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Bob DeMarco [00:00:00]:
Coming up, the nova twos are getting close. I get a whole boatload of blades from regiment blades, and then we're gonna take a look at 12 knives with Scandi grinds. I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the knife junkie podcast.

Announcer [00:00:15]:
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.

Bob DeMarco [00:00:28]:
Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments for this past week was from just me 8060, and he was talking about my unboxing of the regiment blades, low vis. And he says, heck yeah. I just got a similar model from Turner CNC, one that I wanna get so badly called the Chimera. Very effective and feels very natural to use. I remember a similar a similar knife called the Colonel. Well, the whole story about the Colonel and the low vis, is you can hear that right now on the Knife Junkie podcast, interview with Al Salvidi, the guy who came up with this design. I won't get into it here, but listen to the podcast and you'll hear about the con the the thing that happened with, regimen of blades and colonel blades.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:17]:
I'll just leave that there. Next was from my good friend, CV. He joins us every weekend every Thursday night knives. Craig, thank you very much. Fishbag61. He says, hey, Bob. The holiday time spent with family in lieu of Thursday night knives makes the midweek show even sweeter and more appreciated. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours along with Jim and his.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:40]:
Thank you so much. I really appreciate that fish bag. Well, you know, nothing trumps family, but when you can, well, you know, come back to a show that you like that has, all your friends there, like Thursday night knives or the midweek supplemental maybe not all your friends, but it's, I get it. It's fun to come to, and it's, it's like a warm blanket in the wintertime. So I appreciate that. I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving. I had a, I had a good one, and, man, I got stuffed beyond belief. It was uncomfortable.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:13]:
I cannot eat like I used to be able to eat. That's what happens when you get older, young men. So just keep that in mind and take advantage while you can. Alright. That said, let us do get to a pocket check.

Announcer [00:02:26]:
What's in his pocket? Let's find out. Here's the knife junkie with his pocket check of knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:33]:
One of my favorite knives of 2024, here in my pocket today, is the Ek Dagger by, oh, by, Les George and, Alan Illichowicz. I came right out of the gate with the wrong notes for Jim on this one, but this is what I was carrying in my front right pocket. It's a and a beautiful dagger like blade. It's not a dagger, of course, because, a, it has that, uneven bayonet grind, and it doesn't have a sharpened top edge. But I've been carrying this thing, like, mad most of the year, and then it dropped off for other things, but I had it back in my pocket today and loving it. One of the reasons it dropped off the radar for a while was this thumb that I keep talking about all the time, for which feeling is coming back slowly or in which feeling is coming back slowly, and that thumb plate was just uncomfortable. But I've been carrying a lot of, Emersons recently and not just waving them out, but also using the thumb plate. So I was like, I'm back, baby.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:38]:
I can open things with my thumb again. And, though I might not be as facile, smooth, and cool as I was before with it, I'll get back there. You know what I mean? It's just a slog. But I love this knife. So beautiful and based after the Ek dagger that was coveted during, Vietnam and, now made by, KA BAR, KA BAR Knives. I have one that Doug Bull sent me as a gift. Thank you so much, Doug. I love that thing so much.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:08]:
Next up, I've had this, in my pocket all kinda weak hoping that, beer would be presented to me. This is my cap, my crown lifter, number 15 by Great Eastern Cutlery. It's in the, 15 pattern, except it's got a easy open notch that's not mine that, came from the factory. And, and instead of, its usual clip point blade, you've got an a gorgeous sheepsfoot blade with a swedge here. You can see it says crown lifter kind of ghosted in there. That was, taken off when I I had a nice patina on this blade, and then I went on a tear and removed all the patinas from my great eastern cutlery except for, you know, with a few exceptions. And, but you can still see it in there. But the star of the show here on this linen micarta, covered knife is that beautiful cap lifter and screwdriver, used only once, sad to say.

Bob DeMarco [00:05:07]:
I got offered beer, but it was in cans or, holidays. I kinda went for punch. The punch whatever the punch was, I went for that. But, I had this at the ready at all moments just hoping someone would say, How in the world do I open this crazy bottle? And I'd be able to say, right here, I've got this, tap liquor, a crown liquor. GEC crown liquor. Let me just tell you real quick when this is from. I can't remember the year this was made. 2016, people.

