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[0:00] Coming up Winguard wearables drops another item and this time it's a knife.
Off Grid Knives comes out with the perfect Bowie.
And we take a look at my Civivi and Sencut collection. I'm Bob DeMarco.
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[0:32] Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from this past week was from Doug Bowell, B-O-A-L 7620.
He had a great comment. He said, Bob, a little trivia.
According to some traditions, when the 10 to 12 inch 1830s or 1840s Bowie or Bowie was used for self defense, they were usually held edge up when the person was involved in a knife confrontation.
There were brass strips attached to the spine of some knives.
This was not to catch the opponent's blade, which is something I have speculated before, because it's a softer material that it would catch the blade if the edge bit it.
But he says, it was not to catch the knives of the opponent, but to snap strikes on the bony protrusions of the hand, wrist, forearm, etc.
To disarm the opponent. The opponent's blade was almost impossible to grab and the forehead was a regular target causing a laceration wound Blood flowing into the eyes and probably not lethal.
Okay, so some interesting things here First of all that very last point with hitting the forehead in a knife fight Is something that the great and powerful Lynn Thompson has brought up many times With the Americanized tanto in its secondary point right up at the tip He's saying if you flick that kind of like you would a drumstick keeping it loose in your hands flick it and hit the forehead of your opponent.

[1:59] It doesn't do much damage to the opponent, but lots of blood from that area, you know, you see a boxer get their eyebrows split, lots of blood comes out of there, and it can blind them, making you.

[2:12] Giving you an advantage.
But the other thing I find interesting is that really what we're talking about is the spine of the bowie, or the bowie blade, and how some of them had a brass strip here.

[2:26] And Doug Bull is saying it's for defanging the snake, hitting the hands, hitting the forearms, breaking the fingers with your blade so that they drop the knife.
But I'm wondering why you would need a brass strip to do that.
You can just use the spine of the blade or even the edge of the blade to accomplish all that.
So I love this comment. A little bit of mystery still in the Bowie knife fight I hear a lot of different things, but something I hear consistently is edge up.
And a lot of times it was like in the US military in World War II, it was thrust in and heave up, you know, with that edge on top, doing horrible things to your opponent very quickly.
So yeah, the Bowie knife, a great and storied knife from the United States that has a great past and you know, we're still trying to hack through some of that, so thank you very much, Doug Bowl, 7620 for your comment, I loved it, And everyone else who watched and commented this past week is greatly appreciated.
Okay, that long-winded way of saying, now it's time for a pocket check.
What's in his pocket? Let's find out.

[3:41] Here's the knife junkie with his pocket check of knives. In the front right pocket, which is what we usually highlight the most, today I had another historically anchored blade.
This is the Night Horse by Asymmetrical.
That's the mid-tier company from Beyond EDC.
Beyond EDC is an awesome company made of people who came from various other great companies over there in China.
David Kam heading it up, he used to work for Kaiser.
And you can see it in these productions, they're beautiful.
This one is a Dirk Pinkerton design. It's his modernized take on the Spanish navaja, folding knife that was generally tended to be quite large and had a ratchet lock on the back and was used for fighting when Spaniards were no longer allowed to carry swords.
I like the resourceful spirit of the Spaniards, we can't carry swords, that doesn't mean we're going to stop fighting and defending our honor, we'll just do it differently.
I've always loved the horn-shaped handle of the Navaja and that Spanish clip point.
And when I say Spanish clip point, what I mean, and I'm not sure if this is official.

[4:57] But a Spanish clip point, look at Miguel Barbudo on Instagram, he's a Spanish knife maker making some of the most incredible traditional Spanish knives, but a Spanish clip point oftentimes has a long, flat clip, much like this one.
And the belly protrudes down from the tang, widening out at the apex of the belly, and then coming up to that supremely pointed tip.
I love it. I love how Dirk interpreted that classic design, made it modern.

[5:28] Definitely in my top five pantheon of great knife designers and this knife, and it's $30 cousin.
This knife is $115 right now for S35VN and titanium on Smoky Mountain Knife Works, the only place you'll buy this knife.
It's an exclusive there. And if this is too rich for your blood, you can get a $30 version of it with 14C28N and Contour G10, that is exquisite.
I don't know how they do it. Well, maybe I know how they do it, but man alive do they do it, and what a great knife.
So if you have the druthers and the opportunity, I'd say go to Smoky Mountain Knife Works and get yourself a knife for us, no matter what the flight.
Okay, slip joint in my pocket today was a big clip point, riding in this beautiful, sumptuous leather sheath made by Kevin Doody of Doody's Daggers.

[6:20] I have three slips from him now.
He does some awesome stuff, cool guy too. This is the Lake Champlain Barlow from C. Reisner Cutlery.
And it is Austin Jackson's latest design himself.
He does a lot of exclusives over there, traditional pocket knives.
For instance, he's got two exclusives of the QSP Hedgehog, great, great slip joint knife.
He's got his Ohio River Jack and the many six different flavors that comes in, I believe. and then this one, which I'm going to open and close in front of the mic because it's got such tremendous walking power.

