New Knives for the Week of December 3rd, 2020 Just In at KnifeCenter.com

Hello everyone, David C Anderson, I'm here from the knife center and it's that time of the

week

when we get to take a look at the coolest new

knives

that have hit our shelves in the last seven days. Let's see them. Before we get into action, a quick thank you to everyone who has subscribed to the channel, both historically and especially recently, while I've been pushing hard and asking you to help us reach that hundred thousand subscriber mark that we're getting. close, I think we'll make it, we're not there yet, hopefully we'll get there soon before Christmas is awesome, and then once we get there I'll shut up again, this is, you know, not something I normally insist on on subscribing to the channel so thanks for bearing with me while I do it while we try to get this done it will soon be over but anyway let's get into some

knives

and I'll start with Some shameless self promotion actually new versions of my inaugural knife design, the Nordsmith cantina is finally here.

This is the knife design that I launched my Nordsmith brand with several years ago and due to you know, production delays and increased demand this year. I've been out of stock on everything for quite some time, so I haven't been able to bring anything here to the knife center either. Well, I finally have a new batch of canteen knives to share with you. I'm really excited about this and there are also a couple of new things with this. I'll get into some of the design parts of what goes into this knife in a moment, but what you get here is the first time we've used cpm154 on these blades and it also has a new sheath design and I'll talk about that in

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I'll also find a place to put it. As for the knife, I am very proud that they are made here in the USA, they are made by a small team of craftsmen, in fact I partner with lt Wright Knives to build my production models for me, so if you are familiar with its quality, you will know that you will get the exact same build specs or build quality here as As a result, this comes in 365, but it is a tool that will last a lifetime and even if it doesn't, we will see to it that it is Take care of this and we can fix them if anything ever goes wrong.

Don't go wrong with the warranty on these knives but anyway what you get here like I said cpm 154 steel blade shape for those of you who work a long time on this channel you know I love nesmuk blades and that's what What you essentially have here, is kind of an oversized trash nest. There's also a little butcher knife DNA in this blade, but I designed it as a perfect knife for me that I couldn't find anywhere else because it was a camping knife that could do all the kitchen knife things I wanted to do. . Also, without sacrificing the camping knife side and I think it actually does a very good job.

I may be a little biased but what you get is the handle, there's enough drop here to the edge combined with that continuous belly on the blade that gives you enough knuckle room to cut through some rock on a cutting board, that's essentially what I was looking for they couldn't find I couldn't find eight inch thick steel a high flat grind so the cutting geometry is great and there's actually a lot of versatility in this blade and the handle had to unlock, that for you

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a straight handle wouldn't have done what I wanted it to do first, there is enough drop to cut through rocks, but it's not that far, it will be uncomfortable when you are carving wood and you will notice the edge curves up and down outside in the standard grip, great for cutting, I like to say whether you're wood carving or turkey carving.

It does a good job, but then when you choke, there's a little flare here on the knob that will give you a little bit of retention and also bring the tip of the knife down so you can cut a little bit. whether it's bone or branches and that sort of thing, it'll square up that edge near the tip and of course you've got a little extra weight thanks to that hump to give you a little more power as well as a nice set of pinch grips . for cutting rocks or other small, small tasks and different types of grips, the chest lever grip works great with it and then you still have essentially a center line point to do those types of drilling in bushcraft type of things with which I am very happy with.

The way these knives have come out, especially these latest versions, they are exceptionally nice. I may be a little biased, but I think they're really cool, but I'm also really proud of the new case design we came up with. for this new generation, now you'll see here, it's a snap design. I'm actually not normally a big fan of snaps on a sheath but the way it's done here I think it works very well, the advantage of course is that it holds the sheath or holds the knife very well but because to the way it's wrapped around the handle it does a couple of things, for one it's easy to open and will naturally come out of the way when you draw or sheath the knife so it's not something you know, some straps can being easy to cut accidentally, it's not really going to happen here and also the other thing I don't like about brooches in general is that they can get caught when you're walking through the woods and maybe come loose, but again, due to Since this is wrapped around the back of the handle like that, you're not really in danger of that happening to you, other than that it has the same things that the original jre industries pulleys still make now. but you have the fire resistant steel loop on the side as well as the pendant that will allow you to carry the knife down if you want to bend or unscrew it and you can use the standard belt loop, since we are talking about something, there is a correct connection .

