FAQ: XL Survival Knife Keepers/I Got My Grail Knife! - Preparedmind101
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I don't think you can call it a "Grail Knife" since it's still readily available for purchase, but my all time favorite knife is the BK-9. I love the shape, the shape of the handle and the fact that you basically just pay for a slap of steel. Everything else is up to you. When I'm done with mine, it'll have rosewood handle scales, a mirror polish and a lovely leather sheath. Not gonna happen anytime soon, but I'm not in a hurry. It's going to be a project of love.
Ahh the U.S. Calvary and Brigade Quartermasters catalogs. You gave me an 80's moment with mentioning. Drooling over the stuff in U.S. Cavalry.
Rambo Rocks. I love every movie he made and every night he uses
Right on, me too.
@@waynecampbell9714 I love all his knives commissioned in the states. foreign ones are another story....
As a kid, I remember hearing good things about the "Ginzu" line of knives.
They sliced.
They diced.
They cut through a tin can, then a tomato!
LOL
And slice ham so thin your relitives will never come back .
The Rambo lll was my grail knife in the early nineties, felt invincible walking around out in the woods with that thing on 😄
That's a beauty. I own it as well.
Yes! The Rambo 3 knife was so sick.
Joey Jones yep bought a used one in excellent shape in a pawn shop for 30 bucks about 15 years ago and still have it and love it
@@JustinLodes Mr. Rambo sir, i love your movies. You are a badass, and i strive to be as cool as you.
Joey Jones 😂😂
Oh, what a Trip down Memory Lane! Actually, I've had my Grail Knife since the early 90s, and it's a Blackjack from Effingham Illinois. I got the 1-7 (the Clone of the Randall #1). For all you young people, back then, Blackjack was the BOSS! Thanks for letting me know about the Bark River Warranty. My 1-7 needs a touch up and some Sheath repair. Take care. Yeah Ohio.
Leslie Kovacs All of my Effingham Blackjack Knives... in stag of course!
Recently got my "Grail" knife ........ Randall Model 18 Attack 7.5 stainless blade , 440B Stainless Steel , this was truly a terrific video Chris !!!!
Thanks Chris! My dream/grail (for now...wink) knife is still available to purchase....Bravo Survivor, antique ivory micarta handle CPM-3V steel.
BONUS VIDEO! Hint: If you don't see it, I probably no longer have it. I can't give the details of every knife I've sold, traded, it been forced to sell due to circumstances over the last 5 years. Even now I still have way more than one person can actually use.
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This is gonna sound crazy but the M-18 is my favorite PERIOD(sue me I like what I like lol)
PREPAREDMIND101 at first I thought it said bogus video
PREPAREDMIND101 Time for a GAW
What do you think of the Svord Von Tempsky Bowie?
We all have our fav's, that we don't dare use, but like everything in life, we are just custodians of these items we collect, when we die they are sold, so now I use my favourites and have cut down on the collecting side, this passion can and does control your life if you don't keep a lid on it. Great video and great knives.🏴👍
Happy for you mate. We all have our grail knives, hope we are as lucky as you!
After 20 years I got a Timberline Specwar. It is new, never used or sharpened. I love that knife!
Great video there is nothing like finding or getting something you wanted for so long and finally everything comes together.
Hey Chris, nice vid with a cool topic. Being a DTBer obviously my modern grail knife is anything big and custom out of Peter shop but your reminiscing reminded that I’ve wanted an authentic Nepalese Kukri since I first heard about Ghurkas as a kid ...Thanks for the memories ... I’m going to get one now😁
Enjoyed the video. They were interesting choices.
Mine was a TOPS Steel Eagle 117A. But, I settled for the Ron Hood designed TOPS Anaconda 9" tanto point.
Watched you get that knife. You got in there quick too, luckily.
Glad you got it
Real nice collection, Chris!
Thanks for sharing.
I’m so glad you got that one ! I kept coming back to it ,I wanted to pull the trigger but damn,good for you !
My grail knife, my grandpa military issued Ka-bar. My most useful knife bk-14.
