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Bob DeMarco [00:00:00]:
Coming up, the TL29 electrician's knife. I have four new blades in the state of the collection and kukri knives, ancient to Modern. I'm Bob DiMarco, this is the Knife Junkie Podcast.

Announcer [00:00:14]:
Welcome to the Knife Junkie podcast, your weekly dose of knife news and information about knives and knife collecting. Here's your host, Bob the knife junkie DeMarco.

Bob DeMarco [00:00:27]:
Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week on the James Williams interview was from Sean Clark. He said love his intensity and boy, that's an understatement. I have a Williams blade, Quaken 3.5 inch apocalyptic blade and fat copper scales. Made by TRC. Made by TRC. Great EDC. Yes, he is quite an intense guy and man, you could, you could have him on a show for three hours.

Bob DeMarco [00:00:55]:
And not get through all he's got to say.

Bob DeMarco [00:00:58]:
Next comment was from Jason Small who says, I've never heard of James before. And wow, what an impressive guy. I've recently started checking out the systema.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:08]:
Stuff, that's that Russian martial art and.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:10]:
It'S weird and cool. I like James. Well, I too like James and Jason. I know Jason a little bit from Thursday Night knives and I've seen his collection and I'm betting he knows kind.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:23]:
Of of James Williams but didn't really know the man.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:26]:
So I'm always glad I can bring these kind of luminaries to light here on the show. James Williams doesn't need me, but maybe you guys need me to bring him out for all of you to see.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:40]:
And to learn from.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:41]:
Very cool guy. A pushing 80 and still stout and sturdy and I would never ever want.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:48]:
To mess with that guy.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:49]:
All right, that said, let's get to a pocket.

Announcer [00:01:52]:
What's in his pocket? Let's find out. Here's the knife junkie with his pocket.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:58]:
Check of knives in my front right pocket. One that's gotten a lot of carry.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:03]:
Since I've, I got it about two.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:05]:
Months ago, I guess I'd say at this point. The concept Bison Array Laconico design. That's a four and a quarter inch blade, beautiful S35VN Bowie style blade with a very unique looking handle with the integral guards on the top and the bottom for your thumb and forefingers. This is a very elegant and also kind of nasty knife. Nasty meaning you can sort of surmise some of its, its greatest qualities, but not a usual sort of Ray Laconico knife. He does oftentimes much more simple and elegant knives with drop points and Beautiful stuff. Usually much smaller than this. But I've always had a fascination with his knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:55]:
Don't really have any, I don't think, besides this one. So when this one dropped, I had to get it really well made from concept. One of my favorite Chinese production companies out there is concept knives made up of some alum from Kaiser. So they know what they're doing. All right. Next up in my front right pocket, right next to this one, but in a leather slip, I had the second knife ever released by Jack Wolf knives. The laid back Jack. This was back in the M390 blade steel days.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:28]:
Now they're on S90 volts. A majority of their knives at this point are S90V. Really, really thin, hollow ground, full height, hollow ground blade. Beautiful. Just sway back.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:45]:
Not construction. What's the word I'm looking for?

Bob DeMarco [00:03:47]:
Profile with a bit of a straighter handle than you see on a lot of traditional swaybacks. Just an awesome knife with great walk and talk and everything else you want out of a, out of a slip joint knife. I really love these. I've been revisiting some of my older Jack Wolves. They just keep dropping better and better, newer and newer. But it's nice to go back and see where they started and where they started. You know, they started on third base.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:16]:
Already, so just an amazing. Right there.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:19]:
Next up, this one. I don't carry too much, but I love this one. A much coveted knife. As a matter of fact, I coveted it. Coveted it from others until it was very generously offered to me in a trade by my buddy Strings right here. You can converse with him on Thursday night knives and he's like, I know.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:42]:
You want a desperado.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:43]:
I've had one for years. It's in great condition.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:46]:
I'll trade you.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:47]:
We made a trade and you know like you, like you think when you make a trade. I made out like a bandit.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:54]:
I love this knife. Hopefully he's happy with the knife he got.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:58]:
But I always wanted one of these. You know, I'm a huge sucker for the vaquero blade style. And this is the old blade style, so slightly less serpentine but equally wicked. And then this one with that kraton egg shaped handle really nestles in the hand very nicely.

Bob DeMarco [00:05:17]:
Feels great in this forward grip.

Bob DeMarco [00:05:19]:
I'm not so sure about it in reverse grip. I feel like you need some thumb pressure down to really shore this up so it doesn't twist in hand. But I haven't really tried in any sort of ballistic testing.

Bob DeMarco [00:05:33]:
So who knows, maybe it's great in reverse grip and I just don't know it yet.

Bob DeMarco [00:05:37]:
And last up, my Esk today was. Yeah, you've been seeing this a lot so I hope you're not getting tired of it. But the positively beautiful Hog tooth knives Fighting Bowie. This one is a. A commission. I, I commissioned Matt Chase to make me a sort of Bagwell esque send up something to something to pay homage to Bill Bagwell and his beautiful Devil's horn style guarded fighting Bowie knives like.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:12]:
The Hell's Bells etc And this is.

