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Bob DeMarco [00:00:00]:
Coming up, a brand new knife from Civivi, a brand new knife from Sencut, and we take a look at my favorite EDC steak knives. These are knives you take out to dinner. 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 [00:00:29]:
Welcome back to the show. One of my favorite comments from last week. These were both on the Emerson collection podcast. Five Door, good friend of the show says, I've been waiting for this collection overview, and you didn't disappoint. The scales on your CQC 13 are incredible. Great stuff, Bob. One exclamation point. Lest this message seem too fanciful.

Bob DeMarco [00:00:51]:
Well, I appreciate you, Five Door, and, yeah, I use I find that when I write an email, it's generally one exclamation point in the whole thing. Otherwise, you just seem like you're a little bit nuts. Thanks so much for that comment, Five Door. Next one was from the great and powerful Bobby Raines two, guest of the show. Two weeks ago, he says, one of my grails that I hope to find someday is the Emerson Apache. That's a cool knife. It's a Bowie. I don't think that I don't think they've had them for years, but now it's my favorite Emerson.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:24]:
Well, I hope you find one. You're gonna have to find it on the secondary market. I had one for a short period of time, and let's just say it was reappropriated. Alright. Well, that said, let us now get to a pocket check

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What's in his pocket? Let's find out. Here's the knife junkie with his pocket check of knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:01:46]:
In my front right pocket tonight, playing first fiddle, if you will, is the ArtisanCutlery Kami. This one designed by Dirk Pinkerton, and, I I've become friends with Dirk, and he's a great guy. He's also one of my absolute favorite designers, and he sends me, designs that he's thinking about. And I'm I'm sure he sends them to some of his other knife confidants, if you will. But I feel like it's a real privilege to see some of the knives he's designing as they're in the works. And, I I just really resonate with his, not only his design style, but the knives he takes, inspiration from. And the knife he took inspiration from on this one is the Kukri, and you can tell that from the the moniker Kami. Akami, k a m I, is a Nepalese Kukri maker.

Bob DeMarco [00:02:41]:
So this designed, this design was inspired by the Kukri. You can kinda tell from that downward facing blade and that debris curve. Though this one to me doesn't necessarily have to be kukri. It doesn't scream kukri with that straight, back edge, but that deep recurve and the center line point, is a good indication that that's what was on his mind. Also, a great handle shape, great ergonomics on this, and kind of funny that I mentioned, that I'm carrying this and I'm doing the great EDC steak knives tonight because, these two little blips in the micarta here, those two little stains, those are actually pork stains. And pork fat does beautiful things to micarta if it's intentional. Here, it's just a a stain, like a stain on your shirt where you're like, oh, man. I wish those weren't there.

Bob DeMarco [00:03:36]:
But eventually, I I know this from experience with my, XM 18. Those will fade with time and, but there they are. This is also a great, steak knife. It's not in the list, though. Alright. Next up, and this is the one that actually inspired my doing this list, but it also is not on the list. I am showing it tonight. I have another Jack Wolf knife that I like better than this as a steak knife, but this is the new fixed vampire fixed EDC, and it's a fixed version of that vampire jack.

Bob DeMarco [00:04:11]:
It's got the same three inch long spear point blade, really beautiful blade. This is deeply hollow ground, all the way up to the top, so it's a full height hollow grind. Try and see if I can get you to see that in cross section there. Same length blade as the jackknife, but it's got a shorter handle by about three quarters of an inch. And what that does, along with the fob here, it allows you to have a three finger grip on the handle, fourth finger, used, gripped around that fob for control, but when it's in the sheath, it's not so extra large. So you don't have to worry about it poking into your hip and that that kind of thing. So, when Ben designs a fixed blade knife, he keeps he makes the handle shorter, but he he keeps the, blade the same length. So you've got, the overall same cutting, length and same grip area if you add a fob.

Bob DeMarco [00:05:10]:
Now this fob is, came with the knife. On the first one, the midnight fixed EDC, you had to add it yourself. So I'm glad that, he added that. This one is in a beautiful rosewood handle. Love that. Next up, my fixed blade today in 03:00 over here, 03:00 position on my right hand side, obviously, is the Tikal knives Gideon v three. So the version three of this beautiful knife, the Gideon, somewhat like the, Nightstalker. Similar well, same handle, basically, except this one adds a spike on the ring, And then that blade is a really nice sort of upswept drop point with a zero ground swedge in there, very tactical design.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:00]:
This one was designed in collaboration with Frogman Tactical. And there you see the Frogman Tactical, logo. This is the second of three knives, in that collaboration series from Frogman Tactical that I have in my, TKEL knives collection. This one very generously gifted to me, by a gentleman junkie patron, Jammin Parker. Thank you so much, Jammin. I love this knife a lot. And by the way, if you like Tikal knives, you can get one using our coupon code, Bob Demarco, all one word, all caps, and you save 10% on your purchase. I get a little kickback, and Tim and family at all, get a sale.

Bob DeMarco [00:06:50]:
So this is one of those, rare kind of affiliate links where everyone benefits. The seller, the guy who's telling you about it, myself, and then the buyer because you get a 10% off discount. So check that out. Emotional support knife today. My ESK was this beauty, the Wallace Bowie by APOC survival. I've been loving loving the knives that APOC just recently sent me. They sent me the Demco Bowie. They sent me this Mike Wallace designed Bowie, the Wallace Bowie, which has incredible ergonomics and a bigger blade, than the Demco at nine and a half inches.

