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[0:00]Coming up, the Nova II prototype is here, I get a long-lost cold steel in a
great trade, and then we take a look at all of my recent new knives in four different categories.
I'm Bob DeMarco, this is the Knife Junkie Podcast.
Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast, your weekly dose of knife news and information
about knives and knife collecting.
Here's your host, Bob the Knife Junkie DeMarco.
[0:30]Welcome back to the show. One of my two favorite comments this past week was
on my SOCOM Elite short recently put up.
And this was Dave Bruin 4001. So I've been carrying this knife for 25 years.
25 years. In my opinion, it's the goat greatest of all time.
So that was really cool to see.
This, of course, is a video on my 2013 SOCOM Elite.
So that's 10 years old. And man, it's a fantastic night.
That video, by the by, was set to the soundtrack of Commando,
one of the greatest movies.
And someone out there, I can't remember your name now, heard that and commented.
One of their favorite movies, too. Commando. Highly recommend.
All right, next up was an interesting one from on the Stroop Knives push dagger video.
It's Max Daka 7973 says, nice gimmicky, quote unquote, primitive texture,
but the width of the neck on the push dagger is too big.
It looks like it's painful wedging the fingers apart.
No, thanks. It's obviously the smaller.
[1:33]It's obvious that the smaller the neck, the closer the grip is to a natural closed fist.
Of course, you need some of this width for structural integrity.
You can't invert the width and the height entirely.
Best option would be probably a circular or elliptical cross-section.
And if you're following, I like what he says here, because that was kind of
my feeling about the knife.
I love that Stroop Knives push dagger.
And for the purpose, you're going to draw it and stab it into a threat one to
several times, but it's not like a, hard-use knife where you're using it to
do anything other than defensive stuff.
So to me, that feeling of discomfort of having a wide neck coming between the
two fingers supporting the blade would only come into effect after a little bit of use,
which I'm not planning on anyway.
But I really like this comment because I've thought about that,
about push daggers many times, how it should be circular or elliptical in cross-section
or something more comfortable,
yes, but also something that will allow the closest thing.
[2:45]To a naturally closed fist without having to accommodate something separating the knuckles.
So Max Daka, thanks for the comment. I really liked it because A,
it's something I've thought about before, but also you were very clear in your
ideas, your technical ideas of how a push dagger should really be done.
And I appreciate that. All right. That said, why don't
we now get to a pocket check what's in
his pocket let's find out here's the
knife junkie with his pocket check of knives today in
my pocket as many other days recently the tactile knives chupacabra this was
a knife sent to me by tactile knives right after we had our most recent interview
with mike miller And I'm really, really, well,
grateful that he sent this But really impressed with this knife This was something
that the All Dallas Made Company In other words, they're Dallas based and everything
they do is made in shop Or bought down the street like they're stop pins.
[3:53]So this shop has been making high-end knives for a couple years now They came out of Tactile Turn,
the pen company And they were striving to make something more affordable And
they did that with this knife, the anodized aluminum Chupacabra that's got an
amazing magna cut blade.
To me, that is the center point to this. But I think the main unique selling
proposition here is the use of the Super Lock, the Snex designed Super Lock.
Oxnex is a super engineer, knife maker out of Indonesia, who for a long time
was cataloging his research and development and creating really...
[4:37]Techno i'm not not techno uh really innovative um
modern folders and his uh lock here
uh similar to or reminiscent of the shark lock though they they were developed
kind of in tandem not in tandem but kind of at the same time without the others
knowing it i think uh they're they're different uh in the guts but when you
look at them out front they look kind of similar anyway my point is they They
achieved it with a more affordable tactile turn.
Now, this is a $250 knife, so it's not cheap, but it's more affordable.
They are a small, I'm going to say it, boutique brand.
And to me, that's a compliment.
[5:15]You know, they're a small atelier, if you will. That's what they would have
called them in France back in the day, you know, during the days of the salon, etc. etc.
So they're making some really, really amazing knives, but they are costing a
bit of money because they're all made in-house and very labor-intensive with all the milling.
Here we see on the anodized aluminum handle, there is no milling.
There's no micro-milling like on most every other tactile knife and tactile turn product.
And all that millwork in the handle adds machine time and machine wear and parts
wear and that kind of thing.
So it raises the price naturally of knives
so they really hit the mark here
by making something less complex that they
could charge less for but still give you super high
performance i gotta say the blade on this thing is incredible
also it feels really good in hand uh i've always been trepidatious about spine
mounted locks or secondary locks but this and the vision fg from civivi and
all the shark locks from Demco.
I don't feel them. I don't feel them back there, even in a real hard hammer grip.
So it's just sort of a thing in my mind about spine-mounted locks,
because they work out great. So this.
[6:38]This knife is awesome. I'm really excited about it and I've been carrying it quite a bit.
I got to say, I have to admit, more than my Rockwall, which of course is a little
bit smaller and not so much in my wheelhouse.
But this knife is great. I've been really liking it and they sold out Lickety Split.
[6:54]But I know that they're excited about it. They're going to make more of them.
They can make them quicker than their other knives.
And of course, they'll be able to sell them quicker than their other knives.
So I think this will be a priority for them. Great knife, the Chupacabra,
in my front right pocket.
Speaking of great knives, this one here, I had the Little Bro from Jack Wolf
Knives in my front right pocket.
You know, I tend to, these days, because the weather's getting warmer,
and I'm keeping my phone in my front left pocket.
I don't like too much in that pocket, so I've been dropping the slip joint down
in with the main folding fixed blade.
I love this knife. This is the perfect size. This is the perfect slip joint
as far as I'm concerned, because though I like, I'm more impressed with and
kind of wowed by some of the larger patterns out there.
I just love a small boy's knife because it's not my main carry.
