Happy New Year Rob! As a U.S.P.S. Clerk I carry a blade daily cutting shrink wrap, plastic straps, shrink wrap ect. Not being very educated about blades I had a few Walmart knives the last few years a Gerber and currently a Kershaw leek. I found your channel about a month ago when I went looking to sharpen my knife. I think you make great videos and your opinions and reviews are honest and trustworthy. my only gripe is now I'm impatiently waiting on a used large Sebenza 21 regular blade with carbon fiber inlays, should be quite an upgrade from my leek. Looking forward to sending it to you for a proper edge next week. Keep up all the good work you do here and with your ministry thank-you.
+Sam Conover Thanks, Sam! Glad to hear from you. BTW, I use the good old USPS exclusively for my shipments. You're batting 1.000 in getting knives home safely, over 2,000 times in the past 3 years. Not so for my customers sending knives to me using the other guys. The Post Office rocks!!!
Hi Rob, been off line for a while, travelling a bit. Anyway this is the first vid I have watched for a while. I must be influenced by you over these past 3 yrs, as I carry 4 off the knives on your list, its strange as I actually rotate my para 2 with my endura blue steel more often this past year. Just bought a couple of Barlows, which you have sharpened recently, so I will be sporting a Northfield madison on a regular basis as well. Off course in the UK the only knife I AM LEGAL TO CARRY ON THE STREETS is my grinlling, but I am blessed by being far from the madding crowd most of my time. My 940 is my favourite knife of all time brother, my 21 is next. Your the man Rob, be back in touch with civilisation soon. Oh and always a small wenger pocket pal in my wallet, razor sharp. God bless all in 2016.
One minute into this video I finally un-stuck that damned Griptilian thumb stud I told you about awhile back. I broke two T-6 drivers doing it. Someone REALLY cranked that thing down. I suspect your new video granted me the power! Happy New Year, sir!
Happy New Year, Rob. I have the superblue Stretch and I just love that knife. I recently purchased an Endura HAP 40 and I'm really liking that. It may just push that Stretch out of my pocket.
happy new to you. loved your video this year will be looking at traditional folders for collection and carry. i too love the 940 the cadet (which i gave to my Son). the spyderco was a bit a a surprise but understand you view thought that the use of the knife for a fellow lefty closing the knife would be a bit off but never owned a mid lock knife but always held back for that reason.
Hi Rob, Happy New Year Brother! Great to touch base, albeit via social mediaI've been "working" pretty much straight through the last three weeks. Spot on with the selection my friend, my "rotation" is surprisingly similar notwithstanding my "work tools" Have a Good One! Grace and Peace, Lee
All winners! Great to hear about the Endura and a nice surprise that it overtook the PM2 for 2015. 140-nothing : ) Agree 100%, no point in carrying around a dull knife.
I've had my 940 Osborne for about a year and a half. It's the only knife I've carried daily and I've loved it ever since I got it. Sounds like I got lucky buying off of Amazon because mine is perfect. I will probably buy something else soon just to change it up, but it has served me well.
Great video, and fun! Great knife choices & good reasons for those choices. I also found that interesting ( although not too surprising ) that Nut'n noted how many guys were walkin' around with dull blades. I can't speak for any of the super steels, as I've no experience with them, but don't most knife guys know by now, that by allowing their conventional steel knives to get rather dull, they are drastically shortening the service life of that knife? A knife in need of a major sharpening means steel MUST be removed, each & every time. Whereas frequent touch ups on a strop ( or a mild honing on a fine black/hard Arkansas stone ) lessons the frequency of true sharpenings, resulting in much longer blade life. Don't those guys pay any attention to videos like yours? I will forever be impressed with your older video about chopping that dead tree down in your back yard, as I was AMAZED at how you brought that big 'ole 1095 blade back to phone book paper sharp with only a stropping! After chopping HALF A TREE DOWN.........I never woulda guessed that a strop was all it needed in a million years! ( Nobody can say THAT blade didn't receive a spot-on heat treat!!! )
How are you able to perform the middle-finger 'Spidy Flick' on your Endura? I have the ZDP189 and HAP40 (sprint run) Endura's and I can only just flick them open with my thumb. Excellent vid as usual Rob. God bless mate..
great knives! I plan on sending my new cold steel warcraft tanto as well as my new piranha predator to be sharpened very soon. probably end of February at the latest...