Bob DeMarco [00:07:31]:
This is about the size of a, of a cold steel Trailmaster. And then they also sent me that, waning moon Yatagan, a beautiful tactical sword. What can I say? It's a tactical, short sword. I wouldn't even put it in the machete category, though you could use it as a machete. It's got a a little bit thicker blade, so it's more like a, one of the thicker condor machetes. You could use it for very tough and thicker vegetation, but it might be a weapon. I think it might be for tactical use on the battlefield. If you don't have enough weight on you, you could have a sword.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:10]:
So, I love APOC survival. I love their stuff. I'm gonna have, a gent from APOC on the show coming up here soon. I'm really looking forward to that. Something I like a lot about this Wallace, Mike Wallace, not, not the sixty minutes, journalist, but, the knife designer. He's worked a lot with the Demkos and, also with Cold Steel. He's the guy who designed the Colossus. A really cool knife I'd love to get.

Bob DeMarco [00:08:39]:
But I like the way he made the handle and then that blade has a downward angle to it. So you've got a straight edged, Bowie, but you get sort of the benefits of a recurve with that downward angle on the blade. So beautiful knife by APOC survival. Thank you so much for sending me this. I absolutely love it. This was riding in my bag. Of course, I was not carrying it on my belt, though, you know, maybe once we get a little more enlightened here, I will be able to. I also had the Gideon v three from Teak Bell Knives, the beautiful and, by the way, great on steak, Vampire Fixed EDC, and then the commie from ArtisanCutlery and Dirk Pinkerton.

Bob DeMarco [00:09:28]:
Absolutely love all of these knives, obviously. So, there are reviews on, two of them, and then the, Gideon and the Wallace Bowie, I've got reviews of those in the off. Alright. Let's get to knife life news, but before we do, be sure to like, comment, subscribe, hit the notification bell on this show. Sub subscribing costs you nothing and actually, it says down there 38,000 subscribers, but we're up to 39 now, which is so awesome. And I'm looking forward to 40,000. I don't know why, but, sounds like a good number. So help us there.

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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 [00:11:21]:
Alright. First up, now this is an upgrade of a knife, a folding knife that I have carried in my little EDC pouch in my backpack for at least, I don't know, fifteen years at this point. I don't know. A long time. This is the Ka Bar Dozier Holding Hunter. Now I have the little one. They also have a larger one, but this upgrade is pretty exciting. Now, Bob Dozier is a legend in the knife world.

Bob DeMarco [00:11:49]:
He is up there with Bob Lovelace. He's up there with Bo Randall. These are names that you hear, who are who are legends. And, in in the case of Bob Lovelace and Dozier, early members of, if not, founding members of the, the blade, knife making guild knife maker's guild. I'm sorry. Anyway, so this knife, the KA BAR Dozier Folding Hunter came out in 02/2003 or twenty o three as I'm fond of saying, and, it has long been held as the best folding knife under $20. And I gotta say, I love mine. I have the orange handled one.

Bob DeMarco [00:12:28]:
It's little and it's in my, oh my god, everything else has been stripped away from me, but I have this little pack pack. So it's definitely a survival knife, in my book. This thing is a three inch bladed hollow ground, folder with the FRN handle, but now it's in s 35 v n. It has always been the one I have as an Aus eight, and then they did a little d two run of these. And by the way, d two is nothing to sneeze at. It's a great steel that's kind of overlooked at this point, but it is really, really robust as we have seen, on YouTube, with nail cutting tests from, Peterbilt knife guy and others. But d two is a great, great blade steel. But s 35 v n is a very flexible blade steel.

Bob DeMarco [00:13:17]:
Not only is it flexible that it's a, a, powder metallurgy, super steel, but it's also flexible in its toughness. It was a a tougher version of the S30V, blade steel. Both of those were pioneered by, by Chris Reeve knives. So, still the same FRN handle with the texturing and the same lock back, reversible thumb stud. I mean, sorry, reversible, pocket clip with a thumb stud and still very extremely light at 2.4 ounces, very, very, very light. I don't know what's up with me. Two two point four zero ounces. You know what I'm saying.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:01]:
This thing is available now. If you like the, Folding Hunter by, Bob Dozier and KA BAR knives, go check this out. It's available now. And if you need a good inexpensive, I'm not gonna say cheap, I'm gonna say inexpensive knife to put in your survival pack or to keep in your backpack or your EDC or your car, for those moments you're in a pinch, this is a great one. Take it from me. I've had it for many years. Alright. Let's do better on this next one, Bob, shall we? Alright.

Bob DeMarco [00:14:31]:
James Brand. Their OG workhorse has gotten an upgrade. This is the second release they they ever made. This is the Folsom. They now have the Folsom Pro and, this has a larger blade at 3.2 inches as opposed to the, old school 2.75 inches and if you're looking at it on screen, it is a handsome knife, I gotta say. I do like that triangular opening hole, but the blade steel is now LC 200 n, an upgrade, from I think it's previous s 35 v n. Now LC 200 n is a is a blade steel we've seen a lot in the Spyderco Salt series, series of knives that are optimized for, rust resistance, maybe intended for those who live in in very humid environments or those who work on the water, especially salt water as, LC 200 n is an excellent steel. We'll see it later on in our great steak knives list.

