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[0:00]Coming up, the Gentleman Junkie Knife Giveaway Knife for November, a beautiful gift from a very talented listener, and the Recurve Roundup. I'm going to show you 15 wicked folders. 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.
[0:31]Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments this past week was just something that made me feel good. SlasherSociety09 says, Love the show. Your honest approach is the best. You're the Bob. And I'm not exactly sure what the Bob means, but I'll take it. I like it. Next up from Byron Lee. This was on my How I Carry Fixed Blades. He says, just simply, I like this video. Thank you. Man, would that all the comments were like that. I like this video. Thank you. Thank you, Byron. It was my pleasure bringing it to you. Last of the favorite comments, and there were many and they were all great, but I like this one too.
[1:11]LongRider42, he's a frequent contributor to Thursday Night Knives, says, I just bought one. He's talking about the roaring fire tool roll that I just posted. I just bought one to organize all the tools I carry on my bike. A lot better than just keeping them in a plastic bag. no doubt. Like I do now. I hope it's as nice looking as yours, by the way. And this is that was my full name is roaring fire pioneer new mini tool roll bag. And I have no idea where long rider found that because I went to their website and I could not find an actual name for it. So, Maybe as my wife likes to say, you don't read stuff. You don't read labels. You don't read stuff. You miss it that way. You also don't look behind things in the fridge. So, Long Rider, thank you so much for giving us the full name of the Roaring Fire Pioneer new mini tool roll bag. I'm going to have to change the title of that video. But thanks for that. And thank you, one and all, for watching the videos, listening to the podcast, joining in on Thursday Night Knives, and all the rest. It's greatly appreciated. Jim and I love you guys, and, well, thanks for watching. All right, coming up, we're going to take a look at what I was carrying during the pocket check. What's in his pocket? Let's find out.
[2:31]Here's the knife junkie with his pocket check of knives. Today in my front right pocket, haven't been able to not have this on me in some position during the day ever since this was sent to me. I love this. This is from David Cam and Orion Knives. This is the Aries. Aries, the god of war. At least the Roman version, sort of pilfered from the Greek version. No, I'm sorry. No, the Greek version, Aries. I always get that mixed up. Mars is the Roman version. Anyway, this is a beautiful pivot lock knife. Yeah, that's right. The lock is right there in the center of the pivot. We've seen a few of these come out. I guess I would say that CRKT was the first with their bolt lock, their dead bolt lock, to come out with this. But that was a totally different mechanism. What I'm talking about is the lock being located right there on the pivot. it. This is more like a compression lock. So you see that folding leaf on the inside there. Let's see. You press that in and it moves the folding. It moves that spring clip out of the way. Let's do this. You can see it engage here.
[3:48]See that pop right over. So it's much like a compression lock. At the folding leaf spring there. Fits into a notch on the tang of the blade. Keeps it secure, like very secure. And I love that. I really like the mechanism. It's pretty fidgety. It's got an awesome fuller for middle finger flicking. You can also just use the lock itself by squeezing it and popping it open. So I love all of that. But what I really love on this knife is that gorgeous blade. That is a beautiful drop point Tonto blade putting the point right at center line and sort of.
[4:26]Elongating that front straight portion. This is flat ground here, and then the rest is hollow ground. You can always tell that in pictures from the curve right here. If this bevel meets this bevel with a curved line, that means that this portion here is hollow ground. If it meets in the straight line, that means they're both flat ground. And they're both awesome. I like both styles, but I prefer the hollow ground. I just do. Not only does it feel sharper to me and just a little bit thinner behind the edge, but also, you know, I'm a shallow guy. I like the looks of a hollow ground blade. I also like the look of this beautiful logo. It's Orion's belt. There you see those three stars there and then the belt going through them.
[5:18]Beautiful knife thank you so much david cam of orion knives and also blade banter um he puts out fewer videos now that he's running a knife business but every once in a while he'll put out a video and they're excellent he has uh he's a great evaluator of knives and his uh his videos are beautiful i don't know what camera he's using what lights but he knows how to shoot video too so a really excellent knife and i've been carrying it non-stop by the way uh the ergonomics are great and neutral. They feel great in all grips, forward, reverse, piccal, standard, and it also has a sculpted pocket clip here. Very, very nice, which you can reverse to this side, the left side, the wrong side. Sinestra. In Italian, it's sinestra, which means sinister. So those of you who are lefties have a lot of spiritual work to do. All right, next up, in my front right pocket, right next to this, as I carry my phone in my left, is probably my favorite Jack Wolf knife release of the past year. I just, I can't quit you. I can't quit you, Venom Jack. This is the Jack Wolf Knives Venom Jack. It's the second Venom Jack ever released, coming about a year and a half after the first one. And man alive, is it beautiful. A lot of it, I just like this knife In particular, the curved trapper handle, that descending angle...
[6:47]Warncliffe blade, very, very effective cutter, a really, really excellent knife. But I got to say, the thing that won me over about this release in particular was this very incarnation of it. You know, Jack Wolf Knives always puts out knives in four or five different variations. This variation is possibly the most beautiful I've ever seen on a Jack Wolf Knife. I know he's done this one other time after this, but it's this dark acid stonewash bolster next to the dark matter, red carbon fiber. It's just, it's stunning to me. And then how the dark acid wash blade matches the whole package. It's just beautiful. And of course, you have all of that incredible action you come to expect with Jack Wolf knives.
[7:34]This one is stout. I would call this on my totally random scale. This is like an eight and a half, eight and a half. And luckily, much of the blade, both open and close eight and a half, much of the blade protrudes above the handle. And seeing as it's a full height hollow grind gives you a great purchase for just opening it up with your fingers, pinching it as opposed to putting your nail in the nail neck. If the nail neck were the only way to open this, the strength of the spring might be a bit of a buzzkill. Sometimes things can be a little bit too hard to open if all you have is a nail neck. So, an excellent design and just perfect execution. I love the Venom Jack, especially in that dress. Next up, I carried this last week. I hadn't carried this in a long time, and I've been enjoying a renaissance with it. It's the Nova 1. This, of course, is my prototype, so it's got that giant logo, which I love. I'm the only one in the world who's got it with the giant logo, and I'm the only one in the world who wants it with that giant logo. I love it. This is the hog tooth knives made.
