46 you've got to be joking 15. that is not right
that is not right i'm gonna drop the knife down as slow as possible
12 you there is something wrong with this test so i have a friend named joy mantia
and he is a long track speed skater and he's actually an athlete that i sponsor
and some really exciting news just last week he actually qualified for his third olympic games
so he's actually on his way to china i think this week and or if he hasn't arrived already by the
time this video is posted unfortunately it works a little bit different with olympic sponsors and
off olympic sponsors so i am a sponsor of joy mantilla and when he goes to the olympics he's
representing the united states so he won't have the perfection logo on his skin suit which is
really unfortunate so the knives in this box are really special because they're celebrating his
world champion status and also his third olympic appearance so these are custom knives made by
sabo brothers and they're made for me specifically for this project i probably wouldn't have done the
unboxing if it wasn't for those reasons and also when i received this box i was like you know what
this box here deserves a video it's a really cool box but this entire box
is actually put together without any glue so it's quite cool in terms of rock wall ratings
we have knives that are going to range from 62 to as high as 71 okay so i will tell you
what they are exactly but i've got a ton of different steels that we're working on right
now and about three months from now the knives i'm showing you today will be available for purchase
check that out this box is really cool i don't think i'll use it again but if
somebody wants a cool box let me know in the comments oh my oh my goodness that is
beautiful that is so gorgeous the polishing on the spine and the troil unreal it is
magnificent
this is the nakiri oh check that out oh my goodness
this thing is an absolute beast my goodness tell me that's not beautiful wow oh
that is perfection oh oh my goodness look at this handle
now i'm not gonna brag because i didn't make this knife but there is absolutely no step between
the silver rings and the ivory or the ivory resin ivory color resin and i think this is
birchwood right here on this handle oh and this buffalo horn that is so nice this is what we call
a satin mirror finish and it's just absolutely beautiful this is my newest cutting profile it's
a bit more aggressive than all the other ones i've made so far i would be lying if i told you
that i am bored with knives after all these years of testing and using knives [Laughter]
oh my goodness this thing
is quite thin at the spine and that polishing is unreal even on this super thin spine it's a
bit harder to see but you can still appreciate it oh the fit and finish of this handle is beautiful
beautiful beautiful fitting finish so this is a classic design
the eight inch chef knife by sabal and you can see the difference between my shape and
their shape i did promise to them that i will do a cut test so right here we've got the pt50a
so andy the maker of these knives here said that he would not be happy with anything
over a hundred so on the pt58 on the best scale anything new knives anything between 200 and 300
are considered new knives like new german knives new european knives anything between 100 to 200
is in the like straight razor category and a lot of the japanese knives come out at around
150 or so now for those who are curious out of box sharpness and edge sharpness is not actually going
to determine cutting performance those are two very separate things edge sharpness and absolute
cutting performance they're measured in different ways and so this is really more for entertainment
than anything else okay so just keep that in mind it just tells you how good the edges from
a particular maker from a factory so the way this works let me just do a really quick explanation is
this filament here there's a filament on the scale and it measures in grams how much pressure it
takes to cut that filament so for example if this is my if this was a blade and you press it down
it would tell you this you know if it cut at some point it will tell you exactly how many
grams it took to cut this filament so we're going to set this to zero
that is not real 31 that is absolutely not real that has got to be an error so i think i use this
right you put the knife on the fulcrum and you slowly release the knife until it cuts
i'm doing something wrong because i just got a score of eight
i just made it i just messed it up but that was eight
okay so the petty is 251
145
102
160
181
81
46 you've got to be joking
73
18 no way i'm gonna drop the knife down as slow as possible
12 you there is something wrong with this test
48 15. that is not right that is not right
16 no it is not 16 that is not tell me you're more than more than 50.
eight no you did not get eight
nineteen no you're not nineteen
and let the weight of the knife do all the work for me
93 just drop the knife the weight of the knife
21 no it is not 21
16 that is not possible all these knives here these these four are scoring in the very real
you know 150 160 170 range and i think 250 for the for the petty and scores that you actually expect
from high quality custom knife makers all right so this is parchment paper or not even parchment
paper this is um diffusion light diffusion paper this is one of the hardest papers to cut
and
this did it quite easily push cut
oh my goodness that is not real all right
okay so this is the thinnest paper i have ever attempted to cut
this is like voodoo [Laughter] oh my goodness look at this
that is not real this isn't real this is not possible
oh my goodness
can you even hear that
i think this was the sharpest knife according to the scale
that oh my goodness
this is not according to the test not the sharpest knife here in this in the group but it is
it is sharp oh my goodness
i have never had a knife cut this diffusion paper the way these knives are cutting them right now
absolutely effortless these tests that i'm doing are not official
but i will say that on my channel these are officially the sharpest knives i have ever tested
quite literally and not just literally but by far the sharpest knives i have ever tested
um they're not for sale unfortunately these are all my personal samples
and i'm not gonna sell these these are going to my archive i'm really excited so congratulations
to joey mantia who've just made his third olympic team and forever for everyone else who's waiting
for these knives i will post videos and updates on these knives when they're available and it's so
crazy that i'm telling you these are the sharpest knives i have ever tested and i cannot sell them
so thank you for your time and i'll catch you in the next video