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[0:00]Coming up, I get a World War II machete from my brother, I get a World War II designed commando dagger from Doug, and 10 great EDC fixed blade knives. 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 favorite comments from this past week was from Spaceman5563, and he's quoting me saying, I'm dating the knife by the girlfriend.
[0:41]LMAO, I had a cold steel magnum tanto, he says, disappear while going through a bad spell. So, I get it. Thanks for the very entertaining show. Go spaceman thank you sir and uh you know sometimes relationships end and knives disappear it's a it's a sad thing but uh you know they make more of those so you can go get another one uh and then the second comment cracked me up this was from daniel calzada ty9c he says holy crap house md now reviews knives and this was uh during one of the videos where i had kind of a scraggly beard And I guess I look a little bit like Hugh Laurie, the actor on the movie, on the show House.
[1:22]House MB now reviewing knives. Yes, Daniel Calzada. We all look alike, don't we? Thanks for commenting, one and all. I appreciate it. Thanks for watching the videos, the podcast, the interview, and joining us on Thursday Night Knives. We gave away a spectacular knife on this past Thursday Night Knives. And later on I'll be revealing what we'll be giving away For next month's Gentleman Junkie Knife giveaway But if you're not a Gentleman Junkie That's a Patreon member Still come to Thursday Night Knives Because I'll tell you what We give away a lot of knives And that's not to get viewers and likes That's because I am flooded by generous friends Who give me lots of knives Like Dave of OG Blade Reviews Who just gives me tons of knives I gotta give them away Share the wealth, All right, all that said, let's go to a pocket check. What's in his pocket? Let's find out.
[2:20]Here's the knife junkie with his pocket check of knives. All right, in my front right pocket today, I had the Dirk Pinkerton ringed inversion. The inversion we first saw as a reverse tanto, truly a reverse tanto, with a recurve. That came out through Kaiser And Kaiser produced that for a few years Without the ring And then they discontinued it But Dirk knew he was on to something, Reworked the blade, added a ring Did some really great stuff to it Including that orange peel finish And the S35VN blade steel And yeah, very, very psyched about this knife This is an almost two year old release lease. This was a pre-order from him. And you know, I wasn't going to do this. I wasn't going to do this. Where is it? Is it in my pocket?
[3:14]Here's something else coming up. I put it over there. Anyway, Dirk, as you know, he does a lot of licensed designs to some of our favorite companies. So you get a lot of Kaisers and concepts and really great produced designs from Dirk Pinkerton. He does his own custom work in his own shop. I've got a number of his beautiful fixed blade knives but he also comes out with these kind of folding designs and releases them under pinkerton designs and has some of the best manufacturers in taiwan and and or china making them so uh had this one in my pocket today by the way that waves open beautifully and as far as i'm concerned if you have a folding karambit or you can tell by by the fact I'm putting my hand. If you have a folding karambit or you have a folding pakal, it must be weighed. Otherwise, what's the point?
[4:10]Alright, next up I have the Benny's Clip. This is from Jack Wolf Knives, of course. This is the second release of this gorgeous slip joint knife based on the Tony Bowes Lanny's Clip. So that gives you a big, long clip point blade, very unique with the long swooshing swedge. You have quite a bit of straight, I'd say four-fifths of the blade is nice and straight, almost recurved so that you can sharpen through that belly over time. And then you get a pretty extreme belly and an upswept tip so you get kind of the best of all worlds here this one uh this release has a longer triple fluted bolster blasted titanium integral with the liners there and then my version has this absolutely luxurious and beautiful purple kira knife to me it looks like the velvet curtains on rita hayworth's uh you know, boudoir window. I don't know.
[5:06]Just a beautiful, luxurious material. I like Kyranite a lot. You saw it a lot on older slip joints from back in the day, and I like to see Ben bringing it back out. Not that he's the first one, but you don't see too much Kyranite on modern slip joints. This one, of course, riding in the front pocket, actually, the front right pocket right next to this, because I've been carrying my phone in my left pocket. You don't need to know that, but that's where this rode. And it was in this beautiful and supple, awesome supplied slip. I need to get a custom slip one of these days. I don't know why I don't, but I love the slips that these Jack Wolf knives ship with. In my waistband at the 3 o'clock today, I had the Kramer Custom Voodoo. This was one of the very first... One of my very first custom fixed blade knives that I carried, that I EDC'd, truly everyday carried. And I love it. I haven't carried it in a little while because, you know, my attentions have been spread elsewhere, but really nice and thin.
[6:16]And Eric Kramer, he does amazing work. He's been doing his thin EDC version of the MACV SOG that is just outstanding. He calls it the partisan bowie, I think. and I'm going to have to get one of those one of these days when I find that briefcase full of cash. This is 154CM. He considers it a Persian. I consider it a Clip Point or Bowie. I asked him to sharpen the back edge, which he does every now and again, and he did. It came out beautifully. And you can see here where this has been against the skin. It's a little bit darker than this side. Excellent, excellent knife. Haven't carried that in a while. Now, later on, we're going to be talking about outstanding EDC fixed blades. And we are not going to be talking about fixed blades in this spirit. This is definitely something I carry for self-defense. The knives we're going to be talking about later, of course, all could be pushed into that roll as anything can. A hammer, a wrench, a stapler, whatever. But these knives that I'm going to be showing you later have more of a utility EDC purpose than, say, this Eric Kramer custom. It's just so sweet. I need more Kramer custom knives in my life, and I intend to get them. All right. Lastly, for emotional support, I had the Brian Brown designed Civivi EX-1 or X-1.