[8:48]Bob DeMarco co-designed Nova 1. This was the one that started the Nova series. We're only two in, but we will keep going. And I have some ideas for the Nova 3. It will be a little bit larger and double edgy. But here this one is the recurve bowie knife i love this one and i was carrying this uh this but today because i got a picture from matt chase he made a couple of these um of course they're not serialized but he made a couple of these in the nova 2 dress so with the ivory micarta and it looks so cool and i have decided well you'll you'll this is just a teaser uh but you all will be very happy to hear what's going to happen in the near future with that. So that's the Nova one I had in my three o'clock today and in my appendix. It moved around depending on what shirt I was wearing and how much I wanted to show the world what I was carrying. Last up, this was purely for emotional support. My ESK today was one that I don't really use, but I like to look at and gawk at because it's just so beautiful. And it's my only real Navaja. So today I had the Sevillana.
[10:02]From Boker. Sevillana. That name refers to Sevilla, the Spanish city that we sometimes call Seville. And that's where this knife hails from. It's one of the great steel capitals of the world for blades. You have Seki City, Japan. You have Sevilla, Spain. And in Germany, you have Solingen.
[10:30]So those are the old steel capitals of the world. Of course, there's Damascus and the great old U.S. of A.
[10:37]So this thing to me is absolutely beautiful with the stag handle. That's a real stag and brass fittings. It's got that traditional horn-shaped handle. That looks like a steer's horn there. So bullfighting, you know, it's all kind of cultural there. And then you've got that gorgeous Spanish clip blade. You say, Bob, what's a Spanish clip point blade? How I loosely define it, and I've gotten some buy-in from Miguel Barbudo. I talked to him about that at the Blade Show. By the way, he's a guy, if you want to gift me a really, really expensive and gorgeous custom knife, Miguel Barbudo will work for sure. But it's got a long, shallow clip there. So a clip that spans half or more of the blade and is kind of shallow, meaning it leaves a lot of beef for quite a while until you get to the tip. Deep hollow ground blade. This is that molybdenum. I can't even pronounce that element, but MOV4. No, this is MOV1.4116. And I think Cold Steel used that on some of their budget blades. But it's a I'm always thrown off by the element Molybdenum and I don't really know how to say it So I'll stop trying to say it Alright this is what I had on me today What did you have on you? I had the Ares from Orion Knives The Venom Jack, the Nova 1 And the Sevillana.
[12:05]Some beautiful blades. You know, the emotional support knife, the ESK, is there for exactly what it sounds like, emotional support. You might be having a rough day, and you might think, well, I'm going to seek solace from one of my knives, and then you look at them, these are tools that help me do my thing, and I'm already having a bad day.
[12:23]Sometimes you just need something that's like a little artifact or a piece of art on you that you can just appreciate, and that's what the emotional support knife is for me what is it for you tell me about your esk drop it in the comments below uh tomorrow if you're watching this as it drops is our november knife junkie giveaway and that is of course the gentleman junkie giveaway gentleman junkie the highest tier of support on the old patreon and we are giving away this really cool knife given to the channel by none other than dave of uh og blade reviews check that thing out uh this is a y start and they make really excellent knives i thought um i know i've seen them on uh neve's channel and i've seen them on um i've seen them all over the place but uh i've seen jared show these off why starts are pretty damn sweet they're chinese knives made up out of the finest materials we We have titanium here and a really nice carbon fiber inlay with no spaces, no glitches there. And then this beautiful single-edged dagger blade.
[13:35]That's D2 blade steel and a really, really fine knife. It's on, let me call it, bearings.
[13:45]And the thing that's distracting me, which I really love, and it's going to make it really hard to get rid of this knife, is that those Quillians are wavable. I mean, you're looking at that and you're thinking, I could open that right on the seam of my pocket. And you're right. As you pull this thing out, you can engage these Quillians, or this Quillian here, and it will open this up, making it one of the fastest knives out there. I am going to call this a dagger blade because it is pretty much totally symmetrical. However, it's only single-edged, but I'll forgive it in this case. Really nice pommel. The pommel, the way it flares, you know, is sort of wasp-wasted and then flares back out reminds me of a modern interpretation of the Fairbairn Sykes pommel. So a really beautiful knife. Dave, thank you so much for gifting this to our viewers and patrons through me. I really appreciate it, of course, and there it is. If you want to win this knife, oh, sculpted titanium pocket clip. Very nice sculpted titanium pocket clip. Echoes the shape of the blade and looks beautiful on this micro-milled handle.
[14:54]If you want to win this knife, go to theknifejunkie.com slash Patreon. Theknifejunkie.com slash Patreon. And every third Thursday of the month, we give away a knife here. And it's always pretty sweet. And most many of the times, they are donated to the channel by OG Blade Reviews, who's got a stellar and sprawling collection. So I thank you, sir. And look at how well that fits in the hand. See, not all daggers fit well in hand in this sort of saber grip. This one has a pinch point right here below the quillians on both sides. So the thumb fits in there very nice. Handles long enough, and as it slenders out, really accommodates the hand and the palm there. So really cool knife from Why Start. Thank you very much. So this will be the Knife Junkie giveaway knife tomorrow night, November 21st, 2024. All right. Be sure to go to Patreon. We have a QR code you can scan, or you can go to the knifejunkie.com slash Patreon. Check out the different tiers of support we have. There is that QR code. Can't believe I got that wrong after all these years. Pointing in the wrong direction.
[16:05]Just scan it with your phone, and it'll take you right there. You can see what we have to offer you when you're offering us something, which is really, really greatly appreciated. All right. Coming up, we have Knife Life News. Adventure Delivered, your monthly subscription for hand-picked outdoor, survival, EDC, and other cool gear from our expert team of outdoor professionals.
