This is Undaunted Life a Man's Podcast.

I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.

Let's get into it.

All right, guys, welcome to this special episode today.

So I need to give the groundwork for you a little bit.

I need to go back in the past.

So for a few years now, we've been wanting to do a collaboration knife.

So we've had kind of some loose, you know, loose, you know, not really sponsorship deals, but we had some loose relationships with some great knife makers from all over the United States. We've had some of them on the show. But I always wanted to collaborate on like designing a knife that was like for undaunted life. But, you know, it goes like when you're doing work and with us, you know, we're doing this podcast. I've got the Daily Blade. We've got all the other things going on. It was like, okay, we can't just, you know, seek it out and make that our full-time deal. But a few months ago, my buddy Wes Huff, he posted that he was releasing this sword and then he was releasing a gladius and another thing with a company called dawson knives.

And so I hadn't heard of Dawson Knives before.

I mean, there's tons of knife

companies out there. But Dawson Knives I came to find out is an American company that only uses

American labor and American source products. And literally everything that they build when they build

a knife or a sword or something like that is made here in

America. And so I said, hey, Wes, you know, would you, you know, introduce me to these guys.

I'd love to at least have a relationship with them and, you know, maybe we could work something out. So he introduced me to their guys over there and introduced me to Andrew, who's his creative director. and so what happened was is he and I just hopped on a call and he was kind of talking to me about the work that he does with Dawson and, you know, kind of what Dawson's done, how they've been around since the 70s. And I was kind of describing undoneed life. And I said this in my interview with the CEO of Dawson Knives, John Roy. You can check that out. That came out in the episode right before this one. But it was like a word popped into my head, right? And I feel like God literally like put that word there because it doesn't happen very often like that for me anyway. And it was Nehemiah. And you guys know I love the book of Nehemiah. I feel like people don't study it nearly enough. And I especially love in Nehemiah 4 when it talks about how the people that were working to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, they had their working tool in one hand, but they stood ready with their fighting tool and the other. That was kind of like the visual that you were given because there were people that didn't want them to finish the wall, right? And so they were ready to throw down if they needed to. And so I was like, what if we like came together, like what if we made a knife that could do a bunch of different things. That could check a bunch of different boxes. It wouldn't just be a hunting knife

or just be an EDC knife. like what if we made a knife that could do a bunch of different things that could check a bunch of

different boxes it wouldn't just be a hunting knife or just be an edc knife or just be survivalist

or just be culinary but that it could like check multiple boxes and so i pitched it to them they

loved the idea dossin you know checked out our our ministry and they were you know at least somewhat

aware of us at that point and then we started working on actually doing a knife together. And so we talked a little bit about that process yesterday on that episode or the previous episode that we did with John Roy, who's the CEO. But then we got to the design process. They sent me a bunch of knives so I can kind of handle them. And I'm like, okay, well, this one may be a little bulky for what we're wanting to do. Okay, this one might be a little bit small. Let's kind of check out a few different ones. And what we knew we wanted to do and what I knew I wanted this knife to be able to do. I wanted you to be able with one knife to be able to skin an animal, maybe even like kill an animal if you're killing like a gator or a hog. I wanted it to be a survivalist tool, right? So I wanted you to be able to use it if

you were like batonning or doing anything out in the field. I wanted it to be able to check that box. So it need to be sturdy, rugged. EDC. So if you wanted to carry it on you, depending on your job, and if you have an ulti clip, you can kind of carry it deep in a pocket. I wanted it to be able to to be a knife for that as well, but also a fighting knife. So a lot of guys carry, you know,

folding pocket knives. That's not necessarily a knife for that as well, but also a fighting knife. So a lot of

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