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Bob DeMarco [00:00:00]:
Coming up, my first three dog knife, I unbox a Jack Wolf knife, and Haybars and other classic combat knives. I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie podcast.

Announcer [00:00:14]:
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 [00:00:26]:
Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week was from Carino o, Carino one, who, by the way, sent me this amazing tin of Falcon soberney pipe tobacco. A a an odor from my youth, we'll say. He says, enjoy the episode, Bob. That ancient dagger that was the one found in Poland is really something. Metal detectorist is a pretty fancy description for opportunistic scavenging. Couldn't agree with you more. I had never heard of the term metal detectorist.

Bob DeMarco [00:00:57]:
Of course, I've heard of metal detector, but that's just the tool. The person who use it uses it is a metal detectorist, apparently. Alright. Next comment was from Dion Paige twelve forty five. He says, woah. A clean shaven king junkie. Good thing you got those Civivi blades before the Trump thump, 4% tariff clobbering. Killer blades and killer vid brother.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:23]:
Yeah. Some, some concern, I would imagine, among those who have their knives made in China. I have a lot of them, and I I love them. And a lot of our our fellow, knifefluencers here on YouTube have their knives made over there. So, hope hope that doesn't, hurt too much, before things, even out. Alright. That said, let's now get to a pocket check.

Announcer [00:01:49]:
What's in his pocket? Let's find out. Here's the knife junkie with his pocket check of knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:56]:
In my front right pocket today, I had the beautiful reissued Persian. Now, this is no longer called called the Persian. This is an Emerson Knives PTAC. It's now called the PTAC, but this was, originally called the Persian. It's got a nice just over four inch blade of one fifty four centimeters. They're traditional blade steel and no, no, wave feature on this one. One of the few Emerson knives with no wave, though we have seen recently, more and more knives coming out from Emerson without the wave. But this old design, was one of the first not to have a wave.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:36]:
And I gotta say, I always the wave is always welcome to me, but it's nice to have an Emerson where you're just kind of forced to, slowly open it. You can flick it open. Of course, this is a single detent Emerson. I think starting around 2015, '20 '16, they took away that front, opposite side detent, under the, under the bolster or where the bolster would be, in in favor of just a single detent. And those are much more, flickoutable if you want. But I love this knife, and, this was a my most recent Emerson purchase. Emerson is on the do not sell list. I have sold a few in the past or given a few away, but no more no more will that happen.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:23]:
Next up in my front right pot oh, well, it went between front right, front left, is the beautiful GEC number 71. This is the Bull Nose, a sodbuster style design. Really, really nice knife. This is a a pretty coveted, GEC model. And when these have come out in the past, they've been slightly less expensive, than the other, GECs. These are in the field, field model here and, meaning they're they're more worker knives, working knives, and you have a full no bolsters, full micarta handle, with liners, of course, and that beautiful ten ninety five blade steel. This one, if you look at the, at the serial number here, 7151 so 71 is the model number, five is the style of main blade Here, this drop point sodbuster style one, the middle number there, determines how many or or denotes how many blades are in the knife and then 18. This was made in 2018, so this is a seven year old knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:31]:
Such a great such a great knife. I've had that leather fob on there forever. I need to start carrying my GECs a little more. I've kinda fallen off with with them in

Bob DeMarco [00:04:42]:
the past, couple years here.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:43]:
Next up on my belt riding Front Scout is the Teakal Knives Combatant. This is the second iteration or version of this knife where you see a change in the blade. A bit more of a drop, a bit more of an acute point, and a long swedge. I love this knife. This is an this is one of those ultimate work knife, flex into self defense knives if needed. I mean, most knives do that anyway, but I guess maybe it's the name combatant and that new swedge and the new blade shape, which is a little more thrusty or pokey if you will. But it has this great short handle. A lot of the Tikal knives are known for their shorter handles that give you just enough to grip and nothing extra to pry the knife out if you're in a knife fight, on the Punyo side, and also makes them much easier to carry because these are, you know, EDC fixed blade knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:05:42]:
You don't want some giant handle, always getting in the way and always printing under your clothes. But if this knife handle is too small for you, if you're a big guy with, giant mitts, you can get aftermarket scales from TKEL knives that extend the grip on a number of different knives. Some of them extend the grip with a ring, those are called the Sentry handles, or this one just has a, an extended handle you can get for this and the Adversary and, there will be more knives coming out on that, handle platform. By the way, if you like Tikal knives and you wanna help support the channel and, get 10% off your own purchase, you can buy a Tikal knife through the knifejunkie.com/Tikal. I get a little bump and you get 10% off. All you have to do is put the coupon code Bob Demarco, one word, all caps, when it comes time to purchase. And, and you will you will benefit and so will Tikal knives and so will I. So, kind of a win win win, if you will.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:44]:
Last up for emotional support on my belt. Just kidding. It wasn't on my belt, but it was in my bag. This beautiful new knife new to me knife. This is the Boker Arbelito Bowie. This one's made in Argentina, has a beautiful leather sheath. I mean, just really full leather sheath. And I love how it, it mimics the contours of the blade itself.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:05]:
So the sheath is recurved as well as the knife itself. This was a trade with my buddy Strings. He is a frequent, contributor to Thursday night knives, and we've done two trades thus far. And this has been a really great one. Huge fan of this knife. It is in n six ninety five steel, n 16, n six ninety five steel. Apparently, it's not the, the tough it's not that it's not tough. It is tough.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:36]:
It's it's not the most, edge retentive, steel out there. But I'm not using this at all, basically. But this is not a knife I would take out and baton wood with or do, you know, that kind of outdoor stuff. This is more of a knife for, let's just say, fighting or self defense. And since I don't do any fighting or self defense with knives, this is just a collector piece for me. Let's be honest. I have a collection of Bowies. I love this Bowie, and so that's that's the niche this fills.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:09]:
Also, it was an opportunity to, trade with my buddy Strangs, a really, really excellent knife that I no longer use. And if you're curious, that is the, Maxace Sandstorm peg. Really cool, big folder, and I know sometime down the line, I'll say, I regret getting rid of that. I love that knife. But, as for now, I'm I'm really, really happy with this trade, and, I love this Arbelito bow. So that's what I had on me today. My emotional support knife, my ESK today was the, Boker Arbelito. My, belt fixed blade carry was the combatant from T Pal Knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:48]:
My slip joint today was the GEC number 71, bullnose. And in my front right pocket today, the absolutely beautiful and long awaited, to me, Emerson TTEC. What did you have on you? Let me know. Drop it in the comments below. Always, always good for

