Just wanted to share something

johnwaynesandw

johnwaynesandw

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Recently I have been adding another knife to my EDC. The knife I have been including was a Microtech OTF(out the front automatic) knife called the Troodon. (I put a few tacticool knives up for trade looking for a few slippies, or nice fixed blades. With no luck) I did get a few offers for a couple of OTF knives. I took the Troodon along with another OTF in trade for some of my knives. I really liked the troodon knife as it had a great grind on the blade, and it's blade is made out of D2 tool steel. This was the knife that ended up in my pocket. This knife sells for more or less $300. I have carried this knife for a week to the day. Well today I fired it to open some mail. I heard a loud pop. Guess what, The spring broke in this HI-TECH knife . After getting a little bothered by this I headed to the shop to make a picnic table for my Grand-mother in-law's birth day. The knife I picked up, not the other OTF knife I have, but my QUEEN slippie that I have had for a while and still going strong.


To get to the point, It proved to me that not all these hi-tech gizmos of today are better than what our father's and theirs used. I have some slippies that are almost 100 years old, and they still snap open with no problems.



Thanks for taking the time to read this,
John
 
The Troodon is a very cool looking knife, John. Sorry to hear about the spring. I think I would have been more than "a little bothered."

You make a great point. I think it all comes down to "need knives" vs. "want knives". Neither are bad, just different.
 
get you a genuine victorinox sak and start using it. you will find it will become your most trusted pocket partner. it will be the one knife you never leave home without. they're not the lateset in high tec gadets but you'll discover the reason the sak's have managed to keep selling for better than a century! ,,,,VWB.
 
This comes as no surprise to me. I bought a nice red bone handle Boker auto when I was in Germany back in my service days. One of those with the lever you pulled back on up near the bolster. I rotated back to the states a few months later and not long after that the spring broke. Total use about 6 months before failure.

On the other hand, my dad bought a new Case pocket knife in 1937, and when he passed away in 1981 it was still in daily use. For the next 15 years I used it on and off, then sent it back to Case to have a new main blade put in and cracked bone scale replaced. It's in service to this day, in a rotation with a couple other edc's. Total use;70 years.

Sometimes simple is good.
 
I had lusted after a Microtech, forget which model, MTX2?, and a UMS for a long time. Since I can't carry an auto in MD/PA/DE/NJ/VA/WV (my stomping grounds), I decided that I could not afford such an expensive home carry piece. After hearing all kinds of negative things about the owners of said company, I decided to just forget about autos altogether. Since then, I have seen some really nice traditional autos. That actually worked. Under strong use! Saw a Buck 110 auto that a maker on here has, some old autos that I can't place the name of, at gun shows. Some old Italian switchblades.

I still really like the looks of the MT's I was going to get, but I just think the old timers look a lot better. As for the intricacy of an auto, yeah. Looks like a big PIA.
 
I know a lot of folks are into autos, and they certainly have a "cool" factor, but I have to admit I just about bust a gut the first time I saw a Microtech knife with a pricetag over $1K. Just what everyone needs: a Damascus front opening auto knife with a plastic handle. The perfect sentry deanimator! And only $1500! (Of course, in searching for this to verify the price I found one for $8,686.86, but there are exceptions to everything... :rolleyes:)

-- Sam
 
ParaGlock said:
I know a lot of folks are into autos, and they certainly have a "cool" factor, but I have to admit I just about bust a gut the first time I saw a Microtech knife with a pricetag over $1K. Just what everyone needs: a Damascus front opening auto knife with a plastic handle. The perfect sentry deanimator! And only $1500! (Of course, in searching for this to verify the price I found one for $8,686.86, but there are exceptions to everything... :rolleyes:)

-- Sam
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Another excellent point. If one is a professional sentry deanimator, and needs that extra bit of class damascus brings, then it sounds like the knife to buy!

Also, if you can afford $1500 worth of cool knife, I say go for it. Just don't say you need it!...You want it! There's nothing wrong with that.
 
Hey guys, thanks for the replies. Well I need to send the knife through a dealer, and that means jumping through a lot of hoops. I will do that eventually, but I am in no hurry. I did sell the other OTF on another forum, and went to the pawn shop where I had seen a S&W M-60 for sell. I ended up with no profit, but I got a good gun that has a great warranty. The gun needs a little time getting polished up, but it seems to be in great working condition, and the timing is dead on. Here are a few pics.
















Thanks,
John
 
By the way, the best thing to use for "sentry deanimation" is a suppressed weapon...MUCH better than any knife, OTF auto or not!:D
 
Well Sat. night I took my little M-60 to the shop and polished it for about an hour, and it looks a lot better. If I work it a few more sessions, it will have that mirror finish I am going for. I will try to get a few more pics as the process goes along.


Thanks,
John
 
I gotta get another wheel gun ;) I had one of those a few years back and let a guy talk me out of it on a trade..would love to get another.

R
 
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