Bob DeMarco [00:15:36]:
This new one has, besides the steel upgrade, it has a newly chamfered and sort of aggressively chamfered, black or tidal blue. That's what we're looking at right now on screen. G 10 handles. So very nice looking handles, with more comfort accommodations, a liner lock as usual, and then a sculpted deed carry, tie clip. And you can kinda see it protruding from the, pommel right here in that picture. This is available now, so if you are a James Brand, fanatic or fan, go and get this larger version of their workhorse, Folsom, called the Folsom Pro. Wouldn't you want that if you were in Folsom as indeed you would? Alright. Sencut.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:26]:
Next up, Sencut the Squiggy. Now I'm not talking about the Squiggy some of the older folks here know. I am talking about the Anew Knight. That's that's Squiggy on the right. Remember Lenny and Squiggy? Maybe you do, maybe you don't. Do you remember Laverne and Shirley? Maybe you do, maybe you don't. It was a spin off show from Happy Days, Bonds. I don't know.

Bob DeMarco [00:16:51]:
Am I reaching any of you? Probably some of the older folks, but Squiggy was a a a super dumb, kind of fifties character. I loved him. I loved Lenny and Squiggy. My mom was a big fan of Laverne and Shirley. We watched it when I was a little kid. And whenever Lenny and Squiggy came on, they had me cracking up. So I had to show you that, but this is from the entry level label of We knife SEN cut and their new Squiggy. It's a big hollow drop point, hollow ground drop point blade, and, of course, the Squiggy, refers to the squiggly line engraved into that, dual layer g 10.

Bob DeMarco [00:17:31]:
I I'm sorry. That that picture just makes me crack up. It's a 3.89, so almost four inches of nine CR 18 MOV. You got that beautiful two tone handle scale with the, sort of, you know, what's the word I'm looking for? Just sort of, funny handle scale. The cutout groove there, actually does add a little bit to the gription. I'll show you that in a minute because I have one on hand. You've got a button lock here and, not only a flipper tab, but a great opening hole for that, sort of reverse flick, that sort of spidey flick. It's not that heavy, but at 5.35 ounces, you know, it's in your pocket.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:19]:
Deep carry pocket clip, reversible. And if you saw my Civivi Sencut or my Civivi collection video recently, I mentioned that clip a lot. It's on the Sevivi knives and on the Sencut knives, and I love that clip. This is available on 04/29/2025. So if you're, listening to this as it drops, it's already available. Alright. So check that one out, and I'll show it to you in a minute. I really like it.

Bob DeMarco [00:18:49]:
And as my wife, commented, it looks like a shark. I think it looks like an orca. Either way, it looks like a deadly aquatic fish slash mammal. So I'm liking the squeaky a lot. Alright. Lastly, in knife life news, I like these articles when they pop up and, there were two this week and I chose one. Maybe next time I'll I'll feature both, but this is an ancient find, an ancient knife world find, and this one is particularly beautiful to me. This would be worthy of a modern day recreation if you ask me, but, okay.

Bob DeMarco [00:19:28]:
I'm gonna try and pronounce this correctly. I took German in high school. In the Delbreu, Delbreu, Benfield. Let me say that again. Delbreu, Benfeld region of Northwest Germany. Sorry about that. But it's got umlauts, and when it's got an umlaut over the u, you gotta e it a little bit. So in the Delbre Benfeld, Northwestern Germany region, a very significant archaeological excavation is happening of, three agricultural settlements, near an ancient Roman camp of Anrepin Anrepin.

Bob DeMarco [00:20:07]:
And, this is the knife they found. I will I will spare you any more, sort of exaggerated, pronunciations here, but look at the look at this beautiful it's like a recurve clip point laid here. And, I'll read from the article and it says here, after they talk about a small engraved gem that was found, interestingly, an image of Mercury holding, holding a, a caduceus, that's that, that, medical symbol with the two snakes, and a, pouch full of money, very much, very much, pointing to, Roman commerce. Anyway, the article reads, another discovery, that has sparked great interest is an iron knife with brass decorative details found in the soil of a small underground building in the western part of the settlement. What stands out is the way it was buried with the blade facing upward but positioned so deeply that it posed no danger to anyone. Researchers wonder whether this act has had a ritual purpose, such as a symbolic sacrifice to protect the building or if the object was intentionally hidden. I think it's the latter, personally. It has been determined that the knife is of Roman origin, reinforcing the idea of the persistence of cultural and commercial contacts between Germanic populations and the Roman Empire.

Bob DeMarco [00:21:45]:
Love that. You know, I mentioned a lot. I'm of Italian extraction, 100. I am 100% American, but, all of my ethnicity is a % Italian. And to me, this kinda thing makes me a little bit proud. I don't know why I had nothing to do with it, but, I think it's really cool to think about all of the, long lasting and and wide influence the Romans had on the world. I know they did a lot of horrible stuff, and people in the modern day like to look back on, on older cultures and and and kind of look down their nose and sniff at all the bad things they did. But, you know, these cultures, all of our cultures, including the, united the culture in The United States, they did some questionable and bad things, but they did a lot of great things too.

Bob DeMarco [00:22:38]:
I'm sorry. I am not one of those guys who thinks colonization is a horrible thing. At least there's no human sacrifice happening in places and, you know, at least, the rest of Europe has soap and running water, thanks to the Romans. Alright. I'll swap that right there. Thanks for checking out KnifeLife News. This is some of the most interesting stuff. Not only do I like new knives coming out, but I love it when these old ancient knives are discovered.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:10]:
Alright. Still to come, we're gonna get to the state of the collection. I'm gonna show you that Sencut Squiggy Squiggy Squiggy in person and, also a new Civivi. But before we get there, I wanna urge you to check out the newsletter. Comes out virtually every week. Every once in a while, I have to miss it. But we talk about something new and show you some great new pictures. But also, be sure to join us for Thursday night knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:23:39]:
Thursday night knives is really where we all let, let our hair down and talk about knives and various issues about knives with one another. It's a great place for you to come and leave your comments. And I swear on my end, it really seems like a conversation because the great and powerful Jim behind the scenes keeps feeding me comments and I respond to those comments and, we really build up a conversation, a topic. We keep going for two hours until midnight Eastern Standard Time and it is awesome. I love that show. So please join us for Thursday Night Knives. Join us on Patreon. Join us.