[7:02] You know recently I've been in another slip joint phase, and during this slip joint phase, I've learned something new.
I believe that every phase in and out of a hobby, I phase in and out of hobbies, I phase in and out of my martial arts training, and so my justification for that behavior is that when you come back to something, you've learned something, especially when you've been away.
Sort of like absence makes the heart grow fonder.

[7:33] And so that's my justification. Of course, if I had been training solidly for 40 years as a martial artist without taking a year off here or six months there, I'd be an incredible badass.
However, I am not because I have taken breaks.
What I learned on this break from slip joints coming back is that a real modern slip joint, the difference, the main difference between a modern slip joint, and a traditional slip joint is this.
I would call, it's this right here. You see that right where my thumb is?
That is a stop pin down there in the blade well. A stop pin, just like any modern folder has a stop pin.
When this closes, it stops at the stop pin.
Ooh, this has got such great walking talk. So that little sharpening notch there lands right in there on that pin and it doesn't go any further.
So, what you're doing is you're avoiding blade wrap.
Blade wrap comes in a more traditional slip joint knife where this part right here, it's called the kick of the ricasso, is ground to a certain height so that when snapped back in, the blade doesn't overextend and hit the liner causing blade wrap. So.

[8:51] Jack Wolf knives, for instance, does it the old-fashioned way, where they use a kick to stop the blade.
It's got a slightly more traditional feel and sound.
Is it better or worse? No or no and no. It's just different.
And these new, sort of modern, traditional slip joints, where they pop the lock bar in there, or the stop pin in there, work great.
And you really, you have no, there's no danger of blade wrap.
One might argue, as a purist, which I am not, but one might argue that designing a slip joint with a stop pin is not actually designing a slip joint, that you need to consider the kick and the recoil and all that stuff, which I applaud you if you do, for instance, Ben.
If you don't, hey, you're being Rembrandt in the modern age.
You're taking advantage of the tools you have at your behest.
I like to say that if Rembrandt were alive today, he'd be using AI, he'd be using computers and film and digital this and that, because he was an artist seeking the best way to express himself.
If you consider a knife designer's artist, which they are not, they're trying to express their idea as best they can. Okay.

[10:16] Wow, that was like a homily.
All right, next up, I had on me, because auxiliary manufacturing has been on my mind, and you'll see why shortly, I've been carrying the Pocket Rocket.
I carried this today. This is such a great knife, and it's a great appendix carry, even though it's totally straight.
From stem to stern, it is 100% a straight knife, and usually I consider something with a curve a little better to accommodate my curves when I'm wearing appendix fixed blade, when I'm carrying appendix.
And that is the spirit in which the Wingard Wearables new knife, for instance, was designed. We'll talk about that shortly.

[10:59] But this one is just short enough at about six inches, and it's got a three inch blade, that's about six and a half inches, three and a half inch blade, or a three inch blade, three and a half inch to four inch handle.
Okay, I'll be honest, I haven't measured it. But faceted handle works great and nestles very nicely in the fold between, you know that 45 degree angle between my belly and my hip and my leg and all that, that area right up front.
And fits perfectly and is great for just a quick grab because...
The way this handle is set up, it's got these notches here and the thumb and the forefinger really grab that thing easily and quickly and you can bring it to bear without any delay.

[11:48] So I love my Auxiliary Manufacturing Pocket Rocket. I would love to get a couple of others.
He makes some really sweet blades and actually he's loaned one out to me and a number of other knife people to show off a new something he's got coming up, but we'll show that off.

[12:06] Okay, last up on me for emotional support, my ESK, my emotional support knife today, was the Scorpio from Orion Knives.
The Scorpio by David Kam and Orion Knives is such a cool little knife.
Great little clip point with an aggressive profile, Well, jimping on the clip, which is great for indexing, engaging, cut depth, and that kind of thing, especially when going into a box or something like that. You don't want to cut any deeper than that.
Lock your finger into that jimping and go to town.
This might not be a popular way of looking at it, but I think, personally, that David Kam, was one of the pioneers of the flipper button lock, button lock flipper, because this and the Orion Solstice were knives that were, especially the latter, were knives that were out before flipper button locks were all the rage and totally apropos.
And he did it great, and a lot of that is the geometry here.
Putting that flipper far forward of the pivot it really makes this thing.

[13:27] Just jump out of the handle. Like most great small knives, in my opinion, that's my opinion, it's nice and thick.
I like a full width on a small knife. Think of the Baby Rhino from Off-Grid.
Think of the Mini Pelican from QSP.
If you maintain the width of the regular size knife into that mini version, you'll have something great in hand that really locks in. It's not small on all dimensions.
You're not trying to manage it on all dimensions.
So I love this for the action. I love this for the performance.
And yeah, I love it for the design. So that's the Orion Scorpion.
So today, I mean, I had the Night Horse by Asymmetrical Design, I mean, Asymmetrical, and Dirk Pinkerton.
I had the Lake Champlain Barlow from C. Reisner Cutlery. I had the three-inch pocket rocket dagger from Auxiliary Manufacturing, that's Michael Jarvis, and I had David Cam's Orion Knives Scorpion on me.
Do let me know what you were carrying today. I love hearing what people are carrying. That's one of my favorite parts of Thursday Night Knives, by the way.
Check it out tomorrow night, 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, live right here on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch.
But one of the things I really love about that show is getting in live.

