(SHOT Show 2022 Presented by KnifeCenter) Hey everyone, David C. Andersen here from
the KnifeCenter coming at you from SHOT Show 2022 here with my friend Maury to check out
some case knives. Yes, sir, how are you sir? I'm good, David. I'm good. Just proud of proud to be
in front of your group here, man. We're happy to have you really happy to have you. We got a lot of
great things SHOT Show. 2020 I know you guys are like us. We're just you did it back and you said
2020 Oh, I've been doing that all week. It's why it's 2022 it's an encore 2020 Everything is just
an encore to redo. Yeah. So I almost did that earlier to talking to someone. I guess it is,
I guess. But man, we got a lot of great stuff. It's exciting. Exciting to be back in person. Oh,
yeah. Oh, yeah. To see the knife community, you forget how much you know, we see him I
get to watch them on your video. And you kind of bring things to life, which is awesome. But
go into their booths and see people in person. No substitute, there's no such no substitute.
But man it case we got some great stuff. I'm excited to hear about it. All right, we got all
right. Well, the first thing you know, it tastes every year for the last five or six years,
we've launched a vault pattern. So we take one of our traditional slip joints
that we haven't had in production. And for one year only, maybe stealing a page out of
the playbook of some other iconic brands that do kind of a one year build. We've done that.
And this year, it is the swell center jack. So this is a three inch knife. So it's a little bit,
you know, a little bit larger than a peanut. It's a two bladed it's two bladed jack knife,
you got to clip and you've also got a pin blade in that. You'll see a whole selection of those,
because we got a lot of the different Oh, the different handle materials are going to be
offering on that knife right up here at the front, right? Yes, you'll well actually all the
way through. So you Okay, cool. We'll see. Yeah, we were going to have 15 in our core catalog.
So while some of our line has been narrowed a little bit to kind of focus on some production,
we know that the bolt pattern is always a customer favorite. So we're launching that
it's gonna it's kind of a big deal. We'll make it for one year, man. Yes, please do. Please do.
That's got that's got some of our purple curly maple as extra shield. You're also going to
find that in a brown maple burl, you're going to find it in bone stag, you're going to find it.
There's gonna be all the greatest hits all the greatest villains. Yeah, you're gonna find it
in carbon and stainless. That was gonna be my next question. Yes, yeah, yes. So you're gonna
see it in a lot of different ways there. But those will start hitting the shelves probably
later in the first quarter. And it will be something that runs just for one year. So
I like it. It's a great way. If you're collecting case knives, and you want to know
what's the latest and greatest, always land on the vault pattern. That's a great way to do that.
And then we're going to be brought in that. And if it's something you got somebody, it's a great
carry knife. Yeah. You know, that's the right size. For me. It's like just a little smaller than
the mini trapper, right? Yes. Yeah, a little bit larger than the peanut. So it is it is a little
more on the smaller gentleman knife scale. But that 25 and a half again, for those folks that
understand their pattern numbers with case. A lot of great case collectors out there. And easiest
way. I like to have sop on this model, which you don't do on all the models out there. Right. But
the action feels very good. Yeah. And this is your personal carry pets right now. Isn't it is mine
for the show fresh anyway? Yes, these are proto, so don't tell me like but yeah, as I said of the
booth, I'm like, actually, I'm one of those in my pocket. So I am carrying that one right now. Very
cool. In addition to the other thing that I would say is probably a highlight for the case brand
at the Shot Show and really for the launch of 2022 is some of the updates to our modern EDC.
You know, we launched in July, June at the blade show, our version of a modern style
knife and we did the Marilla and the qinzhou. We were very fortunate that the Marilla was
selected as the American made knife of the year. Yeah, the Marilla is the one with a G10 insert
and one of the things that the knife community told us they told us early on we were trying to
get to it is man you need to do it in OD green. And someone's the other colors. We launched it
in black and red and blue. And at the Shot Show two big changes. OD green is being added to the
qinzhou both with the tanto and the spearpoint Yeah, you've got the new blade shape on the
Kinzu Yeah, so here you go. You are the man this might become official case. That is drop
point. spearpoint. So I'd call it a drop point just because the the taper at the top is more.
