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Bob DeMarco [00:00:00]:
Coming up, the gentleman Junkie giveaway knife for November 2025. The new Jack Wolf Knives Gateway slip joint. And then we're going to take a look at my biggest cold steel fixed blade knives. I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie Podcast.

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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 [00:00:31]:
Welcome the show. One of my favorite comments this past week was from Michael Elliott, designer of the Gunfighter Customs Gunfighter, which will be giving away in December. He says, I wouldn't call it a journey. He's talking about Paulo Rubio. I wouldn't call it a journey. I would call his experience growth. I've watched Paulo's growth from the early days when he was a this wouldn't work or drills are stupid guy. And I've been pleased to see him grow into the instructor that he's become.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:00]:
Course, Paulo Rubio is a allotted instructor in knife fighting arts, chief among them the Filipino martial arts, as is Michael Elliot. So it's kind of cool to see the perspective of one teacher to another. If you like this kind of content and you think that talking to knife makers, knife fighting instructors, knife manufacturers and designers is cool, be sure to subscribe right here because every Sunday we do an interview show with a luminary like that. All right, that said, let's get to a pocket check what's in his pocket.

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Let's find out. Here's the Knife junkie with his pocket check of knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:46]:
All right, my front right pocket. Today I had the bbmn, a Dwayne DWI designed North Mountain Blade. I really love this knife. I got it, of course, because it's got a lot of strider knives, design cues. This, of course, designed by Dwayne Dwyer, one half of strider knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:07]:
And he's got.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:10]:
Custom folders that look just like this. And I knew from what I'd heard from friends about North Mountain blades that they make incredible knives. And so when I saw this one, I had to jump on it. Very, very nice glassy phosphor bronze action on this. And you've got a San My steel here that they call SLB magic. And I believe the main cutting steel is a VG10. And then it's got some sort of 420 or 440 jacketed steel there. I love this knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:43]:
Been carrying it a lot since I.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:45]:
Got it this summer.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:48]:
Next up in my front left pocket, I had the Gateway Barlow from Jack Wolf knives. Knowing that I would be receiving another gateway knife. That very same. This very same day I got that I was carrying this knife and really enjoying it. I love the pinned construction of this one. Most Jack Wolf knives, the premium ones, have that screw construction which is also great. But it's nice to have a pin constructed knife. And this one is a modern traditional in that it uses a kick to stop the blade when it goes back into the handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:25]:
It is not a stop pin, it.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:28]:
Is a kick right there.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:30]:
So very, very nice knife and beautiful rosewood covers on this one and a.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:37]:
Nice big clip point blade there.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:40]:
Next up and carrying it quite a bit. But I went old school today and I had my agent 001. This is the one from the first run of knives that I've carried the most. You know. You know, I love this knife. I co designed it with Tim Kell. He perfected the handle and perfectly created the the blade that I drew out on the back of a cocktail napkin. That's not true.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:06]:
It was actually a pretty well done drawing. But I love this one with the purple burl G10. And this is like I said, the older one. So it doesn't have all the refinements like the chamfering. And it's got one extra gimp on here. AEDL steel.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:26]:
Just an awesome knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:27]:
If you like the agent 001, you can go to Tel Knives right now and purchase one and have your own handle material and you can choose the steel. Go to the knife junkie.comTK and put knife junkie in the coupon code section. That's all one word, all lowercase and.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:45]:
You will save 10%.

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So take advantage of that. We've had a number of people recently doing that. My emotional support knife today was rather large. Not sure if it's going to fit here, but I had the Waning Moon Yata gun from Apoc Survival Tools. A big knife. And actually I've been going to the gym more recently and I can already feel my grip improving, which is good when you're. When you've got the Waning Moon Yatagon on you because that handle is big and it is heavy. This is a pretty heavy blade and it's got a lot of the weight in the handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:05:27]:
So you know, eat your Wheaties and do your reps and. And maybe you too can wield the Waning Moon. The Yatagon is one of my favorite blade shapes out there. A lot of knives today are inspired by it, even if they don't know it. But for instance, the Vaquero series was very Yatagan inspired and it is a Turkish blade short sword and I guess it was first introduced during the reign of the Ottoman Empire but just a beautiful knife and Apoc Survival does an awesome job with it. You, you can't find too many Yatagons out there, especially in a non ornamental and sort of usable format. So definitely check out Apoc Survival for knives like this and, and others. So that's what I had on me today.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:22]:
Had the agent 001, I had the Apoc Yatagan, albeit not on my person. I had the Gateway Barlo from Jack Wolf knives on the BBMN from North Mountain Blade. Next up, I just wanted to show off. Oh, I don't have the actual one.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:42]:
Yes I do. Yes I do.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:43]:
I take it all back. Just pretend I didn't say that. This is the knife we're giving away this coming Thursday. So Thursday November 20, 2025 as we record this, we will be giving away this beautiful and new Tkal knives agent 001 to one lucky gentleman junkie winner. Let me just put them together so.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:06]:
You can see the difference between the.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:07]:
First run which is on top and.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:09]:
The second run which is on bottom.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:12]:
You can see the, the one on the bottom, the one we're giving away the new. The, the. The second run, the one that you can buy right now has beautiful chamfering all around, all the corners and edges. But I like to look at it right by the jimping larger jimping reduced by one Jim. You've got terracing on, on the bevels there.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:34]:
You can see those mill lines.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:37]:
And these are now machined by Nick Chuprin and NCC Knives up in New Hampshire. And he is a perfectionist, does an absolutely beautiful job. So I'm really looking forward to giving this away. This second run of TE Cal Knives Agent 001s designed by, by myself and Tim went live this November 1st, November 1st, 2025 and they've been going like hotcakes. So I'm excited to be giving this away to someone as a thank you for supporting the show. And you can do that by going to the knife junkie.com Patreon I also want to show you, since we're talking Patreon, what we're going to be giving away in the month of December 2025. And I just showed this to you, but this is the Michael Elliott designed Gunfighter Customs Gunfighter made by Jared Franklin.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:32]:
The head of Gunfighter Customs.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:34]:
Just a beautiful knife that he made for me to give to you. A lucky gentleman junkie. He knows how much I love the knife he gave me.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:44]:
Get rid of this piece of Kydex off there, okay?