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The beautiful thing he came up with. WW1 or 2, what is it? W1 steel, I guess.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:24]:
Correct me, I'm sure I'm wrong with the Hamon. So beautiful.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:28]:
And this Australian gidgee ringed gidgee wood.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:34]:
On that coffin shaped handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:35]:
I love this thing. I've been really flowing with it and.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:39]:
Doing my carenzo with it.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:41]:
That's basically shadow boxing with a knife and it just feels great in hand.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:46]:
And I absolutely love this knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:49]:
So this is what I had on me today. A happy little grouping. I had the Hog Tooth Fighting Bowie on me. I had the cold steel Desperado sadly.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:58]:
No longer available from cold steel. Better be careful sheathing that.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:02]:
I had the first run of the laid back Jack from Jack Wolf knives and the Bison. Nice big beautiful clip point blade from.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:11]:
Ray Laconico in concept knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:16]:
Just a quick announcement about the knife junkie Zippos I have sold. I only had six of them made. Kept one for myself. I've sold the other five and I think I'm gonna make another little run of them. Seems like people like them, they're not like jumping off the shelves. But I've had enough people want to buy them. I'll, I'll do another five.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:39]:
People are interested. I'll, I'll get them out to you.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:43]:
They're 50 bucks. They cost me. Well less than 50 bucks. Obviously I gotta make it worth the shipping. These do not come with that jet insert. That's something I have in there for my cigars. You can buy those aftermarket. It comes with the traditional wicked.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:03]:
So if you like the knife junkie Zippos, just let me know and I.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:08]:
Will, I will be ordering more and I will get those out to you.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:12]:
Speaking of giveaways, which we weren't really doing, we were speaking about sellaways. But this is a giveaway for the gentleman junkie.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:18]:
This month, the month of October 2025.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:23]:
Lt Wright sent me this beautiful Frontier.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:28]:
Valley knife or me to give away.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:31]:
To one of you handmade by LT Wright in his factory, in his facility.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:37]:
I guess factory would be, would be.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:40]:
A little bit much. It is a beautiful place from what I could see from his videos.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:45]:
And this is where he makes these gorgeous knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:49]:
I have had the Northern Hunter, the.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:51]:
Small Northern Hunter for a few weeks.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:53]:
Now and I'm absolutely crazy about it. This is his highest selling knife right now. It's sort of a do everything sort of EDC fixed blade for camp, for.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:04]:
Trail, for around the house.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:06]:
This is an AEBL and it's a full height flat grind with a 90 degree spine that throws sparks like they're.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:15]:
Going out of style.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:16]:
I've been keeping this in the sheath so it has drawn some of the oil. This was freshly oiled when it showed up to me out of the micarta.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:26]:
But that'll you, you can oil it.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:29]:
Up when you win it or it will, you know, quick enough.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:32]:
The more you use it, it will take on your own oils and that micarta will become darker.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:40]:
I really, really love LT Wright knives. I love the sheaves and he himself.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:46]:
Is a great guy and I'm really.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:48]:
Honored to be giving this away. And thank you so much LT for sending this to me to send along to one of my lucky gentleman junkies. You can become a gentleman junkie by joining on patreon the knife junkie.com patreon or you can join right here on.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:03]:
YouTube, actually join us here.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:06]:
One quick thing before we go to Knife Life News. I want to tell you a little bit more about Patreon because this is something cool that Jim, who works his.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:13]:
Magic behind the switcher, as you know.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:16]:
One of the things he does is he puts up nice notes. He puts up makers notes about makers, articles about makers and different blade styles.

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And, and, and the like.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:27]:
Well, this is the newest one and it's basically how to clean your knife properly. Don't be such a barbarian. Keep it clean and take care of that knife and it'll take care of you. So he put up a whole article on this and it's nice and to the point. And you get to the point.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:45]:
See what I did there?

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And you get one of these every week along with other things. Friday funnies, the Makers Maker's Corner, you.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:54]:
Know, where he talks about different makers.

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And specific knives throughout history. So it is awesome. Just go to the knife junkie.com Patreon and check that out and see all the things we have to offer. You can scan the QR code on your screen. If you sign up for a year at once you save 12% again, that's the knife junkie.com.

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You're listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. And now here's the Knife Junkie with the Knife Life news.

Bob DeMarco [00:11:54]:
Okay, first up in Knife Life news, from Tashi Baruch and Civivi comes the. I'm not sure how you pronounce it, but I'm a big fan of Tashi Baruch's designs and he's also a super cool and classy gentleman out of France who's been designing and making knives. I don't know, I guess 15, 20 years at this point. But he's like a serious designer and architect type and he's got a serious career outside of knives. This is just kind of something cool that he does, which is impressive to me. But he's got a, his first collaboration with Civivi and this is his modernized.