[16:29]TheKnifeJunkie.com slash BattleBox. You're listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. And now, here's the Knife Junkie with the Knife Life News. We got four really cool new folders to show you today. First, from Vosteed Knives. Vosteed Knives, what an interesting company. It started off where the owner of the company did a crowdfunding campaign for the Morgan, which is an excellent kitchen knife that they sent a while back. And that's main rotation in our kitchen right now. It's between the Steve Kalari custom knives and the Vosteed. Those are the knives that get used in our kitchen right now. Really, really excellent. Anyway, Vosteed has a whole bunch of folders that have come out since then. And this is the latest. It's a little beauty. It's called the Martin. Not Martin like Martin Scorsese, but Martin like the animal you till to make fur coats with. Now, this is an in-house design, 2.98 inches of one of my favorite steels, an everyday steel, 154 cm. I say everyday, but it's also favored by custom knife makers.
[17:42]So this is a drop point, very, very nice drop point, kind of broad with a, it's not a 50-50 choil, it's more like a 75-25 choil. So if you want to get up a little bit closer to whatever you're cutting, you can put your finger in there. We've got the thumb stud there and a beautiful aluminum handle that's anodized with really nice diagonal milling. I just think it looks really nice, looks comfortable in hand.
[18:11]But I think what you're probably looking at is that button lock. Yes, it's a button lock, but it's not your average button lock. It's actually nothing like your average button lock. It's more like the Aries I just showed you here. it's a compression lock but it's actuated with the button there and we've seen this now more and more and I'm not going to call it a compression lock because technically that's not what it is I think it's, They're calling it a top liner lock. I think compression locks are still under patent, and so we can't really do that. But you disengage it with the button. Beautiful aluminum handle here, 3-inch blade, available now from Vosteed. So go to Vosteed.com. Next up, this is a gorgeous one, probably the most tempting giant mouse I've seen since that beautiful clip point they put out two years ago. This is the GM-12. Now, if you're unfamiliar with the naming convention for Giant Mouse, most of the knives we see these days coming out of Giant Mouse are in their ACE lineup. The ACE lineup uses good materials, like pretty excellent materials, but not the finest. And they're kind of always available. But the GM series are the finest materials, the most complicated machining and designs with very limited release. So that's what we're talking about here. This is the GM-12, and Man Alive is that a beauty.
[19:40]So apparently it's Pucco-inspired. I guess I see that a little bit in the blade, but Jens Anzo and Jesper Voxnes, I hope I'm not butchering their names, but we all know Anzo and Vox, they're Danish. And, of course, the Pucco is a knife from their part of the world, So I'm sure it inspires things in ways that we're unaware of with our American eyes. But anyway, a beautiful, beautiful knife here. First, it's kind of an upswept blade, ever so slightly upswept, 3.3 inches of, yes, magna cut, full flat ground with a choil and a flipper and an opening hole. And that sort of lozenge shape is their usual signature opening hole shape. So it definitely looks like a giant mouse.
[20:35]Uh, the, uh, handle has that beautiful humpback design. So a, uh, it's going to nestle in the palm really nicely. The whole handle itself is contoured and rounded. And then it's got this beautiful, if you look closely at it, beautiful wavy, uh, micro milling in it. So it's got a texture that looks really cool. And, uh, it's, it just looks comfortable. I mean, right. You're, you're looking at it too. It looks like it would just melt into the hand. Uh, really nice button lock. I like that pivot collar that extends. It's sort of like a figure eight. It extends around the pivot and then up and over the button lock. So really nice. 400 of these made in the configuration you're looking at right now with the stonewashed blade and the sort of raw looking titanium handle. And then they're making 200 of the GM12P. What does P stand for?
[21:33]Pirate. That's right, Pirate. It is an all-black model that sort of channels that more badass spirit, I guess, that pirates do. There you're looking at it right there. Between a bottle of whiskey and a tumbler and a little skull. So, yeah, a little bit more pirate-like. I guess that might be rum if we're talking pirates. Can't tell. But I like the look of both of these. Only making 200 of the black ones. So, 600 all day long of the GM-12. Go get yourself one because If they're not gone yet They will be really quickly There are some ravenous Giant Mouse fans out there Who are all over these kind of drops.
[22:17]All right, next up, this is from Benchmade. This is an exciting one from Benchmade. I don't usually say that, but this one looks really cool. Going back to their roots with the Bally song, which they did at the beginning of the year, also with the, what the heck was that one called? I can't remember what the, there was a very big one from the open of the year. This is the 82 Laro. And unlike the one that came out in Q1 of this year, This is a more EDC-friendly size.
[22:50]Traditionally, a Ballysong has a 4 1⁄4 or 4 1⁄2-inch blade and a bigger handle. So they're overall larger knives. But this 82 Larrow has been brought down into the 3.6-inch bladed category here. So that's a 3.6-inch MagnaCut blade, a beautiful drop point with a nice long swedge and a fuller. and the butterfly logo, the Benchmade butterfly logo. Now, Benchmade was originally called Bally Song, Bally Space Song, referencing what they were making at the time, which is the butterfly knife, and that's where that butterfly logo comes from. These handles on this are integral titanium, meaning they are one piece of titanium and all the rest is milled out. The channel in the center, that accommodates the blade and all of those lightning holes are all from one solid piece. Of course, it's more expensive to do it that way. You waste, I shouldn't say waste, but a lot of titanium goes unused and turns to powder and ends up in the maker's lungs and all over the place, but not on the blade, and that makes it pretty expensive. It's a lot of milling time. Apparently, it's pretty harsh on the mill, and also a lot of that material goes unused. So I'm sure this will be a priced accordingly. This one has no pocket clip like most, uh.