Bob DeMarco [00:08:47]:
He made me one of these and gave it to me at blade show the two of them did. And I was very, very excited about it. I've shown it off a lot. I've been carrying it a lot. And so he made another version, another specimen to give away to you. This one has these beautiful antique butterscotch micarta handles and that is AEBL steel. There's a Michael Elliott's Maker's mark. It's a chisel ground, wickedly sharp, kind of an improvement on the clinch pick, giving you a place to put your.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:25]:
Thumb and all the rest.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:29]:
So beautiful knife. Please become a gentleman junkie by going to the the patreon@the knife junkie.com patreon and you can join there or you can become a gentleman junkie right here.

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By joining us on YouTube.

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Last, last little bit here on Patreon. Today in history we have a super cool thing that this is some this is a feature that Jim comes up with and today it's the birth of the disposable blade. I say today, but it's November 15th, the birth of the disposable blade. Talking about shavers, Gillette, et cetera. And it's a very interesting article that I this is something I would never have thought to look into, but it's.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:15]:
Fascinating when you read it.

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And so this makers Mondays Friday funnies and all, all sorts of great features that Jim has been doing. Especially he does a great knife one where you can find out about the history of various knives. So please go check us out. All right, this is the end of my Patreon plug. You can scan the QR code about to pop up on your screen and when you do, you can save 12%.

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If you join for a whole year.

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And and you get all sorts of benefits. Chief among them, the third Thursday of the month we do a very special giveaway.

Bob DeMarco [00:10:51]:
We've been giving away a lot of.

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Custom knives, but also all the things I just mentioned.

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Plus interview extras with the fascinating people who interview.

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So if that sounds like something you'd like, go to the knife junkie.com Patreon and check it out again. That's the knife junkie.com slash Patreon

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Bob DeMarco [00:11:26]:
And now here's the knife junkie with the Knife life news. All right, so first up in knife life news today I have Rosecraft Blades, the Cumberland River Coke Bottle Jack. So as you may have heard, if you watch this show you, I know you've heard Rosecraft blades has given away.

Bob DeMarco [00:11:47]:
Not giving away what I want to say.

Bob DeMarco [00:11:49]:
They have stopped their line of modern folders so they will sell all the modern folders they've already produced. But they are doubling down on their slip joint game and that's what people.

Bob DeMarco [00:12:00]:
Go to Rosecraft Blades for.

Bob DeMarco [00:12:03]:
They love Rosecraft blades for their ultra robust and beautifully made slip joint knives. So they are doubling down on that. This new one, the Cumberland River Coke Bottle Jack has a 3 inch clip point blade of D2 steel. Really focusing heavily on the long straight cutting surface of that relatively long edge there. And, and then it terminating in a nice big belly and a downward flip. So yeah, generous belly and cutting edge. And then the Coke bottle shape, I love the Coke bottle shape. So it extends up and it extends down.

