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This is the Best Damn EDC Podcast. Mostly, you'll get audio-only episodes of Deep Cuts here with the occasional interview.
Apparently, $220 is too much for a titanium frame lock knife if it's made in China. And, also, news to me, using a folding knife for food prep is taboo. Sorry we missed deep cuts last week. Ricky and I were traveling, and we're hanging out at Leatherman HQ, and we have some really cool stuff to share with you, but not until next week. To hold you over until then, we do have a giveaway from Leatherman at the end of this video, so stick around.
Speaker 1:But for now, I'm Taylor Martin. This is deep cuts, and let's do the damn thing. The first thing up this week, have a community comment. This one comes from delay of upload, and this was actually made on a video that Ricky made on the big idea design overlook a couple of weeks ago. If you haven't checked that out, be sure to do so.
Speaker 1:It's a great video. It's also a great knife. But delay of upload says $220 for made in China. Man, if you're gonna outsource your production, you can't charge made in USA prices. But the EDC folks will buy it up, so congrats.
Speaker 1:It's such an interesting take because people, like, claim that a knife that's $200 is, you know, they're overcharging for it and these made in America America prices. That's not made in America prices. So Ricky clapped back and he said, can you rattle off a couple of USA made titanium folders two twenty and under? I can't think of any off the top of my head. This guy says, definitely not in my wheelhouse of retained knowledge.
Speaker 1:I found some on sale for around 120 to 150 by doing a Google search and what you asked for though. The main issue I had was the fact that a Chinese made knife was going for that much. It's even more egregious that they don't openly say it's imported on the description. I had to dig to find out where it was made in the first place. I don't mind paying more for American goods, but I definitely don't like paying those prices for stuff made by slave labor.
Speaker 1:Well, for starters, it is pretty clearly labeled that most stuff from Big ID Design is made in China unless explicitly otherwise stated. They have a logo that is specifically for their USA made stuff. And I think most of these companies are pretty open about where their stuff is made. So I don't agree with that assessment, but also a 150 and under. So a hundred and twenty a hundred and fifty dollars for an American made folding knife.
Speaker 1:I would love to see what he found on Google that that says that. Unless he's looking at, like, Spyderco knives and just assuming they're American made, not all Spyderco knives are. I don't know. I have no clue what he's suggesting is a 120 to 150, but Ricky also took this question over to Instagram and asked, can you list out a a USA made knife? I think a titanium frame lock.
Speaker 1:Right? Titanium frame lock knife for under $220. Let me know. And there were a lot of replies. One of them here says, I just did a Blade HQ and DLT search with those parameters and found nothing.
Speaker 1:MKC EDC says closest I can think of is TRM, but their scales alone are almost that much. Kiss my glass as Buck Spitfire. That's not USA made. Just saying. It's also way cheaper, so I don't alright.
Speaker 1:And then Everburn EDC, American Blade Works has a slip joint in titanium under 200 and several frames under four. That's that's the point right there. You can find an American made knife under $200, but it's not within these parameters. The Overlook is completely reasonably priced for what it is, and the only we we looked pretty extensively. The only American made titanium frame lock knife that we could find even remotely close to $200 was a zero tolerance zero four five zero.
Speaker 1:It's a much older knife. It's probably being phased out if I were to guess. I don't know for sure. We actually had one in our last, I believe, Bass Pro video. It's a great knife.
Speaker 1:It's a Cincovitch design. I love it. But originally, that was a $300 knife. And I thought that I would be clever and find a couple of Spydercos, so I looked up the Spidey Chef made in Taiwan. Then also the Swayback under $200 made in Taiwan.
Speaker 1:So I guess the point here is that it's really interesting to see where people think American made knives land on the pricing scale. When I was launching the Klingman, I was in Pennsylvania at a show called the it was the NRA, Great American Outdoor Show. And people came by the booth pretty regularly saying, man, these are nice. How much are they? And they were like, hey, about $50.60, maybe $75.
Speaker 1:And they're like, awesome. Made in America? And we're like, no. They're not made in America. And the people were like several people.
Speaker 1:I I would say maybe close to a dozen throughout the two or three days that I was there. They were like, well, I'll just go buy me a Gerber. And it's just like, that's also not made in America. Like, yes, Gerber makes knives in America, but if they're $50, you're not whatever you're buying at Walmart or Cabela's or Academy, it's not made in America. It's a Chinese made knife company that's headquartered in America.
