hey everybody brandon mason here with eastmans and in this review we are taking a comprehensive look
at the outdoor edge razor safe series and don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel
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like this now here at eastmans we've been using outdoor edge knives exclusively for over eight
years almost a decade we've been running these knives and every single year outdoor edge comes
out with something newer greater purpose-built knives if you will that's one of the benefits
of being an outdoor company that's owned by a hunter by an outdoorsman david block who's the
founder and owner of outdoor edge he's a hunter and so he gets it he knows what we're looking for
and so many of you have seen some variety of these knives in our subscription offers that you can get
for free when you subscribe to our magazines or to our online research tool which is called tag hub
but some of these you've only seen us do in in reviews individually but there's been some updates
to some of the holsters and packaging there's also been some updates as to the knife blade offering
so we're going to get into it and we're going to look at each and every one of these so the first
knife in the razor safe series that outdoor edge debuted was i believe just over eight years ago
and it's called the razor light and this one is in a black holster but right uh
outdoor edge recently updated some of their holster lines to include an option where you
can get the holsters you'll see in these two variations which i'll show you in just a second
in kryptek highlander camouflage which kind of a nice variety to have another option to have
while you're in the field but anyway the original replaceable blade knife by outdoor edge was the
razer light now the blade length is a three and a half inch what they call a drop point blade
and when you see drop point blade on the outdoor edge website or in a store that simply means
the main blade that was originally designed to go in the blade holder that's is that that is
this black portion that holds the the blade of on all of these knives for a secure fit and you
see this little silver button here you push this button it easily comes out and when you push it
back in very carefully so don't cut yourself you hear the click and that means it's secure
and you can use this with or without the holster the holster is kind of nice because it comes
with your extra blades one of the things that i love about all of these outdoor edge and knives
and the razor safe series is that they have the replaceable blade feature and so when you're busy
processing an animal in the field sometimes you don't have the time or maybe even the know-how to
properly sharpen a knife and so you can quickly interchange the blades you don't need to take
all of the extra four or five blades that come with some of these knives on every hunt but
you could take a couple extra in fact i have routinely boned out an entire elk with just
one blade without sharpening it they hold their edge right to the very end and a little secret
they also offer a knife sharpener that you can take with you that i actually keep in my pack all
the time it's extremely lightweight we'll put a link to that sharpener in the description below as
well as to where you can find all these products on outdoorage.com but most of the time i prefer
not to sharpen my knives in the field and but if i do forget to bring my extra blades with me or if
i forgot to stop at the store to buy more i always have that little light weight sharpeners just a few
ounces in my pack and with many of these outdoor edge also offers a three inch variation if you
want to go ultra light and and just a little bit shorter blade that that half an inch shorter blade
it's it's amazing at how much smaller that actually looks when you're holding them side by
side but either one will do the job in the field and we're going to take a look at the next product
in the line so this is kind of a succession i have these laid out in order basically chronologically
um outdoor edge also came out with one that's very similar to this so they have a you notice
this black handle you can get them in black and orange and some other colors depending on the year
this is a rubberized handle that it really has a good grip to it so if your hands get wet with
moisture or blood they're not going to slip off and you're not going to have an accident in the
field the next is the razer light edc edc as everybody knows just stands for everyday carry
it flips out the same same blade holder same blades are interchangeable between these
close it up and look at the back there is the clip that goes right on your pocket or on your
pack or wherever you want to house it this one is actually one of the lighter knives in the
line because it has this this kind of a plastic grippery handle with the inlaid rubberized grips
that's similar to this whole handle but having the grips only in a portion of the knife handle
saves actually quite a bit of weight i mean quite a bit of weight we're talking tenths of
ounces here you can feel the weight difference and if you're a minimalist an ounce counter
you might want to look at this one because it is lighter and it also comes with an extra blade pack
i think this one comes with an extra five blades so there's six blades total that it comes with
and also again different color variations that you can get in the handle obviously here at eastman's
we kind of prefer orange partially because it's involved in some of our colors with our logos
but also it's easy to find in the field this one's not going to blend in i'm not going to lose it and
for me i lose everything so i need all the help i can get we're going to move to the third one which
is called the razer pro and what outdoor edge did is they took the razor light the original and
also added in the skinning blade that they have in their swing blaze series which is a
more permanent blade knife that was really popular and i still love using that knife
too on different occasions holds its edge remarkably well but you have your normal
flip out knife the replaceable a three and a half inch drop point blade and you have the
blade holder you got the lock right here and then the cool part is on the other side you have this
skinning tool that allows you to i i generally when i'm processing animals on the field i start
at the base of the spine and i rip a cut all the way down to the tail and then i rip down this
quarter and down this quarter and you'll see this on some of our videos that we've done on youtube
like butter and on our tv show where we show you how to field process animals in a
very quick manner whether that's boning them out completely off the bone or quick quartering them
the process for initially getting to the meat the exact same and this handy blade makes that process
of of ripping down the hide down the backbone down the legs extremely fast and another added
benefit is that that so this one locks right there we're going to push that to the side and close it
but another added benefit is that it saves on the edge of this blade cutting through all that thick
hide and sometimes hair along the spine and down the legs and so this blade once you actually get
to the meat will actually last a lot longer and you won't have to worry about replacing a blade as
quickly or sharpening as quickly as you would if you didn't have this handy blade on there so this
has quickly become one of the office favorites i know ike eastman says this is his favorite knife
that he takes in the field now there's a little bit of a weight penalty not much about an ounce
uh heavier than than these other ones but but the weight penalty i think is worth it and again
when i'm talking about the weights of the knives i'm talking about the weight of the knife with
the single blade in it obviously they're going to weigh more once you weigh the sheath and the extra
