The Reate Exo: The Smartest Dumb Knife Ever
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Today, we'll take a look at a knife that is extremely dumb for me in my daily knife, but is pretty smart nonetheless, the Reate Exo, and talk about the value of doing something off the beaten path as you're trying to gain marketshare and mindshare in a competitive market.
I think it's really important for companies like Reate who largely make knives for other people to do stuff that's just them showing off what their machines are capable of. The EXO is really cool and really impractical, but it gives Reate to show off "Hey, look what we can do for you"
I'm a knife nerd from China and there is actually a super-micro brand (and also their only product line) called "Exoskeleton" there. They mainly make utility knives with the same "gravity release tech" and I believe Reate Exo is licensed to use the design and hence the Exoskeleton Design logo there.
Also an interesting thing is, in China some call Exo the "Exoskeleton 4th Gen"(外骨骼4代) because those Exoskeleton guys have previously released three utility knives. I own them all including Exo.
Their "3rd Gen" in my opinion is the best because they included a reversible pocket clip which is actually quite similar to that of Lionsteel's Rok. When extracted (which usually happens when you clip it to your pocket), it prevents the two non-blade parts (excuse my English, as I have no idea how to address them) from opening and thus serves as safety. Quite a clever touch imo.
cool info man, thx for sharing!
Thanks my guy👍
Please tell me where I can buy this 3rd generation knife. I would really like to buy one. I found some videos of it, and it looks amazing! Are they still in production?
@@lordphilbert3838 Some dealers in Taobao (basically a Chinese Amazon equivalent) still have a small number in stock, but sadly I wonder if there's a reliable way for you to buy them overseas.
@@a1var32 what words exactly would I search on Taobao to find it? I keep finding the wrong generations. Perhaps there aren't any left
Now if only I could ever find them in stock so I can finish fleshing out my collection of mechanisms.
They seem to be made in batches. A local dealer might be able to order one for you from the factory to be made in the next batch. WeBeKnives in San Francisco can do it and mail it to you. And they'll let you pick the grip materials and colors and the blade shape and finish.
Got one at tactical elements last month. Tanto with brown micarta
I love collecting new and different opening/locking mechanisms
Good luck hunting, took me a year and finally got one from cranes cutlery as a limited release serialized limited run kinda thing, was prob $100 more than the standard
Daily carry co is making a pretty similar mechanism and I think they’re doing a batch either soon or now
Here in the UK, gravity knives were banned along with automatics back in 1958. There is no defence even to own it in your home. Even museums are banned from holding them. I tried to donate a WWII Luftwaffe one to a museum a few years back. Only the Royal Armouries in Leeds, England were able to take it. Even the RAF Museum and the Imperial War Museum couldn’t take it.
Is this because, in the 1950s, gravity knives went crazy worldwide and murdered many thousands of schoolchildren on their own or something?
Can somebody please explain the pathological hatred of tools by governments to me? I mean, explain it like I'm a sixth-grader, so I can understand it.
Knife laws never fail to baffle me. They're pretty egregious in the U.S. too. Knives are knives, the deployment mechanism doesn't make it more or less dangerous. There's arguments for "how fast you can deploy it" but really that doesn't somehow make it more dangerous.
@@derkaiser9881 no knife will ever be more dangerous than a fixed blade
@@cearealkiller5956 Exactly.
Ahh but in true UK fashion, you can own a sword so there ya go...
in my experience carrying one of these since October of 2021, pocket slip is indeed a good way to carry it. glad to see they are including them in the box these days vs the rigid kydex belt holster thing that it used to come with.
I have the great good fortune to live in a jurisdiction where it is legal to carry crazy stuff like the Reate Exo. I've put mine loose in my pocket many times and never felt like that was at all unsafe. I'm kinda building my collection around anything that isn't a frame lock or liner lock, and this is one of my favorites
“Is that a Reate Exo in your pocket or are you just happy and bleeding?” - Nick Shabazz 2022
I think its always good when knives like this get popular. Just as balisongs have become more popular it took away from the stigma and added to laws around them being loosened.
I hope more company's make gravity knives so that people can see there just a knife like all other knives.
