Hey everyone, David C. Andersen here coming at you from the KnifeCenter.
And welcome to 2021.
And we've got some new stuff to show you today from MKM.
I've got my buddy Igor over there in Italy, who's going to show us this really cool little
fix blade?
Igor, how you doing, sir?
Guys, I'm doing really well.
As you told we are on the 2021 and we hope this will be a great year.
And we want to start it the best introducing you one of our new knives.
This will be just the first of many others we release next year.
As you as you just told is, is a picture play nice and is a little play nice.
Yeah, you
sent me some samples here to play around with a little bit and it is a little guys a little
smaller than I anticipated, but I actually really like it.
Tell us about it.
So yeah, we decided to make this so basically the knife is called micro okay.
And he is designed by Jesper Voxnaes he will be available in two different blade shapes.
So, we decided to make two different blades here we have a drop point.
And we have I can say unmodified ship blade.
Basically, we made this because we saw that there is a big demand on the market and a
lot of requests for a small piece of play nice and especially small pieces play that
you can carry on your pocket.
In this case, we made a rubber thing so our macro is surely a pocketable fixedly knife,
thanks to the to the sheath, that as you can see as a magnet on the back that clip on your
pocket.
And when you have in your pocket, you just need to put your thumb on the on the sheet
and extract the knife.
It works both for right handed and left handed people.
Yeah, I like that little detail, there's a little cutout here on the front, so that that
knife can go in either way, just as easily, it's got that little spot for the handle.
And yeah, and the magnet should do something to keep that blade in there to to keep it
from falling out.
Exactly, and we obviously we tested these, this solution because it's a fixedly knife.
So the knife the blade is always free.
So if you pull out you can have issues accidents or the just the cutting edge can can be damaged.
And we started with the shaper.
So in order to be used from right hand and left hand to people, so you can just turn
it on the other side and you have the right or the left handed carry and together with
that considering the size of the knife that we decided to make is also a neck knife.
As you can see, I hope you can see on my ear I have mine and also this case the sheath
as a good as a good you close in in the other the other way.
So not clipping in this but clipping over.
So the knife cannot fall down.
You can try and it will not fall down.
But anyway, the access is very easy, because you just need to take this lace way and yeah,
absolutely.
And also for the solution.
Sorry I am you can have both for left and right handed carry.
So in this way or this way.
Yeah, very nice
to us.
And you just need to put the magnet back and you have the necessary detent or avoiding
to the nerve to go outside from the front.
And it would require a pretty sizable yank to actually pull that out.
Like, I think it could be done, but that's not happening.
Exactly.
So if you want you can, if you put a lot of a lot of crank, you can take it off, okay,
but you need to strap it.
So we put the right detent in order to have the security so it will not fall down.
But still you can take it off just throwing beriberi hardly
which if if it's a sticky situation and you don't have time to fumble with anything, you
know you can just grab it and go.
Exactly.
That's the reason.
Anyway, the size of the knife as you told this is quite small, I would like to give
just a couple of specs.
So we have a total length of around four point 30 inches and a blade length of just under
two inches.
Okay.
The good thing is the thickness of the blade you have point 16 inches so four millimeter
thick blade made by m 390.
Right.
So this is why I like to call a leader but very mighty knife.
Yeah, it's um, there's obviously two ways you could go with a knife like this.
You could go With really thin and super slicey, but you went, you wanted to make sure it could
stand up to heavier stuff if you needed to.
And it may sound a little, you know, to sound a little weird to say heavier work with this,
but especially with this modified sheepsfoot even though I can only get like two of my
big American fingers on here, it feels pretty solid in the hand.
And we also moved on the ship.
But as you can see the difference from the drop point to the ship foot, the position
of the of the jimping is different, because with those that with the modified ship boat,
the best the best performance can do is core Kathy.
Absolutely.
So these is the perfect position, at least for my hand, the perfect position where I
have
to cut the pain to know that that's gonna work very well.
I think I like the stonewashed finish on these I always love that a good working finish like
that.
And you've got several different handle options.
I believe two, we've got two micarta is here, as well as the skeletonized version.
Yep.
So one thing I forgot to mention about about this, see where we were speaking about sorry
about we are using bowler and 390.
So we decided to make a little knife mighty knife, and not only for the thickness, but
also for the steel we decided to use.
So we we tried to make use the best deal in order to give great performances.
And as you were telling we had a bunch of different variations.
So we had the naked one.
And with that one especially that going with that thicker steel is going to be better since
you don't have a handle scale there.
You still want to be able to have a decent grip on it so it works really nicely.
And of course, your MKM so you're gonna crown all the edges there it's gonna be very comfortable.
Yeah, yeah.
And so the other version you have one leg sheet and you have two micarta so the natural
and the green Canvas micarta and a more challenging version with marble carbon fiber.
Very nice, very nice.
As I told before, this is available in two different blade shapes and the handles that
you have that as a variation are the same for the two for the two blade shapes.
What Another cool thing that you can do with this with this little knife is okay.
You will choose for example the black GFN version.
Okay because you like the cheetah but sometimes you like skeletonize you like naked knife
you will like to have something lighter for you.
The thing is quite easy.
