Hey everyone, David C. Andersen here coming at you from the
KnifeCenter and really exciting stuff today we've got some new
Kershaw knives to be able to unveil with you. And we're
talking to one of the designers themselves, right? They're
coming at us through cyberspace from over there, the other side
of the country. The beauty of it, we get to talk to him,
quote, unquote, face to face about the new stuff. Andrew, how
are you doing my friend?
Good, man. Yeah, this is great. I feel like I'm watching on your
YouTube videos. But I have to pay attention because I'm
getting asked questions, too.
So you're saying you watch our videos, but you don't pay
attention normally?
Yeah, I usually just sleep. I'm just kidding.
You're not the only one. It's alright.
Your voice is just so soothing, you know?
Well, enough about my voice. Let's talk about some knives
here. I'll let you lead the way and I'll I'll kind of throw some
questions and commentary at you as we go.
That sounds great. Sweet. Well, obviously, we want to start off
with the Kershaw Lucha CF or carbon fiber. Really excited
about this knife, got 4.7 inch blade, kind of spearpoint shape
20, CV steel, and then you've got titanium handle scales with
carbon fiber overlays. What I love about this knife is that it
has the same very, very similar geometry to the Lucha. Very
similar action runs on ball bearing washers, really smooth,
really fast has a latch that's very similar to the Lucha. But
it feels like an almost entirely different knife because we're
using different materials. And it's a real upgrade upgrade from
The Lucha.
Yeah, be the the addition of the carbon fiber scales over top of
that it does change the field, the way your hand actually
interfaces with it. But it's still got that same great
action. I mean, I'm no expert flipper, and getting to do it,
while keeping it in frame for Thomas in here is always a
challenge as well. But but it runs fantastically. Of course,
he changed the blade shape just a little bit. And one of the
things that I kind of smirk about is I love that you went
with the blue and carbon fiber, there have been some other
valleys out there over the years with this configuration that
aren't available anymore. But you're giving them something in
a similar aesthetic with more premium blade steel for less
money than those knives used to go for.
Yeah, I mean, you know, that's, I don't know. Yeah, we're really
excited about Colorado, I think, you know, even more than the
aesthetics, I love just the ergos on this knife. I feel like
the I love the original Lucha for what it does, it's hard to
beat that night. It's so so good. But the handles do are
kind of square in nature, and they feel kind of square in the
hand as you roll and that doesn't really get in your way.
But I think this one is even better improvement on that
because we've run these chamfers along really shallow chamfers
along the carbon fiber overlays so that it really rolls in your
hand when you flip it and it feels it makes the handles feel
round. And it's great to the little slots right there in the
overlays give you just enough grip so it's not slippery, but
not too much. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean that that champers is a great point there. That's
the word I was going to use roll in your hand it does allows you
to kind of make those transitions without that hard
stop at the corner a little bit better.
Yeah, it's, I love this knife man. We've got a working finish
on the blade there which is basically like a better like a
more matte stonewashed finish, which I also love. And that goes
really well with the CPM 20 CV steel. So yeah, that's the
that's the Lucha carbon fiber that comes in right around $500
MSRP.
And for those of you who are a little scared by that number,
we're doing some some back of the head math right here. We're
expecting we don't have final pricing yet at the time we're
shooting this video, but we're expecting it to come in a little
bit under 300 for the price you folks are actually going to pay.
I love that. Very good. We're so excited to bring a higher end
butterfly knife to our to our lineup. One of the things that I
really love about this release, obviously, it's a it's a smaller
release to mid year release. But you know, Kershaw is all about
having something for everyone. And what's great is that we're
looking at a butterfly knife, a karambit to mid lock knives, to
hunting knives and a bottle opener. So we have like,
representatives from like every corner of the knife industry in
this release. And that's I think that's really special.
Yep, and even some fixed blades, so I'm happy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Well, you mentioned Oh, sorry, go ahead.