Bob DeMarco [00:05:38]:
2016, that's years ago at this point. Okay, next up, on my 3 o'clock hip, I had the Nova 2, just a beautiful knife, and I feel like I can say that. I don't like it when people talk about their own work and say, it's beautiful. Look at how cool this is. It's like it should be self evident. You shouldn't have to tell people, that your work is cool and beautiful. But, really, all I did was design the blade for this and, and and, Matt Chase of Hogtooth Knives put it on his already extent platform, the EDC, Tanto and the Nova 1 handle. But I do gotta say, I do have to say, I think it's quite beautiful, but very little of that has to do with me.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:24]:
This knife is handier than handy could be. A deeply hollow ground, had a 154 centimeters with that super utilitarian tip. I, of course, designed it as a fighting knife, but, just so happens I don't get in knife fights. But I do have little little things to cut all day long, and this is just awesome. And I'm gonna show you, after we're done with the state of the collection, these are very much on their way. I got a picture from Matt Chase. We'll show those, in a minute. These are, getting made, not too many of them.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:59]:
So those of you who get them with your own customized serial number, whatever you have chosen out of 14, it could be, my brother chose a tax code that he likes. It's like 259 or something. Whatever it is, Vic, I I got it written down. Some people have chosen numbers way above 14, but it'll be whatever the your number is out of 14. So you you you tell me another, knife podcaster who's done that. Alright. Last up, my ESK today was the EX1. I don't know why.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:32]:
I just got a wild hair up the bum to carry this one today. Brian Brown designed and Civivi made. I love Civivi. I'm you know, I keep talking about how I wanna thin the herd and pare down the collection, but I I don't think I'm willing to dip into the cevivis and send cuts. I just love them so much and and I have to say notably more than Oui. Now Oui makes a fantastic and luxurious knife, but they're always a little bit extra for me, not only in terms of money, which they are, but also in terms of materials and look and stuff. But I love what they do in their, downstream brands, cedubii and scent cuts. So, have a nice little collection of these humming along and, yep.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:16]:
Had this on me today. I also, in my collection, cherish the ones that were designed by people or made by people that I've interviewed. And I've interviewed Brian Brown, and I love his knives, but they all tend to be outside of my wheelhouse, in terms of size. But I wanted to have something by him in my collection, so I was very excited to get this EX1. Just awesome, thinly hollowed ground, wharncliffe or, modified sheepsfoot, whatever you wanna call it. And then this isn't on the official list, but I've been carrying this thing all the time, just dropping it in the pocket. This is the Pinkerton fire ant. It's not even the fire ant.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:59]:
It's got a name I can never remember unless I look it up. Sorry, Dirk. I wasn't expecting to bust this out, but I absolutely love this prototype. It's gonna be made by Concept, and, there's also a folder version of this in the works as well. So I gotta send this back to Dirk soon. So I've been sort of, putting in putting it in the pocket and bringing it along with me as much as possible. So this is what I had on me today. Let me know what you had on you.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:28]:
Drop it in the comments below. I always like to find out what you classy, ladies and gents are carrying. I know it's it's lady and gent pretty much. No. I'm just kidding. But 98% of you are male, so, I tend to defer to the male viewer. Alright. Let me show you that that Nova 2.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:50]:
Yeah. Here's the Nova 2 again. I just put it away. Let me show you that picture. Jim, would you bring that up? Thank you very much, sir. So, yeah. There we go. So Matt sent me this yesterday, to show.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:04]:
Though they're heat treated, they still have to, be ground, but he has the, ivory, g ten handles roughed out, and I'm very excited. It's cool to see it at this stage because you know that they are just in the offing just from looking at them like this, but they are yet to be finished. They're in that embryonic phase, and it's very exciting. So those of you who have ordered a Nova 2, this is the state they're in currently and very shortly. They will be in this state right here and in your pocket or on your belt. The Nova 2. Love this thing. And love Matt Chase.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:43]:
He's a great great guy. Served this country as a snipe, sniper for the marine corps, and now he serves this country as a full time knifemaker. He's been making knives for 30 years, but for the last 15 or so, he's been full time man alive. He just knocks it out of the park. Couple of years ago, I went to his shop with my parents, and it's so cool to see. I'm gonna go up there one of these days and make a knife with him. The that invitation is open. I'm very excited.

Bob DeMarco [00:11:11]:
Now the gentleman junkie knife giveaway is also on theme. Let me show you this. We are giving away a Nova 1, the one that started it all. The Nova 1, this is the first one that we, collaborated on. Again, based on his EDC Tanto handle, but with my blade design, this recurve, what do you call it? Recurve Bowie knife. And just an absolute beauty, we will be, sending this to one lucky gentleman junkie this no, this December. This is the end of the year, very, very, very special end of the year giveaway knife. It's got a bone handle, beautiful linen micarta bone handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:11:52]:
I love the way that looks. It looks like that sort of antique micarta. I don't believe this is antique, but it's got a gorgeous look to it. And, I cannot wait to get this into the hands of one of you gentlemen junkies because you guys, you patrons, really do keep things running here, and we really appreciate it. So as an end of year look at that nice run of jimping. Double jimping, people. So as an end of year, special gift to the gentlemen junkies, we have commissioned this knife, and it will be going to one of you. And I can't wait to send it to you.

Bob DeMarco [00:12:26]:
I wish I could send one to every single one of you, but lo and behold, it is a, exclusive item. Alright. If you wanna be a part of this giveaway, and get a Nova 1, which is a knife that is no longer in print by me, you can start to get them, soon from Matt Chase, but they will be in, unexclusive, colorways and such. Do so by becoming a patron. Scan that QR code at the tip of this noble one knife there and, become a patron. You can go to the knifejunkie.com/patreon or scan that QR code, check out what we have to offer. There are 3 tiers of support, but the gentleman junkie tier is the one that is in the running for this knife. Again, I wanna repeat that address.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:14]:
It's the knifejunkie.com/patreon. The knifejunkie.com/patreon.

