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[0:00]Coming up, a new Pinkerton prototype, a Fisher-Blades Beckwith trainer, and these knives should be in horror movies. I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie Podcast. Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast, your weekly dose of knife news and information about knives and knife collecting. Here's your host, Bob the Knife Junkie DeMarco. Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week was from Dan Eterios, and it was on a video that I cryptically titled Crushing Ennui with the V44X Bowie or The Long Journey to Breakfast. And really what it was was me sitting down, trying to start a fire and eventually doing so with my V44X Bowie and kind of using it as a therapy session and discussing my ennui, my creeping sense of dissatisfaction.
[0:57]And Dan Eterio says, When you split the wood so close to your foot, I know, it reminded me of the one time where I hit my shin with a big splitting axe. My buddy put a very gnarly piece of wood on the block. I wanted to chop it in half with one swing, so I measured the distance with the axe and went for the swing in one go. The axe glanced off the wood And the side of the axe had hit my shin It was so fast, I couldn't even see it coming Long story short Be careful when you swing some big pieces of steel around Well Dan Eterios I hear you 100% And when I was watching it back.
[1:34]It's funny, watching it back before I uploaded it, I was like, oh, I kind of didn't, you know, I was just sitting there doing it and recording it. But when I saw the recording of it, it reminded me of my brother almost chopped his leg off with a big piece of steel. So, yes, absent mindedness is bad and wrong around sharp things. I almost did myself in a moment ago. It happens all the time with an unsheathed Pinkerton prototype, which we'll take a look at in a moment. Thanks for the comments, Dan Eterios, and a lot of people commented on that video. I got a lot of helpful, hey, get this kind of thing for fire starting. Get this kind of thing. Don't swing steel close to your foot. I got a lot of really helpful tidbits and hints from people. Thank you. Thank you for not calling me out for being a total noob. Out in the wilderness, it was fun. It was a fun video. All right. That said, let's get to a pocket check. What's in his pocket? Let's find out.
[2:40]Here's the knife junkie with his pocket check of knives. In my pocket today and every day since I got it is the new Civivi Sentinel Strike 2. The Sentinel Strike 2. You might remember the one. The Sentinel Strike 1 has that really cool Wharncliffe blade Well this has a really cool drop point blade One of the coolest on record I'll say it, I'll say it It's got a compound grind With a main hollow portion Down here.
[3:11]Uh, hollow, very hollow and hollow, very thin and quite hollow. And then you can see the transition with this, this, uh, reaching arc here. And it transitions to that flat up at the tip. A nice swedge here going all the way to the back. Excellent jimping. You've got thumb studs, you've got flipper, and then you've got the same exact frame as the original Sentinel strike with the wharncliffe blade. You have that integral back strap there that kind of goes, well, it doesn't kind of go over. It goes from one side to the other. It comprises half of the handle on one side, the full backspacer, and then half the handle on the other. The rest is aluminum. So pretty sturdy knife and has a great spine-whackable button lock. I was using this outside and did some fatwood, a little bit of fatwood cutting. I wanted to get some super tiny little curls, and this delivered. And the funny thing is, is I look at this knife and I think, total modern chores, but it was nice to carve with.
[4:22]Truly a pleasure to carve with this. And with that aluminum handle, I really felt like it was, I don't know, a pretty solid knife to be using. Now, if that were FRN, it would still, you know, if this were a bug out with the cheesiest of FRN handles, and by cheesy, I just mean kind of thin, it would still feel pretty solid. But this aluminum, right on. I love it. I love aluminum handles, knives, and I'm a huge fan of the Sentinel Strike and now the Sentinel Strike 2. I might even be a bigger fan of this than the original. Gotta say, I love that blade. And actually looking at it right there, it looks kind of like a shark. Yeah.
[5:00]That's what I see. All right. Next up, I see a bionic jack. This is the bionic jack, the new one from Jack Wolf Knives, the new one as I speak to you here at the end of October 2024. This was their October knife. And the bionic is based on the cyborg jack. And the cyborg jack is Mr. Ben Belkin's original design. I'm going to put a piece of paper under here. It's kind of a dirty piece of paper, but it's a piece of paper to show you the exact and angular contours of that handle. That is all Ben Belkin. He wanted a curved sort of handle for those ergonomics, but he put those straight angles on, and, man, it is very, very comfortable. This is a large version at one and a quarter inches long. I say large, the original Cyborg Jack has a just under 3-inch blade, and then they recently released the mini Cyborg Jack, which had a 2.5-inch blade, I believe, or 2.25-inch blade, kind of the same size as the Little Bro. Great, great knife They have Jack Wolf Knives has proved themselves With this format In this format, this is a bolster lock So, integrated Frame.
[6:28]I'm sorry, integrated Titanium bolsters and liners Here, full back frame There, to make it look I'm sorry, full backspacer here To make it look more like a slip joint Jumping on the blade, that really beautiful Sort of California clip, with a very high sharpening choil. Excellent action. Really nice access to the lock bar. Great flicker. I've been using this a lot with my left hand. I've been carrying it in my back left pocket. Beautiful, beautiful carbon fiber.