No, you're good. I was just gonna say I'm excited to hear
your thoughts on those. Let's talk about the karambit first.
Yeah, you mentioned that let's jump in to this bad boy.
Alright, so this guy's a little bit smaller than the butterfly
and this is the Kershaw outlier. You've got two and a half inch
8CR 13 mov blade here with blackwash finish. You got
blackwash steel liners, a glassful nylon handle scales
over that it is a liner lock knife. You also have my favorite
part about the knife, is this steel, Backspace or you have
that rambut ring in the back. It's been very intentionally
designed for karambit flipping, I feel like in a lot of ways
karambit is kind of have some similarities with butterfly
knives and that they're really fun to like fidget with. And
there's a lot of different tricks and things you can do
with them in this ring has been very intentionally specifically
designed for some of those tricks that you can do. So you
can hold it in different positions. I think the two most
important things that I found for a karambit are quick access
in a secure grip in different configurations. And this does
both of those things. You have a really short draw flipper on the
top and it's assistant so it opens really quickly. You also
have a thumb stud, so you can open it multiple different ways.
I love to, we've got a deep carry pocket clip on the back.
But that ring is always going to be exposed in your pocket. So
you can grab that really quick in, get that blade out with the
assistant open. I love to whether you're holding it in
like the normal way to hold a knife with your pinkie in the
ring, or in reverse grip. It's really comfortable. So I think
those are my highlights for this. What do you think about
it?
I think it's cool. I mean, especially you haven't mentioned
the MSRP yet, but I think we're expecting internet street price
on this to be somewhere around the $45. Mark. I think you guys
have a real solid offering right here. You mentioned the the
tricking or the tricks aspect of your of the ring there. I wasn't
even thinking about that. But in the standard karambit grip, your
thumb rests really naturally on the back there on that flattened
and jimped portion right there. Gives you a little extra extra
traction, little extra control over the surface. I definitely
noticed that as I was holding that I thought that was really
nicely done. And yeah, I think it's a great little size, it's
going to come in at a great price point. Yeah, I think this
is definitely going to be a winner.
Yeah, it's exciting. Also, I want to talk about this hawkbill
Talon blade shape. Obviously it's classic for karambit. But
it's it's also super just as knives go very functional. It's
one of the best, most efficient blades just for cutting through,
you know, cord, wood and cardboard, whatever you're using
it for, it's gonna serve you really well, it'd be really
useful for that. So that cover shirt comes in at a $72 Roughly
MSRP
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm with you right there on the hawkbill
shape anything like fibrous and anything where you don't want
the knife to slip out of the cut, the curvature of that
really kind of gathers it into the cut gathers the material
into your actual physical motion there. So absolutely.
Very nice. Let's talk about the mid locks. So these two the
debris in the cargo are pretty similar, but they're two
different sizes. So the larger one is the cargo smaller one is
the debris. The cargo has a three and a quarter inch blade
and the debris has a two and three quarter inch blade burden
due to steel, both midlux Both injection molded glass filled
nylon handle scales. I'm gonna set one down so I can just talk
about this first one. Yeah, really happy with these. You
know, obviously the mid lock is not. This isn't like something
that's brand new to the knife industry. But I do think it's a
good evolution of the product. I really love the thumb studs on
this and the overall blade geometry. The handles are really
comfortable. You have the texture right where you need it,
but it's really smooth and outside so it gives you a
comfortable grip. And for an EDC knife, they're really
lightweight and really slim in the pocket. So I think it's a
yeah, great EDC option.
Yeah, definitely going to be easy to carry. Thanks to that
slim nature. I love how thin the blades are here too. I mean,
these are going to be wicked little slicers. And it's got a
little bit of kind of that blade shape that you guys have been
kind of playing around with these last couple of years, that
at first glance, someone might go oh, what's that, but man,
they're I love that you kept a very useful blade overall, that
still looks a little bit different, like it's instantly
identifiable as a Kershaw and instantly identifiable by me at
least as something very useful.
