Coming up, a very special three dog knife affiliate program.
Ten new knives in the state of the collection. Then we're going to take a
look. At the coolest tanto blades. I'm Bob DeMarco. This
is the Knife Junkie Podcast.
Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast, your weekly dose of knife
news and information about knives and knife collecting. Here's your
host, Bob the knife junkie DeMarco.
Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past
midweek supplemental on my large cold steel knives. He's talking
about the laredo Bowie. H N
1092 says Bagwell said that was the only thing
he. I'm sorry. He says Bagwell said that the only thing keeping the
Laredo Bowie from being a great fighter is the
short guard. I think I heard Lynn talking about it too. Yeah,
I remember hearing about how Lynn Thompson sent
Bill Bagwell a prototype of the Laredo Bowie
before it came to market to get his take on it. And well,
just like you heard right there, Bagwell thought it was a pretty dang
good blade. But you know, Bill Bagwell was known for
his large sort of devil horn guards
to capture the blade. And of course, the Laredo Bowie doesn't have that. Maybe that
wasn't scalable with the manufacturing. That cold
steel did in the day. But what a great knife the Laredo Bowie is.
Thank you HN for that. Second one was from James
Key5SX, who says the kitchen knives in those
bins could have been from abusive households where people were afraid
of a family member. And I was showing pictures,
a picture of knives that were turned in in Great Britain in
a, in a knife give back program
because they're concerned about their knife crime. And I was conveying
about how so many of them were harmless looking kitchen blades. But
James brings up a good point. Most knife crime is
committed in the home and it's most often
with a kitchen knife. So that is, that is very likely.
Got to keep the mind open. Even though I think that Great
Britain. Has gone greatly astray. That is probably true,
James. So thanks for your perspective on that. All right, coming up,
let's get to a pocket check. What's in his
pocket? Let's find out. Here's the
knife junkie with his pocket. Check of knives in my front right
pocket. Today I had the very, very classic
Spyderco police model. This the original one,
albeit a recent build of it, but this is the
very first police model they came out with
with the long four and a quarter inch blade with
the swedge and the full serrations on a stainless
steel body. I've always been a fan of this. Knife ever since
I first spotted one. In the early 90s before these kind of
knives were ubiquitous and I knew I had to have one
someday. I just didn't realize it was going to take me 30 years to get
it. But I got this one over this past summer
and I love that knife. Takes up very little real estate I am
noticing as the weather gets colder you pull that out of your pocket. And you
feel the outside temperature for sure. Next up
in my front right pocket was the new and beautiful
Jack Wolf knives Gateway equal end Jack.
So you can see this has that. Cigar shaped equal end handle.
This has gabon ebony wood covers on it. So
nicely done pinned construction like you don't see on most
Jack Wolf knives. This Gateway series is the
entry level series so you can get these for under 100
bucks. Like well under 100 bucks. 75 to 80 bucks
you get 14c28n full flat
ground blade instead of the full hollow ground s 90v you
get. On the premium models. And then of course the handle
materials are also less premium with steel bolsters and
liners and but still really really nicely done.
This is a great knife. Super sharp, excellent fit and
finish. So if you like Jack Wolf
knives, that is your gateway knife in that. And now the
Barlow. Next up on me I had the TKL knives
agent double O1. I can't get this thing off my
belt or out of my pocket. My design with Tim
Kell and TKEL knives that launched the the now
famous Agent series. I've been carrying around an agent
007 recently too that also recently
redropped. What a great knife that is. TEL knives. Always
smashing it out of the park. If you like TEL knives, you can get
one using our affiliate link. Go to the knife
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save 10% on your purchase. 10% people. I
mean that is nothing to sneeze at.
So check that out. Definitely there are lots of great knives over
there. My brother and I were pouring over the website
this past Thanksgiving. Talk about all the knives we want. To get
because we want them all. Last up my emotional support knife.
This one's been getting a bit of carry recently, but I had the
Voyager XL serrated
vacuro from Cold Steel with the
snaggletooth tactical pocket catch on it.
This really does bring comfort. If you're feeling insecure about stuff,
there's nothing like a five And a half inch Yatagon shaped
serrated blade in your pocket. Especially when done by cold steel with. That
ultra robust triad lock. So this is what I had on me
today. Let me know what you were carrying. Drop it down in the comments. I
had my Spyderco Police model, old. School with the full
serrations. Had the Jack Wolf knives, equal end Jack from
their Gateway series. Had the
beautiful agent 001
masterfully made by Tkal Knives. And then of course of course my. Cold
steel XL Voyager with the vaquero blade fully
serrated. All right, want to talk about something
else before we keep going and that is we have a
new affiliate relationship with three Dog Knife. You guys
know Northern Knives. Mike is on Thursday Night Knives all
the time. He's a great guy. He's donated so many like really
super high end pieces for us to give away here on Thursday night
knives and we're really grateful for that. But he
turned around and said he wanted to do an affiliate program on his
in house knife brand three Dog knife. We've
shown and given away these two knives here on the channel.
