Dear Thomas, So nice to finally put a face to the name after watching all these years! I've always enjoyed your quips and witty one liners, your contributions to this channel have been great. Keep being you, keep up the great work and I hope to see you more often on the channel.
I'd love one, S90V is awesome and you know Spyderco does an awesome job with the heat treat on all their steels, I would also love to see one in Magnacut, I might be wrong but I don't think there's been a Shaman done in Magnacut yet
My steel choices are as follows. Oh yeah, the Burlap is cool! AEB-L, CPM-154, CPM-SPY27, LC200N, CPM-4V (with new coating), CPM-3V (with new coating), CPM-MagnaCut and lessen the price a bit (not a steel choice, but I think people would like that idea.)
It’s always good to see Seth V, but getting Thomas on camera and offering his opinion is excellent! And as a big fan of Viper Knives, I appreciated this entire video! Thanks guys!
I don't know why I haven't gotten the MKM sheath earlier. Very practical and intuitive! The magnet sliding it in and out seriously gives me a peace of mind it's going to slide back in and secured. Love it. 🍻♥️
Additionally, on the damascus patterning, think of it like a tree stack of paper. If some sheets in the stack are black and some sheets are white, you will only see that patterning on the "show" side, not on the "spine". Damascus has a grain just like wood or any other layered material.
I keep my knife collection in a rolling tool chest. Every once and awhile when I get a cool sticker I like I stick it to the chest somewhere. This others just go in one of those drawers
I'm not in this for $, so for me I just buy what I like and want. And yes some of them are worth more than I paid, but that's not what this hobby is about for me! I truly enjoy knives so if the value goes up awesome! If not I still enjoy using and collecting regardless. Nice shirt Thomas!
G'day Knife Center.! So how do we get the t-shirt that Thomas is wearing.? Great show gentlemen even DCA will approve. Maybe next time we can have a Seth, Thomas & Josh Show..?! Cheers from Australia.
My first Benchmade knife was a 300. I love that knife and I keep it scalpel sharp. I carry it tip up and it opened up in my pocket. I had it in my left front pocket for some reason. I reached into my pocket to retrieve some change and got a nasty cut on one of my knuckles. I really don't mind tip down carry for that reason.
Just FYI: in Germany, you can carry either one-handed opening or locking, but not both together. My favorite carry is the Real Steel H7 Free. Theoretically two-handed opening but you can flick it open and it has a back lock. Otherwise, double detent knives or fixed blades up to 12cm are also nice.
It's not a short term game, it's a long term game if you're buying to make money with knives, once a knife is old and discontinued especially with a good name brand behind it that's when you'll make money
Hey KC crew / DCA... I have been loving my KC exclusive Pocket Tango... however I have learned that a mirror edge polish actually seems to make it's cutting and slicing worse (which it seems is true of most EDC edges).... thus my question : what edges or scenario's would you use with a mirror polished edge vs a less refined edge? Thanks in advance.
Knives are tools, not investments. The more tools you have in your tool box, the better your crafts will go. BTW, I'm looking for a really high end tungsten carbide bushcraft knife. Thomas, you rock!
Question for the knife center crew. My collection focus has moved towards quality and more strict personal preference vs quantity. With that I got myself a new large Sebenza with (my fav.) the Insingo blade. This will tie up my funds for a good while. What else (other than chasing purchases and deals) can I do to keep my knife thrill and hobby fresh? All I come up with is learn to sharpen better. Any and all thoughts will be appreciated.
I LOVE the Viper Hug! I got that bronze variant as well; it looks fantastic. It's HEAVY though, so maybe the original titanium ones would be easier to carry day to day, even if they are more expensive.
Not a chance in hell-the amount of new knives released and rereleased nowadays makes a notion of investment absurd; retailers or anyone watching this video knows this.
When people talk about their collectible going up in value, they always seem to ignore inflation.... buy the knife you like. Don't worry about the resale.
Another reason for tip down that just occurred to me would be less pocket lint and dirt getting caught in the pivot area so cleaning might be less frequent?
