Hey everyone, David C. Andersen here coming at you from the
KnifeCenter and welcome to KniFAQ episode 102 The knife
series where I answer all your questions, whether they're sharp
or dull and this week with Halloween just a few days away,
we're gonna get a little spooky with our questions (KniFAQ)
alright folks, if you are new to this series, this is the part of
the video where I talk to you folks and let you know what it's
all about what we do we go through the comments section
below these videos and pick out some cool answers some cool
questions to answer in a future video. So that's how you get a
chance to have your question featured, drop it in the
comments below. The first one comes from Eric extraordinary
who commented on the video we recently did on rich dying where
we turned this previously white Badlands Vagabond exclusive to
this reddish orange color. You can check that out if you want
but they're extraordinary. So Eric is stir all ordinaries is
quite the name DCA your next challenge is to take a white G
10 handle I'm going to take one of these FRN and rip diet to
make it look like a piece of candy corn Challenge accepted.
Alright, so I'm not going to go over the whole red dyeing
process. Again check out the short we mentioned if you're
interested in that, but to get multiple colors apparently, you
can use hot glue to mask off the portions you don't want to take
die I haven't tried this yet. So we're gonna find out together
I've got my scales here. And I think we're going to have the
pivot portion that'll be our yellow orange in the center
white at the tip. So I'm going to start by masking off the tip
section and then probably definitely I'm going to die the
whole rest of the handle yellow first then mask off the bat
bottom in and then come in with the orange because the orange
should go over the yellow quite nicely and previously came out
kind of red when we did the initial dye job. So the yellow
might help it kick back towards orange a little bit. So let's
see how this goes Shall we it's not perfect, but that's going to
be okay for candy core and there's going to be a gap anyway
alright, so there's two things I want to do now now that our dye
bath is boiling the yellow here I put a lot of hot glue on here
because I don't want it to kind of melt away too quickly. And I
also don't want to go too far on the color so we're just gonna go
in for about a five second dip and pull it to see how that
goes. Ready Thomas
I think we can definitely go a little bit more that's not quite
yellow enough. That's getting there I think one more 3456 All
right, I think we've gotten a good enough yellow on these
looks nice and even so let's glue off the other side and go
more or less along the line of the quote unquote bolster there
and we'll see how this goes again I don't know if you need
to go this thick but one I don't want it to melt and two looks
like the glue at the top did take some of the yellow dye so I
don't want that go in through you know a thin layer if that's
all we've got
just one of the many things we're not allowed to do inside
the surprise they let you indoors as a special labor that
cool little bit more than that all right here goes nothing five
second intervals again. These already Thomas 12345 Definitely
you need some more Oh no,
we're losing a little integrity on the hot glue. Work close
though. Before I'm going to call that done. I think we're there.
Yeah, man.
All right. It's rinse it put it back together. Well what do you
think? I think it came out better than I even hoped man,
look at that. Delicious turned out real good, delicious. I
wouldn't go that far. Even if it were actually Candy corn
probably not that delicious. Our next challenge may I was dubious
about the hot glue. I know I read it on the internet, which,
you know, take that to anything there with a grain of salt of
course. But there it is the hot glue held up great. I may not
have needed to glob as much on as we did. But still, but I
gotta say if you're gonna go for a project like this, make sure
you really want the end result because getting the hot glue off
was a bear. Oh my gosh, it took longer to get the hot glue off
of these scales than it did for the whole rest of the project
combined. We would have filmed it but we don't have that much
space for footage film is cheap and not that cheap these days.
But the color camera came out great. I was a little worried
the yellow might look the when we poured it into the bottle
look really brown but the yellow looked good. And I'm really
happy with the orange two here it is against the the other one
we did and next to this man. This really does look more
orange than red. This the original one we dipped for 30
seconds. It total in the apricot, whatever. Red Dye more.
This one right here. It was a total of 15 seconds and it had
the yellow underneath it to kind of inform the color above it to
and that came out great, man. And it flips the right to put
back together no problem. dropped a little touch oil on
there. But there you go. Those watching on the backside and
that little guy wouldn't I wouldn't worry about that little
guy missed a little spot just by there. Yeah. Little
tiny imperfections that make it like you know that was made by
hand. There you go. So Ericstraordinary.
Does that meet the meet your challenge right there? I hope
so. Yeah, at least not a donut. Next question comes from Nicolas
Petrini. Hey, DCA Halloween is just around the corner and fall
activities are in full swing. What is a good sub four inch
knife that will help me get a good carve into my jacket
lantern. Looking for something I won't mind getting messy, but
will also allow a great deal of maneuverability. All right.