It's small, it's discreet, it fits, and then it's great when you actually need to cut something.
And I got to say, Jack Wolf Knives has been, obviously, they've been killing
it from the very start. but this one here with the blue Kyranite is very fetching to me.
I call that like, it looks like you're looking at a picture from the Hubble telescope.
[8:12]Absolutely beautiful. Nice sheen on this machine ground satin blade.
Comes to a very thin edge.
Great walk and talk. I mean, these are just spectacular. Or I guess I should
call them stellar knives.
Next up in my waistband, not at the usual appendix But over here at the 3 o'clock I had the.
[8:34]I'm just going to show you the sheath because it's awesome. Kryptek with big DCC clip.
But I had the Jed Hornbeak Necromance, an amazing 4.75 to 5 inch.
Actually, I don't know as I look at it, I think it's about 4.75 inch fighting blade. blade.
That's wedge is Scandi ground. So sharp is the day is long, uh,
but comes in at a more oblique angle, perfect for back cuts and the kind of
things you use the back edge for in fighting applications.
Uh, the main edge here is hollow ground. Uh, you got this beautiful straight,
and then almost, this is almost a Tanto style blade.
You say almost, uh, because, or I say almost because it doesn't have that secondary
portion here. That's flat ground.
It's just a the hollow ground coming straight to the tip, but it does have sort
of a secondary tip there in that angle change. Just a great asymmetrical fighter.
I love this thing. The ergonomics on this are stupid.
Sorry. But they are insane. They feel so good.
It feels like this was the knife that I was born with in my hand.
The grip is so, so perfect on that.
Of course, I didn't use that for anything today, but it was on my hip,
bringing confidence, and also just, uh, uh.
[9:53]Cool factor. All right, last up, this is a great knife.
I love this thing. I'd been resistant to bird knives forever,
I guess, since I could afford Spydercos.
But I've been seeing this knife in the videos of Mr.
[10:10]Babb of the Libra Fighting System, Scott Babb.
This is his folder that he uses, and he has it set up left-hand carry,
But he carries it in the right pocket so that when you draw it, you draw it like this.
It deploys with that wave opener on the pocket seam.
And you can wrap it into your hand and Pakal grip like this.
Or you can leave it in that grip.
[10:34]But I'm very impressed with his fighting combinations.
If you look at the Libra fighting videos on Instagram, he shows you different
combinations in front of dummies.
He's, you know, on the bob dummy and he, it's like watching a boxer practice combinations and, uh,
is same thing, um, with the knife, with drawing the knife, with using the empty
hand, uh, for creating space or, or reducing space and then using the knife, uh, that you draw out,
uh, to take care of whatever that fighting situation is.
Uh i think it's a very interesting and
and um viable form of martial
arts to learn um especially for
certain lifestyles like if you're an undercover cop or
something like that it seems like libra fighting which is all close in and just
caveman i'm not reducing it to caveman like uh but it it it works well with
all your gross motor motions uh that are likely to happen During an adrenaline
dump and a confrontation So Libra fighting,
very cool That's why I've been carrying this knife And enjoying it Either in
the back right or back left pocket.
[11:49]Alright, that's what I had on me. Tell me what you had on you.
Put it in the comments below. Of course, as I like to say, it gives me inspiration.
Doesn't mean I'm going to go out and buy them, but oftentimes the knives you
guys mention make me think in different directions. And, uh,
that's the one thing about the knife junkie. And that's why I call this channel.
That is because like a junkie and I don't mean to be flip about the,
uh, about the reference, but you're ravenous in a way that is, uh, not, um, rational.
And for me, it goes in all directions. As you can see, swords,
tomahawks, a small fixed blade, slip joints, uh, any kind of folder,
any kind of fixed blade. I'm just in.
So there you go. All right, so let's talk about the Gentleman Junkie Knife Giveaway
coming up. Let me take a sip of beverage here.
[12:38]April 18th, that's tomorrow night. If you're listening to this on the day it
drops, which is unlikely, but we're giving away a special knife here,
and I have a secondary thing going into the package, but I'm not going to talk about it right here.
But here it is. This is the Savivi Spiny Dogfish, And this is a Gavco designed,
Designed by Michael Gavick He is a custom knife maker A very very cool guy He
came up right along with Tough Thumbs Who's Tough Knives Jeff Blauvelt Uh,
Pennsylvania at the same time earlier on. I know Michael Gavick is now in Florida,
but he just produces these amazing custom folding, modern folding knives,
all named after sharks and based on shark designs.
This is the spiny dogfish. A very cool compound ground.
So that's hollow there. That's flat there.
[13:40]What are you going to call that? Modified sheep's foot? I'm not sure what that
is. Modified shark's foot?
[13:46]That's TM'd. I can't use that. Really nice, Choil. This was gifted to the channel
by This Old Sword Blade Reviews.
Dave, he has an exquisite collection and keeps them in exquisite shape or just
buys them, reviews them, and then sometimes sends them along to me,
and I greatly appreciate that.
It's hard not adopting each one into
the the collection this one is going to a lucky gentleman junkie
with a sharpening system i just uh i'm very
excited about that too uh but this obviously
is the main is the main attraction it's the knife gorgeous thing all right so
we're going to be giving this away tomorrow night to a lucky gentleman junkie
want to thank patrons for their um patronage it's greatly appreciated uh also
you can check out the newsletter knifejunkie.com slash newsletter do that and i'll
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slash newsletter all right a little little note here uh i've been finally um
hitting out my doug Ritter RSK Mark V.
That's the tiny little neck knife that comes in the Altoids style tin.
[15:13]I'm a huge addict of Altoids, by the way. I love those things.
But I was trying to figure out what I could put in here with the knife.
Okay, you have the knife, which is great.