[14:52] In real time, everything that everyone was carrying.
Once we do a pocket check and everyone starts chiming in, it's great to hear.
And I always get ideas about ways I can spend my money and be an even better cutter out there.
All right. That being said, I think it's time that we head on over to some knife news, some knife life news.

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What is actually my problem? I can't watch those knife ship-free, knife ship-free ads without like, oh, I need that, and I need the Native 5 Blackout, and I need, I need them all.
My God, what is my problem? That new Bark River knife and tool looks really sweet.

[16:44] And then I didn't know RMJ was making chef's knives. I'm always the last to know, you know? Youngest one, last to know.
Last born, last to know. All right, let's get into Knife Life News.
Because that's a little bit of personal family stuff there, which I didn't mean to bring into the show.
The Civivi Propagnator.
A name that just rolls off the tongue, the Sivivi Propagnator.
A new knife, fixed blade knife that actually, I might be making fun of the name, but I really would love to have this one.
This is by PG Knives, Piotr Goschniak.
Now, okay, Polish, the Polish language is beautiful.
I used to watch Krzysztof Kieslowski movies when I was an artsy-fartsy type, And man, the language, Polish language, especially spoken by a beautiful woman, is an incredible language.
But when I see it written down, man, I run for the hills because I don't know.

[17:45] But anyway, this new Civivi is a really good looking knife, as you can tell, by PG Knives.
PG Knives have been following for years on Instagram.
It's really nice to see companies that I've been following breakthrough, if for no other reason than, man, I knew they were worth following.
But I really like this design. Similar to his custom Defender model, it's a reverse tanto, and I might add, it's a reverse tanto in two ways.
Reverse in that, the general reverse tanto way, basically, you know, at the tip, it's sort of like a wharncliffe, ergo, we'll call it a reverse tanto.
You know I've always bristled with that term.
But it's also a reverse tanto in that an Americanized tanto has two very distinct edges, the main cutting edge and then that forward edge right here.
Well, the propaginator has taken that and reversed it.
So now the short bit is the main part.
The short bit of the blade is what comes straight off the ricasso and then the longer part, The longer secondary edge is the one that ends at the tip.

[19:01] I think it's beautiful. I gotta say, um...
I do, when I'm looking at the Ultim though, when Ultim has too much light coming through it, yes, it does look like urine.
Not that I'm, not that that's a turn-off necessarily, but I've heard people say that Ultim looks like urine, and in this case it kind of does.
But again, not necessarily a negative.
That's for a different kind of show. I personally would go for the black and green model up top.
What I do know is that I would like to get this because as we're talking about today, as you know, this is a CIVIVI SenCut and by extension WE show.
However, I have no WE branded knives.
I have a few WE OEMs knives in here from days gone by, but I really like the look of this.
I love what WE, especially CIVIVI and SenCut are doing, especially with these designs that take a chance.
You know, that's the beauty of a CIVIVI. that's the beauty of a SenCut or a CJRB or a budget line coming from a premium company.

[20:10] Is that they can take chances and do these crazy blade designs that may hit or may not.
This one to me looks like it's gonna hit on all cylinders because I think people love the compound grind, people like a reverse tomtoe, and people like the versatility of having a low tip blade where they can use it in self-defense, but they could also use it for utility.
This is coming out later in December, we are now in December, and it will have G10, as you saw that black G10, it'll have micarta, or ultim scales, aka urine scales.
Check it out, I love ultim a bit, but anyway, that's neither here nor there.
Next off, let's stop talking about that, and let's talk about Real Steel.
Now, when Real Steel came out, they came out, this is just anecdotally, they came out right after that goofy movie about robot fighting came out called Real Steel with the triple threat, what's his name, Wolverine.
And I always thought that was a goofy name for what looked like a goofy movie, but it seems to have picked up a cult.

[21:29] A cult following, anyway, Real Steel has come out with the Bullet.
This is from Torby Designs, and I've been following, here's another Polish maker whose full name I'm not even gonna try and butcher, but Torby Designs makes some really cool knives.
I've been following him on Instagram for a long time, too, and he's done a few collaborations already with the Civivi and We family, but now he's got one here with Real Steel. Very limited production, very.

[22:01] Look at this thing, I can see why. Now one of the things about Torbey designs that sort of signature is the stacked and sort of terraced handles.
So you'll get handles made of different materials or the same materials but stacked in such a way that with each successive layer, you get a little less and a little less and it gives you that terraced, contoured feel.
This thing, I mean I'm just looking at it, Not a knife I want or need, but it is beautiful.
In my opinion, that is a beautiful tanto.
It's taking what is obviously an American tanto, drop point tanto profile, and really riffing on it.
You've got a beautiful fuller, you've got an opening hole, you've got a big choil there, if choils are what you think.
If choils are your thing, especially on a 2.1, a 2.91 inch, 3 inch blade, to me that's a little short to have a choil, but that's just my opinion.
A very comfortable looking handle, angular as it is, and on this very, very, very extremely limited edition that we're looking at, and the reason I say that, three pieces, they made three of them.