Speaker 1:So the thing is, most of your titanium frame lock knives made in America are going to be probably $3.50 on the low end, I would assume, going up to $500 and beyond. What is what is the cheapest one that comes to mind for you? Like the Rockwall? The original Rockwall from from Tactile was what? $300?
Speaker 1:Barron Sons? Yeah. I don't know. There are some companies out there that I think are bending the rules a little bit for Made in America. But in general, you're looking at like 300 and up for a titanium frame lock knife made in America.
Speaker 1:And even then, that is considered a screaming deal. So if you want Made in America, you gotta pay for it. They're they're creating American jobs and it costs more money. And a lot of the time, these people are like, I'd love to pay more for American, but when they look at what an American made knife actually costs, they get cold feet because it is actually expensive. It's not a cheap ordeal to make a folding knife in America.
Speaker 1:Regardless, thanks for your input, man. I would still love to see your Google search results that suggested several 120 to a $150 American made titanium frame lock folders. I'll wait. Alright. Next up, we have another and I'm not here to just piss in everybody's cornflakes, but we have another one.
Speaker 1:This one is a missed a point. We have a comment from James Sharper 8373, and he says, food prep is the silliest thing to hear people say they use a pocket knife for. I get it. You're looking for any excuse to use your new shiny toy for something besides opening your other shiny toys. But if you're doing food prep, bruh, turn around and grab a doggone kitchen knife, like, it's probably right there.
Speaker 1:Just grab it. And for what it's worth, I I agree with you, James. Like, I don't think that's a bad concept. Like, I'm not over here trimming a brisket with a pocket knife. Could you?
Speaker 1:Sure. I don't need a reason to use my knife more than I already do. I don't have to go out of my way to look for use cases for a knife, and I like having a really nice kitchen knife. So when we say food prep in terms of, like, what we use our knives for day to day, I don't think anybody's under the assumption that we're actually here prepping a meal with pocket knife. I have.
Speaker 1:Spicy chef's actually pretty good at it. But for the most part, food prep means I bring my lunch here to work. I don't have another knife here. I don't have chef knives here. I don't have kitchen knives here.
Speaker 1:But I have a whole lot of pocket knives and fixed blades, and I will use that to cut up like today. I cut up my chicken with the knife in my pocket. That's just something I do. My grandpa always used his pocket knife to cut up an apple. I do the same thing.
Speaker 1:That's what we mean by food prep. So I wouldn't say you're wrong, James, but I think you missed the point. Now we come to the point where we have to thank the people that make all of this possible. First and foremost, you guys watching this video make it possible. We also have channel sponsors who we like very, very much.
Speaker 1:First up, we have Work Sharp. Love them as a company. Honestly, genuinely. We got to visit them earlier this year and it changed my entire perspective on a company that I already liked. I like them way, way more now.
Speaker 1:Like, just seeing behind the curtain there was amazing. They make amazing knife sharpeners, but they also now make knives, globally sourced knives that are assembled in Ashland, Oregon. It's a really cool thing. You can go check that video out that we did earlier this year, but also go check out Workshop in the link down below. We also wanna thank Big Ed Design, the source and the focus of this whole topic that we're talking about today.
Speaker 1:They have their new knife out. This is the Overlook. Ricky has done a deep dive on this thing. Go check out the video, but also check out all the other stuff BigID Design has. They have really nice pens and pocket tools and watches and lots of titanium goodness.
Speaker 1:Now other materials as well, But click the link down below or you can use the coupon code b d e d c for 10% off at checkout. I also wanna thank Carry Commission, which is my store. It is a little side project of mine. We've been going along for three years now. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:We do some really cool projects with a lot of really cool people in the industry, but it is my way of curating the things that I really like and putting them in one place and you can go find them. Go check out Carry Commission. It's linked down below and you'll be supporting me directly if you do that. So thank you if you've ever purchased anything from Carry Commission. If you haven't, go check it out and you should.
Speaker 1:We also do drops about every other week on Thursdays at 2PM. So if you're interested in what we're doing, maybe pay attention. Go check it out around 2PM on a Thursday. I also wanna thank Whatnot. It is a live streaming auction platform.
Speaker 1:We go live a couple of times a month. We got some really cool stuff to sell in there. I sold off most of my knife collection. But now we have a whole slew of Factory seconds Jack Wolf knives that we're gonna be slowly releasing on some of the streams as well as some paladin gear and stuff that you can't find anywhere else. So hit the link down below.
