MTech tells it like it is (steel shenanigans)

Inazone

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My wife and I just had our anniversary a few days ago, and she decided to give me a couple knives as gifts. She really doesn't know anything about knives, so I was pleasantly surprised that one was a Ka-Bar USMC, which I consider a classic but never owned until now. The other, however, was an MTech "Outlander Tactical Survival" machete, which while given with the best of intentions, is pretty silly for a number of reasons. It has at least a full paragraph of marketing text printed on the blade, but the best part is where the steel type is printed:

On one side, "440C Stainless Steel" and on the other side, "8Cr13MoV." I wish I could get it to show up in a picture, but alas, no luck.

Oh, Chinese manufacturers, how I love thee.
 
JR88FAN said:
The worst part is, is that it's probably neither of those steels!
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They could have marketed it as a composite blade and upped the price by $20. If it wasn't a gift, I'd probably strip the blade coating just to see what kind of train wreck the blade is underneath.

I sure hope my wife didn't pay what appears to be the going price of $50-60, because that could have gone toward something much nicer and much more useful. But regardless, it'll probably site in the box until my POS Gerber machete has some catastrophic failure. The MTech can't be worse, I'm already convinced of that.
 
Congrats on the gifts and on the anniversary. Nice ka-bar, and the mtech with its humor of misleading steel info shall be a nice bush beater when that gerber:barf: gives way. Again congrats man. Wish the best to you guys.

P.s. - i have slight though thats going through my head because of your avatar picture. You wouldnt happen to have a youtube channel buy the name of Carbs would you? Im just goin on a hunch, because that photo is familiar when i watch swissarmyzippo's vids.
 
SURVIVAL&WEAPONS said:
Congrats on the gifts and on the anniversary. Nice ka-bar, and the mtech with its humor of misleading steel info shall be a nice bush beater when that gerber:barf: gives way. Again congrats man. Wish the best to you guys.

P.s. - i have slight though thats going through my head because of your avatar picture. You wouldnt happen to have a youtube channel buy the name of Carbs would you? Im just goin on a hunch, because that photo is familiar when i watch swissarmyzippo's vids.
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Thanks for the congrats. Nope, no Carbs here. My avatar is the character Pilz-E from the "Neurotically Yours" web comic.
 
The good (best) part of it is you probably got a very strong and reliable blade. Give it a good sharpening and go banging it out to the woods. True working blades have always been made of low rated (arf ! arf !) steel.
 
herisson said:
The good (best) part of it is you probably got a very strong and reliable blade. Give it a good sharpening and go banging it out to the woods. True working blades have always been made of low rated (arf ! arf !) steel.
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My thoughts also. You probably can take that mtech out and treat it harshly and it'll mostly survive. Looks kinda cool at least.
The best part of your post is you are celebrating an anniversary, because love is nice to hear about in crazy world.
 
If it's 440B or equivalent it's not a problem. My old AGRussell kukri works very well with 440B .For a chopper 440B is IMO is a better choice.

I,ve read a report on Chinese steels from someonein Australia. No Matter what you ordered chances are you'll get something else !! Some very unique steels come from China LOL LOL
 
Wow! That M-Tech has some really aggressive thumb jimping. :eek::D With those saw teeth ground off it may be a halfway decent beater. Use it, abuse it, and write up a review in a few months or so. :thumbup:
 
Yeah I would strip it, grind off whatever that jimping/sawtooth is on the back and maybe try reprofiling the handle a bit and then star swinging it into things with reckless abandon ;)

Brian
 
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