Bob DeMarco [00:12:42]:
If you look at it, there's a center palm swell that accommodates a the pin so that you can have a larger blade in the weight in the blade well without having it stick too far up. That's kind of the utilitarian purpose of that profile. But I really love the way that thing looks. You know, I love the way the utility actually looks. You've got pinned micarta covers or they have this beautiful toasted bone. Each one very unique and different from one another. I love the look of that. Kind of looks like stag and then they all have a spade shaped shield.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:26]:
2.9 ounces. These are available now for $60 MSRP. Okay, next up, the Kaiser Topsail. This one designed by Newfoundlander Jonathan Styles. Jonathan Styles had the Newfoundland knife company before he became an exclusive designer for Kaiser Knives. He's designed both fixed blades and folders for Kaiser and this is his. So as far as he goes in the knife world, he is exclusive with Kaiser now. I used to follow him.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:02]:
I mean I still do follow him on Instagram and. And not only does he post his cool knives, but also he'll go on little motorcycle adventures around the beautiful lands of Newfoundland. So kind of a cool. He's got a cool IG to follow. A statement piece from Kaiser. Four models, four versions of this. 3.1 inches on that drop point blade. It comes in either M390 or S45VN.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:32]:
Two models on each with an opening Hole and a front flipper. The scales are all titanium with inlays of either blue or green crystallized titanium. Blue is on the M390 version and green is on the S45 or you can get it with Timascus or a.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:53]:
Zirconium one each per blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:56]:
Steel 3.7 ounces. Available now for 200 bucks.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:02]:
200 bucks.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:04]:
Let's see next up there is a suppressor company called Dead Air Silencers. Sorry about that. Dead Air Silencers, which is a cool name. A Dead air is actually a broadcast industry term when, when the channel goes blank and there's nothing there. That's also a radio term that's called Dead air. Well, Dead Air Silencers just released a, a battle axe, if you will. I'm calling it a battle ax because what else are you going to use this to blow with? Winkler knives. So you've got a, a full slab sort of ax.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:45]:
It's, in other words, it's not a, an ax head hung on a haft. It is a full tang ax handle or axe with a, a spike on the back and a nice big blade on the front. They've made 16 or they, they have made 50. There are only 16 of these things left as we record this. A beautiful ax. You are going to pay for it because it is not only a Dead Air ax, but it's also a Winkler ax and everybody's got to get paid. So this battle ax is 630 bucks, but no doubt super capable and it will be, you know, much beloved by the type of guys and gals who need this and will use this in some sort of combative situation. I dare say you could use it.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:35]:
For other things too, but to me.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:37]:
It looks like a battle ax.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:39]:
So that's what I'm calling it. Maybe you call it a tomahawk.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:42]:
All right, last up, last thing I want to show just a little bit of personal editorial and it just made me so sad. So this is a picture of a nice turn in box in North Yorkshire in England. And these are the knives that they recovered. These are the knives that people felt guilty about having or, or perhaps that they just didn't trust themselves around the knives. I just don't understand how people are giving away. I see a republic, I see one quote unquote tactical knife. It's on the very top left and it's one of those hollow handle, cheesy survival knives we all had in the 1980s if we were alive then everything else here is a kitchen knife. I see scissors, I see Fruit peelers.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:30]:
I see corkscrews. It's just depressing to me. I see. I see ice cream scoops and spoons in this damn picture. And a can opener. So these are the things that people felt so ashamed of having in North Yorkshire that they had to drop it in a collection bin for dangerous weapons. That is a gilded society. And I'm not in any way trying.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:58]:
I'm not trying to be critical of the great British people. I love the people, you know, you know how that is, how you feel.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:07]:
About the people then, versus the government.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:10]:
I love the people. And I. We know we have some friends in England and everything. All of those land acknowledgments out of the way. I just feel like this is pathetic. Keep your kitchen knives. You're going to need to cook with them. And if, heaven forbid, anyone ever breaks into your house, I know you have nothing else to defend your house with.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:30]:
So keep your damn kitchen knives, people. Come on. And definitely keep your ice cream scoops.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:36]:
Because how is he going to get it out?

Bob DeMarco [00:18:37]:
Especially considering you've also given your spoons away. So that's it for Knife Life News. Please, please, people, hold on to your spoons and your scoops and your knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:48]:
Especially those kitchen knives that you're going to need.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:53]:
So anyway, we can continue this conversation on Thursday night Knives every Thursday night here at 10:00pm Eastern Standard Time. We got the holidays coming up, so there's going to be one down around Thanksgiving and there's going to be one down around Christmas. But basically, this is my Thursday night readout. I love Thursday night Knives because it's my chance to talk live with all of y'.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:19]:
All.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:19]:
That's how we speak in the south of. Of. Of the United States. And I'm told, as I am directly south of the Mason Dixon, I am in the south. So join us every Thursday night, 10pm Eastern Standard Time, right here on YouTube.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:35]:
For Thursday night knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:38]:
All right, let's get to the first tool.

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

Bob DeMarco [00:19:48]:
The first tool. I want you to look at this blade. Not necessarily the handle, but look at the blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:52]:
And let me take you back to the early 1940s, when the world was.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:56]:
Buckling under the weight of war.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:59]:
And a small workshop in Orlando, Florida, was about to change the story of the fighting knife. Bo Randall didn't set out to arm soldiers. He was a fisherman who bought a handmade knife from a craftsman named Bill Skagel. Now a legend that blade opened his eyes. It cut better, held an edge longer, felt alive in hand. But went home thinking, I can do this, maybe even better. What he did, what he didn't know was that American troops would soon come knocking for his knife. As young men prepared to ship out for World War II, they wrote letters to Randall asking for reliable knives, something tougher than the mass produced military issue.

Bob DeMarco [00:20:46]:
And so the Randall number one was born. The hand forged fighting knife, built one at a time, shaped and polished by craftsmen. Picture it 7 in a 7 inch blade looked exactly like this. With a gentle clip point sharpened, I might add, and a brass guard wide enough to stop the hand from slipping. A stacked leather handle that felt warm even in cold rain. Nothing fancy, nothing wasted. Just the right tool for a soldier.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:17]:
Stepping into a world of Unknowns.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:20]:
The Model 1 wasn't just a knife. It was a piece of home. Troops carried it in the Pacific, in Europe, and later in the humid jungles of Vietnam. Many wrote back to Randall afterwards saying the knife saved them. Cutting rope, opening crates, or in the worst moments, doing exactly what a fighting knife is designed to do. And here's a cool detail. Randall didn't mass produce these. Each knife was handmade and the wait list stretched for months.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:52]:
Even generals and astronauts wanted them. In fact, Randall knives went into space literally, carried on NASA missions as survival tools. But through all the fame, the Model 1 stayed true to its roots. A working blade built for people who needed something they could trust their lives with. Today, collectors chase old model number ones like Treasure. The grind lines, the handlewear, the small differences from one smith to another. They're all cues to who carried it, where it traveled and what stories it might tell.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:27]:
If steel could speak.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:29]:
The Randall Model 1 isn't just a fighting knife. It's a reminder that sometimes the best tools come from a quiet shop made by hands that care more about strength.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:40]:
And honesty than speed.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:43]:
And that's why even today, you have to wait for your Model 1. But when you finally get it in hand, it's like feeling a soldier's handshake across time. Now, if you like these first tool segments, and if you like hearing about segments about knives and reading about the history of knives, or just my personal take on knives, you can sign up for the newsletter. You go to the knife junkie.com/newsletter and every week or so you'll get a newsletter in your inbox. I'm not asking for anything.

