Anyone Take A Second Look at Ka-Bar's TDI Astro MP?

eveled said:
not into pristine mirrors either but some knives I’ve stripped looked like corduroy roads. My point is the they use the coating as BONDO and skimp on the final finish of the knife. Knowing the coating will hide the grind lines.
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THIS.....
It has Nothing to do with rust prevention!

Is the edge Painted??? You know, the most important part......
Nope.
 
It is hard to take a Space Force knife seriously. Not to downplay the need to do something about, erm, space, but the Space Force and its blue knives will always be objects of derision.
 
Henry Beige said:
It is hard to take a Space Force knife seriously. Not to downplay the need to do something about, erm, space, but the Space Force and its blue knives will always be objects of derision.
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I find that the older I get, the more I want my knives to be fun and the less I could care about what other people think about my choice of colors, specially when the knife is functionally the same as the 'serious' one.

I have ARs with orange parts, I have blue knives, orange knives, toxic green knives, I have knives with flowers on them.

I have lime green mechanical pencils for the office along with translucent blue fountain pens and a plaid laptop bag.

I know what you are saying, I likely shared that opinion not too long ago, but life is too short to care about the derision of others. Buy what you like and enjoy it.
 
OrangeJoe said:
I find that the older I get, the more I want my knives to be fun and the less I could care about what other people think about my choice of colors, specially when the knife is functionally the same as the 'serious' one.

I have ARs with orange parts, I have blue knives, orange knives, toxic green knives, I have knives with flowers on them.

I have lime green mechanical pencils for the office along with translucent blue fountain pens and a plaid laptop bag.

I know what you are saying, I likely shared that opinion not too long ago, but life is too short to care about the derision of others. Buy what you like and enjoy it.
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It’s not the color.
 
OrangeJoe said:
Are you going to make me ask?
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To me it just seems like a light hearted "joke" run of knives. No harm done in it. Of course we know there is no real space force (yet). Just as I know there are no donut-wielding dessert warriors out there, but nonetheless the dessert warrior knives are fun to buy and collect.

The only reason I can think that people would actively dislike the Space Force branding is that the idea of a Space Force was brought forth by a politician that some people seem to dislike. That being said, I think the majority of the knife community gets the joke, and the enjoy the blue color and unique branding as something different for a change.
 
eveled said:
In addition to what @DocJD said. When you hold the knife you realize that it would be very difficult to be turned against you while you are holding it.

That classic knife defense where you grip the attackers hand spin around and stab him with his own knife is useless against this design.

The knife is brilliantly designed for it intended purpose as a last ditch defense.

The whole space force thing is ridiculous in my eyes. The Coast Guardsmen have been waiting for another run of Coast Guard marked 1217’s. While the space force gets an entire line.
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I'd hate to find myself in situation where all I have for last ditch self defense is a knife... but this would probably work great if I did.

That being said, anything that's clearly designed to be a weapon first and utility second - is illegal to carry here.

So, I definitely won't be buying one, despite the fact I really want one.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Easily removed if you don't like it. Primarily there to protect the knife from idiots who don't know how to treat a knife when it gets wets from anything, e.g., rain, blood, watermelon juice, etc. It also protects the blades of backups while they are sitting in their boxes - no general maintenance required.

I strip the coating on all my USER Kabars/Beckers/Ontarios.
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What do you use to strip the coating off? I am trying to get the coating off of an Ontario Rat 5 in 1095.
 
Dr Heelhook said:
I thought this was an april fools joke.
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I want to say that that is exactly how they came up with this line of knives.

Someone correct me, but I think they did the April Fools and people just kept asking for the knife so they started off with the classic 'KA-BAR Fighting knife' and it just took off (pun intended) from there.

As a normal hamburger eating American, I'd rather get spotted with a gray/Tiffany blue knife than with a tacticool triple black knife.

Makes life easier in the burbs and the colors don't make the knife less useful.

Edit: Found it, here.
 
Hard pass. That doesn't look like it would be useful for aliens.

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As someone who has all three of the initial Space Force knives, I'll prooooobably pass on this.
 
I like that Ka-Bar has a sense of humor. See also their Zombie knives, tactical ice cream scoop, pizza cutter, knife- spork, etc.
 
JR42 said:
I like that Ka-Bar has a sense of humor. See also their Zombie knives, tactical ice cream scoop, pizza cutter, knife- spork, etc.
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I know a guy that's a hardcore mall ninja with load of cheapo knives...

And one day he proudly said "I ordered a Ka-Bar!"
Me and E EatingSarma were like "Wow, finally! Which one?" as we were excited about him potentially changing his ways...

And then he said "Zombie killer death dagger" in broken English with huge smile on his face...

E EatingSarma burst laughing and I just let out sigh of disappointment... the dude quickly went on several pages to prove us that it's an actual Ka-Bar knife... but we were still disappointed.
 
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