[23:18] Three of them. And they didn't make it with something mined off of Jupiter either.
This is just S35VN, but it's that handle with the complex stacking and the brass damascus.
That's why they only made three of them, I'm guessing.
Brass damascus must be quite a material to manufacture. They only could muster up three of them.
But you can get a standard production model coming out soon.
Now, I don't know what that's gonna look like, but no doubt it's not gonna look like that, because they only made three of that.

[23:54] Pretty cool. Real Steel, I'm hot and cold with Real Steel, but I have one here that's gonna be given away eventually.
That Dave of this old sort gave the channel a while ago.
H5, I think it's called. What a cool, cool knife. It was the very first one they came out with. They are no doubt a very good company.
As a matter of fact, they have another one coming out. This is the 2600 Delta.
Doesn't that sound like a cool and kind of official name? 2600 Delta.
This one is capable of speaking multiple languages and infiltrating cultures very much unlike itself so that it can take down governments.
The 2600 Delta is a Poltergeist Works company.

[24:42] Or design. Now, this is another gentleman whose name, I'm just going to say Marcin W.
Of Poltergeist Works. I cannot pronounce his name and I've never heard anyone say his name, so...

[24:57] But I've been following Poltergeist Works for years and our good friend over there at Luck Knives, I know he's got a few of them, Mike has a few custom Poltergeist Works.
To me, they are just really beautiful.
They are such a beautiful expression of modern folding knife-age, and he's done a lot of production collaborations, which is great, especially with Real Steel, because that means regular schnooks like you and me can own a design like this and I really think it's cool.
This is a production adaptation of a custom. It's 2.9 inches of S35VN.
Great new steel you may have heard of.
Just kidding, not to be a snob, but it's always kind of funny when a new and premium thing comes out in S35 now.
Sculpted titanium clip carbon carbon fiber, you can see that fat carbon fiber, or micarta inlays.
I'd love to see that with the micarta inlays.
I do like fat carbon, but I feel at this point it's for the younger generation.
You know, I'm 52 years old. What do I need with a material, a handle material as frivolous and sort of a jocular as that? Not I.
Give me some stolid micarta that I know is going to crip my hand when it gets bloody.

[26:17] These are available now, so So if you like real steel and if you like Poltergeist Works, do go check that out.
All joking aside, I love, here's a signature thing about Poltergeist Works.
You see the pivot and you see the, well, the big, chunky connector at the tail end where maybe the lanyard tube would be.
That is a signature style of them of them and I think those originally come from bicycle chains somehow.
Let me know in the comments below. I read that years ago. I seem to maintain what I read.
Unlike someone who's like really smart, I don't maintain it in proper boxes.
I like remember stuff and then I file it away. Like I do in this room here.
I just like, it's over there on the weight bench. I know where it is.
And so that's what I got from that. But tell me about those Poltergeist Works pivots and connectors.
I think they're the same and I think they come from like motorcycle cage or something originally. Let me know.
All right, last up. Here, this one is going to roll right off the tongue, can't wait for this. The Kaiser Metaproptisol.

[27:33] This is a new fixed blade knife, which I don't like the looks of, honestly, but that's neither here nor there.
It's coming from Kaiser, so it's going to be a great production.
And if you like the looks of this, then go for it, because it's a Kaiser.
This is from Alikhanov Adil, Alikhanov Adil, that's what I'm going with.
He's a Russian designer, brand new, inspired by military fixed blades, but also a little bit of bushcraft thrown in there, maybe you can see that in the tip.

[28:09] It's a whimsical design, a little too whimsical if you ask me.
That's 5.6 inches of D2 and it's a 9.56 ounce knife with Kydex, available soon.
So not exactly super light, but I'll tell you one thing I do like about it.
I like to add a little positive to things like the Metaprop Dissol.
First of all, it's a Kaiser, like I said before, so you know it's going to be built beautifully if you like it.
Got that kydex sheath with the clip you can reorient and all that.
But what I do like about it, Jim, if you could go to the other shot of it, with the profile, I like where the thumb ramp meets the blade because it gives you, behind it, it gives you that ability to push up against the thumb ramp.

[29:02] And then in front of it, which you don't see on this knife, but in front of it, you see that grab position where you can put your thumb up on the blade and then pull back on the handle, which has that ramp going with that nice little convex surface.
To me, I love that. You see that on the SOCOM Elite, you see that on the SOCOMs, and I really love the way that works.
So I have a feeling on this knife that is gonna come into play when you're using it.
So it might not win any beauty contests in my mind, but it looks ergonomic as all hell.
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And now that we're caught up with KnifeLife News, let's hear more of the Knife Junkie Podcast. I got it. I got it in hand.
It is strange. It is cool. I have not quite exactly figured out.
This knife for me, but this is the Wingard Wearables Love Handle.
And Wingard Wearables, as you know, is known for their contoured weapons.
Here, I'm gonna put that under the knife cam.
I'll show you this super quick. I know you know what this is, but this is the Wingard Wearables Back Ripper Tomahawk.
Meant to be EDC'd, that's why the curve, it fits on your hip.

