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FOUR Button-Lock Must Own Knives of the Day!
Civivi has made me a Button-Lock fan, and at their price point their knives are all must own tools and collectibles. Really smooth and addictive deployment, beautifully designed, Gentleman’s carry (or Gentlewoman’s carry). All of these make great letter or package openers and are really just a nice office desk knife, tactile fidget, zone-in knife. They are the Rubix Cube of knives, the addictive deployment making them perfect for giving your hands something repetitive to do while your mind is working on a problem or processing.
Today’s pick for the best civivi knives are AS FOLLOWS.
Click the images below for more information or to pick up one for yourself or as a gift.
My first Button Lock knife, I absolutely LOVE this knife. Own multiple copies of this specific variation with its color, blade material and handle material. Essential.
This one is great for gals and guys.
A sub $100 Damascus folding knife? A no-brainer of a purchase.
And Another Damascus blade, but a whole different model and blade shape/design. Another must own.
So that’s it guys. My list of today’s 4 MUST OWN Civivi Button Lock knives! Click on the images to find out more. And purchase via the links and you get a great item, and earn this blog a few pennies to keep the proverbial lights on.
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Till next time, be well.
2019 Favorite YouTube Channels and Channels that did and did not make it to 2020! Edition A-B!
Favorite Youtube Channels of 2019:
The above were some of my favorite channels, and with a few exceptions, are all still on my subscription list here in 2020.
Other channels in letters ‘A to B’ that I am subscribed to in 2020 are:
AARON PYNN (we do not have the same taste in films, but I like being introduced to films I would otherwise not be aware of or give a try. And being a physical media guy he has been helpful in 2019 in keeping me abreast of Dvd/Bluray sales), ADAM CELADIN (knife thrower), ALTER (some of the best short horror films), ALTERNA COMICS (really a fan of the sub $2 model this comic book company is providing, and they and Image comics $1 reprint books, I think are a big reason the big two offered $1 reprint books of their own), AMATEUR FILIES (one of the best Dvd/BluRay coverage channels), ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, AVANTGARDEVEGAN, AXANAR, BADDAD320, BARBARIAN_KUNGFU, BARGAINHUNTERSTHRIFT, BATINTHESUN, BELLA’S TOY CHEST, BERNIE’S BOOTLEGS, BLADE HQ (helped get me into knife collecting in 2019), BLU RAY COLLECTOR, BLU-RAY BENN, BLURAY DAN, BRAVE WILDERNESS (one of our top 10 favorite channels), BUDGETBUGOUT.
Channels that have gone dark in 2020:
ANDY BORDERS
BATAVENGER
Best Knives, Multitools of 2019!!! Great Gifts to give the Outdoors Person or Working Person this Holiday Season!
Best Knives, Multitools of 2019!!! Great Gifts to give the Outdoors Person or Working Person this Holiday Season! PT 1 of 3!
So yeah folks I’ve become a multi-tool, knife connoisseur in the last year.
Here then is, in my opinion, the best knives, best bang for your buck knives, for the outdoors person, tech, collector head, knife person out there, that are still available for purchase in 2019.
I think the following, are GREAT gifts, if you know you have a knife multi-tool user to shop for. I OWN some of these knives, and it is my hope to eventually own them all.
If you are moved to reach out and purchase some of the items listed below, please use the attacheD links, you get a great item and it generates much needed pennies for this blog, to keep the lights on.
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Now without further ado, the HEROIC TIMES best knives and multi-tools of 2019!
KERSHAW: There are a lot of new fancy companies on the knife stage today. But long before these ‘late-comers’ and the fad of gentleman folders, and ‘drop closed’ blades, and ‘tip-up’ carry snobs, you had Kershaw, making dependable working knives, for hard working people.
I’ve had a Kershaw Clash for years, half-serrated, assisted open, tip-down carry. It was then and remains now, the gold standard for working knives at the $30 price point. Everyone should have a couple KERSHAW Clash beater knives hanging around for that package to be opened, or seat-belt or tie-wrap to cut through. Hell I’ve used mine to strip cables in a pinch. It is a workhorse, a must have when dependability is all.
Get your Kershaw Clash HERE!!!
Okay, next up is…
KUBEY Folding Knife Darknight KU003 with Tanto Point D2 Steel and G10 Handle, Ball Bearing Flip and Liner Lock Mechanism, for Outdoor Hunting and Camping
At the $20 mark this particular KUBEY knife is a no-brainer of a purchase. Almost sold out, get yours now! Honorable mention to the KUBEY KU046TI Titanium Flipper! Currently on sale for $40. I’m a pocket clip guy. I love a well designed pocket clip, and this TITANIUM FLIPPER, hits all the right marks.
And get the honorable mention… HERE!
I could never pay over $200 for a pocket knife,when for a FRACTION of that there are companies like Harnds producing pocket knives like the TALISMAN. Just as a collectible, as a work of art, it is worth the incredibly low $36 price tag. Add to that it is a high quality functional, capable, brilliantly milled tool and it is simply a must own.
