The Peña X-Series Front Flipper Trapper: Sneak Preview and Disassembly

[@Nerdferly]

Grats to all who got one before they sold out! Hopefully they do another run.

[@cintage]

What a beautiful knife!

[@zachstuff]

Im a fan of seeing these come to production! Have one of his X Series and am very impressed! Thanks for your review and tear down!

[@Stahlwerk88]

I wish more of these “modern traditional” blades were front flippers, it takes nothing away from the appearance and gives you options (when there’s also a nail nick present) and provides some fidget-factor for the bearings’n’flippers crowd like me, who appreciate the looks of traditional a but doesn’t want slipjoints and prefers such amenities as locks and pocket clips. All these Peña X-Series knives are so appealing, wish I was made of money.

[@roel.vinckens]

BE-AU-TI-FUL. The knife and maintenance. In the reassembly you really hit it with that NASA-countdown-followed-by- successful-take-off atmosphere. A treat, as always. Thanks.

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

Thank you for the sneak peek. That's a great little knife. Clean the micarta with isopropyl, dry, then polish with a clean patch with a few drops of 3-in-One oil. Let it set half an hour then buff with a clean cloth. Hasten the time in pocket patina. 👍

[@cctvspystore]

Nick, You were correct cause I saw the Titanium Jig Bone review from Tyler @ GP Knives yesterday & all versions were sold out within minutes when released.

[@W1cked805]

Can’t wait to receive it. I was able to snag a Carbon fiber one from gp knives this morning!

[@zrkn1]

I think i would use it initially without the pocket clip for an even patina on the micarta. Nice knife for sure and love that wood on your custom. Thank You for all you do.

[@twilly9022]

I belive Nick said his custom is made with two different kinds of Micarta. I agree with you that it's a sweet knife.

[@kevinfitz3721]

I got a x series swayback on reserve I'm super pumped it will be my first pena and first front flipper

[@bryanbushby2754]

Love that nail nick Nick

[@richardhouse8364]

Thanks Nick - another great review. I agree with your sentiment here - I've had his custom knife on my grail list for a while but as you say they are extremely difficult to find. As someone who already follows Pena I was able to get one of these on order and look forward to its arrival. For me, it won't replace my desire to have one of his customs some day, but it let's me get a similar knife from a maker that I greatly respect at a lower price point. Only nit is that I hope the detente is not quite as tight on mine!

[@patrickvanovermeeren4513]

Good looking knife ! Nice . Good presentaton , thank you for sharing !

[@azraelsblade]

I’d love to see them do a version of his swayback

[@truaxmatthew]

azraelsblade The profile of the CRKT Swindle

[@Osprey1994]

I wanted a nice front flipper and it seems like there are two types sub 100 with meh steels and above 200 with great steels. Luckily BladeHQ commissioned some exclusive G5 metamorhps in marbled CF with Boiler M390 and blue anodized hardware for 169. I didn't know about it until I saw that it was on sale for the black Friday weekend for 119.

[@daeholm]

Kind of brought up an interesting point with the micarta. Is there any benefit in oiling it? Will oil penetrate micarta?

[@DangerDad29]

Blood will... so i would assume oil will

[@kidthorazine]

not really, I've hrad that oil can darken it a bit but I've also heard that that washes off.

[@JesseLJohnson]

Whenever they come back in stock I plan on buying one. All versions seem to be sold out everywhere. $275 is fair. I would love a custom but I can buy a few of these for what one of the customs cost. I have actually found a couple customs that were available when I was just looking around for $850-950.

[@shadeshiest22]

SMKW released the clip point Barlow version of this in gorgeous burlap micarta a couple hours ago AND ARE STILL IN STOCK as I’m typing this!! HURRY!!!

[@JesseLJohnson]

@@shadeshiest22 I have 2 of the clip point barlows already not sure I need a 3rd. I have every x series made at least one of each besides the clip point fixed blade that is the only one I don't own. I have 5 trappers alone probably have 30 Penas now

[@picklemat4619]

that is my newest grail knife. Australian knife laws are a tricky thing. very strict on carrying laws but with this knife. I feel like you can carry it. just because it looks like a classy knife that, you could get away with I use it to cut fruit and would be more reasonable than a mini crooked river that I want to get too.

