The Smoothest Switchblades Ever? | Knife Banter Ep. 55

I'm sitting down with Andy from Guardian tactical and we're going to look through some of their knives talk a little developed where they come from what they're doing and what we can expect in the future we're kind of keeping to ourselves right now if you [Music] hey guys that can play THQ here at blade show 2018 and I'm sitting down with Andy from Guardian tactical husband dad are you good good and we're gonna look through some of their knives talk a little bit about where they come from what they're doing and what we can expect in the future so let's start with where'd you guys come from because you guys kind of come out of left field at least for me kind of came out of left field you're kind of a new thing for me well My partner and I have been in the industry for probably about 12 years worth of experience between us he's on the CNC side of things I'm on the design and engineering side of things so we kind of discussed it for a while about starting a company and then eventually just it just came that we should do that and we had ideas that we wanted to bring to life and and so we did it on that's awesome so did you guys move into like an old machine shop or do you guys just go big well actually my family owned a building which really helped us out and having me empty at the time we we bought a lot of equipment CNC Mills grinders the whole nine yards before we ever made a knife basically open the doors and we started going there you go I like it I like it now these Knights here these kind of what helped you get off the ground or is it is there anything else I hope to get off the ground we did a collaboration with our works on a chain 9 okay MRX line so they had the idea for the chain and spring and that mechanism I finished up the engineering on the knife and then we can went into full production on that right away and then after that we started doing our carbon fiber folders in our folder line and kind of did it all as one big mix cool well if you guys have been paying attention to blade HQ you know that we've been really crushing on the Guardian tactical your recon you know - yeah yeah so let's look at that first sure so the the the recon is a little bit different the OTF world the locking mechanism is off to the side of the blade instead of inline with the blade a lot of the mechanisms have parts that actually drag under spring pressure on the blade so slow them down things like that ours is all off to the side and so the blades are free-floating in the handle they drop and they come out really really easy the other kind of unique part would be the plate in the bottom of the button it's a hardened steel it separates the button from the handle you don't get to wear through the anodized that you typically get there's three ceramic balls pressed into the button so you actually apply a lot of down pressure on the knife when you're opening these you can really push hard on this and it doesn't make it any harder to actuate yeah and this has been something this is the reason that I think almost everybody at ladies queue right now is playing with a guardian tuck Yeah right is because they're so smooth yeah they are and we actually we've actually thought about like taking it apart and taking a picture of those those ceramic bearings in there but they're so small and they're just so precise that there's no way we could show people you know what it is really you have to handle it yeah you know that's it's got a great feel to it that's great cool and we've got a couple different variations of that we've got a partially serrated one here and then and all a fully coated one and then there is there's a satin one as well I don't think we have the settles down wash because it's go and wash that's right done wash and dark stone washed I'll just let this model yeah all right now you mentioned carbon fiber folders so what do we have in the folders range here our helix nano and it started with our helix full size same knife just larger this is the smaller version this was in been in production for probably about two years now our newest model is the occipital which we just got the blade this year these the first models some hand-ground customs polished hardware and then we have our production version of that knife same finishes these are basically our general finishes our two-tone black dark stone wash and stone wash yeah and so yeah that's this knife new liner lock a little bit different than what we did in the past a lot of our models are probably gonna switch over to this design gives you kind of a cleaner look on the outside keeps everything concealed for sure and what lovely still nice CPM 154 is is what we're using on everything right now I actually like CPM one that before myself especially if the heat treats done correctly right it makes it makes for great field sharpening yes and I'm so hard on mine I'm just a jerk with my knives yeah so I'm always chipping like that's 30s and stuff so I really like to CPM it's nice cuz people can touch them up on their own exactly much trouble yeah I like that a lot all right so we touch these two what's the story with this guy here this is the context we started last blade show last year we released these just another production knife this is kind of taken to place for for the time being we'll probably come back out with this later on down the road but for right now we're kind of going to focus on our three main folders the helix the helix nano and the occipital bring the new exhibit well this is some really great stuff now obviously people can find these at ladies to calm do you guys have anything new in the works anything said you want to tell anybody or you keep all the secrets we're kind of keeping to ourselves right now if yes but we have lots of plans for these and I like to hear it I like to hear wonderful well guys that's all we've got from Guardian tactical today but that's not all the lady skew house for you make sure to check out our other blade show - 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Length: 5min 58sec (358 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 06 2018