(Blade Show presented by KnifeCenter) Hey everyone, David C. Andersen here from the
KnifeCenter coming at you from blade show from the Condor booth. We have the man himself Joe
flowers right here. DCA!, That's what they're calling you know, you have a presence he has a
president is nice for him The DCA i thought it was like a crew of gangs or something it might
be. Anyway, we're here at the Condor booth with some of... his DCA gang logos with knives.
Sorry, guys. With condor knives, yes. And now I've ruined it. So well. You know what? Well,
he's laughing. I'm going to tell you about the 2021 line. for him. This is a polar north as the
point down the center line. It has a multiple use handle. When your friend is laughing too
hard. It works really well to jab him on the side. Just make sure not to cut yourself. But
also, at least for me, David, I was never like a choil guy. And for a designer, I've got a lot of
designs with Condor like over 100 now, and I wanted to make sure I didn't get into a rut
where I keep designing the same stuff. So I was like alright, I'm gonna try toil, and I like it.
You know, I made me completely eat my What's it called? Eat crow? Yeah. In response to that, so
like the toil on it, but it's a really good bushcraft machete,
I found it works really well on this one too. Because when you do when you are choked up to do
that sort of stuff. It's a little less twisty in the hand. Yeah. And then yeah, it's kind of
stabilizes that a little bit. And then you got that great spot to choke back on the swing as
well with it,
you know, and this one's 2.5 millimeters thick, which isn't a lot of weight. It's a much lighter
weight than a lot of normal machetes Condor comes out with. And so that twisting will be
counterbalanced from that light, light, lightweight and so it really helps with the
light machete. That makes sense. Yes, that was a twist. It's gonna keep it out.
That's what I think. But you got that great. This is the like one of the kind of archetypal
type of survival machetes
right if you guys want to know like a little behind the thought process. What's important for
survival knife, a bushcraft knife they have a point down the center line right? They're
supposed to have a really ergonomic handle for high use and when think to some of those things
that continuous curve on the blade for some people like and put those into a machete it
turned out sexy. Polar north. Yeah, they did turn out quite nice. I love it. Next up. Oh,
right. We got a another Joe flowers design. This is a secret. I wanted to see a tactical seax.
However, the proper way to say it is because I really like the point. But I felt like man, it
could really lend itself to the outdoors a little bit more to the testicle world. And if
you get that point just right, there's some really cool stuff going on there. Yeah, plus,
it's straight and it looks cool to look even cooler when we put on a fuller.
We'll just kind of the shearing power as you're moving through a kind of that kind of tip right
there. Like even without having anything to cut through. You can kind of feel what that's going
to do.
Right. And you know, it's of course me I'm thinking about it. bushcraft wise I can totally
carve out a notch for that or like a fire drill board. We always talk about that for the point.
Oh yeah. All day long narrative and because of that narrative that notching get your thumb even
behind it, do a little push in with it. Yeah, absolutely. Now the nice comfy handle on it too.
But
yeah, it's kind of like a rework of some of the older handles we had on like the final frontier,
a little bit more a coke bottle shape skeletonize underneath with the welded pommel,
so absolutely awesome stuff.
Yeah, very cool indeed. And leather sheets with this guy, I'm assuming no kydex Oh, Molle
multi use kydex sheet you can clip it off, flip it over, put it in there. Excellent. It really
really neat setup. And it kind of one of the a little bit of the sack style, but I'm going to
come out with one next year with a little bit crazier leather on it. Very cool. Is he getting
a button going? Keep asking. Next one. Very nice design. Very nice. Alright, Okavango. This is by
um, I have to check my notes here because it's by one, one I cannot pronounce his last name
sometimes. Good luck. campaign. campaign campaign. campaign. Yes. Click on the campaign
campaign. Yes. Maybe Oh, yeah. So this is a this is actually called the Okavango hunting knife,
but it's designed by designers had a couple of designs with us before Diwan Cava ping
fathering, I'm sorry, one. I am butchering your last name, but that he sent design work for some
other companies still, and we brought him back to try something with our new 440 c stainless
steel. So it says a hunting knife. That's very, very grippy for when your hands are covered in
blood, it's small enough to be able to work inside the body cavity of for me at least dear.