You reviewed the Condor Discord. I saw it and bought it, Saplings and pine trees tremble in fear, as I walk towards them, great chopper and great blade, it is my go to for every task. Thank you for reviewing swords like that, and keep on keeping on Sir
Thanks for a great video. I have a love for the "knife" myself. One of the greatest tools ever invented.
I got my grail knife last year and I’m still in love with it, it’s an Adventure Sworn Explorer.
I LOVE it, that would be a great knife for my next Northern Canada camping trip!! Thanks Chris!
Seriously nice knives Chris in particular your JX5 ! I remember in the early days, big ole bag of budget knives. So glad to see you have got into knife designing and higher end customs.
Well done grabbing such a great collectable for yourself. I am still using the original Jess X, thanks for that design.
My edc for over 20 years was a Benchmade ACFK. Still have it but it’s been well used. They are now a collectible if you can find one.
I just bought a Blackjack Model 124 hunting knife, It is so nice can't wait to use it
I have two grail knives. one is the Esee Junglas. The second one is the Tops Steel Eagle E without the saw back. Love them.
I'm happy for you were able to find your Grail knife finally! The one on top of my list is the Hogue EX-F01 it's not that it's super expensive it's just been this that or the other thing where something's always came up and I just couldn't buy it but hopefully by Christmas. Thanks for the video!
That's a good one, I can recommend it!
Back in the 80's Tramontina released a series of "Rambo-ish" knives (Commander I, II &III) that just made me drool. Finally, around 2012 I found a store that still had a few of them, and bought all three models.
Those were my grail knives. As well as you, I spent about 30 years pouting over them, and was overjoyed when I finally got them.
Nowadays, the closest thing to a grail knife is a Benchmade 940.
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I have had a of those Tramontina bowie and the blades are as good as any of the expensive customs. Sorry guys but the blades are fantastic.
I can’t find a image of them
@@valdavis4474are you interested in selling
My grail knife is the JX 5. Finally got one coming in preorder!! I know it’s like 3-4 months away but man oh man, cannot wait. Cheers!
My Grail knife was the Black Jack Warner/Moran Bowie. Loved it so much I bought two. They’ll never leave me.
Okay, that bowie is beautiful. As for me, I'd like to get my hands on a Dark Timber Kodiak and a Bark River Barong.
I have that knife I bought it in 88 and still use it. I live in Southeast Alaska and used this knife for everything, I love it. it's my favorite.
Wow, U.S. Calvary catalog. Does that bring back memories! My grail knife is a top tier Italian switchblade. Guess that's not real woodsy!
Ikr. I use to snoop thru that magazine
What make???
Very cool! Congrats on your dream knife.
You are absolutely right! Just saw this video. Blackjack Anaconda 2 Bowie Knife! Awesome! Can still hold its own with any Bowie knife today! Gonna try to find me one! Thanks for the video Man! Kenneth Smith.
Browning Crowell-Barker competition knife is the favorite in my collection and the one i wanted for years before finally buying it.
Nice choices. I like your designed one. My grail knife is one I didn’t know until I got it. I was very skeptical of large blades being anything other than collector blades. I got talked into trying the Becker Bk9…it is my favorite blade. I try other designs, but always come back to my bk9
That Blackjack is seriously badass. I don’t love all your choices but I respect them. You’ve got some cool stuff in there.
I’m glad for you. You finally got your grail.
Love my SXB. Started using a hatchet instead of a chopper, but trying to work it back into the rotation.
That Anaconda II is a very awesome knife. I would want one myself. Recently, I just got my grail knife, which is the Outback Eclipse. I had originally wanted the first Outback in 440c, but now that they made it in 1095 as the Eclipse, I went for that. Always wanted the knife Paul Hogan waved around in Crocodile Dundee.
I know you will laugh, but I would add your Froe, It is my favorite tool! The narrow handle let me do three Wilson wraps and lots of layers of plasti-dip. I stripped and duracoated it. Takes so much shock out. Burns through wood. Great tool.
