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TRANSCRIPT - 12 Totally Unique Folding Knife Designs: The Knife Junkie Podcast (Episode 659)

Bob DeMarco: Coming up, we'll talk about a knife that's near and dear to my heart and my ancestry. Auxiliary Manufacturing has a new one out and I have it, it's damn sweet. And then we'll take a look at 12 very unique folding knife designs. I'm Bob DeMarco. This is the Knife Junkie podcast.

Announcer: 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: Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from this past week was from I've Always Been Here, nice long comment but salient. And this was on the combat knife episode. He said, "The soldier's knife is my number one favorite genre. I'm convinced that there's just about nothing a good soldier knife can't do. But as an infantry marine, I can confirm that opening MREs is by far the most common reason to unsheathe a blade. That and 550 cord. And unfortunately, as a fellow knife junkie, it kills me to say that a big fixed blade was almost always a chore to have around. Mostly because all our needs were met with a multi-tool and an E-tool. Big knives are heavy when we're literally leaving food behind to save weight, and forget having anything extra hanging off of me that didn't absolutely have to be there."

"The only exception to this was making camouflage from foliage for equipment and positions in a wooded environment. Anyway, love me a soldier's knife. The Ontario OKC 3S was a formidable one. Love the content. I think I need to go choose an ESK. Thank you for that amazing comment, I've Always Been Here."

I have heard this before. Even though we like to have Rambo dreams, to have a knife like that out in the field with all the other stuff you're wearing as a soldier or marine is just way too much. But it's great to hear it straight from the horse's mouth in such a concise way. So thank you, sir, I appreciate it. I appreciate all the views and comments and likes and subscribes and all that. So please keep doing so. And again, I've Always Been Here, thank you, and thank you for your service. All right. That said, let's get to a pocket check.

Announcer: What's in his pocket? Let's find out. Here's the Knife Junkie with his pocket check of knives.

Bob DeMarco: In my front right pocket today, proudly, I carried the new Microtech SOCOM Elite Ram-Lok. I'm in love. I love this knife. I've carried it every day since I got it, which was about a week ago. It has a lot of differences from the original SOCOM Elites, though it has the main spirit, the main profile, and everything like that. It's just a little bit thinner. It doesn't have that distal taper from thumb ramp to pommel. And it's got a much thinner blade stock. I am in love with their clip points. And this reminds me a lot of the old or original SOCOM clip point, except it's got this gigantic choil. As someone on Thursday Night Knives put it, a heartbreaking choil. And to me, it could be except it looks cool. And the looking cool part of it takes care of the fact that there's a giant choil there for me. What's the giant choil for when before there was never a giant choil? It's to match up or to fit right behind the back of the Ram-Lok there.

The Ram-Lok is a pretty long mechanism as it uses a little post and a coil spring and then this big giant block of titanium or aluminum, actually I'm not sure what it is, probably titanium. This comes up against it right behind where the edge terminates. Luckily it looks great and doesn't really bother me. I'm shallow, looks do mean something to me. But I got to say the cutting performance here is amazing because this blade stock is substantially thinner than the original SOCOM, or the SOCOM as we've known it thus far, and it's very very thin behind the edge. So just a beautiful blade. I love it. I love carrying it. Aluminum. I love aluminum handles. The way this feels in hand is great. The frag pattern, which some people have decried as ugly, feels great in hand and is quite grippy and nice. So very thrilled with that recent purchase. I'm only going for folding knives these days. I've kind of flipped the switch, I'm a little more irresponsible with fixed blades these days, and only getting folders that really do it for me.

And here's another one. This is the Jack Wolf Knives Gunslinger Jack. This is the third iteration of this, or the third run of this particular knife. This is the folding, locking, front-flipping, and slightly larger version of the Sharpshooter Jack, which was the very first slip joint that Jack Wolf Knives released. With the gunstock handle, which is so comfortable. It looks cool, it looks like an old-school gunstock from an old lever rifle, but also in hand this little step is incredibly comfortable and the handle widens out for your two smaller fingers and the grip is fantastic. Here we also have a fantastic clip point blade, traditional clip point blade with that nice swoopy clip. Still you have a center line tip there, very useful. Slightly downward angle here so that you can sharpen through that belly through years and years of use. However, this is S90V, so unless it's your only knife and you use it hard your whole life, you probably won't have to sharpen it all the time. But a really excellent knife, full height hollow grind on that gorgeous thing.

