Review Millit Torrent V3 in S90V: First Impressions

[rmill7]

How ya doing BF! This will be my the first thread I have started here!

Over the last year and a half, I have been increasingly active in the knife community. Early on in my adventure, I first glanced the Millit Torrent. It always struck me as an incredibly utilitarian design, if only slightly fussy/busy. When Millit opened up a run of plain, unmilled, no inlay titanium with S90V? I jumped all over it.

The wait on this knife was almost 8 months. My first impression was less than stellar.

• Millit packaging is pretty basic, think tactical peanuts minus the baggie. The knife was bangin' around in the box with the sticker and COA.
• The blade was off center, in a pretty bad way. In the video I took when I opened it in my truck I even commented that it looks like it was hitting the show side scale.
• With better lighting I could see that the blade was not touching, but close. I worked the action some, and the detent ball started screeching towards the closed position.

To be honest, I was pretty pissed. Well, I got the chance Saturday morning to brew a fresh pot of coffee and tinker (as the mrs. calls it). Breakdown pics at the end of this post. The bearings looked pretty dry, or maybe a super low viscosity lube. The detent ball was definitely in the process of wearing it's path through the acidwash. I would have liked to see a steel bearing race on the scale sides. The stainless bearings shouldn't completely eat through the scales though like ceramics would though.

Now that the bad is out of the way, some positives! All things My second impression was that this knife is refined.

• Every line on the dang thing seems to have been thought out.
• The stepping on the frame is a machining thing of wonder.
• The jimping is pretty smooth with light pressure, but digs in with more pressure.
• The action is tight and breaks clean. Lockbar pressure shuts it down.
• The clip works very well. The knife looks great in pocket. The backspacer jimping helps with deployment and pocket grabbing.
• Acid washed hollow grind with belt finished flats. There are some funny looking lines in the tip third of the hollow grind.

Final thoughts:
More than any other knife in my collection, this one begs to be used in a classy way. A wicked blade steel in a finish to will show wear well. A frame which is very comfortable in hand. A size that will fit in the pocket of a suit, and the corner of jeans pockets. The perfect combination of solid and suave.

Millit responded within an hour of my email about the centering. I am sending it in under warranty, all costs on Millit.

Let me know your thoughts!

The knife on a crisp Saturday morning:

Size comparisons:

Broken down:

Current centering:

 

[miso2]

Nice review!
Thanks!

 

[BD_01]

It’s a great looking knife!

I did not know Millit did PJ Torrents. I was never a fan of the milling, anno, inlay Torrents, too gaudy. But I quite like the one you scored!

Please update this thread when you get your knife back from customer service. I will be paying very close attention as I’ve become more and more devoted to buying only American made knives in the last year or two (ok, that and maybe an occasional Taichung Spyderco )

 

[rmill7]

Quick update: I sent in the knife and it arrived at their office in Idaho 11/26. With the Thanksgiving short week, and what I can only imagine is a busy build/ship line in their shop right now, the knife spent about a week with them. Pretty quick turnaround. The knife came back dead nuts centered and has not lost it with a couple days of flipping. The Millit team sent a little handwritten note thanking me for my business and supporting Made in USA manufacturing. There was also a second piece of foam inside the box, essentially creating a Torrent sandwich. Big leap in protection there

I am not 100% about keeping it though. I think that it will probably stay in the hyper light-duty rotation/fidget knife until I figure out my long term on it.

 

[Rob Ashley]

What did you end up doing with it?

 

[rmill7]

It has not left the light duty weekend rotation I work in construction; any knife I put in my pocket at work gets clip wear and used with dirty gloves.

It flips very well, but I wouldn't describe it as lightning fast..? Kind of a languid motion? Even with a soft light switch it still deploys. This Torrent does not drop shut like some videos I've seen, but that's okay with me.

Long story short, still have it

 

[Rob Ashley]

Well, if you feel like getting rid of it, let me know. I only use lefty knives, but it would be nice to get my hands on one of these to see if it would be worth the investment trying to convince Millet to make a lefty version.