Bob DeMarco [00:12:36]:
Take on the Higo Nokami.

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And you know, the Higo no Kami, that's like the Japanese version of the.

Bob DeMarco [00:12:42]:
Open M. You know, it's been around.

Bob DeMarco [00:12:44]:
For a little bit over a hundred years. It's a folding knife, it's a friction folder, and it has a sort of vaguely upswept chief's point blade. Well, that's what he's doing here. He's, he's making a very small version of the Higo no Kami for Civivi. So this is 2 inches of blade steel. That's a full flat ground. A blade of nitro V. Again, a modified sheep's foot.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:10]:
Now it has a flipper, but it's very subtle. You'll see it when it's closed. And it's not jimped like the, like.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:18]:
The pommel there, where you would think.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:21]:
That that's like a front flipper, but it's not, at least not yet. And we are still in prototype form.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:27]:
Here, so we'll see.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:28]:
That might change. Yeah. So as you see the picture there.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:33]:
You can, you can see it all laid out.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:36]:
So a liner lock instead of a.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:39]:
Friction folder from a traditional Higo Nokami.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:42]:
This is coming with wood or carbon fiber scales. So far you know how it is with Civivi though.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:48]:
I'm sure they are likely to bust out a whole bunch of different cover materials and colorways.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:55]:
1.57 ounces. And though there is no release date, there is a price and the MSRP.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:02]:
For this will be $70.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:04]:
Next up, another prototype from Civivi. This also has no release date. This one looks really cool, especially the blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:13]:
This is called the Lunaris.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:16]:
It's an in house design from Civivi.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:20]:
And they do awesome stuff when they.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:22]:
Keep it in house. And as I mentioned, this is also in prototype form. This is a 3.43-inch modified Wharncliffe. Modified just because it's got all of.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:34]:
The cool features to it like the.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:37]:
Finger choil, the flipper, traditional flipper and that curving fuller.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:44]:
Very, very nice looking knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:46]:
So this is a liner lock with a flipper and that fuller is intended for middle finger flickage and slow rollage with the thumb. The prototypes so far are coming in this purple or also purple and yellow.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:02]:
Are also a red and black and.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:04]:
I have to say, a little dizzy. Too many notes for me personally on the handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:08]:
But I love that blade so much.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:11]:
I, I'd like to get a crack.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:13]:
At this one when it comes out.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:15]:
G10 and deep carry pocket clip though on this a prototype format.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:21]:
It is not ambidextrous but who knows how that'll change.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:26]:
Again, no date release for this, but we do have a price and that is $90. So tell me what you think about that.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:37]:
I think it's pretty cool.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:39]:
Let me, let me pull up something here.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:44]:
I know this is, this is bad tv, but I wanted to read you a quote and it just. There we go.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:52]:
All right, last up in knife life news, this is kind of interesting news from Rosecraft and I have to say I'm not a hundred percent surprised by this. Rosecraft is discontinuing its modern folder lineup and I have one modern Rosecraft knife. I've heard good things about them, high quality and all that, but I always thought that they were definitely living in the shadow of their traditional slip joint offerings. And apparently that's how the company feels.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:27]:
And that's how the public feels at large.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:29]:
So they are discontinuing the modern folders and for a while knives like the one you see on screen will be available and they will be at, you know, discounts for sure until they are.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:42]:
Done with, with that.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:45]:
And here's a quote from the company. While our modern knives have the same quality of materials and workmanship, our Customers seem to love other categories way more, especially our traditional slip joint knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:00]:
This is something they wrote on the website.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:02]:
That's why we've decided to move from the modern knives altogether and focus on our traditional, modern, traditional and fixed blade lines. Gotta say, I am, like I said, not surprised. But also, I'm not mad. I. The, the, the modern style knives that they make never really resonated with me.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:24]:
And I guess they haven't resonated with others.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:27]:
At least not nearly as much as they're really, really cool and beautifully designed and well executed traditional slip joint style knives. All right, still to come, we have the state of the collection. I have four new blades I'm going to show off. We're going to take a look at some kukri knives. But before we get there, let's take a look at the TL29 electrician's knife.

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You're listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. Here's some cool knife history with the knife junkies.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:59]:
The first tool the TL29 electrician's knife knife okay, picture this. It's the 1940s. A soldier crouches in a muddy foxhole in Europe. In his hand isn't a rifle or a grenade, but a humble folding knife stamped with a simple code TL29. To most people, it looks like any other pocket knife, but to electricians, linemen and soldiers alike, it was a tool of survival. The TL29 was born out of necessity. In the early 20th century, as a world wired itself with telegraphs, telephones and electricity, the US Military realized it needed.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:40]:
A dependable knife for its signal core.

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Something compact, rugged and specialized. So around World War I, the quartermaster issued a specification tool lineman's number 29. And that's where the name comes from.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:56]:
TL29.

