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Not gonna lie I died a little on the inside when you said no to the para 3 and shaman knowing one was the most carried and the other was ex caliber

We've also concluded the your wife Absolutely Rocks with all the gifted knifes she's given you. Does she have a sister ? Lol

“Why do you care what other people think? Just carry what you like.” - That one dude who doesn’t get invited to formal events

With no sentiment, beater is Cold Steel American Lawman. Budget is Civivi Pintail. High end is Sharp by Design Evo Typhoon. Gentleman's folder is the Chris Reeve Mnamndi. Safe queen is the Koenig Arius.

Beater, lightning otf Budget EDC, civivi elementem s35vn High end EDC, kansept kryo ti Party/fancy knife, rike thror4s Safe queen, hinderer xm18 3” This is a fun idea that you always do, though I’d put in my personal list for my knives hope you got some enjoyment out of it

My List, using only knives that I actually own of course; BEATER: Ontario RAT 1 in D2. I actually don't really like this knife, and I think it's EXTREMELY over-rated, but, they ARE good hard-users, and I wouldn't care if I broke or lost one. BUDGET-EDC: Cold Steel Voyager, Large-Clip Point. One of my favorite EDC knives for years, and many days I'll choose to carry it over any of my higher-end stuff. HIGH-END EDC: Spyderco SpydieChef. This is probably the hardest category to decide. I have many knives that could go here, but I happen to have just recently acquired one of these (finally) and am currently in love with it, so I chose it. GENTLEMAN'S EDC: Case Swayback Gent in Red Jigged Bone. This has been my formal occasion knife for years. SAFE QUEEN: I don't really have any knives in this category. I won't buy a knife If I don't think I'll use it (not bashing people that do), just not that kind of collector. But the closest thing I have is a Demko AD-15. I'd like to add two categories, MULTI-TOOL, and FIXED-BLADE. MULTI-TOOL: While I love my Leathermans, I chose to go with something I could carry every day, regardless of how I was dressed or where I was going. For that I'd choose the Victorinox Tinker. Nearly perfect lightweight, easy to carry, with a basic, versatile load-out. FIXED-BLADE: Bark River Cub in black linen micarta and 3v. This is a nearly perfect do anything fixed blade. I love it and use it for everything from general camp use, to bushcraft and hunting/fishing. Keep up the good work!

Sir, I've worked my way through no small number of your presentations, and have to say---well done, love your work, your style, and (refreshingly for knife-o-phile channels) your choices. Cheers.

This is great, thank you! I was a tiny bit surprised that you picked that Spyderco above some others I've seen in your collection, but it is a gorgeous knife and the Delica is a classic pattern at this point. The Delica was one of the first knives I ever bought, back in the mid-90s. It had a basic combo blade with a black FRN handle and I adored it. I carried it everywhere, all the time. I would still have it, and still be carrying it, if it hadn't been stolen out of my car, literally the first night I spent in Seattle after moving across the country from Vermont. (Today I'd pick the plain blade just because it's easier to deal with and more useful to me, but otherwise I would welcome the exact same knife back into my life.) I couldn't help but notice that your final five includes variety not just in terms of brands, but also blade type. I have a pretty small collection right now (fewer than 10 knives, two of which are old Case knives my dad gave me when I was about 20), and I'm verrrrry gradually growing it. One of the things I'm thinking about as I shop is how I could use each different blade type I look at. So that's why I noticed this aspect of your final five. Anyway, thanks! I love your content, and I particularly love how you preemptively speak to the various critics and nitpickers by emphasizing that you're basing your content on your taste and experience.

Fun fact the Kershaw blur is a great knife to de- assist it is drilled to catch the detent ball on the blade and the action is pretty damn good

Watched to the end. Very entertaining. I have several of these, including 3 that made the finals. Couldn’t agree more on SR1 and Praxis. I will need to add a Delica and XM-24 to the collection in the future. Good stuff

Great video Metal! I stuck with you for the entire video! Great topic fascinating to watch you grind through your collection to make those five final choices! Love the final five!!

Your custom crooked river kept popping up to where I ordered mine finally. Went carbon fiber and sv90 with red details. In my pocket now and it’s awesome. Good news is took the over on all the hinderers making the top 10. Great video MC!