[24:16]Like most butterfly-style knives, this one has no pocket clip, but comes with a Bolteron belt sheath that has a pocket clip. Bolteron is similar to Kydex, if you're wondering. 4.3 ounces and available now. Go check it out. That's another one that I bet will go quickly as people love their Benchmade ballet songs. Last up, I'm going to quote Ben Schwartz from Knife News. I love his writing and something he said here. This is the new Civivi, a very cool work-a-day knife, hard-use, kind of chunkier knife, and I love it. Civivi and Sencut have put out a few, like the Practisk is also a nice kind of simple and hard-use knife that I've been carrying quite a lot with that yellow handle. This one's called the Plassoid. Plassoid. I think it's soid and not coid. The plassoid. And when I saw that name, I was like, ah, Savivi, again, just making up words that sound close to other words. Like, I was thinking placid. And they're like, it's not placid, but it's plassoid. You know?
[25:31]But lo and behold, I looked it up and then I read the article and Ben Schwartz mentions this. He says, Savivi is constantly ransacking the dictionary for obscure words to name their knives and i thought that was perfectly stated yes they're ransacking the english dictionary but glassoid is actually a thing it's the denticles it's scales on sharks or rays that are sharp when you you know if i'm a shark and i'm moving through the water this way uh it's real smooth but if i go backwards on it i'm going to cut up my hands on these denticles. They're like little teeth skills. And that's what a plassoid is. So, you know, 4D underwater chess in the naming convention of Civivi. I just thought they were making stuff up. But indeed, a plassoid is a real thing. 3.6 inches. I am calling this a wide clip drop point. Yeah, that's right. A drop point, but it's kind of clipped. It's not just a smooth drop. So that's what we're calling it here.
[26:34]14C28N. And if you're looking at this, you can probably tell from that handle, it looks a little unusual. Now, you'll be able to get this knife in coarse black G10, coarse green G10, and, of course, the wooden model with the damasticine blade. But the fourth model is this, and it's so cool looking. That's a very unusual material. It's called Shred G10. We've all heard of Shred Carbon Fiber. Well, this is a similar concept. Very nice looking, and this is smooth. In hand um so a rare material there 4.6 ounces on this pretty nice and ergonomic and pretty beefy folder uh and that'll be coming soon to a store near you who knows maybe even uh walmart i've been at walmart recently and yes you're seeing some of the civivis uh three models i saw uh there and uh so thrilled to see them there one of them was the um, Oh, well, anyway, go check it out yourself. Civivi names always kind of confuse me a little bit, but I know it wasn't the praktisk, and it definitely wasn't the plassoid either.
[27:49]So there you go. Check out that Civivi. All right, still to come on the Knife Junkie podcast, we're going to check out the state of the collection. I got something very cool from a very generous and talented viewer. We'll check that out in one moment. 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. TheKnifeJunkie.com slash Shockwave. And now that we're caught up with Knife Life news, let's hear more of the Knife Junkie podcast.
[28:31]This week, I received something that's been in the works for about, I don't know, a month or so from a very talented and generous viewer. His name is Kenneth, and I'm just going to go that far because he's not officially up with his business, and I don't know how much he wants me to say his name, but this thing is beautiful. And I'm talking about my new background, my new leather mat here. The Knife Junkie, of course, you can see that logo. And it's not an easy logo, we learned here, because of all of those vertical lines, which I didn't have to put in there, but I just always just liked them. So I put them in there. And they're kind of a pain in the butt, it turns out, when you're making a leather mat or anything else. So this is two-sided. You can see also the knifejunkie.com website there. Two-sided. You have this side and then a beautiful and sumptuous backside here. Oh, that sounded weird. beautiful and sumptuous backside.
[29:30]But really dark, gorgeous-looking leather. A bit shiny, so it flares off that light. That will go away over time. But also the same setup here with the Knife Junkie website on the bottom and the logo there. Man, I am so impressed by Kenneth's work here. It is so beautiful. Not only is the leather handled and treated really, really well, But the engraving, I'm assuming it's laser engraving, either that or he's talented with a small chisel.
[30:06]Is just really, really nice. I'm excited for Kenneth, and I hope that he can parlay this into a side hustle if he hasn't already. And if he does, I will help him get the word out, because I'm really impressed with this. And I think that there are a lot of people, not just knife dorks like myself, I think there are a lot of people who would like and would benefit from something like this. Say you're not even on the internet, and you're just someone who likes to have a leather desk mat this would be ideal for that my dad used to have a cool big leather desk mat or if you want to use this as a surface to open up your knives and that kind of thing and swap out parts and all that this would be ideal for that too because it would be gentle on the knife but it's also tough tough leather so all the parts would sit nicely on it without getting scratched.
[31:03]And yet still, you go to town on the leather itself. So really, really beautiful work. Thank you so much, Kenneth. And as time goes on, if you open this up to more people, let me know, and I will let the world know because, man, it is gorgeous. Speaking of the website, as you can see right here, the website is thenifejunkie.com. And if you go to thenifejunkie.com, you can see all the videos we produce here whether it's the midweek supplemental which you're watching right now the Sunday interview show with a new knife maker manufacturer, reviewer or knife world luminary every Sunday or Thursday Night Knives you can see them all there but you can also read various articles there, sign up for the newsletter there and.
[31:50]Merch, we have some really cool merch, check out this Now, this is something Jim just came up with in Man Alive. He showed it to me, and I busted out laughing. Knives, making sandwiches possible. And, yeah, exactly. I come up here, I show you, I'm about to show you a bunch of wicked recurves that you could go to battle with. But really, knives, for most of us, like myself, make sandwiches and other everyday things possible. So don't forget, they're not just beautiful weapons or beautiful artifacts or really, really well-made and engineered trinkets that we like. They make sandwiches possible. So go to TheKnifeJunkie.com. Check everything out there. Check out the t-shirts, the merchandise. That's KnifeJunkie.com slash shop or the videos, whatever you want. But it is Knife Junkie Central. All right, coming up, we're going to take a look at all these wicked recurves I had out for Thursday Night Knives that we didn't look at. We're going to get to the recurve roundup.