[15:23]But I decided since I cut myself a bit, I would put these butterfly stitches
in there, or butterfly bandages, some super glue, a lighter,
as always, got to have fire, and the knife.
What else should go in there? That's all I'm going to ask. Just a small,
small thing. Now, I don't need fishing hooks.
I don't live in the country, so this has to be more of an urban,
suburban little survival kit in case I'm just going out with nothing.
I want to drop it in my pocket.
So, drop in the comments what you think I should put else in here.
You know what I'm saying. Terrible grammar, but tell me what else should go
in there and help me out. Okay, before we get to Knife Life news,
I have very exciting news of my own.
I just wanted to show you that the Nova 2 prototype from the great and powerful
Hogtooth Knives and Matt Chase is here, and I want to show it off.
All the information for the pre-order, I will be announcing that, you know, very soon.
Of course, I'm going to blab about it non-stop.
But for now, just know that this is the prototype and it's not changing much from here. here.
I'm going to turn down the light one and no, I'm going to, there we go.
[16:43]All right. So I had to turn the light down a little bit on this knife because the handle is ivory G10.
It's not white. It is an off-white. There we go.
Ivory G10. So this is a Sax slash Kiridashi.
How much of a Sax it is, I don't know, but I've been calling it that.
But in looking at it, it is way more a kiridashi blade
uh but if you're just listening uh
straight spine straight edge
rising up to a center line point um hollow
ground wickedly sharp stupidly
sharp um and you've got
an acid stone wash so it's a dark blade but
you got that stone wash so when you use it you don't
see much damage at all 154 cm
blade steel and you can see i've used it a little bit
here uh and then red liners i love the way that looks that ivory and the red
and then the dark of the steel see you've got jimping you've got the hog tooth
knives uh laser etched logo there you just got a new laser etcher and then you have the.
[17:56]Knife Junkie logo right there on the other side, and where it says prototype,
it will be numbered, just like the Nova 1.
And like the Nova 1, probably, well, like the Nova 1, probably,
this is going to be a popular knife. So I'm excited about it.
I have a feeling that this is more utilitarian and useful to a lot of people.
So this might be a more popular knife than the Nova one, but since they're all
handmade, you know, I'm not sure how many will restrict it to,
but these are things that we're talking about right now.
So right now, sky's the limit.
Let's just see who wants this and we'll go from there. there.
But all that pre-order information for the knifejunkie.com webpage will be up shortly.
Just have to finalize the details, get those ducks in a row.
But there it is. It's the Nova 2. I'm so excited.
Matt Chase is an incredible, incredible knife maker.
Everything I have from him is
impeccable. Everything I've ever seen from him at his table is on point.
As you know, he's an ABS CBS, Journeyman Smith. So he knows what he's doing.
And I'm very excited about this collaboration.
[19:15]He's a great guy to work with also. So can't wait to get this in the hands of those who want it.
Let me know. They will all be numbered. We already have people putting in number requests.
So if you have something like that, let me know.
But we will see how many we make and how many we we can number.
All right. That is the Nova 2 prototype. Thank you so much for checking that out.
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So unless you've been under a rock asleep, sleep
and in that case i admire you and
i'm jealous uh rosecraft has come out
with their first double bladed traditional knife
and it's really cool really exciting looking uh uh
and because i like multi-bladed slip joints
uh this one's the briar patch jack and as
you can see it is a an equal ended cigar jack
so it looks you know that's the pattern that's the
handle pattern there and then it's got that
sort of muskrat thing with the two equal sized main
blades on either side of course there's got to be one main
blade and in this case it's a 3.2 inch
clip point blade beautiful uh traditional style clip point blade looks more
american than a lot of the clip points they've done recently which have been
inspired by the sheffield england style folders folding clip points and then
that other quote-unquote main blade i'm going to say that's That's my quote, by the way.
[22:40]Yes, you can quote me. 3.1 inches of D2. That's a lamb's foot blade.
Lamb's foot, you say? Why not a sheep's foot? Why not a wharncliffe?
[22:50]Well, here's what I can ascertain about that.
A sheep's foot, parallel spine, and straight blade edge, and then a gently but
drastically downward descent to the tip.
In a lamb's foot, you have that same extreme and oftentimes sharp downward turn
to the tip from the spine, but the spine and the straight edge taper to the
tip. It's not parallel, but they taper.
So lamb's foot, subtle, but hey, we're people of subtlety here.
I'm very excited about this one. I do have to get my hands on it. I have not yet.
[23:32]As you know, my buying and trading and my priorities shift frequently here,
and right now it's shifted away from slip joints, but I got to get this one
before it goes away because of that beautiful gray bone that they have on that
gorgeous, gorgeous knife.
It's available now, a lot of great videos out on it, so go check that out.
The Rosecraft Briar Patch Jack. Yeah.
Next up, one of my favorite all-time designs from Zero Tolerance,
the Sienkiewicz 045. I have the 452. It's just a larger version.
I think Dmitry Sienkiewicz, who's Belarusian, I think, designer,
every designer, maker, everything he does to me is just stunningly beautiful and high design.
Design um though a lot of them he's got a large variation in his design style in any case the.
[24:25]0450 has always been my favorite uh sinkovich design and my favorite zt line
they did a whole bunch of different versions starting off with a very exclusive
large version that had a one of those jigsaw blades.
But this one is in sort of recent zero tolerance style.
It's a retread of an old thing. That's kind of all they seem to be doing,
though. They did create that one new design not that long ago.
But this one is the ZT0450CFDAMS. That stands for Damascus.
So this beauty is the smaller, the 3.25-inch bladed version of the design,
but it's got a gorgeous Vegas Forge Damascus steel blade.