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You're listening to the Knife Junkie podcast, and now here's the knife junkie with the knife life news.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:39]:
Very excited about this next one or this first one in knife life news because, I've been on an outdoorsy tear. Now I'm not an outdoorsman. I like to be outside a lot, and, the weather is getting colder. I like to be outside in the winter and fall even more than other times of year. I've been building fires and doing all sorts of, you know, outdoorsy practice stuff where the stakes are low in my backyard. I'm not gonna die. Or in the park down the street. I can always crawl home if need be.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:10]:
But this this one from Civivi, the Timberbark, is a part of their new, thrust into fixed blades. They've been releasing fixed blades at a much quicker pace now, and I'm very excited about this. And this one, the timberbark, which I know is coming to me because they offered one to me, and I said, please. Yes. Send it. I'm I'm excited about it. Okay. So this is the next in the growing line of fixed blades, a small 3.2 inch flat ground drop point.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:40]:
That's 14 c 28, and it looks vaguely like an SE, but I'm not gonna say it's, you know, any sort of copy. But it's that sort of, standard outdoors look, that drop point, but this one is short and broad. Look at how broad that blade is. It's a 3.2 inch length, so the the, spine to edge is about an inch and a quarter, and that's a nice amount. Especially if it's fully flat ground, it's gonna be nice and slicey. This sucker has thumb jimping and forefinger jimping there, so you can you can tell that this is in a in a deep belly, so it's sort of intended for field dressing and all sorts of other outdoor, activities. Okay. 14c28n.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:28]:
Okay. So the handle here, traditional palm swell with the bracketing. That's the part that looks kind of SE ish to me, but a handle's a handle. A hand is a hand. And, so, nothing new there except that this one comes in g ten, which you're looking at here on screen. It will also come with a micarta. That's a a dark green micarta with black, the same colorway you see here. They do this one a lot.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:55]:
It's very popular. I love it. But the one that I hope I get is the one that's on screen right now with the Gilberto wood and the, stonewashed finish. So, beautiful fixed blade knife, small outdoor flick fixed blade knife, under 3.5 ounces for all models, and it comes with a kydex sheath with that sort of, Tek Lokish attachment, belt attachment. That's coming out this month in December. Excited about it. Alright. Next one is also from the same family.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:29]:
This one is the Wii Nightblade, the Nightblade. This one is a collaboration with DBK Bushcraft. That's the Dutch Bushcraft Knife Channel on YouTube. Those guys are awesome. Martin and Mickey b, they have a you very popular YouTube channel where they are outdoorsmen in, Holland, and they, test all sorts of outdoors and other kind of knives, but they're always kind of in the outdoors and they have they're like real world best friends, so they have a a great rapport on camera. If you don't watch them, I recommend you watch them. But they have a knife coming out from We that is a a little bit unexpected to me, I gotta say, honestly. Now you look at the the, very utilitarian looking drop point blade, and that that seems on, that tracks, as the kids say, with the DBK, kind of ethos.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:25]:
But the fact that it's on a titanium handle with a a crossbar lock threw me off for a second, but the nail nick in the blade brought me back. So if you look at this, it does not have a a flipper tab. It does not have thumb studs, nor does it have a front flipper. It does have that nail nick and, and the axis lock. So, it's sort of half traditional, half very modern. Maybe maybe, 1 quarter traditional and 3 quarters modern because look at those flame anodized handles there. You've got, you've got anodized titanium handles in in, various, what do you call it, colorways there and then that beautiful drop point blade. So this is 20 CV.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:17]:
Those blades are 2.98 inches, so essentially 3 inches. The handle, very neutral, which is appreciated for a bushcraft knife. You might have to change your grips in all sorts of ways. That chest pull thing or the, feather sticking thing or maybe you're even, field dressing a martin or a squirrel with that. So that handle, being neutral but chamfered is appreciated. Deep carry pocket clip. This is also a December 2024 release. So if you're a fan of Martin and Mickey b, go check this out.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:51]:
It's the Wii Nightblade. Alright. Now staying on theme, we're gonna go to one that I am definitely gonna pick up as the nice guys say. I'm gonna I'm gonna buy this one. This is the real steel yak. That's like a big furry pow, basically. The yak is a rugged outdoor folder from them, from Real Steel, and it's very exciting because it's kind of a big one too. 3.7 inches of 14c28n, which, by the by, was a steel that was popularized by this kind of knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:26]:
It is a Swedish steel and used a lot on bushcraft knives. So 14c28noversized thumb studs as you can see there, and it comes in 2 different variations and 2 different grinds. The one you see on screen right now is the micarta handled version. That's a tan canvas micarta with a blackened blade, but the bevel is full on Scandi ground, which is, the theme of the show today. So Scandi ground blade here, that that means it's 0 ground. The bevel, the edge bevel is the edge. So when the bevel starts off of the flat, it terminates in a, perfect triangular edge. And, so but it comes in 2 models, as you heard me say, and the one that is now up on screen has, g ten handles and a sort of standard, saber grind that is a vaguely halfway up the blade, flat ground, model here.

Bob DeMarco [00:20:30]:
So that's maybe your more EDC version. And the other one, the one that I'm gonna get with the, ScandiGrind and the micarta, that's more of the outdoors, version. So, a reversible wire pocket clip, which not a big fan of the wire clips, but whatever. I'll live with it on this one. 5.9 ounces and coming soon. Coming soon. So we don't know what that is. You can tell from here, it's a backlock as well.

Bob DeMarco [00:20:57]:
I forgot to mention that. Backlock knife. Beautiful. Handsome. I love that sort of upswept, drop point. I'm very much looking forward to getting that one. Alright. Lastly is from KnifeRite.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:09]:
This is an exciting one. KnifeRite has, and, let's see. Representative, congressman Andy Biggs, and senator Mike Lee, we've heard a lot about Mike Lee in the news over the past few years, They have reintroduced Knife Right's Knife Owner's Protection Act. This was originally introduced in 2023, and it's the first proactive pro knife federal knife legislation in United States history, which is nuts. Reintroduced in November 2024, and I'll give you the here's my breakdown of it. It's basically National Knife preemption. So we hear we talk a lot on this show about knife, preemption bills that come up in various states, and what those basically mean is that if your county has different knife laws than your neighboring counties, you're not gonna be busted if you cross county lines with a prohibited knife. So this, act, aims to sort of preempt all knife laws.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:12]:
So if I'm go if I'm driving from Virginia to California and I'm driving through all these different jurisdictions with the same pocket knife, it's not gonna get me busted if I drive into Wisconsin, for instance. I don't know what their knife laws are. But and it's prohibited there. I won't be, in trouble. Let me just read you briefly, from, Doug Ritter. So knife rights chairman, Doug Ritter, been on the show many times. We have to have him back on shortly. He says, those who travel this country with knives for work, recreation, and self defense are presently subject to arrest and prosecution under a confusing patchwork of inconsistent state and local laws.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:55]:
What is perfectly legal in one place may be a serious crime in another, resulting in forfeiture of the knife and carrying significant penalties, including jail time. Enforcement is not uniform even within jurisdictions and is all too often subject to the vagaries of political expediency. It's a mouthful, but, basically, what he's saying is, exactly what I just said. So this, bill brought up by, again, congressman Andy Biggs and senator Mike Lee aims to knock that off the national menu, and I very much look forward to that. Probably you, as well as I, do a lot of driving travel or even flight travel, especially during the holidays, and I don't wanna drive home to Ohio and have trouble. Ohio's got good knife laws, but still, Maryland doesn't, and I have to drive through that. So, let's, keep our eyes open for the knife rights Knife Owners Protection Act, which is reintroduced this year 11 years later, from its first. And I have a feeling the incoming administration might be a bit more amenable to this.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:05]:
So good luck to all of us. Alright. Still to come on the Knife Junkie podcast, we have the state of the collection. We're gonna look at some new blades from Regimen. But before we go there, I just wanna remind you that you can download this show to your favorite podcast app and listen to it on the go. Do you wash dishes? Do you mow the lawn or now shovel snow? You could be doing it with these golden, mellifluous tones, going into your ear hole. Sorry. Mellifluous.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:37]:
I'm not even sure if that's a word. It's something like that. But, anyway, be sure to download the show to your favorite podcast app. You can like, comment, subscribe, and do all that stuff, and there, you'll have the knife junkie wherever you go. You turn around, there I am. You know about the latest real steal. Alright. Coming up, the state of the collection.