It's tough. My grail knife is probably a Microtech Combat Troodon Bounty Hunter or the Benchmade 940-1801 with the Odin Works blade. Was waaaay too expensive and I couldn't read German so. Also, I really want a midtech Kodiak from Pete
My Grail Knife. Would be a Cold Steel Sanmai Khukri. Would be my adventure survival defense knife. The Sanmai would give it extra sharpness with a toughness to last several lifetimes. It has been way too expensive but will get one when I thin down my herd collections.
Mine, was the Buck Seal Knife. From like the mid 90's if I remember correctly, I recieved it from my mom an dad, an after several years of my daughter begging me for it, I gave it to her. An she will pass on one day. Love love love that blade!
They all look like good knives to me. Nice collection!
Finally got one of my grail knives that I never thought I'd even see in person, let alone ever own one. Scored a Junglee Hattori Fighter in MVS-8 made in Seki Japan. I'm the second owner of this blade, and managed to get it by a huge fluke/ dumb luck. It's a blade I'll never get rid of.
Mine is the BUSSE TGLB, the same one that you posted a pic of at Survival Tactics a ways back. So thank you for the heads up! If you would like to review it let me know I'm local, and with lifetime warranty you can do what you want with it just as long as I get it back in one piece.
I recently got a buck Kalinga in the box that was my grail growing up , I also have my hooligan which is my grown up grail.I also have the Jx5 on pretty order they didn't have my original handle material .Thanks for the video and all you do
I'm still after Andy Tran's Tahoma Field Knife, my grail knife however I was lucky enough to get courtesy of my wife, she sweet talked a retired Gurkha Army Captain, and persuaded him to give up his original Gurkha Kukri, its a thing of beauty.
I've got a Tahoma I've retired it
Bass pro shop online still has it in stock
I've just got the same knife my brother had one in the 80s I wanted it so bad and it came this week mint condition massive bowie so happy awesome knife
Fallkniven A1. Got it, love it, no need for further knives.
Hmm, my grail-knife or nostalgia knife would be the "Grizzly I" aka "Grizzly Bear" by Tak Fukuta from TAKBLADE. It was an elegant Bowie knife with a subtle kukri-recurve to it. The knife was discontinued in the late 90's or so. There is a video of it on TH-cam.
Hi Chris I really like your follow up videos, always good to see what lasts the course of time. I think grail wise I've never been able to get the Spyderco Rock salt out of my head. So gutted with myself for not getting a jess-x would of been perfect for me. The vengeful 1 is defo on my list but way out of my price range. Good to dream though. I've also always been impressed with the Kershaw camp 10 after your review so defo on the list to get one day. Thanks as always
I really wanted a Buck 110 as a young kid, and additionally a 119 special as I got older.
Got the 110 years ago for my highschool graduation gift, and bought a 119 back in December.
I'm a lefty and stubborn so I had to wait till Buck came out with the lefty leather sheath for the 119, because I wanted a factory sheath for it.
For my current grail knife, what I really really want is a turn of the century hunter bowie.
If you don't know what that is, basically it's a smaller version of the classic Sheffield Bowies.
7" or less blade, straight brass guard, and straight and narrow tapered handle with pinned scales.
I currently have the Buck 110, 119, 120, and the 124. With that Bowie knife my knife collection would be complete.👍
My grail knives are: Karesuando Beaver Damask 10 (damasteel rose-pattern) & WeKnives WE604S (dragonscaled scales).
I just recently fell for the knife addiction. My grail knife is the Fox kukri fx-658 machete, which I affectionately renamed the Fox kukri fx-658 Redemption Day machete. And yes, I bought it. Love on first sight.
My current grail knife is my Cold Steel Marauder serrated 9-inch blade knife. Coming Saturday will be my Cold Steel Luzon large 13-inch knife and Cold Steel Bowie Spike...so that's my top three grail collection as of tomorrow.
My grail knife is the crocodile Dundee bowie and about 3 years ago I got The outback Bowie from down under knives and I love it
You got some awesome knives!!!
You got great taste in knives.
Knives are so addictive!
I used to be a torchaholic for over 10 years. But torches are boring compared to knives!
