I'm not trying to start any more trouble in this thread, but I agree to a point with Blues Bender. I really really wanted to like Medford knives. I bought one direct from Greg in person and had some good conversation with him. After some use I found the design to be a little more form than function. That's NOT to say it can't be used or is a piece of junk, but I found it more difficult to use than more functional designs. I sold my first Praetorian T and eventually traded two high end knives for another Praetorian T, trying again to really like it. I just can't though. I believe the price for the materials is far too high, and the fact that the warranty is void if you take it apart doesn't sit right with me. I love the design though, and Gizzler00's pics make me want to try a Medford for a third time.
In summary here's my opinion. The Praetorian isn't a special groundbreaking knife design. The materials are fairly common nowadays and the price just doesn't match with them. I believe it can be used hard and stand up to it, but it may be a little more cumbersome to use than other designs. That's just my personal opinion though, and not hard facts.
That's what all of our voices are on this forum, and that's what really makes it nice. All of us can share opinions, and while some people will be a little more vocal about their opinion, and it might not sit well with others here, they are still our opinions and are (hopefully) all grounded in some form of factual starting point.
Thanks for the input as well, because I had a similar issue with Medford, though I have never owned one myself. I have a good friend who collects with me and he had a chance to get one here locally, and let me play with it for a few days as well. While the knife looks cool, and it seems like it is well-made, in my opinion the knife was not really designed to be a knife.
At the very least, the cutting aspect of it's performance seems to be a secondary thought in the design. Sure, it looks tough, but they design really isn't that much stronger (except the thickness of the blade) than many other knives I have owned and used in the past, many of which are cheaper and all of which cut better.
It's not a worthless, useless, pointless, or factually bad knife, and it obviously has it's fans for a reason, but I am not one of them, and I have my own reasons for that as well.
The great thing is that there is a whole world of knives for all of us, and that world is still getting bigger...sometimes for better, and sometimes for worse. It all depends on what you are willing to buy, what your tastes are, and who is making the knife you want.
I would love to have a Medford that was designed with thinner blade stock, a lighter handle, and possibly a little better overall geometry for the blade, but that is not their MO.
LOL.