[@bidigaraduandrei2010]

Hello Nick,when will we see a review of the Kizer sheepdog XL?😁

[@hermd5536]

Hi Nick! Where do you get that blue plastic pry thingy that you used to separate the scales? It's not in your Amazon store. Thanks. Great video as usual!!

[@planecrazy2]

Its a spudger from an ifixit toolkit. www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Toolkits?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI16zLw7P65QIVGf_jBx2p6QnGEAAYASAAEgImWfD_BwE

[@stoutdog56]

Chicken grease ??? HA HA HA!!! I have 5 X-Series and appreciate being able to buy 3 for the price of one of Enrique's exquisite customs.

[@Suckme148]

KnifeJoy has many of both his custom and production offerings for decent prices. Great video, thank you 😝

[@MtnLiner]

Hey Nick, is it for sale?

[@clintonlewis1663]

nice knife,nice review.

[@E_G_E51]

Thats an awesome knife. Do you know when it will be available to buy?

[@E1337N3SS]

They were avaliable today for about six minutes

[@E_G_E51]

@@E1337N3SS Yea I found out after I posted. Thanks for the response

[@davidmarshall7752]

@@E_G_E51 There will be more, I'm almost sure.

[@Veesaki]

"Never the less" , so nice !

[@thamuz72]

Great first impressions ,have been counting the days for the release, was very lucky to grap one from a retailer, that ships to Denmark, they sold out there in 4 minutes 😱

[@praetor47]

this looks like a truly great knife, a pity it was such a limited run (and no EU distributors :( ), hopefully they do another rather soon (or the hype dies down) 'cause people are already gouging on the secondary, goddamnit :/ (400-450$)

[@acartledge88]

Is the x Series for sale. I promise to keep forever

[@philakorean588]

what is that bit driver called and where can we find it

[@DevinBauer]

Rewatching this after the Zulu instant sellout, I'd have to say that the custom due to its higher price, is easier to acquire than the Pena-X series equivalents

[@fgill6565]

I thought Nick said $75 dollars for the price for a second and I about crapped myself

Do you have shares in Spyderco? I am beginning to hate Spyderco. Especially the delica.

[@davidmarshall7752]

Not worth a response.

[@760rudogg]

@@davidmarshall7752 but you did smh

[@7redi]

Amazing got one in the mail!

[@garenosborn]

Do want!

[@jtucci5711]

Stunning knife but $275 is a bit tough to swallow.

[@thomash4578]

That is a high price for that knife. Out of my league. But I wish him the best of luck.

[@bigredinthewild]

I do hope Pena and Reate does another run. I seriously detest those who limit the number of knives for the sake of arbitrary value.

[@brose04008]

Ha, you act as though people will actually stop trying to buy it off of you!

[@anotherknafguy3679]

Ok, ok... I’ll get one. Fine.

[@davidmarshall7752]

@Morné Venter Not for long, I suspect.

[@anotherknafguy3679]

@Morné Venter One is on the way from Blade HQ luckily...the wife beat me to the punch...im a lucky lucky man.

[@anotherknafguy3679]

@@davidmarshall7752 im sure people will have these up for sale tomorrow. :-/

[@petergalione1414]

And....they're gone.

[@lukerichey5900]

Why are fun things so expensive?

[@thomash4578]

For the same reason a dog licks himself Because they can :)

[@lukerichey5900]

Touché

[@DangerDad29]

Nick...Under 300 bucks. Modern trad flipper. Micarta... m390??? .... can only get so hard

[@taylorsukoshi6126]

Oh good, it's not just me.

[@alisuperhornet]

sold out everywhere :(

[@craycraywolf]

edc a 5$ ozark trail knife. I’ve tried it’s not fun...

[@Stahlwerk88]

He carried a Z-Hunter exclusively for a week a while back and documented it, you could probably find it in the archives. It went about as you’d expect, haha.