Different copies of them obviously. Here is the MAK,
the multi animal knife. A beautiful hunting and all around
outdoors knife with M390. This is the
K110 made riot. Also a
great outdoors knife but also wouldn't be
bad in a back alley way. And then we have the newest
one here. This is a collaboration knife
a made with Trevor Barrett. Trevor Barrett is a
knife maker who won a Forged in Fire episode
and he's up in Alaska. I believe he's in
Haines, Alaska. And three Dog knife
is oem. His beautiful stuff. I say OEM but these
are all handmade so check it out.
I took my version of this knife. This knife will be this one in.
Particular in my hand will be given. Away soon but I took
mine on my Thanksgiving trek and
loved it. Thing worked great and I'll tell you someday what I used it
for. But not here. You can get 25 off if
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Incredibly sharp. It's quite thin behind the edge because that
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All right, next up, I want to show you what you stand to win if
you're a gentleman junkie. And for the gentleman junkie
giveaway, the third Thursday of the month, this month
of December. That's December 18th. Someone very special
to my to me's birthday. So
happy birthday dad in in advance. But we're gonna be
giving this beauty away. This is the Gunfighter
Customs Gunfighter. This is a knife designed by
Michael Elliott and made by Jared Franklin
of Gunfighter Customs. I got some schmutz on the blade. Let me
wipe that off. Beautiful double edged
version. Not version beautiful double edged take on the knife.
Similar to the clinch pick. You've got that egg
shaped handle that nestles beautifully in the hand.
Impossible to, nearly impossible to disarm.
But this one has a downward angled blade double edged.
So you have that back cutting capability that you have
with the clinch pick but also a really
nice full bellied front edge. All of it with
two places to put your thumb. I love the
clinch pick but that does not offer any place for your thumb. You got
to grip it like this. So this could be
yours. This beautiful custom made knife with that by the way that
really nice antique butterscotch rich light there.
Just become a gentleman junkie. Go to the knife junkie.com
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look below for the join button. So check that out. This thing
is awesome. I got one this year at Blade Show
2025 and I carried it in my waistband right up front.
Forgot all about it until I wanted. To show it off and then of course
I'd remember. But it carries beautifully so
check that out. Become a gentleman junkie. All right, last
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Okay, I've got tons of knives to show you downstream. So we're going to blast
through these three new and pretty cool looking knives out on the
market. The first one is from Giant Mouse, a knife company I've never
indulged in. One of these days, maybe this is. The one to do it. A
Giant mouse has a new one called the Elmer Ace
Auto. So the Elmer is named after a World War
II vet who just went out and did his stuff without
any sort of fanfare. Beautiful knife. This is
OEM by Protect Protect the American
masters of out the side automatics. Looks like
they did an absolutely beautiful job job on this
3.2 inch trailing point. Looks a lot like the Clyde,
another. Model by Giant Mouse. It is in Magnacut
and the handle is aluminum as you would expect
from Protect. Beautiful aluminum. Either anodized blue
like you see in this picture or black. 3.2 ounces.
The MSRP on this is three 365 bucks. Remember
it's two knife companies that gotta get paid and this
is available now. That's the Giant Mouse Elmer
Ace automatic. Next up
from Tops. This is one that we have not seen from Tops. I really
don't think. I know we've seen locking
folders. Not too many. I know we've seen friction folders. Not too many.
Here's their first slip joint. This is Tops
new Tex Creek slip joint. And I have a Tex Creek.
I love the original fixed blade Tex Creek. It was my
outdoor backyard knife for a long time. Look at how tiny
this is. It really looks like a Tex Creek. It's just tinified.
So this is their latest variation on the Tex Creek, which gets. It
gets a lot of some. One of their signature knives gets a lot of different
reversions. This is designed by Leo
Espinosa, their CEO. And it's the smallest
tops folder ever. 2.38 inches of
M390. It's made in Maniago, Italy. Beautiful
drop point with the swedge and jimping. A green
G10 handle is quite gorgeous with that beautiful
fluting in there and a handle profile very similar
to the original fixed blade knife. You get no
pocket clip on this. Because it comes with that leather slip. A
nice little knife here. 1.3 ounces, barely
there. Available now. $190 is the
MSRP on this slip. Hopefully it has a super stout
string spring because that's what we come to. Tops
for, is super stout. All right, last up. This is a
new one from Kaiser and it's sort of filling a void
in their lineup that a lot of. Modern companies have
filled. And that is the luxury utility folder.
Utility folder meaning replaceable with those utility. Razors
that you can get at the hardware store. This is called the Kaiser
C01C UTI2. Or
Sheepdog Utility we'll call it here. The Sheepdog is one of
Kaiser's three most popular knives of all time.