Next up in my waistband was the ever awesome Hogtooth Knives Ruffian. Love the Ruffian and the pocket Ruffian is really sweet too. It's basically this scaled down for pocket carry. But one of my all-time favorite EDCs, especially during the winter and autumn months when I have heavier clothing on. This does have a formidable handle, a little chunky, but nicely rounded so that it doesn't harsh my soft spots around the sides, which I intend to get nice and rock hard for summer. Yeah, that's right. I'm going on a fitness kick, guys. Hollow ground 154CM and beautiful handle here with those blue G10 liners and the natural canvas micarta. I got this for my 51st birthday, got a chance to sort of put it together or choose the parts on my 51st birthday when I was at Matt Chase's shop with my parents picking up a knife my dad was having made for my mom.

Lastly here, my ESK was the awesome and beautiful Jed Hornbeak Necromance. I really want more Jed Hornbeak knives in my life. This thing is incredible. It's got probably the most comfortable handle in my entire knife collection. It is unreal, his knife making abilities are incredible. This is a little fighter. It's about a four and three-quarters inch blade, 3V blade steel, beautifully machined. The main bevel is hollow ground. That top swedge is flat ground and very sharp. You've got two places to put your runs of jimping, sorry that's what I was trying to get, for your thumb. One for this saber grip, one for this sort of Filipino grip up here when bracing behind the blade. Just an incredible knife. I would love to see this in a seven-inch bladed version. That would make my year. I'd love to see that.

But this is what I had on me today. Tell me what you guys were carrying, guys and ladies. I had the Microtech SOCOM Elite Ram-Lok, which does have pretty nice action. I had the Jack Wolf Knives Sharpshooter Jack. I had the Ruffian from Hogtooth, and the Necromance from... look at that thing, that is so beautiful. Jed Hornbeak, who makes amazing knives. I wish he could clone himself and make more.

I do want to remind you that we have an incredible Patreon here. Jim works hard on our Patreon page and he makes some incredible features, but one of my favorites actually is this one. It's Maker Monday, where you can learn about the various makers whose knives we know and love, like Buck Knives. This is Al Buck talking all about the history of Buck Knives and the start and his influences, his legacy, and of course his knives. And some cool facts there. Definitely go check it out. This is about Al Buck on Patreon. We have a lot of other really cool things besides Maker Monday. We have Friday Funnies. We also have some non-alliterative things, like This Day in History. That's an awesome one too where you can find out knife information that goes well back in history. And who doesn't love that?

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Bob DeMarco: Alright, first up in Knife Life News. Another incredibly cool-looking slip joint clip point from RoseCraft Blades. They have a lot of them. I've totally lost track of their single-bladed clip point slip joints. But I love RoseCraft, and something I really admire is the fact that they dropped their entire modern knife lineup to really focus on their slip joints. That is their bread and butter, that's kind of how they got known, and they're doing it with that move. And I love it. This new one is gorgeous. It's called the Hatchee River Jack. And it's got that really nice curved trapper-style handle that softly widens towards the pommel. You get a single fluted stainless steel bolster and liners, and then that gorgeous clip point blade. This is their second 14C28N bladed release. Up until the knife right before this, I should say, they were D2 exclusively. Now they're dipping their toes in 14C28N, which I know pleases a lot of people because it's a great steel, and most of us have a good deal of 14C28N in our budget knife collections. This has green or brown micarta covers and that beautiful bomb shield. I like that shield a lot. Gorgeous little knife. I might have to pick up a new clip point slip joint from RoseCraft Blades because I gave one away to the marvelous host of a show I produced at work, and now I'm kind of short one clip point slip joint from RoseCraft. This one is 3.9 ounces, available soon as we record this. $62 is the MSRP.