[32:51]Okay. First up, this one came to me, it didn't come to me, I came to it in 1991. Now, I know that a lot of you weren't even alive then, weren't even a glimmer in your parents' eye then, but I was. And what I was doing was searching the field for you, knowing that this would all happen, knowing that you would come along, and knowing that I, years in the distant future, would become someone that I call myself the knife junkie. So here is the knife that I got to start this all off and to show you. And it's a recurve.
[33:31]Boston, 1991. Newberry Street. There was a knife shop downstairs in a basement. And I'm sure it's not there I'm betting Just knowing Massachusetts law now But this is the knife I got there And I was so, so excited about this This is the Sog, There you go Stingray And it is a beautiful little recurve That has a blade Very, very similar to the MACV Sog It's that bow-y shape And man It really It does it for me and it did it for me then and it just goes to show that uh taste is taste you you like what you like and i've always liked this kind of knife clip point and recurve this one has a rubberized uh sort of craton handle and uh steel bolsters uh integral with the polished steel liners actually no they're not i'm speaking out of school i can tell they're not uh but a back lock very strong Back lock never once was there A lock rock in this And but you didn't Used to be able to just close like That it's through years and years of having It you can just.
[34:42]One-handed close this a beautiful knife that started it all i remember carrying this thing uh all summer long and um i had it the thing i like about it is that you could drop it in the pocket and with the grippiness of this handle which i have to say after all these years is starting to feel like might be you know that you know how rubber gets maybe a little too grippy and it feels like it might be sort of coming apart at a molecular level that starts what i'm starting to sense here um but i loved how the grippiness of the handle kept this north to south in my pocket as opposed to most pocket knives uh that i had up until that point which just fell horizontal at the bottom of your hand uh your pocket so the one that started it all in terms of a tactical folders for me and b uh love of recurves is this right here the sog stingray.
[35:40]Next up uh the knife i was carrying when my first daughter was born for those of you who care.
[35:47]Is the cold steel spartan man i love this uh knife the cold steel spartan this came out hot on the heels of the movie 300 and um i think that's i'm pretty sure that's why they called this the spartan but deep recurve deep deep recurve blade looks like a kukri in a lot of ways But it's really based on the copus The ancient Greek copus From which the Kukri.
[36:14]Is descended uh kukri of course from nepal but a lot of people were moving around especially uh alexander the great and i think that's how the copus uh shape kind of made its way into that part of asia where india is and then nepal this is os 8 this is a very old one os 8 at least 15 or 14 years old so i'm guessing it's about 15 years old uh deep uh hollow ground and that Aus-8 was blasted. So it looked cool. You know, it had that dull finish, but blasting, medium blasting on a steel blade creates many, many, many, you know, billions of little micro, maybe not billions, I don't know, but many, many, many little micro pits. And those pits can fill with sweat. I remember this thing in the summer would get rusty and they can just corrode really easily. So I took sandpaper to this and kind of sanded through the blasted surface, and I've never had that problem since.
[37:21]A long time I had a lanyard on this, for a long time, with three quarter-inch nuts on the back. And I took it off because I thought it looked cool, but every time I would practice swinging this thing around, those heavy metal steel nuts would swing around and crack my knuckles. I was like, this does not make any sense. really incredible handle here. I mean, this thing will never come out of your hand unless you're just a lame-o. And I think it looks beautiful, too. I like the way that looks on the pommel. You could use that for noggin-knocking, but really, it's there to keep it in your hand. I always thought this one was a great candidate for a 6-inch or a 5.5-inch version, and they never listened to me, so their loss, I guess, and mine. One of the stiffest Act Uh.
[38:13]Triad locks in my collection. This one, I basically, I can't really use my thumb for this. I really have to use my forefinger. Maybe my forefingers are stronger or something, but this one has always been a super, super stout triad lock. All right. Next up, this is probably my most recent recurve. Now, this was inspired by, let me just take a little break for a second to show you it was inspired by this the turner cnc gin like this whole recurve conversation uh it's so so beautiful it's so not mine and it i so have to ship it to jock thank you jock for loaning this to me i really really really love it i really really really want one you can order these when they're available double-edged or single he got the single but the swedge is so then you could make it double. So, this is the most recent recurve that has reawakened the love or has kept that fire stoked, but before that and one that I actually own myself that made a, suspect noise and I want to make sure I didn't damage it. Okay.
[39:27]My most recent and beloved recurve is this, the Microtech Amphibian, which started life, this design started life in 2006, and only very few were made. And it didn't look exactly like this, but definitely had most of the same design cues. It was extremely exclusive. And then I believe they did some real fancy versions of it, you know, coming out of the a Marfione custom shop. But so happy to see that years later, they released this widely and put it within reach.
[40:05]Microtech, I feel like they've brought their prices down ever so slightly. They're still expensive. This was over $300, but not so far over $300 like I feel they used to be. And you can look at some of the automatics and they go up precipitously in price but uh this is just your standard amphibian and with with serrations um i love the serrations on this and all microtechs i just dig their serrations a lot and somehow they integrate them into the blade without i don't know without making them look i think it's because the the teeth sit proud of the main edge they look like they're more a part of the full-on design Whereas I look at Benchmade, Griptilian, say, for instance, serrations, you can tell that the blade was made first and then they cut into the blade. So they kind of look like an afterthought. And the transition from serration to main edge is a rough one. Here, it's not. It's totally integrated into this curve. And by the way, I think serrations on a recurve just take the strength, the cutting strength of a recurve, which is you have that curve which is biting into the material.
[41:27]Feeding the material into the cut here in that hollow portion. Well, you add serrations there and it just accelerates the cutting by, I don't know how much, but by a lot. And I really, really love that. You have an overall curve of this. If you look at the spine of both the blade and the handle, that translates to the cutting edge. And that also makes that recurve even more effective so as you're as you're cutting say in a normal saber grip like this you can see how much further down from my knuckles all of that cutting action is so a wicked blade but also this in this case is just beautiful and cool looking piece of futuristic tactical uh knifage here i mean to me it looks futuristic with an excellent uh bar lock here but it's not really a bar lock like a traditional bar lock this is their ram lock so you have a a big block of uh titanium i think or steel here that moves forward with a with a coil spring not two omega springs uh and um.