Usually it has a cleaver shaped blade, but definitely
the handle you see before you is, is
signature to that design. This one of course has a replaceable
utility blade that can be swapped out for a fresh blade with a push.
Of a button that you, you can. See on the other side of the
blade. You can see the leaf here that gets pushed out on
the jig there that holds the.
The new blade. This is a thumb stud opening knife. Yeah, that
orange thing, that's the. That's the button. Opens with a thumb
stud. It is a button lock as you can see. I like that sort
of half moon button there. Comes in this micarta that
you see or also in G10. And it has
a tweezer and toothpick in the butt of the handle.
Something we've seen a bit from Kaiser or from Civivi and
Kaiser recently. I like that little bit of utility. If it's a
utility style blade, why not throw a tweezer and toothpick
in there? 2.86 ounces. So pretty darn light.
And this is available soon. Not sure what that means,
but it is soon. We're recording this in
November, very, very late November of. Let's just
say December of 2020 25. So it'll be out soon. $43
is the MSRP. All right,
now we're going to get to the first tool and we're going to
talk about the Sod Buster, the farmer's quiet
companion. You're listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. Here's some
cool knife history with the knife junkies. The First Tool. If
you ask a knife collector about the flashiest knife in
their drawer, you probably we'll hear about a lot of exotic steels
and intricate lock mechanisms. But ask a farmer or
anyone who. Grew up working the land and you'll. Hear about something far
simpler, far humbler, and far more beloved.
You'll hear about the Sod Buster. Sometimes
called the farmer's knife. This does not demand
a lot of attention. It doesn't need engraving or fancy
fittings. It's a stout, single bladed folder with a wide bellied
cutting edge and a handle that feels like it grew there.
Naturally in your hand. And for more than a century, it's been
the trusted companion for people who make their living outdoors.
Its story begins with the rise of industrial agriculture in the
19th century. As farmers and ranchers pushed deeper into
tough soils and harsher conditions, the tools in their
pockets needed to be just as tough as the work they faced.
The Sod Buster's defining feature is a simple
slip joint mechanism. It made it nearly
impossible to break under everyday use. And you make it stout
and it'll keep on going. Drop it in the dirt, scrape it against
fencing wire, slice it into rope or twine. It just
keeps going. And while the name Sod Buster has an
American twang to it, the idea behind the knife is global.
In Germany, the Sod Buster owes its lineage to classic
Bauernmesser, the farmer's knife of Central Europe.
In France, you have the rustic regional folders that echo the
same shape and purpose. Even in South Africa,
working class folders appeared with the same familiar straight
spine. And hard working belly. Everywhere people work
the land, a version of this knife emerged. The Sod
Buster also has a habit of being a part of childhood memories.
Many knife collectors will tell you their first real pocket knife wasn't
tactical. It wasn't some flashy safe queen. It was
a beat up Sod Buster passed down from a dad or
grandfather. It's a tool that carries the quiet confidence of
people who fix their own fences, mend their own gear,
and live by daylight and weather. Today, the Sod
Buster isn't just a farm tool. It's become a celebration of
honest design. Proof that a knife doesn't have to be
complicated to be perfect at its job. And
that's the real magic of the Sod Buster. In a world full of high
tech blades, it remains a reminder that sometimes the
simplest tool is the one you reach for first and the
one you remember the longest. That's the Sod Buster.
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all right, we got a lot of knives to get to, so let me show
you this first one. This is a beautiful Jeff Blel
design knife from Concept. Two knives were recently sent
to me by Concept. I've been carrying them like mad and I'm about to
drop my my reviews on these. This one is the Deadite.
Deadite. I'm I'm told this has something to do with the
with a horror movie, but I'll get back to you on that. The Deadite. This
is a beautiful 3 1/2 inch
S35VN clip point. It almost looks
tanto y though, because look where that straight goes into
the. The curve that heads towards the tip. There's definitely a
little sub tip there. But I've been carrying this thing almost
daily for about two weeks now and I love it. I love
concept knives. I'm a huge fan and I love the
collaborations they do. I've been carrying the Ray Laconico around
recently, the Bison quite a bit. This one's beautiful. Has
a very large titanium bolster here and then this really
cool carbon fiber. This comes in a number of different flavors
S35 in blackened steel here. And this one is a
bolster lock there. You can see Jeff Blauveld's Tough
Knives logo there. Always love that logo. Gotta say,
I've been following him since he was tough thumbs doing
knife mods on YouTube like way more than 10 years
ago. Great action on this. You got a, a standard
flipper and a. What do you call that? Thumb stud.
So that's the concept. Deadite. Next one is a fixed blade they
sent to me. I asked if they could send me a fixed blade and this
is what. They sent and it's pretty cool. This is called the
Nico. The Nico. You can see some, a
tip of the hat to the karambit. But that
finger hole here, that finger ring is more in line with the handle.