Not sure what those steels are, the two steels, but Vegas Forge is known for
using CPM 154, AEBL, and 440C in their stainless Damascus.
Probably a combination of those three or two or,
Something like that. Those are the blades that those are the blade steels that
they make sure are on the cutting edge, I should say, because swirled within our other steels.
That scale, gorgeous orange, red and black and gray marbled carbon fiber.
That's the kind of carbon fiber that warms the cockles of my heart personally.
[25:50]Staying away from that original basket weave stuff that I have on my 0452.
Um this comes in
at like this 0.2 ounces
lighter than the original which has the um what do you call it titanium face
on it and uh it's available now so go check it out obviously this is limited
so if you like this or if you're a collector of the model you'll want to jump on it fast All right.
Next up from CRKT, who's been cleaning up their active late,
is celebrating their 30th year anniversary with a new knife called the Soldatna.
Now, this one is designed by a frequent CRKT collaborator, designer and knife maker, Russ Coomer.
And I think that's a beauty. Now, he originally made a knife,
a custom knife like this for the founder of CRKT, Rob Bremer,
who he was going to give, who was going to give it to his son for a hunt, I believe.
But look at that beauty. It was so worthy, it got turned into the 30th anniversary
knife, and it's being made by, who do you think? Who do you think? Look at that.
[27:05]That's right. You got it. Topps.
How cool is that? CRKT has lately been collaborating with other U.S.
Makers like Hogue and Topps to create some of their more premium knives.
And I think that's a great idea.
We all know that CRKT has has always made great designs and they've always collaborated
with great makers and great designers. But they've sometimes come up short on
the materials and the manufacturer.
But they lately have been upping their game and going to American manufacturers
for some of their stuff, which I think is great.
[27:40]So here you can see the limited edition Soldatna, which to me sounds like soldier in Russian.
But I'm just making that up. So who knows? But this is the fancy version with
walnut handles, which I love, and Damascus. That's also Vegas forged Damascus.
Or the standard version is in Topps' sort of standard 1095 and Canvas Micarta.
So these are available now directly from CRKT.
That's a three and a half inch blade, by the way. So it's a little smaller than
you might think. I was surprised to read that stat.
But then I looked at the handle and saw where the arc is in the handle and I
thought, that's about a three and a half inch blade. Beautiful knife.
This actually looks like one that would fit nicely in the waistband to carry
as an EDC. So, CRKT's anniversary knife, 30 years in the business,
doing cool, cool, cool stuff.
[28:40]CRKT. All right, lastly here, Boker, another knife company that's been in for
a while, but a much greater while.
Boker is a very old company, and they have been worldwide for a very long time.
Anyway, they are releasing a new world legal knife.
Funny, I should frame it that way.
So this is the Worldwide 2.0, and it's a very tactical-looking knife,
but it's for those who cannot carry the real tactical knives.
But they like the aesthetic, perhaps.
This is a slip joint D2 blade steel.
That's a 2.25-inch drop point blade with a nice fuller.
This is a two-hand opener. opener so you're going
to need this is not a double d10 kind of flipper non-locking thing
this is a slip joint you need a two-hander so
that's what makes it a worldwide knife plus that size it is small uh the blade
is sort of pukoid puka puka style puko style from uh from the great north of
europe g10 handle deep carry pocket clip both sides so you get some Some of the old world,
some of the new world in this Worldwide World Legal Night.
The Worldwide 2.0 from Boker looks like a cool one, especially for those of you out there who...
Can't carry the larger lockers, so you got to go with what you can go with.
[30:08]Boker knives, check them out. There are some others. Check out Who Knives, too.
Not for nothing, Who Knives out of Great Britain has some really, really great stuff.
Very tactical looking, but also not locking. So there are options out there for y'all.
All right, coming up, state of the collection. I got some cool new knives here
I'm going to show you. And then we're going to get to the main event, the recent new knives.
[30:33]But just be sure to join us here every week on the Sunday edition show.
The Sunday edition is our interview show where I speak with a really interesting
knife maker, whether at the peak of his career or her career or just starting
out, designers, manufacturers, reviewers.
We talk to everyone that is interesting here on the Knife Junkie podcast.
And we also have a lot of people still who are interesting out there to pull onto the show.
So I try to do that every week. Be sure to join us on Sundays and then Thursday
for the midweek supplemental.
This week, of course, we will be doing a Gentleman Junkie knife giveaway.
So all of that is right here on the Knife Junkie podcast. Coming up,
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And now that we're caught up with knife life news, let's hear more of the Knife Junkie podcast.
[31:45]Recently, Microtech announced its third generation of many of its knives,
and this was one of them, the LUDT.
So the Large Underwater Demolition Team, this is an old knife for them from their Florida days.
I mean, they've been making this knife, I guess, since their Vero Beach factory
days, which is a long time ago, early 94, 95, 96.
[32:11]So anyway, they changed the design to the Gen 3 and you can see a lot of videos of that out there.
And I have to say, that change did not thrill me.
I do love what they've done with the Troodon and some of the other knives,
but I wasn't crazy about what they did with the LUDT.
So I felt this panic in my heart, in my collection, in my gut saying,
you need a Gen 2 LUDT in your collection and they're going bye-bye real fast.
So I looked around and really found very little except this.
And all hope is not lost. There are some other places I hear,
but I haven't found those yet.
But this I got from DLT Trading, and it is, contrary to what looks blue on my
screen, it is purple as the day is long.
It is a beautifully purple anodized LUDT from 2023.
[33:07]June of 2023, and that's in M390, regular M390, and I'm thrilled to have it.
Thrilled to have this knife and of course i've
been into the serrations lately the half serrated blades
especially from microtech teeth are
just nasty and they last forever like uh like was mentioned at the top of the
show from uh dave broom 4001 he's been carrying his microtech for 25 years they're
very robust knives and they're and the serrations just keep them going longer and longer.