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Bob DeMarco [00:24:38]:
The knife junkie dot com slash battle box. And now that we're caught up with knife life news, let's hear more of the Knife Junkie podcast. Alright. So here it is in person and in living color. This is the sen Sencut Squiggy. Now they just sent me this. Sencut Savivi sent me this and a Savivi, and I am ever grateful. I love Sencut knives, and I love Civivi knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:05]:
I don't have too many Wees. As a matter of fact, I only have We Made knives. I love all of their designs, but the We knives are a little precious, a little a little, you know, they're decorative. They're for fancy knife guys. And I am a fancy knife guy, but I have my taste, and they do tend towards the cevivi and the sand cuts, I gotta say. And this one I really like. Let me read to you some of the some of the specs here. So this is a 3.89 inch blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:25:38]:
It's nine c r 18 m o v. It's hollow ground, super thin. I mean, look at it from the top. You can see it's already a thin blade stock, but it's a very broad leaf shaped blade with a swedge and a, half to two thirds height hollow grind. So it's really thin behind the edge. I actually, opened this up and my wife had gotten a bunch of Amazon packages same day. So I opened those with this. That's why the blade might look a little schmutzy.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:11]:
I did try and clean it. But, it's a really great slicer. It's, it's an awesome knife. I gotta say, to be 100% honest, I opened it up and I thought my very first thought was, oh, kinda ugly. I'm sorry. That's just what I was thinking. But then I actually opened it and gripped it, and I thought this little squiggly line, I thought it was a little gimmicky, but, actually, I like it. My fingers engage with it, and, actually, I hold it in the right hand more often.

Bob DeMarco [00:26:43]:
So, my fingers do touch that squiggly line squiggly line line right there, and they kinda let me know where I am. It's a it's sort of an indexing point and also a griping point. And then once I started cutting with it, I was fully convinced. So I opened up my wife's packages and then I showed her the knife. What do you think? I do that a lot. I get an unfiltered sort of, opinion from her on knives and oftentimes, I'll give her a knife I love and she's like, it doesn't feel great in my hand. I think it's ugly. And I'm like, what are you talking about? It's beautiful and it fits great.

Bob DeMarco [00:27:21]:
But she looked at this and she said, that's cool. It looks like a shark. I thought, yeah. And, of course, I had to amend it because I am the knife jockey and I do know more. It was sort of the doctor nurse syndrome. And I'm like, actually, honey, it looks like an orca. And she looked at me. Yeah.

Bob DeMarco [00:27:36]:
Does that nose look like an orca? No. She was right. It does look like a great white shark. Great button lock action. This is fidgety as the day is long, and then you have that, great long opening hole and a reversible pocket clip. I gotta say, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of this. It's a little ostentatious, but I do like this scent cut.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:00]:
So this will be going right into the collection. I think my high value collection of Cevivi Send Cut, which is really picked up steam. I mean, we're we're talking about 20 plus knives now. One day, I'll probably sell it all in one big fell swoop. But as we are right now, I I really, really love my Civivi send cuts, and this is a great addition. Speaking of a great addition, this one from Civivi, you knew I was gonna come here. This, I've seen a little bit. I thought this was already out, but also coming out on April 29 is the HID, the Civivi HID.

Bob DeMarco [00:28:40]:
That's a 4.12 inch blade. So a nice long blade. That's 14 c 28 n. And the designer, one of my favorites, that's Ostap Hel. Lot of great knife makers and designers from Poland, and, Ostop is from Poland. And, just a little side note, I love the Polish language, and I think Polish people incidentally happen to be some of the most beautiful in the world. I lived in a, neighborhood of Brooklyn that had a lot of Polish people in it, immigrants, and the women were all gorgeous. Young women were all gorgeous, and the young men were all built like brick brick, well, I'll say it, brick shit houses.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:24]:
They were they were all, very built, and the women were all beautiful. And I'm like, man, what's up with the Polish culture? I started watching movies, and the language is beautiful. It sounds like French and Russian to me. Anyway, that that I'll put aside. This Civivi HID is a gorgeous knife. I really like how the blade, extends below the knuckles. It looks and acts a lot like a, I don't know, a kitchen knife. It's like a small kitchen knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:29:53]:
So if you're a camper, a backpacker who prepares food on the trail, this has to be a great knife for you. I am not one of those guys. I aspire to be one of those people, but look at this thing. It's got the red handle. You won't lose it if you drop it. It's got a full flat ground, super wide, almost it's like three, I'm sorry, an inch and three quarters right here. It's a very broad blade, so extremely thin behind the edge. We all know that 14 c 28 n is a great, scalpel steel.