So less about holding like this and doing your
karambity stuff. To me anyway, that ring is more. About
an easy draw. Easily drawing this thing from the
sheath. And it does do that well. This one has a very nice
milled micarta handle. This also comes in a number of
flavors. D2 blade steel, one continuous
belly to that hollow
ground swedge tip. This thing is a nasty
piercing knife and very, very sharp.
I feel like the balance is interesting. It's right at
the forefinger. I say interesting because I thought it would be heavier
towards the back. But then again there's a ring there. So of
course it's not really, really great knife with
an excellent Kydex sheath. This has
had a lot of around the house carry because this clip
slips over. Not only a belt, but you can just pop it on your
sweatpants or your gym shorts. And it's light enough, it carries
really nicely. Also, as you can see there, you have a
90 degree swivel there on the clip.
So that is the Nico from Concept.
Next one is a new one from three Dog knife. I showed you this.
I showed you this one. This is the one we'll be giving away, the one
that I have kept from my collection. You'll see in a
minute. But a beautiful outdoors tanto blade. What do you mean
outdoors tanto? I mean that I've always wondered why
tantos weren't more featured in outdoor
knives. And here we have Trevor Barrett, an outdoorsman
from Alaska and an award winning knife
maker who won a an episode
of Forged in Fire. He made this
to be more of an outdoor knife. It's a chopper. You've got
a nice long handle, 51, 52,
100 blade steel. You have this really nice micro
micarta and just an excellent outdoors
blade. Ready to go. And I used mine this
past weekend to scrape, let me just put it that way.
Just scrape something off a soft surface and it came off
lawlessly. This is a great knife. Super thin behind the edge. I learned
that at that moment. And very, very sharp.
You can get these by going to the knife junkie.com Three
Dog Knife that takes you to the Three Dog Knife website where you can
use knife junkie at checkout and get 25% off this
and all the other super cool three dog knife blades
made in Anchorage, Alaska by
Mike of Northern Knives. So just an awesome knife. And
by the way, I shouldn't put this away without showing you the gorgeous
sheath they use. This sheath maker D.
Johnson from Alaska. Who makes really
gorgeous sheets. I love this thing, so
definitely go check that out. This is the three dog knife
champion. Champion fixed blade.
All right, next up, three from Civivi sent to me and they're
all cool, all one cooler than the next. So this first one
is from Zack in the Wild. This is the yonder.
One of Civivi's best selling blades these days.
It's kind of the answer to the elementum in a
similar size range but different blade shape. They call
it a spay blade which I really appreciate.
You don't hear the spay referred too much in modern
blades but this one, you might call it a reverse tanto that.
I never would have called it that but it's sort of Stockholm syndrome at
this point. Beautiful contoured G10 handle. This one
obviously red with that really nice black
14C 28N blade. There's Zach's
maker's mark. Really, really nice in hand deep
carry pocket clip goes to both sides and of course you have a tab
filler. So a very, very nice feature there. Great
jimping. This thing is going to be awesome. I look forward to carrying this
knife. That's the yonder. Next up. This one
is really cool. We featured this on Knife Life News a couple weeks back and
here it is in my hot little hand. This is
the Outlaw Muck
by the American Outlaw. He is a YouTuber who
teamed up with Civivi to make this modern
Nessmuk style folder. It's got a beautiful
14C 28 and harpoon
nessmuk. Never heard of that before. Harpoon Nessmuk style blaze.
You again have a continuous belly. This. This one
a little less extreme than the Nico going up to that
swedged tip with the rounded off harpoon and
comes with this beautiful two tone G10 handle.
It also comes in Micarta and plain G10. But
the black and white version has this two tone
G10. I love it. Really comfortable in hand with that very
neutral arcing handle. And here is the
maker's mark of American Outlaw.
There. See those two six shooters deep carry pocket clips
swappable to both sides. Really excellent button lock.
Super smooth. Fidgety as the day is long.
All right, and last up from the Civivi we Send cut
group. This is a send cut and it's my favorite of the group.
Let me show you this. This is the Glen Spar, another one. We
recently featured on Knifelife News. This
one has a gorgeous 9Cr 18
mov clip point blade with a really nice
fuller that, yes, you can use to deploy the blade
and a thumb stud and a
bunch of jimping up there. Beautiful clip point blade. But the
handle itself is so yummy in hand. It
fits. Sorry to use the word yummy, but sometimes it just fits
really, really comfortable in hand. Very nice ergonomics. And then
this one has that shred G10.
So a material we don't see often and I don't think we've
ever seen it from Send cut. I might be mistaken. I know
Civivi has featured a number of knives with
this shred G10, but I am loving this little sucker,
this sun cut, but I have a feeling I could be wrong, but I
have a feeling my wife will glom onto this one, so this will
probably become hers. She likes the
slender handles north to. South and that has a nice
slender handle. Really great ergonomics on the Glens bar.
Next up, I just came back from Thanksgiving with the family and my
brother, who is ever generous, he's given me. Half of the
sweetness you see behind me and I.