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And now that we're caught up with Knife Life news, let's hear more of the Knife Junkie podcast.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:24]:
Been carrying this one for a week straight, whether, out on the go, out on the town, because I go out on the town all the time, or, just in the, sweatpants doing work around the house. This is the Regiment Blades LoViz. It's the fixed blade. I wanna thank Al Salvidi. He had a whole package of really cool regiment blades sent to me. Al Salvidi is our, interview this week. You have to check it out. He's a really, stand up guy from Philadelphia.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:57]:
I spent, a very formative, four and a half years in Philadelphia and learned all about that city, and he lives there, and has been, for 51 years, training in martial arts, especially the bladed martial arts, but, he started off in Taekwondo and then he was a pro boxer and he was a bouncer for years and then got into Pekiti Chirshakali and, Sayak Khali and went deep down the knife rabbit hole. And then for the last 20 years or so, has been training all sorts of alphabet agency guys and tier 1 guys in, quick knife fighting. And it's very interesting because in that interview, you'll learn that he talks about these tier 1 guys and how, badass they are, but how when it comes to knives, before they kinda get a little bit of training and very easy training, they'll drop drop the blade and start punching or shooting. So this is a knife that was designed for intuitive use. If you can, punch, you can use the regiment blades, low vis. Now in the comment upfront, someone said that reminds me a lot of the colonel. The colonel was the regiment blades low vis ripped off from Al Salvidi by one of his former partners, who took him for a ride and, used the vagaries of patent law to steal his design. I'll say it, steal his design.

Bob DeMarco [00:27:27]:
And then, other people that we know famously from the Internet, on the q q side of things and the be prepared and I'm so Christian side of things, were a part of stealing this design from him. I'll let him get into it, but he sent me this whole group of knives. Here's his auto lock version of it, a folder. This is how he opens it. I hope I don't this yeah. You can use it as a flipper, but it is a double locked knife. He had these made originally by Fox Knives, and he's an Italian man, so he's not besmirching the Ityes, but he was saying, yeah. Fox Knives makes a lot of really good looking knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:06]:
Let me leave it there. But, the the version they made for him closed on him and merely cut off his finger with that with this, with this, opening hole there. So very, very cool knives. They keep your your wrist in a in a posture that's comfortable for, really punching. Now when I saw this, I intuitively thought, oh, he made this for cops who are used to drawing, pistols. But, no, that's a a sort of a benefit, a side benefit, but, really, they're made for this sort of punching style. I'm gonna show you a couple of the things he sent me. This is the NPE version, non permissive environment version.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:47]:
So g ten blade, g ten handle scales. Wait. But those bolts, Bob? Yeah. Those bolts are plastic too. Screws and bolts, all plastic. Super light. The same exact, carry profile as this, just a lot lighter. The sheath has I've, reined in the the, neck necklace there, but the sheath has, no grommets, no metal.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:13]:
It's just folded over, fits perfectly and stoutly in there. Here's a training version that he sent me. I said, why is it so short? And he said, well, if you make contact, you know you buried that knife in your target, a, and if you make contact while you're slashing, which this is not intended for necessarily, you know that you've cut them very deeply. So I thought, oh, that makes sense. And then lastly, this cool thing. It's a tactical pen based on the Sock P, the Sock P, made by, blah blah blah Benchmade. I think, Spartan Blades did a version of this, but, very much based on that knife. So you can draw it with the finger ring, use it to use it percussively and stab with it or jab with it, if you will.

Bob DeMarco [00:30:04]:
But this comes with a glass breaker side, so that's just a very, acute hardened steel point. You can break glass with it, or do anything else, with a soft target. But you wanna write, you unscrew it, you rescrew it, and boom, you're writing with a Fisher Space Pen, refill and it's just a great, great option for, self defense carry. This has been photographed on airplanes and such. People you know, it's just a pen, basically, with a ring. So you can carry this where you wanna go, and you'll always have some sort of protection on you. So regiment blades, do check out the interview that's up this week. It is really cool.

