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Southern Grind Spider Monkey

By on April 22, 2015 in EDC, Knives

Southern Grind’s Bad Monkey folder is one of my all time favorite knives. It combines great ergonomics with great quality, a licensed Emerson Wave Opening feature, and a heaping helping of titanium and carbon fiber which never hurts. Now we have a more compact Bad Monkey spin off to look forward to called the Spider Monkey.

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This teaser image from Southern Grind shows the Spider Monkey’s more compact blade compared to the larger Bad Monkey.

The Spider Monkey and it’s 3.25″ blade is more compact than its older brother, the Bad Monkey. The new blade also happens to be ground from S35VN steel. Hopefully, there will be more details on the Spider Monkey at Blade Show. In the mean time, check out Southern Grind and all the good things they are doing to put Americans to work and help kids.

TOPS Knives C.A.T. #200S-04

By on March 18, 2015 in Knives

TOPS Knives has been busy rolling out new grip textures and breathing new life into a mainstay of their knife line, the C.A.T. series. The latest version features their Hunter’s Point (drop point), a coyote tan blade coating, and Rocky Mountain Bullseye textured green micarta scales.

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  • Blade length: 3 1/4″
  • Overall length: 7 1/4″
  • Thickness: 5/32″
  • Scales: Green Canvas Micarta
  • Steel: 1095
  • Sheath: Kydex with multi-position steel clip
  • Weight: 7.5 oz

You can all of the recently released C.A.T. models in the image below. They are all available at introductory prices directly from TOPS Knives.

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Bradshaw Blades Pocket Guillotine

By on March 17, 2015 in EDC, Knives

The Bradshaw Blades Pocket Guillotine is going to be a downright nasty little last ditch self-defense option. The images shown are of the prototype and there will be changes when it reaches production.

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The Pocket Guillotine is essentially a single finger knuck with a cutting edge. It is made from titanium. The edge is chisel ground and carbidized for edge retention. The production Pocket Guillotine will have additional contours for comfort along with a lanyard hole and bottle opener.

Contact Bradshaw Blades via their Facebook page to put on these nasty little buggers in your hand.

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Gryphon M10FFG

By on March 13, 2015 in EDC, Knives

The Gryphon M10 is one of the finest production defensive fixed blades available. It is light, compact, easy to carry, and purpose built to support point driven techniques. Previously, it was only available with a hollow grind which is appropriate for its use but may have limited some of its general utility and edge cutting performance to some extent.

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The Gryphon M10FFG is the latest iteration of the venerable M10. The FFG in its name stands for “full flat grind” which indicates that the primary grind is flat from the edge to the spine. This should increase the usefulness of the M10 for slashing cuts and as a general utility knife without radically changing the characteristics that make it great.

It is also worth noting that the M10FFG is ground from laminate VG-10 rather than just solid VG-10 like the hollow ground version. This means that there is a harder VG-10 core layer sandwiched between two layers of a softer metal. This laminate construction makes the entire blade more durable.

Check out the Gryphon M10FFG at Cutlery Shoppe.

 

  • Blade Steel: Laminated VG-10
  • Blade Finish: DLC (Diamond Like Coating)
  • Handle Material: Black Zytel
  • Blade Length: 4″
  • Length Overall: 8 1/2″
  • Blade Thickness: 3/16″
  • Weight, Knife: 4.4 oz. (119 g)
  • Sheath Material: .080″ Boltaron
  • Weight, Sheath: 2.1 oz. (60 g)

 

Rocky Mountain Bullseye C.A.T. from TOPS Knives

By on March 12, 2015 in EDC, Knives, Preparedness, Survival

Just over a week ago, TOPS Knives introduced their C.A.T. knives with a new grip pattern called Cryptic Cyber. Now they have released a second grip pattern option with a very cool back story.

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The new Rockey Mountain Bullseye texture came about serendipitously! The folks at TOPS were machining handles when a machining error created a divot pattern in the surface of the grip slab. It looked good and it felt good so the only thing left to do was program the machine to make the mistake divots on purpose. I wish my mistakes turned out so well.

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The new texture is available on the C.A.T. knives in both drop point and tanto. The C.A.T. series is a mainstay of the TOPS Knives lineup thanks to their handy size and versatile shapes.

TOPS Knives launched the new scales today and they are available at an introductory price in both the Tanto version and Hunter’s Point (drop point).

  • Blade length: 3 1/4″
  • Overall length: 7 1/4″
  • Thickness: 5/32″
  • Scales: Black G-10
  • Steel: 1095
  • Sheath: Kydex with multi-position steel clip
  • Weight: 7.5 oz

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