Do you guys think you could build a new outer for the Ozark Grail? I would buy your scales for the Ozark.

Thuper therial right now! 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼

Blade from a pvc cutter

In Florida, you can wipe your ass with a non-compete, employment agreement. Florida is a strong right to work state.

Great video guys! I was thoroughly entertained and learned a few things too. Well done! See y'all at SHOTs.

No Benchmade, no MKC, nor Spyderco.. Look around you brothers, the amount of quality affordable knives is plentiful! Let these greedy companies hurt for a good while.

I love you Ben but this is like watching two lawyers do a knife review video.

There should not be a knife video on you tube if it doesn’t have one of these guys in it!……and those potatoes are friggin awesome.

The mystery blade is from a ratcheting pruner or hose cutter

DCA I will be picking this up. Haven’t bought many knives lately, but this checks so many boxes I like. Great design, size and all! Congrats on your slightly larger than average success man! 😅

Wow DCA lookin totally different. Haven’t seen him in over a year

Look at that beautiful bald head. Who could fire him? And am I alone in still missing Ben doing content for Blade HQ?

I have both and love them! Congratulations!!

I already sold all my benchmades. Inly have 1 left. Selling that one too 😂 9400 auto

Went to law school. Studying for the bar. I’d love to be Knafs unofficial “legal liaison”. Send it on! 😂

Bench made has been exhibiting a lot of symptoms of corporate dysfunction. The executives are making a killing while slowly driving the company brand into the dirt.

Has DCA lost a ton of weight or something?

Subscribed to your KZbin and mailing list. Just ordered a baby banter fixie and a Banter 2 in purple. Big fan of Ben and Zack.

thank you knafs, my banter 2 and my grand burrito just landed, fantastic

my real question - does MKC support the second amendment? i recall benchmade being spurned by the gun community years ago because they were donating to anti gun PACs or something?

I personally would not buy anything from either company. Benchmade because they donate to democrats and gun grabbers. Montana knife because they want $200+ for basic carbon steel. It's amazing people keep buying from a company donating to people stealing our freedoms.

THIS IS IT. DISGUSTING MOVE BY BENCHMADE. IM NEVER BUYING BENCHMADE AGAIN, AND I HOPE YOU ALL BOYCOTT THEM AS WELL. 🦨

For the baby banter having that tip jimping is awesome! I can see that being super useful for fishing/hunting and even whittling or crafting, whatever else. It's just a nice touch that's not as common as it should be.

The non-competes not getting killed is a huge problem! Imagine having to put your life on hold because your former employer just says so! Screw that! If companies don't want previous employees competing against them, they can freaking pay them well enough to stay or otherwise make a separate agreement AND PAY people to not compete. You can't just demand every employee screw themselves because of most likely hidden small print in an employment contract. As a company, if you're using non-competes you're a scummy company and deserve to fail! If you can't compete fairly and have to resort to forcing employees to sacrifice their careers to help yourselves you deserve to go out of business. Screw Benchmade for this! What dirt bags!

The reason why Non-Competes shouldn’t exist is because it stymies people’s ability to earn an income… NDA’s are fine with me as it protects companies IP and is often used when company sub-contract out projects… The non-compete essentially locks good people to bad companies without hope of it getting something better.

I think I'm more likely to want the Baby Banter fixed blade than the folder and glad it still has Nitro-V steel. As a guy with big mitts, I'd probably prefer the handle be a little longer than original, instead of shorter. Benchmade are known for both overpriced folders and overpriced fixed blades. For what they sell their knives for they should be able to pay their people enough that they're not jumping ship to work elsewhere. I have a bunch of them I bought years ago, but if I was just starting out buying Benchmade knives I'd probably only end up owning a couple of them at their current pricing. A big problem is that their prices put them at a price point too close to much better knives, which means that's what I'll buy instead.

Benchmade is following suit with Spyderco and their nonsense MAP price gouging. Does Benchmade still destroy things that use bullets protected by our 2nd Amendment? A Spydiechef is a 300 hundred dollar knife now. You could get a Sebenza for that. This is madness.

30:02 It's called Dutch. Funny that you need a foreigner to teach you your language.

oooooooh, totally

As we all know Big Idea Design owns the Ti logo Titanium for their brand but does they also own the trademark of the Zr logo for Zirconium??

My opinion (and everybody has one) is.....I don't care if you went to design school, make KZbin videos or push a shopping cart full of aluminum cans around. If you design a great knife people will appreciate it and purchase. Who better to design a knife than people whose opinion I respect and base purchases upon who literally handle thousands of knives seeing the good and the bad. NEEVES and Metal Complex in my opinion know intrinsically what benchmarks need to be met and pitfalls to avoid to make and design a really great knife and then put a unique personal touch on it. Seems like a normal evolutionary step to me and I wish them much success.

Because benchmade is run by trash individuals.

LANDER 1. YES LANDER 2 Yes. What do I buy next damn great design Lander 2 is the Griptilian replacement Great Work

Mailbox/fresh prints question: My son is in college for engineering, and is asking for a 3D printer for Christmas. Can you recommend any to start my research, or popular brads/models? I know nothing about them. Btw…still waiting for the knafs slip joint. I love it. 🍺

Cash is king! BM needs to pay them more to stay. Perhaps it’s people/designers being hamstrung to stay in their lane. Therefore stifling their creativity. Either way…

These knife companies and their legal stuff..

I think a segment (maybe an extension of Moon Crew moment) where people share their knife story. I would love to hear people answer questions along the lines of “what was your first pocket knife, what’s your most sentimental knife, what’s your craziest knife related story?” It could be a one minute video lifted from a Facebook thread or a written submission.

Benchmade fixed blades are, in my opinion, overpriced and under sharpened.

Sounds to me like MKC just punched out the bully on the playground and is now demanding his lunch money 😂

I just got the blade hq tr3 magnacut! ❤️

You guys really eat shit in America!

Non-compete laws vary significantly by state. Some states, like California, have banned non-compete agreements altogether, making them unenforceable for nearly all employees. Other states enforce non-competes but often under strict conditions. I personally think non-competes laws are unconstitutional.

And if you think Benchmade charges a lot for their knives checkbout Montana knife Co. Theu are very price for fixed blades especially the ones with paracord wrapped handles or less.

MKC os the ONLY company I see commercial for on tv

The younger generations are weird. While both of these guys seem pleasant enough, one seems like he has serial killer biographies on his nightstand and the other seems like he spends his weekend nights at a leather bar. What’s become of the American man?!

Petty companies. I am glad i mostly use buck and saks. Some surplus. While american companies fight over BS, the Chinese are eating their lunch.

I love your videos and its format with many sections, that keeps them interesting and fun. I’d like to hear more about knife laws in different places and knife suggestions according to those laws. I also love that, even if Ben isn’t a fan of something - like the neck knife- he’s willing to work with what people like. In that topic, I think it would be really fun if sometime you guys make a design-a-knife competition, even if it’s just for fun, I’m sure you’ll have a lot of entries 😅

Quit building your shit in China

I work for a company that has a no compete policy I guess I don’t have to sign that stupid paperwork this yr then !

I believe the mystery blade is from a set of pruning loppers, with a ratcheting mechanism.