Nice list! My fav is the 940. That and a particular excessive revolver are on my 2016 want list! My old eyes weren't bothered by the focus issue. I didn't even notice! : )
Two years ago the PM2 & SR-1 were on your top three EDC knives list, with the 940. I wasn't surprised the Lion Steel missed your top 5 list in 2015, but was shocked the PM-2 missed the top 5. Would love to see your top ten modern and traditional knives sometime. Also, the Victorinox Cadet would be the perfect EDC knife/multitool if it had scissors, instead of the file.
I once ordered a 940 of off amazon.... It has a bunch of up and down and side to side play. After sending it back and getting one from academy I love it again.
Greetings fellow leftie, I enjoy your videos and respect your opinion. I am looking to purchase my first sebenza 21 and would like to know if you recommend the plain or inlaid handles. I am indifferent to the aesthetic value and only interested in ergonomics. Thank you,
+Roy Jones I do think the micarta inlays aid the ergonomics of the handle. They give it a more hand-filling feel, and better grip. They do make the knife a little more intrusive in the pocket however. I find myself carrying my inlaid Sebs more than my plain handled one though. Hope that helps!
I agree on the cadet. In my pocket all the time. It is the solution to many needs. Fixing a hockey helmet, slicing an apple, just two things I did with mine today. . You get it, quality, useful, right size for my pocket. I really like your lanyard, need to fashion something like that for mine.
Great vid and great choices, Rob. In of your other vids you mentioned that you would be getting a carbon fiber lefty Seb 25. Did you change your mind and if so, why?P.S. Happy New Year to you too!
My most carried knife of 2015 was a 940 as well, it's just so good for its size and weight that it's hard not to put it in the pocket! My most carrier knife of 2016 however will probably be my new 551-1. You should try and get your hands on one, it is fantastic. The CPM-20CV is easy to sharpen and holds an edge longer than S30V, and it's only very slightly heavier than a regular Griptilian, and slightly thinner. The action and lockup on mine is perfection, but that varies quite a bit, unfortunately, from knife to knife with Benchmades.
Great vid Rob. You are exactly right about companies making garbage knives with garbage grinds. Good carry collection. Do you ever carry that calf roper. I think that one was yours and not a customers. Thats if i am correct. Lol. Thanks again for fixing up my case jack. Peace to you my brother !!!
Yeah, it was frustrating. I think my leather pad is getting too marked up. The auto focus seems to want to focus on the background d lately. Sorry about that.
I had a 940 about 8 months ago it was off centered and one of the Omega Springs broke just from playing with it. so I sent it back got it one month later they actually forgot about it believe it or not. had tons of blade play and the blade was scratching up against the handle it was so off centered. sent it back again came back perfect, and I loved it but I was so mad at that point I sold it... great knife though, when there is no problems.
Yes it does. I am about to sound like a hypocrite though haha. I want to take one of my standard 940s and cerakote the scales white and put bronze standoffs and screws on it. I also want to put a polished deep carry contego pocket clip on it with polished clip screws. Now that sounds like a sexy knife
I only use my VG10 endura for cooking and eating. Sometimes for edc, but meh. When ever I leave the house at the begining of the day I always give my knife a couple passes on the fine grit of my worksharp.
My 5: -940 -Spyderco sage 1 -A sketchy homemade folder I made out of a folding box cutter by replacing the razor blade with a shifty handmade wrench blade -Swiss army knife -small fixed blade (I think it's a condor) -my micra Just realized that that was six.. I guess one of them isn't a knife
I carry 3 normaly a crkt squid. a SAK compact and my favorite. a used knife I bought on ebay .a 1993 issued sak to the swiss miltary it would be equal to the pioneer by sak but this one has history.
Just an editors type of observation; your "title" implies that you are presenting the "Top Five Carried Knives of 2015",....not "your personal Top 5 knives of 2015"....I suppose it drew me in though...
You'd probably cry if you saw the wear and tear on my 940's after hearing you "complain" about the ding on yours. Lol My black handled one has the most wear and that makes me kinda sad, since I can't replace it. Still don't know why they only offer green. The CF is on my bucket list.....I WILL own one someday.
I tried pampering mine when I first got it due to the price but once it started getting worn, I've loved it even more and look forward to even more wear.