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It's no hard sell.

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It's just musings about a knife with.

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A picture, a beautiful picture or two.

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So check that out. That's also a great way for, for us to keep in touch with you. Heaven forbid we lose contact, so go check that out at theknifejunkie.com/newsletter. All right, let's get to the state of the collection.

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Bob DeMarco [00:24:13]:
Okay, this first knife just came to me from Jack Wolf Knives a day ago as we record this. This is the beautiful new gateway equal end Jack. So equal end on this model refers to. Yes, the fact that the pommel side and the pivot side are the exact same and they're mirror opposites of one another. This is a very old style slip joint knife. Sometimes they're called Churchills, I believe after the fact that Winston Churchill liked smoking cigars. And this is vaguely cigar shape or pretty much exactly cigar shape. So this is a new gateway knife from Jack Wolf Knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:24:59]:
That means it's within reach. It's, it's a gateway to their series of knives. Whether you're going for the steel series, the JW Collab series or the premium slip joint series, these are your way in because they are the least expensive and made from the least precious materials. But they're still made by the same manufacturers with the same attention to fit and finish. So this here, here it is that beautiful drop point blade with the swed. So I really, really like this knife. It is 14C 28N blade steel. You've got steel bolsters and liners with in the construction, the premium slip joints and the steel series slip joints from Jack Wolf knives have a screw construction.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:52]:
So you can take them apart for.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:54]:
Whatever reason you might want to do that. And. But these, the gateway are pinned more like a traditional slip joint. And like a traditional slip joint, they use the kick. That's this extended part of the blade tang to stop the blade from slapping the liners inside instead of the way many modern slip joints use a stop pin inside. But I love that these use that.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:22]:
Traditional style of stopping the blade with the kick.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:27]:
This one has beautiful ebony wood with.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:30]:
A, with a perfectly.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:33]:
Embedded inlay there. That shield is inlaid perfectly. You can't feel it all the transitions from material to material, like from the wood onto the steel bolsters or across these nickel silver pins here or across that shield, you can't feel any of that. It's all hafted perfectly. Same thing with the back. If you look at the spring and the liners, they all look like one piece. And then at the half stop you have a fully flush lock bar there and not lock bar, spring bar.

Bob DeMarco [00:27:09]:
They call it a lock bar.

Bob DeMarco [00:27:11]:
But this is the brand new Jack Wolf Knives Gateway equal end. I believe this is dropping on the 21st of November 2025 and you will definitely want this. So one of the ways they keep the cost down with the Gateway series. Now the premium knives are in the 300s. The Gateway series are sub $100. And the way they keep costs low is like I said, instead of S90V on the blade, it's 14C 28N. A great blade. And by the way, this is unbelievably sharp.

Bob DeMarco [00:27:45]:
But also in the packaging, the packaging is a, there's a lot less packaging. You do not get the leather slip automatically with this like you do on the premium knives. So there are some ways that they can save costs to get a great Jack Wolf knife design and build in your hands. So definitely go check this out. Before I showed with my pocket check, I showed the other gateway knife. This is the Gateway Barlow. I was lucky enough to get wood on both of these, but they also come in numerous other more modern materials. So definitely go check these out.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:25]:
They're phenomenal.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:27]:
And I think you can still get.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:28]:
The Gateway Barlow if I'm not mistaken.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:32]:
All right, so that is the equal end new from Jack Wolf knives. Next up, I wanted to show you a new light. So I went out yesterday as I record this to buy a flashlight for a friend of mine who just had a birthday and he lives in the neighborhood and I see him walk his dog on occasion and I figured he needed a good light to traverse these dark suburban streets. And so I got him a Phoenix.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:01]:
And then I self one too because.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:05]:
I think they're super cool. And I've been talking about lights, great for self defense and all this, but I, I don't carry them as much as I should. And this one was an excellent size size. So this is the Phoenix LD30 and I have it set up for the, the, the brightest lumens here. I think it's 1200 or 1400 and then you can take it down, take it back up right here with this switch. You can also go to strobe And I love strobe. There's also an SOS mode where it does a slow flash and. But what I really like about it is that it is small enough to carry in the pocket without.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:50]:
Without me feeling like I have too much in there. It also has the baseball hat clip. So you can see this clip will fit over your pants, but if you want it to fit on a visor as a impromptu headlamp, the clip doubles over on itself. So a great feature. Why do I say light? For self defense. I've never used one, but if I needed to, I would much rather blind someone, kick them in the knee and run off than pull out a knife and stab them. Let's face it, none of us need that in our lives. That is last ditch.

Bob DeMarco [00:30:25]:
But there are lots of things you can do before that last ditch, like spray them with pepper spray or blind them with light and run off. So I figured, why not? Why not incorporate this more into my life? Now, I am not saying I'm becoming a flashlight nerd or a torch or whatever they call themselves. I am a. I am a knife dork. And. But, you know, these lights are adjacent. And why not? We have a lot of friends here who love their flashlights. So I've been taking notes.