[7:41]Definitely a great ESK because it's got three different ways of opening it. You can flip it with the fuller. You can flip it with the flipper, obviously. Or you can slow roll it using the fuller. That one comes in especially handy with my right hand jacked up thumb. but right here.
[8:04]Still weird sensations there, just to keep you updated. Very thin hollow ground blade. This is Nitro V blade steel, and a beautiful combination. That black stonewashed blade with this green micarta handle. I really like this Civivi colorway. I'm sort of surrendering to the term colorway, though. I think it's insipid.
[8:27]There's the Brian Brown logo, and the very off-the-shelf clip, which is excellent, even though it's not embedded in the handle. It's still low-profile enough with those flat screws that it goes nicely in the... I carry this in the back right pocket.
[8:42]It's very easy for me to manipulate this one with the left hand. Not all knives are, but this one is definitely pretty easy. I love this knife. One of my favorite Civivi releases recently. Wouldn't it be cool to have an XL version of that with a 4-inch blade? Yes, it would be. All right, this is what I had on me today. I had the Pinkerton Inversion with the ring. I had the Benny's Clip with the purple Kyranite or the Rita Hayworth Curtain Kyranite. I had the Kramer Custom Voodoo Double Edge Clip Point. And then I had the EX-1 designed by Brian Brown, produced by Sabibi. What did you have in your pockets? Let me know. Always interested to find this out. I'm going to put this stuff aside because I got some cool stuff from this past weekend I'm going to tell you about. So this past weekend, I made a Camp Goomba sauce. What's that, you say? I made my usual, or one of my usual tomato sauces. This is the tomato basil sauce for pasta on the campfire. Not really a campfire, a fire pit fire. But man, it was so much fun. I was going to make a video, and I was like, I've never done this on the fire. Let me make sure I can do it a second time. I'll do the video and I'll have my girls do it and I'll edit it at work.
[10:00]After hours, of course, because I want to make it look cool. But it was really fun to do. And the sauce came out deliciously. Deliciously. It was cooked over birch wood, and it gave it just a very, very slight smokiness. Tast iron pan, all the usual ingredients, plus some very fresh basil, which was nice to have. And sausage. each i did it with italian sweet italian sausage and man it was awesome but i had a couple of knives out there of course and i want to show you the the the the two main knives and the other tool that that made this happen so just to start with this is the first fire i've ever lit legitimately truly 100 percent without vaseline or without some sort of accelerant without a lighter All I used was this, what's this called?
[10:54]Überleben, over life, like living at large in German, living to the max. I had this Überleben ferro rod that I just got off of Amazon, and it throws incredible sparks. Here, let me do it right here. Okay, I don't want to burn this, but it throws these ferro-necium sparks that kind of like smolder. You throw them, and they smolder for a second or two, and just long enough to ignite what you're throwing it on. So what I did was I got some fat wood, meaning I found a downed pine tree in the woods, cut off one of the branches right where it meets the tree, and had about five inches of it, did that twice. But inside, when you carve off the bark in the pith, on the inside you have resin-soaked wood. So that's where all of the sap, when the limb dies, all the sap kind of returns to the home and it bottles up there and it makes it very flammable wood. So I made shavings of that wood on a piece of paper, paper bag, basically, a bunch of shavings of that. and then I threw ferro sparks on it and it ignited. And I brought it over to my fire pit where I had tinder ready and I started a fire without a lighter or matches. To me, that's a big deal. 53 years, it's the first fire I've set.
[12:22]Without a lighter so i'm very excited all right but what were the knives i was using uh i had two different knives to set tinder or to make tinder i was using this this is the, amygdala which is on loan to me by billy ford of apex alchemy and this is he sent me two amygdalas to check out uh one was made by a knife maker brian vice i believe is his name which is a Well it's a good name for a knife maker And then the other Sorry if I've messed up your name I will find out for the main video I do of these the close up video This one was made by, Billy Apex Alchemy at And under the tutelage of.
[13:05]Jed Hornbeak In his shop So this is a Beast 5160 And it just Man it did an incredible job Or no this one is 80 CRV. It did an incredible job batoning wood. This is a cool handle because it's like six fingers. So if you're a Nephilim, this is your knife. You've got room. And then me, I have medium-sized hands that I can sometimes cram into a small glove or sometimes needs a large. So they really are kind of down the middle. And so this gives you a place way back here to hold onto the handle to baton up front you've got a great uh arched back i'm not sure if that's why he designed this but this is a great place uh to start the cut on a batoning you know if you're spanning a piece of wood especially one that's even larger than the blade this hump is a great place to start and then the fact that there's no thinning or swedge on the spine this thing just pops smaller logs open. You get to it like one, two, three, hits it like pops open.