Man, if you have an Endura in Super Blue steel you'd better be used to a good patina of controlled rust. Otherwise keep it well oiled and never use that blade. Simple and true.
hummm....your factory second looks better then my regular productions enduras....QC really needs to get their shit together at seki concerning the endura....wouldn't it be too awesome of Sal would bring home the production and pull out the endura 5! with some American steel! most of these blow away Japanese steels nowadays.
Happy New Year Rob!
As a U.S.P.S. Clerk I carry a blade daily cutting shrink wrap, plastic straps, shrink wrap ect. Not being very educated about blades I had a few Walmart knives the last few years a Gerber and currently a Kershaw leek. I found your channel about a month ago when I went looking to sharpen my knife. I think you make great videos and your opinions and reviews are honest and trustworthy.
my only gripe is now I'm impatiently waiting on a used large Sebenza 21 regular blade with carbon fiber inlays, should be quite an upgrade from my leek. Looking forward to sending it to you for a proper edge next week. Keep up all the good work you do here and with your ministry thank-you.
+Sam Conover Thanks, Sam! Glad to hear from you. BTW, I use the good old USPS exclusively for my shipments. You're batting 1.000 in getting knives home safely, over 2,000 times in the past 3 years. Not so for my customers sending knives to me using the other guys. The Post Office rocks!!!
really enjoy your reviews. Convinced me on buying quality instead of junk.
all amongst the best examples of their kind
Hi Rob, been off line for a while, travelling a bit. Anyway this is the first vid I have watched for a while. I must be influenced by you over these past 3 yrs, as I carry 4 off the knives on your list, its strange as I actually rotate my para 2 with my endura blue steel more often this past year. Just bought a couple of Barlows, which you have sharpened recently, so I will be sporting a Northfield madison on a regular basis as well. Off course in the UK the only knife I AM LEGAL TO CARRY ON THE STREETS is my grinlling, but I am blessed by being far from the madding crowd most of my time. My 940 is my favourite knife of all time brother, my 21 is next. Your the man Rob, be back in touch with civilisation soon. Oh and always a small wenger pocket pal in my wallet, razor sharp. God bless all in 2016.
One minute into this video I finally un-stuck that damned Griptilian thumb stud I told you about awhile back. I broke two T-6 drivers doing it. Someone REALLY cranked that thing down. I suspect your new video granted me the power! Happy New Year, sir!
Happy New Year, Rob. I have the superblue Stretch and I just love that knife. I recently purchased an Endura HAP 40 and I'm really liking that. It may just push that Stretch out of my pocket.
happy new to you. loved your video this year will be looking at traditional folders for collection and carry. i too love the 940 the cadet (which i gave to my Son). the spyderco was a bit a a surprise but understand you view thought that the use of the knife for a fellow lefty closing the knife would be a bit off but never owned a mid lock knife but always held back for that reason.
Hi Rob, Happy New Year Brother!
Great to touch base, albeit via social mediaI've been "working" pretty much straight through the last three weeks.
Spot on with the selection my friend, my "rotation" is surprisingly similar notwithstanding my "work tools"
Have a Good One!
Grace and Peace,
Lee
any suggestions on how to sharpen a zero tolerance knife curved blade and a cold steel spartan thank you
Great video Rob. Love The Cadet too! LOL
about how many inches would you bring up the sharpening rod on your lansky in order to sharpen 15°?
All winners! Great to hear about the Endura and a nice surprise that it overtook the PM2 for 2015.
140-nothing : )
Agree 100%, no point in carrying around a dull knife.
I've had my 940 Osborne for about a year and a half. It's the only knife I've carried daily and I've loved it ever since I got it. Sounds like I got lucky buying off of Amazon because mine is perfect. I will probably buy something else soon just to change it up, but it has served me well.
Not really surprising, although i had the CS Code 4 or PM2 expected in stead of the Endura.
Happy new year.
Great video, and fun! Great knife choices & good reasons for those choices. I also found that interesting ( although not too surprising ) that Nut'n noted how many guys were walkin' around with dull blades. I can't speak for any of the super steels, as I've no experience with them, but don't most knife guys know by now, that by allowing their conventional steel knives to get rather dull, they are drastically shortening the service life of that knife? A knife in need of a major sharpening means steel MUST be removed, each & every time. Whereas frequent touch ups on a strop ( or a mild honing on a fine black/hard Arkansas stone ) lessons the frequency of true sharpenings, resulting in much longer blade life. Don't those guys pay any attention to videos like yours? I will forever be impressed with your older video about chopping that dead tree down in your back yard, as I was AMAZED at how you brought that big 'ole 1095 blade back to phone book paper sharp with only a stropping! After chopping HALF A TREE DOWN.........I never woulda guessed that a strop was all it needed in a million years! ( Nobody can say THAT blade didn't receive a spot-on heat treat!!! )
Happy new year! Love em all!
