Mini Self Defense Samurai Sword! CRKT HZ6 Review | Tactical Fighting Fixed Blade | James Williams

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Welcome to the Tactical Tavern! I am your host Tomas Alas and in this video we are reviewing the HZ6 design by James Williams and produced by Columbia River knife and Tool. He is also known for his own brand of knives “Williams Blade Design'' produced by Lion Steel out of Maniago Italy. WHat I really enjoy about James Williams is how he integrates his life long study of martial rtds and japaneseblade dsign. There is a simple shape but so much geometry and refinement that a normal person may miss at forest glance. This HZ6 is certainly designed as a combat knife and tool however we are going to see what other features this may offer you by taking a close look at the pros and the cons to help you decide if this is right for your everyday carry, outdoor adventure, or next tactical mission. Also a big thank you to Blade HQ for sending this in for testing and evaluation. If you areintertted in seeing my first impressions of this knife I will drop a link below for my unboxing/first impressions video!
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@tacticaltavern Год назад

Get your CRKT HZ6 and other Williams Blade designs here at Blade HQ: shrsl.com/4492c

@OGBladeReviews Год назад

As you probably know there are a number of videos out there of James Williams driving this knife through tough targets with his palm reinforcing the thrust on the pommel. That is how he designed it to be used with no guard. However it's grippy enough to use in more traditional holds as well. Great and thorough review. I've got one and enjoy having it in the collection! 👍🗡️👌

@tacticaltavern Год назад

I love those videos! You rock brother- thanks for sharing your insights 👊🏽🔪🔥

@johnnyd667 Год назад

Big fan of this blade shape. I also dig the “neutral” handle. Gives all kinds of grip options. Thanks for the great review. Gonna have to pick one up now.

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Thanks for watching! Hope it serves you well 👊🏽🔪

@wsgutierrez1 Год назад

I'm not watching your videos anymore. You get me into trouble everytime. I have to constantly lie. "What? Ive had this knife. It's not new " 😂 6:24

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Hahahha that is a really good one or “I traded it for another knife” has saved the day a few times 😂🙌🏽🍻 Appreciate you watching 👊🏽🔪

@SystemOfStrategy Год назад

Thank you for the excellent review. If anyone has questions that I can answer please ask.

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Thank you very much! 🙏🏼 Appreciate you watching and offering your insights 👊🏽🔪 Love your blades

@SystemOfStrategy Год назад

@@tacticaltavern Blade design is very personal to me. I teach and work directly with many of those who use blades in their "day" job. Form, function and materials are always considered because I know that with most of my designs lives are depending upon them.

@shawnpappy1538 Год назад

Great review as usual. Discreet Carry Clips are fantastic.

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Yes they are!

@dannysmith9217 Год назад

Very good and articulate review. Well done hermano.

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Thank you very much! Truly appreciate you watching and commenting 🙏🏼

@ericsierra-franco7802 Год назад

I'm a huge fan of James Williams blades! I want to pick this up. I have a WBD HZO 003 and a HZK 004. This is a cheaper version of them but nonetheless a nicely made and effective version.

@a661992 Год назад

Good knife Purchased when first came out.

@curlybill3966 11 месяцев назад

Great review,thanks!

@tacticaltavern 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!🙌🏽⚔️

@davidking7554 4 месяца назад

I'm a big fan of trailing point style blades.I recently acquired one of these and it is truly nasty pokey slicey thing. Very well designed fighting knife. The balance is about perfect and it is very nimble and quick. The SK5 and the great heat treatment make it tough enough for many other uses, but yeah this is a weapon, and it is a very good one.

@knives2my497 Год назад

I know I love mine. It's honestly a great knife! I've had a lot of luck with their SK5 steel. 👍

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Love to hear it!👊🏽🔪

@Apex_grind562 Год назад

Great review

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Thank you sir!

@NikosKatsikanis 3 месяца назад

I just had James on my pod again

@tacticaltavern 3 месяца назад

Nice!

@fungli2709 Год назад

I would love to have the coating and the handle on my Hisshou! Some of the CRKT models really deserve more premium versions with more expensive "super steels" and handle materials.

@tacticaltavern Год назад

I totally agree!

@RecycledSoul 6 месяцев назад

I have an Otanashi No Ken. It's from tbe Ken Williams line. I love it. This is a NASTY blade and grear for winter self protection. It'll pierce about anything someone can wear. Soft armor included.

@tacticaltavern 6 месяцев назад

Absolutely effective design!

@avatarion 9 месяцев назад

Hands don't typically run up on the blade. They've used traditional puukkos with wooden handles and no guards for centuries, and similar knives like the Germanic seax throughout history, and killed probably more people with them than with any knife that isn't from the kitchen... lol. Tactical knives are rarely used for fighting even if they might in theory be the best for it.