Nick, off the video comment. I want to thank you for all your instructional videos on knife care. I pulled out my EDC today and realized it wasn't performing up to its usual. So I took it apart, cleaned a birdsnest of lint out and reassembled. It is snapping open, locking fully and back to its old self. Thanks again. Zolstu derlebn tsu firn dayne kinder un kindskinder tsu der khupe!
I'm honestly surprised you reviewed this but I'm glad you did. It's a really cool knife.
Pure mechanical artwork. I love it and want one.
the sound is so satisfying
I’ve got 40+ knives that can meet my daily needs. The Exo meets my need to enjoy the the fact that it’s mine. Everyone that sees it, loves it. My ProTech SnG operator and MicroTech Combat Troodon DE half serrated get the same reactions. Daily use tools they aren’t, but my God do I love ‘em.
I have to admit I have three of them (double edged, drop point and tanto, all green micarta so it's a matching set). In my set, the double edged one has the best action. It's both more and less practical than you think.
I use a leather pocket slip when I carry it.
would you possibly entertain trading the tanto knife you own ?, i have blades/etc for trade here, let me know , thanks > tom !
I just watched a video of you disassembling this knife and cleaning it. I am a big fan of your work Gilbert Gottfried! Nice to see you in the knife community!
Incorporating some kind of lock switch on the opening mechanism shall be great for pocket carry and can open the avenue for inclusion of a pocket clip too.
It astonishes me how a politician can know nothing and ruin it for everyone.
I have the purple haze, double edge version from SMKW. Absolutely love it. I had Lancelot Leather make a custom leather sheath for it. He did an amazing job and it is way better than the one that comes in the box. I highly recommend this knife, but I also highly recommend that you get a custom sheath made if you want to carry it.
I want that purple
A. You're right. That's a cool knife
B. Idk why, but your manner of speaking is very fun to listen to
I have a double edged Exo and yeah its bit me pretty good a few times. Its a really fun fidget toy, but otherwise it just sits in a drawer most the time because its not a knife you'd want to carry as you said, and my wife yells at me when I play with it because its so dang loud
It's the knife every wife will learn to hate - LOL
Lots of people carry them
@@michaelvoorhees5978 Bro, you carry a kitchen knife.
Got one of these a few months back and I love it. It's fun to find new ways to deploy it, and no accidents yet. 🤞
I've carried the knife tip-up without the sheath. However, I usually carry the knife tip-down in the sheath. I cut off the leather belt loop. The Exo is a knife for an intermediate user (just like the Subvert. LOL). But mostly, it is a stay-at-home fidgetter (the equivalent of a high-end fisheye photography lens).
"I appreciate your fear." Haha that was a good one, my man😂👍🏻
They listened to you and fixed most of the problems! With the reate exo-M
This is a knife that one acquires because of the engineering. I have a Paragon Warlock another type of gravity knife by Asheville Steel that operates by centripetal force which makes it swing open and shut much like a balisong. Once I saw the opening and closing characteristics I just had to have on. Totally impractical and multiple felonies in my state with respect to blade length, being a gravity knife, and both edges sharpened.
I'm glad these were out of stock forever every time I tried to buy one because the Exo-M with the blade lock and clip is a huge improvement and basically makes this version obsolete I think the blade shapes are better as well
As an Australian we can’t get automatics especially otf ones this thing is selling like hot cakes one of the few otf’s we can get ❤
The latest versions have a pocket clip and a locking mechanism so that these CAN be carried safely. I just picked one up myself, with a Tanto blade. VERY cool!
I did a search to see why gravity knives are illegal in so many places and was unable to find any realistic answers. Those laws are dumb.
Years ago when I was younger I had a silver gravity knife that I lost and havnt been able to find out exactly where to get another one like it. It was silver and thin and had a little spring button you held down on the side and flicked your wrist to let gravity extend the knife otf. To put it back in you just depressed the button and it would fall back down into the grip . It was definitely different from these modern ones!
Maybe he will offer you to test a Milwaukee hardline knife made of D2 steel. It is certainly an interesting option for people who use a knife as a tool at work and not just for collection.
It will probably never be in my pocket but the fidget factor & that wonderful noise it makes has kept mine on the side table next to the recliner for six months now. The only thing that has been there longer is a McGinnis.
10:24 there is actually a subtle way to open it… put your pointer finger or pinky in the notch at the end of the rail. It eliminates almost all of the sounds because the little oval thingy hits flesh instead of metal. I personally like the action, but agree it could be better.