[14:13]So awesome, awesome knife. Uh-oh, I think I loosened the handle a little bit maybe with that activity, and I heard that when I dropped it down on the table. I heard a little rattle. Maybe that was this. But I'll see if I need to tighten these bolts. So really nice knife by Billy Ford, Apex Alchemy. Me he's a brand new to the game and making his design well he's got two designs making them kind of however he can and that's cool uh by me so very nice knife for that the second knife i had on me yes it's my dad of the 1930s knife uh the bark river knives boone 2 you say what are you talking about your dad of the 1930s i have this vague notion about this knife uh this is the sort of, Precursor to the K-Bar These were the kind of knives that guys were bringing With them to World War II Before the K-Bar was created And using, they were just clip point, Oftentimes stack Leather handle hunting knives And the Boone II By Bark River is, I've got to say, it's my favorite incarnation of this style of knife, at least that I've seen so far.
[15:24]I remember when it came out, it sort of knocked me for a loop. It came out the same time the Quartermaster came out. Other knives kind of of this ilk coming out from Bark River, but this one just really did it. And I wasn't looking at it like I normally do, like, oh, that'd make an awesome fighting knife. I was just like this thing is like the perfect all-around outdoors knife and it reminds me of something uh that the camping dad of the 30s and 40s would have I think camping really uh became big in the 20s and 30 I think the 30s after world war one um people really started camping a lot.
[16:04]Anyway this knife was great as you can see I also used this to baton I didn't see some of the wood remnants there, but also great for with that convex slash apple seed edge. Very nice for making feather sticks, which I have done in the past, but I didn't yesterday. I made little curls and that's what I ignited with these. So I'm trying to start using my knives. I'm becoming interested in camping and outdoorsy kind of stuff for two reasons. First of all, it's really fun to watch the videos. It's like the male version of watching a cooking video, though I love watching cooking videos too, but it's like watching guys with outdoor hacks is really fun or girls. There are some, uh, rather, uh, fetching young ladies showing off cool survival skills in the woods too. Uh, like that. Uh, but, um, Really, I just see myself drifting towards that. I'm like, I have a lot of knives, and it's really fun to use them. And I am a collector, but some of these things, it's like I'm not selling these, and I don't have a museum, so start using them. And this is a fun way to do it. Anyway, outdoor sauce, Goomba sauce, I highly recommend it.
[17:10]Tassed iron pan, garlic, onions, tomatoes, basil, sausage, or something good like that to make a nice oil, oil uh uh meaty oil to cook everything in you're good to go all right sorry that took way too long we're going to come back with knife life news but i want to remind you if you want to help support the show and have the opportunity to win some fantastic knives uh every third thursday of the month here on thursday night knives become a patron just scan the qr code here or go to the knifejunkie.com slash patreon again that's the knifejunkie.com slash patreon adventure delivered Your monthly subscription for hand-picked outdoor, survival, EDC, and other cool gear from our expert team of outdoor professionals.
[17:56]TheKnifeJunkie.com slash BattleBox. You're listening to the Knife Junkie Podcast, and now here's the Knife Junkie with the Knife Life News. Speaking of the great outdoors, something new from RMJ, which is very exciting. And I say that because RMJ earned their bones making tomahawks for war, but has begun making a lot of really cool tomahawks just for general use in the outdoors, as well as axes. They have the new Patriot Pipe Hawk, and this is extremely exciting. I like pipe hawks. I like smoking pipes in various forms, but I've never smoked a pipe, never smoked out of one of these, and I always thought they were super cool. But you know that if it's coming from RMJ This relatively kind of delicate design Because it is hollowed out And it does have a pipe down the middle You know that coming from RMJ It's going to be ultra robust Yes, we've seen SCAB.
[18:54]Sort of destroy the the snuggles or hammer by them but in general their stuff is quite quite robust so it's interesting to see them make a patriot pipe hot or make the patriot pipe hawk but make it also usable a lot of times you'll see people make pipe hawk style tomahawks but they don't have the full gabila like the hollowed out handle you can smoke through this is made of 6150, which is an ultra-tough high-carbon steel. Takes a lot of impact. And then that ash half is lathe. This is cool. It's lathe on an old, turned on an old lathe that was created to make the 1903 Springfield stock. So the old World War I bolt-action rifle. The handle is made on the same lathe, which I think is pretty cool. So it's got a nice story. It's very smokable, apparently. And then at the very top, you see that little nubbin? Looks like a brainer up there. That actually is a plug that removes, that allows you to ream out that pipe, to clean out the resin and such.
[20:12]So very exciting. The RMJ Patriot Pipe Tomahawk. Now that I'm sitting here talking about it, I think this might be the first RMJ i save up for i love their tomahawks but tomahawks aren't a part of my daily life i do like to smoke so uh maybe i will get this i just got a a new pipe uh with a whole wax canvas kit the whole nine yards so wouldn't a tomahawk go nicely with that okay next up from lion steel this is also something that uh looks really cool and very appealing to me kind of on a different level, This is more on the EDC fixed blade level, kind of like the stuff we're going to be talking about here soon.
[20:52]This is called the AGO, or AGO. I'm not sure how it's being pronounced, but this is from Lionsteel, and it's designed by Gianluigi Simonella, who goes by Wilson, which I think is hilarious. His nickname is Wilson. But Gianluigi Simonella designed this beautiful, very slim, sleek EDC folder. older. What's interesting about this to me is that it looks like it should be larger. Now that is a 3.11 inch M390 blade and just by looking at it probably about the same length in the handle so pretty small. Fixed blade knife at six inches but what's cool is that it's got a full old school guard on it. It's got a, It's not integrated into the full tang. This is a full tang handle. It's not integrated in the full tang or anything. It's a serious old school guard.