Bob DeMarco [00:30:58]:
People love the old phoenixes here. And I got this for a somewhat reasonable price. Could have. Could have gotten it for a dollar more on Amazon, but I was right there at rei. So I bought it, paid the Virginia.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:10]:
Sales tax, and stuck his mind out.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:13]:
And I'm going to start carrying it a lot. I think this really, genuinely has to become part of my EDC, not just the. The smaller I3T I keep on my keys. I need something a little more robust. So I'm excited about this, and I'm.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:29]:
Going to start carrying.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:31]:
All right. So while I was at rei, I made a weird purchase. I'll say it, but I couldn't resist. I could not resist. It was this little opinel in the number six size, but it's a vegetable peeler. It's an opinel vegetable peeler. It's for campers. It's for people who find themselves, you know, with cucumbers and potatoes in the wilderness.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:55]:
This is what they do to peel them. I have a kitchen. I've got two peelers in the kitchen. I can't decide which one I like better. And yet I had to bring another.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:03]:
Peeler into my life.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:05]:
So I'm going to. After this show, after we record this, I'm going to fold this up. I'M going to drop it in the kitchen drawer and I'm going to start.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:13]:
Using it every time I have to peel.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:16]:
I was thinking all sorts of crazy.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:17]:
Things when I was trying to justify this purchase.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:20]:
I was like, oh well, you know, my daughters love cucumbers. Instead of preparing them for lunch, for their school lunch, I'll give, put this in the box, you know, in their lunchbox and they can peel their.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:31]:
And I'm like, that's not.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:33]:
They can't open this up at school and say, oh, it's just a peeler. So you know, this is one of.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:40]:
Those uncontrollable things and I just had to buy it.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:45]:
Isn't it cool? Isn't it cute? Say yes Bob. Yes. That that was not. That was money well spent, Bob.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:51]:
Say that. Please just drop that in comments Making me feel better.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:56]:
All right, so if you ever need a peeler on the go, check out the little Opinel number six vegetable peeler. It is stainless steel.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:04]:
So I mean, I'm not a total fool.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:08]:
All right, Speaking of total fool, let me show you how I am a.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:12]:
Fool for these large cold steel fixed blade knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:15]:
Before we do though, let me show you this latest design by none other than Jimmy Notes. He's got this S35 with a heart. It's just like who doesn't love S35VN, you know, for a while that was the super steel of mention. Everyone had to have S35 on their blades and then M390 came along and.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:39]:
20 CV and all these other just ruined the party.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:41]:
But S30 volts, a tougher version of S. I mean, S35, a tougher version of S30 volts, both steel inventions quote unquote derived from Chris Reeve knives and his needs for the Sebenza. So we are lucky to Chris. We are grateful to Chris Reeve for many reasons. But you can get this awesome S35 logo on a tote bag, on an apron, on a hat, on a T shirt, coffee mug, whatever you want.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:16]:
There you go.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:16]:
We have it for you at the knife junkie.com/shop.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:21]:
Go check it out.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:23]:
All right? Everyone knows that I love cold steel. I am not shy about it. Even when people were saying, well I, I respect the knives but I don't like the way.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:33]:
I don't like his sales tactics and his marketing.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:36]:
I always thought, man, come on, are you not a knife fan? Don't you love seeing pigs cut in half by knives? They're already dead and they're going to make a meal down at the Ventura Rescue. So why not just. Why not just enjoy? Let's start off with the one that I've carried the most and has done the most work and play for me. That is the cold steel trail master. This is a knife I would recommend to anyone, especially people who do things outdoors, go camping, go hiking, go over landing and such. I love this knife and you might say ounces are pounds and pounds are pain and that's a big knife but it is so well worth it. This is a quarter inch thick slab of SK5.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:26]:
Because this is a pretty old one here.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:28]:
This one is a. Is over 25 years. I'm hesitate to say it's 30 years old, but I. It's probably about 30 years old. Beautiful zero ground swedge on this. So equal equal parts fighting knife and outdoors knife. This would make an outstanding fighting knife there. I've put many hours into swinging this around shadow boxing with this knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:56]:
Carenza they call it. It's got a nice coffin shaped ray ton checkered handle. So very grippy.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:03]:
You can see where it's worn down over the years there.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:06]:
And in 30 years it hasn't become tacky and gross like some rubbers. Rubber materials do nice thick brass guard and the original leather sheath. Now I've been stalking ebay. I'm gonna buy another trail master. I. I want it to be original and by that I mean I have reprofiled this blade so. So this blade is a little thinner than a standard trail master just because I've sharpened it and I've chipped it and gouged it and done things to it and had to reprofile it a few times. So when I hold it up against my dad's it's definitely more slender.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:45]:
But I want to get one that is old enough that it will come with the leather sheet. That may or may not happen. I might just buy a brand new one. But I feel like this is a knife that is so tried and true I can afford to get a second one. I'm not one of these guys who oh, I like this knife. I better buy two. But this one, I've had it for so long and it's done such great duty. Maybe I should just get a second.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:09]:
One just to be sure. But.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:11]:
Or just out of respect, but I love this thing. So beautiful. If, if you get anything from this list I'm giving you today, it is.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:21]:
Get yourself a trail master for sure.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:25]:
Next knife is also a nice big bowie and probably my second favorite though I have a lot of favorites.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:32]:
In this list.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:34]:
And this is an old version too. This is the Laredo Bowie. This is kind of a dedicated fighting bowie. Whereas the trail master was full tang, this is a cable tang, meaning the tang of the blade comes to about here and then there's a cable that goes from here to a bolt. And the idea behind that is that it absorbs shock. It is super strong. I mean, I've baton this through wood and done done some stupid stuff with this. But really, this is a fighting knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:04]:
This was a knife that when this prototype was first made years and years and years ago, Lynn Thompson sent this to Bill Bagwell, the legendary fighting bowie knife maker, and asked him for input and basically asked for his blessing.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:25]:
And Bagwell gave it to him.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:28]:
You've got a beautiful 10 1/4 inch blade here, or 10 1/2 inch. This is also SK5 blade. I have mine nicely patinaed because mine originally, when it came the the sheath, scratched up the blade and so I patinaed it and never looked back. But this is a pretty old girl here. It's got faux cocobolo wood. So it's wood that's made to look like cocobolo, but it's inexpensive enough that it's not knot. Beautiful grass, brass guard and a nice long again, zero ground swedge. And that is for back cuts.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:10]:
So if you are fighting with this knife, and this is a fighting bowie knife, you can do that back cut, which is you're coming in with like an angle one and you turn the blade over and you use that tip to gouge, slash, tear, slash, cut, whatever.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:29]:
It comes in contact with.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:30]:
To do that, you don't really need a zero ground or sharpened swedge, but it definitely helps. Sometimes people fight with bowie knives with that clip forward like this, and the primary edge back. They call that mountain man. And you can get a lot of damage. It's like having a hawkbill blade here. This one, like I said early on in its. In its life, or not in its life, but in its run as a knife for cold steel, they were putting them out in these beautiful leather sheets. I mean, the sheath is gorgeous, but that big brass stud, you just slide this in the belt like a riverboat.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:11]:
Gambler and you are good to go.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:13]:
So probably. Well, I don't know. One of my absolute favorites in this lineup here. All right, next up, this is a tip of the hat to the very original six blade knife that put cold steel on the map. But this is a larger and more modernized version of it. This is the Tanto 12 so that's a 12 inch Tanto blade. You remember, the Americanized tanto is the one that puts cold steel on the map. And this one is just like that knife, except the original had a brass furniture here, the pommel and in the guard were of brass, but everything else is the same.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:00]:
Same checkered craton handle. This one, if you look closely near the edge, you can see two different steels. This is a San Mai. Call it San My3. I believe that's VG10 and 420 stainless. I know they, they change it up here and there, but this knife is so light and agile in hand, light and lively in hand, if you will, that I could see this being an incredible fighting knife. Even though I prefer a bowie. Even though I prefer, prefer a double edged, say double sub hilt fighter in my imaginary knife fights.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:40]:
This one just moves around so well. It's weighted, it's, it's balanced slightly forward of the guard. But with a knife this large, it really makes that tip move around fast.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:52]:
You got some weight here in the pommel.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:54]:
So it's weighted more like a short sword than a knife. So really, really outstanding knife. And you've got the Yokota, that sub tip there, that secondary tip right up front that is frequently used. That of course makes the tip very, very stout for thrusting through tough materials. But also that sub tip, that secondary tip is good for a percussive snap cut. Snap cut is. Imagine you have a drumstick in your hand and you're hitting the snare and you're really gripping with the forefinger and the thumb and stopping the recoil with the rest of your hand. That secondary tip up front can put a nasty gouge in anything you snap cut it with.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:44]:
This one comes with their grivx sheath, which I'm fine with. I don't need leather on this style of knife, though my original Tanto does have leather. Okay, next up is the Jimmy Slash competition Choppa. This thing is what it lacks in length, it makes up for in girth.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:08]:
Let'S put it that way.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:09]:
Beautiful leather sheath here.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:11]:
And look at this sucker. Oh my gosh.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:14]:
This is a huge heavy slab of 3V steel. This is 516 of an inch thick, so just a little bit over a quarter inch and, and it. This has serial number 11, by the way. Thank you. Jimmy Slash. He sent this to me when it first came out. Quite a gift. Because this is not an inexpensive knife that 3.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:40]:
There is a lot of 3D here and 3V is an expensive steel. You can see it's, it's lightened with this swedge on the back for perfect balance. It is 10 inches in length. As. As is all. As are all competition choppers for, for USA Blade sports that have to fit into a certain envelope here you've got a downward angle blade on this awesome grivx handle and very, very nice bird's beak here.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:12]:
Quite grippy.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:14]:
And then one of the things I really love about this is the lanyard hole here and the back, the pommel and then the lanyard holes here right near the, the ricasso. So you can make a sort of D guard lanyard to really keep it.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:29]:
On your hand if you're doing your competition chopping.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:33]:
Now here's a little news break. You don't have to be a competition chopper to use this thing. This is outstanding for batoning wood. As you can see, I've gotten some, some, I got some schmutz on there I have to remove. But this is a really, really great knife for all sorts of chopping tasks. It is heavy, it is weight forward. The sheath does not have a loop. It's not really meant to be carried.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:59]:
But you could do it.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:00]:
You could do it and this would.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:02]:
Be a great campsite knife. Say, if you're car camping, you don't want to carry a pound of steel.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:08]:
Into the, into the bush with you.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:11]:
This is the Jimmy Slash competition chopper. Next up, back to Bowies. Because this is cold steel. I've got a lot of cold steel Bowies. And this one is the Western Bowie. Now I'm going to be saying Bowie. You could say Bowie. I've tried it.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:29]:
It just doesn't work for my Yankee tongue. To me, I say Bowie, but this beauty is the, the Wild West. So this is based on the Marine Raider style of Bowie or the Western W49 style of Bowie. So you've got a nice long straight, a decent belly and a widened tip. So the whole thing widens out towards the clip. And when you meet the apex of the blade here, that's where it's at its widest. This is made by Windlass Cutlery in India and they do a fantastic job with these.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:10]:
With these Bowies.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:11]:
There's another one I'll be showing you here soon. That they also make a slightly hollow ground bevel here. And really, really sure in hand grip with that bird's beak. Full tang here. So what you see is what you get. You got a full tank and then this amazing giant brass esgard. Just a wicked everything knife. I mean, you could use this for camp chopping chores.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:43]:
You could use this in a fight. You could use this to skin an animal. Preferably a big animal, I'm thinking. But it's a do all, do everything knife. This came with a sort of tacky, like they put too much coating on it. I removed it on the handle and.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:00]:
Now it is perfect.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:03]:
Comes with a great leather sheath and hopefully they never change this to the grivx.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:09]:
That would be a real shame.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:10]:
But a great sheath with a dangler.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:14]:
And a retention strap here.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:19]:
Okay, next up is the Rondell dagger. Now, the Rondell dagger is quite a big dagger, but it doesn't. It has three edges to it and they're all quite oblique edges. Not sharp like you're not cutting cheese with them. But they are zero ground so that if you had to slap someone on the forearm with this, you would split the skin and break the bone. It is a nasty dagger meant for thrusting. Rondell, referring to both the guard and the pommel on this. This was the kind of dagger a, a knight in shining armor carried.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:00]:
And when they got in their inevitable clinch, you know, fighting for knights in armor, it was a lot of bashing. The swords were sharpened usually just at the tip, and the, the length of the blade was more for just smashing and bashing and, and also as a handle because they would also hit with the heavy pommels of their swords. So eventually, oftentimes a fight between two knights in armor would end in a clinch and rolling around on the ground. And then you pull out this Rondel dagger, which is triangular in cross section, and just jam it through the armor or preferably in the joints of the armor.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:43]:
And.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:43]:
And it's meant to go through chain mail. I dare say you don't need to be a knight in shining armor to make good use of this. This would make a good.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:56]:
Well, I'm not going to say what it would make.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:57]:
It would be good for all sorts of modern self defense. You could even keep this in your car and say, oh, I'm. I'm going to a larping event if.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:06]:
The cop ever stops you.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:07]:
But all jokes aside, a really, really.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:11]:
Powerful thrusting weapon here.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:13]:
And not only is this going to breach armor and chain mail, but you could really use it to great effect as a bludgeoning sort of weapon or.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:28]:
As a, A. Yeah, blunt force weapon.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:32]:
All right, next up, the 1917 Frontier Bowie. I'll show it to you in the beautiful leather sheath with the metal chape and throat here. It's also got a dangler. Very, very nice sheath.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:48]:
But this is the knife right Here.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:51]:
So beautiful S guard on this. I really like the look of that guard. This one is also made by Windlass Cutlery in India. Again, it came with too much coating on the handle. I took it off with isopropyl and got it down. This has a channel channel tang. So it's a full tang but it's not. The full width of the handle comes.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:17]:
All the way down to the pommel.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:19]:
But like a Randall made knife, the channel is cut into the handle and.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:25]:
It is fitted over the over the tank.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:30]:
A beautiful blued clip point blade with a giant fuller not only to add rigidity but to lighten the blade itself.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:38]:
Make it a little easier to wield.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:41]:
A bit of a swashbuckler is this knife. To me this reminds me of the kind of knife that would have been made from a discarded or broken saber. It kind of has that effect. It is called the 1917 Frontier Bowie. So who knows, maybe the thought behind that is that, you know, we're, we're, we're into the 20th century but there still is a frontier out west. So you take your old saber from the Civil war, cut it down and make something more useful of it out on the plains. I'm just making all this up but I love this handle. It's weird, it doesn't look like it.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:23]:
Should comfortable, but it is quite comfortable in hand.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:26]:
I've seen some people reprofile the handle or rec contour it but I love.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:31]:
I love it the way it is.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:33]:
So this is the 19 front 1917 Frontier Bowie. A big knife. Let me tell it.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:41]:
Let me give you the measurement on this one.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:43]:
It is 12 and a quarter inches long. So that's a big blade, 12 and.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:51]:
A quarter inches long. Nice big boat.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:54]:
All right, next up, this one also in historical piece as you see going through this. A lot of these have a lot of historical.