Stepping up quite a bit, close to my 2 bills limit, is this STUNNER of a knife, the Titanium KIZER T1. WoW!. At a $150 it is really a big step up, and is it really a $100 better than the above Harnds and Kubey? To be honest no, I would be MUCH happier with this knife around the $100 mark. But man, you talk about a well reviewed, drool inducing knife, this is it. If you have the funds to kick out for this knife, the person who gets it, whether yourself or a gift… WILL LOVE IT! It is definitely one that is calling to me, and I’m going to have to add to my collection sooner rather than later.
It is absolutely a work of art. Look how brilliantly milled that pocket clip is! Odd the things that does it for us collectors. But yep, if you likewise find it a must own, get yours here!
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Gift – Purchase of the Day / Week : TWO SUN TS102 Knife
I was raised to believe there are a few things every working man needs.
- A good truck.
- A good hat.
- A good book.
- A good shotgun
- A good knife.
- A good goal.
- And a good sense of value to others, before value to just you.
The seven goods I like to call them.
I think they help… not guarantee, but help… set up a young man… to aspire to be a good man, and a man of use, to those around him.
I believe in the seven goods.
Today’s purchase recommendation of the day, revolves around good #5.
I’ve carried a good pocket knife with me for decades. Briefly in the boy scouts, than occasionally in the military, and relatively constantly in civilian life. It’s a daily carry and essential to me in my work and personal life. And I lump multi-tools in with knives.
Anyhow I’ve had a Spyderco knife for years, followed by a Kershaw Clash knife for years. They are both splendid working man’s knives. For me (even though it is out of fashion these days) an old fashioned tip-down, half drop point, half serrated, blacked out blade, remains the height of functionality and usefulness. Open mail, open boxes, strip wires, get out of a stuck seat-belt, removing tie-wraps, even as a prybar in a pinch.
KERSHAW CLASH Get yours here!
I’ll do a list later of my top 5 KERSHAW knives, but click here to browse them yourself.
There is a reason why the Kershaw Clash is one of the best selling pocket knives of all time. It’s not titanium, it’s not on ball bearings, it’s not the metallurgy composition of the moment, it doesn’t have a rad pocket clip, but what it is… is easily one of the best pocket knives ever made.
And no Kershaw is not paying me to say this (Hey Kershaw… Call Me! 🙂 )
In a day where pocket knives are undergoing something of a resurgence, and in large part because of social media, and streaming and youtube knife communities, knives today are being made as sought after collectibles arguably even more so than functional pieces. Knife prices are skyrocketing, as more and more companies, just like car companies, are gearing a segment of their market to those with more money than sense. So pockets knives these days can run hundreds to thousands of dollars.
I personally think once you go over the $150 mark, for a pocket knife, you are paying for the wrapping paper, rather than the product. But each to their own.
As far as a pocket knife for hard use, after many years of hard use, I’ve found no pocket knife related job that a $30 Kershaw can’t do.
But a man does not live by utility alone.
Sometimes you get a thing, because it calls to you, and everything else being reasonable, the cost, the fit, the functionality… you answer the call.
There is no other knife I NEED besides the Kershaw
But I recently found a knife i wanted. Because it was a thing of beauty.
And it is not the HINDERER or THE CHAVEZ or the ABSTRUSE.
I’d no more pay hundreds for those knives, than I would pay hundreds of thousands for a car. Even should I have the disposable income to spend hundreds on knives or hundreds of thousands on a car, it always, being a working man, occurs to me, how you keep money, is by keeping value foremost in your mind regardless how much money you have.
According to articles, some of the people who aren’t just rich, but stay rich, are frugal purchasers. Every purchase has to sustain or keep its value. Very few of the people who maintain wealth through generations, buy without an eye to value.
So, when there is a Kershaw Clash in the universe, paying 10 times what the Kershaw Clash costs for a knife that is not ten times better, and may not functionally be better at all… does not compute.
That $150 limit, kicks in for me. And that limit amount is different for everyone. That price point where acceptable bumps up against a waste of money.
Chinese Knives, as China more and more embraces the benefits of capitalism in a socialist country, and as more and more of American production is off-shored , the quality and status of Chinese Knives has risen, to the point where they are making desirable quality knives at a great price point.
So it wasn’t the multi-hundred dollar Hinderer or Chavez or ZT knives that called to me with a combination of beauty and aesthetics that are beyond the Kershaw Clash, but also at an acceptable value point.
It was a company from China called Two Sun. And it was a specific knife.
The Knife below:
I think the pictures say it all.
And the price on that work of art? Not $700. You can get one today, delivered for around $70.
TWO SUN makes a lot of knives. In my opinion the TS 102 is the finest looking one they make, and the one that called to me.
Get yours HERE!
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