Bob DeMarco [00:30:52]:
Al Salvidi, what an awesome guy. I I have to light out for the territories and head up to, or head down to Philadelphia and, no, up. My geography is suffering this morning, and hang out with him and get a little bit of training. I mean, he has very hardcore trained in his life and the training he's done with others is just incredible. And I'm a little past that, but I wanna go hang out with him. Past that meaning, I don't know if I could take the kind of training he's done. Flogging, I don't know if I can handle any flogging, these days, but go check out the interview. It's awesome.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:31]:
And Al Salvidi, what a mensch. I love the dude, and I've only met him, several times, but he's also papaiza, as you can tell from the name. Alright. Next up, this, good friend of mine, Jaime. Thank you so much, Jaime. He came over for dinner with his family, for a little friendsgiving, after Thanksgiving, and he gave me this. Now, I I I'm gonna take credit for turning him into a full fledged knife junkie, and he is a huge fan of Civivi and he is, and loves Kizer too. He wasn't a big fan of this damn designed, Invictus by Kizer.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:08]:
He has his peccadilloes as we all do. He didn't like the detent on this. I am just fine with it. He gave it to me, and, I accept, sir. Your terms are acceptable, and I love it. And I it's hard for me to give away knives that have been, given to me. He did say you could give it away on your channel. We'll see.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:28]:
We'll see. I have a lot of knives to give away. This one will go far down the list, but I wanna show you real quick. His son was using this to cut something on the driveway. So it's got the edge is still not too bad. It's almost serrated up here, but he was just, relating the story and gritting his teeth. You know, how he found his son using his knife cutting something. I don't know what it was, but just grinding it into the driveway.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:56]:
154 centimeters and and heat treated by Kaiser, it's still not a bad edge. So very happy to have this in my collection. Thank you very much, Jaime. I appreciate it. Look how deep that deep cherry pot is that too deep? Are we going too deep now, people? That's what my daughter says. Too deep, dad. Too deep. If I'm trying to explain something that her teenage mind can't grasp.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:19]:
Okay. Lastly, and this will launch us into, into our main topic of discussion, but I got this, couldn't resist. I had to do some, Amazon shopping, and this has been bouncing around in my cart for a while, and I finally pulled the trigger. This is the MoraKnife carbon steel fixed blade. Not a very flashy name, but, man, what a great, great knife. I've been into the Mora knives recently. They're probably my favorite of the ScandiGround knives that I own, though I I use them less than another brand, which I'll be showing off, and I'll tell you why in a minute. But beautifully coated blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:00]:
It's got that polished blackened blade. I'm not exactly sure if they use Cerakote or DLC. It looks more like polished DLC to me, but you have a nearly full tang. The tang comes to about here. Now in the picture, I thought this was the tang protruding, but then I realized they only do that on the Garberg, and they charge a premium for that full tang. Is it worth it? Not sure. I don't have a Garberg. I wouldn't mind having one, but this will do until that one gets here.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:30]:
The standard sort of, subtle clip point blade here with the super wickedly sharp Scandi ground blade. I have not used this. This is 100% a virgin knife. It arrived, 2 days ago as I record this, and it's got a rubberized handle, not obnoxious rubberized, though. And then this sort of, proud jimping, so, jimping that pops up from the handle, and it is very, very comfortable. And I always have to mention when I mention more knives that, the famous Ed Calderon, who was on this show, once who is known for the fact that he was a drug interdict interdiction officer in, Mexico, on the Mexican side, and popularized to call that Elvia, that he has designed based on the fruit knife. He loves Mora knives as tactical knives, and he told them once at blade show and they kind of clutched their pearls and shuddered and said, they were for bushcraft bushcraft, and he said, but still, makes an excellent tactical knife. And this one with the black blade and the grippy handle, is definitely on that list.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:47]:
So I'm very happy to have this. Can't wait to use it, but I didn't wanna use it before I showed it off to you. By the way, it comes with a great, sheath and 2 different attachments. The other attachment has a full belt loop, so you can't just pop it on. It has to, lace into your, you have to put your belt through the loop, and then this thing also, dangles and and moves. So if you're getting in your truck or your 4 by or your side by side or whatever they call those things, it'll move with you. So, very, very cool knife. That's the Mora knife, carbon steel.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:24]:
Alright. Coming up, we got the we got the the main list, which I wanna show you. It's a dozen Scandi blades. But before we go there, I gotta show you this T shirt that Jim just designed for the holidays. Silent knife sharp I'm sorry. Silent knight sharp knife. And you see Santa there with a Fairbairn Sykes. For for all intents and purposes, that's what we're looking at.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:49]:
A Fairbairn Sykes dagger in Santa's hand. And, you know, Santa, if you look at, him across different cultures, he's not always, like, the super nice guy. Check out the German Santa. If you're a bad, he'll, throw you in his bag, take you away, and, you'll never see your parents again. Pretty dark. So, it's a way to keep us on the straight and narrow, Santa Claus is. Bring bring that up again, Jim. Just go to the knifejunkie.com/shop if you wanna get this really cool T shirt, silent night sharp knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:22]:
Love that. By the way, Jim has pages. We have pages of really cool designs that Jim has come up with. He's a bit of an artist, and this is one of the ways he expresses himself. So do go check that out. Knifejunkie.com/shop. Alright. Let's talk about Scandi grinds.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:41]:
What are Scandi grinds? I mentioned it before. It's a zero ground edge. That means the edge bevel is the edge. So instead of having an edge bevel that comes down the blade and then terminates in a in a relief edge. This knife is 100% edged, and I'm gonna start with this one because I have to say it's my most carried standi ground blade. This one I got at blade show 2024, from my buddy Tom. This is the Tom Nugent. This is the Knives by Nugent primitive wicket.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:18]:
And, it's a little neck knife. It's so light, so thin, primitive because it's wrapped in jute twine instead of micarta or g ten handles, which are his main, the main version of this. But I love it because it's so thin and so light. And I gotta say, I thought it would be itchy against the skin, but this thing wears beautifully, under the shirt against the skin. All summer long, I had this on, without any sort of discomfort. It's probably my most comfortable neck dive here. Now like many Scandi ground blades, there is a slight relief edge. You can kinda see it there.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:58]:
And that's basically to knock it knock it down a touch so that it's not brittle. If you're going through wood, the the main benefit of this kind of zero ground or Scandinavian ground, that's where the scandi comes from, obviously, but, the main benefit to this Scandinavian ground edge is it's a great carver. You can, line up that edge bevel slash edge with whatever surface you're carving, say wood, and really get, a, a micro adjustment just by tilting the blade ever so slightly. So they're amazing carvers. If you buy a a a carving knife, you will see it has a scanned Scandinavian edge. And so to have it on a small, knife like this that you can just throw around your your neck or throw in a survival kit, it's so small, this would be the thing to have if you're lost in the woods. Also, it has a 90 degree spine. Let's see if you can see.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:00]:
I mean, I think I cleaned this off last time I used it, but you can throw sparks very easily with this, Scandinavian I mean, with this 90 degree edge. So I do like a Scandi ground, Scandi ground blade with a 90 degree spine. They don't all have them. As a matter of fact, one of my favorites in this list, oddly, does not have a 90 degree spine, but I intend to change that with a file or my grinder. Alright. Next up, this one is the TOPS Knives Mini Scandi Knife 2.5. This was one of their first. I believe this came out right after the Bob Knife, the brothers of Bushcraft Knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:43]:
The brothers of Bushcraft Knife was a, is a 4 and a half inch bushcraft, Scandi ground blade that when Topps came out with it, people were like, wait a second. You're all about fighting and killing. What is this? And they had to sort of justify their Scandinavian edge on their brothers of bushcraft. What's more and what's more absurd is that they had to, justify to that same crowd the fact that they put a little relief edge on it. Again, that put there so that that, the very apex of that edge is not brittle. It just sorta knocks it down ever so slightly. I think you can see it here. But this was my very first standi ground blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:26]:
