Been getting a lot of new viewers this month and I just would like to start of by saying.
I’m gonna make you real proud bro.
I am definitely not the right person to consult on good taste in knives, or hairdos, or food.
Do we still call em hairdos?
I know a knife I like when I see it, but sometimes can’t explain why I like it or why you should
like it.
Is it good product photos, the presence of purple, a cohesive design language, sweet
sponsorship money, or what can I flip that bastard for on the secondary?
Who can really say.
One things for sure, when HEADesigns offered to send me his years in development Falcon
slip joint to check out for the channel- I said Abso-Falcon-Lutely.
It seems like lately something has broken in my knife brain and I only like switchblades
and slip joints.
My Lion Steel CK01 has been a reliable knife that I use as an alternative to the larger
knives I prefer to carry.
A great office knife, that allows me to organically bring up the handsome look of bone micarta
around the water cooler.
Ok we don’t have a water cooler.
Let me rephrase that.
A great office knife that allows me to bring up classic looking bone micarta at the bathroom
sink, while close talking and making direct eye contact with coworkers.
And on the other end you have my Hawk Deadlock which is not something I can carry most anywhere,
but I just love the design of.
And if these two things combined and had a baby or whatever, and the dominant genes were
more on the side of the Lionsteel… but then it got.
Ok that metaphor sounded like it was going to a bad place… but whatever happened after
some hot knife sex here you have this slip joint, that feels classic but looks cool in
a Deadlock sort of way.
A badass slip joint for the vape crowd probably.
But before we go any further let’s take a look at the dimensions like the overall
length and weight.
I am adding a small clip slip here, because my knife hates spending time with the butterscotch
in the bottom of my pocket.
Blade size and cutting edge.
Whats your favorite hard candy?
Worthers, Star Light mints?
Handle size and grip area.
To be honest I haven’t observed an old guy for an extended period of time in a while.
Spine thickness and handle thickness.
Do they still like Candy, and going to bed at 5pm?
Tallnesses.
What’s replaced Matlock, can someone help in the comments?
HEAdesigns I guess puts about one model out a year- a pace this channel totally understands.
While the Wingman and the Flame aren’t my thing, I like the poison/antidote, the equilibrium,
the hunter and the falcon.
The Falcon seen here comes in 50 pieces in each of 4 trims for a total run of 200.
You could say I’m good at math.
I talked to Sam and he said he’s open to a V2 or something if this one does well, so
far he’s only done that with the Equilibrium.
This is Blue Bolsters and Carbon Fiber.
So let’s start with the blade of the Falcon.
It has that s35VN blade steel, with a hollow grind and a sheep foot style pattern.
Personally I don’t own a lot of sheepsfoot/wharcliffe style blades.
But they’re good for sensitive cuts close to something you don’t want to cut, like
say a wristband after a night at the a bar.
When we still had bars.
I guess now puking on someone could transmit a disease, what are they taking away from
us next?
I like a little bit of belly on a knife for cutting on flat surfaces like food prep.
One person thought cutting tomatoes and apples didn’t count as food prep.
However this knife also works well against general paper and cardboard based foes.
The action.
The action is often described by seasoned gentlemen on internet forums as the walk and
talk.
The walk is how the blade gets to open or closed position and the smoothness as such,
and the talk is the snap in the opening and closing position.
Sorry even if you think this is an embarrassing anthropomorphic way to describe a durn pocket
knife, you’ll be forced to use it if you want to become part of the slip joint secret
society, that meets openly on places like bladeforums, Super USA patriot slip joint
army on Facebook.
Lotta political memes on that last one with weird grammar.
Huh.
Make sure you bring a GEC though, as you might get some terse responses from the brimmed
hats, if you post your fancy boy knife.
Where’s that made, boy?
Internationally.
Huh huh.
(Nervously).
Hey uhh tell me about your wool trousers.
The Walk and Talk is very subjective.
I can tell you objectively though that the spring is strong, stronger than the Madison
Barlow here, and Lionsteel.
But it has that milled section that allows you to pinch and pull instead of rip off your
finger nails.
Takes the fun out of it.
Nowhere near the strength of the recent GEC 23s or my Boker Slack, that try for DNA samples.
I guess if Collector knives rates the Lionsteel Shuffler as a 6, the Falcon is a 7.0.
Can we do a 7.3?