Next up, a legend from Boker Knives, the Exskelibur. I know weird name, kind of sounds like Excalibur, but it's a conflation of the names of the two designers, Mike Skellern and Fred Burger. They're two South African knifemakers. South Africa has a rich knifemaking history, especially when it comes to modern luxury modern frame lock folders, that kind of knife. But the Exskelibur now has yet another incarnation. This is a 3.4-inch drop point. This one looks a little more spear-pointy to me. The blade looks a little tweaked from the other Exskeliburs. I really like it. I especially like how that edge terminates at the sharpening choil there. Looks a lot like a traditional SOCOM Elite, actually. But this is in their proprietary steel, which is the BKR-10. Boker's proprietary blade steel. It's analogous to VG-10. The Exskelibur was one of the first and very popular front flippers. This one does not have a front flipper, this one has thumb studs. And it also has micarta handle scales with a crossbar lock, and knowing Boker it'll be smooth as silk. 3.2 ounces, available soon, MSRP 98 bucks, but I'm sure you'll find it for less.

Quick announcement on one of my favorite EDC fixed blade knives, and also EDD, everyday defensive fixed blade knives, is the Kopis Designs L-Via. A collaboration with the greatly powerful and ubiquitous Ed Calderon of Ed's Manifesto. Fascinating guy, super nice guy, and extremely knowledgeable when it comes to knife combatives as he spent many years on the Mexican side of the drug interdiction wars. This is based on a fruit knife that his mother carried always to do work and to make the family meal, but she also defended the family with it in a mugging. And so he always relied on a knife of this shape. You can see a knife of this shape, that pikal style, tip down, edge in shape, across a lot of different companies and many of them are his designs. But this one by Kopis Designs takes the cake. I have one, I love it, and it's released exclusively by KnivesShipFree, and so we will announce it every once in a while.

This was the first out in 2020. I think that's when mine was from. It's a 2.5-inch 154CM pikal-oriented hawkbill blade with a Scandi grind. Wickedly sharp, both on the edge and the point. And that point is oriented for reverse grip self-defense when you're in caveman mode. This comes with a curved back or what we're seeing right here, the ramp back where your thumb can nestle into the back of the blade there. It looks beautiful too. It's got an injection-molded handle. Used to be only black, mine is black, except I had mine tsuka maki wrapped. But now you can get it in black, OD green, or desert tan. Comes with a Kydex sheath with that little hook so you can drop it in your pocket. No one will know you have it until you pull it out and the hook engages on the inside of your pocket, the sheath stays in there, and you end up with a knife in your hand. Available now, 125 bucks to 142 depending on the model. That's a wicked, awesome deal. Go check it out at KnivesShipFree.

Lastly, Buck. We were just talking Buck. Love Buck. Buck's 13th stealth release is here. These stealth releases are special builds of classic knives in their lineup, and they just kind of drop it quietly and then those in the know get to pick them up. So this is their 13th stealth release. This is an automatic Buck 110 with that drop point blade. We don't see that often. 3.75 inches of drop-pointed CPM MagnaCut. So beautiful with that Paul Bos heat treat. What is Paul Bos heat treat? Paul Bos is a guy who heat treats knives for Buck and can really really maximize the steel in the heat treat. So you can get 420 to be an amazing steel, like on my run-of-the-mill Bucks. If you get this, you get MagnaCut, which is an amazing steel, plus his maximizing of that steel, so there you go. Paul Bos heat treat. It's hollow ground, so you know it's going to be wickedly sharp like all Buck 110s. Carbon fiber scales, beautifully marbled carbon fiber scales there with nickel silver bolsters, of course that back lock, and a shield-shaped button. So the shield you see there, you depress that and the blade flies out. This, of course, does not have a clip because it's a Buck 110 and not one of the newfangled ones. It comes with a black leather belt sheath. 7.5 ounces, so a chunky chunky girl here. Available now for 300 bucks. Go check it out.

Announcer: You're listening to the Knife Junkie podcast. Here's some cool knife history with the Knife Junkie's The First Tool.

Bob DeMarco: When most people hear "stiletto," they picture a knife that snaps open with a sharp cinematic click. But the story starts much earlier. In Italy, centuries before the switchblade ever became a movie prop. The original stiletto was a narrow thrusting dagger, not built for slicing, but for slipping through gaps in armor or ribs. Even the name traces back to "stilus," a pointed writing tool, which tells you everything about its shape. It's slim, pointy, and all business.

Now fast forward to Maniago, a town in northeastern Italy that has been tied to knifemaking since the 1400s. In 1453, water from the Colvera river began powering the hammers and grinders that helped turn local blacksmithing into a true cutlery industry. Over time, Maniago earned its nickname, the City of Knives. And that matters, because if the Italian stiletto has a hometown, this is it.