Bob DeMarco [00:30:27]:
It's a great, kitchen knife steel. That's what's featured on this one. And we all know Sabibi is just a great knife company. You can use that thumb stud to open it or you can use here I'm gonna have to use my right hand. You can use the, sharp, full length fuller to open this thing. What a great knife. If you're interested, fifty eight to sixty hourC, and, I do believe this will come in other colorways, but this is the one I have here. 14 I'm sorry.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:01]:
One I'm sorry. 4.12 inches on the blade, and I love that especially because I love big knives. Alright. Now we're gonna get to, great EDC steak knives, and I I suppose this would be one of them. Though, we think of steak knives as being a little more slender, but this would be great at it. So maybe next time we go out to dinner, I will bring this, but since I just got it, haven't had a chance to test this one out. We do, before we get to that, we do have a new design in the, in the merch store. I love this.

Bob DeMarco [00:31:40]:
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Bob DeMarco [00:32:27]:
Also, Mother's Day is coming up soon, and I do know we have some appropriate stuff in our shop there too. You have a mother who loves knives or a mother that you want to love knives. Alright. Let's get to these great steak knives. And now when I say steak knife, it doesn't have to be steak. Of course, it can be waffles, for breakfast. It could be sausage. It can be anything.

Bob DeMarco [00:32:50]:
Oh, gotta cut that burger in half for your wife? Use one of these knives. These are all great for that. The first knife here is an Alsuran. It's a runners up and, yeah, I happen to know it works great because I've used it on so many road trips at restaurants, but it's not one I pick when I'm at home. And I know we're going out to dinner. I'm like, I better take this. And that is the Microtech SOCOM Elite. You know this is my road trip knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:21]:
If I'm in the car for longer than two hours, this is the knife I bring. That all started because it was my first knife ages ago at this point, with a glass breaker. But this was also a first for a number of reasons. First Microtech, first s 35 v n knife. This was made in 2012, by the way. First knife with carbon fiber, a lot of firsts on this one. I will have you know because it's a micro tack and it's so well sharpened, even though it's got a somewhat oblique behind the edge, measurement. It's so wickedly sharp.

Bob DeMarco [00:33:57]:
This one is great at cutting food. I've cut all manner of food with this, kind of on the fly because it's what's in my pocket when we're driving. But this is not a part of this next list just because, as I said, I don't grab it when I'm at home, and I know I'm going out for dinner. Let me show you. Let me start with this one here. It's low hanging fruit, because it is the Spidey Chef. Now this one is a modified Spidey Chef. Mike Emler of Crazy Sharp and his own channel, has, sharpened this knife and also, clipped it for me.

Bob DeMarco [00:34:36]:
This one comes with a sort of santoku blade, a rounded out point. I wanted this to be pointier, so I had him, do a clip at the tip and he sharpened it. And it's so sharp now. But this is LC 200 n. I mentioned earlier before when we were talking about the new James brand, Folsom, they switched to LC 200, and that's this blade steel. It is extremely, rust resistant. This has a full flat ground and broad ish blade, beautiful titanium handle. This is designed by, Martins Slich, also a Polish, Polish guy if I'm not mistaken.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:18]:
Another great Polish designer. But this has the titanium, frame lock. What a great knife. I I love to open this up with my left hand and, and do that, middle finger flick. But you have a blasted titanium handle here and, really nice snail trails already sort of dug into this one. Great, great knife. And, this is so this, list will have some luxury knives like this. This is not an inexpensive knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:35:53]:
I believe it's over 200. And, but we have some pretty inexpensive ones here too. But this one is one of the one of the kings of this list. Alright. Next up, another king of this list and more on the lower side of things, we're talking about Case, the Case Trapper. This is their ubiquitous knife. You see these everywhere, and actually everyone makes a Trapper. So it doesn't have to be a Case, but mine is, and I have a couple of these Case Trappers.

Bob DeMarco [00:36:27]:
But this one is my favorite because it's in, their, CV line of steel. It's a carbon steel blade here and you've got two blades. You've got the clip point blade here, and then you have a spey blade. And, actually, I've taken this to dinner many times and used both blades. I gotta say though, say you're out to dinner and you're at a steak place or a place that has steak and they've got bread, I actually highly recommend the Speyblade because not only does it have a great belly and a long straight, it's great for cutting steak, but you've got those delicious rolls of that awesome bread on the table. The Speyblade makes a great butter knife. So you got both here and you've got a three and a half inch blade in either case, so you've got good reach. Reach is it plays into this.

Bob DeMarco [00:37:27]:
I did for a while have the, the Benchmade bug out on this list, but because I've used that many times, as a steak knife kind of ad hoc because I keep it in my winter coat pocket, but the blade is a little short for my taste for this category. This one does have the reach and it has two different, styles of knife. So I find trappers are outstanding and, Case knives, I know a lot of you turn your nose up at Case, but if you get their chrome vanadium line, their carbon steel knives, they seem to to pay special attention to. So the fit and finish is a little bit better and that blade steel is just awesome. It gets wickedly sharp and works great for the purpose. So that is the, Ace Trapper. Next up is the Kershaw Iridium. This is one of my favorite knives from Kershaw in a long time.

Bob DeMarco [00:38:25]:
Got a really nicely contoured aluminum handle, but also you have this beautiful spear point blade with a long swedge. Just a great knife and then they do the, ambidextrous bar lock. I'm gonna have to say this, better than anyone in my opinion. Better than Benchmade, better than Kaiser. My favorite ambidextrous bar lock is right here on this Iridium. Because every time I use it, it feels like the blade is loose. And then I check the blade and lo and behold, it's not loose. It's just perfect action.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:01]:
It's got a perfect ambidextrous bar lock and it passes the spine whack test, which is stupid, but I still do it and it passes. This one you can see is all scuffed up and that is due to a huge amount of cardboard I cut up when I first got this. That said, I was surprised at how quickly, the coating came off. So you might say, yeah. Do you wanna cut steak with that? That coating, you might be eating it, and I'd say, what doesn't destroy me makes me stronger. So, hey. A little bit of that coating in your steak isn't gonna disflavor it, and it won't kill you. It'll just make you stronger.

