Guess what time it is- Urban EDC loaner knife quick look video time. (Yays,
and “suck it shill” can be heard) Urban Every Day Carry and Justin Lundquist, (and me on the video
side! you know the talent) have teamed up for a tiny take on a Barlow, with the lightweight modern
Baby Barlow. Short review, short knife, what isn’t there to like. (Someone yells the talent) The Baby
Barlow is an updated take on the Great Eastern Cutlery #25 pattern. And as you know great eastern
cutlery patterns mines classic catalogs and advertisements for their coveted pocket knives,
and makes them in such limited runs, that you complain on the internet you can’t buy them-
but somehow still have like 30 of them. Anyway though how small is the baby Barlow.
Glad you asked, it’s that time- the dimensions. The joke is making the
change here didn’t actually make the reviews shorter. Just the editing by a few minutes.
It’s tiny and comparable to the little rattler or the Serge Bean in size.
Up front you have your Wharncliffe blade, coin toss says we expect either M390 or S35VN… and
today we’re going with the M390. M390 as you know is a common snob steel known for it’s corrosion,
stain resistance, it’s edge retention, and being in price points over $100. There are newer steels
that do better and many older steels that do way worse. One day Magnacut will be the standard,
if the knife review and steel porn industrial complexes have their way,
but for now we dream and buy our mules. The knife community gets real into their steels,
their testing, arguments, and their science. Few of us ever put those steels to use, but we all
brag talk about them like we have. The Paradox is the highest end steels are in the prettiest
knives with the highest retail and resale values, so no ones wants to ding them up. And I’d like to
say I love the 20CV in my Deadlocks about the same as the gross patina on my 85 Pattern. I sharpen my
knives when they get dull. Most of the hardest working blades in the world use cheap steel, and
the least hard working blades use the expensive kind. Knife companies pay more for the high end
stuff from the steel cartels. What I’m saying is whatever steel makes you happy. And I know there’s
one guy who likes to point out M390 does not make him happy, and he has been posting it for years
under these videos. I at the same time see the purpose in high end steels, and see no purpose
in it from a collecting standpoint. Does that make sense? If I confused at least one person
about steel I’ll have done my job. The blade looks good though, the proportions are about perfect.
The action! Now this little guy is a front flipping style knife
without much of a front flipper. A jimping flipper. I’m a sick simp for a jimp flip!
Right there at the top is a little bump. You catch it with your index finger just
right and click past it and it deploys smoothly on the ball bearing pivot system. It does take a
bit of practice to get that muscle memory right, and the pocket clip provides some grip for your
fingers to keep the tiny guy from flying out of your hands. Some front flippers with big tabs have
little to no learning curves, and some like this one that rethinks it, are a medium learning curve
to get used to the action. My sample here is a prototype though, that’s been passed around.
Normally I do a thumb deployment on a front flipper style, but the pointer finger works best
here. Here you see the easy to deploy Mini Tempest I paid about 369 for it. Makes more sense here.
And the Arkona Nettle, just smooth as shit on this one. The baby Barlow locks up with a liner lock,
it also is tucked and nested in there. It’s not actually a liner lock because there are no liners-
Mr Lundquist corrected me when I called it such on the instagram, didn’t even call me an idiot- so
now that I know that I can go correct everyone else it’s a front flipper inset lock. So
now that I hold the knowledge- everyone else is on notice. It’s looks a liner lock in the academic
definition, as thats how it appears from the outside, but it’s really a thin strip of titanium
that’s has some screws attached through the slab of G10 hidden under the pocket clip. Occasionally
when disengaging you get a little pinch between the liner and the scale letting you know you’re
kinda cute. There are all titanium versions but I chose the G10 variant, because I liked the
color ways. It’s a tiny knife so don’t look for much grip area here. No hotspots seen
or rather felt- I wouldn’t describe this a a hard user, but everything is tumbled and chamfered.
Pocket clip is non flippable, tip up blade backward in the right pocket.
It’s a deep cary down in the pocket, or small enough for the coin pocket if you so choose.
Comparisons. First the baby Barlow. One of the tiniest of the front flippers. FFs… oh wait is
that Ferrum Forge, f The BBFF is a very cool looking knife. The Pattern boiled
to it’s essence and reworked. And the Serge Bean. If you haven’t seen that
video please do because no one has watched it. This is also a nice little 5th pocket knife.
A light work carry or when you’re out at the gala, the ball, you know. Love the unique design here,
you know this by now viewer. The little rattler, the GEC 19. As they are these days these were
available scattered through retailer for 10-30 seconds of listing sometime last year was it. Was
it the year before. A good looking little knife, 5th pocket knife. Very thin. How about a
tiny little switchblade. The UTX-70, so lightweight and thin,
and expensive. These aren’t cheap. Love this little guy. Love all these little guys.
Let’s wrap it up. Now not everyone is into tiny knives. Some people like the big ones, some people
aren’t into knives at all but just like hearing a guy talk about them. If you’re a tiny knife person
the Baby Barlow is a pretty cool tiny knife. It’s a modern interpretation of a traditional,
and it will keep the boutique knife people happy by having the titanium and the M390
if you so choose. These are available for preorder only at Urban Every Day Carry Supply,
who loaned me this prototype for review. Note that observations of a prototype might not be
observations of the finished production model. They are briefly re-opening preorders, for like
a day or two, because it took me a little longer to finish this video than it might should have.
Mediocracy takes time folks. Ordering through my links below is entirely optional but helps
support my channel, whatever it is you decide to buy. Maybe you’re a cultured person you hate the
Barlow, but consider yourself a $589 titanium yo-yo- yes I am also learning about these a
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