today a blade HQ we're going over five knives that everyone should own one
thing I noticed on all these knives they tend to be bigger again their work
knives they're kind of your every man's knife that's gonna do great
what is up guys today a blade HQ we're going over five knives that everyone
should own now Zack where did we get our data so we pulled our data from YouTube
Instagram and a survey that you guys went and you left us comments on
Instagram and YouTube you guys filled out a survey we had over 2,000 responses
that's a heap so what we've got on the table is from you guys these are your
preferences which i think is pretty cool now the second part of this video Zack
and I have done this same exercise and we have pulled two knives from him two
knives from me and we have to agree on the last one we'll have a discussion
about which two knives shoot you should always have for the rest of your life if
you were stranded on a desert island that sort of thing we'll talk about that
near the end so let's dive into this what is our first knife sec so the
number one knife that you guys voted on was Spyderco Paramilitary 2 not
surprising not surprising not surprising now the way we arrived here guys is we
basically took the top five brands because what we found is that 43% of you
landed in five of these brands on the table the other 67% landed outside of
that and so we took the top five brands and then we took a knife from each of
those brands right exactly that's correct
and so Spyderco was generally the brand 16% of you guys liked the spider wanted
Spyderco as your number one knife and then the Paramilitary 2 was 40% popular
that makes sense there's a spider within the spider co-brand after that after
that the other 60% was just random Spyderco yes so this was the most
agreed-upon knife in Spyderco Paramilitary - it's solid you got that
compression lock s30v steel g10 handle blade is what three and a quarter not
three and a quarter yeah just a great knife and we know that you guys like it
because we see the sales numbers and a pair of two is one of the most popular
knives of the past five years really it's a classic and it's a great carry -
it is so next on the list benchmade is the brand 940 is the knife this is a 940
- - and I suspect in the in the results the 940 came up multiple times the 94 -
- they're eager than 40 yeah that was the other thing is none of this was a
standardized it wasn't like you could go and like just select a knife so like
mining this dad actually took a minute to get it all the different ways you can
type in a night we're not survey people but it's kind of
fun to see so 940 s30v steel one thing I noticed on all these knives they tend to
be bigger again about a three and a quarter inch blade g10 handle but these
are knives that people their work knives they're kind of your every man's knife
that's gonna do great work so - a reversible pocket clip on that one with
your greenback spacers and the axis lock who doesn't love an axis law I love a
good access lock if you don't love an axis lock I don't know I don't know next
up we've got the cold steel recon one so this has got the sts xhp you know the
cold Steel's your carpenter steel they have here made in the USA right hand or
left hand carry with a tip-up pocket clip and this one g10 on the handle 3g
tins in a row yeah now percentage-wise how many how much
did the percentage did cold steel take so cold steel took look at my numbers
really quick cold steel took only six of about five and a half percent
people voted Cold Steel so from Spyderco to benchmate everybody really agreed on
these two brands and then after that it starts to spread so cold still comes in
but the Recon one took 25% of of cold steel so the Recon one was definitely
the clear winner when it comes to people of green so here's another thing I
realized from this entire thing guys is you kind of have these these leaders in
the beginning but after that knife preference just goes wild there's so
many out there and there's so many different reasons to own different
knives that after those first couple it's just like the whole survey almost
blew up yes it was like just so varied yeah what I think that but that stands
true and I think it just shows especially the people that were taking
the survey that people are watching YouTube videos people are commenting on
Instagram these are real knife people right and that's the thing is like as
knife guys we have we're very specific about what we like and how we like it
and you've had the chance to get a couple knives and really learn about
them yeah so that spread just shows knives are a very personal thing yeah
absolutely next brand on the list is ZT and this
one is the 0562 - it's a Rick Hinderer design solid
knife and it's not surprising to me that the knife guys chose a ZT yeah
and that they chose a Hinderer yeah like this makes perfect sense to me beautiful
blade also g10 yeah that which was interesting and I think that g10 is just
such a great handle material like I love g10 yeah like for me it's like g10
micarta those are my two favorite handle materials and so that's why I think we
see it over and over again so nice yeah so ZT 0562 - and this particular one is
a sprint run yeah but the 0562 in general was one or
the 562 - however you like to say it next brand on the list is Microtech Microtech
Microtech Ultratech so double up obviously double action and yeah just
great knife this particular one now the ultra tech comes in a bunch of different
plates deals yeah this particular one is bohler m390 and then handle material on
this is aluminum got the glass breaks actually g10 oh this is g10 - oh yeah
this one is g10 plus aluminum they do come in all aluminum I've got the glass
breaker on the back then obviously nice pocket click there
so yeah great knife and I think that a no TF making it on the list is actually
interesting to me you think so yeah for the top five because more people okay
maybe now our people love okay maybe not maybe not and maybe it's interesting to
me because like I've never owned an OTF till I got here
yeah and that's probably why then I think if you're a knife guy yeah like
you got to have that OTF absolutely I agree absolutely so so that's the first
part of this guy's is these are the ones that you selected now after the
commercial break we're gonna talk about kind of the deeper theory on this Zack
and I are gonna dive into what knives we selected and go from there we'll be back
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in from there so check it out but before we dive into the knives you chose and
the knives I chose and then the knife that we're hopefully going to agree on
we have to agree oh yeah we have to agree on it there were a couple really
fun responses in the survey there was really there was some really neat just
to see some like really deep knife nerd stuff that was fun but there was a
couple kind of silliness with it okay so we had one response the smallest visit
Sebenza a micro tech Ultratech okay it's all normal and then a big a sword for
the zombies I love a great love it everyone needs a sword for it exactly
somebody else had for their first knife choice was what their second knife
choice is up and their third knife choice guys so classics vol 3 class of
three classic classic and then the last one that I really love personally