Bob DeMarco [00:09:05]:
me to see what you guys are carrying.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:07]:
Alright. Next up, I just wanna showcase real quick what the, April gentleman junkie knife giveaway knife or this time packing, will be. You will be getting a bolt pen from Off Grid Knives, an XL aluminum tactical pen, beautiful, color, well, this one is the stealth gray. You would be getting the black, Right? Yes. The black model. And, so this knife has a great, milled finger section here. It's micro milled and it's got well, it's got micro milling within those, interlocking hexagons. And then you have a, a bolt action here with a, what is it? Parker Jotter style, pen in there and then you have on the front a glass breaker.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:59]:
Really cool bolt pen. This is my first ever bolt action pen, so I love it. This one is mine. Yours will be black. And then speaking of black, the blackout model of the Sidekick, the off grid knife sidekick, a really, compelling EDC version of the backcountry. So that's that, backcountry blade, that humpback drop point, so beautiful with the recurve. But this time, it's three and a half inches long, and it's got great chimping up the thumb ramp and down the other side, on the blade itself. So really, really excellent purchase.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:37]:
Beautiful arced handle. I really love the ergonomics on this handle. Wouldn't mind if they redesigned the, the larger knife, the Backcountry, to have this same sort of arced handle. It's just stupendously comfortable. And, this knife is really, really easy to EDC. I have one and, I carry it in the waistband samurai style that is with a, cord attaching it to my belt. But it does come with this really cool rotatable plastic clip. So, any way you wanna orient it on the belt, you can turn this and it'll stay there.

Bob DeMarco [00:11:12]:
You can even tighten it down, if you wanna make it semi permanent. When I first got it, I was carrying it around scout style on the front, worked out great. So really awesome knife and a great package here. You've got you're gonna get the black Bolt pen and the black Sidekick from Off Grid Knives. But that is only if you were a gentleman junkie. And so top tier of support on, Patreon. Just go to the knifejunky.com/patreon. Check that out.

Bob DeMarco [00:11:41]:
Also, if, I was mentioning a, a, purchase code before for decal knives. We also have one for off grid knives. If if you like the off grid knives and you wanna get one, they have great folders too. You can go to the knifejunkie.com/offgrid and, buy it that way. So that's what we have coming up, in April for the Gentleman Junkie knife giveaway. It's gonna be hard to part with this one, but luckily, I have the coyote canned version. One might argue for a, an a concealed carry fixed blade, all black is the way to go. Just kinda keeps it no poke.

Bob DeMarco [00:12:19]:
Alright. I just wanted to mention nightjunky.com/patreon. That's where you can go to check out, the three different tiers of support we have. You can do that or you can scan the QR code right here on your screen. Go check that out. And if you like this little package and you wanna be a part of the giveaway on the third Thursday of every month, go to the knifejunkie.com/patreon. Again, that's the knifejunkie.com/patreon.