[21:48]So I've fallen in love with this just in the past day since I saw this. And I think I might have to get it. It comes in a variety of wood and micartas. Woods and micartas. You see, that kind of guard you never see on an EDC blade. It's so cool. It comes, you know, I'm not sure what kind of sheep. it comes in, honest to goodness. Hopefully it's leather. This thing looks like it belongs in leather. It is available now from Lion Steel, but if you want to get it from one of its dealers, you're going to have to wait a little bit, but it should be there soon.
[22:25]I see like olive wood. I see white micarta. I see something that looks like a carbon fiber, but they say it's just micarta and wood uh but interesting full tang but also one solid uh handle that fits over the tang uh in a solid piece so there you go very cool uh looking forward to that next uh from benchmade uh you know how i feel about benchmade i love that they're made in america uh i love their history um and and a couple of their knives uh but i'm not i'm not a huge benchmade fan but But this one is one of the knives I'm a huge fan of. That's the Bugout, and they have one coming out called the Burnt Brass Bugout. Not brass, actually. It's an aluminum handle anodized in that burnt brass color, which is totally, totally cool by me because you don't get the weight of the brass, but you still get the beautiful look. True, you don't get the patina. Brass has a really nice patina, and you can see from that sort of Tiffany blue thumb stud, they're sort of thinking of the patina. Uh, or evoking it, but you're not going to get it from that handle. Uh, they're keeping this thing relatively light. That's what the bug out, uh, that's what the bug outs USP is, is it's lightness, uh, to length and capability.
[23:46]In this case, it's only 2.5 ounces, which is, you know, pretty light. Uh, you, you used to hear, you don't hear this anymore much, but it's like an ounce per inch of blade length. In this case, this would make this a light knife uh m390 blade steel uh so that's a change from the usual s30 uh s30b look at that that's a beautiful little knife i i've always liked the bug out quite a bit uh it is available now go check it out that's a battle wash dlc uh blade coating by the way check that one out if you like bench all right lastly here uh from a designer that i really love he's been on the show a couple of times. That's Ostap Hell from Poland. He's got a new one with Civivi, and this is the largest folding Civivi ever. This is called the PID.
[24:37]You can tell that some non-English people designed and made this knife. It's called the Hid. And this is no diss on Ostap Tell. His English is beautiful, more beautiful than mine, and way better than my Polish. This is a 4.14-inch sheep's foot or cleavery sheep's foot blade. Man alive. I look at this and I think camp cutlery. When you look at where the edge of the blade is compared to the bottom of the handle where the fingers go and where the knuckles might go, you can see that the knuckles are going to clear whatever surface you're cutting on. This would make an excellent folding chef's knife or folding camp cook knife because of that length, 4.14 inches. This is 14C28N, which is a blade steel that was originally created for bushcraft and that kind of thing.
[25:34]Yeah, bushcraft. There's another, I think 12C28 was designed for scalpels. Anyway, durable, tough steels that keep a great edge and are extremely stainless. List um that's what you get from 14c here this is uh three different kinds of g10 it's got a reverse carry pocket clip of the wire persuasion and i have not used it yet but or even held it but i am betting dollars for donuts haven't even watched a video yet i know jared has one i'm betting you can use that fuller to reverse flip it oh there's the green and black version i do We like the green and black version quite a bit.
[26:21]Anyway, that's it for Knife Life News. These are the cool new knives that have come out this week. It's funny, Civivi, they're always dropping new knives. How cool is that? Can you imagine if your favorite brand of car were doing that or your favorite brand of anything else? It seems like knives, they're always dropping a new one.
[26:41]Uh, so you can follow us and follow this kind of news on the website. That's the knife junkie.com. You can also buy cool stuff there. Uh, we have knife junkie merch there. That's logo stuff with the logo you see up here in the corner. Uh, there's also a lot of really cool stuff that Jim develops and puts up there. That's the knife junkie.com slash shop. You can get endless amounts of cool t-shirts and other stuff with, uh, awesome designs that our great and powerful uh jim makes so go to the knifejunkie.com slash shop and get your knife junkie merch right there all right coming up we're going to take a look at the state of the collection and then 10 great edc fixed blades the shockwave tactical torch is your ultimate self-defense companion featuring a powerful led bulb that lasts 100 000 hours a super-sharp, crenulated bezel, and a built-in stun gun delivering 4.5 million volts. Don't settle for ordinary. Choose the Shockwave Tactical Torch. The KnifeJunkie.com slash Shockwave. And now that we're caught up with Knife Life news, let's hear more of the Knife Junkie podcast. First up, from my brother, a machete from 1943.
[27:57]Yep, the sheath is from 1943. We do know that. Listen to this.