I actually have a big new batch of LT scripts, but I only pulled one out for this particular video. We have new versions of the tip horn at the moment. this one in particular is especially pretty, 3v steel desert ironwood handles, orange liners that come in around 174. Just look at how cute, it's really nice, considering the wood here has a really nice pop of color with that orange and still the same great pronghorn design you like with the 3v steel on top, a fantastic little carving knife that holds great in the hand without being too bulky, has plenty to grip even for my hands a little larger than average, it's almost an exactly the same grip with four fingers for me.

You have two pairs of thumb scallops here on the front and back. You have many grip options when you're carving wood doing those little craft tasks and what do you have besides that simpler Jre Industries holster. bag style right here, a very classic type of shape and aside from this model we have a uh I have a couple versions of the pronghorn including a desert iron stick with black liners with an o1 steel that comes in a little less, but we We have some new great plains in some new sacred bushmen and some other things too and we'll leave links to all of them down below, okay, one more fixed sheet before we get into some folders, we have this little if that pronghorn. was too big for you, we have the top mini tanemboka puko right there, it's available right now for $83, made in the USA, and this is of course the smaller cousin to the full size tanombo. kapuko, but the blade here is 1.63 inches, 1095 carbon steel, nice and thin, Scandinavian, ground again, nice little carver, it's actually a two finger handle, but I could see that this is really useful in small carving tasks that I wouldn't like.

You know, doing heavy curls or doing a lot of carving with it, but you can really manipulate this little blade because of its size. There are many different hand grips. I could see myself choking on it a little, so you have just a little bit. Having the blade tilt outward would be really nice for some of those really fine cuts with the tip, especially you also have a sharp spine here on the back so you can use it to scrape, whether it's the fire steel or the piece. of wood you're working on and then you have nice black micarta flakes with some subtle red coatings on the back so you have a little pop of color, a couple of cord tubes or a couple of flared tubes that you can do some strap if you want that kind of thing and surprisingly it actually comes with a leather holster and not a kydex holster or a neck style holster, instead you have that simple style of holster right there but you also have a little section of Paracord included, so they still intend this to be a neck knife and in fact traditionally, especially being a puko heritage puko in the Scandinavian countries, neck knives were carried tipped down so that's good too and of course you have the nice top survival whistle.

Well, right now for the main event, it's in the thumbnail of this video. I know you're excited about this. It is the new mini osborne from Benchmade. It is 9 45 bk1. Of course, this is the little brother of the original 940 Osborne. Coming with a sub three inch blade for the first time, the S30V steel still has that classic inverted fool shape and you have a black coating on this. What is it? This is a DLC. I don't actually have the specs there, but. it's a nice smooth black coating that won't impede your cutting performance at all steel s30v don't know if I mentioned that um and then the handle really does overall just look at it I mean instantly it obviously looks like a 940 but it translates to the size smaller, very good, black g10 blue dividers or yes, blue dividers and a blue lining on each side of the inside of the handle to give it a pop of color, so it's not just nothing more black. knife type and then of course the shaft lock.

You have that nice ambidextrous crossbar that gives you flipping action. It's a smaller knife and hasn't broken in yet, so it doesn't turn as smoothly as some, but it's really good. I love the axle lock. I always have, handle-wise, about a three and a half finger grip for my slightly larger than average hands. I'll stop saying that now that you know how big my hands are at this point in the video. um, so there's a decent bit of length, um, although I don't technically have a four finger grip, I don't feel like I need more to have a secure grip on this knife.