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At first glance, it's unassuming. A two bladed folder, one standard spear point blade for cutting and one flathead screwdriver that could also be locked in place for prying, scraping, and other sorts of jobs with insulated wires. That screwdriver blade even had a notch for stripping. Simple but effective. Pair that with durable wooden scales, usually blackened for a no nonsense look and you have a knife that could take a beating. By World War II, millions of TL29s were in circulation. Electricians carried them, yes, but also so did mechanics, radio operators, and everyday GIs who found 100 uses for that screwdriver blade in the field. And because they were government issued, they.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:46]:
Were built by dozens of American cutlery companies.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:49]:
Camillus, Ulster, Kingston, Imperial Case or cutmaster. This was my grandfather's. For collectors Today, that means TL29s exist in a wide range of subtle variations, each stamped with a maker's mark and.

Bob DeMarco [00:20:06]:
Each telling its own story.

Bob DeMarco [00:20:08]:
But here's the charm of the TL29. It wasn't glamorous. It wasn't a bowie or a stiletto. It was a working man's knife. Soldiers came home and kept them in their toolbox. Linemen hooked them to the belt with.

Bob DeMarco [00:20:22]:
A bale rig, this bale ring right here.

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Farmers tossed them into their overalls pockets. It became one of those knives that simply did the job. Even today, the TL29 design lives on. Some companies make electricians knives in that same pattern a century later. Because when something works well, why change it? The TL29 rather reminds us that knives aren't always about flash or fame. Sometimes the most important blade is the quiet one, the tool that keeps the.

Bob DeMarco [00:20:57]:
Lights on, the radios working and the wires humming.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:00]:
The TL29 is a knife that powered.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:04]:
A newly wired wire world.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:08]:
Now let's get to the state of the collect adventure. Delivered your monthly subscription for handpicked outdoor survival, EDC and other cool gear from our expert team of outdoor professionals. The knife junkie.com battlebox this first one comes to me from James. Yes, that's right. Jim was fixing his garage, going through his garage, getting rid of some old empty boxes and, and, you know, taking care of business on a Saturday.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:37]:
And look at what he came up.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:38]:
With, look at what he found. And he knew that I would love this thing. Now this is a straight razor from Sheffield, England and it's very hard to read. I have yet to, I've yet to polish this. I am a little worried that when I do it will remove some of the, some of the writing here.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:59]:
So I gotta be very careful.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:01]:
But it is very sharp, especially now.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:03]:
That I've run it over the ceramic.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:06]:
And the strop and it's got this beautiful early acrylic style handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:13]:
Just a gorgeous, gorgeous razor.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:16]:
Incidentally, before I could shave myself, when I was like 12 or so in the, in the middle of the 80s and GQ was a big, a big magazine, I thought when I'm older, I'm going to be a classy gentleman and.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:30]:
The only thing I'm going to do is shave with straight razors.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:34]:
And I've tried it a few times and it hasn't gone well for me. So I like to go to the.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:41]:
Barber every once in a while for a razor shave.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:43]:
But Is that not totally sweet? And yet again, thank you, Jim, for this. I told him I should probably keep.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:50]:
It in my boot.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:51]:
Is the kind of thing you pull out when someone knocks you down and they think they.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:55]:
They got the drop on you, and suddenly you got this razor. I'm gonna cut you. So.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:00]:
So thank you very much, Jim. I love this thing. And next time you all see it.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:04]:
It will be polished up and I'll.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:06]:
I'll know what the name is. But like I said, I'm worried of.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:09]:
I'm worried. I'm worried about abrading the name.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:15]:
All right, next up. This just arrived. Like, I've had this for an hour in my possession and it is super cool. This is from Pirate Tech. This is called the Tsunami and it is a beautiful s 90v blade. Reminds me a little bit of the 940 and a titanium body here. Now, I've seen other people with this knife mention that the scales are held on by magnets and that they come off. I have no evidence of that yet.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:46]:
I have not been able to pull these handles up just by, like going like this. But I also see no hardware, so I don't know how they're staying on. And maybe I'm just not giving it.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:58]:
As much juice as I need to.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:00]:
But I really, really like this thing. So this was the company. Piratek reached out to me and asked.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:07]:
If I wanted to see this.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:08]:
And I. I just about did a spit take when I saw that.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:12]:
Spit my coffee out at the computer.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:13]:
Because this thing is beautiful and I've seen it on other people's channels and was very excited.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:20]:
They reached out to me.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:21]:
I love their logo. It's an octopus and it's engraved in that titanium.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:26]:
So that's in relief. You can feel it.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:29]:
I have a special affinity towards octopi these days. My wife is really into octopuses. She's been reading books and watching video series and stuff about octopuses. And she's convinced that they come from another planet. And I am not.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:47]:
I'm not gonna fight her on that.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:49]:
A, she's done more research and B, you ever see an octopus change color or texture as it. As it walks across the sea floor?