The talk is crisp, you can’t quite feel it in your fillings like some slip joints,
but it’s still good.
Credit where, credit is due.
So yeah, strong and satisfying, like your black coffee in the morning, as you glance
at your pocket watch before tucking it away in your vest.
You’ve got about 3 hours to think about knives and tradition.
And if everyones gonna laugh at you for buying one with titanium on Fedora Lounge.
The handle is smooth and comfortable, it’s a little small and disappears in my hand.
I have become accustomed to the similar size of the shuffler.
Small knives have their place apparently, and not just in tiny little hands- but the
regular size hands too.
The handle is constructed out of two pieces of titanium liner/bolsters, and covered in
carbon fiber scales.
Slip joint guys refer to those as covers, and not scales.
Scales are for fish millennial.
The titanium has a blueish purple sheen, that makes in close enough to a purple knife for
me.
I have now dropped it enough times to harm any sort of value it held, thanks to my sweaty
fingers, and dexterity that can only be described as jellow-y.
The pocket clip.
There ain’t one Mr Tik Tok, because they ruin the ergonomics of a perfectly good knife.
That’s what the clipless caliphate might say.
I am a minimalist pocket bro.
I usually only carry my knife and phone, and wallet in the rear pocket.
However, because I like to bring disgrace on my family name I like the knife at the
top of the pocket, and not hanging out down next to my testicles.
What if knives had clips?
So I have this clip slip here.
Because the disease has ruined everything they’re expensive to ship now from Germany.
These are normally about $60 shipped.
You will soon see them sold in the USA on Tuya Knives.
Maybe 2 weeks from now.
Comparisons.
First the Falcon.
I have GECs and like them, the m’wife’s like them, but I think I kinda prefer my Lionsteel
CK01 Shuffler.
At least my current selection of larger GECs.
Which considering this is the same basic size as the shuffler, I like it.
It’s got a crisp action, unique looks, and an unassuming size.
70% of me liking a knife is it’s looks.
Usually.
This one commands about $100 more than the shuffler, with similar materials, but it is
on par in terms of quality and being a good slip joint.
Sometimes smaller runs of knives cost more.
Sam Designs the knives and commissions an OEM to make them.
In the past, on some models, it was We Knife that made them.
Part of Sharp By Design’s models do this too.
The shuffler seen here is also great.
The white micarta scales and silver bolsters give it a clean look.
The walk and talk is where I like it to be.
Which is a strong spring, just on this side of getting hurt.
I feel very similar about both of these knives, although I do prefer a curve on a knife like
the shuffler, for cuts on flatter surfaces- that sheepsfoot knives sometimes aren’t
quite as good at.
What about another knife I always wanted, but was underwhelmed when I got it.
Eugene was right.
The Benchmade proper.
I like the looks and it cost $120, but boy does it have a disgustingly mushy spring.
It often sits where you leave it and has no tension when fully open.
I think it’s popular mainly for it’s looks and then everyone just settles for it when
you have it.
I guess this is how slip joints be.
I don’t hate it, but a weak spring on a slip joint kinda ruins it, and I’ve talked
to enough people with them to know mine is a little worse than most but not far out of
the norm.
Ok one more.
The Northwoods Madison Barlow in Apoloosa Bone.
Eugene sold me this one, and it’s a great knife.
A little lighter on the backspring maybe 6 on the collector knives scale?
But still solid.
Northwoods is a brand, owned by Knivesshipfree.com, and GEC makes these.
GEC makes good knives and you’ll see more of them on the channel in the future, this
is a great knife I’m never going to sell.
Wrapping it up.
I still have my Poison, I love the design and it’s a unique looking knife.
I loved the Hunter too, but I gave it to Ada over at Cedric and Ada because she was always
giving me stuff.
The Falcon is pretty great.
It’s a multi purpose blade, not an extreme slicer- but well enough when you need it to
be.
It doesn’t lock, but if you’re mindful about how you use your knives, this doesn’t
matter.
Most knives before the 80s did not have locks.
If an asshole like me can use a small light duty every day carry non locking knife, for
things knives are generally used for- I’m pretty sure you can too.
Anyway head over to HEADesigns to look at the models, links are in the description.
Buy a T shirt from me, or a sticker or mug.
They’re real fun.
Say Hi to the patrons, they make it possible and are real fun too.
Thanks to HEADesigns for donating this knife to the channel.
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