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Speaker 1:That's it. Thank you guys for being channel sponsors. Now back to the video. Next up, we have the community carry of the week. This comes from m z underscore Christos.
Speaker 1:Christos? Christos. I chose this one for one reason. We'll get to it. I'll explain it at the end.
Speaker 1:But in this photo, we have a Xiaomi 14. That's the phone on the left of the photo. Next to that is a Benchmade nine forty as his primary EDC knife, as well as the Kinepix Cobra pliers in the five inch. He has a Posca paint marker and a Nitecore NTP 31. That is a tactical pen.
Speaker 1:And then finally, a Pilot g two is the the last last pin there. He has a set of titanium tweezers that don't have a brand as well as a carbon fiber wallet that doesn't have a brand. Looks like a kinda like a ridge style wallet. There is a Xiaomi Powerbank three in the bottom left, and next to that are some Ray Bans. They are folding Wayfarers.
Speaker 1:I didn't even know that was a thing. Folding Wayfarers? That's cool as hell. Next to that are some Samsung Galaxy Buds two Pro, a Victorinox classic SD, and then finally in the bottom right corner is a Gerber shard. M z Christos says, the $9.40 was my first real buy into the EDC world.
Speaker 1:The rest is based on my job. I'm an agricultural scientist and a farmer. And there's a little question when you fill up the form. Is there anything we can help you find? Any new gear you're looking for?
Speaker 1:He says, yeah. I'm always open to finding better gear. Cool. I I can't really help you there. Like, you gotta tell me what you want, man.
Speaker 1:I can't just better gear. I don't know. No. The reason I chose this photo were the Kinep X pliers. So spending some time at Leatherman just kinda prompted me to start carrying a Leatherman again.
Speaker 1:I I go back and forth on carrying an arc, but I see this sentiment pretty often where it's it's kind of like this divide. And I'm I'm more interested in like kinda what that divide is or where you guys fall on it. So I want your input on this. You can comment it down below. Are you a Leatherman or just a multi tool kind of person, or or are you more of, like, a Kinepix pliers and a Victorinox kind of person?
Speaker 1:So our good friend, Zach in the Wild, is the latter. He carries Kinepix and another tool, and it's a really interesting concept because if you're using a multi tool and you need to do two things at once, like grip something with the pliers and turn a screw, you can't do that if you only have a multi tool. But if you have Kinepix and say a Tinker, you can screw something and hold something at the same time, so you have more flexibility. But it's more complicated to carry because you have loose pliers and a loose multi tool that's not got any, like, good carry solutions unless you add, like, a gear organizer to it. So it's very interesting.
Speaker 1:Like, this guy doesn't seem to have any kind of organizer. He's just got a whole bunch of, like, loose stuff floating in his pocket or he has an organizer that he didn't put in the photo. I don't know which one it is. I'm just interested to see where you guys fall because I have tried, like, the Victorinox and a Kinepix, and it's just not as convenient as having a Leatherman. I've carried a multi tool for the better part of probably fifteen years now, so I'm very, very used to having, like, bulky heavy multi tool in my pocket.
Speaker 1:Obviously, I've carried the SOG Powerpoint a lot and many other multi tools as well. I carried a Skeletool for years. So, obviously, I'm I'm much more drawn to the idea of a multi tool that's a little less convenient because it's big and bulky and heavy and everything in one tool, but generally has, like, a clip or something that makes it easier to carry. So I don't know. I just saw just a floating pair of Kinepix in this photo, and it made me think about that that kind of divide.
Speaker 1:And I don't really know where I fall on it. I've tried, but I I always default back to a full on multi tool. So I am interested to see what you guys say about that. Ricky, you're a neither person, aren't you? No multi tool.
Speaker 1:Multi tool in the bag or KineFX in the bag.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I typically don't carry a multi tool in my pocket at all.
Speaker 1:Like Yeah.
Speaker 2:It'd have to be a rare a rare scenario.
Speaker 1:I almost always have a multi tool. Power pint or the ARC. I mean, I've gone back. It's basically been those two for the last two years. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I find myself needing it not daily, but pretty close. Thanks for sharing it, NZ Christos. Next up, we have what's in my pockets. Might as well show you if we're talking about it already. We gotta do this in under sixty seconds.
Speaker 1:So first up, the knife is the big idea design overlook. I technically also have another knife in my pocket, which is the Tactile Knife Company Redhawk, my design, and I have a Leatherman. I got a lot of my pockets today. I'm not gonna lie. Not gonna mince words.