Nice pocket clip, uh, reversible for both sides, not deep. leads if that's what you're looking for, but I'm going to paraphrase Seth, our Instagram runner, who, who said, I think he said it very well, the original Osborne has always been, let me see if I understand his quote correctly. A heady combination of work knife and dress knife, I think that's a pretty good description for the series and now that you can get all of those same great qualities with that blade length of just under three inches, you can get it in a package that you can carry approx.

Anywhere, well, next I promised you guys last

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that I would show you this: It's Knife Center's exclusive version of the Riyat Jack Chen tribute knife and the unique feature of ours is the green carbon inlays that look really cool , I must say. definitely add something over your standard topographical carbon fiber right there, these come in 332 so it's a step up from some of the standard versions, this series starts at 262 but that fatty carbon ain't cheap every time He sees it on a knife. It is usually a little more expensive two and three quarters of an inch in length than the m390 steel blade.

Good horizontal grain, which has some good things. On the one hand, I always say that it is something that is usually seen more in custom knives than in production. knives, but the other thing, from a practical point of view, let me see if I can find my cloth here when you go to clean the blade, if you have fingerprints or something, most of us will take it and wipe it. that way and when you do that, since the grain goes in that direction, there's really no chance that you're going to see stains or anything left behind, sometimes you'll see that on a, let's say, a more conventional satin polish like this if you were Al Wipe the blade, you might see some scratches, but you won't really see that with this type of grain, so that's great, since for the rest of the knife here you have zirconium reinforcements, not titanium, which it's pretty good, nice sturdy liner lock, pretty thick, not a wilting flower at all and a very easy to use front flap mechanism with this ramp here on top of the pivot, which is really nice.

I can use it very easily and like you people know I'm not always the best at a front fin but I have no problem with this bad boy. I'll be following the bandwagon with some fancier folders and one thing I'm very happy to announce is that here at Knife Center we are now selling giant mouse knives for the first time. I am very happy tohave them under our umbrella now. If you're not familiar with giant mouse knives, it's actually a collaborative brand between Danish knife makers Jesper Vachnaez and Jens Anso. We've put their minds together on the designs of this particular brand and as you'll see, their DNA is in all of these knives and I'll show you some of their line here real quick: We have the Ace Clyde folding knife.

There are a few versions of these, this particular one with a satin brass blade or sorry, it's on sale now for a little over $130, but there's also a version with a canvas micarta and an lmax blade for about $123 a la. sale right now, while this guy has an m390 blade instead of the lmax. What I like about this design is that it actually reminds me a little bit of a real earthquake in a nice shape with an upward swept blade. Here you could see this as a traditional shape of Tanto rather than the more common Western style fool we're used to seeing these days, but a nice little blade swept up right in those three inches.

Mark a nice crown spine for comfort too and the stonewashed brass handles look great and of course they will take the oils from your hand and develop a patina over time meaning your knife will also have his own personality. which is a pretty good liner lock to keep things closed now that they've decidedly kept this, you know, a strictly right skewed single thumb stud, part of that is so the blade can fit very deeply into that handle , but they also have just a simple Right Side Wire Pocket Clip too and maybe an interesting twist. There are no ball bearings in the pivot here.

This is actually a brass washer pivot that is very smooth but doesn't float as freely, of course, as the bearings would, but it's also going to be less susceptible to dirt and grit. Alright, next we have the Ace Biblio, it's a nice little design and in some ways I think of this as a bit more of a premium interpretation or I actually like it. let me, let me rephrase, think about something like the crkt pillar which is a jesper vockney design, this could be seen as an upgrade option for that knife if you're looking to graduate from that into something else, i think this would be an option really good or just excellent EDC along the entire length of the blade, a little over uh 2.8, something like two and seven eighths of the length of the blade, m390 steel, nice wide shape with that almost completely flat grind It means it will have some really nice cutting characteristics. overall, but you still have the point, it's low enough, although I would never call this a modified weathered cliff, it's definitely a drop point, the way the point goes down, you could almost get as much use out of that point as you can. would you do in some kind of uh similar distressed cliff shapes that would be in this kind of category now there's a few different handle options there's some titanium uh here I have one of the micarta options that I really like you can see we have An open back construction and a good filler grip in your hand, not a super thin knife, means you'll be able to put this to work with something pretty and quite confidently.