[42:37]Blocks the tang from movement so a real solid solid lock but also fidgety as the day is long So if you like that, you will love this. You got a filler tab over here. Beautiful clip. I love the jimping on the clip. I was carrying this yesterday, and I kept touching that. I love the jimping on the clip. Makes it real easy to draw, but so do these screws. Ordinarily, I don't like big screws. I don't like that much showing from a knife, but the knife is long enough that the screws don't bother me, and the clip placement doesn't bother me. But those screws also aid in drawing the knife. They're on both sides and they create a very positive pinch point. The back strap is really cool, too. Gear pattern. I'm just crazy about this knife. This is sculpted G10, milled with diagonal texturing here. But you can get this also in aluminum. And the price is the same, which I think is cool. That is the Microtech Amphibion. Next up, this is the knife that I say its custom version is definitely my grail folder. And that is the Boker Squail.
[43:55]Which is based on the Marlowe Squall. That's Charles Marlowe. He is an incredible custom knife maker who does not produce a whole lot of knives. He works tirelessly on these models, and he works a long time on them, and they are really, really refined. There's one gentleman on Instagram that I follow who has a number of these in custom, and I don't know how much they cost. I know they're very hard to get, and I'm sure price is commensurate, but this one will do me until the real thing gets here. This is VG10, very deeply hollow ground, a beautifully made knife by Boker. When this was released they also had another one uh from him and it was a little micro series the other one was called the pup i think it was a little clip point uh smaller than this that is a four inch blade you have titanium bolsters and g10 handles this also came out with a red i mean i'm sorry with a green micarta version but when i was buying it was only tipped down and i thought But, oh, my God, why? Why?
[45:15]Because, of course, my preferred dress would be green micarta on this. But I got the black G10, and it's never bummed me out because it does come with that cool and small spoon clip that has the same screw configuration as the classic Benchmade slash Emerson screw configuration. So you could put a lot of different clips on this if that were your druthers. But it shouldn't be because I think the clip fits beautifully in the overall design. I think, I've mentioned this many times, but I think when you hold a knife upside down and look at it upside down, you really see the shape in a better way. It kind of abstracts it a little bit. And to me, that is just a phenomenally beautiful drop point. You don't hear me say that a lot. And just an absolutely gorgeous recurve here. VG10, I am seeing some.
[46:05]There we go. I was seeing some fingerprints on it, but man, is that beautiful. Again, an egg-shaped opening hole and a great thumb ramp here with jimping. That was the one ding I had against this knife is that that jimping, you could have sawed through red oak with that. It was so aggressive. So I knocked it down with a diamond stone, you know, a couple of passes with a diamond stone, made it tolerable on my thumb. Beautiful recurve. Like I said, so thin, so hollow ground, and so recurved, this makes for a wicked, wicked putter. That is the Boker Squail based on the Charles Marlowe Squall. Beautiful, beautiful knife. All right, next up, this is a classic. I know you were thinking of it when I was showing you the CNC Turner Gin, which is inspired by a bunch of Middle Eastern knives, but very much I see the Turkish Yatagan influence there. Well, that's what we have here in the cold steel Vaccaro-shaped blade. This is the, in this case, this is the 5.5-inch Voyager Vaccaro.
[47:15]Uh lynn thompson model uh signature model that means in this case that it's all the signature models have that uh green grivery here uh but this one had xhp steel i have one other signature series knife it's a uh chris from him and it's in like 440 i think so they use different steels for the different models um for the different signature models but really what i'm getting at here is that recurve blade uh it is incredibly aggressive and then you put the serrations uh forget about it i mean just super super aggressive now if you know anything about lynn thompson he is also a very aggressive guy and you know he attacked the knife world with his company and created an amazing, bastion of modern knife production he's a very talented martial artist he's been training for years and years and years. And in person, when I say aggressive, I don't mean in a jerky way. He's just very, he's aggressive in conversation in a good way.
[48:17]I remember we were talking knives and he's like, are you saved? And I said, well, not in the way you mean, but I'm a Catholic who has, who's reigniting his faith. And, you know, we got right into it. So he's aggressive in all ways. He thinks that this is the greatest knife he's produced in terms of, I shouldn't say what he thinks. He carries two of these on his person at all times. Two recurved serrated Vachiro Voyagers, not the signature model. And simply because he thinks they're the most wicked in a fight. And I can't disagree with him. I, of course, put the Snaggletooth MF on there. That's this little aftermarket pocket wave from snaggletooth out of new jersey they make some really cool products for removable thumb stud knives you can add to open your knives like the wave on the on the emerson knives.
[49:15]But again, we're talking recurves. So look at that recurve. Just unreal. And then the handle, of course, is great. Will stay in your hand all day long. This is an ungainly list. I think I'm talking too much about each one. So I'm going to start breezing through them a little quicker here so you're not here all day. I know you've got to get back to work. So here we go. This is the M1 from Combative Edge. This is an older one. I think 2010 or so this came out I remember I was still watching Nothing Fancy when this came out and Nothing Fancy had the dude who designed this on his on his show in one of his videos I think they did a run and gun video really really nice this is made by.
[50:04]Lion Steel in Italy very thin you can get this still it has changed a little bit I know there's an automatic version of this, which is very cool. There's also a tanto version of this, but I fell for that recurve clip point blade immediately. So I had to have this one. Uh, I haven't carried this one in a little while. The one thing I don't like about this knife is that extra long pocket clip. I think that's an off the shelf, uh, lion steel pocket clip. It looks very similar to my, uh, big drag TAC by Bastinelli, also made by Lion Steel. Titanium frame lock. The steel on this one, what is this? Oh, N690CO as per Italy. This does not stick in my cross so much. Look. Look at how it flips open. Ready? Watch.