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Bob DeMarco [00:13:10]:
A new cevidi out. Now this one is designed by the son of the great and powerful, Ken Onion. Ken Onion, we know him for years and years creating some of the the most, beautiful folders for CRKT, Kershaw, and, under his own, shingle. Also, ZT. Great ZT. I have a a nice, Ken Onion ZT 200. That's a beautiful knife. Anyway, he's got a son, Ken Onion Junior, who is a second generation knife maker now.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:41]:
This one is called the Krabby. The Krabby. It is a beautiful little EDC knife. His, his debut, Ken Onion Junior's debut was with the 02/2023 CRKT Bamboozled. I don't know if you remember the Bamboozled. I remember the name, and I like it. Anyway, the Krabby, 2.7 inches of 14 c 28, and we have a modified sheep's foot blade modified because that tip is a little higher than the usual sheep's foot, and it doesn't have a straight edge. It has a little belly there.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:14]:
Kinda like yours truly. So it this is a thumb stud opener. And currently or when it drops, which is soon, it will come in these purple scales, with that nice satin blade. I love the look of a purple, I gotta say. And, you know, we're in Lent right now. As I record this, it's, Palm Sunday. So, probably shouldn't be doing this on Palm Sunday. But, purple, we know, is a holy color.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:42]:
It is a royal color, and it's one of my favorite colors, purple and maroon. So it's kinda cool that we're we're seeing, a pretty rare color for Cevivi too. Liner lock here, three lanyard holes. A little tip of the hat to the design, style, and flare of his father and onion. Again, I said that's a 2.7 inch blade, so just a little bit smaller than your, than your average EDC. Nice, beautiful little knife. It would I would put it on the same shelf as, like, the Banter or something like that. Right side only pocket clip.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:17]:
So as they as they say, lefties, you're out of luck. Alright. Next up, this one is about Muteki. Now Muteki is the company that, Murray Carter has set up for his this one was given to me by Murray Carter off of his neck at Blade Show twenty twenty three, not to drop names, but, it's one of my proudest, knife possessions. Murray Carter, if you remember from the interview he we had here on the show, is a Canadian knife maker who, in his, young manhood, moved to Japan and studied knife making in Japan and became, in the town he was living in, the seventeenth generation, knife maker in that town. So he was the guy that everyone brought their knives to, everyone bought knives from and tools from. And he was the first non Japanese guy, to to to hold that position of town, knife maker. And he learned some incredible skills and, you know, really, really flexed into an arts a a knife maker's knife maker.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:22]:
And, he started his company called Muteki, quite a while back, in which he features the work of his apprentices. He's he's got this incredible, valuable rare knife making steel. He's got a bunch of apprentices. So the Muteki line, his apprentices make his designs, with their own personal flare and their own maker's mark, and they were selling those knives. Well, a luthier, that's someone who makes stringed instruments, hollow stringed instruments, I guess. He is a custom violin maker named Ed Byler. Well, he and his three sons, just bought the company, Nuteki. His three sons, Paxton, Zach, and Zane, who have all been interested in knives for a long time.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:09]:
They just bought the Mutecki brand, and they're going to be carrying it on. So let's see. The three of them so Paxton is the youngest son, and he was the one who first started making knives. They've all been training now, with Murray Carter. And, they're going to be going to Japan with Murray to to meet all of his, suppliers and stuff. And they're the guys who are gonna be taking over the Mutechie brand. So I think it's pretty cool. For quite a while, they will be, Murray Carter's the guy in the middle with the glasses, you can probably tell.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:43]:
And those are, Paxton Zane and Zack, and then Ed Byler himself. They are going to be, learning the craft. They are learning the craft from him. They will be, checking out, various, things in Japan, including suppliers. They've already bought his special clay for heat treating and, they will be making the the Murray Carter designs for a while, but they are now currently, now, crap. They are currently developing their own design to be, to be releasing soon. A new batch of these Byler made Mutecki knives are now available at knives ship free which is, pretty cool. Apparently, they've sold a number of, of the Byler made knives and and the Carter, fan base are very happy with them.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:33]:
So it's cool to hear. It's interesting to see a brand being passed off, especially something so personal as new techy, being passed off to another very personal outfit, a family. And I always talk about how I love family knife stories. Well, this is, one heck of a family knife story. So if you're interested in these beautiful knives, go check out, kniveshipfree.com, and they have, the Byler made of new pecky knives there. This is not a paid endorsement, as they say. Okay. One last thing in knife life news.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:06]:
I wanna talk about the Hawaii knife ban, bill. It's, SB state bill four thirty three dead on arrival, due to vagueness and lack of hearing by the deadline. So that's very exciting to me because this is this is one of those, sort of very irksome, knife bills they tried to get, passed through. And I'm gonna quote here from knife rights. As written, nobody, not a resident, not a police officer, not a prosecutor, could possibly look at the proposed statute and know for sure what a, quote, unquote, belated weapon is, that's being banned. So, knife rights, Doug Ritter says, a not at all unreasonable interpretation of bladed weapons would have banned carry of a common pocket knife in Hawaii. And this is ironic, except for switch blades and butterfly knives, which we're supposed to bully of are so, like, the most dangerous and scary of all. Who decides whether it's a bladed weapon? Certainly not the average resident or visitor.

Bob DeMarco [00:20:14]:
And then the the rest of what I'm about to read is from Blade magazine. In other examples, fillet knives used for recreation, subsistence, and commercial fishing, and hunting knives used for boar hunting, a popular means of reducing feral hog populations on the islands and a popular tourist business, could have been banned, as could a box cutter carried by a worker in a warehouse. So, so grateful, so thankful for the work of knife rights and so grateful that this stupid law, I will say it's stupid law, was shot down. It wasn't a law yet. This stupid bill was shot down. I'm gonna file this in the category of most politicians don't know a damn thing about the weapons they're trying to ban or the tools, the weapons in quotes, or tools they're trying to ban. Look at the the crazy gun laws, like in Colorado going up now, and and these stupid knife laws that these people are just just trying to, virtue signal. Alright.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:17]:
That said, that's a little bit of editorial from me. We're gonna move on to the state of the collection. I got some really cool stuff to show before we get to k bars and other classic combat knives. But before we do, wanna remind you of of a couple of things. We have some great merch, at the knife junkie Com / shop. You can go there and check out the great, t shirt designs. You can check out mugs, aprons for grilling. Sorry about that.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:43]:
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Bob DeMarco [00:22:15]:
Thursday night knives. One last thing to remind you of, Thursday night knives is our live show every Thursday at 10PM Eastern Standard Time on YouTube and we have a great time. It's it's when I feel like I get to let down my hair, not there's much of it, but we get to talk. We have a a robust audience or I don't even wanna say audience. It's like we're sitting around the coffee table, shooting the breeze about knives. And, it's a really, really fun time. And I've met a lot of you, through that show, and I get to meet you at Blade Show. So lastly, Blade Show is coming up.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:51]:
I have my hotel. I have my tickets. I have my my, flight booked, which, by the way, I'm nervous about flying these days. So come help me, relax, meet me in the pit. We will arrange something here, real soon, and, and I'll talk about it on Thursday night knives so people there, can find me. But if you see me at blade show, come up and say hi. Let me know who you are, because you get to see my my face, but I don't know who you are. I just know you by name.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:18]:
So come introduce yourself. It would be my pleasure. Alright. Coming up, the state of the collection.