somebody really wanted their number one knife was the sentient switchblade now
if you don't know what the sentient switchblade hopefully Matthew is gonna
do some magic right here
and it's from a front Michonne called Rick and more you might may or may not
furtive love it love it okay so let's dive into this so the
original question we asked here was if you could only have three knives for the
rest of your life which ones would they be now what we saw from the results was
that you guys kind of picked not necessarily knife types but styles and
your favorites and so that's what we've talked about in the first section now
let's get into four reels if you could only have three knives Zack yeah what
would they be what's your number one well three knives for the rest of my
life that's it this is if I can only like my three favorites be a little bit
different sure right so three nights for the rest of my life or a utility for
utility right exactly so my number one I have to go with the Leatherman search
really just like that just like that that's a multi-tool though this is a
multi-tool but it's nice yeah that's true this is what I'm getting at is what
I'm getting at is I would go with the search one I've carried a search for
over a decade right in my professional work love this love this knife love this
tool whatever you want to call it great great great but this is why be my number
one is I get a good blade right I get a bunch of tools on it and I know I have
whatever I need wherever I'm at so that would be my number one day-to-day like
my as an EDC yeah I don't carry it too big do you want to see my number I want
to see your number one now I went the same route is actually the knife I've
owned since I was probably like nine or ten yeah I don't even know the model
it's a Victorinox it's similar to a Victoria Knox camp model same reason
tweezers pliers like two knife blades that sort of thing this is a simple tool
yes is not high speed over here but at the end of the day like I was out hiking
out in the desert a few months ago and I stepped on a cactus
well like I didn't step on it like I ride it again back to stepped on you
yeah no I characters and I ended up with a spine in my foot I needed tweezers and
granted you can pack that in your bag and that sort of thing totally but
knowing that I have all of these tools right here
is fantastic to me yep so I'm with you like if I had to have one knife or tool
for the rest of my life I would go with either Leatherman or Victorinox Swiss
Army knife just straightforward yep love it ok what's your number two okay
my number two I don't care I don't care if anybody judge with me for it
judge yeah you ready to judge okay I saw the movie hunted this is how I
learned about it I don't have a lot of you guys probably had the same
experience this is how I learned about this knife right yeah and then I start
learning about like some things surrounding this knife I know there's
some controversy here and there so putting all that aside yeah just the
knife itself if I had on one knife I mean look at this stock on that thing
it's yeah it's not you're not gonna break this yeah you're just not gonna
break there and later is like as I got older my dad actually bought I've never
actually purchased one myself my dad bought one and I went out and used it
and there was some comments in the office that you're getting the worst of
both worlds with this knife it's not a great knife it's not a great it's not a
great too you know axe hatchet we're gonna call yeah I've used it to be
honest like it's not like it works I've never used it yeah used to have you used
this top portion no I yes I've never used the SOB portion cuz
I can't speak on the saw this is actually sitting on your desk yesterday
I picked it up and I thought this looks worthless to me
yeah so if you own a Tom Brown tracker yeah let us know let us know cuz I've
never used that one but as far as a hard use knife something I know will never
break and it's gotta last me literally the rest of my life I would go with
something like this and I could go with the tracker because it's got a special
place in my heart Farra know that's all it is some similar
stuff it a little bit install just so I went the same direction you did and this
one's actually mine too so I own it I went se4 cool so again
this to me is kind of your quintessential fix blade where it's
gonna get the job done thick stock maybe not as thick as a tom brown tracker
right but still it's a good night yeah these are great knives very nice so I
guess maybe not particularly like the models of Victorinox
or se um but the concept behind it is that you've got a knife you got a
multi-tool and you've got a beater where it's like are
I gotta get some work done yep here's what I'm gonna do so those are kind of
my two knife choices if I had to just take two for the rest of my life I like
it that's what I take I do feel like I'm at a disadvantage though I didn't know
we were bringing in our personal knives yeah well I should have just brought in
what I have okay nice dirty sir now you have to know you have to by the time I
got a buy at um broad tracker now okay so there's our two but this is a
conversation about five so there's my two there's your two right we've got to
agree on one and in fact the reason we did this survey guys this portion is
Kazak and i sat there for an hour no joke and argued about what knives should
be in this video yeah and kind of the methodology behind it no joke an hour
and finally we're like forget that we're gonna ask the people so if you ask you
guys but we've got to agree on one say I know you've got one in your pocket I got
one all agree yeah we all love we all love okay I just want to point out we
got we got good multi-tool knife blade right nice fixed blade so what we're
missing is is a folder right like holder and all of these have a little bit of
pizzazz a little bit of pizzazz so we went we went hard possess yeah hard
possess you and I agree yeah yeah we agree we're all there Bofur mermaid just
love this knife is great you know you got you got your deep carry pocket clip
oh yeah right like beautiful styling absolutely if you're on a desert island
you won't feel lonely you have a nice beautiful mermaid to be with you yeah
but then you have one qualms with this night yeah I mean just one so I actually
have - OH - oh it's gonna I think we're gonna do some aftermarket seashells for
okay I know there's some folks and I don't know what I'd want my daughter
like carrying this around all right so after marks after Marcus he's on it and
then you know this deep carry clip it doesn't have those those recessed right
if it would do that it'd be perfect nice but guys have you seen the flipper on
this the flipper is actually a flipper like it's amazing it's it's incredible
it needs a little wrist flick to it but yeah this is the knife that we agree on
guys there you have it five knives that everybody should own you can buy all of
these and thousands and thousands of other knives the plate hq.com thanks for
watching let us know what is what are your - lets go to on the comments
this yeah two knives did you'd have forever not your favorites but your two
knives forever so there you have a guys thank for watching be sure to LIKE and
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