Mtech Xtreme???

Teague

Teague

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I bought this MTECH XTREME. It's 440C titanium treated stainless and has G-10 handles. I got it for about $12 shipped and was totally surprised by the quality, fit, and finish. Has anyone else hade any experience with one of these? There is nothing better than buying a good knife for a cheap price.

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Features:

* 3 7/8" Black Titanium Treated 440C SS Stilleto Style Blade
* Two Layer Black over Greem G-10 Handles with MTech USA Xtreme Logo Laser Die Cut on Front Handle
* Easy One Hand Opening with Thumb Stud or Hand Guard
* Black SS Pocket Clip
* Liner Lock
* 5" Closed, 8 3/4" Opened
 
Its a knock off of a cold steel ti-lite.

I wouldnt be suprised if its the same quality as the zytel model.
 
Mtech=:barf: Their quality control sucks (some of their knives have great fit and finish with excellant lockup, while most are complete lemons), the heat treat of their blades is sub-par, and to top it off, they take stealing designs to the extreme. I have two of their knives, a fixed blade dagger with a 5" blade and rubber handle (which happens to be an S&W dagger rip-off), and the knife in the picture above, and I have handled many of their knives at knife shops. The folder developed extreme blade play only a few hours after I bought it, and the sheath that came with the dagger was teh sukz. And the iceing on the cake is that some of their knives come with decent working edges, and others come with (litterally) butter knife dull edges. In the past I've owned their Busse Game Warden knockoff (yes, they actually stole the design of the Busse Game Warden), and although the kydex sheath was decent (suprisingly), I could scratch the blade coating off with my fingernail. Most of the knives they sell are blades that only mall ninjas with no money would carry, anyway. Mtech sucks.:thumbdn:
 
shecky said:
No thread is complete without a jab at Cold Steel. :rolleyes:
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And there's always someone to whine about it. :p

Lynn Thompson already complained about one of his designs being ripped off. I think it was about a year ago. He posted it on the home page of his website.

The Ti-Lite this M-Tech ripped off was designed with input from Bogaszewski. It has gone through several models, different materials and price levels. A well-made and popular knife.

But Cold Steel doesn't get back to us when they're accused of "borrowing" other companies' work, so why not laugh?
 
"440c" in base composition maybe, but I'd pretty much assume that it's unheat treated coming from mtech. I've had other blades by mtech, and they are what they are. better then a gas station impulse buy knife, but not by much.
 
It's not 440C. "Titanium treated" means the blade has been given a coating that in the opinion of the manufacturer makes it resemble the appearance of titanium. (Read the fine print in the ads.) I doubt the handle is G10. If you go to a dealer that will let you handle all his knives you can usually find one that locks up very nicely....
 
Esav Benyamin said:
And there's always someone to whine about it. :p

Lynn Thompson already complained about one of his designs being ripped off. I think it was about a year ago. He posted it on the home page of his website.

The Ti-Lite this M-Tech ripped off was designed with input from Bogaszewski. It has gone through several models, different materials and price levels. A well-made and popular knife.

But Cold Steel doesn't get back to us when they're accused of "borrowing" other companies' work, so why not laugh?
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I simply point out that this is all irrelevant to the original post, and possibly inaccurate, too. CS posted about specific cases of counterfeits, not copies. The distinction between the two seems difficult one for various CS haters on the forum, but it's a key distinction.
 
The key distinction here seems to be between people who say what they please and others who say what they hope will displease. A glance at my knife collection reassures me I am not a "Cold Steel hater". (Geeze, do we get a membership card for a particularly negative post? Did mine qualify? Where do I apply to have my status verified?)

Punch and counterpunch, it's the Tuesday Night Fights!
 
I don't have any experience with this particular model, but have run into many MTech knives. Some have been okay, others were junk.

As far as this knife is concerned, please use it for awhile and then report on well it held up.
 
shecky said:
Then why the initial snark, and subsequent misinformation? And all completely irrelevant to the OP!
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I defer to your greater experience when it comes to "snark".

However, none of us here are bound to a mathematically precise response pattern. Occasionally, enjoyment of the irony inherent in a situation trumps mere information.
 
The real CS Tilite i a far superior knife to this junk. I was given this knife as a gift with a order I placed. They will fall apart in your hands with in a month. The srews are cheap, the liner is crap, the blade steel is a joke and those are the good quailties I listed. I like the style and have all the CS tilite handle materials/sizes. The CS knives like this are far far above this. Mtech started out as Master knives imported to the USA by Double 8 imports in the late 1980s to early 1990s. After several legal issues with importing switchblades, and copying other people's knife patterns, they re enetred the market as MTech....as you see they are still up to their old games.....If Memory serves me well they are the Chan family. They had a wholesale location in Hacken n Sac NJ and a retail location on 42 nd Street in NYC ( at least that is what the indicments said back them from Customs....)
 
Mtech are perhaps the most notorious rip-off companies in the knife business. Whoever their chief designer copycatter is must be a true aficionado, because they don't just rip off common production knives, but custom knives, some of which have extremely limited production numbers (such as Flavio Ikoma's Guardian Angel balisong, or Terry Guinn's Ring Fighter balisong). Darrell Ralph has been hit pretty hard by these guys as well.

As for the actual knives, they're dangerously badly made. Maybe you could cherry pick one that actually has secure lock-up, but I still wouldn't trust it.

Pretty funny that Mtech has copied CS, but it'd be even funnier if they copied the Black Talon (a notorious rip-off of Spyderco's Civilian).

The actual CS Ti-lite was the one knife of theirs I've had an interest in purchasing. Never did though.
 
Well, I bought it because I was curious. I'll post a better opinion of it after I use it awhile. But, I also realize it isn't a CS Tri-Lite. However, for the money my expectations aren't that high anyway.
 
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