I have finally bought my first custom knife this is the beginning of my knife
collection I guess I do have other knives but they don't have any story
behind it they don't mean anything to me I bought them a long long time ago I'm
not gonna sell this one because my wife bought it for me but this one speaks
volume it's different it has a story behind the creator of this knife helped
me in a beginning of my knife hobby by watching his videos he showed me a lot
of different techniques how to make a knife I watched his business girl from
hand making too right now he has a lot of CNC machines that do a lot of hard
work he's a Canadian knife maker and his name is Aaron Gough with Gough custom
knives if if I was to say the person that actually got me hooked or kind of
got me interested in knife making would be Trollsky but where I gained all my
knowledge is Aaron Gough he had very good videos that showed from the beginning to
end how to make knives later on of course I I found channels like Ekim
knives Walter Sorrell's Nick Wheeler and many many other channels that helped me
out in my knife making Aaron Gough 's channel taught me a lot of steps from tracing a
knife how to cut it out using the hacksaw how to properly use a file
because I had no idea how to use a file I honestly didn't know and you could see
that in my first Karambit video that I posted Aaron Gough made tutorial videos
on heat-treating how to shape handles gluing sharpening sheath making he's the
one who came up with a design he showed how to make and use a file jig I watched
him grow from using a hacksaw and a file jig to a belt grinder and a milling
machine later on he purchased a CNC machine which increased the tolerances
in his knife making and gave him more time to take on bigger orders by now he
acquired more than two three CNC machines you can go check out
his YouTube channel and Instagram what I like about Aaron Gough is that he chose
one single design and he mastered it he made all the jigs for it and which helps
him out to mass produce the knife also he gives you multiple choices of
different handle material that you can use and different spacers also there are
two different choices on steel finish you could have a satin finish and a dlc
coating now in order to buy this knife from him you have to be on a waiting
list and once he opens the order book then he notifies you through the email I
ordered my knife on March 9th of this year and he shipped it out by June 12th
and today June 29th I received the knife I ordered this knife right before he was
moving to his new workshop and he still managed to deliver this knife within
three months so good job Aaron the price of this knife was four hundred eighty
nine dollars and forty one dollars for the shipping so the total price was five
hundred thirty dollars in Canadian which equals to four hundred and three dollars
and seventy four cents that's the US dollar let's unbox this knife I haven't
seen it yet so I want you to see with me for the first time
so simply amazing I've never never in my life held the
custom knife especially made by a person that I know from YouTube so I guess now
I kind of understand when people buy my knives they can relate to
wow this is this is amazing it feels so good in the hand perfect size a glass
breaker
drain hole at the bottom of the Kydex now I have asked Aaron before buying
this with the big Tek-Lok belt clip fit the eyelets on the sheath and he said
no as you could see let me show you if I line it up the holes don't match but he
said he's gonna work on it but if you take the little one here's a big one
here's a little one the little one works so for you guys that use a Tek-Lok
system if you want to use the eyelets that are over there on his sheath the
little one works there you go the blade material is 5/32 inch thick or 4mm
r and it is A2 tool steel it's heat treated to 62.5 rockwell the blade
finish is a black dlc coating which is a diamond-like carbon coating he uses a
variety of g10 handles and you could choose a different color scales overall
length of this knife is nine inches or 229 mm blade length is 4.25
inches long knife weight is 6.4 ounces which equals 183
grams without the sheath and 9 ounces and 255 grams with the sheath and a belt
loop the sheath is composed from thermoform Kydex body
MOLLE compatible with detachable ambidextrous nylon webbing belt loop
beautiful beautiful work why did I buy this knife it's kind of like a nostalgia
for me it brings me brings me back to my knife making and also I want to give
kind of respect to the man who put out video content on YouTube to show all all
of us how to make knives he gave the backbone of all the knife
making and Thank You Aaron I appreciate it it's a great knife I'm not gonna be
using it it's going to be in my collection if I need a second one to be
used I'll get another one thank you everyone for watching bye