[7:01]There's another one, another iteration of this that's stunning with the black blade and the real dark titanium with the red carbon fiber. Much like the Venom Jack I got a few months back that I was always waxing poetic about. It looks like an artifact. It really does, I swear. Well, they have that whole beautiful new colorway available on the bionic. Okay, next up, my fixed blade knife was the Nova 2. The Nova 2, these are now in process with Mr. Matt Chase at Hogtooth Knives. Just one of my favorite knives to carry, period. I love the format. The format comes from his Tanto. So his EDC Tanto had the same handle, obviously different blades. So we did this one, and we did the Nova 1, the recurve Bowie, last year on this same platform. I was saying format. You know what I mean. Same platform, super comfortable handle.
[8:03]Matt's hands are much bigger than mine, and this fits his hand really well. Well, as the designer and originator of that handle, you would imagine it would. And it fits my hand really well, too. Great in reverse grip. I love this thing in reverse grip. This is how I've been carrying it pretty much in the 3 o'clock. It depends on what knife I'm carrying, whether I'm carrying it up front or in the 3 o'clock position. I know that combatives people will say, you have to wear it in the same place every time and preferably the same knife. And I would agree with you, but I'm not getting into knife fights, thank God. Knock on wood and thank God. I don't know. Thank God first. Yeah, it's like Trusting God to tie up your camel So.
[8:55]Those of you who have ordered this You can expect it They're done, they just started So it'll be a while We're looking at Christmas time Alright, next up is my emotional support knife My ESK, oh and by the way Thank you to those who ordered I didn't mean to just make light of the fact That you have to wait longer to get that But we kept the pre-order open a while And, uh, so, but he's working on them now. Uh, and this is the Ledak from Fred Perrin and France's Max Knive. Uh, really cool little dagger, uh, comes with nothing on the handle, just a raw handle for you to put slabs on or to leave super discreet. I kind of went halfway and put, uh.
[9:41]Jute the jute cord on there uh that's why i got this i like knives with jute cord handles and uh this was very inexpensive i love fred perrin's uh stuff and i love max knives stuff i have uh well four of them now and this dagger is sweet it's pretty inexpensive it's 440c uh so you know it's not going to be your favorite outdoors go-to knife but that's not why you're buying this. This one, actually, there were portions of the day where I could not really have my Nova 2 because it got unexpectedly warm, unexpectedly by me because I didn't check the weather. So at times, I had to take the Nova 2 out of my belt, but this was always hanging around my neck.
[10:27]This is a great knife. It hangs light. It's pretty big for, this is definitely on the outside of what I will neck carry, but it's so thin and light that it's pretty easy. Plus, my daughter made me this braided leather thing to wear a thing, braided leather necklace to wear it on. So it's got a nice broad sort of, it's got a lot of surface area, so it doesn't annoy you. I feel like oftentimes neck knives are annoying around the neck because there's, you know, surface area to wait. It's not good enough. It feels like you're being garroted. But this right here works great. So this is what I had on me. What did you have on you? I had a wharncliffe, a dagger, a bowie, and a drop point. Let me know what blade shapes you had on you. And, of course, give me the specifics. That matters to me. It matters to everyone who's here anyway. So that's what we got, putting this away. Next up, we have knife life news. But before we get there, I want to remind you that we will have another Knife Junkie giveaway, Gentleman Junkie giveaway, in November.
[11:41]We'll give you the date. We'll get you the date.
[11:44]I always get thrown off by Thanksgiving. We do not have that knife ready yet. I'm not sure what it's going to be, but it'll be sweet. We got some sweetness to live up to here, so it'll be good. If you want to get involved in that, just go to theknifejunkie.com slash Patreon. See what we have to offer there, or you can scan that QR code right on the screen. A couple of different tiers of support, and one of those is the Gentleman Junkie. You can check in here every third Thursday of the month at Thursday Night Knives for your Gentleman Junkie Dice giveaway. All right. Coming up, we got Knife Life News. Adventure delivered. Your monthly subscription for hand-picked outdoor, survival, EDC, and other cool gear from our expert team of outdoor professionals. TheKnifeJunkie.com slash BattleBox. You're listening to the Knife Junkie Podcast. And now here's the Knife Junkie with the Knife Life News. There is a really cool new one from Best Tech. First of all, I love Best Tech. They're definitely one of the best OEMs out there for folding knives, for sure. But they also have a lot of great things under their own shingle. And this is a collaboration with a new talent, very, I guess, a young and new knife maker named James Arnold from Horizon Machine Works. And James, if you're just new to the scene and not young, I just gave you your youth back. Anyway, this one is called the Best Tech Plastic.
[13:12]The Clastic. Last week, we had the Practisk. This week, we have the Clastic.
[13:19]Some of these names, I'll tell you. They just keep me coming back for more okay so the clastic is a beautiful knife look at that blade this reminds me a little bit just a little bit of the gus chichini uh designed zero zero five five from zero tolerance uh you know years back i guess at least 10 years back i said some qualities this thing is beautiful it's actually a center point uh heavily modified wharncliffe or heavily modified reverse tanto who knows who knows what it is uh but when i say center point what i mean is that point is a center line if you look at the uh the tip of the pommel the pivot and then the point they're all in a straight line so why am i saying that well you see a lot of angles and curves uh i so knowing that that point is right at the center uh you won't be thrown off by the rather stealth and batman look at this thing i gotta say like it's very infrequent to me that something with curves like organic curves match up nicely with something that's very angular we've seen two already so maybe i need to change my theory uh the bionic jack has the curves in the blade and then the angles in the handle well this has the angles in the blade and the curves in the handle.
