What's up, guys, today we have Logan from Flytanium.
He has got a ton of cool stuff.
Dallas, we're going to be talking Flytanium.
I know you and I love Flytanium. You know what I got.
They know what I have.
They've seen it.
Heck, yeah, let's talk knives.
What's up, guys?
Welcome to Knife Banter.
Today we've got Logan here with us. Logan, how are you doing, man?
I am doing great. Thanks for having me. Oh heck yeah, dude.
Dallas and I were talking about earlier how much we have
and use Flytanium for customizing stuff. Yeah.
So I'm stoked to have you on, man.
Hey, it's great to be here.
So you brought you brought a little collection of what
you guys currently have and things you can do.
I see that there's a variety of things along the way. Yeah, for sure.
We got a little bit of everything for everybody.
The thing that we really lean into is the ability
to really personalize and customize your knife to your liking
so you can take your standard knife, not necessarily make it better.
We still love the makers and what they do,
but we like to add our own little flavor to it and our own flair.
And I think that's what's nice about knives and titanium, especially.
Yeah. And honestly, like I I mean, I have drawer full of Flytanium
skills, especially for the Bugout a little over the top there.
That's your that's your thing, cause that's your jam. That's your job.
Logan, run us through what you got here on the table for us.
Yeah, we'll just go from here to here.
first off, we have the crossfade scales for the Benchmade Bugout.
They add a little bit of weight over the standard,
but some argue they're more rigid a little bit more to handle.
And we have a ton of different color combos.
We have titanium, brass and copper.
If you're looking for metal
on a couple of different carbon fiber options coming soon, right?
And a lot of G10 and some MIYATA.
So I really love this purple.
We're calling it Purple Haze.
I like, you know, you said something about adding a little more rigidity.
That's 100% true.
I love the Bugout, but the G10, for whatever reason for me
makes us think feel a little more robust, a little more sturdy .
But it doesn't add too much, folks. The titanium.
I'm a fool for that because it's easy to manipulate at home.
But yeah, I think it really adds a little something to it.
So OK, guys, my favorite thing about the Crossfade
skills, do you mind if I check this thing out right here?
It cuts out for the axis lock so you get a little more purchase on that axis.
Lock the little GymKit pedestal.
I like that because it doesn't matter
where you are, what you're doing, fidgeting, flipping, opening your knife.
You get a great purchase on that pillar every single time.
I honestly, I think it's really cool.
And not only do you stand in metal like you were talking about,
but you guys also have my car too, right as well? Yeah.
And the my car too definitely adds a natural texture to it.
So it's really familiar.
If you're somebody who likes the bushcraft or hot,
get out there and have a little bit more rugged material in your hand.
Yeah, it's a great
application for the bag out and we do a lot of other little things.
If you look in here tight, we've got our titanium
thumb stud of all the screws in here, titanium as well.
So you can really kit out your whole entire knife
and then the back spacer as well as titanium.
So we to have fun with it and the Bugout is a great platform for that.
Yeah, that's cool.
So thank you. Next up, we've got the brand new
945 classic scales.
This should look a little familiar to you.
I think Blade HQ has an exclusive 940 that looks just like this,
and I kind of jokingly call this Baby Yoda.
It's got, you know, kind of a little little vibe there.
But yeah, great platform as well.
Like the out we offer G10, we have my car too.
We've got titanium and brass and copper as well.
Just kind of where our namesake came from. Yes, the titanium.
So our 945 are just awesome.
Little everyday carry knife.
If you have, you know, some need to get away from your Bugout.
You know you might.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, I never fighting words.
OK, like you might pick up a knife for your father.
No, I like the 945, but I really do like
what you guys do with not just scales, but all the little other knickknacks.
And I think this really plays well as a transition into what
you have next on the table. Yeah.
You guys have. I feel like you guys have
a little more fun things for the Spyderco Knives.
Yeah, this is the Manix 2 Lord of the Flies reference.
We just upgraded updated the scales here added a little bit more,
pocketing around the oil here and then around the lock there. It's cool.
The Manix 2. We can swap out scales, we've got new cage locks
there and a lot of the titanium. Yeah.
So here this one.
The lock is titanium and then we offer
anodized titanium locks, at least on flight website.
Oh, that's cool.
But so, you know, this is in my future, very near and my future.
Guys for going to Dallas should get a Manix.
Say it down in the comments, and let's make him do it.
Do. Yeah, that's awesome, I love that.
I love that you guys do this cut out a little ease of access
makes it a little easier to access the ball cage lock.
I mean, leading right into the Spyderco Paramilitary 2 this,
this knife has a lot going on that is full custom right there, right?
And what that is.
I think that thing that has amazed me most with titanium
is that almost no two knives are the same.
Anodized titanium has,
like a lot of room for just differences in the like,
the way the material is and can be manipulated as you anodized.
You're not necessarily going to get the same shade of blue every time.
You're not going to get the same shade of purple every time.
So with our hardware here, I mean, this blue
really pops and contrasts well against our red carbon fiber.
OK, so you've got your screws, your pivot, and what do you call that on the end?
This is a lanyard hole stopper,
and the lanyard hole stopper basically fills a hole.
It otherwise becomes a lint trap. Yeah, right?
So if any of you you've carried a spiral, you know, like the holes useful
if you use a lanyard, but most of the time it just kind of gathers somewhere.
So I like great.
I don't I'm not big on lanyards, but
I do like the option to add a little piece of jewelry back there, right?
I mean, and the patterned options, and they're just super cool and unique,
and hopefully we can develop some more stuff here soon.
Yeah, lots of lots of wiggle room with the PM2.