I myself have a three and a half finger grip. You have the finger there, which should give you a little more handle length, but it's not the largest finger option. If you have larger fingers like me you may find yourself pinching the back edge of the blade so keep that in mind when I'm thinking about this knife, now you have some crowning in that option if your fingers are the right size for it , even with my bigger fingers I can still put the tip of my finger in there and use it that way, but the back is cut off. or it's also topped with a bit of a jump for your index finger to reach, which again will come in handy when you're making those quote-unquote cliff-style cuts when you drag the tip liner lock. this guy carries deep or sorry, not a pocket clip for deep carry, but a nice subtle wire clip and ball bearings on the pivot of this one, so you'll be able to turn pretty well.

Next up is Sonoma two. versions of this right now there is a black stonewashed version as well as the standard stonewashed titanium here these are on sale right now for 212 with a roughly 3.4 inch m390 blade here an executive knife really nice with this particular design, like I said, m390 steel. the shape of the blade is quite agile looking, it has a lot of length without too much width so you will be able to corner very well again, the spine of the crown, a bit of a spring for the index finger and a similar size. fingers for that biblio design, they are practically identical, in fact there may be a smidge less on this sonoma, but overall you have more handle length to work with.

I can put my four fingers in there, I have a real Here's a nice looking pocket clip, it's milled, but it's not just any milled pocket clip. You've got some cool windows cut out and actually two points of contact with the clip and the frame as well which is a pretty neat frame lock and definitely ball bearings on the pivot here so you'll have some nice turning action , but let's take a minute and appreciate how it looks folded and maintains that nice slim profile. It will be a very easy knife to transport. every day, whether you wear blue jeans or a nice pair of pants, it will work pretty well and move pretty well.

Okay, speaking of pretty fins, now we're going to transition into some more tactical stuff with some new ones. Versions of the Hinderer xm18 are now available in this current batch with s45vn steel which is pretty good and these come in around 425 at the moment. The s45vn has been, well, I guess it was released from Cricible about a year ago, so there we are. Luckily I'm now starting to see it in some production stuff and talking about the relationship between s30v and s35vn. uh, s35vn was seen as an alternative to the s30 that was stronger, but maybe not as much edge retention.

What they tried to do with the s45 is make s30v. sturdier without losing edge retention, so we'll have to see if they've been successful at that, if we ever see some sort of side by side test, maybe out there, but I've been carrying a knife with this steel for a while now. time and I am very happy with the length of the blade on the xm18, three and a half inches as usual and there are a few different versions, obviously they always produce different color variants, this one in particular has brown g10 on the front and the lock of the Battle bronze titanium frame on the back, which I think looks exceptional turning action, of course you have the three-way pivot here on this hurdle, which means it comes equipped with bearings, so you've got that great twist action, but we also have Teflon and brass washers in the package, so you can swap those out for higher sand resistance if you're going to use this in a more tactical environment, which of course is a bit of a hand-me-down of obstacles They have always been difficult to use tactical knives, oh, going back to the blade for a second, uh, it's the spontaneous shape for this particular execution with a heavy duty finish, overall a good blunt knife in stock now while we're filming. this and hopefully they will be in stock when this video is posted but if not if you click on that link there is nothing there I apologize but we will get more at some point that's sure fine this next knife is actually a replenishment of the spyderco yo jumbo, but this has been in and out the door so quickly, given the situation with the pandemic this year, there are certain days that I am not here in the office every time these have come in when I I'm back at the office, they're gone again so I still haven't gotten one of these here in the building but here it is, it's 165 or 164.50 to be exact and I jumbo it's the giant version of The yo jimbo designed by michael janich as a self defense knife, it has a four inch blade with this nice worn cliff profile, very straight, a deep, hollow grind that ensures it has pretty good cutting ability behind the edge and a very good very sharp tip that will pierce very very fiercely you have s30v steel for the handles and g10 sorry s30v steel for the blade and g10 for the handles and michael janich is a hand to hand combat expert and he designed this handle to really point the blade or point the tip of the blade right where it needs to go in both the forward and back grips, I guess don't take my word for it, I'm not a trained martial artist or anything, but I'm going to trust on a guy like Michael Janet, sure, four position pocket clip on this bad boy, just a simple bent pocket clip and I like that it's the steel finish instead of a painted finish so you won't have to worry of the paint coming off. over time and of course you have that compression lock on the back which means it's easy to close while keeping your fingers out of the way of that edge which is a security measure I always appreciate in my folders and then it is very easy to open. of course with that ambidextrous opening hole and then once it's broken in you'll be able to open and close it very easily as well and this knife is also made in the USA which is really cool because a lot of Sometimes some of these niche knives, like these companies, they ship them overseas to their production facilities there, but not this one, the next knife comes from the Cyderko facilities overseas, they are great Taiwanese facilities, this is the new version of the Sage. with a maximet steel blade coming in at about 206 right now, the Sage series, they all have numbers and were conceived to showcase different technologies in terms of locks that have come out over the years and the Sage.