[14:42]And man, I think they work. It works on both of them. Anyway, I like this one a lot. 3.64 inches.
[14:52]What is this? Oh, okay. This is S35VN blade steel titanium. I'm sorry, S90V. I'm looking at the wrong notes. S90V titanium frame lock with a sculpted clip. It also has nice chamfering around it and, of course, the branded Pivot, which I love. Front flipper and a thumb stud. Quite a beauty. It's 4.66 ounces and available now. So go check that out if it tickles your fancy. That's the Class Stick from Best Tech.
[15:26]Next up, and this is something I love. I mention this from time to time. Three of our four stories are collaboration stories with makers and designers and great companies. And that is everyone's bread and butter these days, and I love it. I love that kind of collaboration. This week, three out of four, pretty good. It's usually four out of four, interestingly enough. This week, it's WeKnife and Gavco. Michael Gavick of Gavco Knives has a new old design called the epaulet. This is a take on his classic spinner model, which is, again, a modified, I'm not sure, modified, we'll call it reverse, tanto with a super belly. And it's a flipper with a hole, a blade hole. But look at that big belly. This thing is, I don't know, I think it's pretty beautiful. It's pretty, I don't know, universally appealing. It's got a pointy blade, so you can stab it into stuff. But also, it looks utilitarian.
[16:28]It's got that long, sweeping belly. It looks like you could use it in fishing. I know Michael Gavick, at least he used to talk about fishing a lot, and a lot of his blades are named after sharks. So it looks like he could use it for all sorts of purposes like that. Sculpted titanium handle and clip. I love the knurling on the handle. It reminds me of a, um, boat deck or a ferry deck slipper hole. As I mentioned, 3.5 ounces, not available yet, but, uh.
[17:01]Excited because this was just shown in prototype form at Blade Show West. And we know that, well, Michael Gavick and we have a great history of collaboration. Next up is from Real Steel. Real Steel. Remember that movie, Real Steel, about the fighting robots? I never saw it, but Real Steel. This is the knife company. They have a new baby Barlow out. It's a little pint-sized cutter. That's right. It's a pint-sized cutter. It looks just like a Barlow, only smaller. It's got a 1.69-inch Warncliffe blade of 12C28N. And here that looks white.
[17:40]But it is a silver, metal, metallic version, and plain Jane, so to speak. And then a black version there. 1.69-inch, I mentioned that, Warncliffe. Classic Barlow with the one-third bolster there. And then it's got a bale. that bale is removable um check this out 0.72 ounces 0.72 ounces obviously would make a great keychain knife and if you're going to get one for your keychain i would recommend the black because it'll wear against your keys pretty quickly and look like you've had it for years and look really cool uh but anyway that's the real steel baby barlow an appealing little sucker and i gotta say.
[18:23]I wanted to mention that the nail neck here is a little through hole positioned near the very crest of that blade spine, giving you an area to pinch it for that to grab the fat of your thumb and forefinger. Very, very cool little blade. All right. Lastly, Artisan Cutlery and Dirk Pinkerton. You hear me talk about him all the time. I love his stuff. This has been one of my favorite knives since he sent it to me well this is hitting the shelves this is the artisan cutlery homie it is now available it's it was uh recently released and uh, I thought it was released when I got it, but I was wrong. That's how in the inside I am.
[19:11]Ordinarily, I'm on the outside looking in. But right here, I got this one earlier. I love it. I love this. One of my favorite knives ever. 3.74 inches in this case, S35VN. It also comes in S90V. I know that that is a big favored steel of girth. I have one of his prototypes for the standoff, which is an amazing Warncliffe that you've seen me show here, Warncliffe Folder, S90V. He loves that steel. This is the S90V version right here that Jim just put up. And it looks rather nice with that maroon background. You can really see the contours of this thing. The handle brackets so nicely and handles broad chamfers, that's another sort of Pinkerton signature, really make the whole thing feel contoured, which is great because you get the best of both worlds. You get the sort of contour luxury feel, but you get the utility of the flat sides. This thing is not turning in your hand due to excessive comfort. It's just a comfortable thing to hold on to, and the chamfers make it even better. It is based on the Kukri design.
[20:23]We could just look at that picture Jim had up, but it's based on the Kukri design with that downward angled spine and deep belly in the recurve. But, of course, it's also a mix-up. It's a, what do they call it, a mix-up, a mash-up. Because Kirk Pinkerton is big into that, mashing up design elements from different historical periods and different ethnographic signature designs. This one, though, is heavily Kukri-influenced, and Kami, K-A-M-I, refers to the makers of Kukris. They're called Kami's. K-A-M-I, not C-O-M-I-E. so very excited about this 3.74 inches that's the blade length flipper and thumb disc oh what I wanted to mention right here on the S90V that Jim had up there we can't see the reverse side but that reverse that sculpted clip is Tymascus on the fancy pants one the S90V also very very cool and quite excited about that, alright still to come we have the state of the collection and then we're going to get into a subject matter that's very important, especially this time of year, and that's that these knives should be in horror movies. But before we get there, I want to tell you about LaunchCard, because many of you are knife makers. Many of you have things to sell online.
[21:52]Many of you may have had trouble with some of the shopping cart companies, but LaunchCard is like a full sales company.