[28:03]It's got a metal throat very cool uh but when you look at the at the machete itself, it is also dated 1943 this thing out so distant us 19 that's a four it looks kind of like a one here 1943 uh this obviously is a world war ii era machete i don't know it's provenance or provenance, however you say that word. I've only ever really read it. But I've got to find out where it comes from. It's got a bakelite handle. We've kind of come to that conclusion. A beautifully convex edge that looks like it was done with sandpaper. And then a well-pitted, well-used blade. And then, Man alive. I can only imagine what this knife has, what this machete has seen. Now, 1943, it was a World War II issued machete. I don't, like I said, I don't know where it went. I need to look up distant 1943 machetes, find out where they may have ended up on the world stage. But I know probably not Western Europe, probably not Africa. These were probably in the South Pacific. For cutting through jungles and all the foliage on those islands. We've all seen Thin Red Line.
[29:28]Imagine this is the kind of machete they had there. So I got to check this out. But my brother, Victor Vito, he's born Victor, but I like to call him Vito. Thank you so much, my man. This thing is so beautiful. And what an incredible addition to my uh world war ii slash korea era k bar behind the microphone there and then my world war ii bring back that he gave me that's a chris and then up there, the uh the 1918 trench knife and he also gave me this uh fairbairn sykes my brother my brother he would have loved to have all of these because he's really into this historical period But instead he gave them to me Because that's the kind of person he is So I'm very lucky, I have an awesome family I can never stress that enough, So thank you Vic This thing is super cool And I gotta say This just Takes the cake Doesn't it?
[30:30]So it does have This sort of attachment To the old school web belts So if I were to actually carry this, which I won't I would have to figure out another way to do it Maybe create a frog that slips up Over the whole thing, Alright, you'll be seeing that on the wall Back here, some point soon, Next up, from Doug Bull Oh, Doug He's a good friend of the show And a patron, He's a patron, he's a mega patron He's awesome, thank you Doug, He sent me this This is a World War II era knife This is a current production from K-Bar, but this is the Eck No. 44 Commando Dagger. This is a knife I've been lusting after for years.
[31:18]The handle, well, okay, first of all, why, you said? Because they were always very coveted, coveted by the troops. I remember reading a long time ago, coveted by World War II troops and then beyond. But also, they just look super cool. They have that incredible handle. I love the handle shape. And then, of course, it's a dagger. It's got the S. Quillians. I love the S. Quillians. Something that I was always kind of like, huh, is the handle-to-blade ratio. That is a, I'm going to measure it to be 100% accurate, six-and-a-half-inch blade with a five-and-three-quarters-inch handle. So a very close handle-to-blade ratio for a dagger. Usually we would see something more like that. But I have discovered in having it, and I know that this is something that's stuck in Doug's craw, because he wanted to even see this. The handle's too long. Well, the handle allows you to use this knife in a saber grip with the thumb fully extended forward for this kind of fighting.
[32:28]Sometimes we use knives, we put our fingers, we put our thumb on the spine. Well, you can't do that here because it's double-edged. So I've discovered that the long handle is this. And then in discussing it on Thursday Night Knives, Lots of people mentioned, yeah, lots of daggers have that long handle, and it's for that. So always late to the party, but really happy to discover and own this knife. Thank you so much, Doug. You don't know how much this means to me. Not only your generosity and support of the show, but this happens to be one I've always, always had my eye on and thought was super cool. All right. Right? Lastly, Carrie, another generous fella, Carrie Orifiche of Off Grid Knives sent me these, and I've been carrying them all week. I've been carrying this one all week, which has become mine. This is the Off Grid Mamba 3. The Mamba 2, Mamba 3.
[33:25]Affectionately called the Black Mamba version 2, was a 3 inch version. I think the one before it, the number 1, was a 3 and a half. So, spanning all the sizes, now we've got the 4 inch in MagnaCut with anodized titanium handles. This thing is so wicked. I love it. And like most off-grid knives, the small version is as thick as the large version. So, that makes the small version very manageable in hand. For a smaller knife. It also makes the large version manageable in the pocket. It feels relatively svelte. I absolutely love this. I have only done light cutting with this. I've done a bit, but I've only done light cutting with this. I can't wait to put this magnet cut to the test.
[34:15]I'm very, very excited about this knife. Thank you, Carrie. So this one is mine. I am keeping this one and I am giving this one away because I already have a black on black. You need to know all that. But I will be giving this away. This will be the Gentleman Junkie Knife Giveaway Knife. I didn't even let Jim know that. And we will be giving it away with the tool he sent. This is the version 2 of the EDC tool. Now, Kerry is always improving and updating his designs. This is the version 1. I love it. I use it all the time. The version 2 has, I guess, stronger magnets to hold this in. You don't need the O-ring. And it seems a little slight bit maybe thinner. The anodizing looks a little nicer.
[35:03]And super spin on that. Wow. Super spin on that. Spin on mine is pretty good too. So a very, very nice EDC tool with the three most common hex sizes in there. 6, 8, and 10. 6, 8, and...
[35:24]10 yep that's right uh so gentlemen junkie knife giveaway knife will be the mamba v3 four inch.
[35:33]Magna cut and titanium worn cliff folder totally totally bad to the bone and i gotta say uh i'm very happy that they added the tab uh filler to fill it tab and this golf ball texture is awesome Awesome. All right. So that's what I've got new this week. Still weird with the thumb. Oh, poor me. Okay, let's get into some of these awesome EDC fixed blade knives. And when I'm talking about EDC fixed blade knives, I want to reiterate, these are not self-defense knives. They could all be used for that. And I probably tested out most of them in that on cardboard and other stuff. But I'm thinking about extremely useful, extremely carryable fixed blade knives for all sorts of chores, up to and including survival and in a pinch survival and camping kind of stuff. First one in this category, something I've been carrying all, well, it's no longer summer. We're deeply into fall, but I was carrying this all summer and continue to. This is the Primitive Wicket from Tom Nugent and Knives by Nugent. First of all, great sheath. That's a huge part of an EDC fixed blade is the sheath. So perfect sheath. And where the grommets are located, it hangs perfectly straight. He's got this awesome leather cordage on here with a quick release.
