Dark Opps Vendetta

Did they ever get any knives to a Blade show?All I saw were crappy nylon sheaths that their lawyer showed me.Heard later that they said they were going to give out free beer,didn't ever see any of that either.
 
If I were ever faced with having to deanimate a pack of mean spirited canivorous zombies, I would certainly pick a Dark Ops knife; they are just the thing for that kind of work. For just about everything else I would rather go with a real knife from a reputable maker.

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
If I were ever faced with having to deanimate a pack of mean spirited canivorous zombies, I would certainly pick a Dark Ops knife; they are just the thing for that kind of work. For just about everything else I would rather go with a real knife from a reputable maker.

n2s
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Dude,you are like so wrong!
Knives from reputable makers do just fine on canivorous zombies.
 
OK, who is Beowulf1776? Really. Is that you Ren? Maybe RWS? Come on, fess up.
 
sirahren said:
Rat (aka Mr. 42) your always so negative and wrong about so many things. Clearly these knives are designed by hobbits and Special Forces personel. The Vendetta "Used properly can generate the last earthly sensation a terrorist feels on his quick trip to the hearafter." How can you possibly have a problem with knives designed to send terrorists to the hereafter... do you hate america?

Also you forgot to mention that their website, (as I just discovered while looking up this fine knife) is totally tactical.

My gf, got me Tom Clancy's Endwar thinking it was a real Tom Clancy book, and they mentioned a dark ops knife [REEDITED TO ADD: Could have been a mercworx...]. I wondered how much the company paid to get that in there...

Edited to add: Looks like they are now ripping off Surefire flashlights too!
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that book sucked. just saying lol
 
Gentlemen ,Ladies . I started this thread with the hope of getting some insight on the Steel Mix that DarK Ops uses and the New Vendetta. SO far what mostly seems to be posted is utter stupidity. The same pathetic souls trying to out due each other crudely trying to sound clever. I would love to hear some real empirical. data on the Vendetta , Dark Ops steel mix.The Logic here astounds me. So Dark Ops may be guilty of some kind of blade plagiarism. You might say coke , Pepsi , 7Up , Sprite all copy each other, welcome to free market capitalism . Honestly if Dark Ops where guilty of design infringement, How come their was no litigation? Please provide empirical facts to support your claims and accusations in future postings

Respectfully
Barry jUST gIVE DA FACTS mAAM!
 
Truth is that may be really hard to find here.
I would guess that there aren't very many members here that have ever bought a Dark Ops.I have only ever saw maybe one or two for sell on all the knife forums I belong too combined.
I do know that the last Blade show I went too the Dark Ops booth was dead,no one was stopping to look and many would cross to the other side of the isle to walk past it.
BTW,you speak of how stupid we are in this thread,check out Dark Ops web site.Talk about stupid,with all their hyped up talk I can't really figure out anything about the steel they use or any thing else for that matter.
 
Beowulf1776 said:
Gentlemen ,Ladies . I started this thread with the hope of getting some insight on the Steel Mix that DarK Ops uses and the New Vendetta. SO far what mostly seems to be posted is utter stupidity. The same pathetic souls trying to out due each other crudely trying to sound clever. I would love to hear some real empirical. data on the Vendetta , Dark Ops steel mix.The Logic here astounds me. So Dark Ops may be guilty of some kind of blade plagiarism. You might say coke , Pepsi , 7Up , Sprite all copy each other, welcome to free market capitalism . Honestly if Dark Ops where guilty of design infringement, How come their was no litigation? Please provide empirical facts to support your claims and accusations in future postings

Respectfully
Barry jUST gIVE DA FACTS mAAM!
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Welcome to Bladeforums.

This is an internet watering hole. The animals gather to drink, watch out for trouble, mingle with the herd, cool off, enjoy life.

You're new to the community, unfamiliar with the rhythm of life in this corner of reality. None of us owns the discussions we start. Join in the banter and you may develop friends who look out for you. Show that you resent the way we live, and no .. one .. will .. care.