Bob DeMarco [00:39:45]:
I really like this one. I have this one on me all the time because this rides in the pen pocket, yeah, the pen pocket of my EDC backpack. That's the Kershaw Iridium and not for nothing, they've got a beautiful looking, automatic in the launch line that is an Iridium. I don't remember the number. It might be like the 14 or 15, but check that out. If automatic knives are your thing and you like the look of that knife, check it out. Next up is an absolute beauty from Kizer I'm I'm sorry. From Boker.

Bob DeMarco [00:40:21]:
This is the Boker Texas toothpick. This is the Urban Texas toothpick. So it's loosely in that Urban Trapper, line, though it's not designed by, the guy who designed the Urban Trapper. This is, really borrowing heavily from the slip joint world with the Texas toothpick, but it is a flipper style knife. Look at that long, gorgeous Turkish style or California style, slip clip point blade there. Beautifully, rendered and then downward angled, so you you get real nice shearing power with this blade. Very thin, and very very sharp. A cool knife too, kind of, in that CEO style of knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:11]:
Thin, light, long, slender. This will do you this is a three and a half inch blade. Beautiful cocobolo wood handles. The only thing about this knife that always seemed a little incongruous is the clip. It's an interesting, titanium sculpted clip, sort of well, it fits with the shape of the whole thing, but it looks like a banana. And I don't know why, but it just sort of doesn't fit. It works great. It's a high value addition, but looks wise, it never quite did it for me.

Bob DeMarco [00:41:47]:
But doesn't matter. This is not about looks. It's about cutting steak, and this zips through steak and pork chops. We go to a place around here and so does Jim. We both have our favorite restaurants or where we live about a half hour, forty five minutes away from one another, but we both have local restaurants that have pillar pork chops. And, I've cut many a pork chop with this beauty. This is the Boker, Boker Urban Texas toothpick. It was a gift from Boker when, Chaz Fisher worked for them.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:20]:
He sent me this and I love this knife. Liner lock. Alright. Next up is another Spyderco. This is the only doubling up on, brands that you'll see in this list though, I was looking almost every one of my Spydercos, would do great in this because Spyderco makes so many full flat ground, super sharp, thin blades. But, this one I've used a lot and actually more at home than out. But this would be good for out because of the cheerful colors it comes in. This is the Endura, by Spyderco.

Bob DeMarco [00:42:57]:
Full flat ground, 3.7, inch blade, VG 10, which is a great stainless steel, great for for the kitchen. I have a Vasti, Morgan, chef's knife, which is in VG 10. A great blade steel for the purpose. These have worked so well. Now, the reason I like these for going out, sometimes you get, waiters looking askance or other diners looking askance. I love it. Look askance all you want. I love it when people notice that I have a different blade for two reasons.

Bob DeMarco [00:43:35]:
First is, maybe you'll go back and tell the executive chef that you need to upgrade your knives. I don't wanna cut this beautiful steak that I'm paying a lot of money for, with a wet wood handled or plastic handled dull serrated knife that rattles, you know, that has play. So I am going to use my own. But they see these and they're not threatened because look at that cheerful color. Maybe you have purple, maybe you have green, or one of the other beautiful colors the, the Endura comes in. This one I use I have used most recently for opening a package, so it's got a little tape at the tip. But ordinarily, I would have cleaned this before going out and using it. But this one gives you the reach.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:18]:
It gives you the awesome blade geometry and, it gives you, I don't know, I'm gonna say it, the the pleasure factor of cutting through a nice steak or pork chop or chicken or whatever. Waffle, cutting your wife's hamburger in half, whatever. You'll do it with this and it'll breeze right through. Now, this is a factor here. The way it it it gives you length, it gives you a place to put the finger. It's it's just a great knife. And this is the it's also a good painting knife, by the way. The Endura from Spyderco.

Bob DeMarco [00:44:55]:
Okay. Next up is the least expensive one. I'm gonna show you I've had some midline, expense knives so far. We're gonna go way expensive. But before we do, we're gonna go way inexpensive. And, this is one of the best in the whole lot. I gave my, mom and my dad one of these. They travel an awful lot, and they go to places very far flung.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:22]:
It's just what they like to do. And, so I've gotten them both Opinel number nines. The Opinel knives come in many different sizes. I'm sorry. This is a number eight. And the number eight is sort of the right down the middle, 3.3 inch blade, full, flat grind clip point blade. These are perfect picnic knives, travel knives. They're they're very unthreatening and, just, you know, of course, you wanna put it in your check on baggage.

Bob DeMarco [00:45:53]:
It'll still get stolen by the TSA guy, even though it's unthreatening. So, yeah, definitely put it in your pack, your packed luggage, but these are perfect. Perfect for that purpose. They fold, they're very inexpensive, and they lock. They have this ring lock here. You just rotate that lock and that is not going to fold on. This one is stainless. You can see that because it says Enox there.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:23]:
I love the I have a bunch of open l's, and most of them I've, altered the blade shapes. Kinda stupid because I never use those. I end up using these. I made them into all sorts of different blade shapes, but, I just prefer the right off the shelf, Opinel here. A French peasant knife is what it's known as. Very comfortable handle. The handles, this is a what is it? Beechwood. They also come in an olive wood handle.