Speaker 1:We have a Leatherman Arc with the Rips GarageTech stickers on it. I don't know what skins. We also have my Zippo, the best MEDC Zippo. The same old pin. We have the Pocket Pro from Big Idea Design in bronze USA made.
Speaker 1:Same flashlight. The LumenTop Frog is also in the pocket. And the TETRA. So last time I had this in brass, this but time I have a tetra two nine two in titanium from I'm gonna say Finn the Forager, but that's not the actual name.
Speaker 2:It's Funky Forager.
Speaker 1:Funky Forager. And then finally, the watch is the UTD 8,000 in black. So that's what's in my pockets. What are we doing today?
Speaker 2:We are guessing the price of a knife.
Speaker 1:Price is right, dude. Price is right.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Knife price is right. Knife Knife Fuck you. Hell. Be is it Dana White?
Speaker 2:Is it no. That's Jefford. No. Not Dana White. Fuck.
Speaker 2:What's her name? Vanna White. Vanna White. Thank you.
Speaker 1:That's Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 2:Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 1:Shit. Dude,
Speaker 2:if prices right have anybody? Just the guy. Right?
Speaker 1:Random people. Shit. Knife price is right. So we have to guess the knife the price of the knife, and if you're over, you bust, and whoever's closest wins. Yes.
Speaker 1:Okay. Right? And if we both are over, then we'll go to our alternative.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Alright.
Speaker 2:Are we gonna do a countdown? Like, three, two, one, we both say the price at the same time?
Speaker 1:Sure. Alright. So the knife in question is the Vosteed Vombat. This is a brand new knife, and it has hot swappable scales, and I'm sure a whole bunch of other stuff that I don't know. Information, Blazetails M390.
Speaker 1:Might make it a little trickier. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Man, that completely takes away the price I had in mind now.
Speaker 1:So I put these Ultem scales on it. It actually and this is gonna make it even more complicated because what I took off were aluminum scales. So there were aluminum on this, and I put Ultem. It's the there's hot swappable scales, but there's, a port through Yeah. You, like,
Speaker 2:tune the pivot without having to take the scales off or something like that. Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Alright. I got a new price, but now I'm now I'm way lost. I feel so confident.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I have no idea. Okay. Ready? Alright. We're gonna do it three, two, one.
Speaker 1:Yeah. 321.
Speaker 2:+1 60 Alright. +1 69.
Speaker 1:Alright. Said +1 50.
Speaker 2:+1 50 was close for me.
Speaker 1:Vombat right here. +1 39. Oh, What? Damn.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. I think I went to I think I was going to on the titanium side rather than aluminum. Oh, man. Wow. I was gonna say +1 50.
Speaker 2:I was not expecting Now technically
Speaker 1:okay. Technically, if we're gonna go because Ricky fucked me up last time. Technically, both of these together is one fifty.
Speaker 2:Nah. Just saying.
Speaker 1:Just saying.
Speaker 2:It is. You're right. Mean, it's 20 Well, bucks, but
Speaker 1:it's $1.60, but it's still a bust.
Speaker 2:You didn't tell me.
Speaker 1:We gonna go again?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Hi.
Speaker 1:Separately, Ricky and I go to choose another knife to figure out the price of, and I choose deluxe with bacon Damascus, and he'd pick the sin outs with bacon. Alright, so now we're gonna choose, or guess, for the Fox Knives Suru liner lock in Micarta, with a little brass backspacer.
Speaker 2:You didn't change the you didn't change the scales on that.
Speaker 1:Right? Nope. This is I got this at Blade Show two years ago, I believe. Fox Knives Suru. I don't
Speaker 2:even remember how much I paid for mine.
Speaker 1:M 398 steel. 321. 245. 245. Okay.
Speaker 2:We're close. I had I was gonna say 225 too, actually.
Speaker 1:+1 94. Jesus Christ. We gotta go again. We both. Oh my god.
Speaker 2:We're going so high on that. Is that also m three ninety eight? It was.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Alright. So the next one is the WeKnife hyphen. It's a Gavco design, blade steel, CPM 20 CV. Titanium scales too.
Speaker 1:Titanium frame lock, titanium clip, three, two, one. Two fifty.