[22:01]What do you call it? It's like the American Shopify alternative. They will not care what you're selling as long as it's legal. Knives are legal, of course, but I know that people have had some issues with Shopify in selling knives and moving knives. So if you are that person and you have issues with a Canadian company telling you what you can and cannot do, I love our Canadian brothers and sisters, but some of the laws seem wacky. We got them too. Check out LaunchCard. And you can go to theknifejunkie.com slash launch, as Jim put up there, and check it out. It will help you through the process, and it's not going to hector you and nag you. And, well, that's good for you. All right, coming up, the State of the Collection. The Shockwave Tactical Torch is your ultimate self-defense companion, featuring a powerful LED bulb that lasts 100,000 hours, a super sharp, crenulated bezel, and a built-in stun gun delivering 4.5 million volts. Don't settle for ordinary. Choose the Shockwave Tactical Torch. TheKnifeJunkie.com slash Shockwave. And now that we're caught up with Knife Life news, let's hear more of the Knife Junkie podcast. So you know the Beckwith Covert from Fisher Blade Company. Fisher Brothers, two awesome dudes making really cool knives.
[23:24]This is their first one working together as the new Fisher Blades. We've talked about this knife a lot, both with the Fishers themselves and also just here showing it off. Well, they were kind enough to send me one of their new trainers.
[23:41]And here it is. And that beautiful training blue. You're never going to mistake this for the real thing, but it feels like the real thing. And actually, it's got a little less weight because it's aluminum, but it doesn't have bevels carved into it. So it comes pretty darn close. But the feel, the feel is excellent. And it's very exciting to have a trainer for a knife that is definitely intended as a self-defense knife, as a last-ditch fighting implement. Most people think of knives as last-ditch. And this is ready to go right out of your pocket in this drop-clip sheath. So this is the knife. This is the trainer.
[24:29]And it goes right in the sheath. It doesn't fit exactly. You can tell. I mean, you can just feel an ever-so-slight difference. But for training purposes, it's 100% good to go. You just might not want to run a full marathon with it. It might work its way out. Actually, I take that back because as I look at this, I remember right here, there is a screw with a rubber ring in there. You can compress it by tightening the screw and make it form fit tighter. If I loosen that a little, it will go in there. It will go in there all the way. I mean, it goes in there all the way, but it'll have a different feel. I can adjust the feel of this when I'm training to feel like this. So I'm going to do a video with a bob dummy. First, I'm going to have to practice so I don't look like a total, total babe in the woods, you know, like I did in my fire starting video. Well, I've done a lot more training in, you know, martial arts knife stuff than I have in throwing sparks and making fire. So hopefully I don't make a total fool of myself. But I'm going to show off how this is used ideally and, you know, how it's used against the Bob dummy.
[25:43]And can't wait. This is the trainer from Fisher Brothers. Fisher Blades. It's Fisher Blades, officially, not Fisher Brothers. But this thing is awesome. And the Beckwith Covert is pretty damn sweet, too. I got two of them, and I hate to brag, but I'm going to, just for a quick second. I have this one, and then I have the Unicorn Edition, which is so cool. Unicorn Editions are runs they put out where they change the colors. This one has a gray blade with white liners. It's stunning. Actually, I was wearing the t-shirt that came with it the other day. The girls like it because it's got a pink unicorn on it.
[26:27]All right, so next up, this is from Dirk Pinkerton. Let me see if I can get a little more light. There we go. A little more light here to show off the colors on this handle. This is so cool. This is an incredible, beautiful little gem jewel of a knife from Dirk Pinkerton. It's a prototype that has been picked up by Concept.
[26:49]And incidentally, they are also working on a folding, little folding version of this. But it is a great melt-in-the-hand utility knife that I dare say could very elegantly transition into a self-defense knife. It's like a mini Yojimbo in the blade shape, if you will, or I guess it has the same sort of qualities. And if you think a Yojimbo, which is pretty small, has self-defense qualities, which it obviously does, This little charmer, this little utility knife, this little, you know, carry it to any work site, any job you have with that colorful, cheerful handle and that totally utilitarian looking knife blade. You could have this in your pocket. Use it all day long. No one will look at you sideways. At least I don't think. Maybe I'm in my own echo chamber, but I don't think they will. And so I really, really, really like this because it would make an excellent.
[27:51]Very close-in defensive weapon if you needed it to. And I'm always thinking that way because that's just how I think. But you're not going to be using it for that, thank God. You're going to be using it to cut open boxes and stuff. And it will not only do that job with aplomb, but it will lighten the spirit with that beautiful Mexican blanket G-Carta. Oh, I love that. Man, that's gorgeous. Actually, I don't know if that's G.L. Hanson & Son, G. Carta, or not, but I love the Mexican blanket look here. It is fantastic. There's Dirk's Maker's Mark.
[28:24]BP, bro. And it's got this really nice jimping that goes all the way up. It's really good. Set up for, I guess you could do neck carry. This, I would not do neck carry, personally. I would do this. In the pocket.
[28:39]Love this knife. Thanks to Dirk for sending this to me to check out. I will have it, and then I will send it back. That was so noncommittal. All right, so here is a new one that I've been using a lot. This is the BPS Knives Fin Light. BPS Knives, they're the father-son team out of Ukraine, and they just kind of hit right before the war started, if I recall correctly. Uh they sent me something and they sent a bunch of other uh knife fluencers knife guys uh different knives uh i don't know was it 2023 2022 and um and then that war hit and i was like oh damn but they seem to have been flourishing uh beautiful leather sheath on this by the way um.