The switchblade version, the one that collectors covet, became iconic in the 20th century. After World War II, automatic stilettos from Maniago found a huge audience abroad, especially in the United States. Families like the Beltrames became part of that legacy. According to sources tied to Maniago collectors, the Beltrame family began producing knives after the war, and their company produced automatic stilettos from 1958 to 1969, which later generations carried the style forward.

And here's the twist. The Italian stiletto became famous partly because it looked dangerous, elegant, and just a little rebellious. It wasn't only a tool anymore, it became a symbol. Movies and pop culture, like Rebel Without a Cause, turned that spring-fired opening into pure drama, and lawmakers noticed too. In the United States, Congress passed the Federal Switchblade Act in 1958, which Doug Ritter and Knife Rights has been working tirelessly to undo, because it restricts importation and interstate commerce of automatic knives, which only deepened the knife's outlaw mystique. It's illegal, man. That's why the Italian stiletto switchblade still fascinates collectors today. It carries Renaissance roots, village craftsmanship, post-war export history, and a reputation built as much on sound, silhouette, and the silver screen as by steel.

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Bob DeMarco: Here it is. I want to show you this. This is the new Auxiliary Manufacturing Pocket Bowie frame lock. So this is part of the Deadhead series. Deadhead is the production series made by Miguron, by Auxiliary Manufacturing. I have been carrying this fixed blade Pocket Bowie, also made by Miguron, for months now. I love this thing. For a while, it was attached to the strap on my backpack, but then I thought the better of it and removed it, just in case. But I love this knife. I carry it, I've used it a lot, and now this is the frame lock version, the folding version, and man alive, I love it.

I've had it for a few days as we record this, and I've been carrying it tirelessly. Actually, I've been doing this three clip point blade carry, which has been a little nuts. This, the Gunslinger, and the new SOCOM. And I have been loving this. Now, it's got a swoopy clip point, but the point is still low. This is a really good balance of all the things I like in a blade. I do like that tip to be midline or lower so that it's easy to use when cutting stuff out, like shipping labels, and that's what I use knives for a lot. That kind of thing or pull cutting across a box, that kind of thing. But I still love a clip point, and I still love a swoopy clip. So we're seeing this here, but we also have that recurve. And the recurve really helps in slicing. It feeds the material you're cutting into the edge as it swells against it. I've always been a fan of the recurve, but too dramatic a recurve can compromise other things like point placement. So this reaches a sort of magical... a golden ratio, really a golden mean. What is that expression I'm reaching for? Anyway, really, really nice. Beautifully fluted titanium here. Really nicely done with that signature coffin-shaped handle that has really done Michael Jarvis and Auxiliary Manufacturing well.

I want to show you something interesting here. Here's the fixed blade version, which is also an awesome knife. They fit really nicely in hand in a saber grip. The curves of—or I should say these three facets here, here, and here—nestle into the palm. So you not only get a great feel for cutting in this saber grip, but you also kind of back up the blade with the pommel on a thrust. And that's sort of exaggerated in this blade because the handle has to be larger because it's a folder. So I'm a huge fan of this. I've been carrying it for a little... like I said, ever since I got it. M390 blade steel, very, very, very sharp. Awesome knife. I can't wait to do the close-up video on this because it's a beauty to behold. I love it.

Before we talk about this, we're going to get to some really unique folding designs, but I want to show you this. Jimpin' Ain't Easy. Jim came up with Jimpin' Ain't Easy. Now, we had someone—now I don't remember who it was, but someone on Thursday Night Knives said that this would make a good logo, Jimpin' Ain't Easy. So here it is. Here we have it. Jim has created two designs. He couldn't decide which one he liked better, so he released both. Jimpin' Ain't Easy. You remember what was that movie called? Hustle and Flow. Remember the song from that? That's what this is based on. So here we go, Jimpin' Ain't Easy. Go to TheKnifeJunkie.com/Shop and check out our many, many pages of awesome knife designs and humorous designs and stuff like that for t-shirts. Everything, t-shirts, hats, aprons, coffee mugs, whatever you want, you can get it at TheKnifeJunkie.com/Shop. So go check it out.