Great action on this knife.
[33:50]Just flies open. I need to tense my arm up.
Otherwise it will show, it will reveal all the areas where I have gone slack.
Uh, this knife really the wax like that. So very, very happy to have this knife in my collection.
And, um, as I begin to pare down, I think, I think I am, uh,
I'm going about that in the right way.
This time I have a, a good roster of knives
I'm going to be getting rid of um sadly but
moving them along to people who like them and it will
be knives like this that that stay knives that have
historical relevance to me and then uh out
there you're like bob shut up you keep the justifications just flow they flow
uh but but this is a keeper knife and it's worth the saving up for and i'm glad
i got it next up this is one i'm really fortunate to get Craig Vincent, I don't feel.
[34:46]Uncomfortable saying his name Because he's a very frequent commenter On Thursday
Night Knives And a friend of the show He offered me a trade A cold steel trade,
he is a cold steel nut And very happy to say He had something that I really
wanted to get And this is something A ship that passed me by years ago This
is the Twistmaster This is a medium Twistmaster They had a large and a medium
Not sure if they had a small But it's based on the Opinel knife,
the French peasant knife This one, of course, has a deep-bellied clip-point
blade But where it is is obviously right here on the collar It's got a collar lock,
so you just twist the lock And that thing, there's no way that's folding I mean,
it's just not going to fail on you.
[35:34]A way more robust version of the
open l i mean i i have to say i say way more
but i mean that those knives are incredible and time tested
this came and went but you know it has that
cold steel build so um it is stout as the day is long and i think it is also
just a cool piece of cold steel history i'm very excited to have it uh i am
sending him as i record this i haven't sent it yet I am trading him this Steel Tiger,
and it's not a fair trade because that Twistmaster is no longer around,
and you can still buy this, but this is what we settled on, and I'm happy to send that along.
I'm sure that'll go on his daily carry, as he carries like 12 cold steals a day.
[36:22]But thank you Craig for this Twistmaster, great trade And then he threw a gift
in there which you're going to see Shortly in our main event,
But man I've wanted one of these for years And I've seen them come up for sale Now and again On eBay,
But I haven't been looking for them so I've never pulled the trigger I'm just
thrilled to have this Thank you sir,
Alright next up Let's see Oh how did I forget this Okay, well I didn't I'll
show you right now Here is the hogtooth little ruffian This is the very first,
Hogtooth little ruffian right here.
[37:02]And I'm so excited to show you this. You know the Ruffian.
I carry that thing all the time. A bigger 5-inch.
But to me, it's an EDC blade.
I carry it on me. Or no, it's about 4.75.
This one is a radical reduction in size.
You've got nearly a four-finger grip for me.
For anyone with larger hands, and that's a lot of people, this will be a three-finger knife.
For me, I can just barely get all four fingers on.
And in reverse grip, I got it. I got it in hand perfectly.
But it's a beautiful little 154cm clip point.
It's got that long, dramatic clip point. Putting the center,
putting that tip right center line.
Great belly. Very nice, long, usable bit of straight blade there.
And this, with that awesome sheath and the discrete carry pocket clip, is a great pocket carry.
[38:02]Of course, that's not, for me, if this were mine, which it's not,
this is the first one ever made, and I just said, let me check it out.
Can't quite afford to get this one right now, because I just paid for the prototype
of the Nova 2, but I wanted to check it out, and man, it's beautiful. I love it.
So this one will be, this is now available. He's going to have,
I think, 25 of these at Blade Show.
He's going to make some of these, make a batch of these in the next few months,
as he works on the Nova 2. but I got to get that information to him,
so that's not happening yet.
But look at that. Just a gorgeous little blade, man.
This is an excellent drop-in-the-pocket small EDC.
But, I mean, that blade is 3 1⁄4 inches, so it's not that small.
But for the overall length of a fixed blade, it is. So very nice setup here.
[38:54]All right. And then lastly, this one is very cool.
This one is very cool. Sent to me by Chaz Fisher Chaz Fisher was on this show Speaking for,
Boker He was speaking about Boker Knives And he has since left Boker Because they took a tack,
a different tack More towards EDC Less away from the tactical stuff And Chaz
Fisher Is a lifelong martial artist And outdoorsman and practitioner Of the bladed arts And he,
so he left the company he formed a company with his
knife making brother and so this is
fisher blades and this is their first knife out and it is a pocket fixed blade
knife uh similar to uh in spirit to the amtac northman it's called the beckwith
covert uh colonel beckwith was the guy who started delta force and uh.
[39:52]There it is. Drops in the pocket. So only about this much peeks out. And you draw it.
And there you have an incredible tanto blade.
The tanto blade with the thumb ramp puts that point in the center line,
just slightly north of center line, gives you that long straight edge there.
And then the shorter straight edge.
[40:16]You've got a finger guard stopping the finger from going on the blade.
Because this and then you have a quillian back
here for drawing and a thumb uh
rest in the back if you're going to use this uh in
the in the reverse grip and then of
course that quillian helps you draw but in speaking with
chas about this knife and i'm going to make a uh an in-depth
video and have him back on the show to talk about the
formation of fisher blades and this first knife uh
but he's weapons forward which
i really really appreciate this is first
a self-defense everyday carry knife and he
does not intend this to be a pull it
out and use it to cut your toes pull it out to cut string cut
pull it out to cut a box knife he intends this
to be your all the time on you defensive
weapon and i respect that so much
but i gotta say i've been carrying this Quite a bit
and it makes a great EDC In addition
to a great Last ditch pocket defensive
Weapon but man so That does not
come up in my life Often thank the heavens As
a matter of fact it never comes up Thank you knock on wood But what does come
up are EDC Tasks and what I do have on me Are defensive knives like this one
So they get used and This AEBL is not going to dull quickly from the kind of stuff I use it for. So.