[29:31]I bought this on Amazon. Okay, so this is the FinLight, and it is 1066 blade steel. It can throw sparks with the 90-degree spine. It's got a Scandi grind that I'm seeing under the light. I must have divoted whilst jacking around with it in the dark, building fires the other night. I see it now. I see it, but I'll get rid of that. It doesn't matter. this is an inexpensive work knife but man how did I put that in there? I must have somehow dropped it because it looks like a hit metal with it, it does come with totally raw handles, I did a real slapdash job putting some stain on this, I was in a rush I took these things off I didn't take my time, but that's alright it's got a sort of used look anyway and I'm not going to recode it I'm just going to kind of let it go and see what happens with this knife. I like it a lot. Small utility, great sheath. Kind of drop it in the pocket or it's set up for ulti clips or DCC clips here on the side. So I might do that for pocket carry, but I just really like this for carving and kind of the whittling and outdoor kind of stuff I'm doing in my backyard as I do the, you know, the fire making stuff and trying to become, look.
[31:00]I want to do some camping when it gets hospitable out. I'm starting to accumulate stuff from friends and new equipment, and I look forward to that. And knives are a great place to test out knives. Here's one that really has me green with envy.
[31:18]This has been drop shipped to me by Jock's Knife. Jock, love you. Thank you, sir, for passing this through me before I send it to you. This is the Turner CNC Djinn. And it's basically a modern yatagan. It looks like a Turkish yatagan to me, or some sort of, you know, arabesque knife. Just beautiful with that sweeping curve, that upward sweep. Yeah, to me, most resembles a yatagan. So maybe Arab is not the right word, but arabesque is also a term meaning curvy. And kind of has that sort of curviness. Okay, all right, let me get serious here. This back is so close to sharp, but that's an unsharpened swedge. You can get it sharpened if you want, but I don't think it would take jock too long to get that thing ready to go if you wanted to. Beautiful curved blade. I'm not sure what this is made out of. Oh, this one is Magna Cut. Sorry, I do know. These are both Magna Cut, the two I'm going to show you. It's got a cool little Marking up here I'm not sure if that's the maker's mark Of another designer I'm pretty sure that this is a Turner CNC design But I'm not sure Or if that means Gin in.
[32:44]Whatever Arabic, whatever language that might be. Beautiful, beautiful curves on this knife. These are really hard to come by and hard to find out anything about, and I would love to have Mr. Turner CNC on the show. I think his work is beautiful. I invited him on a while ago. We'll try again and see. Maybe he'll be up for it. But a beautiful bowie knife, and then he's got that little EDC bowie, And he's got this beautiful gin and this thing, the Adobado. Adobada. I say Adobada. Adobada. So a 3D printed sheath, by the way. Really cool. Pretty sturdy. Look at this thing. Yikes. It's a self-defense chef's knife, basically.
[33:34]Coming in at like 5 3⁄4 inches. you've got really grippy knurled and pyramid shaped, G10 that just sticks to the hand where this is nice and smooth on the gin this is like death grip sticky, death grip grippy, very thin blade with just a scandy grind at the very end and it is just sickeningly sharp this thing would just be a terrifying weapon to come up against. It's got this little signature divot here you can see the sneak reaper logo there, with the sneak reaper skeleton with the LV a knife in his hand and here you have the signature divot of Ed Calderon Ed Calderon of Ed's manifesto he uh.
[34:32]All of the knives he uses kind of has that divot and the knives he designs. The LVAs, all the different LVAs made by all the different people, including Turner CNC. And then like the Tops, El Pioneero, that also has that divot. And it's to index. When you feel that divot, when you have it in reverse grip, you know that the edge is in. So it's just a way to index the knife. You could also tell by feeling this, but hey, if you're actually using this in a combative way, any sort of indicator, any sort of familiar tactile indicator to tell you how your knife is oriented would be welcome.
[35:09]All right. Thank you, Jock, again, for letting me check these out. They're so cool. Like I said, they make me jealous. I guess I said envious, but jealous is a little better. It makes me jealous, that's all. Okay, last up is the Schrade. This I forgot I ordered. I ordered this in the thin light At.
[35:30]One in the morning It was after a Thursday night I was trying to fall asleep I'm laying next to my wife And I kind of got the light And then I forgot all about it And then it shows up I'm like what is this Who got me this I'm so popular Oh it was me But this is the decimate The decimate From Schrade It is so cool, It is so cool It is such a beautiful machete and I think it's, let's see, this is designed by someone named Joshua Wagner. Joshua Wagner, I believe he's done some stuff with tops, but just an astoundingly cool bolo shape blade with that deep recurve, the big belly, a total straight spine, it's got a swedge cut into it on the back just for weight reduction, I suppose. Also, if you hit something with that, sort of reminds me of a bone breaker on the back of the knife. And then you've got this handle that's very sort of Filipino and also reminds me of an axe handle. It's just got that widened pommel so that it resists centrifugal force as you're whipping this thing around, vanquishing your foes be they Virginia creeper and grapevine or zombies and.
[36:44]Other type of vermin. So yeah, this is a very cool one, the Decimate. I actually saw this on Cali Americanos one of his videos he's an extremely badass talented knife combatives guy.
[37:02]And bowie knife man amazing to watch him but he uses one of these machetes and I was like what is that have to have it, so I made sure that I ordered it in an unguarded moment late late at night you can do that yourself too, that's the way to go.