I like this because it is small, and it was when I first started getting into carrying fixed blade knives. And I love tops, and I just thought this would be a a great way to go. I got it, and it sort of lost my attention nearly immediately. And then in the years following, I've I've picked it back up and absolutely love it. This is another case where I wouldn't mind a, just removing that Cerakote, that that that black traction coating, as they call it, at tops because it does, hinder its effect. It does feel like a 90 degree edge, on that spine, but it does hinder its effect to throw sparks. I haven't had to with this. I haven't necessarily wanted to.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:11]:
I've tried, but this, they make it in a number of different colorways now, and I think they make one that's slightly larger, and then there's a folding version of this. Buries nicely in the hand, though it is a 3 finger knife, so I do recommend some sort of a fob on it to keep it in hand. That's the Topps Mini Scandy 2.5. Now staying with the mini theme, this was one that just came out to great fanfare, and I kinda looked askance at it until recently and bought one and love it. This is the Mora knife or Mora Eldris. This one came with, this, what do you call this? I don't know. Strap, A retention strap? It it does slide off the the sheath here. Came with that, and it came with this, Ferro rod.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:06]:
I just use a little ranger band to keep it on there. But this is a neck knife in that whole setup, But this one is compound ground. So towards the front of the blade, the front half of the blade is a thinner ground scandi edge and and a pretty substantial relief edge. And then when you come back to this back portion, it's 100% Scandi zero ground, edge here with the same, you know, that same angle follows all the way up to this thinner grind. A very interesting grind, I have to be 100% honest, haven't, really found the benefit of that, what do you call it, compound grind? Because if I am carving with it and say using that front portion, I'm still just using the edge there. I'm not really, not really, marking the difference in bevel here. So whether I'm up here carving or up here carving for precision work as they like to say, I don't really notice the difference of this back bevel. Maybe I'm just not as much of a woodsman as I would like to be at some point, so, maybe when I do, I will get that.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:24]:
But in the meantime, really like the way this thing feels. It is a full forefinger grip. It's nice and bulbous, and it throws a wicked spark here off of that 90 degree edge. I put a little fob on it, and it it just makes it retain a little bit better in hand. This is a very popular knife amongst, outdoors outdoors men and women or outdoors people, and, they like it for the lightness and the compactness, but also the full finger, the full fist, the grip of it. I have it set up for neck knife carry. Alright. This next one I got for my survival bag, my my, go bag, and have never, frankly, have never used it.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:08]:
So, maybe I should after this, but it just kinda lives in that, bug out bag. And that is the discontinued, I believe it's discontinued, Cold Steel Survival Edge. And it is a kinda Mora Mora meets cold steel. So it's bigger. It's got a more tactical guard on it, and it but it's got a fully, Scandinavian ground blade. This is 4116 Krupp Steel, one of these sort of more discount y, high value steels that Cold Steel uses. I can see, actually, I have tried to throw sparks off of this. It is okay, but I can just tell from rubbing my finger on it.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:53]:
It's it's not as sharp as it could be. But interesting thing here, it has a hollow handle. So these are, these are rubber o rings here to keep grip, and you can take those off and use them for other other survival sort of things, but it's got a hollow handle and I have some, paracord in there and then under that, I have some dryer lint. Dryer lint makes a great, fire starter. The Tang though, as you might surmise, comes to about here and then it's bolted in. So probably not as strong as other cold steel knives, to say the least, but it comes with a nice, ferro rod, and it will throw sparks. So, this thing will definitely do in a pinch, and that's how I have it. I have it for that sort of, pinch type, experience where I need my bug out bag and I need, you know, there are other knives in there, but this one has, different, different capabilities.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:55]:
This notch in the back allows you to, say, drive a nail into the wall and then lock it over that nail. I do like that kind of versatility in use. I also like the fact that it comes with its own Ferro rod. Alright. Next is from the, Ukrainian company, BPS Knives. It's a father and son team. They fur they sent me my first BPS knife, which is downstream from here, but I got this one recently. If you watch the show, you remember I got this.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:25]:
I've been using it a lot just, around the family fire pit, which I find myself spending a lot of time these days. Find any excuse to burn anything. I just took down the girls' old swing set, big old swing set that was, you know, just not doing it anymore and almost dangerous to get on, so I took it down, sawed it up into a 1000000000 pieces, and burned it. This helped start the fire and did some, you can do some small splitting with this, but it has that Scandi ground edge. This is the, BPS Knives Thin Light. Really like this knife. One problem with the BPS knives I have found, I use this 10, 1066 carbon steel, and, I've I have already, and not used this too much, but I've already chipped it a little bit. I have a small chip in my other BPS knife, so I'm not sure if they're just it's a brittle steel or if the heat treat is what it is, but I've it's probably from, you know, batoning with it.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:32]:
And maybe that's not what you're supposed to be doing with your knife. This is a carving knife, based on the Pucco, and, it has a 90 degree spine. It's great for throwing sparks and all that, but you can see all of the sap on it. I've done a lot of, feather stick making with fat wood on this, and, you know, that always leaves a a little bit of residue. But I really, really like this knife. Super, budget friendly. You can get a whole bunch of different BPS knives on Amazon, and support that company. I think it's cool.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:06]:
I always like a a family knife story, so father and son in Ukraine making really cool outdoors knives. BPS Finlite. By the way, this comes with an untreated walnut handle. I just stained it this sort of maroon. I did a really slapdash job as you can see, but that's alright. This is not a, this is not one for the museum. This is one for usage. Also comes with a great leather sheath as does, the other one I have, and you can, put any sort of, UltiClip or whatever you want on there to keep it clipped in your pocket.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:42]:
Alright. Next up, this is a custom, knife from 310 Forge, Mike Cahill. Great guy. He's the guy who got me smoking pipes. He didn't get me, but I watched him smoking pipes. I'm like, oh, that looks better than a cigar. I think I'm gonna do that. Yeah.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:58]:
We all have to manage our vices. So this is the mini scalper from from, 310 Forge. I'm definitely, in this coming year, going to commission a Bowie from him. He makes incredible bowies, and, mostly, he forges, but, these knives, I think, are stock removal. This mini scalper is so handy. This is the only sort of leather sheet knife that I that I EDC. It's very discreet on the belt, and, I really it it's just an easy carrying knife. But what is it? It's a a 16th of an inch thick, high carbon, 10 95 blade steel, and it's so thin that it just has that Scandi edge there.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:45]:
You know, you will find on a blade this thin, it's very difficult to do a a full flat grind or a saber grind, and you'll also find that it's so thin that it's unusable. So a Scandi grind is what really makes sense on this knife. Nice, cherry wood handle here. This is about a 3 and a half finger knife, but, the way the palm swells out, it really melts in the hand and is very secure. I don't even miss a lanyard hole. I don't need a fob on this. Now mostly on a knife this small with a handle this small, I would want that option. But here, the way he designed that handle, it just melts in the hand.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:24]:
Definitely check out Mike Cahill and 310 forge. He posts, quite a bit on Instagram and shows off his beautiful, traditional bowies. He's a Texas guy. I met him at the Texas Custom Knife Show in 2023. Go check him out. Love this knife, the mini scalper. It's also, you know, if if, if it's not in your budget to buy a custom made Bowie knife, this might be in your budget. Oh, and by the way, he sews together, at least on this one, the sheath, the beautiful stout leather sheath with sinew, which I love.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:59]:
I like saying the word sinew too. Alright. This next one is kind of a break from, the outdoorsy, the bushcrafty. This just so happens to have a Scandinavian grind, but it has nothing to do with carving, unless we're talking about carving people. This is the Spike series from Cold Steel. These have that standi ground edge and but here, you're seeing it on a very tactical design, this Tanto. I'm a big fan of the Spike series. It's a very high value budget knife, and you can do a lot with it.