Having tried to carve pumpkins with plain edged knives over the
years, I gotta say I would. I don't even want to get any of my
folders or even any of my fixed blades really into a pumpkin
carving situation because there that's that's tough man. It's a
mess. It's a mess. And it's like It's really slippery, especially
like, you know, I like a lot of my knives thin and slicey they
kind of like to slide a bit on you when you're when your slider
gets stuck in in a pumpkin when you're trying to carve through
it serrations would work better. Sure. sawblade might not you
might even work even better still. But I honestly don't want
to recommend any standard knife for the task. It's just not
conducive. What I would recommend is an actual pumpkin
carving set. And the best part is they're not that expensive
either. Especially this is the set I like to recommend I've
used it before. We've actually shown me using it on this
channel before it's a Messermeister set the pumpkin
carving set it's 20 bucks, you get these three tools, which is
just what you want. There are some that come with a whole
bunch of pieces extra different types of blades. This and that
might seem a little bit gimmicky, these are plain and
simple. Get the job done. And the reason the primary reason
right there is that knife blade you can see it looks like a tiny
a fine tooth crosscut saw and it has the power to get through the
the pumpkin rind it has the teeth there to keep it from
slipping around on you it actually grabs as opposed to
sliding out and it has some flex and a narrow blade so you've got
plenty of maneuverability for little fine detail cuts. Then
you've got the scoop to help hollow out the inside and you've
got this little V shaped scorer if you're going to be doing
designs on the surface of pumpkin to this is this is very
much a case where for safety sake I have to recommend the
right tool for the job because I've some folks out there you
may have experienced differently but I have yet to experience a
traditional knife that doesn't make me really scared to put it
into a pumpkin so hope that helps stick with the right
stuff. It's probably a little late this year for most folks to
even get your you've probably already gotten your pumpkin
carving done. But if you haven't keep something like this in
mind, for this year or for the next one All right, next
question comes from Christopher Finn. I wonder why there's never
been a slasher film where in the slasher is a knife nut and
constantly chopping the different knife websites and
getting all kinds of different cool knives. It's kind of boring
how they usually just have one. Like, unfair advantage.
Explain you want your protagonist to have a chance of
living?
Like if Michael Yes, that's true. Like if Michael Myers was
constantly showing up in different scenes with different
knives from different knife companies. Will that be awesome?
I mean, I'll tell you right now folks like you and me. Maybe not
Thomas, but you and me. See you there. We would have a lot of
fun like going ooh, like I know what that is. But do we really
want to be associating our hobby with villainy or villainous
intent?
Are we the baddies?
This was the Reddit like Am I the aihole but no you know just
gonna say like Be careful what threads you pull on because you
know our niche is you know there's sometimes in certain
crowds certain stigma with with knife use as it is and last
thing I want to see is that being portrayed negatively on
the big screen quite honestly a bit of a downer answer perhaps
but you don't want to be too edgy.
I hope that helps.
I will say if I were Mike Myers I would go for the Victorinox
lobster splitter. As you can see, it does bushcraft pretty
well to check out the video. All right, now we come to the
lightning round for today. We got a single question and John
Kay says hey DCA, I would love to collect some knives that have
a holiday theme. Which knives have a Halloween vibe? Maybe
anything with a skeletonized han dle? Oh
no? Decent bones.
I gotta flesh it out a little bit. Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, so Civivi Perf skeletonize handled? No, in all seriousness,
there's not a ton of like straight up Halloween themed
knives. Oh, no, sorry, wrong one. But check out case has some
really cool ones. This year. We've got this two blade canoe
with a cool Halloween skull and pumpkins graphic and tend to go
with it. Check those out. There's a there's not many.
We'll leave a link to all the Halloween II things we've got on
the site right now. I like my dad joke. It was a good one. And
now we come to our Most Serious question of the day, which comes
from Gary Stern's sheet with room for candy bars. And this is
the most serious question so I'm going to take it most seriously.
If you're unsure the size of your candy bar, I would go with
the JRE industries universal multi tool sheath. These go for
they're like 30 bucks, and it's got an expandable leather pouch
here to fit whatever you want to stick in there and nothing up
top to impede if it's an extra long like king size bar or
something like that. You could type it down there. You got a
little Molle compatible slip there and a snap on belt strap
on the back. I think they're called sharing size now sharing
size Yeah, they're not big fans of monarchy these days I guess.
Do they not believe we can we can eat the whole thing
ourselves. I believe in us, Thomas. Yes. Another option
because I'm taking this most seriously Of course, the
Benchmade Adamas get one of these, it comes with a sheath
but you know what? Next got a daggone pocket clip on it. So
take that out, put it in your pocket. Throw a candy bar in
there. Good news serious enough for you? Or how about one of my
new favorite sheathes as seen on the S35VN Ontario Blackbird it's
got this big ol pouch here on the front there's some full size
bars probably wouldn't fit in there but just a handful of fun
size who you could load it right up? Yeah, there's like the the
assortments definitely, that would work pretty well I think.
Then of course there's the classic style like survival
military sheath as seen on the BK 9 from Ka-bar and Becker Of
course, you got the elasticized pouch there and plenty of length
I would say the velcro loop there to accommodate most
sharing size bars, shall we say? And then one more for you and I
had to do this one because the gneissic that fits in this
sheath is nice and orange, which is a bit of a theme as you can
see. But the marbles camp bolo I believe it's called or the bolo
camp cleaver. She sold separately. But there it is.
Open that up. Take the the sharpening stone out there. You
can fit a couple of Reese's cups there perhaps, or the cup of
your choice. And there's a little spot up here for a little
a couple of minutes. There you go. Hope that helps. Serious
enough for you mentally. That's all we've got for today. Happy
Halloween, everyone who's celebrating, stay safe. Of
course, let me know what you thought of the answers and you
have any better ones for me. And make sure to leave your
questions below in the comments section as well. If you want to
get your hands on any of these knives, except of course, you
know, the last thing I want to do is make more of these. So
we're not we're not selling these because it took way too
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KnifeCenter That's Thomas behind the camera. We're signing off.
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