how's it going guys and welcome to our spectacular knife
weekend we are here with Ryan from CRKT, how's it going buddy?
doing great how are you doing Zac? dude so good
and uh this feels a little bit like deja vu doesn't it?
it it certainly does! so guys in our effort to like reach out
and get some of these uh these kind of you know distance videos
going Ryan's in Oregon we're in Utah uh we had a little kerfuffle with this
one so you guys get take two which is uh not
normal so let's see if we can do it i guess better
let's do it two times in two days that's what i was saying i
i feel like a lucky man to see you for the second time so oh
it's so good it's so good all right so first on the table
we have got this new little razel razzle how do you say it again yes Razzlecliff compact yep now what's what's the story on this
bad boy? yeah so we have had at the razel on our
line before with our stubby razel our ring razel we had a
large fixed blade called the ss7 uh so this is the compact
version razel cliff so um the
the origin of the name is razor chisel. that stands for razel and then
warren cliff plus razel equals razor cliff
so it's all in the name i love it so i know yeah i know you were you're saying
razzle earlier um yeah and so yeah but that's a
definitely misconception or people said all the time but if you actually
break it down which i was fortunate enough to have
john graham the designer uh on a zoom call
about two weeks ago and he he let me know kind of the
of why he designed this knife the way he did and it's it's really unique so if
you look at the the blade itself there's actually
two edges here you take a look there so you have your
your chisel edge and then it comes to a nice
pointy tip as well so chisel it's great for
you know scraping uh anything like that and then
you also have your piercing point as well and then your your flat edge on the
bottom so it's uh just a great utility compact
folder. yeah i know i've always really liked the
razel the the blade design has always been interesting to me and then
the way that it incorporates either like a really good pry edge or a really good
chisel edge whichever version of it you're dealing with
i think it's awesome and then this one you know you get it's a frame lock knife
deep carry pocket clip um it's cool to know the origin of
why it's called the raisel and not the razzle
i think that's awesome and one thing i really like about this
and i feel like this is a detail that could have been like easily like
skipped right is even with this back edge sharpened
uh everything goes inside of the knife really well right so if you're reaching
your pocket to get this knife out that that top edge that sharpened isn't
exposed at all when the knife's closed so
really cool little knife i i like this one a lot and i haven't added a razel
yet to my collection this might be the one
because i like how compact it is. awesome yeah now next up is uh it's
two knives they're kind of the same family that honestly i don't feel like
get enough attention right they don't get enough
spotlight so you guys have got some new colors
in or a new color with the jeff park crossbones right? yes so this is the
crossbones bronze so uh crossbones great design like
you're saying maybe doesn't get the attention it deserves
uh you know an incredible slicing capability with this you know
wicked blade here um great gentlemen's folder
it won 2017 import knife of the year at blade show as well um so it had some
recognition early on but honestly this thing is incredible so
what we wanted to do is add a different colorway to the line
so the time that i tried uh finish here with the bronze and i
it's just super easy to open has ikbs and the ball bearings and it just really
flies out yeah it really is just a great little
knife and yeah like like you said 2017 2018 i feel like it got
it got some pretty good attention then but yeah it's one that i don't feel like
enough people see so i'm excited to see a new colorway kind of get it back out
there again now along with the crossbones uh you guys
have a new colorway in the jumbones now before we even talk about the color here
it's all blacked out which is cool why why does this knife exist because i
actually think it's really cool but the crossbones i mean if we do a
size comparison right the crossbones is such a nice
compact just gentleman's knife did you guys just decide like oh you know we
need we just need like like just a gnarly like machete folder
or like i don't know what this even be called.
um so great question uh so true story we were uh we were in a
meeting and our um product manager or he works with all
of our designers has been in the industry for 20 years doug flagg
he brought this knife out there original at the time and he opened it
and this thing opens incredibly as well and it's snapped out
everybody in the room was like what is that?