Bob DeMarco [00:52:37]:
It's a 4 and a quarter inch blade. You've got this faux g ten handle. Now I've always lamented the fact that there's no mechanical connection. There's no pin going through here. This is just epoxy. These handle scales are just epoxied on the blade, but, it's never been an issue. I put that jimping in myself. Never been an issue, and, I really like how these things cut.

Bob DeMarco [00:53:01]:
Again, you've got that 4116 Kruppstahl, from Germany, so a high budget steel, high value steel, I guess, I should say. So you're not gonna pay much for this, but it's a very capable, largish blade, and you have this incredible grind on it. I I wonder if they put that grind on it because it is a a less robust steel, and so maybe having the edge bevel be the edge will make that steel more robust. So the Spike series, I have this one. I have and I have the Bowie version of this. These are great knives. Definitely, I recommend them. Alright.

Bob DeMarco [00:53:43]:
Next up is, a very early standi grind ground knife for me. I think I I got this right after that tops knife I showed you, but this is the Mora Classic Model 2. And I love this just because this is what Moras used to look like. Obviously, again, based on the Peukot, but you've got that subtle clip point blade and that full on, this is high carbon steel, full on, Scandinavian grind there. But I love the bulbous handle, the wood red wood handle. It looks kinda cheery. This comes with a version like this without a guard, with a single guard like you see here, or a double guard with the guard popping up here. But seems seems to me you want a guard on the knife, especially considering that the, taper towards the ricasso on this one will almost push you towards that blade in certain situations, so best to have a little guard on there.

Bob DeMarco [00:54:42]:
But to have the top guard is a little too much. Oftentimes, you like to have your thumb right there where the blade meets the handle or maybe all the way up on the blade for power cutting and such. Ow. Damn. I have I have sharpened this one, recently. I just okay. This one does not have a 90 degree spine, so I'm not sure if that's such a traditional, addition to this kind of knife. I know a lot of outdoors, ScandiGround knives these days focus on having or, you know, put a premium on having a 90 degree spine for throwing sparks.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:20]:
This one does not. So that leads me to believe that that's not such a traditional feature. Made in Sweden, and then it's got this great, plastic sheet. I've seen these with leather sheaths that look just like this, same design, which I think is very cool. Alright. Next up. This one is from Off Grid Knives. I believe this is the only ScandiGround blade they've made, and now they've gone to a full flat grind on this one.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:49]:
So I'm not even sure if you can get this one, anymore. But this is a ScandiGround, Ridgeback. Yes. Ridgeback. It's a Kephart, design. So that's the shape of the blade, and that's named after a famous, bush crafter, very neutral style drop point blade. But this one, man, has that nice stout Scandinavian grind, and, this is 14 c 28 and the sandvic steel from Sweden, so all tracking on on point there. This one has jimping up the blade so you can have your your thumb way up there.

Bob DeMarco [00:56:30]:
I remember when I first got this, sent to me, thank you very much, by Keri, number of years ago. I took this out and chopped down some saplings, because I had a little project I was doing in the backyard, so I went to my local park. Not sure if I'm supposed to do this, but they've got plenty of saplings. And you just kinda bend them over, and I would, just funk this right into that bend, and and it would go right through like an ax. So a really great grind on this one and, very excited and very happy, I should say, now that I'm really into Scandinavian grinds to have this one because it is very stout and sturdy. It's it's the biggest, heaviest, Scandi ground blade I have, but it's also balanced like a fighting knife. So right here at the at the first, front finger choil, it's perfectly balanced. So it's it's the kind of knife I'm used to holding even though it's not the kind of knife I'm used to using.