Bob DeMarco [00:24:57]:
It's crazy.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:58]:
And sometimes just out of fun, for fun, they'll punch fish. They'll curl up their little tentacles and bang, just punch a fish. Now, I could see that. I could see wanting to punch a fish. If you're an octopus all the time getting overshadowed by the. By the fish swimming through the reef.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:17]:
Why not? Why not? It's not like they're gonna sue you.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:21]:
So this is the pyrotech tsunami hidden hardware. And I'm gonna get to the bottom of this and figure out if this is indeed the model that has scales.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:31]:
Held on by, by magnets.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:35]:
Very, very cool and beautiful knife. And to pyrotechnic I say thank you very much.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:39]:
I can't wait to really dig into this, carry this around and do my review.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:46]:
Next up, as you may have remembered, we just had Amazon prime day and this had been in my cart for a long time and it was even cheaper than usual. So I just bit the bullet and bought it. This is the cold steel kudu. Now you might be saying, bob, you.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:05]:
Already have a kudu.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:06]:
I've seen it. Well, that's the slip joint version where the blade stays in just with this back strap. This is the real traditional or, or their version of the traditional okapi knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:19]:
No copy.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:20]:
Is that kind of animal, that sort of savannah deer kind of thing that runs fast.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:27]:
And here's a stylized version of it on the handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:29]:
The okapi knife. We did a, we did a bit about that here. On the first tool is a peasants knife from South Africa. So today we, we, I mentioned the Higo no Kami, which is a sort of peasant or worker's knife from Japan. The okapi OK API is that sort of knife except from South Africa. Traditionally they have this ring here which disengages the lock and allows you to shut it. This has a ratchet, so it's got about six stops open and closed. And when it's fully opened, it's, it's locked nicely.

Bob DeMarco [00:27:14]:
Now these knives are known for being ultra super inexpensive and cheap. And that's why they are a favorite of the street gangs of South Africa. As a matter of fact, there's a semi codified version or style of knife fighting called Piper, which specializes in using this knife. And I'll have you know that the sound that the ring makes when it rattles is a big part of Piper. You'll, you'll see guy, Piper, guys doing this, shaking it around and being very elusive with it. That's about as far as my Piper knowledge goes. But we did have Brian Kanata of American Khalis on here, Southern Calis, and.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:03]:
He talked a lot about Piper.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:04]:
So a very cool fighting system.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:06]:
And I love the okapi knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:08]:
I don't have a traditional one, but.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:10]:
Now I have this cold steel version.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:14]:
And last up in the state of the collection is this, this little beauty. I've wanted this for quite some time. This is the Raja 3 and this is the knife that inspired my look into Kukris today. But this was also a Amazon prime day purchase.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:36]:
It was, it was kind of cut.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:39]:
Rate and I didn't know they still made this. Frankly, I thought that this was discontinued a while ago, but indeed it is not. Still going strong in AUS10A steel. You've got great, great triad lock action, some of the most fidgety triad action out there. I know people don't think of back locks as fidgety, but as with all of the triad locks in the cold steel lineup, if you put your finger up in the front of the finger well and drop the blade, it will not cut you. So you can open and close these one handed all day long and they're very fun. And you know, this knife is just wickedly sharp and you can tell from.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:27]:
That Kukri style blade that it is a high performer.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:33]:
Also very, very comfortable in my medium, sometimes large size hand, sometimes large when I'm retaining water. All right, so that said, I want to get to the kukri but first check out these awesome T shirts and hats and aprons and things that Jim's.

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Bob DeMarco [00:30:42]:
All right, so first up, let's talk about the kukri. Now we know that the Kukri is the knife of the Gurkha, the legendary soldier from Nepal. The special soldiers from Nepal, now they.

Bob DeMarco [00:30:54]:
Become became a part of the British.

Bob DeMarco [00:30:56]:
Empire's fighting force and still are. And my brother in law, actually when.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:03]:
He was in the Marine Corps in.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:04]:
The early 2000s, he was teamed up with some Kukris and I tried to.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:10]:
Get a hold of his Gurkha kukri but I could not get it in time.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:15]:
They, they issued Kukris to all the Marines. The Kukris to all the Marines.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:22]:
Yeah, so it's a pretty cool thing.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:24]:
But the first, I'm going to take you through traditional and also.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:29]:
Modern and new ones.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:31]:
But these two here are the traditional type. And I got this first one from my mom and dad when they went to India and nepal in the 80s. I was but a. But a pup. And they brought this back. And I had only seen this knife in pictures and thought it was kind.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:51]:
Of ugly and weird.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:53]:
And that's because I was ugly and weird.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:55]:
I was just a dumb adolescent kid. I had no idea the beauty and.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:00]:
The power I was staring at. And then they brought this home. They brought one home for my brother too.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:05]:
And we were just gobsmacked, like, oh.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:08]:
My gosh, these are amazing. And they didn't have very sharp edges, but we changed that. We put very, very sharp edges on.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:16]:
This is still pretty damn sharp, but.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:18]:
This is the one. This is one of my oldest knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:21]:
In my collection period.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:23]:
I've had this one for a long time. But you can see that it's got the traditional. I, I'm not even sure what that is. I mean, we look at this today, we think it's a sharpening notch. I heard someone say not too long.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:38]:
Ago, I said, a whiskey and cigar hang.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:40]:
Someone mentioned the kukri and how this.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:42]:
Is for when the blood runs down.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:44]:
The blade, it stops there and drips down and doesn't get your hands wet.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:48]:
Not.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:48]:
I was like, I'm not even going to engage this. I just like that the guy know.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:52]:
Knows about kukris.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:55]:
I. I think it has symbolism. I also think it could be used.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:58]:
As a blade catch if you go.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:59]:
And blade against blade, like a, like a Spanish notch. But I highly doubt that either of.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:05]:
Those are the reason. I think it's probably more of a symbolic thing.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:10]:
This one is marked India and has that arrow. And the arrow makes me feel like this was at least made to look like part of the British.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:26]:
What do you want to call it?

