Latest Shift Briefing - 04/05/2026
Good morning,
Believe me when I say I recognize it’s a holy holiday so I’ll be brief. If you’re reading this today at all, I’m grateful you saw fit to do so.
Along with the obligatory Joe Ledger restock (FYI: sometimes it’s one knife. Sometimes it’s more. Why would I tell you how many I have in stock? Assume it’s only one and buy it. This time it’s only one.) I have two pieces to offer you all on this beautiful Easter Sunday.
A luxuriously appointed Echo wearing faceted burgundy canvas micarta and white liners, classed up even further by a pair of copper tubes and a GLORIOUS free-hand-ground fuller down the blade. It is worth reiterating that despite its size, this model is exceptionally light and lithe. There are very few full tang fixed blades on the market like it.
A sojourn with some western-European attitude has also arrived on scene, maximizing a vintage duty aesthetic with OD green scales, black liners, and aged brass hardware. This particular knife has the “silence” texture applied to the scales as well as the flat forward coke-bottle facets. Hot spots? No. As grip-positive as I’m capable of making a knife? Absolutely.
For the sake of brevity, that’s all. I’m taking next weekend off to do some hiking and see a couple of shows at Red Rocks so any order taken between now and then will have a minimum two-week lead time. Keeping all of this in mind, please enjoy the remainder of your weekend and charge head first into your Monday like you know you’ve already won. Happy Easter, my friends.
Christ is King,
-Alex
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