I've always had the liner lock, so you see that here too, but other than that it's still a design that encapsulates all of Spyderco's greatest hits, as I like to call them, on the one hand you have the subtle wire pocket clip that They were definitely pioneers, although they are no longer the only company that does it. It is reversible for both sides. You've got that great blade-shaped blade with a completely flat grind, so you'll always have great cutting geometry from a Spyderco. You have the opening hole with one hand and you have that finger that they use as one of their characteristic elements as well and that allows you to have more length of the handle when the knife is opened without so much volume. which you would normally get with that amount of handle length when the knife is folded, but aside from the design which is certainly excellent, you also have that great maxumet steel here combined with the gray g10 and with that steel, especially on a knife that even just the Base components already have excellent geometry with the edge retention and performance you'll get from Maximet.

You'll really be able to feel it because the rest of the knife doesn't retain the steel at all. Next we're going to go with something a little different, which can be a very good thing in this case, I think sometimes it's a bad thing. This is the Finch Knife Runtly company, which comes in at 144 for this version. But 139 for some of the other uh and there's a few different colors and they give each of their colors uh a fun name like not only do they call it red this is the midget redhead but there's also the uh the green ghost .

Yellow belly and black gloss options too, so that's fun, but what they are are basically little fins, but that kind of aggressive, what do you call that? A Warren Cliff, actually, which it reminds me of more than anything. Another thing is the old school coping blade that I had on my uh, my camillus carving knife back in my boy scout days, it's a little oversized because you have that completely straight edge and that sharp, abrupt drop right there, It is definitely very useful. safe knife 154 cm steel uh sub three sub two and a half inches approximately two and three eighths, so it will be very easy to carry everywhere.

Liner lock on this type of ball bearings on the pivot so you can turn it whenever you want. You can see that you have a nice subtle fin tab here and the nice thing about this is that it forms a nice shape with the blade when it's closed. If you follow that line from the fin tab, it almost looks like you can dry draw, what is that? a trapezoidal parallelogram, something like that, it looks like a solid shape between there and the edge of the blade, which is quite a nice effect, but it's going to rotate quite nicely, but you can also open it with two hands, of course, because there's a lot to do. hold on and they even give you a double set of nail notches on each side of the blade to again mimic that old school look, maybe that's part of the reason I remember it myself, but the handles are decently comfortable , there's a little bit of an outline and you've got that nice shield inlay on thefront and a milled pocket clip on the back.

It's a three finger grip for me, still a decent sized grip. I wouldn't feel too uncomfortable putting it on. some larger cuts, especially with a blade like that, that's really going to dig into what you need to cut right now. I actually have a slip joint, although you wouldn't know it just by looking at it. This is the new pioneer from Savivi. They come in good, they start at 75 for versions like this, but there is an upgraded version with a damascus blade and a carbon fiber handle that comes in around 89, but for this version you have g10 on both sides, we have orange blue. and black at this time and stainless steel frame with technically integral reinforcements, integral reinforcements right there that improve the look of the non-slip board for this sliding board is a deep pocket clip and the hidden lanyard attachment point on the back for the action.

