Is this a Blackwashed ZT 0801 that is renamed MM01K Minuteman?

Thomas Carey said:
Folks I have some happy news for all. I have just heard from our case supplier and as it stands now each knife will ship in one of our nice American made padded zipper cases. =) I hope all of you are having a great Independence Day. Sitting hear listening to Capt. Dale Dye who is on KFI in LA right now.
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Outstanding Thomas. And very much appreciated. :)
 
I see a ZT 0801BW sold this morning on the auction site. Guess they're out in the wild. Love the looks of this one. Anyone know a place that has them in stock?
 
For any of that ordered one of our Minuteman versions with Sanitized blade. We are supposed to have them by Tuesday. We have everything staged so we can ship them out ASAP. We hope most of you will have them by the end of the week. All of them will come with the padded zipper cases. =)

If any of you have had a change in address please contact us ASAP!

So our version.

Sanitized blades.
Just 50 made and there will not be anymore! =)
Padded zipper knife cases made in the USA the cases actually cost us a bit over $10 each so they are nice.
25% of the profit is going to the Mercury One charity earmarked for a fund they have for active and former military.

FYI we held back about 5 knives in case any of them had an issue and needed to be swapped out. So we will have a few we can still offer for sale if we don't have to use them for that purpose.
 
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Hey, it's Tuesday! Very, very eagerly awaiting this knife. My 0801 was my first ZT folder and a true "love at first sight" impulse buy, but blackwashed will be even better.
 
Yep. Just got a shipping notice from The Blaze. :)

Thanks, Thomas. I'm really looking forward to this one.
 
Got my knife today! The knife is perfect and the case is really awesome. Thank you so much for putting this together. Now I just need to throw on my blue backspacers.
 
vernSL said:
Got my knife today! The knife is perfect and the case is really awesome. Thank you so much for putting this together. Now I just need to throw on my blue backspacers.
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Thanks so much for the kind words. I figured there was a chance someone would have theirs today. I am guessing most will get them tomorrow or Saturday.

Blue Spacer =) Where can I source some for mine? Please do post a photo of it when its swapped. =)

fyi As a bit of a follow up we are looking at doing a bit of collab with Tuff-Writer on a tactical pen in Flat Dark Earth.
 
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And you can buy them here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...for-Emerson-ZT-Spyderco-Kershaw-and-Benchmade
 
My perfect specimen 0801BWMM just came in with a nice Minuteman case.

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Mine was waiting for me when I got home, and it's the perfect match - and at the same time contrast - to my original 0801. Perfect centering, smooth deployment and a great introduction to blackwashed finishes. Now, I know many people are fans of the sterile look, but there is still a part of me that would have been thrilled with a number (xx/50) or serial number, but I have to admit that the clean appearance sets this apart from most of my knives that are a bit overdone in terms of printing, stamps and logos.

I'm definitely looking forward to Minuteman's future collaborations.
 
Inazone said:
Mine was waiting for me when I got home, and it's the perfect match - and at the same time contrast - to my original 0801. Perfect centering, smooth deployment and a great introduction to blackwashed finishes. Now, I know many people are fans of the sterile look, but there is still a part of me that would have been thrilled with a number (xx/50) or serial number, but I have to admit that the clean appearance sets this apart from most of my knives that are a bit overdone in terms of printing, stamps and logos.

I'm definitely looking forward to Minuteman's future collaborations.
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Thanks to all of you for the great support in our efforts.

We picked the brain of some hardcore knife people like Dexter Ewing before we decided which way we were going on this knife. Several pointed out that many factory knives are cluttered with branding basically. So they suggested we go for a cleaner look overall than the norm. I am sure glad we took their advice.

We actually first found out about the blackwash finish from Darrell Lewis at Ionbond so that is something else we really wanted in any knife we went with.

At some point we would like to have some quality knives in our Minuteman brand line-up that are unique in design to our brand.

But till we get up to speed we would rather partner with great brands like ZT and work with current proven models.

If anyone has a brand that they have a good relationship with who they think would be a good effort on an effort. Please let me know. =)
 
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