Very nice choices... Beater - Cold Steel Recon 1 / Cold Steel SR1 Lite Budget EDC - Ontario RAT 1 or 2 (D2) High End EDC - ZT 0562TI Gentleman's EDC - ZT 0452CF Safe Queen - Cold Steel Espada Large

Love your vids just got a Strider .75 AR and I love it. My safe queen came just the other day; a Shirogorov F95 SRB with black micarta inlays. Keep up the great work fellow Midwesterner!!!!

Wait what, a mini adamas in cruwear? Damn since I ordered my Sebenza 21 I thought my knife collection was complete, I need that adamas, damn Benchmade. Review that thing bro.

Great vid! Would like to see your take on best knives for first responders or military in multiple budgets. Most videos push cheap “tacticool” mumbo jumbo rather than the practical applications knives are actually used for.

Good elimination to final 5 I saw the cold steel and already knew it would be the beater by cost and design. I to was thinking in my collection that the cold steel Prolite's 1 Tanto and 1 Prolite sport clip point represent that budget beater knife and they were under 30 dollars. German 4116 steel and apparently they lmade a line change and went to AUS10 and made the knives considerably more expensive almost double so I have to agree with you on your choice of the SR1 but if still available I would still opt for the old Prolite's.

oooh, I spy a Delica Damascus, titanium scales? loverly. great idea for a video , I totally do this

Really enjoyed this exercise... looking at my collection, Beater, Ontario Rat 2, hasn’t been defeated yet Budget EDC, Civici Elementum (green micarta) Higher end EDC, Benchmade Mini Crooked River Gentleman, micarta/D2 CRKT CEO Don’t have a safe queen

I have quite a few beater knives (including the cs sr1 tanto) but I have been enjoying the sog seal xr more. I have beaten both up to no end and the SOG is no different from when I started

Beater : becker BK-2 (the definition of sharpened pry bar) Budget EDC : Civivi brigand copper/154CM ( okay its not $75... its $79.50, I'll use the change in my center console in my truck to make up the difference lol) High End EDC : CRK Umnumzaan Special occasion : Benchmade proper 318 sheepsfoot Brass/S90V Safe Queen : while I still use it (Alot), its gotta be BY FAR my most expensive knife. Shawn from TripleBhandmade, aka BBB, makes a belt knife his $1000+ Trapper in the extremely infamous CPM REX-121. The vast majority of my collection is Spyderco's in exotic steels... Maxamet (Sage-1) Rex45 (Shaman & Native Chief) K390 (Police 4, Endura, Endela, Delica & Dragonfly) LC200N (Spydiechef) S110V (Military) V-Toku 2 (Stretch 2) ZDP-189 (Stretch 2) 52100 (Military) M4 (GB-1 & GB-2)... thats just off the top of my head.... not to mention the EDC knives I got for my wife S90V (Native 5 Teal ) and my father CTS-XHP (Chaparral Birdseye Maple) Edit : Not to mention the Murray Carter kitchen knives in Aogami Super aka Super blue. I feel like there was a folder in Aogami super as well... I'll have to check case lol Favorite overall steel... Gotta be K390. M4, 52100, Rex45, LC200N are all definitely up there as well

7:20 I can relate and your explanation made me laugh out loud

Beater - Ontario Rat 1 Budget - Boker Kalashnikov High end - Shiogorov Hation Zero Safe Queen - damascus paragon phoenix Gentleman's carry - titanium delica

I have two knifes in my collection with a third scheduled for 2029. Benchmade mini Freek - freaky smooth and beautiful. 553-3 bugout, on the way. Randall Model 1 fixed blade 7 inch - 6 year wait but it is ordered.

I enjoyed this thought, here is my list. Wow this is hard! Beater- Ganzo FH41 Budget- Benchmade Bugout High End- Koenig Arius Gentlemen- Small Sebenza box elder burl Safe Queen- Holt Specter

You got me laughing through your pain when each knife gets removed from the table, only cuz I understand! Take care!

I’m a knife addict now. I stayed until the end. I have the mini crooked River and the Praxis with many more on the way. Keep up the great work!💪🏼👊🏼

Love this video concept! Great choices

Not what I expected you to pick but great selections! Now I really want to do this too. I’ll probably be making one of these videos in the next few days.

Great video. You have a great collection. I can see how hard it would be to get rid of any of them.

It's funny because that's what I do to keep my collection small. A beater, an edc, a fidget, a gentleman/office carry, and a fixed blade. Right now I have a qsp penguin, a Cruwear para 3, a GT recon 025, a Benchmade proper, and a bark river aurora 3V

Thanks for sharing your wife’s edc collection with us

Nice one, MC. I really enjoyed your reasoning on this one.

the ultimate folder/exacalibur is the hinderer fireatac triway battle black and i have one coming on monday!