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Bob DeMarco [00:23:43]:
So I got a new knife from Mike Wharton of Northern Knives. Northern Knives, I'm sure you, heard the interview recent interview, is not just, like, the greatest, knife shop, especially, in the West, but also in Alaska and and North Of Canada. They also have a knife shop where they make their own knives called Three Dog Knife. And Mike sent me this beautiful MAC, m a k, and I'm really, really excited about it. First of all, just an absolutely beautiful sheath here, also made in Alaska by Dee Johnson, sheath maker. Really, really, really beautiful leather sheath. I'm a big fan, of leather as you know, but here is the knife. This is the MAC and it is a beautiful outdoor do everything utility knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:35]:
He sent this to me and said, you can keep it or, you can give it away or you can keep it and I'll send you another one to give away. I opted for the third option. Imagine that. So look here soon. We will be giving one of these away as soon as, as soon as we get it. But this is beautiful. M390, you've got a beautiful saber grind here. Very, very wickedly sharp.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:00]:
I really like the design here. It kind of flexes, between all sorts of utility designs. Plus in a pinch, you could fight a bear off with it. You're like, Bob, have you ever seen a bear in person? Only at the zoo. I don't know if you could fight a bear off with it, but it would give you a better chance than nothing. Really awesome jimping here and quarter inch slabs of, milled down g 10. It is so comfortable in hand and you've got these, finger grooves on the side of the blade which allows you, a lot of different options when, when using this knife for your different camp chores. Of course, I always have to try it reverse grip.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:40]:
Now that you would be using this knife much in that capacity, but you can strike a ferro rod, off of this exposed pommel and you can also use that exposed pommel to crack open things that you might eat that you find in the woods. I know. I know. I'm not very convincing as an outdoorsman. I pretty much don't know what I'm talking about. But, I do know that this is, built and bred for the, Alaskan bush. M390 blade steel, will keep you going for a long time. You won't have to sharpen this.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:15]:
Absolute beauty. So this is the Mac by Breedog Knife, a Northern Knives subsidiary. Alright. I'm gonna put it in its sheath and just show you real quickly this cool tag, this dog tag that came, you know, the free dog knife dog tag, came on the lanyard, in the lanyard hole. Absolutely love it. It's got, Anchorage, Alaska where it was made. It's got the the date that it was made. It's got the steel, and or the materials, m three ninety and o g g 10, o g green g 10.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:51]:
And then, MAC. Really cool. I like this feature. It it beats a birth card as far as I'm concerned. Really like that. Alright. Next up, the company, CORE, who makes a lot of, EDC and, concealed carry stuff for firearms, they sent me a belt which, is is currently I'm I'm working on it. I'm making it fit my body.

Bob DeMarco [00:27:15]:
I'm gonna show you the knife they sent me though. That's why they reached out to me. We're a knife channel. They said, we're making a knife. Let us send this to you. This is called the core standard issue. And on one side, it's got this really awesome, harpooned Americanized tanto blade with super sharp serrations and excellent jimping. Here's the company, CORE.

Bob DeMarco [00:27:42]:
And, that is Sanmai VG 10. So you've got that on one side. It comes in gray and black, black and black, and green and black like this one. And then with sort of axis style release, though it doesn't it's not set up exactly like an axis lock. It's actually, the lock fits in an internal groove on the tang of the blade instead of fitting over the the, back of the tang. And then on this side, you've got this really cool utility knife. So any sort of pull cut, draw cut kind of thing, you're gonna be using this for. You you can use this for, but also for seat belt cutting.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:22]:
This would be an awesome knife to keep in the car and then, reach reach under the seat belt and cut it if you needed to because it doesn't have, a point and the way it's angled off gives you a lot of leverage on the cut. You've got sort of a, sort of a standard, three screw clip. It reminds me a bit of a Spyderco clip here. And, so I I would imagine you could substitute out, different clips for it if you like a deep carry clip. But I really like this knife. I'm gonna be doing a close-up video of it. For me, this is not necessary it would be easy to pocket carry, but this is not necessarily a pocket carry knife for me. This is a put in my bag and have when that when the crab hits the fan right here.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:07]:
This is the kind of knife I would want. So lots of utility, really strong lockup, great grip, pretty standard pocket clip and a unique two bladed, design here. And I can even manipulate it with my left hand. So this is the Core standard issue knife. Go check them out at core.com. They've got some really cool stuff. I'm really excited about the belt they sent. I am going to transition to an outside the waistband holster.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:39]:
I just think they're more comfortable and I wear enough usually have enough cover garments, that that shouldn't shouldn't be an issue, but we'll see. It's an exploration. And I'm gonna be using, that core belt as my as my meaning belt. So I'm excited about that. Alright. Last up. Something we don't usually do on this show, an unboxing. And, I'm really excited about this one.