[37:03]But the knife itself is just outstanding. You've got a Scandi ground I'll measure it just to see.
[37:15]Two-inch blade, Scandi ground, super sharp ADCRV2. See that there? This is the primitive model, meaning it does not have handle slabs. It is simply wrapped with jute cord and trenched in epoxy and singed and all that. And, man, it's awesome. It's a great grip. It's no more than you need. Of course, a thicker grip would probably feel slightly more sure in hand. But you're balancing this with availability. With a thick handle, I would not be carrying this like I do. This is my most carried by far neck knife, besides the one that rides behind my ID at work. This little neck knife gets a lot of use. I've used this a lot for food, randomly having it at restaurants and cutting things, cutting food. I also used this recently, the first time I made cowboy coffee. I use this to, what do you call it, baton. And this would not even span the wood, but I'd put it halfway in, turn it around, halfway down the other side, and it just pops it open.
[38:25]Believe it or not, with that little, with that scandy edge, this little knife is awesome at batoning and other stuff. It's got a 90-degree spine, so throws sparks nicely. This is the Primitive Wicket by Knives by Nuge. and you'll see that most of these here are custom knives or knives made by small producers but if you're in you know if you're in the buying realm that a lot of us are in there they are not like buying custom folders where they're costing you hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars or you know big big money all right next up this is the off-grid knives a production knife off-grid knives hoglet.
[39:07]The hoglet ships in a great sheath. You might not like the clip. This is just a piece of bent kydex. It works for me, I got to say, because this is not something I carry in the waistband. I usually, if I have this on, it's around the house for around the house chores, and this works great. You can hang it upside down if you're cool or right side up. Either way, it fits great because the sheath fits great. It is a cleaver-style blade. I always think it looks like a great cheese knife. I have used this as a picnic knife for cheese. It's a little thick for cheese, I've got to say. Much better for wood and cardboard, as all off-grid knives excel at cutting cardboard. This one has that cool little style hole up front, like it looks like an old-school cleaver.
[39:58]But with this, you really do get a point. I'm not a huge fan of the cleaver style blades This is how I like them Jimping all the way up You can really bear down on it And you have a nice point Also this one won't break the bank This one is under $60 And depending on Where you get it But I think, You can buy them from Off Grid or Amazon And they are I think they're around $55 right now Awesome awesome This, by the way, is Cryo D2. They stipulate Cryo a lot. I'm not sure how much that means. I know it makes it tougher. Next up is from T-Kill Knives. And this is an older version of this knife, but this is the Combatant. The Combatant is a 3...
[40:57]Three and a quarter inch blade uh about a three inch cutting edge and now it has a more acute point the new version of this has a more acute point in the larger swedge and i would love to get that however he uh tim kell's got a new one coming out on this platform but it's a true wharncliffe meaning uh it starts from the handle it's a continuous curve down to the tip with a totally flat edge and that one is called the adversary i'm very much looking forward to that uh this is a very handy edc knife yes it could be pressed into self-defense but it's not that's not its primary issue even though it's called the combatant um tim himself carries this one all the time just for edc around the house but this is one of those knives where i feel like a little jimping right up here would be nice. Totally a personal matter of taste. It's not necessary. These T-Cal knives are almost all nickel boron coated, almost all I say, because I think he does one other finish that doesn't get the nickel boron.
[42:05]Very, very nice. 80 CRV2, super sharp, incredible edge, and just what you need handle. No more. He's very good at doing that. Tim Kell is very good at designing knives that have no more handle than is needed, even in the reverse grip.
[42:27]This one I have set up for in the waistband or pocket carry currently. Sometimes I have it set up to ride horizontally on the front. Speaking of knives that ride horizontally on the front, this next one is by Mike Payhill at 310 Forge. Man, his stuff is beautiful I met him last year at the Texas Custom Knife Show He's a Texas knife maker Young man I think he's also a preacher, And he quoted Some bible verse to me Not in a, Way that was off-putting at all It was actually pretty cool But here's one of his, Here's one of his knives And now that I'm looking at it I think this sheath is stitched together with sinew. Really awesome sheath. This, is the very rare leather sheath that rides very low profile on the front in that sort of front scout style. This is his mini scalper model, 1095 blade steel with an incredibly sharp, is nice and thin, very thin. I think it's 16th of an inch, very thin.
