Knife Chat: Slicing to the meat of all things sharp

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Oh, I never said I'd buy it.

There's a bunch of knives I like the looks of, but probably never will buy.

My days of buying knives just because they looked neat are long over. Now they have to look neat and be functional in order for me to buy them. And I also tend to watch a bunch of reviews before I buy a knife now as well.

That's one of the few reasons I'm glad YouTube exists.

[flybynight]

I remember several years ago Wally World sold a frame lock knife for $1.  That's right, a hundred pennies.  I knew it had to be crap but forgive me, I had to know.  I just had to know.  So I bought it.  Shocker, but it was every bit as shitty as you would imagine a one dollar knife to be.  If it were the only blade you had in a survival situation, it would actually decrease your chances of getting home alive.

Just looking at some of the Mtech models on Amazon, I get the sense they aren't far behind.  And I hear what Chimp is saying about form over function.  Most of those Mtechs seem to be designed to appeal to a 14 year old with a very unsophisticated sense of what makes a knife "cool". 

My only remaining question is this: why the hell did NT2C buy it again?  Feel free to use the excuse I had for the $1 Walmart special, NT2C.  Sometimes you have to buy something out of a peverse sense of curiosity.  To see if there's any possibility it could be worth even the low price they're charging for it.  But at a certain point you just have to assume that no, you cannot make a quality knife for $1 or even $10.

I've bought three M-tech knives. And all three are better than decent. 

I bought this when I was playing with fixed blade pocket carry.  It keeps an edge well and the handle gives a better grip than a lot of these smallish blades.


Another of the EDC pocket carry fixed blades.  None of the blades I tried with this carry method worked. I  just have too much in my pockets, This Knife is quite sturdy also. It ended up as my youngest daughters vehicle knife. She likes it still. Two years later ,it still keeps a good edge. This knife has quite a following




Ah HA . The knife too good to be delivered to NT2C. Moab and I have discussed it a couple times.
This Knife is a  beast. Holds edge reasonably well. Sharpens easy. Perfect beater knife  . . could probably baton a redwood with it. It's in my GHB

 Ok I lied . When I looked up these knives in my orders list . I saw I actually have bought four



Ok I'm not proud of this one. Holds an edge. Not very comfortable in the hand. Kinda the High Point of Mtech knives. It works . Pretty fugly. My son keeps it in his GHB. 

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[JeeperCreeper]

I also have that third Mtech knife.

With some work with a kitchen pull thru sharpener, I was actually impressed.

I think it uses a 440-ish steel.

Great beater, it was my Jeep knife in Pennsylvania 

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I may have found a sort of fix for the MTech folder from hell.

I decided to experiment a little with the pivot and I swapped the MTech pivot with one from a Frost Cutlery folder.

The Frost Cutlery pivot fit with a little help from a plastic spacer I picked up from who the hell knows where. It's still a little hard to open, but not nearly as bad as it previously was.

It'll still be a part of my collection, but it likely won't see any kind of use.

Another thing I noticed is the flipper tab is a bit short and if it were just a bit longer, it'd give the user a bit more leverage in order to successfully deploy the blade more consistently.

Even putting something like a thumb stud on it would help.

[JeeperCreeper]

Sharpened up my knock-off Mora, the Jellas.

Got it reasonably sharp. But truly, it's no mora companion.

Not a bad knife, and still a great bargain. But, the mora is better and worth the few bucks more.

[Lodewijk]

Got in my Tops MSK. I don't normally care much about EDC knives if they aren't SAKs but I really love this one.

Carrying for a week or so. Tried with an Ulticlip but wearing it as a neck knife under a flannel shirt has been best.

Spendy at a hundred bucks but I've done a lot of stuff with it so far - even got to baton kindling with my 4-year-old. Pretty tickled.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I just found out that Olight sells knives now.

There was a video that popped up in my YouTube recommendations (from Doc91PB) and he shows a couple Olight knives. The ones he got were the new Spurdog (list price is $50.99) and one called the Rubato which is apparently one that Olight has been selling for a bit now.

I like the looks of the Rubato a bit more than the Spurdog, but I may end up signing up for an Olight account so I can buy either one.

[NT2C]

I just found out that Olight sells knives now.

There was a video that popped up in my YouTube recommendations (from Doc91PB) and he shows a couple Olight knives. The ones he got were the new Spurdog (list price is $50.99) and one called the Rubato which is apparently one that Olight has been selling for a bit now.

I like the looks of the Rubato a bit more than the Spurdog, but I may end up signing up for an Olight account so I can buy either one.

Olight knives are made for them by Kizer and are slightly changed versions of existing Kizer knives.  I have an Olight Parrot that I got for free from them and it's a pretty nice knife.  I'll show it to you when I get down your way this summer.