Bob DeMarco [00:30:01]:
This is a new one from Jack Wolf Knives. This is their second fixed blade knife. So I will be using the, their first fixed blade knife, the midnight lamp, after hours midnight jack, to open it. And here, this one, I'll just show it off real quickly. This one has beautiful linen, black linen micarta. It's like double black. So nice. And I have this put this little leather fob in there.

Bob DeMarco [00:30:30]:
You just remove the scales and then you can put a a, lanyard over the little post under there. But since we're unboxing a fixed blade here, I will use a fixed blade to do so. Alright. Just one simple putt there will do it and let's get into this. Okay. So per usual, or or I guess this is now becoming a usual, the fixed blade comes in a case that's very evocative of, like, a CD case, a DVD case. I'm sorry. Like, a DVD collection case.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:03]:
This is called the vampire fixed EDC. So part of the vampire line. And here we can see a vampire fighting a, werewolf. It looks like the vampire is on the ropes though, interestingly enough. Alright. Let's pull this out. Right. You got your nice, magnetized box here.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:24]:
Oh my goodness. Look at that. Oh, oh, that is beautiful. And it this one comes with a fob. Oh, how nice. So this is a oh, man, this is nice. S90V blade steel as usual and then this beautiful rosewood. Look at that.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:43]:
It looks like the fretboard of a guitar. Oh my gosh. I love that material. That is beautiful. And then you have a a titanium bead on a, kind of a Chris Reeve knives style lanyard or I don't know how else to put that. I don't know what that that particular knot is called but really nice. This is a shortish handle, so they're gonna keep this. This is staying within the confines of the size of a of a vampire jack.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:13]:
And to do so, they, made the blade or the no. What I'm trying to say is, if this were within the confines of a vampire jack folder, it would have a longer handle. And so this handle is slightly truncated, same shape, coffin shape there, and then you have that fob to sort of keep the whole thing in the hands because it's kind of a three finger grip without it. So this will help draw the blade from the sheet and then it will also help keep it in hand. That S90V is beautifully, hand rubbed, horizontal hand rubbed. I just can't get over how beautiful that rosewood is. I've seen pictures of this, of course, but my version just looks way better than what I've seen in pictures. And the pictures have been beautiful.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:04]:
Look at that white stitched leather. Man, that is nice. This sheath is white stitched, really, robust black leather, and it's got a, discrete carry concepts style clip on it. So this will definitely stay nicely moored in the pocket.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:23]:
I'm gonna