Bob DeMarco [00:52:05]:
Markers to them.

Bob DeMarco [00:52:06]:
This one is the chieftain Sax. So a sort of Viking sort of Anglo Saxon style blade here. Here's the sheath. Very nice sheath. Set up for horizontal scout carry hang if you will. And then here is the blade. Now this one is big. Let me, let me measure this one for you.

Bob DeMarco [00:52:29]:
This is a full 13 inch blade here. Not sure if I can get the full thing in but it's got a beautiful rosewood handle, nicely carved with some sort of, I don't know, it looks like traditional, not runes but traditional patterns here. Not only on the rosewood handle but also on the brass guard and pommel. And then you've got this long brokeback Sax blade. I Always say it's a thin line between brokeback sacks and Bowie, but this one does have a very straight edge with an ever so slight curve up towards the tip. And then it's got that clip down or that drop down. A lot of people like to say that the sax knife was developed from broken swords. I think that's poppycock, personally, but.

Bob DeMarco [00:53:24]:
I.

Bob DeMarco [00:53:24]:
Mean, I think that this is a, an excellent design in and of itself as a knife. It doesn't have to be like a salvage kind of thing, but, you know, that's not to say you couldn't make a great sax from a salvage sword, but I just don't think the other proportions work in that situation. But this knife, this has spent many a night in front of the tv. This is one of my TV guarding the house knives. So I have plenty of stuff to guard the house with. But I also like to have a nice big fixed blade with me. And this one, I don't know, just generally tends to, to be there with me. I think it's intimidating.

Bob DeMarco [00:54:03]:
It's big, comes out of the sheath easily. It's thin enough that you can shear through anything that full, flat grind. So yeah, this is a, this is.

Bob DeMarco [00:54:13]:
A personal favorite of mine.