[43:40]But that's a Scandi grind on a very thin edge so it's incredibly sharp incredibly sharp i can get a three finger three and a half finger grip on this beautiful rosewood handle and man alive i love this oh no no this isn't rosewood that's cherry cherry wood and cherry is a unique and you don't see too much cherry wood uh my grandfather uh built furniture and stuff and he loved cherry uh feels great in hand. And I used this this past weekend. This was on my belt when I was making the sauce. I kept forgetting it was on my belt, so I don't think I really used it much. But really, really awesome, awesome knife. Check out 310 Forge, especially if you like Bowie knives, man. Mike Cahill forges some incredible Bowies. He's also the guy that got me to smoke pipes. Thanks, Johnny. I've been thinking of taking up smoking. Yeah, he got me to smoke pipes. I'm like, man, that looks, he was smoking his pipe. I was like, man, that smells good. Looks good. It's a little bit less obnoxious than a cigar, in my opinion, though I love cigars.
[44:54]He's a young man. I could pull that off. He's like half my age. All right, next up, this is a not a custom night this is a uh an easily affordable production night that i've been so impressed with this was a gift from my brother-in-law james awesome dude uh the candy man um.
[45:13]That's what his marines called him Because he was a badass marine This is the, Waxahach There it goes, the sheath is so good I shot it off the table This is the Waxahachie, Waxahachie from Sencut And it's got that beautiful blade That we saw on the brazen, The clip point blade, I love that clip point blade It keeps the point Low slung, kind of lower than centerline So you get a lot of utility out of it but you still get a belly and a high rising clip point and a high rising clip slash swedge that adds to the puncturing capability of this knife. I keep thinking I'm going to die the handle, but man, it's so good in reverse grip. It is so good. This is perfectly designed up here. I don't carry this enough. You know what? I'm tempted away from some of the fancier knives I I have, but this, uh, I have this set up if I didn't shoot the sheath off the table, I'd show you, but I have this set up for front scout carry, um, so that the handle is facing left or west so that when I draw it, it's in a reverse grip in my right hand.
[46:27]Such a great, great, what is this? Hang on.
[46:32]8, or 9CR18MOV blade steel. Very, very sharp. Very great, useful knife. This one would, very great. It is very great and useful. This one would flex awesomely into that self-defense role. So definitely consider the Senkut Waxahashi. Waxahashi. All right, another custom knife and a Bowie. but again in that range where if you're buying expensive folders this is nothing for you uh in terms of money and output this is the auxiliary manufacturing pocket bowie i love this knife this one was sent to me from michael jarvis he sent a few of these out this was last um.
[47:16]Thanksgiving of 2023 um he sent a bunch of these out this is his uh kind of his signature model right now it's so easily carryable uh drops in the pocket like nothing though i have it set up for in the waistband carry with the with the uh tension cord so i just uh wrap this around a belt loop slip this in the waistband it stays right there and then i can tug it and it comes out of the sheath the sheath drops and bangles and i've got this in hand um always set up for this reverse grip this handle this coffin shaped handle with the facets and all that oh my gosh this is a great handle he could put a bunch of different blades on this one uh the coffin shape is great because.
[48:01]It tapers down by the guard but then widens back out so it gives you a a great place to focus your, your um pinching energy that sounds weird uh focus the tension of your grip so that you don't slide up and then the the same on the back except it widens out gives you a great place to put your thumb this knife is awesome you got a recurve here and uh forward or backward he does this in a wrapped version that i'd love to get and then i just saw uh last night as i'm recording this so maybe three or four days ago for you uh that he put up an excel version of this and i saw a lot of people like myself going googly-eyed bonkers over it. It is so cool with that long swedge, very, very puncturable, and then with that recurve, just going to slash and slice like nobody's business. This one, I believe, is in.
[49:00]Magna cut we're going to say it's magna cut i'm pretty sure it is so uh check check him out he's got uh also many other excellent edc fixed blades in the carl jr in the pocket rocket and a number of others this next one is from aaron bieber and ab knives this is a beauty um this is the 302, Aaron Bieber knives the 302 it is a to me it's a mix it's a blend of a clip point like Bowie style knife and a wharncliffe wharncliffe in that it's got a point way down low and it's got a nearly straight edge though it gives you some belly to work with uh but then it's got that clip and a long swedge that swedge is a nice little hollow ground swedge there so you You get major, major puncturability out of this. It's not a word, and I keep using it. You get major penetration with that tip. It is a pretty fine tip, but not too dainty.
[50:01]And this one is magna cut, super thin on the blade steel, on the grind, I mean, and really, really sharp. The handle on this is outstanding.
[50:15]It is the best Tsukamaki wrap. This one and the next one you'll see are the two best I've ever experienced. And this in my hand, it feels so good. And you have the alternating peaks and valleys that you get with a classic wrap like that. And I prefer it when a wrap either loops and wraps back in the middle like that or at least twists in the middle so that you get a high peak and a deep valley because that's really what gives this thing. The incredible grip this just with that um ibw band on the belt up front in scout style this is incredible you forget it's there it's one of those kind of knives forget it's there until you need it of course shout out to aaron bieber and the pennsylvania academy of fine arts where we both with wind all right this next one is by josh mason bright for war knives and he's been doing some unreal stuff lately i mean his work is so impeccable so beautiful uh but he's been making bigger versions of his stuff and it's got it's got my appetite wet but this is a neck knife quaken uh i don't use it as a neck knife though actually it does quite nicely as such but i do the same thing I do with the pocket.
[51:41]Bowie from Auxiliary Manufacturing. I just loop this around a belt loop and then stick this in the waistband. Then when I tug it.