What? My brother's the man, let me just. Put it that way. He gave me
this. He's going through an Italian automatic
knife phase and he got me this wicked cool blade.
This is the AKC Roma
Automatic. Roma like Rome. This is the kind of thing you. Carry if you're
a street brigand in. Rome with that gorgeous swing
guard. Not sure about the blade steel. This is G10,
a textured G10, and it comes with a leatherette
pouch. I was carrying this around with me like a big old nerd
all day on Thanksgiving, hoping someone needed something
cut. My brother, who is
fastidious, to say the least about everything and
that's why he's such a successful guy, well, he's also
very smart. But he, he showed me this. He's like
guys in the know, Bob About Italian
automatics. They do this. They close the knife, and right as they're
closing it, they push the button in just to save the mechanism a
little bit. So I've started doing that. So this
thing. Super awesome. And let me show you what else he gave me
in the same breath with that awesome automatic. He gave me
these gorgeous brass knuckles. I mean,
paperweight. Yeah. So really, really
nice knuckle duster here. So look at
that combination together. It's a handsome, if not
rugged pairing. No? Yes. All
right, so I got the brass knuckles and I got the really cool
AKC automatic. He. He really wet my
appetite for Italian automatics. I might have to go down that
rabbit hole, but if I don't, he's taking care of that for the
family because he's gotten a whole bunch of cool. He's into the Chris
stilettos. It's on stilettos. He got a bunch of them. And
he's into the crisp Filipino swords. So he got a bunch of those
too. And he deserves them. He works hard.
All right, let's see. Last two things I've
gotten recently. This one. Yes, that's right. I
finally got the cold steel special forces
shovel. Let me put this under the knife cam and I'm gonna pull out
my Spetsnaz shovel. This is an actual
Spetsnaz shovel. The Spetsnaz, the. The
Russian special forces, they have this awesome tool. My brother
gave this to me years ago. This lives in my car, but I recently
was putting down the base for a shed. Had to level out the ground. And
this was the perfect shovel for kind of
pulling up sod. I wasn't using my sod buster for.
Pulling up sod at the right depth because it's got these super
sharp edges. So five sharpened edges here
and just a really sturdy, stout shovel.
And it in. It inspired me to get this
cold steel version with the ash handle and the
beautiful new shovel blade. I haven't used
it yet. It does come with a great looking. Sheath that
works very well. So I might end up putting this in the car
so that if my car's ever broken into, which it has been before,
that if something is stolen, it's this and not the
shovel. My brother got me because I'm a sentimental SAP. Would
you hear that beautiful ring on that? When I
ordered that, I had to do something, this is not something I
do frequently. I'm not one of these guys who. I love that knife. So I'm
going to get two of them. But I did in this case. It's been about
25 years since I. Got the first one, maybe more. And that
is this. I got a new Trail Master.
The. The. The Cold Steel 3 v
Trail Master. I just had to bite the bullet and get it even though I
already had it. Oh, God, I'm so glad I did. I love
the Trail Master. And now this is a pristine version. I
think when I decide to use the Trail Master in the backyard,
I'll keep using the old one since I've layered all the abuse on
that one. But this is such a great
knife. I wanted a pristine version of it. And
like I said, I've used it a lot for outdoor chores,
batoning wood and hacking through vines and stuff like that.
But it's also a great fighting knife. I don't. Not
that I've been in a fight with it, but just from moving around with it,
like with my Filipino moves and my acquired
American Bowie moves, it is. It would make a great,
great fighting. Maybe not as cool as some of the ones with wooden handles
or stag or some of the fancier fittings. This is
an outstanding knife for fighting. It's got that
zero ground swedge and it is good to go in
3V. All right, so a lot of new
knives here. You'll be seeing reviews of some of them. Definitely the
Civivis and the Kaisers and the three Dog knife. You've
already seen me talk in Wax Poetic about the Trail Master
so much. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna bother with that. All right, let's get
to some really, really cool Tanto blades. But before we do,
I want to show you this new design that Jim just came up with. I'd
rather be home with my knives. And
okay, let's face it, if we. Have wives or girlfriends, they're in
charge of the social calendar. And let's also face it, we forget. What
they tell us. Oh, Saturday night we're going out with a husband and we're
going to go to this for dinner. And okay.
But then when that day comes, we'd rather be at home with our knives.
So if you'd rather be at home with your knives, go to
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Very cool Tontos. This was inspired by two knives
that you'll see here. One by T. Kel and the first one by
Microtech. So as I mentioned, I just came back from Thanksgiving.
That meant a drive, a six hour drive and
that meant this knife. Yes, I know you've been hearing about this for seven
years, at least 13. Years if you're OGs.
But this is my, my official road
trip knife. If I'm in the car for longer. Than an hour,
I pop this in my pocket. This is the SOCOM Elite
from Microtech. This is a 202012
version. March of 202012 it was built, you can see that
right there on the, on the blade.
