Today, I'll take a minute to give a sneak preview of a great sequel to one of my favorite custom knives, the Peña Knives Front Flipper Trapper, and then we'll take it apart to see how it's made.
I wish more of these “modern traditional” blades were front flippers, it takes nothing away from the appearance and gives you options (when there’s also a nail nick present) and provides some fidget-factor for the bearings’n’flippers crowd like me, who appreciate the looks of traditional a but doesn’t want slipjoints and prefers such amenities as locks and pocket clips. All these Peña X-Series knives are so appealing, wish I was made of money.
BE-AU-TI-FUL. The knife and maintenance. In the reassembly you really hit it with that NASA-countdown-followed-by- successful-take-off atmosphere. A treat, as always. Thanks.
Thank you for the sneak peek. That's a great little knife. Clean the micarta with isopropyl, dry, then polish with a clean patch with a few drops of 3-in-One oil. Let it set half an hour then buff with a clean cloth. Hasten the time in pocket patina. 👍
Thanks Nick - another great review. I agree with your sentiment here - I've had his custom knife on my grail list for a while but as you say they are extremely difficult to find. As someone who already follows Pena I was able to get one of these on order and look forward to its arrival. For me, it won't replace my desire to have one of his customs some day, but it let's me get a similar knife from a maker that I greatly respect at a lower price point. Only nit is that I hope the detente is not quite as tight on mine!
Nick, You were correct cause I saw the Titanium Jig Bone review from Tyler @ GP Knives yesterday & all versions were sold out within minutes when released.
I think i would use it initially without the pocket clip for an even patina on the micarta. Nice knife for sure and love that wood on your custom. Thank You for all you do.
I wanted a nice front flipper and it seems like there are two types sub 100 with meh steels and above 200 with great steels. Luckily BladeHQ commissioned some exclusive G5 metamorhps in marbled CF with Boiler M390 and blue anodized hardware for 169. I didn't know about it until I saw that it was on sale for the black Friday weekend for 119.
that is my newest grail knife. Australian knife laws are a tricky thing. very strict on carrying laws but with this knife. I feel like you can carry it. just because it looks like a classy knife that, you could get away with I use it to cut fruit and would be more reasonable than a mini crooked river that I want to get too.
Great first impressions ,have been counting the days for the release, was very lucky to grap one from a retailer, that ships to Denmark, they sold out there in 4 minutes 😱
Whenever they come back in stock I plan on buying one. All versions seem to be sold out everywhere. $275 is fair. I would love a custom but I can buy a few of these for what one of the customs cost. I have actually found a couple customs that were available when I was just looking around for $850-950.
@@shadeshiest22 I have 2 of the clip point barlows already not sure I need a 3rd. I have every x series made at least one of each besides the clip point fixed blade that is the only one I don't own. I have 5 trappers alone probably have 30 Penas now
Hi Nick! Where do you get that blue plastic pry thingy that you used to separate the scales? It's not in your Amazon store. Thanks. Great video as usual!!
this looks like a truly great knife, a pity it was such a limited run (and no EU distributors :( ), hopefully they do another rather soon (or the hype dies down) 'cause people are already gouging on the secondary, goddamnit :/ (400-450$)
Rewatching this after the Zulu instant sellout, I'd have to say that the custom due to its higher price, is easier to acquire than the Pena-X series equivalents
He carried a Z-Hunter exclusively for a week a while back and documented it, you could probably find it in the archives. It went about as you’d expect, haha.
Both beautiful but I still dont think that is a good price.. look at what TwoSun is producing.. the price and quality of those, even though chinese made, (here come the U.S knives only snobs) surpasses the production version of this imo. Knives are art but even art as this is still at its origin just a tool that cuts stuff.
Don't say gentleperson man. It's cringeworthy. Items are gender biased and its ok. This is a gentleman's pocket knife. Say it with conviction. It isn't wrong. Love you and love your content brother. Keep it up sir.
TOO MUCH OIL, my God man!! Causes lock stick, attracts dirt, and is hardly needed with ceramic bearings and detent ball. One drop is enough spread amongst the entire knife with a toothpick. You will recognize a noticable difference all positive no negative,trust me.
@@JimAlaska49 As an owner of both a Pena custom and quite a few GECs, I would agree. But I also see why this is such an attractive product for today's average knife buyer.
jamie lahugh size doesn’t dictate cost of product or cost of production. You can pick up a Cold Steel that’s an order of magnitude larger and it’ll cost you less than half. Personal preferences and use cases.
Something this video reminded me of is how funny it is to hear non-trans people try to use gender neutral language. It's usually in one of two camps: saying both sides of the binary (he/she, mail man or woman, etc.) or x-person (garbageperson instead of garbageman, lawperson instead of lawman, gentleperson instead of gentleman is what reminded me of this). The first camp is definitely not great because it's awkward in practice and perpetuates the binary, while the second just sounds a bit silly to me. To my ears it's the sound of being a bit confused but having the spirit. The third camp is abandoning anthropic descriptions entirely, which flows so much better. Like, "classy" communicates the desired image and information in a natural, neutral way. Sanitation worker, mail courier, officer, etc. all exist and work in the same ways, and all without explicitly invoking the personhood of the subject, which is a given for the job examples and completely unnecessary in the describing-knives example. I don't mean this to sound like, overly critical or analytic, it's just something I always find kinda amusing I thought worth sharing.
Yep, it’s awkward when the conventional term is gendered (“Gentleman’s knife”), and I want to recall the term and category, but without implying that the gendering is non-arbitrary
