The rise of the midtech knife

Interesting read :thumbup: Thanks for sharing. Especially relevant now with BM dabbling in midtech designs (e.g., 7505-131).
 
midtech is essentially more costly productions. Some people are actually selling "custom" knives that are in fact midtech productions. When it is a run of 300 or 500 knives, even assuming you lay a finger on them along the way, they are not custom knives.
 
The definition of midtech has changed considerably since it's inception. Originally, the term was coined by Ken Onion, who, falling behind in his custom orders, decided to have a few parts milled out by an outside company, those knives were then put together and finished by hand by Ken including blade grind. By that definition, there aren't many true midtechs out there. CRKs, Striders, and Hinderer regular production knives are just that, production knives, they may be high end production knives that are hand assembled with a high degree of attention to detail, but they are not midtechs in the true sense of the word.
 
A nice reference to TAD Dauntless in the article. I'm determined to find one...at a reasonable price.

This article was interesting and RELEVANT, and very few of us posted about it. But if I wanted to chop down a one-foot-diameter tree with a small Kershaw, I can get hundreds of posts... Something is wrong here.
 
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Thanks for the link. Good article. Even after years of knife collecting, I still have trouble determining midtech vs custom
 
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