@tacticaltavern 8 месяцев назад

Facts!👏🏽👏🏽

@ashemsavage6842 10 месяцев назад

It looks like a nice boot knife 😊

@tim777us Месяц назад

I've been wanting this knife since it came out. In tantojutsu, there is a lot more holding the knife in reverse grip with the blade out. The tanto, not being as long as a wak or kat, isn't quite as good for slashing (although Williams' blades seem to lend themselves more to slashing than most). The tanto is largely designed for penetration first, and slashing second. With the HZ6, you can slash in reverse grip or conventional grip, but stabbing is probably better done by reverse grip. Anyone carrying this knife should take it up on themselves to learn a bit of tantojutsu, to better employ this elegant knife. I particularly like the many ways it can be concealed.

@Wichitan 9 месяцев назад

I've noticed in looking at some of Williams' earlier designs along similar themes (even earlier versions made by CRKT) that the 'ito' x-design molded into the scales aligned to the overlarge 'gimping' on the edge of the handle. I was thinking that it might be worthwhile to file the X's down and lash some paracord into them to tone things down a bit. But with this particular version of the hira zukuri, the X's don't appear to line up to the gimping consistently. I guess CRKT has decided that little details like that don't matter anymore?

@Tony_Xie Год назад

Please purchase and review: Fox 826 Pikal Reverse Folding Karambit. I purchased one few weeks ago and I love it to death! I EDC it everyday and everywhere. Best Pikal ever made. I think you will love it. Hopefully it will be re stock soon.

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Yes that is top of the list now to get one 🔥

@Tony_Xie Год назад

@@tacticaltavern You will love the Fox Pikal :)

@jeffcon123 11 месяцев назад

I hope they make a bigger one, like the hisshou only with this handle.. altho if they brought back that line with the sakimori and shinbu I’d prolly invest in each of them

@tacticaltavern 10 месяцев назад

Right!? I only have the Shinbu and I wish I got more!! Right now you can get something similar from Williams Blade Design

@zacharyb9654 Год назад

Thats wild looking, like a reinforced fillet knife. Perfect for indoor amateur fruit ninja

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Fruit ninja!!😂😂😂

@vas568 Год назад

Now I got a new fillet knife to get. I love these tactical filet styled knives, since I do butchery. Do you have a code for us to use so we may tell them you referred us?

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Me too and I appreciate you asking! No discount code at this time but if you use our Blade HQ link it certainly helps support the channel 🙏🏼 Here: shrsl.com/4492c Cheers 🎊

@SourLymes Год назад

Are you interested in doing any Laci Szabo stuff like his Spyderco collabs or the Szabo Express from TOPS? Really love the look of the latter and would enjoy your input on it.

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Absolutely! I just have to get my hands on them 😂

@SourLymes Год назад

@tacticaltavern Can't imagine anyone else hyping them up and giving people a more informative opinion. I ended up buying a TKell Nightstalker CQC thanks to your review.

@danielanthony9621 6 месяцев назад

Makes a great filet knife and fish camp knife. Keep a light coat of oil on it. Especially in coastal areas. This helps preserves the coating. It needs it. Youll need to carry a true camp knife as well for harder tasks but thats true with any camp trip. The self defense aspect of this style is really good and applicable but id rather clean fish with it. Easier to wash fish blood off than....just kidding. Good review and really good knife. Thanks.

@tacticaltavern 6 месяцев назад

Awesome! Its great for processing all sorts of meats 😏🤣🙌🏽⚔️

@Kanotoa Год назад

Wish they made a smaller one you could edc like the 3.5 or 4inchwilliams zururis

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Agreed 100%😤

@pinkyellowblue007 Год назад

I was thinking the same.That would be good if they kept the same handle and blade thickness.

@SystemOfStrategy Год назад

One is in the works.

@Kanotoa Год назад

@@SystemOfStrategy thanks!

@Kanotoa Год назад

I don't need this knife but I might buy it anyway

@steveo13757 Год назад

Is it hair shaving sharp?

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Yes!

@eugeneplum215 6 месяцев назад

I'm just would like to know what this cost?

@tacticaltavern 6 месяцев назад

Did I mention pricing in the video?

@Kanotoa Год назад

Why do you like this better than the hissatsu?

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Blade steel holds an edge longer, handle is more textured, it is slightly compact with a more versatile geometry

@SAU408 8 месяцев назад

Can send Indonesia?

@all_out_of_bubble_gum Год назад

Do you know the ANV M06?

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Yes!

@all_out_of_bubble_gum Год назад

@@tacticaltavern did you already hold it in Hand ?