Bob DeMarco [00:57:33]:
So really big news. And you're like, oh, yeah. You used to using fighting knives? Well, kinda, only because, I just like to play with them. Nice and stout kydex sheath with the, with the drop Velcro slash snap attachment. Alright. The only folder in this collection here is the cold steel Finwolf. It took me forever to get this damn knife. I got one for my brother years ago because he takes a a yearly expedition with his son, and I thought he would love this.

Bob DeMarco [00:58:10]:
And, he always talked about how it's his go to knife when he's out in the mountains with his son, and so, I finally got one for myself. The Finwolf, that is a very traditional, finish, sort of handle shape there, and then you've got that zero ground edge. So nice. This one has Aus8 blade steel, Aus8 a blade steel, and if you know anything about cold steel, they do an amazing job with Aus8, probably the best out there in terms of heat treat, definitely, in in my in my experience. And then also it's got the Triad lock. So for a hard use, you know, carving an outdoors knife, definitely want that BacLock to be a, a triad lock. What is a triad lock? What makes it so great, you say? Well, it's that right there. It's the stop pin between the blade and the locking leaf spring.

Bob DeMarco [00:59:11]:
So any sort of force coming against the blade goes into the stop pin and is distributed through the frame of the handle instead of going back into the lock and compromising the, you know, the lock. So, this knife is now my EDC in terms of my bag. I carry a haversack, as my EDC bag these days. Yeah. I'm kinda nerdy, and, so I was like, oh, I like bushcraft stuff, and I like, hobos. I'm reading a lot about hobos from the turn of the century, 20th century and into the twenties thirties and forties, and they carried haversacks. So that's what I carry now. And this is the knife that I carry in there, this and the SOG seal pump.

Bob DeMarco [00:59:56]:
Alright. Penultimate in this list is the one I've been using the most lately because it's kind of, in and amongst all of my wood stuff for my fire pit and my experimentation with starting fires and stuff like that. And it's another BPS knife from Ukraine. This is the one that introduced the brand to me. They sent this to me, so I very much appreciate that. But this is called the h k five, and I'm showing it in the sheath for so long because the sheath is so awesome. If if this knife kicked the bucket, I would keep the sheath and, you know, find another knife to put in it because it's so sumptuous and thick. That leather is nice and thick.

Bob DeMarco [01:00:39]:
I love the white stitching and the and the brass rivet. It's just so strong and sturdy. You've got a belt loop and then a dangler loop also on a d ring here so you can carry it, either way. I usually don't carry it. I usually just have the sheep, on the ground next to me, but I've been using this blade a lot. It's so comfortable in hand. Again, it came with untreated walnut that I stained that maroon, my favorite color, and it melts in the hand. Usually, I don't like full, 4 finger groove knives, but this one just fits perfectly in my hand.

Bob DeMarco [01:01:14]:
This again has that 1066, and this one again chipped, like the other one ever so slightly. I've been kinda rough on it, but the cool thing about it is that it sharpens out easily. I spent very little time. It was a very little chip. I must admit. You can probably see it maybe right there. Maybe you can see it. Not even.

Bob DeMarco [01:01:35]:
Okay. So I took care of that. It's very easy to sharpen. It keeps a very nice edge and is wickedly sharp, throws sparks all day long with that 90 degree spine, and this one at 5 inches and with a very, very slight clip point is a looker. I think it's a beautiful looking knife, but just great in hand and handles really well. Because it doesn't have any sort of guard, I do have a little, lanyard on there that sometimes I'll put on if I if I'm feeling careless. And speaking of feeling careless, I almost chopped my leg off with an ax hatchet. So, always grip your stuff tight.

Bob DeMarco [01:02:15]:
It was an unguarded moment and the, hatchet flew out of my hand. Luckily, the flat of the blade hit my leg, but if not, it would've ruined Thanksgiving, and I'd be that guy. Okay. Last on the list, this is another one I use a lot. This is the Mora Companion, and this is probably their most famous knife, their most popular knife. The Companion, comes in a number of different colors. I, of course, have the cool green, It has a rubberized handle and just an incredible grip and an incredible blade. This is the one that, surprisingly, though, does not have a 90 degree spine.

Bob DeMarco [01:02:53]:
Again, like the classic model number 2, it's they haven't caught up probably with the peccadillos of YouTube, guys such as myself who think it's cool the first parts with the spine of a blade and, haven't, haven't gone into their companions and done that yet, but I love this knife. Probably, if you're gonna get anything in this list, this is the lowest hanging fruit. It is an outstanding knife and, very, very sharp. This is a stainless knife, carves super, super well, and I batonned a lot with this. People are squeamish about that because it's got a 3 quarter tang, but it's fine. I mean, I I don't know. I'm I'm not batoning lignumvite, so I'm not too worried about it. This thing is such a great knife.

Bob DeMarco [01:03:43]:
Pops right on the belt with this clip, drops in and out. It's so intuitive. You don't have to look at where you're going. You just kinda drop it in so easily. This is a great all around work knife, and, if you listen to Ed Calderon, he'll tell you it's great for fighting too. But that's not what this is about. This is about carving wood. This is about doing stuff outdoors.

Bob DeMarco [01:04:05]:
This is a great, vine knife and all sorts of other, brush clearing tasks. This is super awesome. So thank you so much for, coming with me on this, 0 ground, Scandi ground, trip down I'll say it. Thank you for joining me on this journey. I love this knife. I love all of these knives. Do check them out, if you're interested, and, let me know what you think about that zero ground edge. Is it a good EDC, edge? I think it is.

Bob DeMarco [01:04:36]:
I think the Finwolf proves that, but you let me know. Alright. Be sure to join us tomorrow night for Thursday night knives. And remember, this month, if you wanna become a patron, you stand to get a custom made hogtooth knives and knife junkie nova 1. A beautiful, beautiful knife, and I can't wait to get it in your hot little hands. So do go check that out at the knife junkie.com/patreon. For Jim working his magic behind the switcher, I'm Bob DeMarco saying until next time. Don't take dull for an answer.

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