Bob DeMarco [00:46:52]:
Those are a little more expensive. The prices range, but you can get them for very, very inexpensive. The thing you gotta watch out for is when you wash the blade, don't get the handle wet. Sometimes that wood handle will swell and it will swell within that steel ring and then it will be harder to close them. But this used to be my work, food knife and I ended up bringing it home for a knife junkie podcast somewhere along the line and it never returned. I have so many other knives at work, I use those. But the Opinel, especially the number eight, number 10 is also a great one. Great, great food knives.

Bob DeMarco [00:47:33]:
And inexpensive, they won't put you out if you forget it and you leave it at the restaurant, which you won't because you're a knife guy or gal. You're not gonna forget your knife at the restaurant. But if you do, it's not, there's no pain there's no pain in it. You can just get a new one. Next one does not fall into that category. This is from Okaso Knives. Rick Velez of o of formerly of Cold Steel, started Okaso Knives. He's been on the show and I'm, aim to invite him back on.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:03]:
Very, very, cool guy, classy gentleman, and creates very, very gentlemanly knives. But this one, designed by Andrew Demko, is chief among them, especially for the steak knife category. This is the Okaso Solstice. That's a 3.6 inch s 35 v n blade, wickedly sharp, kind of falls into that CEO category of knife. You could put this in your breast pocket and it presents more as a pen than as a knife. But then when you flip it out on these awesome, ceramic bearings, it rockets out and you see that long wicked blade. Kind of a stout blade stock, full flat ground, extremely sharp on the edge. You've got some jimping there.

Bob DeMarco [00:48:49]:
And this one is titanium. I have a dark titanium version of it and then, I had two, carbon fiber handled versions of this, all liner locks. I gave one to my dad. He loves it. Very light, very capable. I mean, that is truly a classy steak knife, to take out. You're going out to a nice dinner. You're celebrating someone's birthday or an anniversary.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:15]:
You definitely want to bring your Ocasso solstice. It looks cool. It does the job great. And it's got that great s 35 v n blade steel. You gotta think of the fact that you're cutting against ceramic. You have a plate you're cutting against the plate. You want a good feel. In the case of the case, it's a carbon, carbon steel.

Bob DeMarco [00:49:39]:
It's not only tough, but it sharpens up easily. And same thing with S 35 VN. So a great blade steel for that purpose. It's not gonna rust on you and it's got, high toughness and a super sharp, super sharp knife. That's the Okaso Solstice. This one in titanium. Next up, this is also one I find myself using as a celebratory knife. I can only open it with my right hand and that is, the Chris Reeve knives Sebenza, in this case, the 21.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:17]:
But I suspect any Sebenza or, really, any Chris Reeve knife will do a great job as a steak knife. If I haven't mentioned so far, these are all folders in this. Yeah, you can I have a lot of fixed blade knives that, would fit this purpose, but I gotta say, I'm always with a folder and these knives do great? Now beautiful s 35 v n clip point blade. You say clip point, that's a drop point. Nope. Look at this right here. That makes it a clip point, that transition. Beautiful clip point blade.

Bob DeMarco [00:50:49]:
I have, I just before I started rolling here today, I had to clean this one off because I forgot I used this as a food knife recently and didn't clean it. I just did the dunk it in your water glass and clean it quickly, thing and my wife hates that for some reason. She doesn't hate that I use these knives, but she doesn't like it when I clean them at the table in a glass of water. So I did it quickly and, there are still some schmutz on there. But beautiful hollow ground laid sort of a, shallow hollow grind on these. Wicked sharp edge on this one, Compliments of Jared Neeve. And in this case, that beautiful black micarta inlaid on the titanium scales. A great, great food knife.

Bob DeMarco [00:51:40]:
And this is one of the one of the ones I bring when I know it's a celebration. If I'm wearing, you know, my nicer duds and, I wanna not impress, but, you know, if someone's gonna say, oh, you have a nice knife. What's that? It's nice to have a great one with you. This is the, Sebenza. I can only open it with my right hand, as I mentioned, because it's a one-sided thumb stud. Though I have considered, getting aftermarket thumb studs, I've just never pulled the trigger, because I don't trust myself. I'm a handy guy, but I don't wanna do the job of replacing that friction fit thumb stud with a double side. Doesn't matter.

Bob DeMarco [00:52:19]:
It doesn't come up often. I can, usually use my right hand. So there you go. Next up, this fits the category, of super slim, super thin, great blade, and easy to carry in a suit. Now, suit pocket, suit, material, as you know, is thin. A heavy knife in there will feel you'll feel it. It'll slam around on your leg and all that. This does not do that.

Bob DeMarco [00:52:48]:
This is the TRM Three Rivers Manufacturing from Massachusetts, the TRM Adam. The one of their larger blades. It's a really thin blade stock and a nearly full height black grind, so a great shearing knife perfect for cutting your steak. And a great thing about this knife and a unique selling proposition about this knife is how easily you can swap out blade scales, I mean handle scales. So they make a whole bunch of different handle scales. This one has that wing pattern. You can see sort of a feathered wing, pattern milled in there. It's kinda hard to see actually with the, with that burlap micarta.

Bob DeMarco [00:53:35]:
I do have this in the g 10 and you can see the blade feather pattern or the, yeah, that feather pattern much easier. But a nice liner lock, very thin every way around. Nice light, thin, and just beautiful. Cuts like nothing. This one has a DLC coating on it and the DLC coating is, really nice on this because in certain lights you can't you can't tell if it's a silver blade or a black blade, you know, silver color blade or a black blade. It just, yeah, it just works beautifully. Nice, thin, nice and light, dressier knife in my book. And if it's your thing, you can find titanium scales for this and go full tie dress.