blades and there's a little instructional packet in there too that you can you know either discard
or keep in there for when you're in the field okay so we're moving on the next one that we have here
in this kryptek package this was the first in the razor safe series that had a fixed blade on there
not a permanent blade it's a replaceable blade system but it's a fixed blade and it's kind of
a compression fit in this sheath and you can see a difference between this blade length and this
blade length they came out with a boning or a fillet blade that fits that same blade holder
and pops in the same way you hear the click you know it's in so this one doesn't fold
it still has the grip right here to get some extra grip when you're cutting and everything
but the cool part is this also has a blade box for carrying extra blades which just pops right open
you'll see there and it can hold extra three and a half inch drop point blades or extra fillet or
boning blades depending on what you call them in fact we processed an elk that my son shot in 2019
with this blade and having that extra blade length on that fillet blade is really nice
when you're doing an elk particularly when you're cutting the back straps off because when you're
doing an a deer or an antelope you know the back straps you know they end up being you know about
that long and they're only about that big around where an elk you get a back strap like that and
it's almost the length of a deer body it's pretty massive and if you've never elk hunted before
you'll know what i mean when you get one on the ground it is you know their anatomy is
built the same but just times three the size of everything else that's out there in the field
except for moose so anyway it has this handy sheath not only for the knife but also a front
sheath that can be removed with these velcro straps to carry your extra blades in and also
your the blade box okay so now we're going to move to the next knife in the line this one was
called the razor max this one is called the razor bone what outdoor edge did is they lengthened
the handle a little bit so that it allowed for that long five inch fillet blade
to be down in the handle and then it folds it's a little more compact you can see that
case compared to the razer max case compared to the razer bone case you know this is quite a bit
shorter saves more room in your pack and in addition outdoor edge in this knife series
not only did they add the five inch fillet blade and they have like i said the standard three and
a half inch drop point blade but they also added a gutting blade which you will see right there
and that hooks in the exact same way into that blade holder and now this essentially can function
essentially like that blade on the razor pro but in a replaceable blade format
and so you can buy any of these blades on the outdoor edge website outdooredge.com and in tons
of places online and also dealers like walmart and others a lot of sporting goods stores carry them
and so you can use this you don't need as many of these because you're not doing as much cutting
but you can replace those two they get dull you can discard the blade once you get
back in from the field of course you don't want to leave them laying on the field put them safely
in your pack you can put them back in the plastic pouches once they're dull and replace them with a
sharp one and off you go so this is perfect for ripping up those legs down the spine especially
on the thinner skinned animals like on pronghorn this makes short work of processing
pronghorn antelope the names are interchangeable they're the same animal but it makes short work of
processing them in the field so that is the razor bone now last but not least the newest addition to
the razor safe family is what is called the razor work now you're going to see something quite a bit
different of this blade you see how it's kind of squared off essentially outdoor edge made
a utility blade and you can see that it's quite a bit longer than a standard utility blade for more
surface cutting area and it's only three inches and so the drop point blade that's replaceable
with this utility blade is actually only a three inch uh blade i'm going to show you the difference
between the three inch and the three and a half inch here in just a second like i referenced at
the beginning of this video i'm going to close that and you can see this is also an edc and
everyday carry type of a knife and it's ultra lightweight in fact this is the lightest one
in this review of the razer safe series the the three inch version of the standard edc is just a
little bit lighter but not much we're talking a tenth of an ounce maybe and so as promised
i'm going to show you the difference between the three inch drop point standard knife blade
that comes with the razor work which is this last one we did take it out of the protective sheath
there and then i'm going to pull the three and a half inch blade out of one of the standard knives
and we're going to see the difference in size i'm going to butt up the mounting holes there
at the end you can see those are lined up as if they would slide into the into the blade holder
and look at the difference in that size so on the back here that's the three and a half and
on the front is the three inch so just a little bit different and just a little bit shorter blade
again it's just personal preference both do the job i have processed animals as large as elk and
caribou with the three inch blade as well as a three and a half inch blade so both work great
one thing to note um is that the three inch blades in the three and a half inch blades are not
interchangeable with the knives that are designed to hold those size of blades they just won't work
in these blade holders they're different lengths in fact we'll show you that real quick too
pull this out of the razor work and you can see the difference there it's quite a bit
and so where this drop point essentially clips into there it just won't fit the three inch
into the three and a half and the three and a half inch into three so you just need to pick the size
that you want to run with and buy extra blades and you know after you go through the blades that come
with the extra blades that come with the knives and all the packaging and use them in the field
and i can promise you through years of use through i don't even know how many animals that we process
in the field and through with our whole crew you will not be disappointed with any of these
knives that you get from outdoor edge and the best part is they're not going to break the
bank either outdoor edge makes knives that are extremely affordable extremely user friendly you
can find them at almost any hardware store any big box store any mom and pop pro shop
you can find them online they're they've kind of become the the thirty odd six of the knife
world if you will you know the joke about 30 odd sixes is that you can buy the rifle in any
hardware store gas station pretty much across the country and that's the way these knives are
they're extremely efficient they're lightweight they get the job done and the biggest challenge is
holding on to them once your friends or outfitters if you hunt with outfitters or see them because i
can't tell you how many knives i've given away to friends family outfitters on different hunts
they're like man i got to get one of those so i just give them mine and i buy another one
so there you have it that's a pretty comprehensive review on the razer safe series from outdoor edge
they do have a few other options as i mentioned in the three inch size and also in a style
called the onyx which is even a lighter weight handle than the edc it doesn't have any of the
rubberized handle in there so go check those out at outdooredge.com and don't forget to subscribe
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