Bob DeMarco [00:33:28]:
Supply. Because if you look at certain things.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:32]:
From World War II and maybe beyond, I'm not sure.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:36]:
But on British watches that were, that were given to commandos issued commandos, they.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:41]:
Had the arrow, the upward pointing arrow that, that indicated that this was a.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:46]:
Property of the crown. And when you're done using it in service of the crown, you give it back. So I, I kind of wonder if that's what that is. I also think that this one happens to be a tourist piece, so probably not. All right, I'm going to put these away. These are the traditional style Nepalese pukris. Oh and by the way, this one.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:10]:
Has the, the full leather scabbard with.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:14]:
The two little knives in there. I a long time ago wrapped them with duct tape. That duct tape is possibly older than some of the audience, but it has kept those two knives together.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:27]:
So there they are.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:29]:
All right, I mentioned the Raja 3 pocket Kukri. Here is the Raja 2. This is a beautiful kukri folding kukri made by cold steel. And this One is in AUS 8 blade steel with the blasted blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:49]:
So this is an older one.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:53]:
See my brother gave this to me about 13 years ago when we moved into the house we live in right now. This one has that beautiful long clip that really allows you to be versatile with the pockets you put it in. That's one complaint I have about some of the XL's, XL cold steels. When they have these small clip high.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:13]:
Mounted it can be difficult to find the right pants.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:16]:
This will fit into any, any pair.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:19]:
Of pants though it might pop out the top.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:24]:
You, you've got what mimics a traditional.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:27]:
Sort of horse hoof handle here.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:29]:
It really gives you with this upswell here on the pommel and that pinky ring, it gives you a not ring but that pinky notch there, it gives you great leverage when chopping. This is a great knife to, to.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:47]:
Cheat your, your hand back on to.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:50]:
Get the most, the most out of your swing. You can come all the way up here. If you're using this like a camp knife and you need to get close.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:00]:
You can come back here which is.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:02]:
Kind of the standard way to hold it or I like to have it back here. Now I mentioned camp use and that's the thing about the Kri. A lot of people think it was maybe derived from the Copus, the sword that Alexander the Great brought into India because it had that same sort of. Or falcata had that same sort of downward heavy, forward heavy chopping blade. But these and the kukris are not intended to just be weapons though they are fierce weapons and have a storied past as being weapons. There are also straight up camp knives, chopping knives for kindling, skinning animals, all all your knife chores. This is like the Nepalese bowie knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:52]:
If you will.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:54]:
And this just happens to be an awesome folding representation of it. The Raja 2 and the Raja 3. Next up another folder. This one is called the Kami K A M I. This is designed by the great Dirk Pinkerton and it is emulating a Kukri Kami K A M I is the knife maker. The Nepalese knife makers who make kukris, they're called kamis. And just in speaking with Dirk and and also seeing the name, I know that kukris were heavy on his mind.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:35]:
When he was making this.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:37]:
He did. Or when he was designing this, he did throw in some, some changes to.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:42]:
The blade to make it more of.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:43]:
An EDC friendly knife. For instance, he put that tip in the center line instead of pointing downward so that you would get more EDC usage out of it.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:55]:
More universally, easily used.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:59]:
This one is in Titanium with S35VN. It also came in a. This is titanium and micarta. Excuse me, with S35. This one also came in a full.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:11]:
Titanium with S 90v blade steel, I believe.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:16]:
Really excellent knife. The handle encapsulates the hand really, really well between the flipper tab and the.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:24]:
Bird'S beak pommel here.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:26]:
It also makes it excellent for reverse grip.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:29]:
If you want to put that thumb right there on the pommel. Really, really great, great knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:36]:
One of my favorites from the year.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:38]:
2024 is this Hami. Oh man, look at that. Beautiful micro milling all over this. Heavily chamfered. Gorgeous, gorgeous.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:51]:
All right, this next one is I think, my absolute favorite folding cupri and it is the Jason Knight design Elements MK Ultra made by Fox. It's got a lot of names to it, but when this came out, this was the Night Elements MK Ultra. Now I think you can just buy.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:14]:
This straight from Fox, but don't quote me on that.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:17]:
It's got that beautiful kukri blade with the harpoon swedge and the very large fuller, very much in the Jason Knight design language.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:29]:
Jason Knight is just a cool guy. I gotta have him back on the show.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:33]:
Very nice guy, very chill and just.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:36]:
An incredible forger of beautiful blades.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:40]:
And a lot of them look a lot like this. So it was no surprise when he.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:46]:
Came out with this folder.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:48]:
It just really captures the spirit not only of his knives and his sort of modernized take on the kukri, but the kukri itself.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:56]:
