Anyone seen this thing?

Interesting. All cheesiness aside, it is a pretty cool looking knife (soon to be copied by Chinese knife manufacturers everywhere). A tactical knife just doesn't fit into my grand scheme of knives I have to get, but it certainly has merit and is definitely an outside-the-box design. Kudos to them.

Now for a brief transcript of my thoughts while observing the cheesiness of the video:

Four point triangle? Must be a non-Euclidean metaphor.

"Filmed on location in fabulous Big, Crazy Bob's Junk and Scrap Metal Yard!"

I like the Kel-Tec rifle. I've been seriously considering buying one. It'd be a sight cheaper than the top of the line knife, though. But why single-firing?

Thermoplastics can't be cut through with a knife? Seriously, this is news to me.

"...the practical, tactical m-a Two Two."

It's pretty clear that Slab Hardpec was supposed to be doing the talking while doing the demos, but given the clips at the end, the wind must have overwhelmed the wind protection on the microphone. Why the narrator said said lifting the motor wasn't a problem for "me," is unknown.

It's good to see Karn lifting with her arthropodic legs instead of her undoubtedly knobby back. I'm no health freak, but there's "healthy thin "and there's "dangerous thin." Maybe if they explosion welded two other skinny women to either side of her...

The guy in the video reminds me of the hero from MST3K's Space Mutiny. I found myself giving him a goofy, macho nickname each time he came into frame.
 
DrThunder88 said:
It's pretty clear that Slab Hardpec was supposed to be doing the talking while doing the demos, ...

It's good to see Karn lifting with her arthropodic legs instead of her undoubtedly knobby back.

The guy in the video reminds me of the hero from MST3K's Space Mutiny. I found myself giving him a goofy, macho nickname each time he came into frame.
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Well, here they are: http://miltner-adams.com/ma_about.html As I mentioned, the two who did the presentation are the two who own the company, Miltner and Adams.
 
He just reminded me of Arnold the Governator the whole time.

Is is just me or did she seem unhealthily skinny...? eating disorder skinny.

Single bevel knives have been made by the Japanese since the 16th Century (?)
 
In this video I'm reminded of one of Shun knives ad I've seen, the one where they show a German blade with a thick convex edge that is "very strong" pronounced with a cheesy accent, but their thinner hollow grind blade has a thin edge, so it's "very sharp". Whereas I would have said "very weak", not "very sharp". Where the hollow grind would fail, stronger convex edge would keep going. So "very strong!" has its place, doesn't make it inferior.

In this video, they do much the same thing. They show how the handle is very secure. But how do you use a knife like that wearing heavy mittens up here in the middle of Canadian winter? Well, you don't, your hand won't fit into the notches and holes. They show penetration into a tire, but at no point do they hold it side by side with the Ka-Bar and compare the reach that Ka-Bar offers compared to their knife. It would be an obvious no contest. And of course they avoid showing a variety of tasks where a standard clip point blade will perform much better. Breaking the glass they show, but hammering with the pommel and batoning the blade through wood they don't. Taking it out quietly (out of G10/Kydex which will dull the blade pretty fast) may be a good thing, but then what? With low penetration and virtually no reach. And of course let's compare the $11 Ka-Bar sheath mass produced from 4oz leather to their own sheath, not to mention the obvious "Hey, why are you comparing a $70 Ka-Bar to a $1000 knife?"

But that's advertising for you.
 
interesting knife....450 however for a S30V blade?

800+ for the explosive version with Titanium? meh.
 
I think I may actually purchase the smaller, 154CM model. It's only about $120 and employs both the interesting handle design and sheath. I wouldn't mind trying the hollow flat grind out either.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Well, here they are: http://miltner-adams.com/ma_about.html As I mentioned, the two who did the presentation are the two who own the company, Miltner and Adams.
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While it's obvious that it is indeed Richard Miltner in the video, I'm not sure that the woman is Juli Adams.

The picture on the website and the woman in the video do not appear to be the same person. The woman in the video is referred to as Caren (or something similar) in the weight demonstration.
 
Neat video. Now how sharp is the blade? Can it shave? If it can it might be willing to look into it more....
 
For a cool grand, I sure hope the thing is sharp enough to shave with.

Interesting that these knives have been discussed here a few times, yet I don't remember anybody who actually owns one chiming in. Surely somebody here has purchased one of their products, right?

That said, the MA-2/II does appeal to me and the price isn't too outlandish (although for the price I'd rather have the S30V than the 154CM, but only $10 more for straight Ti, hmmm).

Maybe next year, $$ is already flying out of my pocket too fast these days.
 
The best part is, if you end up not liking the knife, you can always pop a couple of lenses into the handle holes and have yourself a wicked pair of shades. :cool:
 
Vess said:
In this video I'm reminded of one of Shun knives ad I've seen, the one where they show a German blade with a thick convex edge that is "very strong" pronounced with a cheesy accent, but their thinner hollow grind blade has a thin edge, so it's "very sharp". Whereas I would have said "very weak", not "very sharp". Where the hollow grind would fail, stronger convex edge would keep going. So "very strong!" has its place, doesn't make it inferior.
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I remember that video. As much as I like Alton Brown, he is a bit of a knife snob.
 
All of my favorite blades just failed the "pick up an engine" test.
A few couldn't even pick up a blender.
I've been duped :(

Doc
 
I also think it's interesting that the site/concept/video has been brought up a few times and no one has ever chimed in as an owner. Are the knives hard to get beyond the price factor? I would say maybe everyone is turned off by the design or the marketing but that can't be the whole story--there's no knife so ugly NO ONE loves it, and plenty of others hype.

I was never attracted to the design (to me it looks like an ice skate wrapped in paracord) but I must admit it looked like it drew and handled pretty well. But still missing I think is how does it CUT, I don't care how the alloy is forged through an explosion, and that you can pick up a generator with it when you've got lube on your hand (!????) is let's say, only moderately useful to me. Does it cut, what kind of cutting is it suited for, these should have been bigger features of the video IMO.
 
It takes marketing, beyond the range of one video or a few brick and mortar outlets. These knives are simply not as available as the knives we do buy.

I read through their website and found the MA-1 model, not the two models in the video, which seem to have disappeared. No prices were listed on the website and I only found one internet outlet with a price for the MA-1.

The unique grind will continue to seem gimmicky until they've gotten it into enough experienced hands for reviews to verify its functionality. How this can happen with limited access and high prices, I don't know.
 
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