Bob DeMarco [00:54:25]:
Okay. Next up, I mentioned right up front, the, Jack Wolf Knives Vampire Fixed EDC. Well, this is the Jack Wolf Knives let me see if I can open it up. Primo. So this is the folding locking version of the big bro jack, the Primo. Primo meaning cousin in Spanish. This one is great for this purpose. Full height, hollow ground, s 90 v, so super, rust resistant and and edge retentive blade steel on this folding version.

Bob DeMarco [00:55:05]:
So would make a great dress up knife in any case, but you're dressing up and you're going out to eat, this is a great option. Now it comes in this beautiful double black linen micarta, handle scale, handle cover here, with the bronze hardware everywhere. But also, if you look at the blade, if I keep the top flat on the horizon, you'll see that that edge dips down and that gives you, again, a sort of a recurve effect without having the recurve to sharpen it's, a straight edge. And it shears through material like you wouldn't believe. This thing cuts steak and meat and other organic medium just so nicely. And by the way, asparagus, you know, with its all of its fibers, this laughs at asparagus. Plus, everyone will wonder what that cool knife is if they don't if they don't already know. You can finger flick it.

Bob DeMarco [00:56:03]:
I can't with my left hands, but you can finger flick it. With the fuller, you can use the front flipper here. Or if you don't want to attract attention, you can do the old double hand open. So a beautiful, beautiful knife. I would say that all of the Jack Wolf knives kinda fit this category. They really do. Maybe maybe the Wharncliffe's and the sheep's foots, you don't wanna use because that tip, you don't wanna dull the tip if you're cutting for ages and ages. But it is s 90 or m three ninety blade steel, so you're not gonna really run into that too much.

Bob DeMarco [00:56:42]:
Second to last, I'll open this right here, is any one of my great Eastern cutleries, but most recently, I used this. I think I've mentioned it on Thursday night knives recently. This was the pork cut van pork chop vanquisher. This is the number 97, a three and three point six inch blade. Really big for a slip joint. Absolutely gorgeous here. You've got my favorite handle scales or, handle covers of any, Great Eastern cutlery, their autumn jig bone. I have a bunch in this autumn jig bone.

Bob DeMarco [00:57:21]:
I just think it's absolutely beautiful. This is also known as the Allegheny jack. I've gone camping in the Alleghenies. Beautiful. Lots of, lots of beauty in that, park there. But again, if you, if, if you put the spine of the blade and the spine of the handle, on the horizon of the picture, you see how deeply that straight edge, descends before it, terminates in the belly and the point. The point is low. It's like at finger level.

Bob DeMarco [00:57:51]:
So this is just great for pull cutting. And that's what you're doing a lot when you're cutting a steak or, food like that. And you can see a slight recurve. That's so that as you continue to use this knife through time and sharpen probably more of that belly area, you're not gonna get a, an up, a trailing edge. It's going to maintain that clip point, belly edge for a long time as you sharpen through that recurve. This one is ten ninety five blade steel. And, like I said, it's the number '97, one blade. And so '97 is the year it was, issued.

Bob DeMarco [00:58:34]:
Thus, the third number, which is a one, says it's one blade on this knife. The the fourth number is also a one. That's a clip point. That's their number one pattern. And 19. This is a twenty nineteen blade. I can't believe I've had this one that long. Six years.

Bob DeMarco [00:58:52]:
Still have some schmutz in the choil there. The one problem I have with this very Barlow style knife, look at that long bolster, is how, kind of soft the spring is on this. Very soft spring on this knife. And I know for large slip joints, you don't necessarily want a super stout spring, but I wouldn't mind having this stouter. So this is the number 97 from Great Eastern Cutlery. Last up, this was, most recently used as a food knife at my mother in law's birthday and that is the Herman knives Ishtar. You've got a beautiful m three ninety trailing point. M three ninety has incredible edge retention, so cutting against a ceramic, plate is not gonna, you know, make you wince too much, but a beautiful, a beautiful geometry for cutting meat.

Bob DeMarco [00:59:53]:
And, also, it just feels great in hand, as you're as you're cutting. This, of course, was a dressy occasion and I was very excited to bring this one out, because, you know, I love my mother-in-law and I wanted to, I wanted to show up with a great, great looking knife. You've got a nearly four inch blade on this, so lots of reach and a very ergonomic handle. The anodized green handle here has what I call a gravel road texture, so you have a lot of gription here, easy to hold on to. Say your fingers get greasy because you're really getting in there. Well, you're gonna be able to hold on to this knife as you cut your steak. Alright. This is my list of my favorite, not chef's knives, great EDC steak knives.

Bob DeMarco [01:00:46]:
Let me know what you like to carry. I know, that a lot of you listening will not settle for the damp handled, dull serrated, loose, loose bladed steak knife to hand you when you're when you're laying down your hard earned lucre, to buy a steak. I cannot believe how much steaks cost these days at a restaurant. So I wanna cut it with a high quality knife. I know you do too. You're not just tearing into it. Otherwise, why not just pick it up and use your teeth that God gave you? Alright. Let me know what those are.

Bob DeMarco [01:01:20]:
Drop them in the comments below. I can't wait to read those comments next week and, let everyone know what your favorite EDC steak knife is. 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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