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Yes at Shot Show -Very cool design

@KatoCoyoteCombatWorkshop Год назад

James Williams is the king of mall ninja but thats why we love him. There just arent enough knife designers, strangely enough, who just do these kinds of knives so boldly and openly (especially at this price point). There is no shame or obfuscation. He doesn't try to market them as featherstick knives. His designs are extremely honest. A little cringe, but honest. These are all the blades we would be designing if we were in his position.

@bernardbarr2354 Год назад

Why cringe?

@KatoCoyoteCombatWorkshop Год назад

@@bernardbarr2354 The ninja theme his knives tend to have. It's just a joke.

@bernardbarr2354 Год назад

@@KatoCoyoteCombatWorkshop more of a Samurai theme

@KatoCoyoteCombatWorkshop Год назад

@@bernardbarr2354 Let's meet in the middle and call it a pre-Meiji Era Japanese warrior theme.

@bernardbarr2354 Год назад

@@KatoCoyoteCombatWorkshop good stuff

@bernardbarr2354 Год назад

Why this over the hissatsu???

@tacticaltavern Год назад

Great question Steel, size, and feel in hand- much more balanced

@bernardbarr2354 Год назад

Thanks for the reply and your videos.

@solidus1995 9 месяцев назад

Had this and a Yukanto. I dont think these things are durable enough for self defense extremely thin tips. Williams has better knives made for actual combat or blade fighting.

@liquiddw2 Год назад

If it's a purely combat knife it needs a guard. I think that's a major fail. For the price I'd have liked a better steel too.

@tacticaltavern Год назад

I think guards are helpful but not always necessary Do I prefer them? Yes but I understand the philosophy behind this ancient design What steel would you have liked to see on here?

@brettbick4581 Год назад

I will say that he mentioned several reasons why he likes it without the guard, and I see a lot of positives (and a few cons) in having it either way. Great points from both of you, and like most things in the knife world, it just comes down to personal preference! I’d personally prefer a small guard too but I still want one of these like crazy.

@liquiddw2 Год назад

@@tacticaltavern I think that if you're using a 5" knife for stabbing then you've got 5"inches of anything going wrong. If you hit a bone or you flinch then you are getting stitches if you're lucky, major hand surgery if you aren't. Even if you don't do a guard then a simple finger choil can do the job too. The design dictates use, rather than use dictating design. As for steel they could've done CPM 3v for this price. Cold steel gives you a bigger blade for near the same price with CPM 3v.

@SystemOfStrategy Год назад

No guard for a reason. First you don't need one if you know how to handle and use the knife properly, second guards get caught on gear or clothes, it seems especially likely when under duress. I blame Murphy's Law. Keep it simple, survive.

@steveo13757 Год назад

No need for a guard if the knife has a nonslip grip.

@DKonng 3 месяца назад

I like the blade for sure, but not for $125.00.

@tacticaltavern 3 месяца назад

It’s honestly a lot of steel for $125 in todays market What options do you think could compete or beat it with value?

@DKonng 3 месяца назад

@tacticaltavern I bought a cold steel SRK in SK5 for about 40 bucks. It also has a lot of steel, granted it is a different style knife. I own an otanashi noh ken and a heiho by Williams and I really like the style and blade profile. I just feel it's a little steep for that knife as awesome as it looks. I really missed out by not buying a yukanto before they were discontinued.

@Revelation1316 9 месяцев назад

25% heavier than my Austrian made genuine military issue Glock FM78, and with a very vulnerable tip. And made in China...No thanks.

@hobofoshitsho8999 4 месяца назад

Hey bro.... Did you want fries with that Whaaaa-mburger? I don't disagree with most of this but a couple things are a bit exaggerated because of obvious butthurtness from an entitled mind. The board isn't perfect but it's so close to riding fresh powder on a snowboard, it's life changing for me. It's expensive but worth every penny. I pre-ordered my GT as well. I had footpad issues and have modded the footpad sensors out of the picture. Never ghosted. It's true that future motion is a shit company that builds some well built and durable and unique boards. Again... I fukcing HATE future motion. Fukc Future Motion. 2500 miles on my GT... never had this charge port plug that you somehow believe is a necessity... Anyway, 2500 miles still on stock tire. Only issues were footpad . Despite zero help from the company, I absolutely can't not have a one wheeled board. When this one takes a shit, I'll build my own. All the other forms of PEV are practical and even fast but they all carry a hefty dorky feel factor. I hate feeling dorky.

@BigDaddySwingingMeat Год назад

I wish they would do a version of this without the black coated blade. I may have to buy this, strip the black paint off, and then reprofile the bevel down to 13-15 dps for maximum sharpness.