. Of a flat to put your thumb on. A

859
00:53:57.850 --> 00:54:01.650
perfect EDC tanto blade. And yeah, it's pretty upswept.

860
00:54:01.650 --> 00:54:04.810
As a matter of fact, the tip is higher than the spine.

861
00:54:05.460 --> 00:54:09.300
Uh, but I gotta say, I've never had any issues with using this knife

862
00:54:09.460 --> 00:54:13.300
in a utility fashion. That curved forward portion

863
00:54:13.300 --> 00:54:17.020
is great for rocking, rocking

864
00:54:17.020 --> 00:54:20.860
on a surface. If you have to cut stuff like this, which I've done

865
00:54:20.860 --> 00:54:23.940
plenty of times with string

866
00:54:24.340 --> 00:54:27.740
and you call it paracord. This one, of course, has the

867
00:54:27.740 --> 00:54:31.220
beautiful contoured titanium handle with the

868
00:54:31.810 --> 00:54:34.690
sort of dragon scale pattern on that.

869
00:54:35.570 --> 00:54:39.330
I love this knife. I'm so lucky to have this knife because I

870
00:54:39.330 --> 00:54:42.850
know a lot of people want this knife. Joker is no longer doing their

871
00:54:45.170 --> 00:54:48.770
exclusive versions of this. So this is a hard knife to find at this point.

872
00:54:49.570 --> 00:54:53.370
Such a great knife. This was my first knife. It.

873
00:54:53.370 --> 00:54:57.130
I thought it was my first nice. On ball bearings, but I had

874
00:54:57.130 --> 00:55:00.900
the. SOCOM Elite before this and that had ball bearings to

875
00:55:00.900 --> 00:55:04.380
no fanfare. You know, when ball bearings became ubiquitous.

876
00:55:04.540 --> 00:55:07.780
Ubiquitous. People are like, oh, ball bearings, yeah. Well,

877
00:55:07.780 --> 00:55:11.500
Microtech was doing it. A good old American company was doing it

878
00:55:11.500 --> 00:55:15.180
without any fanfare. And I respect them greatly for that.

879
00:55:16.220 --> 00:55:19.420
Second to last. The or

880
00:55:19.420 --> 00:55:23.220
penultimate one of my favorite. Words sat words from

881
00:55:23.220 --> 00:55:26.500
back in the day. This is the Civivi Synergy

882
00:55:26.500 --> 00:55:30.300
4.4meaning this is the synergy with the 4 inch blade.

883
00:55:30.540 --> 00:55:33.740
I think this is one of the coolest tantos ever.

884
00:55:34.700 --> 00:55:38.340
It really does swoop down and put that point in the center line of

885
00:55:38.340 --> 00:55:41.740
the. Of the blade. It does have a belly to it, but it's also

886
00:55:41.820 --> 00:55:45.340
downward facing. So you get a lot of shearing power from that

887
00:55:45.340 --> 00:55:49.140
straight edge. It's a nice thin blade. So the

888
00:55:49.140 --> 00:55:52.350
fact that it's all flat ground doesn't

889
00:55:53.150 --> 00:55:56.990
have any effect other than devastating on the

890
00:55:56.990 --> 00:56:00.590
cutting power of this. It's got this cool. This was

891
00:56:00.670 --> 00:56:04.470
designed by a. A knife

892
00:56:04.470 --> 00:56:07.990
designer. DeYoung is his last name. I'm forgetting his first

893
00:56:07.990 --> 00:56:11.550
name. I wanted to say Dennis, but that's. The guy from Sticks.

894
00:56:11.710 --> 00:56:15.330
Oh, Young. It's. It's O. Young. The last name. Oh,

895
00:56:15.720 --> 00:56:19.440
apostrophe Young. It's Irish, I guess. But anyway, you got

896
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:22.760
this radiating circular pattern coming from

897
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:26.680
the pivot. This has become my

898
00:56:27.320 --> 00:56:30.920
blade show knife. This is the knife I travel with to blade

899
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:33.720
show. Oh, there it is right there.

900
00:56:34.920 --> 00:56:38.280
Oh, yum. Really great knife.