Yeah, yeah. Thanks, man. Yeah, I'm really happy with both of
these. They're just for EDC knife. They're just fantastic. I
also selfishly I love them steak knives. And so any chance I get
to work on a project with the thumbs that I'm really excited.
So I, I really liked these. I'm really happy with them. So
again, that's the Kershaw cargo and debris. Both of those have
D2 blade steel, and they both come in at $72 MSRP.
So again, back of the napkin math here, street price,
somewhere around that $45 mark was what we're expecting. So
very nice. Love it. All right, next up.
Yeah. Yeah, so I'll probably talk a little bit about these.
But I would love on these to really just I would love to hear
more of your thoughts and what you think about them. So I'll
start with the scanner.
Be careful what you wish for.
I will I will for sure. I love hear your thoughts, man. So
we've got the first fixed blade we've got here is the Deschutes
Skinner So both of these are fixed blade knives, but they're
designed specifically for hunting. And so you'll know
especially when we look at the blade geometry with the grinds
on, they're really slicey really good for much more for skinning
and caping than they are for like, you know, batoning wood.
Right. But honestly, I think these would be great for just
your normal camp tasks as well. They'd be great, rugged knives
for that. Something I love. Probably the most favorite thing
about these knives is the grip. The handles are incredibly
ergonomic. And there's a lot of places where the handles kind of
encouraged your hand to fall into the grip that you need,
whether you are choking up on it, or you're getting your
finger on the jimping right on the spine to get a little bit
more control. There's a lot of configurations of grip on these
knives in the knives really lend themselves well to a comfortable
and a secure grip.
Yeah, those are those are great. I mean, you've got a nice swell
going on here. Of course, that's the advantage of injection
molding things on this type of price point knife as well, you
can get that sophistication into the handle shape feels
phenomenal. I love the little pinch pads here, right at the
leading edge so you can get right in there. fine detail
stuff to middle and thumb, while putting your index finger out
there sits really naturally on the leading edge of that handle
very nicely indeed.
Yeah, I'm a big fan of that I also kind of similar to the mid
locks, we've got this texture in the middle. And I feel like when
you're carrying especially when we're you're working a lot with
a knife, you want some texture, so it doesn't slip out of your
hand, right. But you also don't want texture that's going to
like you know, give you blisters and stuff like that. And so I
feel like same deal. Here, we got it really smooth where you
need it and really textured where you need it. It has a
thermoplastic rubber handle. And so that would be really nice
too. If your hands are wet, dirty, slippery, you're going to
be able to keep a good grip on this. They just feel really,
really good in the hand.
So as far as something that's going to process through meat,
especially that thin blade with that full flat grind, and
especially on these two samples, at least really thin edges.
That's just going to be a dream.
Yeah, I'm so excited about that. Both of these are D2 blade
steel. And I'm gonna pull the caper out so you can take a look
at that. Let's take a closer look at that guy. I love the
caper two, honestly, is about the size of EDC knife, which is
really fun, as well. I
was thinking that. Yeah.
So yeah, same deal. They're really good. ergos really secure
grip, a lot of different ways to hold it and really control this
and especially with the caper, that's really important. And you
have a really good tip on that too, which is going to help you
do a lot of that detailed cutting.
Yeah, I really dig that. That was you mentioned EDC, and I
interrupted you a little bit there. I'm sorry. But yeah, I
kind of had that same thought of man, this would be a cool little
pocket fixed blade. I mean, the sheaves you guys gave them are
quite excellent. Not quite conducive for pocket carry,
necessarily. But that is kind of where my mind went. Check this
that she thought there real quick, really nicely done. But
yeah, it's just got a precision to this blade shape that I
really appreciate whether you're caping or whether you're opening
boxes or packages, I'm really digging that.