I was so shocked when you pulled the shaman off the table lol... thought for sure it would be the high end edc. Cool video idea by the way! :)

Great vid buddy 👍 I'll take a shot at the open tag. Great options. I'll be waiting for the XM-24 if the time ever comes 😊👌

But would the AD-20 work if you needed a diving board? 🤔

Ok here's my guesses on what he'll pick: Beater: Rat 1 or Cold Steel SR1 Budget: Civivi Ortis or Praxis High End: Shaman, Para 3 Maxamet, or Socom Elite Gentleman: Dama Delica Safe Queen: Demko AD20 or an XM18

Hmm that civivi praxis is pretty awesome 👌 I dont own any civivi's but that one is certainly a contender 😀

Nice compelling video... watched it all... nice final five. Saving for a black Praxis... 😁

Great video! How about a Top 5 Truck/ vehicle knife list??

Beater: Rat 1, Budget EDC: Rat 2, 1 High End EDC Para 3, Gentleman's EDC SpyOpera, 1 Safe Queen Full size Sabenza (they really are like works of art). Add one more: Survival Folder that rivals fixed blades....Cold Steel Recon 1 Bowie Point, coated with partial serration. Rock solid Tri-ad monster.

I love my lightning otf as a daily beat-to-shitter. I have a job as a trim carpenter, so it gets used a lot for scraping drywall mud out of corners, and cutting back cardboard floor covering. Hasn't failed me yet! but if it does, I can just buy another for $30. I have the tanto version, with serrations.

What is that blue-handle model in the middle of the top row? Thank you.

I used to do this with handguns, good stuff! Also, you have a ninja suit? My respect for you has grown, lol!

Half expecting beater: Kershaw Cryo Budget: ZT0393 Nice EDC: XM18 3.5 Classy Carry: Half Track Safe Queen: XM18 Ti

All questions answered with a Microtech CT all day every day

How about "dress knife" or "Sunday knife" instead of "gentleman's knife".

Gentlemens carry makes gruff looking guys like me feel a little fancier Lol 😀 great video again Sir.

Awesome idea. Will get something out within the week. Have to note your un-intentional animal farm reference; ‘all the knives are excellent, just some knives are more excellent!’ And yep. Sit through the whole video, usually. Love them. All the eye candy, the agony of choosing which children to sell to science, oh, opps-wrong video. Choosing which knives to keep. Tough to do.

What do you think about s110v for edc use everyone keeps telling me it's super fragile and easy to break what do you think

I’m new to “the knife community” and this is a very educational video. Great content. Liked and subbed

This makes me glad I bought the knife joy delica. It's definitely an eye catcher

All good choices however for the gentlemans/ special occasions folder the best I have ever found other than customs is the Viper Dan2 in silver twill carbon fiber. It is a stunning warnclife.

That cold steel is a sweet looking knife. I may have to pick one up one of these days. I don't own any cold steel knives and I think this is the one I'd buy.

Me reading the title: The hinderers are going to be the last to go or theyre all gonna get picked Me at the end of the video: As expected

Glad you're liking the 392 so much!

Maybe your best show yet! Cool final five!

The ol case mid folding hunter is always a nice gentleman's piece. She's a beaut with thumb studs, a pocket clip, and well functioning liner lock. Pocket worn Caribbean blue stag gets me everytime.

Great list, cheers

your wife has superb taste , my all time favorite spydy im glad it made the cut because you obviously know a great knife good video mate

Beater: Victorinox hunter pro Budget edc: leather man skeletool Nice edc: spyderco shaman Special occasion benchmade 940 High end: Hinderer xm-18 3.5 recurve

Отличная коллекция! Класс!

Yep, that's how it is. You got your Para2... and you got all the other knives.

I don't think I could ever part from some knives without a good reason. I have a small collection of mostly beaters but especially gift knives would be with me forever even if I break them haha.

My ultimate knife I love is a 55 year old Buck 110 which I used twice in Viet Nam at bad breath distance when I was in town and Viet Cong were dressed as townspeople. We could not carry a fixed blade in town so my buck 110 was with me always. i had a machinist put a rudimentary stud to aid in one hand opening.