You just need to unscrew this little screw here.
It will come out you just push the threaded tube outside on the other way.
And you can take them off at the end you have these resolved.
And as you can see the scales are nielit in you know that there is that that there you
know that perfectly inside of the skeletonised hole we have
perfect and so all you need is just that single screw with that type of construction.
Yeah, exactly.
And we were we could decide on two options we could have two, two screws to fix it without
any any hole inside here.
Or we can have this and we decided this is the better choice because it's easier to remove
the case and also when the case are on with these tapper you can with these milling they
are perfectly fits that they cannot move from there so you need excuse for fixing them but
they are still pretty solid.
Nice
one I like the to the little detail there.
If this were a folder that would be your pivot color there but the blue ring outside the
screw has a nice nice classy touch to it as well
that we is our as you know is our secret tour and we decided to put them also on these on
these little knife obviously with a with a smaller polar Ranger but anyway keeping our
our turret that is
very nice, very nice.
Well these are both really cool little blades.
Obviously either one of them would work well for EDC if you do any kind of score cutting
or breaking down boxes I think that modified sheepsfoot especially or if you're just a
fan of of drop points you go for the I guess that's more of a straight spine rather than
a drop but you guys know what I mean?
Yeah, but I think this even for like a small hunting or maybe even a caping knife.
Some folks out there might love taking one of these into the outdoors.
Yep, yep, absolutely.
You can you can take with you with in your in your hiking is probably like a backup knife
you know the knife that you use in those situations where maybe you don't have your your your
first knife and when you don't, obviously this is not a bushcraft knife, you cannot.
It's a little I try to be difficult to do back to me.
But maybe we there's more wood, we can do it.
All you do though putana toothpick type things.
Beside all the punch copying all the things you can do with it, you can do it little,
little carving tasks for sure.
Sort of whittling by the campfire, that'd be a great little great little piece for something
like that.
And as we thought at the beginning, one of the reasons because we made it is because
people like to EDC, the fix of late night And me too, from when I started making this
project, I'm old, obviously, I was protesting it.
I'm carrying this knife in my pocket every day.
And I like it.
I obviously like those folding knives, those are more, you know, fun, probably, or the
fidgety or this, you know, those kind of things.
But this, you know, you need you need to cat you just take it off and you have your blade
ready to go.
That's what I've kind of always have in my head is like folding knives are more fun.
Every time except when you're cutting.
When you're actually doing a cutting there's there's something about a fixed blade that
you can just, you know, trust and rely on.
And when you are in a rush equation, because you know, when we are when we are quite as
our that we can flick all the knives we want in just a second.
But you know, when you are maybe a little bit in a rush, your fingers start to crumbling
and you need a piece of lace.
Yeah, well, I'm always excited to see more EDC, fixed blades on the market.
It's something it's a concept I definitely am a proponent of so more options is better
when I get to suggest that plus you've got that Vox design, it's just a really, really
cool shape to this that really works well.
It's not just for good looks, it's really well thought out.
Yeah, he did a great job.
As you know, as you know, Jesper is a great designer in general.
But when you go with small and very functional life, I guess he's absolutely one of the best
around.
So he knows how to put functionality and strength and caffeine performances.
Also in a small in a small life.
And I think is what he did with the with this macro.
And obviously I have to thank my the production guys, etc, year maniago and Nikita rules etc.
Because they made an outstanding job with the with the quality with the design.
They have been designed, let's say with a together with Jasper.
And so, personally, I'm very, very happy about the final result.
And I hope you guys will be too.
I'm digging it.
Well, Igor, thank you so much for taking the time to show us these folks watching.
If you want to get your hands on one of these, we'll make sure to leave links below to take
you over to the KnifeCenter.
And you can check those out.
And if they're up for pre order at the time.
They should be hopefully coming soon.
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One last thing sorry.
Oh
thing?
Yeah.
Yeah, they're very interesting thing.
And I think you have the numbers.
Is the pricing of these?
Oh, yes, please, I forgot to ask all.
So let's say that we start from the naked versions that we'd go for $69.90 bucks.
So m 390.
With $69.90 bucks and with a leather sheet is not is not so bad.
And the ones with the G 10.
And because micarta handles you are $84.90 why the most expensive the carbon fiber is
$99.90.
So we tried and have been able to stay under $100 for all of them.
That's really good, especially on the top and you got a lot of premium materials coming
in there.
And some, you know, really nice fit and finish I gotta say as well.
Thank you.
Well, Igor, thanks so much for taking the time to show us these knives today.
folks watching there from home or wherever you happen to be watching these days.
If you want to get your hands on one of these, we will leave links to take you over to the
KnifeCenter where you can check these out and maybe put an order in.
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Igor, thank you so much, my friend.
Thank you that it has been a pleasure.
As always, as I told you last time, I hope to meet you version as soon as possible.
But as soon as we are in this situation.
I'm very, very happy to meet you and to speak with you with the solution.
Yes, we'll
see each other hopefully at blade show this summer.
I really hope so.
And if we if we there will be a blade show it would be a blast.
If they're putting it on, you know, I'll be there.
Me too.
I got the basic
I know the feeling.
Alright guys, thank you so much,
guys.