[37:21]Okay, well, let us get into these knives that should be in horror movies. I put horror in brackets, in parentheses, but really that's what I mean. If you're listening to this on the day it's dropping, we're right here at Halloween. This is Halloween, and I want to show you some of the knives that are kind of the scariest to me. Scary and creepy.
[37:47]Here's the first one. This is the only folder of the group. And it is the Lynn Thompson Signature Series Tie Light Criss, 6-inch Criss. This thing to me, just with that serpentine Criss blade, is just so menacing and creepy looking. And this in particular, now some Criss blades have sort of a straight medial ridge, and then just kind of the rest of it waves around it. But this has such a serpentine sort of waviness to it. It reminds me a lot of the Malaysian prises that were thinner and wavier. And it's just creepy and menacing. And then you've got the downward hook there. So in reality, you're doing tons of damage with this knife, whether you're slashing and getting the bread knife effect and then ending with the hawkbill or just slashing with the tip or thrusting with this, making that ever-widening hole with those waves. And by the way, these are super sharp. And if you wanted to make this extra menacing for the horror movie, you get the serrated version of this. And then you're really, really well-equipped to be a villain. All right, next up, this one is from...
[39:09]Rib Splitter from Rib Splitter Blade Works. We had him on the show. Great dude making some really cool and interesting knives. He drops them weekly on Sunday. He'll do some picals. I think he earned his bones, made his bones on picals, but he's kind of exploring a lot of other cool knife shapes too. But this is the Draug. And it just turns out, just ends up, that Draug is, I believe he said it was a zombie, like an undead thing from Norse mythology. Now I'm not remembering. I'm pretty sure that's what it is, right? Or is it Russian? Someone let me know. I know someone in the comments knows because you guys are all 100 times smarter. So please put it in the comments. What is a Draug again? But yeah it's like some sort of a zombie from some culture can't remember what it is but undead and so that's incidental of course but just to look at it, he does these really cool mustard sort of finishes where different things but he I know he uses mustard and some other corrosive.
[40:26]Corrosive what's the word mediums that he puts on there spreads on there during and after heat treat and it eats away at it and gives it a sort of old look and i love the old look and then he's got that uh logo that looks kind of like a brand that you might see on a horse or something so very very cool smooth handle really comfortable in hand Just a devastating weapon, obviously. A weapon of last resort. And a weapon of caveman energy. When you've got fewer adrenaline pumping through your veins, this is the kind of thing you want on you. But imagine this in the hands of a villain. I'm going to go over here to this camera just to show. It's ugly looking. I mean, it looks scary looking. You know, you could really... See a villain go into town with this. Okay, you get it. All right. Imagine Freddy Krueger with one knife. All right. So here is the next one. This one is the Cortada. This is from Fox Knives Italy and Doug Mark Haida. And it's got the look. It is a horror movie knife to me.
[41:44]Even, you know, even though sort of mysterious markings in the handle, I guess, lend to that a little bit, but just the look of this with that horrifying point and that downward edge, it's a total menace. It's got sort of what the Kukri has in terms of an exotic shape. You'll see a lot of exotic shapes in this list because that's part of the uniqueness of a villain. Either it's a kitchen knife, something taken out of a block, and that anonymousness is scary, or it's something totally unique like the cortada or the chris where it's like this is what i prefer to be a bad guy with i've been a bad guy so long i've settled on this shape this is the best shape you know for being a bad guy with a knife uh to me this seems like the seems like the sidearm of a villain um or in some hands of course a hero but uh it just has that scary scary look and then i I got to say, the jimping on the back, which is less for thumb and more for trapping. This is for trapping limbs or what have you of your opponent. If you're in close, and of course you are with a knife, you can do a lot of stuff where you're trapping that person's arm between your arm and those jimps, especially if it's in reverse grip.
[43:07]But it looks like a saw blade. So it just looks like added pain there. And you'll notice on knives, like, you remember the movie Cobra with Sylvester Stallone, the bad guy's knife, and Cobra? It was so ridiculous, but it followed that same sort of logic. Like, the more curves and the more spikes coming out of the most inconvenient places, the more scary it looks. And to me, this just looks like a scary kind of thing, like a very scary kind of thing to be wielded.
[43:43]I'm thinking, like, who would wield something like that? What kind of a bad guy?
[43:46]Well, you know, I don't see a Freddy. I don't see a Jason Voorhees or a Michael carrying that. I see more of a Korean zombie or an Asian zombie, Filipino zombie carrying that. All right. I'm going to. Okay. I'm not a horror movie expert, so maybe you guys need to tell me what movie that would be in. It is something that's creepy, though. To me, this is a creepy knife. This is the Backbite by Topps. It's like, what are you going to do with that? Good Lord. And this is a knife designed for, oh, by Despins, C. Despins. And it's designed for close-in fighting in a Russian system of fighting. I'm not sure if it's Systema knife fighting or just some Russian form of knife fighting. But that hook on the front is sharp up here and at the point, and that's for, like, sort of punching, and then you've got all this nasty action back here for your Pakal-style attack. But it's confusing and exotic and scary, you know, pointy, curvy, slashy, and scary. I think the extra elements, you know, in watches, they call them complications. Like extra dials or the date or whatever it is. They're called complications.
