hey guys Zac here with blade HQ we're here at shot show 2019 and we're at the HOH
booth I'm sitting down with Scott how's it going good Zach how you doing good to
see you guys again it was fun to have you guys around and if you guys haven't
seen yet we went and did a shop tour with Hogue and we did a little adventure
video with Hogue if you haven't checked him out make sure
to check them out there are a lot of fun hoaxes got a really great story you guys
have some exciting stuff for 2019 yeah we do in fact we want to highlight 2019
s our 10 year anniversary with with hope knives so we've been in the knife
business for 10 years now and then 2018 was the the company's 50-year
anniversary so a couple of big years for us and then we're we're kicking off 2019
at shot show with some new out the front so I want to I want to start with
compound and this is the compound out the front we've named a compound because
it's got compounding materials we've got g10 and a 6061 aluminum chassis on the
inside so we've decided to give customers a g10 out the front that still
utilizes that aluminum action on the internals while also continuing to
bolster and strengthen that knife and this is a tanto tumble finish and I also
want to highlight what's what's really cool about this knife is we're now
introducing CPM s30v as the blade steel right which is something that you know
Hogue is not historically used it's typically CPM 154 154cm so a great blade
steel yeah it you know the CPM 154 it's great it's a reliable blade steel it
holds a good edge but you know customers have really been asking for these the
CPM s30v so we said let's give the customers what they're asking for right
and that's what we're here to do so is this something that we'll see on like
all hope knives just new skews coming out or testing the waters with we're
testing the waters a little bit but you will continue to see this on new models
coming out I think it's kind of our plan to continue to release more premium
blades deals in the in the hope knives catalog again to give those customers
that quality and what they're asking for you know the knife notes are always all
about what's the new steel what is it made out of let's let's give them those
fresh ingredients so that's what we're doing here
that's what exciting yeah I want to take over there yeah that's
got great action too yeah not a lot of holdup on the on the
fire or on the release and then nice deep carry pocket clip there yet
reversible deep cut pocket carry clip and then is this lighter than some of
the new can actually it comes in I don't have the actual how many ounces off off
top my head but it actually comes in lighter than our aluminum out the front
which I'm about to show you next yeah this is this is really really light
I'd be interested to see I handle a lot of OTS with what we do have ladies q
yeah I want to get this on a scale I think I think the issue any compares you
should weight symptoms I don't have those I don't have those actual numbers
off off head I know where it's coming in it's coming in lighter than the aluminum
full-size out the Front's which is great we didn't really expect it but it's a
nice ring yeah and then it's good way to segue segue
into another new out the front model again this is a CPM s30v blade tumble
finished tanto blade also comes in a clip point blade which the the compound
does as well we're calling this exploit this is a hug
exploit OTF and it's basically just a engineered slimmed down version of ROTF
one so if any of our customers are familiar with that out the front we've
basically utilized different internals to get this slim down sleeve more
friendly to carry in the pocket so go ahead and try that one out again that's
just 6061 aluminum yeah Kayson cover pretty standard with most out the
Front's that's the material you'll see yeah and that and that does that feels
really good in hand I think with the the original one that you guys have but this
one's based off of it's a it feels a little chunky in my hand yeah it's
pretty girthy this dagger knife this definitely feels a lot better
I got a medium sized hand so with the glove 10 or a bigger hand yeah I'm sure
that bigger model feels great but yeah ya know and that's kind of why we did it
we want to do a peel again more to the the friendly everyday
a knife we didn't want it to obstructed in the pocket you know people have their
cell phones in their pocket whatnot yeah all of a sudden you can't fit anything
in there so again this is exploit out the front great we also have it I mean
just to show you another flavor here that we have with us you can get into
block black tanto or black clip-point or tumble finish clip point and you can
also get it in gray comes in gray as well lots of options lots of options and
then again the third out the front you know yeah yeah no we got the front not
not lying it also so here we have what we're calling a mini incursion and this
was released in our H&K a line of knives so what the real highlight feature of
this knife is it's got a sub three-inch blade so it's a more compact out the
front again we had a lot of customers requesting hey do you have anything with
a shorter blade you know some states have different legalities some municipal
laws require a certain blade length so that's kind of why we did this and also
a bonus feature here is as you can see we've got a carbide tip glass breaker on