Which I'm going to have some more jerky after we're done. Oh, I got a whole bunch of venison
on the bottom.
Yeah, quite nice. Charles probably a little small for my big fingers. Yeah, but I like the
crowning that's been done here to keep that kind of comfortable and not to pinchy they're good
EDC shape too, I would say.
So, we've got a couple of things happening there. And here, we've got a lot of finger
grooves going on. And this is a credo knife by Tony Leonard's and he incorporates in some of
his designs a lot of finger grooves. In DCA I was not a finger groove person. But that's
another thing where I wanted to jump out of a design real quick. This is a shotgun design, and
we incorporated finger grooves into that so you'll be seeing finger grooves in some of the
stuff it's it's hard to pull off a finger groove to make stuff feel ergonomic so that that was my
dog with a lot of different hands. Right That's a good point too to have the meat sausage
fingers versus the dainty fingers and stuff too. So there's a way to to bring out this is the
shotgun machete or departure bolo machete. It was just a really beefy, thick Froggy design
that I wanted to make. Again, I'm trying to break some rules here so I put a toy in, in in
fingers. I got no machete designs with finger grooves. Why? I can't be that dismissive all
blades matter. I like the tail end of that too. It looks like yeah, swing. Yeah. And you can use
it from the back. Yeah, I didn't mean to jump off. But yeah, all right. Well, yeah, you know,
two different designs here that have wonderful finger groups.
So this guy we got g 10. It looks like
I know this is actually black paper. micarta No kidding. Oh, yeah. All right. All right. And
yeah, it's the credo and check it out. He's finally got really really pretty LIKE It looks
like a marvel. hologram hard or something.
See on this guy. Is this also for 40 seats. That is for 20 minutes? Yes. Very cool. Very cool.
Speaking of like the EDC, fixed blades here,
tell me this guy is kind of important. This is actually dedicated to a person I worked very
closely with them Carlos. And this is dedicated to him. He actually died from COVID and he was
like in his 20s like 25 and it just affected him really bad. And he passed away from COVID and we
wanted to honor him by making a design in house from Condor and name it the Carlitos and this is
our first ceracoated knife so now we have cerakote capabilities as well she found that
guys are going to be kydex I believe so yeah, we don't have the sheets for some of these right
here because we had a problem guys since COVID some people in the knife industry in the world
around have had problems getting products because factories have been closed steel micarta
I mean even boats in some cases so yeah, sometimes you guys are gonna see a big jump in
multiple different machete manufacturers not having stopped but we're finally doing something
speaking of steel, what are these guys constructed from? I believe those are going to
be made out of 1075 or yes 1075 guys cheat thing here because we just got some new steel Yeah, 14
c 28 n and I didn't know if we were messing with the circuit on that particular
version so me a good good good addition to the lineup but being the carbon steel Of course
you're the ceracoat there's gonna help with Yeah, and I'm really getting want to get my my
hands into some ceracoating too. So I always like how you bring in a lot of influences from
around the world and yeah history which I see a lot of in this design right yeah,
you know and and and I really like representing, you know, my thoughts on some designs that are
already out there and it's done really well for me. But man, some of the things are just so hard
to get in the US I just wanted people to be able to get them and one of those is a Japanese Nata
and I mean a serious would handle Japanese not not like the micarta one are different take and
I ordered some finally got up in Japan. They were incredible. They had some crazy design. So
a Japanese not kind of literally, not literally it it translates to hatch it. And it's basically
a spinning hatchet that's made for batoning. Before batoning was cool. And so they have this
massive hammer and I've got some crazy videos of these guys breaking apart shaped boards for a
cedar and things along that line. Now what's going on with those was they had varying grinds,
some of them would be chisel, some of them would be that like 60 degree 30 degree, but they
always had these different things and I wanted it to be a little bit more useful as a machete.