That's kind of where the consensus is. You know, I don't want to call it a spear point there like it
stick with your Yeah, that's a that's a drop point I want I mean, if the tips along the center line
you could you could probably get away with calling it a spear point. I always called it a drop
point myself. Well, spearpoint wouldn't be wrong. Okay. I don't think so. I'm not going to be
laughed at but because that is how we've advertised kind of by the spear point but, but as
we looked, you know, through the design process, we were gonna Put a drop point blade on it. So
that's the way it feels to me. Okay, yeah. Okay, well, that's gonna be Oh,
no problem. That's the way that's the way we're gonna refer to it because obviously,
that's something I think your customers and, and obviously in this space, that's what they expect
to see. So, Donnie green handle the spearpoint we've got the Marilla The Knife of the year and
OD green we still haven't the other colors as well. And these knives for us are all made in
Bradford. Yeah, the name regimen that we're doing with that all symbolizes things that are local to
the Bradford, Pennsylvania community. So we're going to keep expanding that doing some other
things, working on some extensions of that may be coatings or different handles shirts, and then
leis and things like that I liked so you pulled this one out of your pocket before we started
filming and I really liked the way this is kind of yes more well, to use a case terminology pocket
more. There you go. There you go. You know, that looks the contour on there. It does, it feels like
and you know, we want these even though even though they are very modern. We want to have
some case DNA in there. Oh, yeah. I tried to do that with a few different ways. But,
but we're really excited about that. I tell you, our our master craftsmen that have been building
knives for 133 years. Might want to give or take and I know we're excited. Obviously tradition
traditional knives is our wheelhouse. That's our that's our bread and butter. But they love to work
on this. Yeah. And they took so much pride in the fact that we could build this in Bradford
and man is doing well. Yeah, no, they're really cool. I love the graceful shape to that blade.
S 35 vn aluminum ball bearings. Yeah, it's everything you want. I mean, really? But you
guys have been really instrumental I know at blade show you know you gave us some advice and we're
we're trying to learn like I said as we as we get into this you know we're working with some folks
that are helping us make sure we don't we don't trip out of the gate. We want to have a quality
knife. We want to have the right price point. Those are those are good price points on them.
For American made. Yeah. 35 steel. Yes. And that's that's something so I thought Chacho. This is the
first time the whole industry has seen it outside of what we did it blade show outside of us like
crazy knife circle. Yeah, that's right. And we all know that, right? We love it. We love to watch the
videos. We love to learn all we can. And just a lot of a lot of great things in there. So yeah.
Yeah, they work really well. I think especially especially impressive considering it's the first
one you guys have made alongside the slip joints. Like it's a completely new paradigm for you guys.
And you did a great job. It really did. Thank you. And like I said, the endorsement that
we've gotten. And, you know, like I said, we talked in depth at this late show. And
you know, you were we said, man, give us give us all your criticism. We need to learn on that.
And you're like, I was doing pretty good. I was like, Man, that feels pretty good. I was gonna
be careful. Like, how honest Do you want me to be? Yeah, hey, do you want you want 50% or 150%?
No, you guys are doing your guys are doing a really good job again, like even taking apart the
fact that it is your first right entry into the genre. It is still just a good job. Thank you for
that. Yeah, absolutely. In addition to that, so we got the vault pattern. We also have the modern EDC
and some of the changes there. What you can expect from cases this years is a lot like you will see
often is that we're going to have a broad selection we're going to try new materials.