How are you able to perform the middle-finger 'Spidy Flick' on your Endura? I have the ZDP189 and HAP40 (sprint run) Endura's and I can only just flick them open with my thumb. Excellent vid as usual Rob. God bless mate..
You have to set the pivot on the edge of side play, lube them well and break them in. But I can always get them there.
TheApostleP
Thanks Rob. I'll give it a go but I don't expect miracles with MY skill level...Lol..;)
+paul greenwood i remember i couldn't even flick my para 2 at first but everyone else could(i got there and now its natural)
Jester Buddersworth
Thanks Jester - I can flick the PM2 easily as you say, but my Endura's are newer and much stiffer from the factory.
great knives! I plan on sending my new cold steel warcraft tanto as well as my new piranha predator to be sharpened very soon. probably end of February at the latest...
Nice list! My fav is the 940. That and a particular excessive revolver are on my 2016 want list! My old eyes weren't bothered by the focus issue. I didn't even notice! : )
Two years ago the PM2 & SR-1 were on your top three EDC knives list, with the 940. I wasn't surprised the Lion Steel missed your top 5 list in 2015, but was shocked the PM-2 missed the top 5. Would love to see your top ten modern and traditional knives sometime. Also, the Victorinox Cadet would be the perfect EDC knife/multitool if it had scissors, instead of the file.
I once ordered a 940 of off amazon.... It has a bunch of up and down and side to side play. After sending it back and getting one from academy I love it again.
im having a hard time seeing what you're holding in your hand. the camera only wants to focus on the scratches on your table.
Greetings fellow leftie, I enjoy your videos and respect your opinion. I am looking to purchase my first sebenza 21 and would like to know if you recommend the plain or inlaid handles. I am indifferent to the aesthetic value and only interested in ergonomics. Thank you,
+Roy Jones I do think the micarta inlays aid the ergonomics of the handle. They give it a more hand-filling feel, and better grip. They do make the knife a little more intrusive in the pocket however. I find myself carrying my inlaid Sebs more than my plain handled one though. Hope that helps!
Rob, Whats your preferred way to carry the Large 21? Im always paranoid of loosing mine when its clipped. And I'm not big on the pocket slips..
+Garrett Miklautz I carry all my Sebs clipped in pocket. I've never had one even think about coming out. Perhaps the best pocket clip ever devised ;)
apostalep do you ever carry the cold steel ak 47
My top 5:
Benchmade 940
Benchmade 950
Brous Blades VR-71
Zero Tolerance 0450
Victorinox Farmer
I agree on the cadet. In my pocket all the time. It is the solution to many needs. Fixing a hockey helmet, slicing an apple, just two things I did with mine today. . You get it, quality, useful, right size for my pocket. I really like your lanyard, need to fashion something like that for mine.
Great vid and great choices, Rob. In of your other vids you mentioned that you would be getting a carbon fiber lefty Seb 25. Did you change your mind and if so, why?P.S. Happy New Year to you too!
don't you like the benchmade 710 too?
Great video. The 940 is definitely my most carried knife. Why don't you invest in custom knives?
+Rhino Airsoft In this market, "invest in custom knives" is an oxymoron.
Clicking on this video and knowing ApostleP, I expected to see 4 Sebenzas and a Paramilitary 2...
mine are the 940, northfork, and gec #66 with stag. love all three of these
For 2015 I carried my Spyderco Paramilitary 2 the most. Nothing short of amazing from that knife.
No patina Rob?
My most carried knife of 2015 was a 940 as well, it's just so good for its size and weight that it's hard not to put it in the pocket! My most carrier knife of 2016 however will probably be my new 551-1. You should try and get your hands on one, it is fantastic. The CPM-20CV is easy to sharpen and holds an edge longer than S30V, and it's only very slightly heavier than a regular Griptilian, and slightly thinner. The action and lockup on mine is perfection, but that varies quite a bit, unfortunately, from knife to knife with Benchmades.
