Now you and I both know I’m not the gear dump guy. But recently I have been attempting to
keep up with the dump lifestyle. I have a terrible personality and hate networking,
and that’s were Rai stepped in. Rai is from every day carry city, an amazing youtube knife channel,
that has a hustle and editing skills I am not cut out for (it’s an editing joke,
weak laugh). Rai got me in touch with Urban EDC. He deserves the followers and not me. The deal
is Urban EDC offers to loan me some new stuff, if it looks interesting to me, and I’ll try and
do some short videos. We’ll see how it works. You get to see stuff I wouldn’t normally get,
it gives me some new avenues for content- and hopefully brings in the dump crowd. So let’s see
if I can get some advice from Rai from Every Day Carry city Rai any advice? It’s not called a dump
it’s a drop. And if it’s a joke it’s not funny grow up dude. Point taken it’s a drop.
Urban EDC loaned me two knives from upcoming drops. One that I can’t reveal yet. The one I
can talk about is the blue denim F5.5 exclusive. Dropping Wednesday. And for the knife unboxing
crowd out there, This box is amazing didn’t think I’d be into packaging, but I really am.
Yeah no one likes to admit it, but I have seen Metal Complex’s views on his clickbait unboxing,
and then I look at say my Raiden video. Well one gets the views. Anyway, the f5.5.
Turns out these are fairly popular and the last f5.5 variant sold out within an hour.
People love em. The f5.5 is a pretty nice looking design from Jaspar Voxnaes based on his custom F5.
There’s an all titanium variant on the site in stock if this one sells to quickly. Let’s
take a look at some basic dimensions. It’s lighter than the 4.4 ounce TI version. I would
prefer a nice micarta for weight saving anyway. This variant is known as blue denim micarta,
with an acid etched M390 I got this on Saturday the 29th. And my personal challenge is to have
this video done by Wednesday and just be the regular amount of terrible viewers are used to.
Since this is a loaner, this one won’t see the business end of a stump. The blade. Because it’s a
Voxnaes, it’s a thick piece of M390. I’ve handled some Voxnaes CRKT collabs, and it’s not CRKT thick
of the CRs or D2s I don’t always get the Voxnaes look, but a lot of people love it,
and this one is very nice looking. It’s a flat ground with the modified sheepsfoot profile
for the shepherds. Blade is sharp and I could see easily cutting myself or others with it.
The blade is deployed by a thumbhole and it pops nicely. It is a ceramic bearing
system and washers, because it is the law of the land nowadays for the every day carry crowd.
Personally there are a lot of knives with just washers that pop very well,
but that’s a whole other discussion. It’s nearly a drop shut, and the bearings are oh so silky The
blade isn’t too large and it might make a great office knife if the handbook allows it of course.
You could reason with your coworkers. Guys it has artisan denim and is on ceramic bearings
it’s not designed to just look at and resell when the next variant comes out. The blade
locks by a liner lock (do a spine whack test you fancy jerk). No lock stick detected on my model.
It’s very fidgetable due to its flickable blade and smooth pivot. It’s not quite a broken in
compression lock or a good axis lock but it’s fun and responsive like a nice car I’d own if I was
successful and didn’t have a Youtube channel. These are produced in an undisclosed factory
in China, and the fit and finish, and attention to detail, the even edge grind, dialed in pivot,
and high end feel- seems to be made in a similar factory to my Sharp By Design productions.
Handle is nice but might be small for some tastes, and everything is
comfortable and knocked down.. No word if the denim micarta is sourced form unsanforized
Japanese selvedge, but maybe that’s an idea to just float out there for an upcoming drop,
just being aware of the audience. It looks nearly green, like not green but not
entirely blue. Like if the box didn’t say denim I would have trouble deciding
on a color. You got the choil up there, choking, feather stick detail work, or what have you.
Be careful there is no thickened quillion area if you’re choking it,
so you could cut yourself. The jimping up top is thoughtful and is about where you
thumb would rest as you’re doing the detail work. Been in the garage doing detail
work all day. The liners are titanium and nested, to keep thickness down
The pocket clip is titanium and kind deep carryish.
Feels nice, and nice springinness, similar to my Hawks or Reeve’s . Tip up blade backward in
the right pocket. Not friendly to the lefties, but remember god made them that way it’s their fault.
Quick comparisons. F5.5. This one looks like it was made by committee:
deep carry, nice micarta, did I mention how smooth it was, M390, this sort of knife has the audience
of the pocket dump crowd. This is not an Italian made Voxnaes, if you understand what that means. I
think this retails for about $229, that’s what the black micarta dropped at last
week. That seems to be a pretty good value if this is made by who I think it’s made by.
Now the fidgetable PM2, these start about about $140 now. My reference knife for as perfect as an
EDC you can get. It’s not my favorite knife but it’s the one I’d recommend to just about anyone
wanting a good knife. I have the flytanium natural g10 scales here with a lynchclip.
It was the blurple variant at one point. Now the Para 3. This knife is a little closer to
this in size. I like the Para 2 better, but this one aint bad in m4 steel. Of course this
was limited and you’d have to pay a lot for it on the secondary. The Headesigns Elixir a 280
knife. This titanium botiuque jobbie that has my heart. I love it and Sam’s designs. Snappy,
compact, titanium. Not deep carry but the clip looks amazing.
Ok that about does it, thanks to Urban EDC supply for letting me take a look at this,
it’s the only place you can get this knife. You can always support the channel by links
in the description. Unless you’re like all caps guy. Stay tuned for
a giveaway on Instagram soon. Probably the Gerber strong arm. Say Hi to the Patrons.
They are helping me pay off the new camera and computer. Anyway thanks for watching.