Side note, I find the fact that you can slide the blade a quarter inch out, squeeze the 2 different parts of the handle together, and even though it’s not fully locked in place still use the knife to open packages without worrying about slashing what’s inside the package an amazing unadvertised feature.
I’m sure it generated a lot of traffic to the Reate booths at the knife shows which in turn led to increased sales of many of their models.
I just bought it because 1 reason I do not have a gravity knife and i want one in my collection and this is the one that fits in well.
You sound like the guy who narrated the cricket in times square, weirded me out so much 🤣
Nick: there aren't many gravity knives recently
Nick I've been telling you to look at the Paragon Warlock and Phoenix for years
Those have been around for quite some time and I’m sure Nick probably doesn’t count them in “recently”
@@shadowcastyt a Phoenix was my first big knife purchase so I wanna hear his thoughts. They're only like 7 years old tho so not new but not antique.
I guess it's cool as a curio, but I don't see why someone would want this instead of a modern OTF (Microtech, etc.) I guess you could argue there's less to break (no springs), but then you should just get a fixed blade (which are also not illegal...)
EDIT: I also wonder how easily you can pinch the inner flesh of your palm or fingers in that mechanism. I'm imagining that thing as a blood blister machine, haha.
This is the most exciting knife in a long while. I love it.
it's one of my favorite desk knives - super fun to play with and perfectly capable of opening boxes
Good call. It’s a “desk knife” 👍
8:48
"is that A BALISONG!!!???"
true story, that's exactly what a coworker said when he sees my leatherman.
It does make the Wolverine snikt sound 😮
Looks like an amazing fidget
Price, reasonable, but eek for me
I just got a flame anodized with shred carbon fiber from true talon in Australia
Very cool review. They are making a new one with a lock. I really want it.
Getting so sick of UA-camrs lying about how much they appreciate us yet won't reply to comments.... they appreciate the money we make them. That's all....
Hi, it's me, replying. I do appreciate you!
i would love to see some strong magnets in the handles as a detent to hold the handles together. would probably make it more pocket friendly.
I want to see a mini version
These are illegal to carry in France because you can release and secure the blade with one hand (also the blade is a few millimeters too long)
I would add some safety button as the blade can easily deploy itself inside of your pocket
Great review! Interesting knife and absolutely illegal to possess let alone carry in my area. Sigh
You make feel better about not being able to afford it. Thanx
Yaaaass I wanted to see your review of this knife!
Thanks for an interesting talk on design concepts.
Great video!
Side note... you'd make a hell of a Lion King Timone!
This video is probably so informative but I cant get over the fact you sound like an Italian mobster in a Disney movie
Just ordered one from Smokey mountain
Same here. Suppose to be here wed.
Cant wait!
O, no.
The "How to disassemble and maintain the Z-Hunter" video popped up in my recomended...
Flashback, I sure.
This reminds me of how the blade in Dishonored works.
Really cool knife
As a Reate dealer I have to say Nick made some excellent points about the EXO. I think most customers are buying it as gravity knives are rarely made; and it's a super fidget toy. Reate have once again thought outside the box with a very different knife.
I would not have people at shows playing with an EXO as they want to wrist flick it out which is a danger to themselves and other people next to them.
Demand for the EXO is still off the chart - even with Reate literally making thousands of them in the past year.
By any chance do you know if these are legal in California? I cant imagine they are but I’d like to know from someone who is knowledgeable about these
@@lukehall1205 We have shipped a lot of EXOs to California from Australia and they all made it through US Customs. A quick Google search shows that they appear to be perfectly legal to own in California. But you would want to check with your local law enforcement. They might have a completely different viewpoint.
@@lukehall1205 Falls under the category of gravity knife. Check you local laws regarding gravity knives. Delaware is only one explicitly banning the ownership of gravity knives. Its legal to own in Cali, Carrying it may be a different story though.
i own the dagger version and as long as you put it tip up it wont open
Prosecutorial overreach is right, had a damn mini crooked river and a para 3 seized because CBSA thought they were the same as this, and there's nothing I can do about it.
Feel your pain brother. I only order from W&W or HoK now to avoid the Border Notzes.