Speaker 2:Was literally gonna say one ninety five, and then I changed my mind to
Speaker 1:My plan was to say
Speaker 2:I was gonna go
Speaker 1:over two seventy five, and I was like, I've been over every time. I'm gonna undercut.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. And I was
Speaker 1:gonna I just gotta look now.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say one ninety five.
Speaker 1:Two seventy knives? Son of a I would have been right. Okay. So, the next knife is the Kunwoo X Padre. Blade steel is Elmax.
Speaker 1:32, one. 285. Okay, said 285, two ninety five? Alright.
Speaker 2:$10 difference.
Speaker 1:If we were both over.
Speaker 2:I was gonna go $3.15, but $2.16 9?
Speaker 1:69? We're both over again? Dude.
Speaker 2:Are we going sales price, or are we going current price? Like, what we see listed as soon Yeah. As we pull it up on a
Speaker 1:Alright. We have the Chavez Kickstop, the micarta inlay versions. Oh, man. With DLC in three ninety steel. Alright.
Speaker 1:321.
Speaker 2:350. Alright.
Speaker 1:Cool. Alright.
Speaker 2:We're we're always gonna be separated by $25.
Speaker 1:We're close. Alright. $4.35. Still in stock. You got it, though.
Speaker 2:Did I?
Speaker 1:I said $3.25. You said $3.50.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But that's $4.35.
Speaker 1:Yeah. That's how prices right work.
Speaker 2:Oh, way.
Speaker 1:That's why people guess a dollar on because everybody they expect everybody to go over. You guess a dollar, you win. Oh, so I won? He won.
Speaker 2:Hell, yeah. This is the best day of my life. Fuck. I guess we're giving away a kick stop. You're welcome.
Speaker 1:I don't wanna give away a kick stop. I want this thing.
Speaker 2:You're very welcome.
Speaker 1:Alright. Well, it's three weeks in a row.
Speaker 2:Dude, this is great. Best day of my life.
Speaker 1:Alright. So that means that somebody is going to get a Kickstuff in the mail. Damn. What a gift.
Speaker 2:Hell, yeah.
Speaker 1:Thank Ricky. But also in the last deep cuts, I lost again. So I said that we were gonna give away a Klingman, and the winner of that one was d Chappell Chapel? Chapel? D Chappell.
Speaker 1:Whatever. Here's your comment. Congratulations. You're getting a Klingman. And also, we had a Benchmade Mini Bedlam up for grabs.
Speaker 1:You had to follow the instructions to be entered into that one, and the winner of that one is matt banner three zero three two here on YouTube. He said, what is the most amount of knives one should bring home from blade show? Hashtag post blade show. You know, I don't know. I've for the last few years, come home with, like, 40 knives each time.
Speaker 1:So that's too many if you ask me because I can't enjoy them all, which I'm in a position where it's not about me and enjoying, it's about me trying to show people. But ever since Blade Show, I mean, was three weeks ago now, and coming home from Leatherman and spending some time with all of this stuff, like, I just I've forgotten about knives that I got at Blade Show, so it's too many. I think five. Five would be a good number. It's not the most, but five would be a good number.
Speaker 1:Finally, before we end this show, we have a giveaway. This is from Leatherman directly. This is a WAVE plus. I'm not gonna open it. It's new in box.
Speaker 1:If you want to win a brand new Leatherman Wave, I don't know if it's even stonewashed or black. It is stainless. So this is a stainless Leatherman Wave. If you wanna win it, check your inbox for something from the EDC weekly. The instructions are at the very end.
Speaker 1:And if you don't have that in your inbox, here's your reminder to sign up for the EDC weekly. It's a fun little email that's a lot of stuff that's from this show, but there are some other things in that weekly email, including instructions for the giveaways that we do every single week. So go sign up for the email if you have not already. If you have, go find those instructions and comment down below. Alright.
Speaker 1:With all that said, thank you guys for watching the deep cuts and sticking around. This has been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed making these. I hate we didn't get to last week, but just frankly, there was too much travel. I was gone for almost three weeks straight in June and it's just too much.
Speaker 1:So we didn't get to all of the deep cuts that we wanted to, but we got to most of them and I'm pretty proud of that. But we're back. We'll be here next week. I will see you guys then. Don't forget there is an audio only podcast if you would like to listen to this on your commute or lying in bed or whatever.
Speaker 1:I don't care how you listen. Just check out the audio only podcast. If you can't always watch these, it's another way that you can get the deep cuts. Alright. That's it.
Speaker 1:I'll see you guys in the next video. And until then, carry on.