Kinda wanna do this with my collection but it just might drive me insane. Stuck till the end buddy. ✌

I agree with the SR1 pick for best beater, but I found myself pulling for the underdog Mora the whole video.

It's so hard for me to buy a Hinderer these days. I recently broke my $300 threshhold with my first Large Sebenza w/ Wood inlays... Naturally, I started looking at hinderers next... but damn... those asymmetric scales.... Paying that much money for a knife with G10.... I get that it's structurally sound, but holy shit, how can you not offer full TI on the regular? It makes me want to just buy a ZT Hinderer design, but then I'm so close to the price of a real Hinderer, I feel like an idiot for not just buying a Hinderer. So what do I do? I buy neither, and put in an order for a customer Sebenza. Lol.

Never paid much attention to the delica but that ti Damascus is pretty damn good looking

The hell hound could live in my bug-out bag! Usp penguin > toolbox knife the dark horse def needs to be on display I could find reasons for lots freakin beautiful knives

My Final 5 will be posted 28/03/2021, I’ll send the link along once it’s up!

Love all ur selection and reasons some u threw off I really do like

My #1 is Chris Reeve Small Sebenza Carbon fiber knifeart exclusive for it's fit n finish, weight, ease of carry, sexiness, cutting edge almost as PM2. Easy to disassemble n maintain and love the fact it can be sent in for washer / blade replacement in 15 years or more if ever necessary.

Dedicated!! Love the longness of the videos

Fantastic video keep it coming

All 5 opinel

All my knives over 100 bucks are my safe queens that I cherish and love love looove. When I carry anything over 100 bucks I've lost it twice now can't trust myself :(

@metalcomplex, I’m late watching this video and I have serious doubts that you will ever see this comment, but I just wanted you to know that it surprised me when you said that about most people dropping off before a certain point in your video. I say that because I don’t think anyone could have pried me away from my phone during this video because I was so dang interested! I love your videos and I appreciate the awesome content and information that you provide!!

I love this because i started doing this with mine. My fiance gave me a look when i said my damascus odium is my special occasion knife, shes just learning lol. I agree the para 3 is a grade A tool.

Very entertaining. Thanks.

Very entertaining video. Opened a 2007 Napa Cab from Shafer and grilled a pizza 😳. You know Complex, the more knives you buy the less you carry any one of them!!

MC, do you think that Hinderer will ever make a Black mirror polished blade ( spanto) 3.5 in for the XM-18 ? Now that would be a Hinderer I'd buy immediately 😀. Just a thought, thanks have a great night.

What is the cheapest Benchmade knife looking for one under 100 because my mom is going through gastroparesis wanna get medical bills are so high and she wants one but she's scared to spend a lot on them

Love your humor, especially when imitating commenters! Of course, my knife budget is VERY different than yours, and many others watching this. Right now, my beater is the Ontario Rat 2, my "high end" is a Spyderco Para 3 (although I think the Sage 5 is a legit contender, just don't own one yet), gentleman's is a Kizer Feist (love the front flipper), budget would probably be the CIVIVI Elementum (not mine, I bought it for my son's bd). Still searching for a "safe queen"...

Man I got to say you did a great job picking the 5 I know the last to was very hard I would have just had to go from 5 to 6 knife to keep lol

My budget beater is different then most, Blade HQ Exclusive Kershaw Cryo in D2, the heat treat must be about perfect. Holds and edge better then a lot of the “better” steels I have. Budget beater is all about performance in hard tasks. I cut stuff with it. I Would originally only cut with a utility knife. It gets a lot of use but no pocket time. It lives in the kitchen or toolbox.

Dude, I cant believe you got rid of the shaman and the Para 3.

Great picks. I have 4 of the 5. Not exact same hardware or blades but all the same.

This was awesome, love these collection scale-down/final 5 vids

18:45 still here bro 😎

Cool- rough! I have a much smaller collection but I understand 100%!

I love knives so I stayed until the end lol

How can you toss aside the Dark Horse?! 😢. It’s literally irreplaceable. Great video! Thanks!

I'm still attached to the dinner knives I used to hot-knife hash with

Good to see the Ria can be opened / Spydie flicked left handed. I’ve avoided this knife forever as I thought it was right hand only; seeing you Spydie flicking it now has me considering ordering one. How easy is it to Spydie flick it? You make it look effortless, but is it really that simple?

great content as always

Amazing how 3 years can go by!!!

Watched to the end. Love it.