[30:31] The haft goes down your leg inside your pants, theoretically, and you carry it around all day with comfort. I know Zach Wingard does.
For me, it hasn't worked quite into my EDC that way, but I love this just as a thing in and of itself, that I don't need the EDC, but that I keep on my desk to thwart any attackers, you know, if all the other things don't work.
But so, Wingard Wearables, whose entire mission is making EDC weapons and tools that fit the body.
I know they were laboring, Zach Wingard was laboring over this design for a long time.
How do we make a knife that fits the Wingard wearables USP?
Well, they managed to do so right here.
And knife maker, a knife maker in Arizona that goes by the Norman tactical on Instagram. I'm sorry, I've.

[31:27] I'm spacing on his name at the moment, but the Norman Tactical, I've been following him for years on Instagram, makes these really cool fixed blade knives, mostly EDC, many of them based on historical designs.
And they are beautiful, beautiful knives. I've admired his work for a long time, so I was really excited to hear that Zach teamed up with this gentleman to make the Love Handle.
Now let me show you what the Love Handle is based on. How is this supposed to be carried?
Okay, so you can see the curved sheath here, and you can see the two discrete carry concept clips at an angle held in with ranger bands.
So how this is, I'm gonna go to the main camera here, and I'm probably not tall enough for this, but how this is supposed to fit, this is supposed to go in the waistband like this, and that curve is supposed to accommodate the tummy and sit right below the belly and then you've got a knife in your waistband that is seven inches long, curved, capable, and nestled right under your belly.
There's one problem with this knife for me personally, and that is that it's too long for me personally.
My body curves, I don't have much of a belly coming out this way, so my curve is this way.

[32:54] I am however thin I am this way, and my body curves.

[33:00] So I could see how someone a little bit larger than I am, and I haven't met Zach in person, but I think he's a tall gentleman. This fits him perfectly.
This would fit most people I know perfectly. Maybe I'm a little more slender.
And I'm not saying that in any sort of braggadocious way. I kind of wish I had a little more bulk, a little more muscle.

[33:25] But so this knife, for me, how this fits me, is different from how it's gonna fit you.
By the way, this knife is wicked. It's like a scimitar.
You will just, you will do a lot with this knife.
But so for me, taking this clip off and reorienting it, and putting it in the waistband here makes more sense for me.
I'm gonna do a close-up video where I show off the originally intended way of carry and then how it makes sense for me and maybe different body types.
But the whole point, the whole through line here is the curve.
The curve on the sheath, the curve on the blade, and how it's supposed to fit your body. Let's talk about this handle for a second.
This is paper micarta, and it's got grooves.
It's got these two grooves on either side, and they really lock into the hand.
I even like it held like this, kind of reverse with the edge up for a pecking tip kind of thing.
A nasty, you can do nastiness with that. And then if you do that thrust in the heave hoe, like we were talking about before, It would be a very, very effective weapon.

[34:46] This paper micarta is hand-grooved by the great and powerful Zach Wingard himself.
And these, the first run of them has been sold out, but another run is gonna be made, or is in the works now.
This is on loan from the maker. Thank you so much, Zach, for letting me check out this beautiful knife.
Very unique, and it's an honor to have it here.

[35:12] Next up, from Off Grid Knives, yes, yes, they finally did it, the Stinger, one of their most popular knives, is now out in an EDC.
This EDC version is something else, originally a very large knife, a 4 inch, a bayonet ground, nearly dagger ground blade here.
People loved it, I myself loved it.
It was a turning point for off-grid knives in that they contoured the handles and all that.
Great knife, but a lot too big for a lot of people.
So listening to the crowd and what they want, Kerry of Off-Grid Knives made a small three-inch version.
This is a four-inch bladed version, this is a three-inch. He took it down a whole inch and made this awesome drop point version.
It's not a dagger point like before and it's also fully flat ground.
So this thing is a slicer all day long.
You've got jimping halfway up the blade.
So as far as I can extend my thumb, I have jimping.
And it's coming in these two flavors currently, the Coyote and the All Black.
So really, really psyched that they came out with an EDC version of the Stinger. I love the Stinger.
Probably still my...

[36:40] Probably still my favorite of the two because of its size, but this thing I've been carrying these around, Non-stop since I got them about a week ago, and they're great great little knives and like, Little knives that I like you know I consider three inches of three inch blade a little knife It still maintains a thickness in the handle so that when you're using it You can use it very hard and not lose control So that's the Off-Grid Stinger EDC, nicely done.

[37:12] Next up, also from Kari Orifiche and Off-Grid Knives, this one takes the cake.
I always loved the Cayman EDC.
And then they came out with a Cayman Large 4-inch version.
I love this, that clip point blade that looks like a crocodile, a Cayman if you will. Well, he did the right thing and came out with a fixed blade Bowie version. Look at that.
Look at that beautiful Bowie blade.
I'm gonna flex, I'm gonna go back and forth. This Bowie here is not your 10 inch quarter, 10 inch long, quarter inch thick traditional Bowie.
This is a 7 inch and about eighth of an inch thick, I'm guessing, D2, and it comes in three different flavors.
It comes in this all black version. It comes in the dramatic black and stonewashed version, and then in the very aesthetically pleasing coyote version with the gray and that handle.
Now I'm gonna bring this over to the main camera just because you need to see how cool this thing looks.
Sometimes you gotta see a bowie like this when someone's holding it up kind of in front and I'm thinking that this is just a.