They also were general purpose. Right. And it's also hard to do that because the left handers
would want the chisel grind on the right side. We also made it full tang because it's much
easier for us to ensure that's going to last longer. Instead of having a protection band up
here. We found it easier to put this braid on and it's actually really, really, really bolted
in there. I can't I can't really tell you exactly how we do I know So there's
more for decoration as well as like right
now we smashed the crap out of it to make sure it was good to protect it. But that band in the
on the old Japanese not as actually helped to secure it on there. This way. It's a little bit
different function. And it's all in cell skeletonised, too, but this is a really good
take on an awesome Japanese tool.
Yeah, yeah, you're right though. You don't see a lot of them here. No state so they are a little
hard to find.
The wooden handle ones are awesome freakin toes. I definitely say if you guys can pick up one of
these but also, maybe eBay or something, pick up an original. They go anywhere from $40 to 400.
You can get some interesting things here. But Japanese Nata. So Baton. batoning nata, nata.
And there's some times when you just pick him up where you feel like it's ready to chop. This guy
wants to talk. That was my goal. I want him to feel the knives. You don't need to use them.
Yeah, virtually there's nothing. Now we won't we won't have a chopping board in here. Oh, that's
okay. Okay. So we picked up Jason breeding. You guys may have known him from Spyderco warehouse
Kaiser. Did you give you number of number of different designs? Yeah, I think he did. I can't
remember who lives on so check out Jason Breeden who came out with the mountain pass series.
Mountain Pass x mountain pass machete, mountain pass knife. Mountain Pass surveyors, machete.
These have solid boats, but they're actually going to be like this guy. The Corby boat style.
And these come with brown micarta handles the bolt on construction correct. In 1075 high
carbon steel new for this year. Personally. Of course this one speaks to me the most because I
like machetes he says mountain pass machete it's got
an excellent shape to it. Yes, absolutely. Some a lot of machetes don't necessarily have sex
appeal. Right But this one I think does that blade shape? Yeah, just has those kind of lines.
Yeah, they they do something to me. What can I say?
I'm just gonna leave that there in leave the awkward silence Well, this is very interesting.
Tell me tell me about this. area where 30 are is really used towards a lot. Consequently, they
are really go to people to talk about with machetes. This is a multi use handle knife that
can be used from behind flipped over so you can use it along along this line for heavier
chopping. And then of course he's got a thinner blade here. The real guy to talk to about this
would be Jason breeding this since he's a designer, but you can definitely tell Okay, what
what's that up there for? Oh, okay, well, let me put my knife over and do some sharpened edge
there is a it is sharpened. Yeah, I don't know It's first time I've heard
so I know I've seen things like that where they're talking about it being like a bone
breaker. Yeah, like that. Yeah, of course it would be pretty easy to put a natural sharp edge
edge on there if you wanted to. Yeah. I can see this being a great Camp foodprint night so Yeah,
a little thick. Maybe but you could do it. Yeah. Oh, very cool. And all all of them are gonna be
bolt on even the axe.
Yep, yep. Oh, but we're having a problem finding the right bolts right now because COVID but that
that's what we're working with. Very cool. feels really good. nicely finished. Yeah, yeah, I
believe they're coming with a leather sheet after look at my cheat sheet because we got so
many designs down here. Yeah, this
is just a small sampling guys of the stuff. Yeah, all that. No, you guys are fine. So that
over there.
Some of this year we do have already at the KnifeCenter shelves ready to go buy it now. Buy
it now. Coming soon, but we'll leave a link to all of it down below.
Guys, thanks viewers, for tuning in to him. Because it's been awesome to watch him grow on
KnifeCenter it's been great to see all the wonderful comments. It's been awesome to see
that top top 10 designers saying I was on that that was number
five selling best selling designer at KnifeCenter
I could not believe that. It was really cool to tell my mom about that. Please keep doing this
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