Bob DeMarco [00:33:24]:
going to put this in here and show you. You gotta kinda squeeze these a little bit to get it to open up. And let's just there you go. That's the whole package. Beautiful knife. Thank you, Ben Belkin at Jack Wolf Knives for sending this to me. I am really excited to start carrying this. I'm not sure where I will carry it.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:46]:
Front right pocket at first and then I'm sure it will migrate to the back left. That's where I like to carry small smaller knives, back left pocket. That is a beautiful package. So I'll put them next to each other. Two beautiful fixed blade knives from Jack Wolf Knives, in the spirit of Jack Wolf Knives and in the lines of the, of the midnight jack and the vampire jack. There we go. Thank you for joining me for my first unboxing here on, on the knife on the Knife Junkie podcast. I'm excited to do that.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:19]:
It's kind of a fun thing to do. That said, I think it's time to get into k bars and other classic combat knives. Jim, do we have a new t shirt to show? Yeah. Check this out. Blades boots and beer. Now you might know this about me, but I love boots. I I I'm not a collector by any means, but I have my favorite pair of, Red Wing Iron Rangers that, I wear on a nearly daily basis. They're just so comfortable.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:45]:
It's so cool looking. So, I'm particularly fond of this one because I also love beer, though I've I've man, I've had to put the kibosh on it because, as it gets warmer, I'm getting more enthusiastic about it and, you know, the waistline. And I'm I'm doing some reading about it, so I'm trying to improve my health. So the beer will have to be on occasions, on good occasions, fun occasions, like Sunday. Just kidding. So blades, boots, and beer. We've got a beautiful combat knife there. Some boots and some beer.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:19]:
And the funny thing is is, Jim made this without even knowing that this show was gonna be about hay bars and combat knives, and here he designs one, that's very, very on theme. So go to the knifejunkie.com/shop to find this and many, many other beautiful designs. Okay. So I'm talking about Ka Bar's and other classic combat knives because, this could have been a part of the state of the collection, but I figured I'd wait till show this to you now. This is the Ka Bar Dog's Head Utility Knives. Now this is a Ka Bar that came out, in the February here, about was it, 02/2018, I think, this first debuted. And this is Ka Bar's answer to those who love the Ka Bar knife but want something more for utility, bushcraft, camping, and that kind of thing. To me, it still looks like a hundred percent combat knife, but they changed it up a little bit giving the pommel, a little bit more, to it so you can use it first of all, you can tie a lanyard in the lanyard hole at the end of the pommel here.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:26]:
But you can also use this. It's a it's a lot thicker than the average, it's a bit thicker than the average pommel on, a regular Tabar Combat Utility Knife. So you can use it for hammering stuff, tent pegs, etcetera. And then they reduced the they thickened and reduced the size of the, guard here. So the guard does not have, equal sized quillions that come off of it. The top one is shorter, for putting your thumb on top of the blade like that. Beautiful, Crovan steel as usual, so ten ninety five Crovan steel. Really nice grinds on this.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:08]:
The swedge is thick enough on the back that you can, hammer with it. You can, baton with it without chewing up your baton, too much. And, you've got the beautiful stacked leather handles. I love this. I don't really think of this at all as a as a, as a camping knife or as a not that I wouldn't use it as such, but to me, it's still a full bred combat knife. You might be asking why it's called a dog's head. Well, there you have it. They put a dog's head.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:35]:
I'm not even sure of the significance of that. Couldn't really find much about that about that particular mark, but you see it there and you see it on the beautiful full grain leather sheath here. So I'm really happy to have this one in my collection. It's one that I've been I've had in my bin on Amazon frankly for years and I finally pulled the trigger on it. I don't even know why, but I'm so happy I did. Alright. Next up is the first k bar I ever had in my collection. This is, from my brother Vic and, it's starting to show its age.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:08]:
I got this in 1991, I believe, who got this for me. And I don't know. Yeah. It doesn't. Early nineties, he got this for me. And, this is, USMC Ka Bar, replica. So this is a replica of the first version of the Ka Bar as it was, in World War two. So you've got a little bit more of a scoopy clip and a little bit more of an acute edge.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:34]:
I mean, that is a sharp edge on that clip. So more of a of a fighting knife in that fighting utility moniker. This is, tends more towards the fighting side. This, I remember, was kind of a dull knife and I sharpened it over the years. I I learned how to sharpen better and better. Have used it a little bit here and there. You can see some some scratchage on the blade, but I've gotten the blade wickedly sharp and I've gotten the swedge, honed that really nicely too. So this is definitely a full fledged, fighting knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:08]:
You can see the production in the nineties, early nineties. You can see that grind is not, you know, would not be accepted today from knife buyers slash, knife collectors. Pretty wonky, but I still love it. You can see a hint of rust on this knife, and that just kinda never goes away. And I oil it and I do other stuff to it. Doesn't really go away, but it's kind of a patina at this point. Here we can see the original and, the usual quillons, the usual guard, a thinner piece of metal, bent down back towards the hands which, honest to goodness, never made as much sense to me as if they were pushed forward a little bit, but they aren't and that's just how it is. Beautiful stacked leather handle has really stood the test of time.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:57]:
This is an old knife and it it's just great. You know, we've had no drying out of it, no, fitment issues at all. I know people bristle at how this has got a thin tang, that is capped off with this pommel and held in by a pin that goes this way, goes perpendicular to the tang through the guard, through the pommel and through the end of the tang. People, are not as fond of that setup, but this thing is robust, stout, and sturdy, and has lasted a long time. So has this sheath. I love it with the globe, anchor, and eagle there. And, and look at that. This it looks like it's from World War two in Seoul, but, actually, it doesn't because you'll see one that is from World War two that my brother also got me.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:48]:
As a matter of fact, besides that dog head k bar, he has gotten me all of my Ka Bars, which is four, three. Okay. So this one is from World War two. This is a navy issued, Ka Bar style knife. So the MK two, I believe, is the is the designation. The Mark two USN.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:09]:
I'll show you this.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:11]:
Made by Camillus in New York. There are different ways you can date these knives. This is this one says Camillus n y, and on this side, USN. So US Navy, and since it says Camillus n y and not just Camillus, this can be dated back to the World War two era. Kind of a blunted tip there, sharp clip and, sharp blade. Someone definitely took the time to make sure that this thing was super sharp. And if you look at it, the grinds on this were, really nice. Very even.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:43]:
You got that nice fuller and still, this is World War two era, so this is, you know, 80 years old or so. And that handle is still just stout and sturdy. Without the use of modern of our current modern day epoxies, this thing has just held up beautifully. Same style of pommel and, I wonder what this knife saw. It's always interesting for me with these historical pieces, to to muse on that. Really nice sheath here, and something I like about this is that someone personalized it, put that feather carved that feather in there.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:24]:
I really like this.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:26]:
Bit of history. I like, not only is this a historical blade, but this was someone's. And I will never know whose this was or what it saw and what they experienced, but it's in my collection now, and I feel, I don't know. I feel the weight of it, and it's a it's a weight I like, if that makes any sense to you. It's cool to have. Same same with these things behind me on the wall. Almost all of those are historical, to some degree and it makes me wonder what they went through, what they saw, and more importantly, what the the owners went through and what they saw and used those knives for. This next one, is the last K Bar, featuring here.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:10]:
This one was given to me by my brother. Also, the sheath is beautiful leather, but it's brand new. This is a replacement sheath, that my brother got for this night. Now this is a Camillus made Mark II. This also has a sharp swedge and obviously a sharp edge. You can see it's been, polished down. The lines are a little, less crisp on the grind and on the, fuller there. And then if you look at this it says on one side nothing and on this side it says US Camillus.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:48]:
So US on top, Camillus on bottom. No New York. No NY designation means this was made after 1974, but I just don't know when. Beyond that, I don't know when. Another curious thing about this and I I did some searching and couldn't really find much. This has an s shaped guard. And I don't know if this was done expertly, beautifully done by the owner himself, but it doesn't look like it. I have a couple of nines where the where the, like for instance, my Western w 49 where, the s was stressed and you can just tell it wasn't done by a machine.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:27]:
This really looks machine done, but I I haven't been able to find anything about it. I do like an s curve, s curve guard because the bottom forward portion here, wraps around the forefinger while the top, kind of gives you a place to brace your thumb if you need to, in a way that the backward facing quillings don't. Another beautifully done leather handle here, and then that same sort of pommel. This one, even though it doesn't say USN, US Navy on it, makes me believe because of the polish that it might be because, you you just see that, the high polish doesn't give as much of a place for, rust to grab in because the, there aren't pores there, say, from blasting or that kind of thing. However, if you look at it at the very tip, you can see some hitting. So I just don't know the the prominence of this, but it just makes me wonder and I love that. I love that aspect of these historical knives. K.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:36]:
The next one is a combat classic. However, it's not a historical knife at all. This is one that I got from, KnifeCenter And it is my one of my two Randalls. This is the Randlemade sixteen seven sixteen dash seven SP number one. Now, technically, this is not a combat classic because this combination wasn't really around during World War two, but what was is this spectacular number one style blade. So the the Randalls are all numbered. The models all have numbers. That's how they work.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:16]:
The first number is the model number, so this is the 16, and you can see that in the handle. And then there's a dash and another number, and in this case seven, that's the length of the blade. And in this case, it's the special number one fighter. So it's it's this number 16 handle with the, with the finger grooves, and then the number one, the the Randall made number one fighting blade on the 16 handle. So I'm really showcasing the blade for this one because, the number one handle is a little different. There are a bunch of different style handles you can get for the one, but this one didn't exist during World War two. Alright. That was way more convoluted than need be, but a beautiful blade indeed.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:04]:
I love Randall made knives, and this number one blade is probably my favorite. Even more, than say the Sportsman Bowie, which is cool, or the number 14 attack, all clip points. This one is a bread fighter. Yes. You could use it for utility, but that's not what this was its main purpose was. I'm sure that's what it got used for mostly though. Let's hope. That, top edge, that false edge is not false.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:32]:
It is quite sharp as are the, false edges on most, most Randall made knives. Even ones you wouldn't expect like hunting knives have, have sharpened swedges and I really, really love that aspect of these knives. Beautiful leather sheath comes with, a sharpening stone, Arkansas stone in there, and, just the fully traditional setup here. I also like that when you unclasp the, strap here, you can tuck it behind the belt loop there so you can take it in and out without having to fuss with the with the strap too much. The strap is on the, edge side which always sticks in my craw in any knife, because as you draw it, you can cut it. But, hey, man. This is a classic so I'm not going to, fret much. Alright.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:23]:
That's the RandallMaid sixteen-seven SP number one fighter. Next up is the combat, stiletto. This thing is the, probably the coolest dagger going. This is the Randall made two dash seven fighting stiletto. Had no choice with, with a stiletto, but to have the clasp on a an edge side because this, of course, has two edges, and it's one of my favorite looking daggers of all time. You've got sweeping edges here that, and and a thickish style blade with hollow grinds. So this is gonna be decent at slashing. I know daggers oftentimes are very, very thrust oriented, but this one will do well on a cut and slash as well.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:16]:
You've got a medial ridge that comes pretty much to to the front third of the blade, so it's it's pretty, pretty stout. You turn it on its side and look and you can see that it is, it's, one of your more stout daggers out there. And, great for combat because a lot of, more dainty daggers, combatants would break the tip-off and then sharpen it like a chisel so that, you don't have to worry about it coming off in service. This one has the commando style handle, so that wasp wasted handle there. Looks, it's sort of evocative of a of a, Fairbairn Sykes. And, then you have the beautiful brass double guard here. Four forty style, four four forty stainless steel, are these, two examples I have. Aluminum butt cap and I gotta say that leather handle is just so great.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:14]:
It feels so good in hand whether you're gripping it in a, a fencing style saber grip, in a hammer grip, or this sort of sideways I call it a shovel grip. I'm not exactly sure what that style grip is called. But I know it was used a lot in fighting like this. You get sideways swipes and and then a great thrust. Very robust tip on this one also, so you don't have to worry too much about it breaking off. Next is another World War two era knife. This is a John Eck designed knife. Now this is a modern, manufactured Habar Eck.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:55]:
This was given to me by Doug Bull, a great dude here on, on YouTube and a frequent, contributor on Thursday Night Knives. He's given me some outstandingly cool knives and I gotta say, I think this is chief among them, but there we see John X Commando Knife Company. So these were made started being made in 1941. This is the model four. Model five is a beautiful clip point, but they have the same handle. That John X style handle is very, signature. This has an Esguard, X 44. You can see that right there.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:37]:
But it's originally the model four, so I'm not sure why it's called both, but if you look on the website it is called both. You have on this one a pretty interesting, edge because most of this blade is the flat and then it comes to a very, very wicked sharp edge, but it's almost like it's Scandi ground, almost. And the reason for that is, again, robustness. You have full thickness all the way nearly to the tip and when you turn it on its side like this and look at it, it is, a very very stout blade. Daggers, like I said, could be, an issue especially if you need it to do double duty as utility and fighting. Knife, if it's if it's too thin, you know, just by its very nature to get two edges on, a reasonably width blade, you're gonna have a lot of thinness there. This, remedies that and that keeps it strong and stout. Nice long handle, I think the long handle allows for this kind of grip, this sort of saber grip on a dagger because, on a regular dagger you can't put your thumb on the back of the blade, obviously.