[@CSLFiero]

Aaaaand it's gone.

[@jacknemo8021]

M'eh.

[@Nick-jg9ck]

When you got a TI jigged one that your playing with while watching this hits a little different

[@ericoconnell4857]

TOO MUCH OIL, my God man!! Causes lock stick, attracts dirt, and is hardly needed with ceramic bearings and detent ball. One drop is enough spread amongst the entire knife with a toothpick. You will recognize a noticable difference all positive no negative,trust me.

[@natas0733]

Don't say gentleperson man. It's cringeworthy. Items are gender biased and its ok. This is a gentleman's pocket knife. Say it with conviction. It isn't wrong. Love you and love your content brother. Keep it up sir.

[@NickShabazz]

Eh, all folks can want classy knives. No sense pretending otherwise.

[@knightofavalon86]

Remember, kids, gender is a social construct. Nothing wrong with Nick acknowledging that.

[@ulvschmidt7174]

Thank god it sold out 8.3 milliseconds i almost made an irresponsible purchase

[@JimAlaska49]

Very nice slipjoints, but not really $800+ nice.

[@johnburns748]

No slip joint knives in this review

[@JimAlaska49]

@@johnburns748 you know what I mean. Liner locks that look like traditional slipjoints. Still not worth the money.

[@davidmarshall7752]

@@JimAlaska49 But this is a production version, it runs about $275 .

[@JimAlaska49]

@@davidmarshall7752 Sorry, I was referring to the custom. At $275, I'd prefer a GEC.

[@davidmarshall7752]

@@JimAlaska49 As an owner of both a Pena custom and quite a few GECs, I would agree. But I also see why this is such an attractive product for today's average knife buyer.

[@kyleburton7394]

Both beautiful but I still dont think that is a good price.. look at what TwoSun is producing.. the price and quality of those, even though chinese made, (here come the U.S knives only snobs) surpasses the production version of this imo. Knives are art but even art as this is still at its origin just a tool that cuts stuff.

[@jamielahugh8316]

Maybe that’s a good price butttttttttttttttttt...... that’s still expensive for a baby knife.

[@HikikomoriZone]

jamie lahugh size doesn’t dictate cost of product or cost of production. You can pick up a Cold Steel that’s an order of magnitude larger and it’ll cost you less than half. Personal preferences and use cases.

[@davidmarshall7752]

It's not *that* hard to find one of his customs-- you do have to check knife sites regularly, and have the cash on hand if you see one you like.

[@manfredbaedke7599]

I thought I was through with pocket knives. I live in Germany, ridiculous knife laws, so I carry a UK PK, case closed. But this one...

[@AlterMacGyver]

Something this video reminded me of is how funny it is to hear non-trans people try to use gender neutral language. It's usually in one of two camps: saying both sides of the binary (he/she, mail man or woman, etc.) or x-person (garbageperson instead of garbageman, lawperson instead of lawman, gentleperson instead of gentleman is what reminded me of this). The first camp is definitely not great because it's awkward in practice and perpetuates the binary, while the second just sounds a bit silly to me. To my ears it's the sound of being a bit confused but having the spirit. The third camp is abandoning anthropic descriptions entirely, which flows so much better. Like, "classy" communicates the desired image and information in a natural, neutral way. Sanitation worker, mail courier, officer, etc. all exist and work in the same ways, and all without explicitly invoking the personhood of the subject, which is a given for the job examples and completely unnecessary in the describing-knives example. I don't mean this to sound like, overly critical or analytic, it's just something I always find kinda amusing I thought worth sharing.

[@davidmarshall7752]

Sounded fine to me: modern, thoughtful, not awkward at all. Besides, Nick often uses the term "Gents Folder" or "gentleman's knife". Relax.

[@AlterMacGyver]

@@davidmarshall7752 I am relaxed though. Just an element of language use I thought interesting

[@NickShabazz]

Yep, it’s awkward when the conventional term is gendered (“Gentleman’s knife”), and I want to recall the term and category, but without implying that the gendering is non-arbitrary

[@MG-Alexandrovich]

12 hours later - out of stock 😵