Apparently, a Kizer Geniw is a “centrifugal knife” as well…. 🙄
@@doogsm6013 yea I've been meaning to try out W&W, DLT just had me because of Sezzle. I've seen HoK but never actually checked them out, thank you
@@Ravenankh they got you too eh. ever since they banned guns us knife guys have gotten shafted
I just got one from smkw in 3v and a Mars valley fat carbon inlay
Got one that has the ironwood awesome knife definitely turns heads
I love my exo mine was made 08/2022 and is number 299 if I carry it it's in the leather sheath just in my pocket
I can a kydex sheath being perfect for this.
Just paid 430.00 for one.. "Its a thing of beauty"
+275 that this knife is in John Wick 4.
I haven't heard the phrase "happy and bleeding" since the PJ Harvey days.
The sheathe is a nice touch. Better than the chunky kydex and tek lok mine came with
If they ever do a version with a spring loaded safety latch and a clip, I can see big things
They did it. Exo-M
I really don't understand gravity knives. It seems more cumbersome and less sound than traditional knives. Is it just the cool factor?
Is that a balisong?? No Edna!
Is Edna from the lunchroom related to good ole' Erma from the lunchroom?
Sisters.
Do you think if you put a wide stout rubber band around the front of the frame/handle, it'd be more functional? It couldn't open accidentally but you could easily overcome the strength of the band
That would be the perfect solution. I'd use a slice of a bicycle inner tube, that way the rubber would be very thin in profile, be as strong as you want it (by slicing it down till it had the perfect tension), and be pretty rot proof. And if it did fail, you have dozens left on the inner tube to make more.
@@jeffreybarton1297 that's a great idea
@@null-xf9pd Looks like both of us are on top form 😊 I'm in the UK, sadly, which means I'll never have one. Maybe I'll try and make one at some point. A very rough, 'prison grade' one 😄
I would love that knife but gravity knives are just plain illegal to even own here...
DREAM knife, not a chance where I live!!
All the best!!
Shout out to Al Bundy and his magazine of choice.
I see Nick was a fan.
Nick with genius "gravity" pun. 😄
I started watching you for the TSA Confiscated lot videos, and later the Crappy knives videos, I would be interested in seeing another TSA lot video, but I understand if you don't want to do them...
The blade is too slow to deploy because of the friction. Gravity knives which spin the blade out is better because there is less friction in the pivot.
You do not need to just drop it to open. You have to understand "gravity" means. You can also defy the gravity by swing upwards or sideway, any direction to open. Try to learn some technique of gravity knife.
bloody magnificent voice
Review a Bohdan Gravity if you can find one
This knife is actually better to lend out to others than any other knive.
The amount of people I had to explain a liner lock to is just ridiculous. Even had a few people break the opinel ring safety. Lol
So this one is foolproof
I once left my pocket knife at work. Called my manager who was still at work to keep in the cupboard in the office so I can pick it up when I come in the day after. Picked it up and I was opened. Asked him why he didn't close it, and he said that he didn't know how even though it was just a liner lock.
lol non knife people 🤔🤨😐🙄🤫😁🤷♂️
Wow I feel stupid that I just spent over $500 dollars on a Compoform V3 segahai patterned fidget slider...wow.
100000000000% agreed, make something weird/unique/innovative even in a small way and you will likely get someone's attention.
I think that Artisan butterfly/auto thing while goofy and dangerous if it were live, it's definitely different and kind of fun to mess with (having a bottle opener unlike any other someone has ever seen is probably a bonus at a bar or party, too)
If you pocket it tip up it should be fine. Though, still wouldn't want it rattling around in my pocket like that.
To hell with Edna in the lunchroom and anyone else who is scared of a knife or anything else and thinks because they don't like it you shouldn't have it.
These anodize well, but lose color at all the rub spots.
Cool for the sake of cool is always cool!
i really want this knife where can i get one
Reate just built it but the exo is designed by exoskeleton knives.. he can be found on Instagram by same name
Look I like knives but I’m not paying that price for a knife I can’t even carry. EVEN IN TEXAS bruh.
Where and how do i get the OG reate exo?
no lock?
Damn, Nick should have been the voice of Mario in the Mario movie.
*Edna?* --- Irma must've taken early retirement after all the knifeplay at work.
When will these be available again?
Looks really cool!
could they not have a tip-up pocket clip?
I'm going to get one for that price!