Hey KC crew (and maybe DCA?). Can you recommend me a 2.5 to 3.5 inch blade length fixed or folding knife that I can kind of mindlessly / endlessly run on my pocket sharpening stone and strop
Victorinox limited edition triple their value in 2-5 years and they have a crowd that purchase them. Leatherman garage and some models also have their fan crowd with some models having crazy prices
The only knife you should even think about carrying in the EU or UK is a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife. Get a silver 93mm or 84 mm Alox model like the Cadet, Soldier, or Pioneer X, because it won't show wear, and they are elegant enough to go to formal events. Virtually no one gets scared of a Swiss Army Knife, and they are all under 3" blade and non-locking.
Question: Hey DCA can you please start producing and selling taco style kydex sheaths for the Pocket Tango? I would buy 3 of them. Love the knife, mine is green micarta/nessmuk blade. The sheath it comes with is really nice and works great for it's intended application, but I have other carry needs. I need one kydex sheath with an Ulticlip so I can attach it to the hip belt or shoulder strap of my backpacking pack, one with a G-clip or something similar for scout carry on the waistband of the lightweight jogging shorts I wear on day hikes, and one with no clip so I can carry it as a neck knife in camp. Love the videos! Keep up the great work Knife Center crew!
DCA & Thomas - what steel or blade material has the best edge retention for light EDC tasks. The type of material that requires the minimal amount of sharpening. Don’t need to get into the weeds about obscure materials on rare and custom knives.
I remember people used to do this with Busse knives, although I don't know if that's still a thing. Their Battle Mistress, the original one, used to go for a ridiculous price on the secondhand market.
I know for a fact that I would make a killing off of my knife collection. If you purchase everything for what the going price is or more, you might break even down the road. I don’t buy Chinese knives. I buy knives that are useable, practical, and something that I like and I would use. Nine times out of ten they are very popular and become in demand. I very rarely pay the retail price unless it is for my own personal use. Even then, I’ll try and purchase factory seconds for my own personal use. Which, has also grown quite large and I have many of those that I haven’t used. I also try and buy off of auctions or just other people just getting rid of stuff because they need to, for one reason or another. It’s fun and they don’t take up a whole lot of space.
If you buy right you will 100% be able to flip for a profit. It's not fun buying that way as then your missing out on a lot as your only buying to flip. I would say on the vast majority or sprints and exclusives I buy are indeed worth more than I paid for them if I keep them new in box. Then they are just the hard to get pieces that people pay a premium for on the 2nd hand simply because they are so hard to buy on the retail market. Knives aren't investments but what knives are is a store of value.
I have a question: how exactly does the Rockwell scale work at a business level? I understand they use this scale to describe how hard blade steels are and that it usually means that a harder knife is both better with edge retention but usually more brittle, but how do blade companies test blades for this scale? Thanks for the info, I watch all your videos as they come out.
Big market gap, a large stainless survival knife with good steel. Specifically, a 14C28 fixed blade with 7-9+ inch blade. The closest I can find is the Bear and Sons big bowie with 12C27. This could be an awesome knife about half the price of similar sized 3V.
Investment or wealth preservation wise I would stick with gold and silver boss😂... I had the same idea, but it's way way harder than most think and you would have to get lucky and get a Knife Company that's unpopular that becomes popular to make any kind of profit off of it later down the road
I got my first Spyderco Sprint run a couple weeks ago n I could see that possibly going up in value.. same with any rarer dealer exclusive. But definitely not the best sound investment xD Would love to add a Chris Reeves to my collection at some point!
It doesn't work for the user but I really like my Kansept Warrior tanto with black titanium and carbon fiber as a dress knife. There just something about the narrow blade profile paired with the handle color and materials combo that says classy to me.
nice flip joint im gonna grab one guys great thoughts just pick different models hell i think you could do a miguron moyarl g10 and s90v or the vision exclusive is the mark for diminishing returns in the knife world in my opinion