There is a good half stop in this and a very good walk and talk in general. Now you might think this would be a one-handed blade because of this cut here, but I actually found it very difficult to open with one hand, so I don't think that's what they intended with a name like pioneer, Of course, it reminds you that you might want to take this knife outdoors, so they've given it a pretty beefy rear spring, it's not a wimp at all, so it really is. I will benefit from that two-handed opening. I managed to open it with a thumb once, but it felt very fiddly doing so, it took a lot of effort and man if you're in the woods. and you are a little cold or even not paying a little attention, it would be very easy to cut you, so operate this knife with two hands only please, but I like the shape of the blade of less than three inches just below and you.

Here we have 14 c 28 steel and Sandvik, which is one of my favorites. Part of the reason I like it so much is that overall it's pretty affordable, but it's also very sturdy for stainless steel, which, again, for an outdoors knife is definitely appreciated especially in a cevivi where They tend to keep the edges very thin, the hardness and edge stability that the 14c 28n will give you is definitely appreciated and they are also nice and easy to maintain and will hold their edges very well in terms of use. Like I said, you've got a nice beefy rear spring, so you've got a good amount of passive safety, about a three and a half finger grip for me and I like that you have that index finger protection. the shape of that finger guard built in there will also keep you away from that edge which, again, is nice and thin, has that sharp high gap for really efficient cutting.

Next I have a couple of fixed blades and the first is a nemesis neck knife, this is the bow ally that is on sale right now for about a hundred dollars. They are made in the USA. They come with s30v steel about 2 and 5 8 inches long with this drop point shape and a flat grind for a good cross section of sturdiness without giving up too much cutting ability. I myself have about three fingers on this handle and the key feature for me on this is these essentially really huge, uh, huge jumps, huge jumps there under the thumb, I think.

This would definitely come into play more if you're wearing work gloves, there's a lot of grip on the leather or fabric of the glove you're wearing, but it's still not necessarily that uncomfortable in the hand. I was a little worried that it might be and it's certainly not as comfortable as a smooth, soft column would be, but it doesn't dig in the way I thought. It will definitely be very, very effective in preventing your thumb from slipping. On top of that, if you're the type of person who likes to take a neck knife out in the open, this section here in the front, that big jump, if you will, will be very good for scraping a fire steel, it has a crisp enough texture. edge to do it and that circular half circle of nature will do a good job of hugging the pharaoh's staff as you scrape it and light the fire, but there are a few other nice touches overall, the fit and finish between the handle. and the tang is perfect, nice and seamless, great satin finish there and on the front edge of the guard here, they've actually beveled each corner so you don't have a sharp tip to dig into, it's very well made, I must say now, as for the holster this is set up to carry around the neck in the kydex holster here if you want to carry this on the belt you can use a little tech lock with the two rivets here on the bottom so you have some carry options with both vertical and horizontal belt with that too.

I have another fixed blade, one more combat oriented. Going back to the giant mouse, this is the René that is on sale right now for 156. And first of all, do I like the shape of it? It's definitely different from some of the wasp-wasted daggers you see in that it widens towards the tip, whereas a lot of the Fair Bear and Sikes style knives taper towards the tip it has a different look from the start, which which is good, but what I noticed immediately when picking it up was the weight and that it is very light, let's see how much 4.8 ounces weighs for this really nice fixed blade. the balance is good, it goes in essentially right at the cross, so it will be a very agile knife to use and the handle is fiberglass reinforced nylon, it's not g10 or anything like that, so it's injection molded, but it's very comfortable and it definitely pays dividends in balance, as I mentioned, when you're right behind the guard, very agile, you're not fighting the weight distribution of the blade, whatever that is.