Gorgeous aluminum and carbon fiber handle.
One of two knives that I accept tip down
gleefully. This and the military
from Spyderco. Military one. But I've always
loved that beautiful S35VN Blade.
It is such a gorgeous design. It's a
clip point, drop point, whatever you want to call it. But the point point of
this tanto is straight down the center and you've got a nice
swedge aiding in the thrust on this.
And everything about this blade I love. It's done so much,
it's ridden with me so much over the years. It's cut everything
from ratchet strap to
pancake. It has done it all. So I love
this knife. Beautiful tanto blade. Unique
and definitely a great way to start this list.
Next one is a an Americanized tanto kind of
in the classic sense but from a newish company
and an outstanding company. This is
the Fisher Blades Beckwith
fs. FS meaning full size. You can also
get this in the small version, the
daily carry defensive version, the Beckwith
Covert. But I decided why not? It's the same blade,
basically just enlarged. I'd show you this one.
You've got that excellent sub tip there
and then a really, really nice center line point.
You've got basically the, the setup of a delica
here with that big thumb ramp with the downward,
with the downward spine terminating with a nearly center
line point. This thing is may and then
a downward edge which really channels materials into
this portion of the, of the cut. So a really almost like a
recurve. A really effective cutter and thruster
and a super ergonomic awesome handle. This is the
Beckwith from Fisher blades. This
one 86 out of
a hundred. They do batches of a hundred basically of all their knives.
I've most recently shown the McNasty the Dagger. But they
really made their bones on this design, the
pocket design of this and man, I love what they do.
The blade is awesome and the handle is also awesome.
You've got this great place for your. Thumb in reverse grip.
It also aids as a bird bird's beak, keeping it
in the hand on a pressure cut or slash.
Though this is more of a. A thruster. I'd say
it works out amazingly well. As a slashing
knife. That's the Beckwith FS from
Fisher Blades. I love looking at it. Yeah,
it's a great carry too. Let me show you the sheath. I'd be remiss if
I didn't show you the sheath because it fits really great
in the waistband. You can pocket carry this. I know Daniel from
411 Outdoors does. But this one I slide in the.
Waistband using that discrete carry concepts clip.
All right, next up. I showed you this already. This is
from Three Dog Knife. It's this amazing
K110 recurve outdoors
or back alley Tonto. I'm. I'm kind of on the fence
about it. 316 of an inch thick, really
sturdy and stout. Not a light knife,
but not too heavy to ride in the scout position.
In this beautiful D. Johnston made
sheath. I love this sheath. Again, three dog knife
with their gorgeous sheaths. But this one comes in a black
coated. In this tan coated and I believe a gray.
This is, believe it or not, black micarta.
It will become more black, kind of like when you get it
from tops. The longer you carry it, the gray
turns to black as it soaks up your personal fill
signature. You've got that recurve Tonto with that
broad and sweeping front curve there. I've
been told this would be great for skinning smaller animals
by people who know I do not. I've never done it though I.
Much to the horror of my wife, I intend to bag a squirrel and
cook it over the fire pit. Just to do it, just to try it.
I know we live in the suburbs and if anyone sees me, they'll probably. Have
me committed, but that's what happens. When you live around pearl clutches.
I want a bag of squirrel and eat it. And if I do, I will
use this to skin it to see if Shane was right.
But this is the three dog knife riot. I know
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Also love your diet. All right, next up. This
one all pretty much started my daily carry of fixed
blade knives. This is the Hog Teeth Eden C Tonto.
Also the platform upon which the Nova 1 and the
Nova 2 were built. This
beautiful hollow ground, 154 cm Tanto has a
nice long swedge meeting that center line
point or it's a little above centerline. But it's definitely
in a great place for thrusting. And we have
evidence that this works in a real world scenario at
least. Matt Chase does and he told me about it.
I'll spare you the details but this is great in a
self protection environment. Even in a
military self protection environment where this was used
to great aplomb. But not this one in particular but this design
hollow grind. The hollow grind makes that a
straight edge like super, super
keen behind the edge. But the way Matt he treats his 154
cm. I've used this as a feather sticker too
around the family fire pit and it does
amazing work. But I love that sort of wedge like
tip. So it doesn't have a big flat portion
up front. Just the edge reminds me a little bit of
a. An Omnimzon Tonto. The one I
have, um, but just beautiful. This one has that
Kydex with rubber. Kind of incorporated into it.
Fits so well. I love the EDC Tanto. I love
it so much that we did the Nova one put the the
recurve Bowie blade on this platform. Also
we put the Kiridashi blade on. This platform with the Nova
too. So such a great knife. Huge fan of this.