I got my grail knife in the late eighties. It was the Black Jack Warner/Moran Rio Grande Bowie. Absolutely fell in love with it and bought two. Sadly, hard times set in and I had to sell them both. I regretted it from the moment I did it. Years later I decided to search for a used one. The god of knives smiled upon me and It turned out that the factory that originally made them still had some original ones and were selling them. So I bought two more. I’ll never make that mistake again and those two will be buried with me. Thankful for second chances.
One knife I had when I was a kid, but was lost after I moved out, was the Gerber Blackie Collins Buddy System 1. It was my first necker, wasn't worth much and I bought a Buddy System 2 and it was completely different.
I used to love going through the US Cavalry and Brigade Quartermaster catalogs back in the 80's. Great vid. Loving my MKB-9.
Grail knife- can never afford one but a Claudio Sobral from Argentina.
Ah yes... Brigade Quartermaster. Forgot about that one!
My was the cold steel voyager xl because in my country this knife are very expensive!
And for the first time that i had a normal job i finally bought it, this happened 2 years ago.
Congrats on getting your grail!
My original grail knife was a traditional kukri, and I got one at a comic con booth before I knew anything about knives and steels and all that. I'm still looking at picking up a better one sometime but I'm trying to decide between a Zombie Tools Vakra and a more traditional Himalayan-esque thick spined kukri that I was originally looking for. I might end up with both...
My newer grail knife (thanks to some youtuber) is the Fobos Legion, which I am saving up for now. I was thinking about going for the cheapest one I could get, aka ugly scales lol, but decided that if I'm going to spend $280 on a knife, I might as well spend $320 and get the one I want. Your review made it seem like it had the same kind of forward chopping feel that I prefer in my big knives.
I love extra large knives !
And im getting my tops eagle tanto 111A Im so excited 😁
ITS A BEAST!!!
Probably something adventure sworn. Not about the price but I probably wouldn’t use much so I haven’t gotten one yet. But I love the way their stuff looks. Top quality
I got my grail knife two years ago its a 5 chira khukuri its amazing it chops does close up small stuff with the top of the blade in my hand i do skinning and cleaning skins it does everything...
Chris, great vid. Would love to see similar ones on "knives you thought were keepers" , in both small fixed, folders and multi-tools. Love your channel, been subscribed for a longtime. P.S. Love and own a Jess X, and also gave one to my nephew who is in the military, did a deployment in Iraq. He LOVES it !
I remember those black jack knives!)) I used to drool over the catalogs when I got them in the mail and almost ordered a few back then. As far as grail knives...it’s not a knife but the jJody Samson atlantean sword. I almost bought one when he was still alive back then but passed on it(((
Brother, my grail knife is the Bark River Bravo III. I can't possibly over emphasize how much I love that thing. I stopped buying knives after I got it.
I love this video. Your grail knife is gorgeous
Thats one sexy piece of metal Chris. Incidently my Grail knife is a rat 7, which I'm VERY close to getting, very excited.
I’ve got a Chinese copy of a Swiss Army knife...very high quality ! Much impressed !
My grail is a dark timber custom. My grandkids will be the first with the chance to be on the waitlist. 😁 edit...tacs 'pit viper' is perfect 👍
I love that k-bar and that grail knife bowie. 😲🤤👍
Thx to you i was introduced to my bk9. I love it.
I got my Grail Knife this year after six years on a list: Randall Made Number 9, Sportsman bowie, number 14 grind. Micarta 14 grip, 14 brass hilt and brass butt.
like the bravo machete to your grail knife tough sharp and light you can clear vegetation and chop hard wood at the same time
You sent my grail knife back to Peter, since I can't get that one I'm enjoying immensely, my Junglas with Wilson wrap and his little brother the Esee 6HM in an AZ Welke kydex sheath with TekLock.
Thank you for the video, I'm really enjoying it so far. I haven't made it all the way through the video, I'm @7:36. At this point, I have to ask how you address sharpening blades such as the one on the Tops SXB, as well as other knives that have a recurve blade? I've looked around, and most of the sharpeners that I have been able to find so far that address recurve & other non-conventional blade knives, only work to get the knives to a usable edge, and really not what I would consider ideally sharp. Have you found a system of sharpening that is really good for these types of knives?
