Hey everyone David C. Andersen here coming at you from the
KnifeCenter and welcome to KniFAQ episode 115 The knife
series where I answer all your questions whether they're sharp
or dull. This week amongst our questions we're taking a look at
some important knife safety rules as well as why you might
want a blade coating on a rust resistant steel. Let's get into
(KniFAQ)
so welcome welcome Welcome to this series the KniFAQ. The deal
with it is we get we are we take this opportunity to answer some
of the questions from the comments section on our video.
And if they if you have a question that you would like a
shot at having answered on one of these episodes, that's what
you do, just leave it in the comment section below these
videos. And I will come through and see what we can pull out.
First question today comes from danger dad, hi DCA, I made the
mistake of volunteering to teach a group of 13 to 15 year olds
about knives. Besides showing off my knife collection, I'm not
really sure what to fill the hour long lesson time with. Do
you have any ideas for good knife lessons, I also want to
send them home with a knife related gift. But I'm not sure
how some of their parents would feel if they gave them real
knives. Do you have any ideas for a knife centric gift that's
not a knife. When it costs maybe no more than five to 10 bucks
each, since I'll need to buy many of them. Thanks. Sure
thing. Showing off a collection is certainly fun. But the thing
that springs to mind for me would be knife safety,
especially if you don't mention what context this is in. Whether
it's like a scout troop or a local rec center, whatever the
case may be no idea. So I don't know if this is like outdoor
related or more general purpose related. But knife safety is
good in any scenario. So the things that come to mind,
especially if these kids are unfamiliar with knife use in
general, when starting out, always being able to cut away
from yourself is is a very important thing. You know, you
don't want to be like slicing thing, things towards you. That
was always a rule that was drilled into me, even though we
may or may not follow it all the time anymore. But let's do as I
say not as I do type of thing. Always close the knife. When
you're not using it, it's certainly an important thing
goes goes to storage to store your knife with the blade
closed. Or if it's fixed blade with the blade protected in some
fashion, not just from damage to the blade, but damage from your
fingers. And so on that note, never tried to catch a falling
knife. Just let it fall, let it hit the floor and then pick it
up. Because you you're the other part of that adage goes a
falling knife has no handle, you're bound to grab the sharp
edge don't want to do that. What else back to my Boy Scout days.
The thing that was always drilled in was when you're
handing a knife to someone, wait till the other person says thank
you before you let go again may not be a rule we follow here in
the office because we're handing knives around all day. But it is
a good safety rule to keep in mind. If it's a fixed blade or a
kitchen knife or something, handing the knife to the other
person handle first and edge up and away from your hand. Very
safe. Last but not least, keep the knife sharp. Maybe a short
demonstration on awesome sharpening principles could work
into this presentation for you. And that truly is, I think a
dovetail into the safety thing because speaking of adages a
sharp knife is less dangerous than a dull knife. Reason being
yes, if you just kind of like bounce on yourself if the knife
is dull enough, it might not do anything but if you're using a
knife that's a bit dull, could be sharpened, it's going to
require more force to use properly or to cut through what
you need. So you're fighting your muscles you're pushing more
there's less control and when that if you get past the the tip
over point, the knife goes rogue on you and it does bite into
your skin. You're gonna have a much more ragged cut some more
bruising and blunt force impact because you're pushing the knife
harder that is a possibility as well. A shallower cleaner cut is
going to heal a lot better and usually bleed a lot less in the
first place as well. So those are some good options. Nice
KnifeCenter exclusive Farmer X and red Alox here. Always love
that. As for the gift like I said don't know whether this is
like a scout troop I might have a specific gift option or gift
idea for that But since it's broader, I have a couple of
things here that could be useful. The first is not
strictly knife related, but I think would make a really, it's
a good EDC item, it's a good camping and outdoor item. If
this is a scout troop, it's just a good item. A rite in the rain.
Small was as like a three by five pocket notebook. These are
like these are less than $4 on our site right now. And the
advantage of this is, you give this to them before you start
the presentation. And now they've got something to take
notes on keeping track of the knife safety stuff and having a
nice reference here for them to look back on to remember and you
know, they're 13 to 15 year old, but if they don't have a knife
already something to show their parents saying, hey, you know,
this is what we went over, this is what I'm going to do if you
let me have the knife, that sort of thing. Really cool thing, not
that expensive, as well check those out. Other thing, Ka-bar
makes a handful of kind of synthetic injection molded
tchotchkes shall we say, such as this K bar knife shaped
emergency whistle. And a two pack of these is like 8.50 less
than 8.50. Right now on our site comes with split rings forum,
you've got the whistle thing, and you've got a very knife-y
gift there without it being a knife. And like sort of two
packs 850. So you can split them up, you know, hand one out to,
you know, however many kids do, you have to hand out to two
really cool option. And then one more, which is a little bit
above the budget. It's about $12 A piece. There's always stuff
like these JJs knife kits, it's a small wooden build your own
knife kit thing here, we'll have a close up image of it right
there. It's sealed. So I didn't want to go ahead and open this
particular one. But those are pretty cool and pretty fun too.
And it's a good way for them to practice knife safety,
especially if they put this together during your
demonstration, they can use that to demonstrate that they have
picked up on what you're saying. Because after all, even though
your name is danger, Dad, you don't want to get that
reputation. telling kids about knives and getting them into
trouble. You know, that wouldn't be good. There's more than one
way to be a cool dad. There is indeed as I'm as I'm bound to
learn here, eventually, as my child gets older, and that
starts to matter. My child's gonna have knives I'm sure I got
plans, don't worry about it. Next question comes from N S 20
Gun Talk. So I am a law enforcement officer and I've
been in the market for a built mounted defensive fixed blade.