I heard Dallas has one.
This is the bare titanium, although you can see that in there.
That's the what that what the titanium version of these lot of scales look like.
I like that or tube stopper.
I might have to Dallas is spending money.
This is going to be an expensive, expensive
experience for me now.
I love the customizations
and when it comes to the the Pareto, Oh my gosh.
Well, I love the condo.
We just have to set up the website anyway.
Sorry. Moving on, I get excited when it comes to cars.
He does. He gets a little overextended, but that's good.
I think that's the thing, right?
Like we we talk about knives regularly is like a component
of our life and everyday life, and some of us use them more than others.
That's the great thing about these is like, we have a lot of options.
If you get bored with something, there's another option you can.
You could take out an old beater knife, you know, so you have a Bugout
you've used relentlessly over the last few years? I do.
I refreshed it with some scales and some other hardware, and
it's like as good as new.
What do you guys do is you provide the customers and the knife
guys out there in the world and I mean us, obviously
this opportunity to take one of our favorite knives
or favorite knives for a certain task and we can completely make them our own
instead of just leaving it for production line status, you know what I mean?
OK, so Element Tim is next, right? Right?
This is the newest addition to our line, at least offered on Blade HQ website.
Pretty straightforward.
The Elementums are really popular. Popular knife.
We wanted to kind of add a little flair to it and did that
with some of the thicker scales, but they're contoured
and they just really add to the overall feel of the knife you got.
I own one of these. I certainly have it on the table.
Whatever give it or you hold that one, I'll play with my knife
as nice to that classes.
it up really nice, right?
And so this is me showing him that I'm taking it very seriously.
It's like, like anything, right?
Yeah, you've got different.
You got different levels of
accessibility for things like maybe, maybe somebody is not going to be able
to find a man next to and get that out and be able to customize it .
Just availability, right? For sure.
But something like an Elementum, they're a little less expensive.
You can play with them, you can beat them to death.
You can have a lot of fun with them. S35.
But for real, I mean, there's they're a good budget knife.
They have a ton of options.
And then when you add
the titanium scales to it, it just adds that much more class to it
and makes it, you know, pretty typical everyday folder something unique.
Now we've got a Bali on the table, right?
Can you flip? Not on camera.
OK, OK, that's safe.
I would probably say almost the same thing where we go.
I mean, let's let's talk about this. This is the Kershaw Lucha.
A lot of you are probably carrying this knife.
Right now, you probably have it in your pocket or on your desk. Absolutely.
I actually have mine in my pocket.
I've even got the Flytanium.
Kurt, can you flip a can a little bit?
Oh, that's I'm not scared of the live played right,
but I'm also not super confident that I'm going to catch it in the right spot.
OK, so tell me about scales. Yeah, right.
I have a regular channeled lucha scales.
Yeah, well, you have ah, aluminum. Oh yes, yes.
And these here in particular, are awesome.
There are Sanders construction titanium scales.
Titanium is so awesome to play with anodized customize and personalize.
So these right here, same kind of thing
you can dip them and change them all kinds of colors.
If I'm not mistaken, the coming piece is correct. Yeah.
So you could you could anodized this one and this 12 totally different colors.
Titanium. Again, it's an incredible material.
We've been able to put it on the lucha,
and it changes the flipping dynamics a little bit adds
a little bit of weight to, you know, maybe certain areas of the knife.
I prefer a more handle bias Lucha.
So no, you flippers out there probably know a lot more about this stuff.
So let us know below what you think, dude, I love the shirt. Hey, yeah.
Eldon Eldon. All the entire homeboy.
Yeah, heck yeah. I love Alvin, Alvin. Such a cool guy.
Yeah, he is. He's cool, so relaxed.
It was cool this past Blade Show to go
and do the MC the Bali Comp,
and it was cool to see held in there and all the guys their flight team
was there at the tallest song and all this stuff, man.
It's it's insane what you guys can do with a little balisong,
but I'm not going to ever be on that level.
But those kids are insane. It's amazing.
It blows my mind.
It's nuts. And we get video submissions all the time on social people,
flipping our knives or flipping, you know, whatever we've put out there.
And it's, yeah, it's nuts.
And I don't know how their parents pay for the stitches.
Well, dude, that's awesome, man.
I absolutely guys.
I cannot say enough good about Flytanium.
I have literally half a dozen to a dozen
plus Bugout skills, mini and full size. Yeah,
my my favorite one that I
have so far so far is this one that I picked up from.
You guys at Blades show things
like the surf coated camel pattern on the anodized titanium scales.
Yeah, no, those are great.
What a boot. I don't know, Kurt.
I'm a little partial to my.
I mean, you know, it's it's really cool blue.
And look at that. You see that.
I don't know if you guys can see that in there, that back spacer matches my
my scales, my thumb stud.
It's just awesome.
Just saying, I don't know, can I just flex tiny a little bit?
All right, guys.
So are you flexing in your flexing?
Oh, OK. All right. See it.
I'm wearing, Oh no, this is like the Frankenstein knife here.
I got in my car. Different scale, titanium back scale.
So by multiple sets and you can mix match. It's fun.
I love that idea.
And then it's not my jam, but I love that idea there.
There's some other stuff here.
You know, I love the accessories.
I love what you guys put out.
It's it's really cool.
I love the option to be able to make my knife, my knife.
I mean, obviously, Dallas does it too.
I'm just and I'm just starting.
Logan, thanks for being on. Thanks, guys.
Thanks for watching.
Make sure you guys jump on the website and check out Flytanium,
where it's constantly our stuff is constantly updating,
so we'll catch you on the next one.
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