This one is a revelation. I've been carrying this a lot
since I got it a week and a half ago. I know it's been
this long that I it took to get this knife. But this is
the Tomas alas version of
the agent I showed you the agent 001. This is the
agent 007. Tomas's collaboration
with TKEL knives. Look at that beautiful long
slender Tanto blade designed to slip between
the ribs people. So
definitely a super hardcore defensive knife. You
have the agent handle. So all the agent series
knives a. 1 through 7 minus the 6 which doesn't quite
exist. Exists. Yet they all are on this handle
platform, which is excellent for reverse grip. You got a glass breaker
here that. Does not hassle the thumb. You've got jimping here
for the thumb and all sorts of swales and swoops to
capture the hand. But look at the blade on this. Long,
swedged, pointy. Super pointy. It's like almost
like a stiletto. If a stiletto and a
Tonto met in a bar, had a fantastic evening. And then had
offspring, it would look like this.
Super great. But it's also not it. It's not just a
tactical blade, it's also meant to be very
utilitarian. You can run the finger up there, use that pretty
stout yet slender tip to do all sorts of
detailed cutting chores. And this
one is wearing the battle lock grip. So really, really nicely done.
And a huge favorite of mine. I'm so glad now to have
the 007. And I have to send one to my brother. I have to get
one and send one to my brother. I think they're sold out,
but who knows? Maybe I know someone who knows someone. I can't get one
to my brother. He's. He's so into it. I was like, what about my blade?
He's like, I already have your blade. This one's sweet. I'm like.
So gotta get him one. If anyone has a line on a. 007,
let me know. Next one is the Tucson
TS336. And by the way, that last comment
was a joke. I can get one for myself.
This one is gorgeous. Look at that recurve,
upswept clip point. It's like it's a bowie
and a tanto. Again, meeting in a bar and having
a fantastic evening. But this one has a really
nice titanium frame lock with the burlap
micarta on it. This is the one tuson knife
I've kept for myself. I've had a number of them here and they're great
knives, don't get me wrong, but I didn't carry them enough. This one,
I still don't carry that. Much, but I could not let this
tanto blade go. Hollow ground on the recurve portion,
flat ground on the forward to the point portion.
It's super wicked. You've got the thumb
stud and the flipper and some great jimping on the spine.
I love this knife. And just having it in hand right now, I
resolve to carry this more often. It is incredibly
sturdy. They do great work at Tucson. And now I know
true aficionados of Tucson like Jared of
neeves knives has had some issues recently with the company,
but I don't have enough to know. So this one
is great. Love this. All right, next up,
I want to show off just for a brief second. This is my,
this is my three dog knife Champion
blade champions blade from
Trevor Barrett and three dog knife. One that you could get with the
coupon code we mentioned before. But this knife, okay.
I brought this one on my trip, my Thanksgiving trip
with me, just so I could be with it because it arrived the day before
I left and I just wanted to, I wanted to give away the
black version. This is me falling on my sword. Because I'm such a
good guy. I think the black version looks better. I've always been more
into black blades than tan blades, but I've somehow
bonded with these three dog knife tan blades. I already
have. Well, I have one of them already and I figured why not
add this to it. This is another super
excellent outdoor tanto. I always think of tantos as a.
Fighting knife, but. That'S because you
don't see too many outdoor tantos. But it's a great blade
shape for outdoor work. I mean, as
far as I've heard and then as far as I know
you, the one thing that maybe the, the point on this might be a
little high for bow drill
platform making or something, you know, drilling holes. You might have to
readjust your grip and readjust your thinking for about
10 seconds before you discover where that tip is. It's
not a drop point like many outdoors knives, but you have this
really nice gently swept straight
portion of the blade that is incredibly thin but robust. Behind the edge
because you have a. 316 of an inch blade of
K1 52100 ball bearing steel.
Super tough stuff. So
great carving but also great batoning with
this. And then the swedge itself, the harpoon swedge
is nice and flat so you're not going to chew up your baton. But then
up front you have this situation here, you have
this extra jimping here and a plate so a
place to get purchased with your finger and a nice curved surface here
for skinning animals. You know,
don't ask me, I'm not the outdoorsman. Alaska guys
have come up with these really cool outdoor tontos and I
think they, they seem to fit the bill beautifully.
Now what I use this for was so domestic
and so suburban girl, dad, you're not going
to believe it, but I'll tell you anyway. The
room we stay in with my parents has a nice Persian rug in it.
One of my Daughters dropped a big jug
of. Or a big tub of cerave, which is like a.
A face cream on that rug.
And a bunch of that crap slopped out onto
the rug. And yeah, I knew my mom wouldn't care,
but the girls were all freaked out. So I got down on the floor
and used this awesome blade to scrape that stuff up.
And I know it doesn't sound like much to you, but
perhaps it's like scraping the viscera
from the inside of an elk. I'm not sure. But I gotta say, it cleaned
up that Persian rug beautifully. I know it sounds bougie, and
I don't mean it to sound that way, but this thing did
an awesome job on that. So it. What I'm getting at
is it's extremely sharp, but also thin behind the
edge, but also gets thick beyond the edge. Quick enough
to be used for batoning, which I'm doing today
because we're going to have a. We just got a solo solo stove. And
we're gonna have a little fire today and drink some cocktails
because it's the end of Thanksgiving break and this. Is what I'm using
for that. I'll let you know how it turns. Out on Thursday night. Knives.