Unfortunately, none of the sheets that I've been looking at
have active locking retention in case someone grabs them. What
are some small two to four inch bladed fixed blades with locking
she's got a couple here for you that could fit the bill actually
several Ka-bar adjacent products showing up today. The Spartan
blades professional grade Alala This is made by the Ka-bar folks
for the Spartan brand. Regular price on this actually we've got
it on sale right now as we're shooting this video for about
135 Cool knife 1095 carbon steel, you can get it in black
or green canvas micarta handle scales here. very stout, robust
thing, not a slicing wizard like something like the blade on a
Swiss army knife would be in terms of its geometrical
efficiency, but super solid and the sheath on it is injection
molded. And you can see it has a tab right here it's a little
thumb push off, you have to slide that to unlock the sheath.
Otherwise, that's not coming out maybe if it's I don't even know
if you could super hard yank it but that's that's the reason
they designed these shields thusly was for exactly the sort
of scenario you're talking about. But the cool thing about
it is if someone goes to grab it, it's not going to work. But
for you. It's a very intuitive movement to draw the blade
because it's a kydex sheath which most of them are on a
kydex sheath, you're usually going to be pushing off with
your thumb anyway. This kind of leans in to that muscle memory
right here. Because your thumb goes right to the switch, push
up the knife slides right out ready to go. If you're that
still makes you a little bit nervous you want even more kind
of intentional retention. Also made by Ka-Bar the Becker BK 11
and the BK 14 Both are available cost on them is pretty decent
about $59 for this BK 11 right now. You can buy handle scales
for this or sorry, this is the BK 14 You can buy handle scales
for the BK 14 as well as the BK 11. But the sheets that these
come with injection molded as well. clicks in and you've got a
tab or flap whatever you want to call it. You shake that gets
pushed up into the path of the blade so it can actually it's
not really coming loose. Something I forgot about that
do, they actually push a little bit of tension on to the sheath
these
there to keep it from sliding out unnecessarily. Drawing it is
a little more, it requires a little more in terms of prep and
steps and practice, because you do have to push it out of the
way, and then readjust your grip to grab the knife and draw. But
that is also another option for you. And just like the Spartan
we've got 1095 CV right here, good dependable stuff, you've
got the coating to keep the rust demons at bay, except for of
course the parts that are lasered with the logos and the
edge itself. And you can get handles if you want a little bit
more super solid tools in either case. All right, next up, we're
all ready to our lightning round for today. Our first question
comes from Mr. Stevie 57. Do you guys really need all those
knives? No need. But what does need have anything to do with
the hobby we all enjoy? Next question comes from Jeremy. why
do companies like DeWalt and Milwaukee make their own knives
instead of having knife companies make knives for their
company? Well, I think the short answer there is down to the word
we just mentioned hobby. Our knife hobby is certainly a
niche. Whereas you know, hand tools power tools are much more
mainstream. So it kind of makes sense from certain respects. But
I will say snap on would be the notable exception. They get crk
tea a lot and even Gerber to make some snap on branded tools
based on stuff in their lineup like this Monterosa right here.
You can get it right now for let's see, where's the price? I
cannot find my tablet. Yes, there it is. It's about $60 or
$58 right now or you could pay double that for a snap on
branded version. I'm not kidding. buy that one. Available
now the link in the description. Next question is from Waylon
Wade. Why do so many stainless steel knives have a blade
coating? Coating a blade to prevent rust makes sense. But
what are the benefits of coating? A highly stainless
blade like MagnaCut? I will short answer there's there's two
kind of dual answers there. One, let's say you've got a tactical
inspired thing. Or your your mission is more tactical. Check
out this knife right here it is the James brand clients are here
to remember the name MagnaCut blade, everything is blacked out
except for the logo as and the edge of course, and in a
tactical situation that's keeping reflections down which
could be a components needed for a mission. Another example would
be like this lion steel le one collaboration with Ernest
Emerson has a few more brightened bits. But you've also
got a magnet cut blade here just like on the James brand knife.
So this definitely presents a much more subdued alternative to
some of the brightly colored versions they do have. But the
other thing apart from you know, keeping reflections down is
sometimes it's all about style. I mean, check out this tactile
turn rock, tactile knife company, rock wall with MagnaCut
blade and a black DLC coating. It looks fantastic, but it is
not a tactical knife whatsoever. And now we come to our final
question of the day, which is of course our Most Serious question
of the day, which comes from Naza dos seven. Do you know any
knife or steel based pickup lines? Got one. Hey, are you
from Malibu? Because you've been flipping through my thoughts all
day. We've established that I'm a dad. So this is my dad joke
pickup line. Here's where I'm going to turn the comments
section loose. What are your knife or steel based pickup
lines? Love I'm really excited and a little trepidatious to
keep it clean. Keep it classy. There are ladies present here
gentleman. The ladies could of course, put their lines down
there as well don't mean to exclude anyone. But yeah, keep
it classy. When this video posts I'm gonna be out of town for a
couple of days. I don't have to come back in and clean up after
all you people. There we go. It's been said. And that's all
we have for today. So let me know what you thought of the
questions. Let me know if you've got some different answers or
suggestions or pickup lines down in the comments. Um, I don't
know I shouldn't open. Yes, this is good and very poorly. Keep it
clean, keep it classy. If you want to get your hands on any of
these products, check out the links in the description those
will take you to KnifeCenter.com and don't forget about our knife
rewards program as well because if you're going to be spending
your money on one of these knives, you might as well earn
some free money too. spend on a future one. I'm David C.
Andersen from the KnifeCenter. That's Thomas behind the camera
and we're signing off. See you next time.