[38:37] Stupendous looking knife. I like how that clip, how the swedge extends up beyond the main contour of the spine. You got that curve there.
You've got jimping as the day is long, coming far beyond what I can, well I guess I can reach the very tip of it.
And then this incredible full tang contoured handle is just awesome.
And you got the little thumb knots for whatever that reverse chest pull thing you're gonna do with it as you are bushcrafting.
Yeah, you could use it for bushcraft, but really this to me is more of a menacing, weapon-y kind of knife.
I like very much how the tip is below center line, and you've got a long straight with a little bit of belly, and an incredibly acute point.
Now, like all off-grid knives, these things are absolute razor blades, It's super thin behind the edge and very, very good at utility cutting.
And I know you're probably not going to use your Bowie knife for utility cutting, but you're going to use it for some kind of cutting.
Say you got to cut through rope or leather or whatever, this thing is, it's good to go. I love this new knife.
And I got to be frank and honest about it. I've been waiting for it for a while.
I was like, man, this Cayman is just killer.
They got to do something, something more with it than they did.

[40:00] Also, just a brief mention, in a box Kerry sent to me with those knives, he also sent this really cool bit driver.

[40:09] Look at that, look at that, it's like a fidget spinner.

[40:12] You've got the off-grid logo on it, and you've got three spots for hex, or I'm sorry, for bits, and you've got a great driver.
So I'm really excited to have this. I've never had or considered owning a fancy bit driver, And now that I have one, how did I ever live without it?
I'm very excited about this.

[40:35] Alright, next, this is quite a turn from Off Grid Knives.
Case. I got the Case Stockman, the large Stockman at last, in carbon steel.
That's their chrome vanadium steel.
And nice dyed bone. This of course has the main clip point, has a really nice sheep's foot blade.
And then in case I have to do in the field surgery, We've got a spade blade, which to me always looked like scalpels, scalpel blades.
So just a great knife, very psyched about this. I've always wanted a large Stockman from Case and never had one.
Also, I got this, and I got this right before I left on my trip and I brought this with me.
This is a Case Barlow. And the Case Barlow was taken out of the vault two years ago and put into production for that year.
And then they went away and they were hard to find. And I've always wanted a Case Barlow.

[41:45] And then I found this one and so I snatched it up.
And then I realized through doing some more research and reading that they're adding this to their full lineup.
So I got this as if it were a real find but it turns out that it wasn't, because I think they're gonna be making Barlows regularly.
But, nonetheless, I really like it. It's been to Deutschland with me.
It has a half stop, unlike many case knives.
I find that the only case knives that have half stops are the ones that Tony Bose designed.
The back pocket, the sway back jack, et cetera.
So, yeah, very happy to have this case Barlow in barn door purple bone.

[42:33] Love bone handles. Love bone handles.
All right, last up in state of the collection, I got to show you this.
This is from Auxiliary Manufacturing. Michael Jarvis sent this out to me and he sent a bunch out to others to show these off.
He's about to drop these on the 8th.
It's on the 8th they're dropping, he is dropping these sweet little pocket daggers.
Here, there's that. There's the card.
I'm sorry, I said pocket dagger, I meant pocket bowie. A-E-B-L.
This is a cool little patch there, but let me show you the knife.
Just a beautiful little recurve, nice slab of steel. This is no shrinking violet.

[43:21] Feels great in hand. You've got a traditional coffin style handle on a little micro Bowie, which I love.
I love that, not only is it very, very comfortable and ergonomic, that style of handle, that coffin style, but it's also evocative of the original Bowie designs, which Michael is referencing here.
I think that this will make a great EDC fixed blade for anyone who likes to carry EDC fixed blades.
How do I know that? I know that because the dagger that he made is spectacular.
So I have no doubt that carrying this will be great. I have not carried this.
This is on loan from the maker, and I don't want to foul it before it goes out to its permanent home. but man, it feels great. It locks in the hand.
For me, it's a pretty much a full four-finger knife, but I can see how for larger guys with bigger hands, it's gonna be a three-finger knife, but it's got good width and it's got a good heft, so it'll be an easy knife to control.
The beautiful, beautiful pocket bowie from Auxiliary Manufacturing. Keep your eyes peeled.

[44:37] On Auxiliary Manufacturing's Instagram and also their website for December 8th. They drop, people.
You don't want to be late to the party like I always am.
Get yourself an Auxiliary Manufacturing, a pocket Bowie, or anything else he makes. They're all cool.
Even his kitchen knives, which I think are a rare bird at this point.
All right, now that I've wasted, not wasted, now that I've burned a lot of time on everything else, Let me get to my Savivi Senkut collection.
I wanted to bring this up because my good friend Jaime from around the way just gave me this.
He's a great guy who has recently got into knives. I have no idea how. Just kidding.
It was through my influence. And he really has taken the Savivis and Senkuts.
And I went over there the other day to pick something up, and he showed me this Senkut Phantera, and then he gave it to me.
This beautiful knife, he just gave it to me, totally unexpected and I was so psyched because I've been really interested in this one since it came out because of its similarity to the Praxis, which I love, and we're gonna show that in a second.
But this is just a big, broad knife.
It is an incredible slicer, I've been carrying it on me the last three days.