[50:55]That, I don't care. When it came out, people weren't all uptight about flippers. That flipper was really a lot more about being a finger guard because this is a tactical knife for cut and thrust and everything else. So you want to guard so you don't slide up on there. But yeah, it takes a lot of wrist to open it. But hey, are we all cream puffs? No. We can use a little wrist. Not a big deal. Love this knife, and I love that colorway. I just hate the word colorway. All right, next up, this is from Jason Knight, Fox Knives and Elements, Tactical Elements. This is the MKUltra. Now you can just go buy this from Fox. But when it first came out, it went through a couple of different partnerships. I know Doug Markaida was involved in the very first iteration of this. I think he was just the guy who got Jason in the door at Fox. I could be mistaken, but really beautiful Kukri-style recurve. And in my opinion, the finest-looking folding kukri in terms of a traditional kukri, especially with that handle. And then the blade shape is Jason Knight all day long. He does some really, really fantastic-looking kukris here. This kind of harpooned, if you want to call it that, with a place to put your thumb and then that big fuller there.
[52:22]Not too effective at middle finger flicking You have to kind of make sure you're very loose Your grip is a little bit loose And you're not holding down that lock bar there But an excellent folder, super smooth And that's four and a quarter inches in blade length But the overall curve of the knife makes it feel much more carryable Than you might think a four and a quarter inch blade is, Absolutely stunning and awesome knife. Everyone, when I show this off, people frequently ask me how to get one or say they're going to get one because they love it so. Here's an OG. This is the Zero Tolerance 10 Onion Design 0200.
[53:08]Really, really beautiful knife. Look at that blade. It reminds me a lot of the Boker Squail. You have that nice pronounced thumb ramp with jimping. A nice drop point spine with a deep recurve. And on this deep recurve, yes, we have serrations. These little weird bread knife, we have a bread knife in the house that looks a lot like that, the serrations. And it's weird on a folding knife. You didn't see it too much on any knife, any ZT or Kai knife, but it's on these. And I think they abandoned that serration shape.
[53:49]But it's kind of neat, and I kind of like it. My brother gave me this out of his pocket, basically. That's how generous my brother is. I was like, oh, that's cool. He's like, here, have it. I never carry it. And I was like, oh, you're carrying it right now. And he's like, yeah, but I never carry it, so take it. I'm like, oh, gosh. I lucked out. I did luck out in the family lottery. I sure did. But look at this handle. Very thick. It's got a cool checkering pattern. And when you turn it this way, you can see it's got more of a fixed blade handle in that it's Coke bottled and just very nicely contoured. Fits the hand great, locks in the hand. I never carry this. I rarely carry this. But why not? I don't know. I think it might be time for a renaissance of this night, too. The Zero Tolerance 0200. Just a beautiful recurve blade. and before I put it away I'm going to show you, this next to this because I think they have a similar look to the blades and I like them both alright.
[54:57]And if you're just listening, I just held the 0200 next to the Boker Squail. They have similar blades. All right, next up, we were just talking about Kukri's, and Kukri is the most obvious recurve out there, I guess. Here is the Raja II from Cold Steel. A lot of Cold Steel on this list. I tried to punctuate the list with Cold Steels because I didn't want it to be just a Cold Steel Fest.
[55:22]Really excellent handle on this long knife. If you've got the horse hoof pommel here with the up scoop on the back, it really makes it rebound against the palm. It gives you great security in hand and a way to recover from a chop. You have the corresponding pinky groove there to aid in that. So the handle is outstanding. You can come all the way up here for finer work, as they say, or middle grip, forward grip, or all the way back. So a lot of different ways to grip this six-inch bladed knife. That's a seven-inch handle, so you better have different grips there. But look at that beautifully shaped Kukri blade. So again, you're getting that really deep, deep recurve. I guess I haven't divined my terms. For me, a recurve starts with an upward, an ascending curve, and then a deep descending curve, and then terminates in a belly and a point. You'll see in a minute there's another knife that I'm calling a reverse recurve, and you'll see what that's all about. This is that blasted finish I was telling you about on the Spartan. I never really sanded it off this because I never really carried this one much. It is a bit heavy.
[56:39]The clip is positioned audaciously low and is quite large. So you're carrying this. The whole world knows you're carrying it. But it's got this thumb plate that allows you to wave it open, Of course, it's got the triad lock. And the one good thing about having that clip so low is that when you grab the knife out of your pocket, it really makes it easy to get a really good handhold on the handle. This is not one of those knives that you want to have a minimum grip on as it's coming out and waving open. Because that's a big damn knife to have just gripped at the butt here.
[57:16]Raja 2 the Raja 1 had the polished G10 and aluminum handles and the shiny blade so that's why this is the 2 alright next up this is a also a Kukri inspired knife this is the Kami, I'm not going to talk much about this you've seen a lot of this recently this is the Dirk Pinkerton designed Kami from Artisan Cutlery so beautiful, this is the S35 model, S35VN with micarta and titanium frame lock. If you want the fancy, fancy version, you can get this in S90V with a full titanium frame. You got that chamfering, broad chamfering that makes it feel like it's contoured. Such a nice knife. Yeah, that's pork fat. Pork fat is a great way to stain your micarta.
[58:09]All right, next up. This is a beauty. This is the first knife I spent a lot of money on, I think. In 2013, I bought this. This is the Uliza from Spyderco. And it's... The Uliza is... The name comes from Ulrich, which is shortened by Uli Hineker. He's a former German police officer turned knife designer slash maker. And this was part, kind of loosely part of the police series because it has that 4.1 inch blade similar to the other police models. So it was pretty long, has a nice overall curve, which also aids that recurve in slashing, chopping, and cutting. These are also great for thrusting, by the way. That recurve really opens up a wide channel in whatever you're thrusting into.
