hi I'm Joe Bradley from KA-BAR Knives we're here at Shot Show 2019 KnifeCenter
of the Internet, and I'm here to discuss some of our new products this year now
we have five new products here at the show throughout the year our goal is to
have an additional 15 available ideally two a month and a KnifeCenter will
have those as well when those are available so to kick things off this is
something we're pretty excited about we've never done this before this is a
competition-grade throwing knife this is the ThunderHorse Thrower
it is designed by KJ Jones who is a member of the Knife Throwing Hall of
Fame and this was made to these specs to compete throwing knives a lot of people
are used to seeing the smaller versions the three packs this is not those this
is this is an American-made solid piece of steel lifetime warranty on this you
got the holes here you could make your own handles put a handle here you could
sharpen the blade as well but a lot of weight here really stick this into your
target that you're throwing at so again KA-BAR has never done this before we're
very anxious to see how it does and what the reception is to this second knife we
have here by all appearances it looks like a Fighting Utility Knife that KA-BAR
has been doing since 1942 but for the first time ever we have this blank space
here this prime real estate that has never been opened before there's no
marking on it like USMC US Army US Navy as we've done in the past you could
engrave this space here the sheath is also blank available for engraving and
we have a lot of people that say to us I never served in the Marine Corps I never
served in the Army I feel funny about carrying a knife that's stamped with
that on it this is your answer to that and again you do have some customization
options as well our TDI line is just grown in popularity over the last
few years and it was lacking a folding knife so this year we came out with the
TDI flipper folder this knife made in Taiwan AUS8A and
all the stuff that's available immediately for sale from us from
KnifeCenter as well as KA-BAR dealers and this is our yearly Dozier
Edition color change to the Dozier it is similar in every way to the other Dozier
folding hunters this knife just works the price is right on at the full
retails $28 there's not a lot that can go wrong with this knife and it's just
an outstanding knife and hopefully we have the color for you I'm sure we're
gonna continue down this path with the Dozier line last but certainly not least
we have the BK-62 the Becker Kephart and I want to throw this over to Ethan
Becker to give you the full rundown on this knife the process of how this was
created and the full back story and history of the Kephart Knife
Hi, I'm Ethan Becker and I'm the president of Becker Knife and Tool and we've kind of brought
back to life one of the iconic knives the actually the 19th, 20th, and now the 21st
century Horace Kephart who was the preeminent writer of the about the
outdoors and and a guy who lived the outdoors
he spent 20 plus years hanging out in the Smoky Mountains living frequently in
tents and small cabins and wrote the the best book on the outdoors I know of
which is camping and wood crafts Horace Kephart and in the 1890s he designed
this knife to do everything that he thought a knife ought to be able to do
and I was managed to get a one of two known examples of the knife
and was so impressed with it that I decided that we needed to make one and
it's a very interesting this is a very simple knife when I first saw it I
wasn't particularly impressed and then I picked it up when I was moderately
impressed and then I used it and I was very impressed so it's a very simple
spear point a very simple handle but it's flat and as a result of that it
orient's you always know where the edge is because of the orientation of the
knife it is sharp all the way back which means that when you're doing this and do
a little work it works just fine and it's also big enough he used his to
fillet fish skin do bushcrafty-stuff sliced his onions and salami and bread
with it and I'm just delighted with the blade I mean this guy knew what he was
doing and the blade itself the recreation is in 1095 Cro-Van which is
one of my it is my favorite steel with a lovely walnut handles and it comes with
a an excellent fairly close to the original sheath and I have the original
sheath and I think this one is better one thing about a flat knife like this
is when it's on your side it doesn't get in the way it doesn't if you're if
you're going to rhododendron if you're trying to make your way through the
woods as opposed to down the trail it doesn't catch on stuff and everything on
it is rounded so and for it to catch on vines and stuff
it's a beautifully thought out design and KA-BAR did a lovely job with the
recreation and I think everybody ought own one it has a lot to teach us all