It is double edged, five and a half inches of n690co stainless steel, full flat edge. one side and a combined edge on the other with double flat polishing and that stonewashed finish that I love so much now. As for the holster, it's also kydex and actually comes with some dotted straps that are designed to work with molle gear. Interestingly, this holster won't work with any size tech lock, unfortunately, so you're either restricted to the type of what they give you there or you can make your own out of cordage or something. I've seen that before and it works pretty well now as far as the history of this knife goes a bit.

I wasn't familiar with it, but let me read what we have on our website here. This was designed for conventional execution. I do not know how to pronounce it. obviously um but it's the Danish frogman brotherhood and the vachnas of course are our Danes so it's essentially a real highly trained special forces unit from Denmark and since its founding 62 years ago there's only been a little more. Over 300 people successfully completed the program, so it's designed for them and the sale of each one of them also helps fund that unit, which is pretty cool, don't mind, it's just a cool dagger, there you go. you have, below.

Well, it's gift-giving season after all, which means we have a couple of new lines from Miyabi, which of course is one of the Japanese branches of Henkels. They have two new lines for us right now, let me. start with the most affordable one, it's the miyabi ko koh series and they have everything from paring knives to slicers, chef's knives, nikiris bread knives, the whole nine yards, this one here is the nine and a half inch one I think let's see, yes. the really nice nine and a half inch chef's knife comes in 160. the paring knife comes in 90. so that's the range that you get with this particular model or this particular line, so what I like about this particular chef's knife is Again, this is like that dagger, it's not that heavy, it's a 7.04 ounce knife and the balance is great, maybe well, let's see, let's pinch it, maybe just a little handle of whiskey heavy, but when you pinch right there it feels almost perfectly balanced in the hand, not too thick being a Japanese knife, it's made in Seki City, Japan.

The blade is nice and thin and they sharpen it at a nice sharp angle, so it will feel sharper than many of the German style knives and despite the length here, it's just ready to move with you, not against you. Now the handle here is octagonal made from a bundle of wood. You have a nice mosaic pin there. You can see that on both sides the joint is raised a little. the bit and the steel blade, although it looks like it could be a san may construction or a laminated construction, but that's an effect, it's one piece, they call it fc60 stainless steel, uh, essentially, what is that is the term of Hankel for Sandvik? 13c 26 stainless steel, which is very similar to the 14c28 we looked at before and has a lot of the same features that make it really good in the kitchen, especially with a nice sharp edge angle like this one, has high edge stability and is easy to sharpen.

The ability to get a fine edge can be achieved very well and you have a high degree of toughness in the kitchen when you could be, not necessarily, yeah, some people just don't treat their kitchen knives or some other things, so the little one extra Durability is definitely appreciated if you like the look of this, but would actually like a real laminated sheet. um, I'll make you one more. We will make a laminated damask sheet with the other new line we have. Now, what is the Damascus Miyabi Kaizen 2 series and this series especially? This is true for both, but I think this one in particular will really make a name for itself because of its affordability for what you get.

This is five and a half. inch prep knife here, only 130 dollars, not a big special store by any means, but for what you're getting very, very good again with this knife, you'll get a wooden handle package, but it's not octagonal. actually one of the handles asymmetrically shaped, so unfortunately for left-handers, a preparation knife tilted to the right feels very comfortable in my hands, I must say that's how that knife, it pinches very well just in front of that integral bolster that's there and There's another very snappy prep knife here, but again, if you don't like that, there's, in fact, I think a lot of the knife patterns reflect what's available in that other series, but you can there be some different ones there.

I'll leave the link, I'll leave links to the entire series below on both, but as for the steel itself, is it damascus steel, or is it actually a triple laminated blade with damascus facing on both sides of a fc61 26 core and both series harden it. Harden that steel to about 61 Rockwell, which is pretty hard, meaning you're going to get really great cutting performance and really good edge retention with the sacrifice and maybe a little bit of the hardness that you would see with this steel, but if Are you looking to upgrade your kitchen this year, whether it's yours or your loved ones or a friend of yours, someone who can really appreciate something like this, this is definitely a very good series to watch, very good friends, that's it everything I have.

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