[41:45]Chaz, I want to tell you directly, you've designed an amazing EDC weapon,
but you've also designed an amazing EDC fixed blade for everyday tasks.
Sorry to say, I know that's not your main purpose, but it is excellent at it.
As a matter of fact, one of the knives that inspired it, of many,
and we talked about that, but one of the knives that inspired this is the Delica,
the ergonomics of the Delica.
You can see that in that thumb ramp, and it really puts a lot of pressure towards the tip.
It also, when you engage, when you hold this knife in this saber grip,
it also pushes the edge downward, giving you sort of a downward raked edge here,
which makes, in a slashing motion.
[42:36]This tip very, very effective.
Perspective um so i mean you're getting
a lot of a defensive you're getting
a lot of edc i know that that's not his main thing and when
i talk about this knife in the close-up video i'm definitely
going to push the weapon aspect of it because it does make a great weapon um
it's set up for in the pocket uh carry this is the right-handed sheath you you
draw it like this i also requested to the left-hand sheath because you know
I like to carry things blade forward,
but I found that in just carrying it standard like this with the clip the chips,
you can get it in that reverse grip just fine in a Pakal style grip.
So I'm really, really excited about this. I'm going to be showing this off quite
a bit coming up. The Fisher Blades Beckwith Covert.
[43:28]They will be be designing um the
fisher brothers will be designing and have other larger knives in the offing
uh in in both this theme and in others so i'm looking forward to that uh this
first showing which is usa made aebl and uh mine is numbered number 44 thank
you very much um that's my favorite number.
[43:51]These things are USA-made and are available now. So do check them out.
Fisher Blades, Fisher Blade Company.
[44:01]All right, so we're going to see that knife and a couple of others that we've
just looked at in this next list.
But before we get there, let's talk about this T-shirt. This is the T-shirt
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All right, let's talk about recent new knives. I just I feel like I've gotten
a whole bunch of knives recently that I haven't done.
[45:32]Close-up videos of. My close-up videos are my least popular videos,
but I feel like I have to do them because there are people who want to see these
knives up close, you know, obviously under the camera so you can kind of examine them.
And then I yammer at length so, you know, you can silence it and just watch them.
But I want to show some new ones that have come out because I'm afraid I'm getting
behind on my close-up videos and I want to make mention of all these great things
I've gotten in the house recently.
[46:01]Okay, first up, I've been on a Microtech tear.
That's what pulled me out of my slip joint phase, as I was talking about when
we were talking about the Briar Patch Jack from Rosecraft.
So it's always something very compelling that pulls me out of something else very compelling.
And it was this knife. It was the Amphibian from
Microtech and in the ramlock version uh the
i was talking about microtech before i was talking about their vero beach
florida days well that's when the microtech amphibian was
first born and they only made six of them and it
was a legendary blade and i'd seen pictures of them
and then at another point they dusted off the
design and they were a very expensive uh small
batch kind of production i don't remember when that
was but then they brought it out for main
release this year uh in 2023 this
past year and um man alive
i just i couldn't believe that they were making them in a in a um in an easily
acquired way and also not out of reach for me if i save up these are 300 knives
and i saved up for it i saved up for this um and i'm i'm.
[47:17]Grateful i did because i love this knife and i'm
i'm it okay what am i trying to say
it brought me back to to locking tactical knives reminds
me so much of one of my very very earliest favorites the
commander from emerson that i had to jump
on it so i got this and was shocked and astounded
uh by the feel of it by
the um solidity of it by the build
of it and um what what actually got me
to um get this was not only
the design and and being thrilled that they
released the design but having recently had in
hand one of these this is the microtech
stitch aluminum handled ramlock version
and this one uh this was a knife that
i had on loan from jocks knife
and i sent it to him and then uh and
i said boldly oh i don't need now having this stitch in hand i
don't need one because of that cutting edge to handle ratio uh and
then it never left my mind and then i got a um a
counterfeit version in a trade uh and
i was like i should get the real one and i got it and i've been carrying this
thing all the time i love the stitch uh and it's the ramlock version so it's
got the um that full block of um titanium there that goes or steel i think that's
steel that That locks into the back of the steel interface.
[48:43]Or that locks into the back notch of the tang there.
[48:48]And instead of a bar lock, which is just a bar and two Omega springs,
this is a full block of steel here and a coil spring on a rod.
So, I mean, to me, it gives me a lot more confidence.
I know that the very early versions of the Ramlock slipped a little bit,
or some people had that experience. They have ironed that out very nicely and,
uh, not experiencing that.
Uh, so really high on the microtech, uh, uh, vibe.
Um, I reached out where I didn't reach out. I was here. This was actually the third knife. Um.
[49:27]I had the Heretic out the front, a Manticore, very, very cool knife,
but I wanted more Microtech, and I thought I could maybe work that out.
So I brought that on Thursday Night Knives, and my good buddy Dave of This Old
Sword Blade Review said, I have a Microtech to trade with you,
and it happened to be exactly the one that I wanted.
So right here, the SOCOM Elite Auto. I'm a huge fan of the SOCOM Elite,
as mentioned up in the comments of the week.
My road trip knife is the 2023 Tonto Manual SOCOM Elite, which is just such an amazing knife.
It became my road trip knife due to the fact that I had a glass breaker.
It was my very first glass breaker knife, so that won that part.
And now it's a superstition.
If I go driving longer than an hour, it's got to be the Socom Elite in my pocket.
[50:26]So Dave had this for me. We traded and hopefully he's happy with the trade because
I am happy with this trade.
