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Aug 29, 2026

Douglas KatzGUEST
8:03
So if you were to take this knife and in a way bend it on itself, you would have this, which actually is patterned after a knife that was used in the Inuit culture in Northern Canada, Alaska, that area, called the ulu.
Douglas KatzGUEST
8:19
And the ulu was the everything knife.
Douglas KatzGUEST
8:22
We deem this the new Ulu.
Douglas KatzGUEST
8:23
This is the evolutionary movement of the Ulu.
Douglas KatzGUEST
8:26
But what's also cool is you can chop this way because there's good alignment.
Douglas KatzGUEST
8:31
This is sort of a hammer movement, but the force of this is going here.
Douglas KatzGUEST
10:40
The knights believed in a connection.
Douglas KatzGUEST
10:43
I believe in some cultures in Africa, there's the Ikwa, I think is the...
Douglas KatzGUEST
12:19
it N-U-L-U? It is.
Douglas KatzGUEST
12:22
It is short for the new Ulu.
Douglas KatzGUEST
12:25
And I could talk a little bit about that, but you pronounced it perfectly.
OkoroHOST
12:29
Okay, so can you like share some light on Nulu? Something about it, just show it to us today.
Douglas KatzGUEST
13:24
And the blade is fine for cutting, but it's secondary.
Douglas KatzGUEST
13:28
The knife is a multitasker.
Douglas KatzGUEST
13:31
and the secondary tasks are doable but they're less efficient what we did with Nulu is we patterned it after the Ulu knife and the Ulu knife is an Inuit knife it's a knife that has a crescent blade on the bottom and a handle directly above the blade so you know think of a crescent shape with a handle straight above it you got an Ulu and it's a great knife it it is super efficient It is intuitive to use and it was the woman's knife in Inuit culture.
Douglas KatzGUEST
13:57
And they did anything from skinning an animal to preparing a meal to cutting hair.
Marc CameronGUEST
36:20
Sorry, I get to talking.
Samantha TennantHOST
36:23
Well, and I'm curious, simply because being in Alaska, do your collection of knives also include various Ulu knives?
Marc CameronGUEST
36:31
No, I guess I probably have.
Marc CameronGUEST
36:33
So my wife's got two on the counter.
Joe ScalesHOST
14:56
The, the knife that I can't remember the name.
Elle ScalesHOST
14:58
Ulu.
Joe ScalesHOST
14:59
U- Ulu.
Joe ScalesHOST
14:59
Yeah, the Ulu knife.
Joe ScalesHOST
15:01
Um, I got a whole history on that.
Joe ScalesHOST
15:04
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