Hey, everybody, Rick here. And welcome to another edition of getting to the point. And we're we're trying to soak up as many of these fall days as possible. We're just starting into the fall foliage around here in Northeast Ohio. So the other reason why I wanted to do it outside is because we're doing another blade style that's kind of, uh, more of a hunting type blade, um, that I designed a few years ago called the Skinner Blade. And, um, so I wanted to discuss that, that blade style with you all, especially the beginning of, uh, I know Ohio. We're right into right into deer season, uh, bow hunting. And I'm sure a lot of other places around the United States are into the hunting seasons. And even though a lot of you don't hunt, um, there's a lot of aspects of the Skinner Blade that I think you'll find very useful. That really came from the heritage of, uh, of the Old West, the old frontier days when, um, it was it was really part of survival is being able to dress out your game, um, and, uh, and feed your family. So with that, let's get right into it. So again, the Skinner Blade, kind of it's, uh, it came from, uh, you know, more of the, like I said, the frontier days. And let me let me first show you exactly. This is the XM-18. Uh, this is actually a three and a half inch skinny skinner and some of the attributes of the blade style. Um, I can kind of go over to, uh, show you, uh, where they came from and the usefulness, especially from a dressing game. The the front of the blade is probably the most recognizable as a as a skinning type blade or a Skinner blade. And what they use that for was to was either caping out, um, their game or actually skinning after after they harvest the, uh, the animal, then they would you would have to obviously skin and the long swooping up front of the blade really worked great for keeping that precise cut when you're caping or when you're when you're skinning out the animal. It's really you want a lot of that cut into, uh, into that area and the front part of the blade, usually it's pretty wide. And that again, that's for that control. That's where that control that you want in that cut. And obviously back in the frontier days and on and going on through the late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds, a lot of pocket knives had have Skinner style blades, but most of them were synonymous with like, kind of like your butcher knives. A lot of butchers use that type of a of a blade profile. So years ago when I decided to, uh, to do a blade where we had some of the characteristics of a skinner, but at the same time, this is an EDC knife. This is a knife that you're going to carry and use every day. So how does that how does that transfer over into a a folding knife. Well, when, when I, when I first started designing it out again I wanted that that reinforced that that that wider tip, wider front end of the blade. So I can get a lot of swooping angle. Uh, you can see that's right here a lot of swooping angle to that tip. And again, it's for those really fine cuts where you want a lot of the edge into the material. Maybe not as much as some of the other blade styles. This blade style, you're going to have a little more edge into whatever you're cutting. And that could go that could be very useful for a lot of different projects. Um, so, or things that you're using out in the field or wanting to cut out in the field, it's really a pretty useful, uh, useful cutting edge. And I left, uh, again, skinning type knives have this I would call it kind of like a bulbous type front part of the blade. And, um, so what I did was I kind of replicated that here with this nice swoop up to give it a really nice curve, and then it accumulates at the edge or at the top part of the blade to give it that nice downward slope to the very front. And again, that's uh, that will make it really useful for being able to to get those precise cuts. Okay. Let's talk about the efficiency of this design of the Skinner design when it pertains to the XM eighteen or some of my, uh, my other models. Uh, we have this in XM-18 3.5", the XM-24 and XM-18 3". Uh, so there's, uh, there's a few different models that we have the Skinner. And so the differences in why why you would want to choose the Skinner profile over like the drop point. Uh, the drop point is kind of close to it or the slicer. There's a few things that make this a little bit different. Especially like the slicer. The slicer is a great, uh, a great blade style and blade grind. Um, but this one's going to have a little bit more toughness on the tip. So if you're, if you're going to be cutting, Uh, using cutting tasks, say, cutting through leather. Craftsman really like this style of blade for, um, you know, like, especially leather makers and, and, uh, things like that to where if you're going to be using it to cut heavier material, uh, where you want more of the edge into the cut. This is going to be a great night for that. A great profile for that. Whereas, like the slicer, you may not have as much of a of a front tip, um, toughness for really getting into some of those long cuts. And if you're an outdoorsman, it's a perfect blade. It's a perfect blade style. So my take on the Skinner style blade and why, why did I want to design it? Why did I think, hey, you know, there's a need for this style of blade. When I had some of the other styles already out there, and honestly, I was thinking, I was thinking more about the the hunter, um, the elk hunter out west. Uh, the whitetail hunter in Ohio, what can they what can they use that would they could get the most out of their folding knife. Uh, for dressing out their harvested game. And that really drove me to this blade style. And again, it's a it's a very versatile. It's a really versatile blade style that not only is good for hunters, uh, and, uh, outdoorsman and what they want in a, in a good carry knife, but also the everyday person. I think there's a lot of attributes to this blade style that the everyday carry individual would find very helpful. So it's not just for hunters, it's it's really for everybody who wants a really good sturdy blade that has a nice sloping angle, uh, for whatever cutting tasks they're going to, they're going to do. So, guys, in closing, I'd like to mention to you again, this is actually the skinny Skinner. So it's a skinny version of our regular XM eighteen three and a half inch, and it has a little bit less blade thickness as the regular XM-18. Uh, which really the skinny series really makes a very comfortable carry knife. And, uh, the reason I mentioned that is because one of our great friends and dealers, USA, made blade down in Salisbury, North Carolina. They just got Scott just got a batch of these in, get Ahold of USA made blade and be sure to pick yours out.