And in our own special way, we gave you the facts, the facts that matter to us.
Technical details you want, ask ## DARK ## OPERATIONS ##
 
Put simply, E.R.s folders and fixed blades are good.
Dork Ops knives are a plie of dung and good for nothing but a laugh. :thumbdn:

Now that i realise they armed the perpitrators of the infamous Oompa loompa uprising i just dont have words in my vocabulary to describe how i feel about them.:grumpy:
 
Beowulf1776 said:
Gentlemen ,Ladies . I started this thread with the hope of getting some insight on the Steel Mix that DarK Ops uses and the New Vendetta. SO far what mostly seems to be posted is utter stupidity. The same pathetic souls trying to out due each other crudely trying to sound clever. I would love to hear some real empirical. data on the Vendetta , Dark Ops steel mix.The Logic here astounds me. So Dark Ops may be guilty of some kind of blade plagiarism. You might say coke , Pepsi , 7Up , Sprite all copy each other, welcome to free market capitalism . Honestly if Dark Ops where guilty of design infringement, How come their was no litigation? Please provide empirical facts to support your claims and accusations in future postings

Respectfully
Barry jUST gIVE DA FACTS mAAM!
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Barry, you're cracking me up. Sorry if your feelings got hurt, but you have gotten "the facts", though perhaps not the ones you were hoping for.

I'm going to be a real gentleman here, and not respond to your "theft=free market capitalism" argument, other than to say it's a crock of shit. The fact that a company may not be able to afford litigation sure doesn't mean that there was no infringement of the law. And even if there were no legal issues, we can all draw our conclusions from a moral and ethical standpoint, right?
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Welcome to Bladeforums.

This is an internet watering hole. The animals gather to drink, watch out for trouble, mingle with the herd, cool off, enjoy life.

You're new to the community, unfamiliar with the rhythm of life in this corner of reality. None of us owns the discussions we start. Join in the banter and you may develop friends who look out for you. Show that you resent the way we live, and no .. one .. will .. care.

And in our own special way, we gave you the facts, the facts that matter to us.
Technical details you want, ask ## DARK ## OPERATIONS ##
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Esav Benyamin, even in prose, ever the poet...
 
The only thing that can kill Chuck Norris is a DORK OPS KNIFE!





If you waved it at him, he'd die laughing.
Luckily his laugh would be so loud, that the mall ninja's head would implode from the reverberation.
 
I don't know who writes the Dork Ops script, but DAYUM. . . .that's some funny crapola ! :D

Vendetta (Covert Neck Knife)

Don't let the space age curves fool you, this is one of the most ergonomically form fitting "blades of last resort" you will ever handle. Usable in the smallest and largest hands, and possibly the only neck knife in the world deployable in the reverse grip. Used properly it can generate the last earthly sensation a terrorist feels on a quick trip to the hereafter. A PanicPortTM through-hole in the tail of the integrated tang allows positive sheath removal even with 85% of the knife concealed in the ankle and forearm modes. A deep index finger notch provides secure grip and astonishing leverage, and multiple deep finger grooves allow for the secure positioning of the middle, ring and pinky fingers. The Knife is skeletonized for weight reduction, but has small enough cutouts to not trap fingers under duress. The Through-hole in the handle allows for a positive finger through control for secure grip when hands are cold and prevents the knife from being taken away in defensive moves. Built of Dark Ops legendary CTV2 Steel, but with a fractionally higher stainless content and treated with a Titanium Carbonitride coating, the knife is impervious to body sweat and humidity associated with on-the-body concealed knives. A DEEP! hollow grind yields a razor cutting edge. A broader flat grind with serrations on the top edge is used for heavy duty occupational cutting work. Heavy grip notching covers the entire contact circumference for added grip tenacity. All user contact surfaces are polished smoothed and heavily beveled to prevent snags in deployment. Lethal, concealable. May be illegal in certain jurisdictions. Intended for Military & Law Enforcement & EMS professionals only.
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That thing is so badass. . . .I would be afeared to touch it ! :D


Beowulf1776 said:
I started this thread with the hope of getting some insight on the Steel Mix that DarK Ops uses and the New Vendetta.
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It's on their website. . . .

CTV2 = a proprietary hybrid alloy of Chromium, Cobalt, Tungsten, Vanadium, and Molybdenum with surgical grade stainless steel!
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. . . .offers both strength and edge holding ability that is unrivaled! Zone selective cryogenic hardening allows for medical grade edge sharpness while avoiding the brittleness of high Rockwell hardness!