[51:49]The sheath falls free and dangles at my waist, and then I have this in hand. This beautiful Quaken is incredible. So Josh Mason is very inspired by Japanese knives, as you can tell from this one. And one of the ways he makes them, he doesn't do them all like this, but in this case, he did a full flat grind all the way down to a zero edge and then knocked off the edge at a 20-degree cutting angle. You can see under this light Some Some marking on the blade I forced a patina on it and then was very Unhappy with it and then couldn't Fully remove it So yeah jokes on me This is a 1095 blade steel That's ray skin in there And I love how dirty it looks It looks like natural I have ray skin On my Pakal On my Copus Elvia That Josh wrapped and he put purple ray skin. I love that you can dye ray skin and make it different, but this to me looks like it was just peeled off the ray, the poor bastard, and put on my knife.
[52:56]Again, alternating peaks and valleys, one of the best I've ever experienced in terms of Tsukamaki wrap, and then he's got the, what is this thing called, turban wrap or something, seeps wrap, something like that, around here to stop the hand from sliding up onto that handle. Such a great knife. Would work awesome as a self-defense knife in that reverse grip, or you could, of course, go like this.
[53:24]Outstanding. Also a very, very cool logo, Jay Mason. Check him out, brightforwar on Instagram, or I think you can also find him under Josh Mason.
[53:36]Really nice work. I'd love to get one of his larger double-edged things that he recently has made. Second to last on this list is super inexpensive and easily obtained. This is the Cold Steel Mini-Tac Bowie.
[53:55]The Minitac has this handle. This is a very old design from then.
[54:00]I believe Andrew Demko started, created this handle design way back when, in 2006 when he started with Cold Steel. And this is a great three-and-a-half finger knife. You have the sub-hilt here. So really, you know, if you can't fit all your fingers on there, you have that sub-hilt for retention. So really brilliant design. In this case, it's the Bowie. Now, I have the Skinner model that Dave gave me, and then I've had the Kiridashi for years. I love this line of knives. I should get, before it goes out, you never know when they're going to discontinue something, but they have a Tonto version of this. That's excellent. This is very thin and very 8CR13 MOV. Come on, admit it. You don't need anything more than that.
[54:52]It is blasted, so I don't know. Sometimes I like to sand down a blasted finish. It kind of makes it more resistant to rust and stuff. Look at that handle. That's faux G10. F-A-U-X XG10, faux G10. That means fake in French. All you animals out there. And this here is jimping. Of course you know I'm joking. This here is jimping here and it does feel quite good. There's only four jimps but it does a great job.
[55:31]I really recommend this one. Again, I have this set up. You could wear it as a neck knife just fine. But I have it set up for in the waistband carry with the cord release.
[55:42]I'm smelling meat wafting down from upstairs. That's a good sign. All right. And now the last knife on this list, awesome EDC fixed blades. This is a custom knife, but, again, like I said, if you have a nice spider coat, you can afford this. This is the Hog Teeth Knives Little Ruffian. I was joking with Matt. I said, you should call it the Lil Ruffian, L-I-L apostrophe, and he about slapped me over the phone. And I wouldn't want that dude to slap me. He knows what he's doing. This here is a small version of the large rucking. You've seen that knife here. Ad nauseum a million times. I'm so psyched he made a small version of this. Fits right in the pocket. This is a three or three and a half finger. For me, it's pretty much four finger. But a pretty small handle. 154 CM blade. Deeply hollow ground. Very thin behind the edge. And you've got, yeah, very thin behind the edge. And you've got that beautiful acid stone wash. And this jimping here, this was the first, I believe, ever laser cut jimping he's done. So he got a new laser and he does markings with it. But I guess he can also cut jimping with it, unless he got a different laser for that.
[57:03]This one, he's going to make the sheath a little, he has been making the sheath a little bit looser. This is the first one he's ever made So you can see a little bit of that scuffing I don't mind that But someone who buys it might He gave this to me And the prototype lives on And now he's selling these pretty nicely An outstanding, EDC fixed blade The hogtooth knives, little ruffian Alright, well thanks for coming with me On this road.
[57:33]Let me start this over. Thanks for joining me for this list of awesome EDC fixed blades. I love these. They can all be used for self-defense. You know that that's always my primary focus when I'm EDC fixed blading out there in the real world. But when I'm around the house, I always want to have a fixed blade knife on me that I can do anything with.
[57:55]So these are some of my favorites. What are yours? Let me know. Drop them in the comments below, and perhaps we'll move them next week. All right thanks for joining me and uh and jim be sure to join us tomorrow night but there's a night knives 10 p.m eastern standard time live right here on uh youtube and uh join us on sunday for a great conversation with a knife luminary all right for jim working his magic behind the switcher i'm bob demarco saying until next time don't take dull for an answer thanks for listening to the knife junkie podcast if you enjoyed the show please rate and review at review the podcast For show notes for today's episode, additional resources, and to listen to past episodes, visit our website, TheKnifeJunkie.com. You can also watch our latest videos on YouTube at TheKnifeJunkie.com. Check out some great knife photos on TheKnifeJunkie.com and join our Facebook group at TheKnifeJunkie.com. And if you have a question or comment, email them to Bob at TheKnifeJunkie.com or call our 24-7 listener line at 724-466-4487. And you may hear your comment or question answered on an upcoming episode of The Knife Junkie Podcast. Thank you.
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