Bob DeMarco [00:54:15]:
This is the chieftain sax. All right, next up, one of the, one of the OG beauties here. This is the Natchez Bowie. Now, unfortunately, this is in a securex sheath. The securex sheath is outstanding and the throat widens enough that you can use it, slip it under the belt and use it like a traditional studded sheath.

Bob DeMarco [00:54:43]:
For the belt for belt carry.

Bob DeMarco [00:54:45]:
But this one really deserves a leather sheath. And I have a line on a leather sheath that I'm going to have made from a great friend of the show here, and I'm not gonna mention him until, until it comes to pass because I don't want people knocking on.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:05]:
His door for a leather sheet.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:06]:
But I am gonna have a leather sheath made for this one as soon.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:11]:
As his books open up.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:13]:
Beautiful, beautiful Musso style Bowie. You've got a Coke, Coke bottle handle here. I know that's not what they call it on Bowies, but that's basically what it is because you've got the palm and the finger swell here and then a sort of coffin style termination. Nice big guard on this knife both north and south of the edge, but also east and west. So you've got a, a little bit of protection on the side of the hand. This is also.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:43]:
Oh, wait, don't want to talk out of school here.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:49]:
It's a quarter Inch. It's, it's maybe between a quarter inch and 5 16. It is damn thick. You've got a nice swooped clip here and that is also zero ground. So you want to talk back cut with this knife. There's, there's a lot of weight in that blade and a sharp enough clip that if you were to land a back cut with this, it would be absolutely devastating. Very sharp knife. Now this comes in 3V.

Bob DeMarco [00:56:18]:
I did not opt for 3V, which is way more expensive than the 4034 stainless steel. But for me, I see this with its cable tang as a fighting knife. This is not an outdoors knife. For me, it could be. You know, I could, I have once baton with this just to make sure it could. But this to me is not that kind of knife. So I do not need 3 3V. To me, this is a knife fighting.

Bob DeMarco [00:56:47]:
That is a bowie. This is a dueling knife. So I don't need the 3D. I've got hardened 4034, which I believe is a Krupp steel. The Germans know their steel and cold steel knows it's heat treat. So that, that together works great. Works well enough for me, let's put it that way. So beautiful micarta handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:57:11]:
I absolutely love this knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:57:14]:
All right.

Bob DeMarco [00:57:14]:
Second to last in this list was a gift from my brother. This is the Chaos Kukri. Nice giant blade here. Here it is. The Chaos has a cast aluminum D guard handle for protecting your hands in the bush or protecting your hands against the face of people that you are fighting in the trench. Whatever.

Bob DeMarco [00:57:39]:
Whatever you what?

Bob DeMarco [00:57:41]:
Whatever is your use case. This a 13 inch SK5, I believe. Kukri blade with that extreme recurve, that low tip and the deep belly. People think of these as choppers only or slashers only. But I'll have you know they make.

Bob DeMarco [00:58:02]:
For great flavor thrusters.

Bob DeMarco [00:58:04]:
So on a thrust on a stab with a knife like this, not only can you do it in a snapping sort of way and use some of that, the momentum of the weight of this to penetrate, but also you could just go straight in because your wrist doesn't need to change posture because you've got that extreme curve in the blade. This is one of those zombie knives. This is one of those last ditches, the world's ending. Grab something big and furious to take out the door with you.

Bob DeMarco [00:58:34]:
This would definitely fall into that category.

Bob DeMarco [00:58:37]:
Also has an attitude adjuster as a pommel nut here. So this thing is just chaotic all the way around. Actually, it's not chaotic at all it's very well thought out. Chaos is what it's called. This is what you reign. This is what brings order to chaos right here. Nice big chaos kukri. All right, last up, this is another historical piece and one that is very.

Bob DeMarco [00:59:06]:
Close to my heart because this is.

Bob DeMarco [00:59:08]:
The Italian fixed blade EDC for self protection in the 16th century. 16th and 17th centuries. This is the Cinquea, which means five fingers because of the width of the blade. A lot of people like to quip that, oh, it's an Italian knife. It looks like a slice of pizza. And actually I, I, I like that. I like pizza, I like being Italian. I'm proud of my heritage.

Bob DeMarco [00:59:37]:
And sure, okay, it looks like a slice of pizza. Also looks like a slice of Roman.

Bob DeMarco [00:59:41]:
Cheesecake if you want.

Bob DeMarco [00:59:43]:
But really what it is is a deadly double edged, super wide dagger used in duels and all sorts of sort of back alley engagements. Here you've got a nice big guard, a beautiful handle here with the studs for extra grip. This is more comfortable with a glove than not. I will have. You know, I've done a lot of shadow boxing with this one too, and I always end up putting my workout gloves, which are just workout work gloves on to, to keep it in hand.

Bob DeMarco [01:00:19]:
Without it harshing my skin and hurting.

Bob DeMarco [01:00:23]:
So you got the double guard, you've got the super wide blade, you've got two edges and a really nice heavy pommel which weights it like a short sword so that you can have that.

Bob DeMarco [01:00:38]:
Tip move around exactly where you need it to go.

Bob DeMarco [01:00:42]:
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is my trip down the big cold steel fixed blade lane. Hope you enjoyed it. Hope you yourself have a big cold steel. And if you don't and you're looking to get one, remember the first one.

Bob DeMarco [01:00:57]:
To get is the Trail. A true masterpiece.

Bob DeMarco [01:01:00]:
All right, I'm Bob DeMarco signing off here saying for Jim who works his magic behind the switcher, have a great week and we will see you next time.

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