and we're like you know you know why or a similar question came up and he goes
because it's awesome! that's like the best answer man like
it's yeah i mean how do you what do you say
to that you're like yeah it is i mean this is awesome
yep it is um it is awesome and what's great about this
is it's obviously a very large folder but it fits really well in your pocket
because of the profile of of the handle on the blade just slips
in and out of the the pocket really easily
and i really like this blacked out
version as well so this is
this is pretty awesome! yeah i mean a knife a knife this big like i don't know
if i would call the jumbones tactical but a knife this
big definitely feels tactical and so i think the blackout kind of just
accents it perfectly right like you carry a big knife like this you whip it
out it's all black like it's like oh yeah no
this is a good tactical cool knife but like you said
it's it's pretty slim so it fits in the pocket really well
and for how big that blade is man that thing just flies open so
cool design. yes awesome yeah designed by uh jeff park out of Hawaii
he worked um has worked under ken onion for the
last uh decade or so so you know it's it's pretty amazing
this was his first knife that he ever came out with and we
picked it up and you know we think it's a home run and so we
decided to uh to build on it with the uh different
colorways here. so cool yeah now great additions to that uh
crossbones jump bones line. and then finally um you guys have a new
colorway in the provoke so if you guys if anybody
out there has been living under a rock that's the provoke it's a cool uh
folding karambit and uh yeah just just a really neat
little knife and what's the what is the colorway on this particular
one? this is desert sand desert and so it's uh it's cerakoted as
well um we're talking about earlier yep so that
is a a great feature uh d2 blade steel uh joe caswell came
out with this kinematic mechanism so that is the way uh it opens to deploy
down with the with the pushier thumb um as you showed earlier and then there
is a lock and you just kind of push up on the lock
and the knife folds back up in on itself also has this really cool uh low or zero
profile pocket clip on the back as well so it slides really
uh easily in and out of the pocket the pocket clip is actually so
obviously the the design of the knife is really neat like no no questions like
it's a really cool innovative design but the pocket clip is actually
one of the things that i nerd out the most because it's so
simple and it's it sits flush unless you don't want it to
and even though it doesn't open a ton it opens perfectly i mean i wear jeans all
the time and perfectly to grab the lip of my jeans
and go in the pocket so really cool design
it's cool to see a different colorway in it as well. yep yeah so
obviously this game changing in innovation that joe came out with we
have a black we have a first responder we have a vet uh serrated blade
the earth colorway and now we have the the desert sand colorway so
cool that's great man. all right so some some neat stuff on the table couple new
colorways and some favorites got a new razel now i know you guys have
been working from home so the big question is
what's in your pocket right now? are you carrying anything? what's in my pocket?
yeah i do have i do have a knife that i've been carrying
uh i guess i would say this is my quarantine blade
um yeah this is our bt fighter by brian ty and i love this
i love brian ty designs that's without a question but the reason why i've been
carrying this is this is the funnest knife ever to
play with as far as being around the house i'm
maybe i'm a little fidgety than normal i suppose um and this is so much fun
flick it open uh back and forth also has this really cool
pocket clip on the back that has a ball um so it you know rolls in and out of
the pocket really easily and has ikbs on the ball bearing so it's
super smooth uh there's two models that we came out
with for 2020 and this is the compact version so
i would say for the last almost four months this is what i've been carrying
every day um because of quarantine doing a lot of
housework rebuilding some you know our dresser and
all that stuff and this has been my EDC. so cool that's great man and something
that i love is yeah brian ty has a very specific style
and something you guys have been able to kind of bring to the masses because his
stuff is you know he's make custom maker he's
usually very expensive but i love that you guys still put the ball bearing on
the pocket clip it's something you usually only see with custom knives so
it's a it's a cool little touch for sure. yep absolutely yeah
we want to be true to all of our designers you know that
this is this is who CRKT is and so what what we you know try to do is um have
those little touches like you were saying so we want to be
true to brian and still keep that on the pocket clip so.
cool that's great man well sweet well hey thanks so much for taking time
and uh showing us some of your guys's new sweet stuff. absolutely!
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