All right, first up. I got 12 designs here that are super unique folding designs for one reason or another, whether it's a mechanism or whether it's a blade grind or whether it's an overall design. So these are the ones that jump out at me. First one is a knife that I have heard referred to as the very best knife from this brand. And I am talking about the Civivi Vision FG. This thing is designed by Malaysian knifemaker Snecx, and it features this incredible lock that is just unique in that it grabs the... I'm sorry, let me show this off. I'm stunned to silence and awe. But it drops this little tab from the top fin into the notch at the back of the blade there. The engagement, the sort of user engagement, is similar to a Shark Lock, but the whole concept behind how it locks is different. It is a very strong lock, much like the Shark Lock. And then the design here is very interesting. You have a very utilitarian, sort of, I'm going to say it, it's sort of a kiridashi, it's sort of a sheepsfoot. Sheepsfoot-dashi we'll call it. Because, and I think it's like a kiridashi because you have a nearly straight edge rising up to a center line point, but then I'm saying it's a sheepsfoot because you have a straight spine breaking and dropping down to the point very much like a sheepsfoot. So probably a sheepsfoot, but we're going to call it a sheepsfoot-dashi because it rolls right off the tongue. This one is just the standard Nitro-V version of it, and it's got G10 with the lightening holes and all that. So a unique looking blade within reach from an esoteric designer, I'll call him that. And also, by the way, you can see right there through that hole how the lock engages, which is kind of neat. I'm talking about this hole right here. Yeah, Snecx. For years, I followed him on Instagram. I don't know if he's still there, but he would do daily updates on building these kind of knives. However, he would build 12 of them, knives with super unique locks or with no hardware or all sorts of crazily engineered knives, and very, very lucky collectors got them. But now through Civivi, we can all enjoy his really cool stuff. Okay, that's the Vision FG.

Second up is from Off-Grid Knives. This is the Raptor. It's got a very unique but useful blade. Now, when I first saw this knife, I must admit my first reaction was, "Oh, just trying to be different. Just trying to do something different just for different's sake." I was looking at all those different facets meeting at this point right there, and I was looking at that edge. Oh, it's a recurve, but the recurve is at the front. And so I don't know, I just thought it was just trying to grab attention. And then Cary Orefice of Off-Grid Knives sent me one. And he sent me two, actually. I think this is the second version of this, out of D2. Oh my god, this is such a useful blade design. And not for nothing, I'm sure it would be awesome for self-defense too. I have a feeling with a slashing motion this would just be a devastating blade. Also piercing, because it's so wide. But it's incredibly useful for breaking down boxes, for all sorts of utility chores, because it's got that incredible straight edge, and then at the tip it's got the recurve. You can do all sorts of great, super precise tip work with that recurve up there. You've got an incredible point and then really incredible shearing capability right behind it. So really awesome knife. I have fully changed my tune since initially judging this knife based on its looks. Speaking of judging a knife based on its looks, check out that handle. Beautifully sculpted, sort of what do you want to call it, a sunburst? Kind of a sunburst, but it emanates from this front finger choil right up to the back. Beautiful contouring on this handle. Full steel liners, beautiful deep carry clip. Deep carry clip, excuse me, I got a little burp trying to sneak up. Anyway, really, really nice.

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Beautifully fluted titanium here. Really nicely done with that signature coffin-shaped handle that has really done Michael Jarvis and Auxiliary Manufacturing well. I want to show you something interesting here. Here's the fixed blade version, which is also an awesome knife. They fit really nicely in hand... [Audio cuts/skips]

...I can't wait to do the close-up video on this because it's a beauty to behold. I love it.