[59:03]This is the Uliza, and if you hold this one in a standard saber grip, it puts that point right down the center line, right where you want it, so you don't have to torque your wrist, do anything weird to position your wrist to get it right where you need it to be. This one is out of print, unfortunately, but I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find this on the secondary market. A lot of people are turned off by recurves because apparently they only have one sharpening stone and it's square and very broad, so they can't quite get it to sharpen. But just get a triangle sharp maker where the stone is that in cross-section or something rounded and sharpening recurves is no big deal. Next one is more of a re-re-re-curve, and that is this Voyager Chris model from Cold Steel. Chris, traditional sword-slash-blade shape with a wavy blade from the Philippines and Malaysia and Indonesia. Very common down there. Also, you saw it in the Middle Ages in Germany with the flambeige. Was that France?
[1:00:14]I'm pretty sure that's a German sword. Anyway, you look it up. You got the Googleator. Check it out. This is a re-re-re-curve, of course, because you've got that recurve, that recurve. And that recurve so uh that wavy blade to me uh not to be snarky but i thought man that's the ultimate recurve uh this one of course uh os 10 blade steel because it's one of the newer uh cold steel voyagers and i put a raw aluminum snaggletooth on this one snaggletooth mf for waving out of the pocket i think not only is it great to have this wave out of the pocket but i I feel like that looks, it's kind of in keeping with the traditional look of a Chris.
[1:00:57]Beautiful RiRiRi curve here. All right, next up, and third to last in this sprawling list, is the Reverse Recurve. That's what I'm calling it. This is the Black Talon. Such a wicked knife. This one, on Thursday Night Knives, we have a lot of people who carry this knife. It is an excellent self-defense knife. Inspired, I'll say, by perhaps inspired by the Spyderco Civilian. It's got that S-curve, and it's a reverse recurve because I would call this a recurve. Say the tip were here at the pivot instead of at the pommel, you have a recurve now. So here it's a reverse recurve because it starts with a belly, goes into the recurve, and terminates at the point. You know, tomato, tomato, but just also wickedly effective. Of course, it puts the point in a very, very nasty place for slashing, but makes it very inconvenient for thrusting or anything like that. So you're not thrusting with this knife. What you can do, incidentally, is peck with it. So if you have it back in your hand like this, you can use that point in a more drumstick fashion.
[1:02:17]Also, it waves open with that thumb plate. This is your reverse recurve Black Talon 2. from Cold Steel. And of course, why not get this one serrated? It's already over till you may as well go full godilla on that one.
[1:02:33]All right. Second to last is a favorite from a favorite company. And this is the Emerson CQC-15, a very generous gift from Bill S. years ago now. This is the Super CQC-15. I forgot to put super in the lower third there. But this is Ernest Emerson's combination of his two most popular blades to the point when this was designed. So you get the recurve from the commander, and then you get the tanto point from the CQC 6 slash 7. When this first came out, I remember thinking, ooh, that's awkward. But it isn't really. It's actually quite beautiful, if you ask me. I guess I'm not going to tell you what you think. But I do have to say, though, the handle is much better for me personally. And I don't have giant hands in this super size. I had the standard CQC-15 and it felt a little snug when going in that saber grip like this. Here, my whole hand can just kind of spread out there. My thumb can go all the way out. But what's really important here to this conversation is that recurve.
[1:03:50]A traditionally manufactured Emerson, meaning it's a chisel-edged knife. Some of them are chisel ground, meaning it's not V-ground on the bevel, just flat on one side and then chiseled at the edge. This has the V-ground and the chisel, making it just astoundingly sharp. Chisel edges are just so incredibly sharp, kind of counterintuitively. But if you think about a V and then remove half of it, that's what you're getting. So it's just incredibly thin. Some people have difficulty with it tracking through materials slightly, oddly. but you know it takes about three inches of cutting something and then you realize how it moves so, Just a really wicked knife taking advantage of both the strength of a tanto tip, but also the strength in slashing and cutting that you get in a recurve. Which brings me to the end, which is the Emerson Commander. So kind of going full circle, this was another very, very early tactical knife purchase for me, and that is the beautiful Emerson Commander. This is from the year 2000. You can tell things are different. Things have changed. The logo is a lot more complex now with more information.
[1:05:09]Here you just have Emerson USA 2000. And the blade shape has changed a little bit. Look at that gorgeous long swedge. But the real thing that got me into this knife was that recurve blade. At the time, I had just discovered the beauty of Filipino swords with their downward angled and recurve blades like the ones you see behind me. And Ernest Emerson, being a Filipino martial arts practitioner, I'm sure was influenced by that. And this just knocked my socks off. I've carried this for years on and off. I haven't carried it in a while. I tend not to carry it much now. I kind of see it as something I, well, I definitely don't want to lose it or damage it. So I don't carry it that much. But it's got old school style G10 here and an old school style construction. So you have to remove the scale on both sides. That's sort of an old custom way of doing it. Remove the scales and then you can get to all of the structural stuff underneath.
[1:06:09]Beautiful, beautiful knife. And the superlative recurve in my collection, I would have to say.
[1:06:15]All right, let me know what you think about recurves. We had someone, can't remember who, comment. Oh, the guy from Texas commented on Thursday Night Knives that recurves, Tonto's rule, recurves drool. Of course, that's not true. But let me know what you think of recurve blades. Do you like them? Are they pains in the buttocks to you? Or do you like them so much cutting that you're willing to go through the very, very slight inconvenience and sharpen it? Thank you for joining me on this extended version of the Midweek Supplemental. It's been a pleasure. Be sure to like, comment, subscribe, hit the notification bell, and share the show with a like-minded friend. That really does help the show. 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 reviewthepodcast.com. For show notes for today's episode, additional resources, and to listen to past episodes, visit our website, thenifejunkie.com. You can also watch our latest videos on YouTube at thenifejunkie.com slash YouTube. Check out some great knife photos on thenifejunkie.com slash Instagram and join our Facebook group at thenifejunkie.com slash Facebook. And if you have a question or comment, email them to bob at thenifejunkie.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.
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