What's Your “When the Sh*t Goes Down” Folder?
What's Your “When the Sh*t Goes Down” Folder?
Check out my list on Wednesday on the mid-week supplemental podcast
In contemplating which folders I’d want on me when the “Sh*t Goes Down” - this week’s mid-week podcast topic - I came to one surprising conclusion.
The list of 10 knives featured on this week’s Mid-Week Supplemental Podcast (going live on Wednesday, Sept. 6) was replete with wharncliffes, recurves, and pocket-snagging wave features, as you might expect.
But one knife even surprised me when it popped up on my own list. For one, it’s from Kershaw Knives, and two, it’s not what we might normally think of as practical.
I bet you guessed which knife I’m talking about, but if not, I’m talking about the Kershaw Lucha balisong, or butterfly knife, so-named due to the independently swinging handles, which loosely resemble the wings of a butterfly.
The Lucha has steel handles and a wicked 4.5” 14C28N stylized clip point blade—and from the perspective of this old GenXer, it also flips like a dream… not sure what the Bali-Boiz think though.
So why would the Lucha be on my list of folders to have on me when the “Sh*t Goes Down?”
Familiarity. I have been flipping open butterfly knives for fun or use since middle school in the 1980s.
I am no fancy pants when it comes to my bali flipping, I don’t have tricks or stunts, but I do have four really effective and prudent ways of opening a Balisong.
Two of those techniques focus on opening and deploying the blade as quickly as possible and the other two include more motion that allows the free handle to be used as a blunt striking instrument.
So even though flipping, flicking and waving open folding knives has become central to my being a knife junkie the last 15 years, flipping open butterfly knives is an even deeper part of my knife collecting epigenetics.
Trust the science.
Knife Junkie Out
P.S. Happy Labor Day!
Ben Belkin, Jack Wolf Knives - The Knife Junkie Podcast (Episode 444)
Ben Belkin, founder/creator of Jack Wolf Knives, joins me on Episode 444 of The Knife Junkie Podcast.
Ben got his first knife from his grandfather, after whom he’d later name his knife company, Jack Wolf Knives. His design philosophy is not to reinvent the wheel, rather deliver an awesome and enhanced wheel.
Find Jack Wolf Knives online at www.jackwolfknives.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/jackwolfknives. Find Ben on Instagram at www.instagram.com/BennyB357.
Like you, my choice comes down to familiarity as well. For me, it's the easy-to-access flip of the thumb Spyderco. It's been my go-to brand for twenty seven years now, even making it a staple in my gritty Crime Thriller series.