New ZT drop on 11/4. Any leakes?

dano said:
They dropped a hint that it may be an updated Emerson designed model.
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I would be on board for that. The ZT Emerson collabs have ended up being some of my favorites - the 0630 and 0640 are gems.

The 0630 is one of my favorite folders in life. It's just so much fun to deploy, feels like a tank in-hand (plus the ergos are superb), and just makes me smile every time I carry it.

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Help an old man with a TBI and decades of substance use with a question that he can't recall the answer to:...

Do Emerson designed ZT's typically retain the chisel grind?
 
Probably will be an 0640 in MaGnAcUt...how exciting....Sarcasm aside, I hope it will be an actual working knife, and not some artsy impractical piece that ZT is prone to.
 
ZT started off with the idea the knives were going to be knives built for hard use by the military, LEOs, firefighters, first responders, etc.

The 0550 always struck me as the best compromise of hard use for the money. Something a soldier could afford & maintain in the field. I would have loved to carry a 0500 MUDD when I was in, but the ergonomics of the ZT version compared to the G&G custom were just a bit off for my hand. The 0400 was funky looking, but I don't like sharpening recurves - especially in the field. The big & beefy 0302 were overbuilt as hell. The model was very popular, but I'd not of carried one as it was a pocket brick & I had fixed blades that weighed less. The 0150 boot knife was a cool little dagger (always wished I grabbed one of those), but the legalities of a double edge blade would of kept me from carrying it. The ZT 0100 Ken Onion fixed blade was a stout field knife, but a bit bigger & heavier than I'd have wanted to take to the field.

Regardless, all those initial ZT knives were pretty sensible designs for their intended purpose.

Then they got funkier & fancier, along with pricier. No lower enlisted soldier is going to drop that kind of money - especially if they are married, have kids, or a charger/camaro/mustang car payment.
 
rileybassman1 said:
I know a person who is in the know and he mentioned this would be one of the last models before ZT is sunsetted. Sounds like Kai has been investing in the US Kershaw line to prepare for retiring the ZT line :-(
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I can actually believe this. I've talked about it before, but let's face it. It isn't 2015 anymore. Literally everything that was ZT's claim to fame is now done every day by companies like WE/Reate and plenty of American companies as well. When ZT moved from "Super hard tough use tools made here in the US" to artsy knives made of high end materials, they were pretty much dead in the water from that point onward. Sadly, they haven't relevant for a long time, and candidly, I expect this new model to be either a rerelease of some older model, but with updated steel, or else another new "art" style, super light gents knife, like some of their recent releases in the past couple years have been.

It's a shame. I got heavy into ZTs back in their early heydey, before selling most of them and moving onward. I still own two or three favorites, but don't see myself ever buying any more at this point.
 
Knives&Lint said:
Help an old man with a TBI and decades of substance use with a question that he can't recall the answer to:...

Do Emerson designed ZT's typically retain the chisel grind?
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No, which is one of the (many) reasons why the early Emerson ZTs were beloved, because in pretty much every respect, they were better than the actual Emerson knives on the market at the time.
 
Quiet said:
No, which is one of the (many) reasons why the early Emerson ZTs were beloved, because in pretty much every respect, they were better than the actual Emerson knives on the market at the time.
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And they still are! I wish a rerelease of the Emerson models and the LG models would happen!
 
Quiet said:
Agree, and hard agree on the LG models. The prices on the (very few!) 0909s I've seen on secondary have been horrendous. I've paid less for actual LG knives!!!
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Yea, I'm glad to own one of each, my 0920 of course being the prize, but the 0909 is a fantastic carry and the 0900 is perhaps a bit better than several of the ESVs that have passed through my grubby fingers!
 
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