the back there which is incorporated with a a deep reversible deep pocket
carry clip again this is being sold and marketed under our H and K brand of
knives co-branding with HK firearms so going along with stuff like the vp9 you
know this very popular HK pistols like that folks decided to take over that
contract with H okay and it's doing quite well great so we're really proud
of this one we're excited about it hopefully customers are turned on to
that that more compact version the other side yeah and for you guys at home that
may not know Hogue does as you mentioned HK and they also you guys also do some
signals we do signals as well you know they're not not really new we've been
advertising that for a few years now but similar kind of concept we're just
trying to co-brand with these firearm companies you know we're gonna make
sense with your ground yeah we're we're gonna love pistols we love rifles we
love Sig love HK so we figured why not have the best of both worlds and there's
actually so when you say you're gonna like I love to go out to the range you
go shooting all these other things I think sometimes in the knife industry
there is this this concern that if their gun people can they make a
right and so that's why I say check out the video we did guys who really does
make a great knife just yesterday I had a hook in my pocket I carry a home
actually pretty off great so honestly great knives if you've if you've had Ben
Burtt in the past by any gun knife friends give hoga shots good stuff
definitely definitely we stand behind our product yeah they're proud of it
yeah and speaking of what's in our pocket I do have one more thing to kind
of to show blade HQ here you know this is our micro switch now I think a lot of
our customers are pretty familiar with this knife at this point this happens to
be the sub 2 inch drop point version but I just want to highlight some upgrades
we've added this cutout on the sub 2 inch version blades which is basically a
bottle opener so when the knife's closed again you've got this really cool
feature we can now go and open a beer bottle or any kind of any kind of bottle
with a cap on there and then we did go and address some customer concerns about
the pocket clip we actually dished it out right here for some more comfort
ability in your hand and and ease of in and out of your pocket and I got to say
ever since we've upgraded this knife I can't stop carrying it it's it's it's a
wonderful knife I'm in love with it very proud of that so wanted to
highlight some of those upgrades as well yeah this is this is honestly a great
little knife and with the pocket clip upgrade is this extend to the full size
model the full size model yeah it extends to all models manual auto
full-size and miniature great we're actually going to be just eliminating
that old clip all together this is a superior clip so if any customers have
any concerns or they wanted to switch their clip out give us a call we
actually have new clip kit part numbers in our catalog we'll replace it no
problem one oh that's wonderful yeah so I don't have a problem cuz the old clip
if you guys aren't familiar the old clip kind of came out and then it kind of
knurled in a little bit right here yeah it did it kind of wrapped around which
it's an innovative way to do it and it worked well yeah some people had those
really thick Levi's you know and sometimes it could catch on the seam
there you know and we really just we want to make sure we address every
customer's concern and that we're doing our level best to make something that
people are happy with alright it's great to hear you guys are getting that
feedback cuz I was on mine it never bothered me but Ben who
you know as well thank you then actually he always had a problem with my clip and
I what's wrong with your pants bro he though dance were the problem it wasn't
just been skinny jeans ya know yeah this is great this is a great little thing
and I saw this bottle opener at HQ it came through I don't know a week or two
before shot and I was like you know if you weren't gonna shorten up the handle
which wouldn't be great for any for purchase right yeah that's such a great
way to use that really it's an innovative way to do it in fact one of
our one of our owners Pat hope that was his idea you know he
looked at that and he saw that advantage there with that that extra space on the
back of the frame he said you know we really should be doing something with
that area you know he's an innovator he's a designer as well yeah it's it's
just funny how many people have input on the product and to watch it evolve into
something new well that's um that's something about your guys's brand as
well as all of you guys from the CEO to the owners everybody's on the floor at
some point yes all came from being machinists and yeah very much so ya know
the the company is still operated by from the top you know really the owners
are still very involved with development of new products even manufacturing and
new products and an existing product so it's really great experience and chakra
and ER for well thanks so much for having us ain't no proper back good to
see you again exciting stuff there yeah and make sure you guys check out our
shot show 2019 playlist on YouTube and we're probably gonna sit here and drool
on some guns and some nice for a little while but we're gonna head to the next
boot soon and we'll have more videos coming your way