[45:14]They're sort of like any complication in a knife will make it look scarier because oh my god, what's that for? What are you going to do with that really oblique pointy end? Where are you going to push that?
[45:29]That's what I get out of this knife, the top's backbite. This next one reminds me of Stone Tomahawk, which is a really cool movie. It's sort of a horror western to me. That's what I would call it, a horror western. But this is the kind of knife a bad guy has in that kind of movie. It is a giant. This is the Svord von Hemsky Bowie. And something you got to do in movies is be big. Things have to play large especially props but they can play too large like if you look at the remake of Conan the Barbarian.
[46:11]With Jason Momoa all the swords are playing too large they all look like those big plastic He-Man swords from the 80s and 90s, they did a terrible job on the weapons in that movie but that said they do have to read the weapons do have to read they are props and in reality they're relatively small compared to the person and the horse and the set and everything else. So you got to make them big. This one looks like Bowie from a mile away. You got the big blade with the gentle taper to the ricasso, big clip there and a big shiny part that designates the sharp area. That to me is what takes the cake. Like you see that and you know that that's the sharp part. Even people who don't know a thing about knives like, oh, that looks real sharp because look at how big the sharp part is. It's all shiny and silver. Yeah, ready to do damage. Big and heavy. Flane. That's another thing. It's not too ornate. You can go ornate like with the Chris, and it's like this guy has spent a lot of time curating his killing tools, or it's a dude who doesn't care. He just likes to kill, and this thing is, you know, fine. It's got a wooden handle. Look, it fits in the hand just fine. I just pick it up, go do my horror stuff.
[47:31]So yeah, the Svord Vontemsky-Boey you can see in a movie, I can see in a movie like Stone Tomahawk or any sort of country, kind of the hills have eyes, something like that.
[47:43]Yeah. Leather sheath, by the way. But, of course, it would have to be made out of...
[47:50]All right, next up. This is the only non-knife in the list. And you probably saw it before. But this is the Backripper. This is the Backripper Tomahawk from Wingard Wearables. It just is weird looking. All right? You know it's a Tomahawk, but, geez, what the hell kind of a Tomahawk is that? But it's got that weird specialized look, kind of like the back bite from Pops I was just showing. You know, you recognize it as a weapon. You recognize it as a tomahawk. But I have never seen a tomahawk like that. And what's with that curve? What could you do with that curve? Like you have this curve, which is obviously going to be sharpened on the inside. And this point, which can gouge into anything and tear mercilessly. But why that curve? Well, you know, it's to get you on even another dimension. In reality, it's to form fit to your body so that you can wear it in your pants, legs, and have this, in its Tidex carry system, conform to your rounded body. But you don't have to know that in the movies. Look at that. This is cutting on four dimensions. You know, that's just like a nasty. And then it's the hooking part. I'm going to go wide here, Jim. It's this right here. Hmm.
[49:08]And then, of course, you have that chopping head, which is angled at such a position that it takes advantage of that arcing motion, that arcing angle, landing that small one and three quarters inch sharpened blade exactly on where it needs to go. So that angle, which looks kind of funny, really puts that in a devastating position. And then you've got that nasty looking hook. So definitely a thing of horror. And I would pair this with the next two knives, actually. The next one is, and I rarely, rarely, if ever, do this. But this is one that I actually made. This was a few years back. This is my Road Warrior knife. I'll show it in the sheath because I'm proud of the sheath. But this thing is just a big wharncliffe. It was a scrap knife, a pretty substantial scrap, But it did have a big divot here So I couldn't make a straight knife.
[50:08]So I ended up making this kind of thing. And I frankly forgot I had this. I need to start integrating this. I really like this thing. This is AEBL, and I left the heat treat scale on it. And this was hardened by Alex Steingraber years ago, actually. Now, he did that, and it took me a long time to actually put handles on it. Jute wrapped it. It is a... So why horror movie for this? First of all, it looks like something someone put together, like I did. And it looks like something that someone put together for a grim purpose. You know, I just need something. It doesn't have to be pretty. And I want to handle that. It doesn't slip out of my hands when it's soaked and slick.
[50:56]And also, if I don't have to work too much by bending my wrist, I'd really love to thrust just straight into whatever I'm cutting and not have to do much work. So uh you know this is really uh designed for slashing and thrusting and it's a very easy going weapon because it fits in the hand there's nothing extra fits in the hand great you got your thumb up there i don't even have jumping on this you don't really need jumping and you could do some serious cutting with this uh but aesthetically i think that it is a uh definitely a good bad guy knife, and I think it's a great match with this. Wingard wearables back ripper tomahawk, as is this next one, and I'll just.
[51:41]Show you this now this i got at one of the sixth avenue flea markets in new york city in the early 2000s and uh that was a great place for finding there were these really cool open air flea markets uh in in in these big open parking lots and you could find so much cool stuff and the same people came um same vendors pretty much and so i had a couple of sword guys and that's where i got some of these uh swords on from the philippines back there and that's where I got this one and I had a friend here I'm showing it in the sheath which is about to come apart but typical Filipino uh two-piece wood sheath but this one has um this extra personal stuff the rope and whatever this little thing was um so it's kind of neat to have uh but this knife I had a friend a friend who was a girl not a girlfriend uh who was you know I don't want to say she was woo-woo. She was a little bit into the woo. I guess we all have been from time to time. I know I was. And she picked this one up. Let me get this one out of the way. She picked this knife up when I got it years ago. And she's like, oh.