Alright, next up from my friend and one of my favorite designers, Dirk Pinkerton. This is the folding Feral. This is a prototype. This will be coming out under Dirk Pinkerton Knives. You know Dirk, he designs knives for a bunch of companies like Kizer, Kansept, all the biggies. Now I'm forgetting all the knives I love by him, but I've got a bunch of them. And this one, I love his knives that come out under his own OEM'd brand or his handmade knives best. And this is one from his own OEM'd brand, and it's the Feral, the folding Feral. Now this is based on a fixed blade that he makes custom. This is the Feral, and it is obviously a self-defense pikal-style knife. Dirk is a super nice guy, and you wouldn't know it just from talking with him, you could probably sense it, but he's a total badass and watched a lot of doors and did a lot of rough and tumble kind of stuff in his day. And he designs these elegant, beautiful knives that work great as EDC knives but are optimized for self-defense. This one obviously is a self-defense knife, but even his EDC designs could easily be used in that manner. But I just love everything about this knife. I love the feather, the way the handle looks like a feather. And I love the reach of the blade, not in distance, but in angle. And how the point is right at the tip of the pommel, which makes it great for that backfist thrust. He sent me that secondary... usually this will come with a thumb plate. Let me amend that. This is a prototype. When it comes out, it will come with a thumb plate and with this sort of waveable thumb plate. And that means you can just pull this out of the pocket, it auto deploys with your thumb plate, and you'll have it in the grip you want just like that. This is the Pinkerton Knives folding Feral. I could have put many of Dirk's knives in this list because they're all unique and beautiful and based on ethnographic examples mostly.

Okay, this next one is also optimized for reverse grip, and I believe may have had a little bit of input from Dirk. But this is the DC Blades Sting. DC Blades, that's Justin Carvin of Tier 1 Gear Reviews and also Sqrl Knives, come together to form DC Blades. They have a bunch of really cool self-defense-oriented knives out. But this one is my absolute favorite. I think it's the most elegant design and it is also incredibly unique. This is the Sting, as I mentioned. It is super ergonomic whether it's in this standard grip or this reverse grip. This reverse grip is incredible. Just perfectly set up for a thumb wrap here on the pommel, great for that reverse thrust. You got a compound ground blade, nice and thin towards the pommel, and then it widens out a little bit, gets a little bit broader and thicker towards the tip, which is swedged and great for thrusting. You got jimping on that thumb wrap, and that thumb wrap can be used again to wave open the blade, so that'll catch on the pocket seam and open up automatically. So as soon as this knife is pulled out of the pocket, it's ready to go in hand. You've got the beautiful swirly G10 inlays there in that nice knurled titanium handle. M390 blade steel, made beautifully by Miguron blades. That's the DC Blades Sting.

Alright, last up, this is the Borka Blades designed, Microtech made Stitch. This is the Microtech Stitch. Here you can see both makers' marks on the blade. Right there on the swedge is the Borka Blades logo, and then down by the serrations is the super cool, I love that eagle talon logo from Microtech. This thing is beautiful. I like to mention every time I talk about this knife, I used to admire the look of it but despise the handle-to-blade ratio. And then someone sent one for me to check out on loan, and I checked it out, immediately bought one. I love this knife. Yes, it's menacing, it's scary-looking even. It looks like an arrowhead on a handle. But this thing is such a useful knife too. It's not just menacing, it's not just a great-looking self-defense knife, it is just an outstanding knife for all knife chores and knife utility. It comes in both contoured and fluted G10 or contoured and fluted aluminum. That's what you're looking at here, the aluminum version. I got this at the same time I got the Amphibian. I got the Amphibian in G10, this in aluminum. Kind of wish I got the Amphibian in aluminum, I'm a sucker for the material, but I wanted to try both. This of course has that awesome Ram-Lok like I was showing you before on the SOCOM. Same locking system. I love Microtech now. I am a huge Cold Steel fanboy. I think I could really call myself a Microtech fanboy, even though I have a vastly smaller collection. I just love them. I think they're superior knives. I love Microtech knives, and this one just fits the hand perfectly and is a great utility knife. And then if you really need to get the edge as close to your hand as possible, you can come up here. Alright, that is the Microtech Stitch, and that is number 12 in my list of totally unique folding knife designs.

What did I miss? I'm sure there are others. I thought about, what about the Black Talon? Well, it's not totally unique. Look at the Spyderco Civilian. And I thought, what about the Kris? Cold Steel makes a Kris, and I'm like, yeah, well, so does Beltrame switchblade, as we mentioned in the First Tool. So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for joining me on the Knife Junkie podcast. Please be sure to subscribe here. When we get to 50,000 subscribers, Dirk Pinkerton, who I was just waxing poetic about, will make us a custom knife. I say "us" because I will be giving it away to one of you on Thursday Night Knives when that happens, right about 45,000 subscribers. So be sure to subscribe, send this to your friends, family. Send it to your grandma, just say, "Just subscribe grandma, you'll love it. Sometimes he covers kitchen knives." Alright, 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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