Thanks, man. Yeah, I am too. I'm really looking forward to
getting one of these myself. Bang talk real quick about the
sheets. Yeah, we we love them too. It's just you know,
injection molded sheath, it's a little bit more rugged, looks
really nice. You've got a drainage hole in there. So your
knives aren't gonna rust in the in the sheath. They hold it
really well, even without the retention strap, they hold it in
the handles really well. But we do have that secondary retention
strap. Probably my favorite thing about these is that you
can take there's a strap like a nylon strap for you to carry if
you want to belt carry it. But if you're throwing these in your
pack for hunting or your, your bug out bag or whatever, you may
not want that you may want them to just have a smaller profile.
So you can just take those off. But we've designed it such that
you still have the retention, the secondary retention strap on
there, even if you remove that. Yeah,
I see. Yeah, very cool. And then of course, if you wanted to go
even slimmer profile, the fact that you gave it holes and slots
in here, tons of aftermarket stuff is belt attachment stuff
is going to work very well.
Absolutely. Absolutely. So yeah, that's the Deschutes Skinner and
caper. The Skinner has a 3.9 inch blade caper, that has a 3.3
inch blade, and the Skinner comes in at right around $80 I
believe. And the caper comes in at 60.
So street price is probably somewhere in the 40 to 50 plus
range is what we're at KnifeCenter should be looking at
for you folks out there. Very cool.
Awesome. And then the last thing I mean, we barely need to talk
about this, you know, it's it's a bottle opener, right? Like
what do you have to say? But honestly, I've really fallen in
love with the sky. Highlights for this art. It's the size of a
key so if you put it on your key ring is just going to disappear
and not be there. Do you need it, you know, you got a scraper,
pry bar, flathead screwdriver and a bottle opener. It's really
simple. I love I love the design a lot steel. So it'll hold up
really well. But the biggest thing is just it's the size of a
key. And especially if you have it on a key ring works really
well for opening bottles. So just a really nice minimal
bottle opener. That's the Kershaw recap comes in $8.
I like the little, you know, strided or milled lines there
near the tip gives you a little extra potential like grip on
head on that bracket bar section. Man, I could see
someone will tell me this what what steel is this made out of?
It's three CR 13 steel. Okay? It's not, but it's an $8 Bottle
Opener. So, you know, while
I'm imagining someone going in and putting an edge on one of
these sides, if it's heat treated, right, I could see that
happening. Totally. Maybe they give it a little, little kydex
sheath. It could even be like a little neck chain or a neck
knife or something.
Oh, yeah. If you find one send that to me. That sounds amazing.
We'll do
we'll do I got a grinder at home. We can make this happen.
Thomas. You got to unpack it first. We have to send the
samples back unfortunately. So. Well, very cool. Yeah, that's
gonna be a really nice little piece. And the size of it really
does make it is that is a mean, we see a lot of like bottle
opener pry bar tools out there, but they're not all this
compact. So yeah, very cool.
What are your top two from the lineup this year for this
release?
Top two from this release. Well, I'm excited by the possibilities
of that. karambit even though it's not like my thing
personally. But I have to say the larger of the two Lockback
knives or something I really dig about this. It's got like I said
that distinct blade profile but still, it's still useful. It's
not at the expense of it being something unique. Yeah, blade is
nice and thin, easy to carry. Yeah, I'm digging that. Solid.
Finally I love it. That was very cool.
Yeah. What about What about you, Thomas? What do you think? Well,
have a bali Thomas's minimalist. He doesn't he has a thing. He
I
doesn't want another one. Unless it's an old beat up car that no
one else wants. Sorry, awesome. Andrew, man, thank you so much
for taking the time to show us these. We're really excited by
him, and really excited to have gotten to talk to you about it.
Folks, if you're watching this video, by the time it goes up,
we should have things available for pre order right away. We'll
make sure to leave a link in the description so you can go check
that out just as soon as you would like. And in the meantime,
keep watching here on the channel for as these come in
when they come in stock. We'll go over these again in our new
knives of the week's video, new knives Of The Week videos. I am
sure Andrew, thank you so much.
Yeah, man. Good to see you too.