[46:00] And it's an incredible slicer.
This is 9CR18MOV and you've got that nice wood handle, Curel handle, can't remember what kind of wood it is, but begins with a C and it's very handsome and beautiful, I think, next to that black blade.
So I wanted to show off everything I've had by CIVIVI because I wasn't intending on building a CIVIVI SenCut collection.
If anything I would say, oh I should get more Wees, But the Wheeze don't do it for me, V's do it for me.
So this Sen cut is tremendous. Now let me show this off with the next one.
This is the Civivi Praxis.
Oh no, I got a little snail trailing in the wood.
Civivi Praxis, this is one of the first three knives they came out with.
When Civivi first dropped years ago, they came out with three blades and this was one of them.
And I remember it had gold liners and I was like, Ah, why, that gold liner, I would have been in.
They quickly took care of that, got rid of the colored liners, that blue and gold, other cheesy looking things, but kept the blades.
And still, this Praxis is still one of their best sellers, even this far out.

[47:19] These two I like very much because of that black and wood. I think they look gorgeous together.
Savivi, man, they really know what they're doing. All right, next up is the Asticus.
The Asticus was a Christmas gift three years ago now from my awesome brother-in-law, James. He goes by Candyman101.
Every once in a while you'll see him in comments on Thursday Night Knives.
It's a nickname he got in the Marine Corps.
He is a great guy, a gentle beast, but I wouldn't want to get on his bad side.
This is a D2, fully, deeply hollow ground.
Also a four inch blade. I love the larger knives, as you know, and I really dig that Civivi and CJRB and other companies aren't afraid of going to four inches or maybe even just Eon.
So this was a real, he was zoning in on my brainwaves with this one because I wanted the Asticus the moment it dropped.
Funny name though, I can't get over the name.
I got an astokiss. Do you have an astokiss? I'm sure we all have astokisses.
All right, so next up is the Keen Natter. Just a goofy name.
I'm sure it's like a snake or something.

[48:42] I'm pretty sure it means something. But anyway, this one was a gift from Dave, this old sword blade reviews.
You know, he sends a lot of knives over here that we give away.
But every once in a while, he'll send me one and say, this one's for you.
And this was one of those. I think I had been waxing poetic about the beauty and utility of a recurved tanto, and he heard that and sent this to me.
Such a beautiful knife. I love that it's got a very deep hollow on the recurved portion, and then a flat ground front.
So very robust at the tip, but if you need to get nuanced with the cutting on the main edge, you've got it.
Really nice micarta on this one. That has taken on my patina.
You got a flipper, you got a thumb stud, and you got that fuller.
Teen natter, beautiful knife. This one is brand new and was sent to me by Savivi, which is, I love that.
Send me more Savivi, I'll do your bidding. I love these knives. That sounded awful.
But here we go, So the Brazen is an older model that they resurrected with a button lock.

[49:59] And Civivi, Sencut, haven't experienced Wii, but Civivi and Sencut make really good button locks, albeit with a little bit of stick.
All the ones I've experienced have a little bit of stick. Here, listen.
Maybe you can hear it. Just give a little. Just a little bit. But you know what?
In the old days, lockstick was considered...
Desirable, because it meant you were really, really actually locked up.
I remember hearing Rick Hinderer say something about that, or maybe it was the guys from Strider, saying that they like lockstick because it means that the knife is definitely not going to close.

[50:40] But chances are you're not using the spine of your knife for much, so you can be cutting against that stop pin and against the lock confidently without worrying about it falling on you.
But this one has just a really nicely done flat ground blade on both portions and really nice action.
And if you ask me, I'd say the black and green look great together.
Speaking of green, here is the Hadros. This is one you don't hear too much about.
I don't know if they even make this one anymore. This is a Dillon Mallory design, Dillon Mallory designs some really cool knives, I'm especially fond of his wharncliffe designs like this one.
Nice deep hollow grind, very thin behind the edge, and kind of a dainty tip.
I feel like it's a miracle I haven't dropped this one on it's tip.

[51:37] Very thin handle that allows the handle to bury itself deeply in the hand.
You can really make a fist around this one, no problem.
I've always contended that this one would be a great pick-all style, in-a-pinch fighting knife if you needed it.
Because you have that reach with the long tapered wharncliffe.
You've got the very thin behind the edge sliciness about it.
And then you have the thin handle, which even though it's got this slope to it, it's gentle enough and thin enough that you can reorient this knife in pretty much any way and it'll still feel comfortable.

[52:21] It's a Civivi Hadros. Next up is the Cinesys. This one you never hear of.
I just kind of happened upon it and I love the clip point.
And I liked that it was a steel frame lock.
I don't know why. It doesn't matter how thin that steel is, it still feels heavier than titanium.
But nice nonetheless. I think that this one really appealed to me because of that upswept spine approaching the clip, similar to the off-grid Cayman XXL bowie I was shown before.
And then this we see also in the Sencut Waxahashi, which I'll show you in a minute. So, what I'm saying is, I like SenCut Civivi's Bowie and Clip Point design.
This one keeps the tip below centerline, or right in line with that pivot, so you can still use it for utility cuts and such without having to get too far around that belly.
You've got a nice choil there and, what do you call that, burlap micarta.
Excellent action on all of these, probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. Next up, the Sencut Bronte.