901
00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:42.050
Since I got rid of my my. Previous

902
00:56:43.330 --> 00:56:47.050
blade show folder, this has become my blade show folder. I carry

903
00:56:47.050 --> 00:56:50.730
it with me until I get something else and then I replace it. But this

904
00:56:50.730 --> 00:56:54.050
is a great, great. This would be an awesome

905
00:56:54.210 --> 00:56:57.010
tactical knife if you had to fight with a folder

906
00:56:57.810 --> 00:57:01.650
a liner lock. This would be an awesome one to do it with. But

907
00:57:01.650 --> 00:57:05.250
other than that, makes for a great utility knife.

908
00:57:05.330 --> 00:57:08.580
Flipper only. And

909
00:57:08.900 --> 00:57:10.660
outstanding. Beautiful knife.

910
00:57:12.100 --> 00:57:15.940
14C 28N is the blade steel on this one.

911
00:57:16.180 --> 00:57:20.020
All right, last up. I couldn't do a list like this without

912
00:57:20.020 --> 00:57:23.460
mentioning cold steel. And this one is

913
00:57:24.100 --> 00:57:27.820
really based on their original master

914
00:57:27.820 --> 00:57:31.620
Tanto. But this One is the Tanto 12. So you have a

915
00:57:31.620 --> 00:57:34.820
12 inch version of their Tanto with the hollow ground.

916
00:57:35.750 --> 00:57:38.790
Main grind and then the flat ground tip.

917
00:57:39.670 --> 00:57:43.350
I love where they come Together you get that beautiful arc. Super

918
00:57:43.350 --> 00:57:47.110
sharp, incredibly strong at the point because you

919
00:57:47.110 --> 00:57:49.590
have the full rigidity of the blade

920
00:57:50.710 --> 00:57:54.430
up to that point. But as you may see here, right where the

921
00:57:54.430 --> 00:57:57.830
light meets the shadow, you can see that this is also

922
00:57:57.990 --> 00:58:01.670
a san, my blade. So let's see if we

923
00:58:01.670 --> 00:58:05.390
can. You can see a line just north of

924
00:58:05.390 --> 00:58:08.110
the edge line. That's where the.

925
00:58:09.470 --> 00:58:13.070
Where the. What kind of kind of steel is it? I guess it's

926
00:58:13.070 --> 00:58:16.590
VG10 meeting a 420 jacket come together.

927
00:58:17.470 --> 00:58:21.190
So you get the super hard steel on the cutting edge and then

928
00:58:21.190 --> 00:58:24.830
you have the softer steel on the spine so it doesn't break

929
00:58:25.150 --> 00:58:28.810
when you're swinging this into armor or anything

930
00:58:28.810 --> 00:58:32.570
else you might need to cut with this gorgeous 12 inch

931
00:58:32.570 --> 00:58:35.530
blade. Yep. Comes with the standard

932
00:58:36.810 --> 00:58:40.570
secure X sheath, which when I got it, did

933
00:58:40.570 --> 00:58:44.250
not hold on very well. And then I was cooking

934
00:58:44.250 --> 00:58:47.610
some sauce and had this right next to the stove just

935
00:58:47.610 --> 00:58:51.330
accidentally because I'm a nerd like that. And apparently

936
00:58:51.330 --> 00:58:54.860
that was enough to heat up this portion of the

937
00:58:54.860 --> 00:58:57.780
sheath and make it stick around the

938
00:58:58.260 --> 00:59:01.940
guard well enough that it has much better retention.

939
00:59:02.260 --> 00:59:06.060
Ever since cooking with it. So there you go. All

940
00:59:06.060 --> 00:59:09.820
right. So that's been my list of the coolest Ponto blades. I

941
00:59:09.820 --> 00:59:13.220
got plenty of tanto blades here. And I think they're all cool, naturally.

942
00:59:13.700 --> 00:59:17.380
But I really wanted to go for the ones that strike a slightly different

943
00:59:17.460 --> 00:59:21.170
cord. For this list, tell me what your favorite tantos

944
00:59:21.170 --> 00:59:23.810
are. I always want to know that kind of stuff, what you guys are into.

945
00:59:24.370 --> 00:59:28.130
It always inspires me to get newer, other, cooler stuff.

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So there you have it. Be sure to join us again, like I said,

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for Thursday night Knives. I want to meet you, I want to talk with you.

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We have a great time on that show. Tell me, tell me. I'm like

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your knife therapist. You can unload whatever it is. Let me know.

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

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DiMarco saying until next time, don't take Go for an

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answer. Thanks for listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. If you

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