This was a 2018 build, and like the LUDT I showed you before,
and I'm about to show you again, man, it kicks like a mule, especially with that four-inch blade.
It comes out like crazy. Now, look at here. Look at here.
The Amphibian and the SOCOM Elite, big knives, four-inch blades. Love that.
Okay, and then lastly, the LUDT. I won't go into depth about that because I just did.
But so my microtech collection Has now nicely fleshed out I have three other
microtechs That you've seen a million times So I have seven,
that's over five So that's an official sub-collection Per Dave's rules Actually,
this old sword's rules I like those rules,
So, very happy with the microtechs I would like to get a Hera 2 Or,
yeah, Hera 2 I would like to get a Troodon The new Troodon And, of course,
I'm going to be looking at the no Blade play out the front that they have coming out, too.
It's going to be dangerous at Blade Show this year because usually I avoid the
production companies and do a lot with the custom makers.
But I'm going to go to that Microtech booth, and I'm going to buy something
this year. It's going to happen.
[51:50]All right, next up, notable gifts. Notable gifts.
First up is the Swiss Army 2 from Byron Kennedy.
Byron, thank you so much. Byron of Splitting Slices sent me this as a thank
you for the knives I sent him when he announced his channel.
And I know he's got a lot of people who are very supportive of him in the knife
world because he is constantly around in all the chats on all the many, many shows.
And so I'm very, very happy that he sent me this.
I mean, I'm so grateful. Okay, Bob DeMarco, he had put in that blade. Isn't that beautiful?
This is the 93 millimeter. These are the largest, the Alox knives.
And I got to say, with those two extra millimeters, the blade looks better.
So beautiful, beautiful engraving on there. Bob DeMarco, of course.
[52:50]And then the knife junkie. What a class act Check out Split and Slices He's
got a lot of great videos going up Not just about knives,
Completely I mean knives are always the entree But he's got a lot of interesting
Things going on there So check out Split and Slices Thank you so much Byron
for this beautiful gift But before I put this away Of course this is the Swiss
Army 2 A knife I was really wanting,
When I got the Swiss Army 1 And that's the reason That gorgeous Hawkbill blade.
Now this is still a single layer Swiss Army knife, so it's got a single spring,
but it's got that awesome Hawkbill blade, which as you can see from all the
gunk on it, has been getting tons and tons of use.
[53:39]Thank you. Thanks a million, Byron. I really, really love this knife and appreciate it.
I would have loved the Swiss Army too if I had found it on my own,
but having a gift from you with those engravings, I really appreciate it.
[53:54]Next up, showed this off a lot last week, so I'm not going to go too into depth
about it, but here is the old Confederate style Bowie my brother got me recently.
He also got me a K-Bar. I won't show you here because you've seen plenty of
K-Bars. as that one is also awesome.
Uh, but he got me this knife. Uh, I believe it was for my birthday last year, but I didn't see him.
So when I saw him just recently, he unloaded a couple of gifts on me, which is so cool.
You know, I talk about him a lot cause he's, he's a great guy.
He's my older brother. And, um, yeah, I look up to him in a lot of, a lot of different ways,
not just is because he gives me cool knives uh but
he's just uh he's a stand-up man and uh
someone to be admired so i love this thing
uh for that reason but also just look at that wicked blade my god and uh oh
very very old very pitted but solid as hell that swedge is sharp and these are
both sharp and uh this is just a nasty weapon i don't care what anyone says
oh you know you use it for hunting and trapping and splitting wood and all the other things.
This is a Bowie for fighting and killing, and I love it.
Those downward upward S-style Quillions look very Confederate to me,
or very Southern from what I've seen in my research, and that's a nice heavy walnut handle.
Great knife, and then my bro made this sweet sheath for it.
[55:21]Love that. that. All right.
[55:25]Next up from him also is the Kissing Cranes Stiletto.
Now, this one is not an auto, but it's got that same stiletto look and setup.
Italian style stiletto with the double quillions. And when I picked it up, I saw that.
I saw that it was a back lock, but I instinctively pushed down on that quillion
because on a lot of the automatics, that's how they unlock.
Beautiful criss-shaped blade with the upturned tip. If it were a Filipino criss,
it would be a downward tip for just nasty hawkbill slashing.
But here it's upturned and just beautiful. That's real stag.
You can see it from the side, uneven, and you can see all the pores in it.
But that doesn't appear to be real brass, so kind of an interesting combination there.
Great, great knife. And then last up here This was a gift from Craig Vincent
With the Twistmaster And uh.
[56:26]It is this really cool kukri. Now, I have a feeling that this was a U.S.
Cavalry or Bud K, because I have another one very similar to it,
but this one has a very nice sharp edge on it.
Thank you so much, Craig. You didn't have to do that, but I'm glad you did,
because I love this kukri.
It's got a great handle, really feels great in hand. And it's big and thick
and heavy, but not too heavy to wield and to swing around.
Yeah, I've done a bit of that. I've done some paper cutting.
[57:02]This would be better for, you know, not for paper slicing, but it's got a pretty
oblique but very sharp edge. But I want to show this, too.
He sent it with the sheet. I can't quite get it to fit in the sheet,
but he put it in this to keep it safe. And I got to say, Craig,
this is better than the sheath itself.
It is a really well-made cardboard and duct tape sheath.
I just might keep it in here, man. I really actually like that. Oh, wrong way.
So there you go. Well, no, that was the wrong way. Thank you so much,
Craig, for this beautiful kukri.
You didn't have to do that, but like I said, I'm glad you did.
All right, next grouping of knives are prototypes and new-to-the-market knives.
I'll show you the two that I've already showed so far real quick.
So, prototype-wise from Hogtooth, got the mini, not mini, the Little Ruffian. I love that thing.
I think this is going to be a big seller for him because people love the Ruffian.
