Tom Mayo TNT

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SliceAndHook

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Does anybody out there have any first hand experience with the subject knives? Sounds like they are made out of great materials but I've never handled the titanium/talonite knives to get a personal feel for the fit and finish and balance. I've found a couple of prototypes available for immediate sale and they are tempting. Are the handle slabs solid (other than the holes) or are they hollowed out a bit? In the photos the handles seem like they have nice rounding to them and not as flat as sebenzas so I would be interested in how they feel. Thanks in advance for any views that anyone may have.
 
I have a Tom Mayo TNT small. Very nice knife. Not one bad thing to say about it except that maybe I should have bought a medium. Fit and finish are flawless and the lockup is tight. Blade very sharp just the way I like it. I can actually shave in between my eyebrows with it. The finish on the handles is great, doesn't scuff like the Sebenza does. Daily carry for about 2 months and it cutts like you wouldn't believe. I live in So. California and I'm not a hunter so I haven't dressed any animals with it. Handle is contured (not flat like the Seb). Built like a tank and still looks as nice as the day I bought it. It is a left hand model and when I got it the Mayo logo was on the side of the knife that I can't see when I opened the knife. Typically, logo is on the side of the blade that you open and the blade material designation is on the other. Sent the knife back to Tom and he changed it with no problem and also agreed to do that with all his left hand knves. If you are right handed it doesn't matter but it does if you are left handed. Bottom line is that he is a decent guy to business with. It gets a big two thumbs up from me.
And here's my baby!
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[This message has been edited by Scott Dog (edited 10-27-2000).]
 
I wasn't very interested in the TNT until I went over to Tom's house and he showed me a drawer full of them (he was on his way to a show). I was super impressed with the knife, and the way it felt. I was also very impressed with Tom as a maker.

A few days ago he had two on his website. I'm waiting for my lefty to come...hopefully soon.

~Mitch

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anything for you timmy.....
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[This message has been edited by tom mayo (edited 10-25-2000).]
 
Tom; you are spacing your holes MUCH more evenly. Further, you are down to 8 KB per pic. What has come over you???

Walt
 
just out there flying by the seat of my pants, like most of the doctors in this country....
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Slice-

Scott Dog covered it all really well. A Mayo TNT sits in my pocket as I type as it has become my everyday carry knife. Best knife I have ever owned. Yes, the slabs are rounded which is really apparent when you look at one from the end. It is amazing about the workmanship that goes into converting a flat slab of titanium into the beautiful curved shape. Tom has a 100% satisfaction gauranteed policy. Check Tom's website at www.mayoknives.com for more TNT pictures. The curved blade above is cool but I prefer the clip point on my medium.

-Steven
 
SliceAndHook,
Go for it, dude. I agree with everything that's been written here. You won't be disappointed.
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-Bill
 
Swong13; I hope that you waited for Tom's check to clear before posting that saccharine tribute.
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Secondly, the knife pictured actually exists; I thought these were computer generated images, but it turns out that Tom purposely made some like this for the SOF show.

I therefore nominate Tom for the Y2K P. T. Barnum award.
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Walt Welch
 
One other positive point is that the TNT isn't a "cookie cutter custom," despite the fact that its basic design would lend itself to that sort of operation. Tom was quite willing to do some customizations on mine that a "cookie cutterer(new word?)" might try to avoid since it would probably mess up their fixtures or programming.
 
Don't even get me started on the "cookie cutter" makers. I just got a response from a certain maker, who said that his "bolster-lock" requires such complicated machining that he can't make it left handed. In otherwords, he'd have to have his blanks lasered differently, and modify his CNC code.
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Very disspointing to find custom knifemakers that do this kind of "cookie cutter" knives.

I'm happy to hear that Tom should be starting (and hopefully finishing) my knife in December. I hope it's done when I go home for a visit.
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I understand your dismay Mitch. I don't even consider cookie cutter makers to be true custom makers--more like mini-factories. Sure they'll do custom stuff if you want cosmetic things like shiny rocks or some kind of ebola wood handle slabs but thats about the extant of their custom abilities. as far as everything else is concerned they crank out huge runs of the same "custom" knives w/very few real custom options. Still it fills a market niche and these makers have made certain economic decisions and I suppose some folks are perfectly happy w/this; but for about the same $$ its nice to be able to work w/a maker and get some truly functional customizations on a knife--like say the TNT.
 
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