Review Preview / then a Review ! Mtech Hunter

[old4570]

Ok , I kept seeing this knife on Feebay and I just had to buy it . ( No choice )

A) The knife is small .. Really small , and feels small ..
B) My slightly larger than medium hands feel crowded ( claustrophobic ) clutching the grip .
C) This might almost be a child sized knife , or at the very least a knife for small hands . Yes , I have already modified mine cos my hand felt so crowded gripping the knife .
D) Factory edge was beyond FUBAR , it was non existent !
E) I had to go straight to a regrind .. Around 18 degrees . ( Give or take ) And it was a some what rubbish factory grind / bevel .
F) Grips are Plastic , and will need to be modified to match my blade mods to the grip to make my index finger less crowded . Or just do a para chord wrap !

Knife is 8 inches , or around 203mm . the plastic grips are around 85mm and the small knife does have some heft to it - around 220 grams .
It's hot and humid and I just love to hate on - hot & humid .
Tomorrow is a cooler ( wet ) day . So some rope slicing some time in the future ( not to distant )

 

[Alberta Ed]

You generally get what you pay for,

 

[old4570]

You generally get what you pay for,

I really / really / wish that were true ...
But I have two boxes of junk knives that say different .
Now if you had said , buying a knife is like buying a lottery ticket ! That would be more like it ...
But that's my experience .

 

[old4570]

A) I double checked the edge / bevel .. It's 22 degrees on the money
B) Cant trust those plastic gauges ...

Lets get right to it then ... It's a 60% humidity day
And the knife failed @ 250 slices ..
This is the high end of average .. ( My play book )
Knife cost $23 bananas , and went to 250 slices ..
That means the performance index is at 10 cents a slice . ( Slightly better - but rounded off )
I hate the grips , they be rubbish ..
I feel a paracord wrap in this knives future ..

Next I will try a 18 degree bevel .. Might roll the edge or might give a serious performance boost ?

 

[old4570]

18 degree bevel cuts rope ..

Slicing rope to two hundred slices was nice .
But @ 200 the going was getting harder .. . Harder for me .
Cos I needed to push down onto the rope harder .
This obviously put more stress onto the 18 degree edge and at 250 slices there was edge roll .
We can call 250 a soft fail .. & maybe call 300 a hard fail due to a rolled edge .
Wasn't a big roll ..

I stropped the edge once both ways and suddenly it was slicing paper ..
So in the video @ the end , that restored edge is a two strop edge ( once each way )
This kind of tells me the edge rolled .

So early in the rope slice there was no issue ..
But as the edge wore , more pressure was required to cut rope ..
And that increased pressure rolled the 18 degree edge / bevel .

So , 22 degrees or 18 degrees ... Looks like the knife is a 250 slicer !
And in my book , 250 is the upper end of average .
A 20 degree edge ? Butt , I'm done on this one . I might do a paracord wrap ...
Oh , and the edge stropped back just fine .. Though I did need a little compound , half a dozen passes over the green stuff and some soft and hard leather .
So a low average price and a high average performance .