But the gorgeous three Dog Knife Champions blade
designed by Trevor Barrett and made.
By three Dog Knife. Super awesome knife and
a gorgeous. And by the way, I am warming
up to the desert can. All right, next up, you've seen this
one a bunch of time, thousand times. Since we
started this show. But I think my
arguably the most beautiful folding tanto blade
here is the Riat K2 gorgeous deep
hollow ground S35VN blade. Hollow ground. That is
until you get to the tip where it's nice and flat ground. And then
you have that gorgeous swedge running nearly running
the perfect length of the. Of the spine of the blade,
meaning they leave you a little bit of room for that jimping
and for more. Of a flat to put your thumb on. A
perfect EDC tanto blade. And yeah, it's pretty upswept.
As a matter of fact, the tip is higher than the spine.
Uh, but I gotta say, I've never had any issues with using this knife
in a utility fashion. That curved forward portion
is great for rocking, rocking
on a surface. If you have to cut stuff like this, which I've done
plenty of times with string
and you call it paracord. This one, of course, has the
beautiful contoured titanium handle with the
sort of dragon scale pattern on that.
I love this knife. I'm so lucky to have this knife because I
know a lot of people want this knife. Joker is no longer doing their
exclusive versions of this. So this is a hard knife to find at this point.
Such a great knife. This was my first knife. It.
I thought it was my first nice. On ball bearings, but I had
the. SOCOM Elite before this and that had ball bearings to
no fanfare. You know, when ball bearings became ubiquitous.
Ubiquitous. People are like, oh, ball bearings, yeah. Well,
Microtech was doing it. A good old American company was doing it
without any fanfare. And I respect them greatly for that.
Second to last. The or
penultimate one of my favorite. Words sat words from
back in the day. This is the Civivi Synergy
4.4meaning this is the synergy with the 4 inch blade.
I think this is one of the coolest tantos ever.
It really does swoop down and put that point in the center line of
the. Of the blade. It does have a belly to it, but it's also
downward facing. So you get a lot of shearing power from that
straight edge. It's a nice thin blade. So the
fact that it's all flat ground doesn't
have any effect other than devastating on the
cutting power of this. It's got this cool. This was
designed by a. A knife
designer. DeYoung is his last name. I'm forgetting his first
name. I wanted to say Dennis, but that's. The guy from Sticks.
Oh, Young. It's. It's O. Young. The last name. Oh,
apostrophe Young. It's Irish, I guess. But anyway, you got
this radiating circular pattern coming from
the pivot. This has become my
blade show knife. This is the knife I travel with to blade
show. Oh, there it is right there.
Oh, yum. Really great knife.
Since I got rid of my my. Previous
blade show folder, this has become my blade show folder. I carry
it with me until I get something else and then I replace it. But this
is a great, great. This would be an awesome
tactical knife if you had to fight with a folder
a liner lock. This would be an awesome one to do it with. But
other than that, makes for a great utility knife.
Flipper only. And
outstanding. Beautiful knife.
14C 28N is the blade steel on this one.
All right, last up. I couldn't do a list like this without
mentioning cold steel. And this one is
really based on their original master
Tanto. But this One is the Tanto 12. So you have a
12 inch version of their Tanto with the hollow ground.
Main grind and then the flat ground tip.
I love where they come Together you get that beautiful arc. Super
sharp, incredibly strong at the point because you
have the full rigidity of the blade
up to that point. But as you may see here, right where the
light meets the shadow, you can see that this is also
a san, my blade. So let's see if we
can. You can see a line just north of
the edge line. That's where the.
Where the. What kind of kind of steel is it? I guess it's
VG10 meeting a 420 jacket come together.
So you get the super hard steel on the cutting edge and then
you have the softer steel on the spine so it doesn't break
when you're swinging this into armor or anything
else you might need to cut with this gorgeous 12 inch
blade. Yep. Comes with the standard
secure X sheath, which when I got it, did
not hold on very well. And then I was cooking
some sauce and had this right next to the stove just
accidentally because I'm a nerd like that. And apparently
that was enough to heat up this portion of the
sheath and make it stick around the
guard well enough that it has much better retention.
Ever since cooking with it. So there you go. All
right. So that's been my list of the coolest Ponto blades. I
got plenty of tanto blades here. And I think they're all cool, naturally.
But I really wanted to go for the ones that strike a slightly different
cord. For this list, tell me what your favorite tantos
are. I always want to know that kind of stuff, what you guys are into.
It always inspires me to get newer, other, cooler stuff.
So there you have it. Be sure to join us again, like I said,
for Thursday night Knives. I want to meet you, I want to talk with you.
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