Bob DeMarco [00:52:54]:
So here this gives you room to move back. Even bigger hands find this to be a big handle. And then you have an exposed pommel there for persuasive action. And this, modern Ka Bar, construction of this knife has, glass reinforced nylon handle scales. Yeah. Obviously, those weren't the originals. So beautiful. This, is not the sheet that well, this is the sheet that comes with it, but Doug, the former owner, removed the belt loop there.

Bob DeMarco [00:53:26]:
And so I am going to be buying a new sheath for it just so I have, the full package. And and you can't really carry it without it. It just locks it in. This next one is a combat classic called the SOG Bowie. And this is what the SOG units in, early Vietnam carried, in the early portions of the Vietnam War. And, I just think it's beautiful. So this is a modern, constructed version of this. This is early two thousands, and this is the SOG Super Bowie.

Bob DeMarco [00:54:03]:
So it's a seven inch blade. It is an inch longer than the, than the original, which obviously tell had a six inch blade. But I'm a huge fan of this, style of Bowie overall. I love the double peak on the blade. I love the swedge that comes all the way back to that rearward peak. And then you have something called the shark's tooth tip. So it's just slightly sharpened on the swedge there, which gives you more acuteness in the thrust and, if anyone cares, it also gives you a great back cut. You do that flicking back cut motion, that shark's tube tip, does a great, great job with that.

Bob DeMarco [00:54:44]:
Stack leather handle here is really, really nice. Very comfortable. Also gives you that sort of, saber grip option. It is long enough. My fingers nestle perfectly in the in the, finger wells there. Whether I'm in a, hammer grip like this or a saber grip like this, it just fits up perfectly. I would recommend this for, someone who's got big hands and likes the SOG and, because this one definitely will feel better in your hands than the regular standard six inch SOG, Bowie. This is the knife design I saw first in Terminator two.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:23]:
No, no, no. In Uncommon Valor and then in Terminator two. I just think it's so cool. Such a wicked looking design. And then this old one comes with a great leather sheath, really nice leather and a sharpening stone included. Now I got my brother, last year. I got him the six inch version, modern construction. The knife was awesome.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:45]:
It did feel smaller in hand, of course. The knife is awesome. The sheath is also leather, but it doesn't have the same sumptuous nature as this old older production version. Alright. These last two, to talk about I wonder what these saw. These are two, trench knives. The first one is the, US M nineteen seventeen trench knife used in World War one. It has that long triangular shaped blade, a very, very wicked thrusting blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:56:20]:
You know, this is thrust only. You're not gonna be using this for slashing or anything like that. Though if you hit someone hard on the back of the hand with one of those, one of the apexes of that triangular edge, it would of course hurt, but that's not what this is for. You've got a knuckle duster here that not only protects your hand, but with those, pyramidal spikes, gives you a nasty surface to, hit people with, let's say, or or to mash into skin. And then it's got a Persuader pommel there. Walnut handle, this is old new stock. I I don't know if this was ever used. Doesn't seem like it, just from how, pristine this is.

Bob DeMarco [00:57:05]:
This was purchased again by my brother, from a guy. He collects, my brother collects some military, mostly from World War two, but also dabbles in World War one. And he's got a couple of dealers he goes to. And I look look at that leather, that beautiful green leather. It's, nicely preserved. So this one, I just have a feeling, it sat in a crate somewhere until it was, surplus, because it doesn't really have much damage on the handle. Maybe a little bit, but, yeah. So this is the m 19 17 trench knife, which was deemed pretty unpractical, due to the the blade style.

Bob DeMarco [00:57:49]:
So they quickly designed this in 1918. This is the mark one trench knife, and, this was manufactured by a number of different people, different companies. This is LF and C. So the the idea behind this was creating a knife that you could, not only stab with, but you could slash and cut with and maybe get a little utility out of also. Bronze cast knuckle dusters here intended originally for, for protecting the hand in trench warfare, also making it more difficult to to wrench from somebody's hands. Apparently, from what I've read, those spikes are there to make it harder to grab for an enemy. If an enemy is trying to grab the knife, yes, it's very uncomfortable. I mean, I gotta believe it's there for for, you know, the effectiveness of punching and what that will do to whatever you punch.

Bob DeMarco [00:58:46]:
But, you know, tomato tomato, I guess they all they all fit it. It helps to keep it in hand. It helps to, foil someone trying to pull it out of your hand and it makes for a great striking surface. These went into service way late in World War one, so didn't get much use in World War one. And then they were issued in World War two, because there were a bunch of them left over. They were issued to, the special marine raiders and commandos and, people with special warfare assignments. But the knife was quickly phased out, for the m three trench knife, which is a really, you know, it's a beauty. It's one that we all will rec would recognize, because this uses a lot of materials, a lot of bronze, in that handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:59:33]:
And, we just needed the materials for other things. Also just not stupendously practical. So the m three trench knife is more of a bayonet grind with, one third of the back edge sharpened, full sharp edge. No knuckle duster at all with a, leather stack handle. So and then that that gave way to the Ka Bar a little bit later on. But there it is. That's the, the M1, I mean the Mark one trench knife made in 1918. I sometimes call this, kind of, false lady 1918 trench knife.

Bob DeMarco [01:00:10]:
I mean, I guess if you call it that. So this purchase of the dog head K Bar really inspired me to get this, group together. One I left out is right there behind me. There's the Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger on the wall behind me. That is an original, and I should have put it in this list, but, you know, I didn't. Alright. Well, thanks for joining me here today. I really appreciate it.

Bob DeMarco [01:00:35]:
But be sure to join us on Thursday for Thursday Night Knives, Sunday for a great interview, and, and we'll just keep this ball rolling. Really, do join us on Thursday Night Knives. I wanna know you. I wanna hear what you have to think about the stuff I show here and, find out what you like and, what you collect. Alright. For Jim working his magic behind the switcher, I'm Bob DeMarco saying until next time, don't take dill for an answer.

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