Look at the handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:57]:
The handle is, is a perfect folding representation of a kukri handle. Here it is with the more traditional style handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:08]:
That flare, you get a lot of.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:10]:
That same thing happening there. And made by Fox Knives, it's got really nice action, great fit and finish. Beautiful titanium, cerakoted everything.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:24]:
Good to go.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:24]:
What is the blade steel on this M690Co? As to be expected from Fox knives. I think that's pretty much all they use.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:31]:
Maybe, maybe an occasional M390.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:34]:
But yeah, N690CO is the ticket over there. And this one I've had long enough.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:40]:
This was a birthday gift from my.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:42]:
Wife, who is the second biggest Forged in Fire fan that I know and she loved Jason Knight. And when I said, oh well, Jason Knight's got a knife I'd love to have for Christmas, she, she, she obliged. And it's always nice to have that sort of buy inside, you know, educate your ladies or if you're a lady, educate your man on knives and, and.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:07]:
Then get them excited and the gifts will keep coming.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:11]:
I work with a guy, great guy, whose wife is a fan of this show and he is not a knife guy.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:18]:
So he'll come to me occasionally for gift ideas. And I love that.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:24]:
All right, so this is the Knight Elements MK Ultra Folding Kukri made by Fox 9 and taking on quite a.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:34]:
Nice little bit of wear on the corners. I love that.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:38]:
Okay, next up is a modernized version of the Kukri. This time a fixed modernized version of the Kukri and from one of my all time favorite knife designers, period, Bill Harsey Jr. Yep, you know it. This is the Spartan Blades RC Kukri. Another great modification in this style of knife. I mean, I feel like this style of knife has legs, is the day is long. You've got a deep recurve here, but you still have that point on or close to the center line.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:17]:
It's a little bit below if I'm looking at the screws in the handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:21]:
Yeah, it's a little bit below. But the blade overall and the knife overall has a straight form factor. It, yes, it does curve down a little bit and it does have that deep recurve. But all things considered, it's, it's a pretty straight knife. So I feel like it walks of the, the tightrope really well. We could see, we could imagine that a heavily curved blade is going to.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:46]:
Be more specialized, more specialized for chopping.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:49]:
And slashing, less so for thrusting though.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:52]:
I, I have an argument about that. I think kukris are quite easy to.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:56]:
Thrust and you can do so without.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:58]:
Even like canting your wrist at all.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:01]:
But to those of us who are familiar with a more traditional straight overall profile knife, this kukri designed by Bill Harzy and masterfully produced by Spartan Blades really nails it. You have a very emblematic signature style.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:21]:
Handle from Bill Harsey.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:22]:
I mean, his Gerber Rock from back in the day is a cheap big box store Knife from Gerber, designed by Bill Harzy, had that same sort of profiled handle. It just works great jimping here, great finger protection, and then great palm swells that flare out not only at the palm but also at the pommel. So it makes it that much more difficult to loose this from your hand.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:50]:
When you're swinging, shopping, and coming into contact with things.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:55]:
This one, to me, I gotta say.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:57]:
Is more combat than utility blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:00]:
That's. Maybe that's the lens through which I look at knives, but to me, this one favors the combat part. First, though, in utility. I have heard from many people that this is a great knife. As you can tell by looking at my example, I have not done much.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:19]:
Except maybe swipe a few vines with it.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:23]:
The one thing that sticks in my craw about this knife is in the sheet.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:29]:
And I know that a lot of.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:32]:
This is not exclusive to this sheath. See that? It's got a little thing you gotta push to release the blade. I think they have that on the new KA Bar Slabby. I know they have this on the.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:45]:
Other.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:47]:
Bill Harsey design Spartan blades. I do not like that. I don't think that you should have to rely on this sort of thumb manipulation to draw the knife. I can see that on like a. A holster or something that a cop is carrying, a police officer is carrying.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:06]:
With a pistol or whatever.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:08]:
Yeah, you might want that little extra bit of. But what if you're carrying this and you need to draw it in reverse grip or need to. You know, even if you had this thing lashed to your leg, if you needed to draw this and you didn't have that thumb available to push off, you're kind of out of luck unless you just get rid of it all together. So that's one thing I'm not crazy about. I do understand that it precludes the need to have a strap to lash.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:37]:
It down and all that, whatever that.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:41]:
Implies, and you don't need something going around the handle. But as a trade off, I don't think that's fair because I would rather have something with a strap that I don't have engaged or buckled and be able to pull it out and drop it back in without it.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:59]:
Without needing that manipulation.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:01]:
Maybe I've gone too far, but the rest of the knife really outshines that.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:07]:
One little tarnished spot on the sheath. What do you think of this knife?