Great vid Rob. You are exactly right about companies making garbage knives with garbage grinds. Good carry collection. Do you ever carry that calf roper. I think that one was yours and not a customers. Thats if i am correct. Lol. Thanks again for fixing up my case jack. Peace to you my brother !!!
No problem! I do carry the Calf Roper a lot. That and my Beer Scout are #3&4 on the traditional
List.
Great video, Rob. Sure wish the focus had been better, I ended up listening to it rather than watching it. You give great practical insight.
Yeah, it was frustrating. I think my leather pad is getting too marked up. The auto focus seems to want to focus on the background d lately. Sorry about that.
Just ordered a 940bk hopefully it comes perfect like yours.
I KNEW one of your Reeves would take the cake👍.
I had a 940 about 8 months ago it was off centered and one of the Omega Springs broke just from playing with it. so I sent it back got it one month later they actually forgot about it believe it or not. had tons of blade play and the blade was scratching up against the handle it was so off centered. sent it back again came back perfect, and I loved it but I was so mad at that point I sold it... great knife though, when there is no problems.
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That's the way I like a 940, "dash nothing."
I just like the old school 940. The 940-1 is nice but to me a 940 should be green with satin blade in s30v.
I own both actually, I just prefer the classic look and feel.
Yes it does. I am about to sound like a hypocrite though haha. I want to take one of my standard 940s and cerakote the scales white and put bronze standoffs and screws on it. I also want to put a polished deep carry contego pocket clip on it with polished clip screws. Now that sounds like a sexy knife
I probably will. I have already mentioned it to a buddy of mine who does cerakote.
I only use my VG10 endura for cooking and eating. Sometimes for edc, but meh. When ever I leave the house at the begining of the day I always give my knife a couple passes on the fine grit of my worksharp.
I owned two 940's and sold both, also had a 943 got as a gift and it was stolen. Kinda miss the 940 now.
My 5:
-940
-Spyderco sage 1
-A sketchy homemade folder I made out of a folding box cutter by replacing the razor blade with a shifty handmade wrench blade
-Swiss army knife
-small fixed blade (I think it's a condor)
-my micra
Just realized that that was six.. I guess one of them isn't a knife
myself I prefer a single blade folding knife but do own two Victorinox and a t27 electrician knife
I carry 3 normaly a crkt squid. a SAK compact and my favorite. a used knife I bought on ebay .a 1993 issued sak to the swiss miltary it would be equal to the pioneer by sak but this one has history.
Just an editors type of observation; your "title" implies that you are presenting the "Top Five Carried Knives of 2015",....not "your personal Top 5 knives of 2015"....I suppose it drew me in though...
You'd probably cry if you saw the wear and tear on my 940's after hearing you "complain" about the ding on yours. Lol
My black handled one has the most wear and that makes me kinda sad, since I can't replace it. Still don't know why they only offer green. The CF is on my bucket list.....I WILL own one someday.
+SuperSecretSquirell Not at all, Squirell... Not at all. But this one is kind of pampered ;)
I tried pampering mine when I first got it due to the price but once it started getting worn, I've loved it even more and look forward to even more wear.
Man, if you have an Endura in Super Blue steel you'd better be used to a good patina of controlled rust. Otherwise keep it well oiled and never use that blade. Simple and true.
Yep. I cut up some strawberries a few weeks ago and turned the Super Blue a nice shade of... You guessed it... Blue!
Endura over Paramilitary II? That shocked me.
Me too! But as I look back over the year, I carried the Super Blue Endura more.
More things change more they stay the same...ha ha very true...(nothing new under the sun) Ecclesiastes
Love my 940
I only carry my Sebenza cause it is the greatest folder ever made.......
+Sunbear415 ;)
hummm....your factory second looks better then my regular productions enduras....QC really needs to get their shit together at seki concerning the endura....wouldn't it be too awesome of Sal would bring home the production and pull out the endura 5! with some American steel! most of these blow away Japanese steels nowadays.
Great video tho
This 940 retails for more than a Bark River knife.I wont even look twice at this flimsy overpriced folder.
seriously need to work on your camera skills. Nice knives buddy.
Code 4
Weird, his number one, I find uh, unimpressive. I guess, to each their own.
all thoses knives bore me
Wtf is wrong with your left thumb nail
Thumb finger nail