[majorhavoc]

I certainly like the one Kizer I own.  

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I just found out that Olight sells knives now.

There was a video that popped up in my YouTube recommendations (from Doc91PB) and he shows a couple Olight knives. The ones he got were the new Spurdog (list price is $50.99) and one called the Rubato which is apparently one that Olight has been selling for a bit now.

I like the looks of the Rubato a bit more than the Spurdog, but I may end up signing up for an Olight account so I can buy either one.

Olight knives are made for them by Kizer and are slightly changed versions of existing Kizer knives.  I have an Olight Parrot that I got for free from them and it's a pretty nice knife.  I'll show it to you when I get down your way this summer.

I was figuring Olight had the knives made by someone else.

For some reason I was thinking either Civivi or maybe Ganzo made the Olight knives.

[NT2C]

I just found out that Olight sells knives now.

There was a video that popped up in my YouTube recommendations (from Doc91PB) and he shows a couple Olight knives. The ones he got were the new Spurdog (list price is $50.99) and one called the Rubato which is apparently one that Olight has been selling for a bit now.

I like the looks of the Rubato a bit more than the Spurdog, but I may end up signing up for an Olight account so I can buy either one.

Olight knives are made for them by Kizer and are slightly changed versions of existing Kizer knives.  I have an Olight Parrot that I got for free from them and it's a pretty nice knife.  I'll show it to you when I get down your way this summer.

I was figuring Olight had the knives made by someone else.

For some reason I was thinking either Civivi or maybe Ganzo made the Olight knives.

Look at the Olight knives and compare them to what Kizer is offering.  You'll notice the similarities right away, with just small changes to the designs.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I just found out that Olight sells knives now.

There was a video that popped up in my YouTube recommendations (from Doc91PB) and he shows a couple Olight knives. The ones he got were the new Spurdog (list price is $50.99) and one called the Rubato which is apparently one that Olight has been selling for a bit now.

I like the looks of the Rubato a bit more than the Spurdog, but I may end up signing up for an Olight account so I can buy either one.

Olight knives are made for them by Kizer and are slightly changed versions of existing Kizer knives.  I have an Olight Parrot that I got for free from them and it's a pretty nice knife.  I'll show it to you when I get down your way this summer.

I was figuring Olight had the knives made by someone else.

For some reason I was thinking either Civivi or maybe Ganzo made the Olight knives.

Look at the Olight knives and compare them to what Kizer is offering.  You'll notice the similarities right away, with just small changes to the designs.

I'll have to start paying more attention to them now. I had no idea Olight even sold knives.

I've always just known them as a flashlight company.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

So I took a look at Kizer's stuff and compared the Olight Rubato to a couple that Knife Center had. One was the Drop Bear and the other was the Kizer Escort.

Those were the only ones I found with an Axis lock like Benchmade's stuff has.   

The Olight Parrot looks a bit like two other Kizer knives. That one looks similar to the Kizer Contrail and the Kizer WPK.

And the new Olight Spurdog looks similar to the Kizer Lan.

[JeeperCreeper]

Light exploding knives! Sweet!

[Anianna]

I seemed to have acquired another itty bitty teeny weeny little stabby pointy thingy, this one from a certain forum admin:

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I seemed to have acquired another itty bitty teeny weeny little stabby pointy thingy, this one from a certain forum admin:

I love that the knife is about the same size as the "enter" key on your keyboard.

[majorhavoc]

I seemed to have acquired another itty bitty teeny weeny little stabby pointy thingy, this one from a certain forum admin:

[NT2C]

I seemed to have acquired another itty bitty teeny weeny little stabby pointy thingy, this one from a certain forum admin:

Yep, I should have tried to get them in bulk.  I just bought two more, one for Wee Drop and the other to hang on to for future gifting.  With shipping, they're about $7 ea.  ($5 with the free shipping that takes 2 months).  Maybe I should buy a gross of 'em on Alibaba?

[Anianna]

I seemed to have acquired another itty bitty teeny weeny little stabby pointy thingy, this one from a certain forum admin:

Yep, I should have tried to get them in bulk.  I just bought two more, one for Wee Drop and the other to hang on to for future gifting.  With shipping, they're about $7 ea.  ($5 with the free shipping that takes 2 months).  Maybe I should buy a gross of 'em on Alibaba?

Can you ever have too many tiny knives?

[NT2C]

@12_Gauge_Chimp y'all want another PoS knife?  Someone gifted me a Kershaw 2022 PROMO 2 (came as part of a three pack of knives for $20-$25 last year at Walmart).  It's an assisted flipper with a half-assed edge and so much side-to-side blade play you worry it's going to miss if you try to stick it in something.