I have a Blackjack Simba that needs new screws on the grip. Does bark river cover that under warranty? Also looking for a sheath for the Simba.
SNAP my grail knife was indeed the Blackjack Anaconda II at exactly the same time frame,my only knowledge of it was from the article in Knives annual book of the appropriate year my problem was A) I couldn't afford it B)I lived in England which made it even harder. I did however over a few yrs obtain some of the smaller knives in the range. A lightweight folding Mamba, a pocket version of a largish fixed blade model with a recurve blade a pocket or folding Kukri with about a four and a half inch blade and a smaller slim bowie style which I believe was called the Archangel all of which alas, I seem to have temporarily misplaced (ah the curses of time and a bad memory)
Custom Dundee bowie. Found a custom maker in Arizona and he forged it and made a beautiful leather sheath as well. Owned it (safe queen) for several years now!!! One of a kind!!!
GLB Woodsbum 256 pictures. I got one from a maker in Canada. It’s awesome
@@nunyabizznas9051 May I ask who?
Guilliame Cote of Cote knives.
@@nunyabizznas9051 Oh yes, I've seen his work. Nice knife you've got there.
One of mine is my Wessex custom that was a gift while I was in the hospital.the other is my swamp rat,I also have a black water gear,I got a Spyderco military . And my 1st knife cold steel Bush ranger Bowie also ASU8A STEEL.
Is it allowed to have two grail knifes?
Like the Puma Automesser/White Hunter (only difference are the handle scales - Rosewood/Antler) and the Cold Steel Trail Master?
Because I have two grail knifes, the Puma Automesser and the Cold Steel Trail Master.
your grail knife is my grail knife! i used to see it in a small store everyday end of 80s... i was to young to pick it up back then....
My grail knife is also the Fallkniven Modern Bowie. That carbide laminate can not be beat.
Some great stuff. I like the Collins Brothers 1903 machete for a bus killer. That Bowie was outstanding. Loveless subhilt fighter. Randall Smithsonian bowie is pretty sweet too.
Back in the 80's in NYC there was a knife that every New York Rican had was a 007. These folder came in all sizes from baby to jumbo. I don't remember the maker of these knife the only thing I remember the the wooden handle with the 007 stamp on the side. This was a big in 80's in NYC.
Oh my. Love my Case XX Bowie. It’s been mine for 30 plus years ………. Big Tony
Like you, I also had a Grail knife that I lusted after for a looong time!
The Cold Steel Trail Master San Mai III came along and I could no longer resist! Recently I took delivery of the latest rendition and I must say it is everything I dreamt about, and then some.
As the sheath is a bit of an embarrassment, I had Rob Evans (see his TH-cam channel Rob Evans Woodsman) from Wales make me up a really top notch leather sheath for it.
I'm in knife heaven.
While I'm sure there are knives out there that can outperform the Trail Master in various aspects, it does just about every task to a superior level. And it costs a fraction of what a Busse will cost.
So, there's my Grail knife!
The buck 119 special. Years later I finally got my hands on one.
I'm not even joking, I just found out about the Blackjack Anaconda 2 when I was researching the Bark River Shining Mountain Bowie and I instantly fell in love with it. Either one would be a grail knife for me, but I recently bit the bullet with the Bark River V44 so I think I will be satisfied...for now that is.
How do you get that convex edge on a huge AUS 8 blade, like that? What's the process???
I have three grail knives! the first is a big costum from Pete(dark timber knives) an original jess x and the jx5 with blue curly burl handles!
Wow, that is perfect Bowie blade shape I gotta admit
My grail is the Usmc fighter knife by Medford. It’s my next knife . Being a marine vet it’s a must have . Just got the Spyderco darn dao and love it as a big knife for SHTF .
Cold Steel Warcraft Tanto in CPM 3V, Dark Timber knives and Miller Brothers blades too in ZWEAR PM steel!!