The American Serviceman deserves the best. It isn't often that a Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine needs his knife in a lethal engagement.
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:eek:

Good enough for me ! Where can I get a couple. . . . .or thirty of dem bad boys ? :D

I won't even post a pic of that goofy turd ! ;)
 
Beowulf1776 said:
Gentlemen ,Ladies . I started this thread with the hope of getting some insight on the Steel Mix that DarK Ops uses and the New Vendetta. SO far what mostly seems to be posted is utter stupidity. The same pathetic souls trying to out due each other crudely trying to sound clever. I would love to hear some real empirical. data on the Vendetta , Dark Ops steel mix.The Logic here astounds me. So Dark Ops may be guilty of some kind of blade plagiarism. You might say coke , Pepsi , 7Up , Sprite all copy each other, welcome to free market capitalism . Honestly if Dark Ops where guilty of design infringement, How come their was no litigation? Please provide empirical facts to support your claims and accusations in future postings

Respectfully
Barry jUST gIVE DA FACTS mAAM!
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your argument here is spurious at best. how do you know if there was litigation or not?

simply look at er's designs, then look at do's designs. decide for yourself. i doubt anyone cares.

however, there is probably no empirical data on that particular knife because it does not yet exist. at least it does not appear to.

their website only shows a drawing, not even an actual photo.

i can say that if it is indeed the same steel as extrema ratio uses, it is fine.
 
....and all this for the stupidest looking and least compelex knife they have IMHO. If I was even mildly interested in anything DO it'd be that OTF...but just because it is an OTF.

Let's all keep being "pathetic souls" in the hopes that the lack of sales will drive DO into the ground.
 
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to barry the hatchet?:p

Ever so sorry, Barry (the discriminating knife buyer), I'm just another one of them "pathetic souls trying to out due each other crudely trying to sound clever." And in all honesty, I think you have chosen the right knife company for you.

3G
 
I can't see why someone coming here for information on a knife would be upset when everyone starts ripping on them. (Ulterior motives?) You would think that they would appreciate us steering them away from a potentially bad knife and an even worse company. Even if the steel is the same as ER, and the heat treat is good, I wouldn't buy one based on the marketing and design ripoffs of this company. Empirical evidence on this particular knife is impossible to provide given the fact that it's not even available yet.

Personally, every time I see a dark ops post on here I can't resist clicking on it. Some of the funniest ones I've read.
 
Beowulf1776 said:
Gentlemen ,Ladies . I started this thread with the hope of getting some insight on the Steel Mix that DarK Ops uses and the New Vendetta.
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I don't know squat about dangerous blades. I know a bit about steel. I'll try to give a straight answer about the steel. It may shed some light on some of the other comments.

Here is what their web site says about the steel:

"Dark Ops Knives are made from a proprietary hybrid alloy of Chromium, Cobalt, Tungsten, Vanadium, and Molybdenum with surgical grade stainless steel! "​

That blurb was not written by anyone who knows anything about steel.

1) the term "surgical grade stainless steel" is meaningless. There is no specification for steel that is called "surgical grade stainless steel". There are grades of steel that are commonly used for operating room hardware and they are sometimes termed "surgical stainless" in the literature. However, they all contain insufficient carbon to be useful as any kind of knife blade. And BTW, one of the elements Dark Ops did NOT say they added was carbon.

2) Once you have steel you don't add elements to it. You do not melt down a finished alloy, add elements, then reform it. That is what their description implies and that is BS. Their "hybrid alloy" description does not make sense. No alloy exists in the form described by the the description. It can't.

Note: Since "CTV2" is Dark Ops name for the alloy they use, it can be anything they want it to be. They can use any alloy and call it "CTV2" because the name "CTV2" only exists in the Dark Ops literature. It is not an acknowledged alloy name in use by any steel company.

Barry,
If the rest of the knife is as nonsensical as the steel description, and judging by the comments by various of our members who are familiar with SD weapons they are, I would run, not walk, away from any Dark Ops product.

You know you're in trouble when you have what is supposed to be a technical section with exclamation points. That alone should peg your BS meter.
 
Nathan S said:
Barry, you're cracking me up. Sorry if your feelings got hurt, but you have gotten "the facts", though perhaps not the ones you were hoping for.

I'm going to be a real gentleman here, and not respond to your "theft=free market capitalism" argument, other than to say it's a crock of shit. The fact that a company may not be able to afford litigation sure doesn't mean that there was no infringement of the law. And even if there were no legal issues, we can all draw our conclusions from a moral and ethical standpoint, right?
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Nathan , instead of trying an attempt at being a faux gentlemen, try using your energy for logic. Just because you say something is a crock of shit, actually does not really mean shit! I hope i have not stepped on your large bold sense of pride! How on earth would you know whether or not Er was capable of affording litigation?I can only assume that your employed by Er.

Just because you feel something is immoral and unethical does not make it so.
 
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