Bob DeMarco [00:46:15]:
All right, next up. This one is. This was a gift from my good friend Dave of OG Blade reviews. And this thing is huge.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:25]:
This is the biggest KUKRI I have.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:27]:
And I have, I have some other Bud K style cookies. I have one that a. Another listener sent me, and unfortunately I have it stashed in an emergency spot. But this one is the biggest. Now this is made by a company called Traditional Filipino Weapons. Now, before you start typing, it's not a Filipino nut. It's so funny how many times I've shown this knife and said, this is a kukri, a traditional Nepalese knife made by smiths in the Philippines for a company called Traditional Filipino Weapons. It's a lot.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:05]:
I, I get it. But this, this is a. You know how we're American perhaps, and we make knives that might be an ode to Japan or anywhere else. It's kind of the same thing here. Traditional Filipino Weapons making a traditional Nepalese weapon. They do, they do a lot of other non Filipino weapons as well, but everything they do is just awesome.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:29]:
Including this kukri.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:32]:
Incredibly sharp. I mean, they, they do not half.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:35]:
Step it with the edge.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:36]:
And it's got a lot of weight.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:38]:
Up front, a lot of mass.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:40]:
And then it's got this beautiful. I think this is kamagong wood, that super hardwood from the Philippines. And then you have some traditional file.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:49]:
Work up the back of the handle there.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:52]:
Some jimping just because. And then there's the traditional Filipino weapons logo. It's a crossed Chris and Taliban or something or some other knife, some other big Filipino sword. But this one here, I'm gonna show this on the big screen so that.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:14]:
You can see how big this thing is.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:16]:
I mean, this is a large, large knife. Is it a short sword? Not quite yet, but it's getting there. And it's incredibly intense.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:28]:
Intimidated in, menacing.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:30]:
Comes in a great sheath, too. A leather wrapped wooden sheath. Most of the traditional Filipino weapons like you see on the wall, have a wooden sheath. So this is pretty much the same. It doesn't have the two little accessory blades on it, but I don't even know what those things are for, frankly.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:51]:
All right, I'm gonna put this one away before I hurt myself.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:54]:
This is the traditional Filipino Weapons made kukri. All right, Last up in this cavalcade of kukris is cold steel. Yes.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:06]:
You know, it's going to be a cold steel.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:07]:
This is the most ridiculous and possibly the most intimidating kukri in my collection. And it is the cold steel Chaos kukri. And like all Chaos models, it comes with this cast aluminum D guard for protecting your hands and smashing things. It is really stout and sturdy and.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:33]:
Like I said, very intimidating.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:35]:
It's got a full tang that comes all the way through the handle. You've got two mechanical connections here with these bolts and then a third mechanical.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:43]:
Connection here with the, with the skull crusher that is screwed on there.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:51]:
These are SK5 blade steel. So a carbon steel. So tough these will take a lot.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:59]:
Of abuse and.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:04]:
And you've got that.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:05]:
Incredibly weight forward tip down, heavy chopping, curved blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:12]:
I gotta say this, this would be.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:14]:
One heck of a melee weapon.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:16]:
I think it's, I think it's complete with this, with this D guard. The thing I like about the D guard on the Chaos series is that it splits the hand. You're, you're not trying to make your finger go into each individual hole when you do that. Hand size matters too much. Like for instance this 1918 trench dagger fits my hand perfectly. But most corn fed modern guys who.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:44]:
Are giant, that would be too small.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:46]:
So I guess I would have fit.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:47]:
In size wise in World War I.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:50]:
Here we have room much, we have a lot of room on both sides of this center partition to put your finger, to put your fingers and they fit.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:01]:
You can fit a big, big pot and there.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:05]:
So that's, that's what I love about this. I don't think it looks as cool as the individual knuckle duster finger holes. But sometimes it's not about looks. Sometimes it's about utility. And this screams utility. Yes, that's my cold steel chaos gookery. Here's the securex sheath.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:27]:
It works great. I like the way it has a little arrow. Careful. Do not put your hand here when you're drawing it out or you will get sliced.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:35]:
All right, tell me about your kukris. I know you guys are dying too because we got some kukri lovers in the audience here and I, I, I suspect I haven't shown enough traditional kukris for the liking of this crowd, but let me know.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:50]:
Drop it in the comments below.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:51]:
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Bob DeMarco [00:52:22]:
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.

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