We're going to try some things with with hardwoods and bone. We've got some antique bones. So this is
his core tradition, is it yes, we're doing some things with some fluted bolts. I really like that
orange jig pattern on that cayenne. So you'll see a little bit of red in there. You'll see
the bolster treatment on that that has the double x's, you know that is that is the symbol for our
the way that we have tested and the way that we've heat treated our blades. And that just worked into
our trademark Yeah, two x's on there. It's kind of just that reinforcement. But that tie in, it looks
great. It is it really is nice. It's hard. Maybe I'm partial but bone handles with handcrafted you
really see the character in that bone. Yeah and and those bright colors sometimes show it more now
the traditional stuff is great but when you see the bright color, sometimes you get more of that
character or the character even Yeah, which is fantastic and you get you get even a little bit
more attraction. There you go. You get all sorts of things. You know we're celebrating
the pocket worn you know pocket worn is our that's Mediterranean blue so we're pocket worn had a 25th
anniversary last year that was kind of one of the resurgence in our commitment to handcraftsmanship
artisans just spend a little more time having that thing feels right right away or in your
pocket. So we got Mediterranean blue pocket worn great color. You'll see the brown maple
burl that you're the master at that. So hardwoods we've done great with hardwoods and that maple a
burl wood anyway to me is that the most character is more beautiful. And that brown maple burl looks
it's kind of a cool story too. He's like the thing that causes burl is like insects burrowing in,
right so it's like beauty through adversity. Yeah. Which is the human experience really. So that's,
that's not too hyper All right, but that's the human experience of the pocket knife.
Right. There we go. There we go. I love it. Yeah. So, so yeah, we're really excited about that.
Some of the other things you're gonna see from case we got, we saw that in
swell soon. The purple curly maple, we're doing some doing some more micarta we've got a green and
black micarta. That looks fantastic. So you're gonna see some of that modern panel material.
We're not straying away as a whole as a whole part case enthusiast that wants to show know that
we that people with the modern like, wait a minute voice, like, Don't worry, yeah, well, I mean, it's
it's case like you guys have been doing it for so long. And you're gonna be doing it for so long. I
mean, there's still a place even if you've never tried a old school slip joint in your life today.
Maybe you're like, you're the kind of person who this is the kind of knife I try one of these out.
There's a lot, there's a lot of a lot to recommend about an old school slip. We talked about the old
school split join. And I know there's a trend people like the vintage they liked some of those
things coming back. And, you know, I get people to tell me maybe they're maybe this is not their
style, and I get it. That's okay. Like, you know, that was my grandpa's knife. I'm like, There's no
better endorsement than maybe something. Yeah, carry. And if a case knife was for Grandpa
Grandpa was kind of a bad name. That's right. That's right. If there if maybe this is not your
style? Well, grandpa would endorse that because it says case, I think he knows that it you know, it's
American made, we stand behind it. And that it is it is just a great quality knife. So excellent.
I hope your folks that like those knives will look at these, the folks that like these eight,
give us a look over here, because I've been carrying both. So you know, I usually carry I
carry one of the butter knives just to kind of familiarize myself, I always carry a peanut or
micarta circuitous whole center jack this year. And I use them both. Yeah, all the time. Yeah.
And I have found that performance steel that was never maybe I shouldn't say this on the video.
I never really understood why it was, you know, the performance deal was so good. As
you carry one. And as you use what you learned really quickly that right, man, this steel,
it does change grandpa that that yeah, that attitude there for your grandpa. It is good. And I
really enjoy it. It's a great product. So we're really excited about what we have coming out,
not only in this vault pattern and all this stuff, but we'll continue to do that. Like I mentioned
earlier, we're going to streamline a few things. So some of your maybe your outlier patterns that
we would normally do. You may not see those for several months. As we're really working to
get caught up. We owe you guys some knives we owe. We owe a lot of folks. I mean, it's 2022. Yes,
everybody's trying to get caught up everybody. Yeah, I don't know what our theme is. We just got
to get, we got to put all the 2020 and 2021 behind us. But the case brand is very strong. And we're
very thankful for that. We just look forward to working with you guys. I know you've got ideas,
and that's exciting. But no, it's there's a lot of great stuff here. We're excited to work with you
guys, too. Thanks for taking the time to show us all this cool stuff I really appreciate. Thank you
for giving us Oh yesterday and my thank you for what you do for the knife community. I told you
this and I am not saying this. As I was learning this business. I've seen 100 hours. Oh gosh, and
they're all great. Please don't apologize to your wife for Oh no. She did wonder what else I'm going
to school right now. So it is wow. That's that's really flattering. What do you guys do for really
kind of you to say? It is absolutely true. So love it. All right, folks, let us know what you thought
down in the comments. And if you want to check out all the latest case knives if this stuff isn't on
our site yet it will be in the coming months and very, very soon. Link in the description for those
and keep sticking around for some more great shot show coverage more. Thank you. Thank you, David.