[52:56]This one's seen some ugly stuff. And I'm like, well, why do you say that? Just because it's not the greatest shape? She's like, no, see, not the greatest shape. That little piece just came off sheath. She's like, no, it's not that. Something about it. It's vibes, this and that. Yeah, it is a pretty gnarly thing. Obviously not the most amazing. I don't know. Maybe it was well crafted, but definitely used and used and used and used. This is an all things, all purpose knife.
[53:32]I'm guessing this is an all-purpose knife, but it has a distal taper from a quarter inch down, and it just looks like a nasty bit of work here. And you can see some sort of a nasty character using it. You've got that downward angle to accelerate the chops. It looks like it's been sharpened down from cutting meat for years and years and years. And it's got this very generic handle. I'm betting was not the original handle The original handle probably looked Something like this With those kind of angles Or something like these over my shoulder But that came off or whatever So they grabbed a piece of furniture This is definitely a re-handle But a re-handle that was done A very very long time ago I still believe it was burned in Like they normally do anyway And then I see wads of Stuff in there And I'm sure it was glued and all, resin glued and everything. That sort of handle is, the handle is what also adds to the menace. It's like, yeah, whatever I can grab. And then I'm going to use this. Oh, I was a bad guy successfully with this. So I'm going to use this forevermore.
[54:48]Man. So, yeah, shout out to LB. She called it, man, I think. This really does seem like it has some of that history. And I showed her some of the others. I had a couple of these others, and I showed her, eh, I don't feel that from that. I'm like, well, you should, because you definitely were in war. She didn't feel it. Alright, second to last here, this is a sweet one. This is obviously a movie knife. I mean, you know, what else was this made for, if not for the films? This is the Cold Steel Chaos Kukri. The Chaos series all have a common handle, and it's this, which I'm going to be careful with. It's this handle.
[55:31]Classic knuckle duster handle. I'm going to put it like this. It kind of looks... Oh, man. It's just wicked. So this is cast aluminum. And it's cast aluminum halves. And then they're bolted onto the tang and then hafted and screwed on back here. These things are just... Gnarly. Okay, so this is definitely a noggin knocker. This whole thing I've punched trees with. You don't even feel it. And then, of course, you've got this ridiculous chaos kukri blade. Definitely the mall ninja of the kukris. But, man, I'll take it. I don't care. I am a mall ninja. I don't care. I used to go to Eastern Arts. That's what it was called. I walk into Eastern Arts and walk past all the lacquered, shades and everything and walk over to the samurai swords. That's me, Maul Ninja. But, oh man, Maul Ninja or not, I could lay some devastating waste with this thing. Look at that. Anyone could. Look at that. Your weakling cousin could. You got that blade that reaches forward. By the way, I think this is a very beautiful and graceful shaped kukri.
[56:46]But you got the devastating blade and you got the devastating handle. You got the weight and you got the look. This is something you could see some giant scarred nasty burned up hand holding and this shape, silhouetted in the light with the knuckle dusters and you can't see the guy's face but he's waiting there for you at the other end of the parking lot um jeez man draw your weapon draw your weapon alright last up this is uh going back to the classics basically uh this is uh and I'm not being cheeky here this is the Station 9 Partisan number 9. And it looks just like the Halloween movie knife poster movie. When you watch the movie, the blade is a little different. It's more of a regular kind of chef's knife. But this one, in the movie poster and this knife itself, has the straight back. And it's more dramatic. It's more dramatic especially if you hold it in a reverse grip. But it almost looks like it's upswept.
[57:47]And that's what lends to the drama, especially if like in this case, it's saber ground and you can see that top grind line ascending up towards the swedge. It makes it look curvy and dramatic. So I chose this as the final one because it's kind of like a horror movie classic that already exists. It's kind of like the Halloween life at least from the poster. This of course is the Station 9 Partisan based on the.
[58:17]Butcher knives and chef's knives and kitchen knives that were repurposed by the French during World War I to fight in the trenches and repurposed like in this case that swedge and.
[58:31]Pointy pointy point I guess but that's what these that's what this knife is based on if you look at it you say that looks an awful lot like a chef's knife well it does and it also looks an awful lot like a, French fighting knife big signature style of a French fighting knife is that the blade itself is wider than the handle making it the gun and that's where we're going to leave this these are my I mean I got a lot of knives and they could all, successfully appear in a movie in the hands of a menacing.
[59:01]Horror movie guy, villain, but these to me are the most dramatic and exotic. And exotic and complicated equals scary, or simple and cheap looking also is scary. Villain at any cost. Alright, that does it for me. Thanks for joining us. Be sure to join us tomorrow night for Thursday Night Nights. And we will see you then. For Jim, working his magic behind the switcher. I'm Bob DeMarco saying, until next time, don't take dull for an answer. Thanks for listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please rate and review at reviewthepodcast.com. For show notes for today's episode, additional resources, and to listen to past episodes, visit our website, thenifejunkie.com. You can also watch our latest videos on YouTube at thenifejunkie.com slash YouTube. Check out some great knife photos on thenifejunkie.com slash Instagram and join our Facebook group at thenifejunkie.com slash Facebook. And if you have a question or comment, email them to bob at thenifejunkie.com or call our 24-7 listener line at 724-466-4487 and you may hear your comment or question answered on an upcoming episode of the Knife Junkie Podcast.
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