Every time I show it, they're like, oh my gosh.
But I know that people also love smaller fixed blade knives. So.
[58:12]I have a feeling this is going to be a golden boy for him. I'm going to do a
comparison video with the big one and also just to show you,
if you're familiar with the Nova 1 size, this is smaller even than the Nova 1.
And this, of course, the Nova 2 is the same dimensions as the Nova 1.
All right. Next up in the prototypes and new to the market, of course,
I was just talking about this.
That's the Beckwith Covert from Fisher Blades.
Fischer blades i'm not going to go into that i
just waxed poetic about it but uh believe you me of
like these two fixed blade knives i'm so happy
and feel very uh honored to get an
early crack at before they go uh broad uh
not abroad but broadly they they go
hit the wider market um but so
this company tesseract sent me this
and i'm really excited about
this knife and I talked about it on last
week's midweek supplemental And I posited that
it was OEM'd by Kaiser And I found out that it is not I did not push it I don't
know who made this knife But I know who designed it Tesseract is a group A brain
trust if you will Actually that term is usually used in negative commentations
It's a group of designers.
[59:35]Product designers who love knives knives and, uh, EDC gear.
And they're out of, I believe Kansas city.
And, um, you say Missouri or Kansas. And I say, I'm not sure.
Um, but we know that that's a good, uh, knife town as, uh, I think Finch knives
is, is from Kansas, um, Kansas city.
But anyway, uh, this thing is really awesome.
It's a, uh, a, a hefty and solid, um, uh, sheep's foot blade.
That's S35VN. It's It's got incredible action, incredible action,
stout and beautiful with those liners.
It's got orange liners, Tesseract very classily put on the backspacer,
and then just this cool little logo, three-dimensional cube Tesseract thing, and the NF1.
So really superb action, and jimping all the way up the blade,
almost all the way up, So a fully extended thumb can make use of that jimping
as well as a forefinger in a sort of utility cut.
[1:00:42]Uh, I am going to do a, well, you'll see a closeup video of this,
this week. It's already scheduled.
And, uh, I, I very much like this knife. I hope this company does awesome because,
uh, they've got, they've got the right, the right stuff here.
Um, and it's kind of similar, uh, in blade shape to this one here, which is also a winner.
And I was talking about that before. that is the tactile knife
company chupacabra um which i got
uh right before they sent it to me right before
it went to market and uh the first day like within several hours it was sold
out uh so um not only not only am i impressed with the company but i'm impressed
with this particular outing because it'll get more people behind the wheel of a tactile knife Um,
I think that with, uh, inflation and with money being tight the way it is,
I, I do think that people are saving up more for, uh, for knives.
It, uh, at least I am. And I, and, and anecdotal, uh, anecdotal evidence from
Thursday night knives would corroborate that, uh, people are saving up to get
more special things for them. whatever is special and whatever is saving up, even 40 bucks.
[1:01:57]Not everyone has 40 bucks disposable income. And I totally get that.
I've been in that position. I was in that position for years.
So you're not just dropping, I got five new Civivis. So you save up 40 bucks.
It might take a few weeks of here and there, but do it. It's worth it.
And then as things scale up, as you get older, I'm in my fifties now.
I've had time to accumulate stuff and money. And, you know, not like I've got
tons of that either accumulated, but it gets better and better and better.
I'm speaking to my younger listeners.
[1:02:31]So a knife like this at 250 bucks, it's not cheap.
It's not cheap. But if you like tactile knife and you believe the trusted voices
out there who think their knives look great, and then you look at this and this
design resonates with you, this is something that you can save up for.
And I'm really happy a company like this who takes pride in everything being
made in-house in Dallas, Texas.
So 100% USA made, including all the materials.
[1:02:59]This is a way to do that. And so I'm happy they're doing this knife.
And maybe the Chupacabra leads to other efforts, you know, that are,
maybe you change the blade steel, make it a little more pedestrian,
and maybe that brings the price down even further.
So the fact that they're using aluminum and it's not highly milled like all
their titanium is exciting.
So very, very psyched about that. All right, last little category here.
I'm not going to go deep into that are the knives of my own design that are just about to come out.
[1:03:33]Of course, I just talked about the
Nova 1, and we'll be talking about the pre-order for this very shortly.
This is not under my control, and I'm very psyched about that.
This is the Ekel Knives Agent 001.
This is the final prototype printing, resin 3D print.
And that resin 3D printing,
by the way, is pretty cool, because Tim Kell printed out the scales separately
as he would make the knife,
and assembled it and so this
is going to be a double-edged fighter it fits exactly in
the profile of the night stalker um
my favorite of the t-cal knives knives the most frequently carried t-cal knife
and also his most popular model so this is the same size same uh format uh well
slightly different format in that it's not a ringed knife uh but it's meant
to be carried Horizontal on the waist,
You can carry it however you want But it was designed to be drawn And used in reverse grip like this,
So I'm very excited Tim just sent me Pictures of it Hewn in metal Not yet.
[1:04:47]Heat treated but these are coming out Real soon and of course You're going to
hear a ton about it From me and from Tim on his live show.
[1:04:57]So there we go. Those are recent new knives. Thanks for watching that because
I needed to get it off my chest.
I've had a lot of new stuff here. Some stuff I need to make videos of.
Some have gotten mentioned here
and there, but I wanted to bring them all together and show them to you.
We're coming up on 500 Next in two weeks
we're going to have episode 500 here And I'm really excited about that I don't
think I've been that consistent in anything in my entire life Except for my
bad habits So I'm thrilled about that And a lot of that is thanks to you guys
and gals out there Who watch and listen So thank you, thank you so much.
[1:05:36]Jim and I really have a lot of fun doing this and we're glad you guys like it.
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