[53:36] This is going to be a joke. There we go. I was able to open it left-handed.
This one has definitely broken in. This was not a very smooth knife when I first got it, this front flipper, which is an anomaly for CIVIVI and SenCut.
Their stuff is usually just uncannily smooth.
This was not, but it has become so.
You've got a fuller here. You've got a front flipper.

[54:03] And you've got my left hand. But just a really nice looking modified wharncliffe, I'm going to call it.
You've got a concave surface here which makes the tip so acute.
It's nice and thin behind the edge as expected, 9CR, blasted finish with that great titanium.
This one, it's getting stiff as I speak, okay, there we go.
You can open it up in the various different ways, but like I said, this one has never been, and look, it's not dropping shut, whereas this is one of those knives, I just feel like sometimes it's super smooth and other times it's not. Like right now, it feels real stiff.
You can see how the micarta, really nice micarta, has taken on my patina a little bit.
This knife can be used in any grip because it is 100% neutral in handle design.
Okay, next up, this one, oh, I love this one. This is the Sentinel Strike.

[55:12] Very modern looking, you've got an integrated integral back strap here.
One piece of FRN that spans the spine of this aluminum frame.
You've got the really nice button lock action which because this was a coated blade was not as smooth when I first got it but flipping it a billion times it's gotten really nice and smooth.
You've got many different ways to open this flipper either thumb stud, opening hole, lock itself.

[55:48] So yeah, pretty much any way you want to open this thing, you're good to go.
It is a very thin and slicey blade, but also aggressive.
I love that aggressive looking tip, and I like the modern feel of the knife.
The Sentinel Strike comes in a variety of colors. This to me is definitely the most tasteful of all of them.
All right, last of the folders is this big boy.
This is the Synergy 4, designed by Jim O.
Young way back in the day and resuscitated by Wii and then Civivi in the last couple of years. I love this design.
Very comfortable in hand and very ergonomic, But also ergonomic in a way that allows you to reorient your grip without too much over-commitment from choils and swoops and peaks and all that stuff.
So nicely rounded off kind of handle profile and then look at that blade.
Beautifully upswept, dramatic tanto with a belly and a nice forward straight portion.
And that tip, even though it's a trailing knife, a trailing point, the tip is not too far above the pivot because of the initial downward arcing of that knife.

[57:08] Thin, slicey, super sharp. What is this? Steel?
I don't have my magnifying glass, but I think it's D2 or 9CR. I mean, no.
It's either Nitro V or 14C.
Okay, so that's a great knife. and a real big one kind of like that one.
Okay, two other knives that I love that are fixed blades from the same company here. Here's the Sencut Waxahashi.
You've seen me show this one off quite a bit.
I love this blade.
This blade shape is what inspired me to get this Cinesys here.
It's that upsweep of the spine to the clip, but then the low positioned tip giving you all the utility cutting you want but a nice belly and a point that you always know where it's going to be.
The Waxahashi is very comfortable with the three lightening holes on the handle and the superb kydex soup.

[58:13] I have it set up for this one of the few knives I carry with these bands up front.
They're a little bulky. I wouldn't mind getting a discrete carry concept equipped for that one.
Alright, last up in the list, also sent to me by Civivi and one of my favorite new production fixed blade knives.
This is the Civivi Tomashi-e, designed by the great and powerful Bob Terzuola.
There you can see his maker's mark, Bob Terzuola, on this beautiful, traditionally Japanese-inspired knife.
I love this knife.

[58:51] Nitro-V, you've got a sandwiched micarta handle, so it's a full tang knife, but you can't see the tang because my karta wraps all the way around the handle.
So nice in hand and such a classic design.
Great in that Filipino grip with the thumb on the blade there.
Also great in a extended sort of saber grip there.
Nice swedge for making it great for penetration, giving it sort of a diamond-like profile right at the tip.
And then that sweep, that belly in that sweep.
This is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, but also really nice to carry.
I was keeping this in my bag thinking it was too long and then one day at work I tried putting this on.
It fits beautifully right here, right in appendix grip. You think it'd be too long, but it's not.
I'm really a fan of this style of a new convert to that style of carrying.
And this knife, with its slightly extended handle, extended for the kind of knives I like to carry, really makes drawing it very, very easy.

[1:00:07] So there we have it ladies and gentlemen, there is my Civivi Sencutt collection.
I wasn't intending on having a Civivi Sencutt collection, but I just kept getting them.
And they're just so damn sweet, I don't want to get rid of them.
So this is where I am. Who knows, maybe this collection grows more and more.
Well, just stay tuned and you'll find out. I'm sure it will, and I'm sure I'll blab all about it. Thanks for joining me on my look at Civivi SenCut, but also all these other new knives I've gotten in.
I haven't done a mid-week supplemental in a couple of weeks.
We had that trip to Germany, and some other things getting away, and it's so good to be back and to tell you about what I got here, and what's coming up.
Alright, be sure to join us tomorrow night for Thursday Night Knives, where we will tryptolight fantastic and just talk knives all evening with you glamorous folks.
And then join us on Sunday for a great conversation with a great and luminary knife person.

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