Who has medfords?

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I have a drop point s-35vn marauder with the black pvd handle and dog paw from plaza cutlery.
A all black pvd praetorian T with flamed hardware.
A bronze finished handle Viper with stonewashed blade.
A 1 off contoured and heat treated handle Arktika with a satin blade.
And just ordered a folding F.U.K with blue Ti handle and stonewashed blade.

I sold all my other knives in my collection to get these, and am very happy with the products, I carry a different one everyday.
 

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nice bro. I'm in the same boat. sold lots to get.

praetorian T black oxide flamed and tumbled
tumbled on tumbled viper
tff1 with dlc aluminum and dockside, vulcan blade

congrats on a viper now that they've nerfed it.
would love to find tanto marauder.
FUK look super too. not sure if id think there a little small. vipers a monster though. artikas look...different but cool as well.
 
I have to get the FUK for edc, it is small but it is legal for me. Good luck on the tanto marauder, I saw one pop up on blade hq an it was gone within hours. Plaza cutlery every once in awhile gets one in.
 
let me know when that fuk gets in your hands. it supposed to be under 8" but it looks bad ass and would be quite usefull. i try to be patient and wait for knifes to come up on the forums NIB as getting medford in canada is tough. if the exchange doesn't kill you, the import tax will. awesome knife though.
 
I will post pics when I get it, it is on a payment plan right now. Blade hq still has 3 in stock if you want to check those out.
 
Yeah, the look of the Arktika is really cool, when I saw the contour handle I had to have it. I have small to medium hands and I think the full size would have been a little to big. The contour is perfect. I think the best knife in hand is the marauder, it feels great in every direction. I started with a tff2, tff4 and a tfk1 folding karambit. I liked them but when the viper came out I traded and sold those knives to get it. Now I like the bulky feel of all the medfords I have so much that it is hard to leave the house with the praetorian T because it is small.
 
I have two. 187DPT is one of my edc chore knives (alongside a spyderco military) and an Arktika. Expensive but most fixed-blade-like folders I own (and I have more knives, folders and fixed blades, than any one person really needs :) ).
 
I handled a Medford Arktika at Plaza Cutlery just the other day. It is probably the dumbest, ugliest knife I've ever seen or handled in my entire life. Just a completely mind-boggling object through and through.

However, I actually really like the blade shape on the Medford General:

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I was told by Jonah at Plaza Cutlery that it was actually designed by a kid, who showed the design to Medford, and Medford liked it. Or something like that. Anyways, the blade shape is nice but the knife is just too big.
 
unclear...the kid drew what? the arktika or the general? which knife is too big?
general is too small. like a mini marauder sorta. just my opinion.
 
brancron said:
I handled a Medford Arktika at Plaza Cutlery just the other day. It is probably the dumbest, ugliest knife I've ever seen or handled in my entire life. Just a completely mind-boggling object through and through.

However, I actually really like the blade shape on the Medford General:

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I was told by Jonah at Plaza Cutlery that it was actually designed by a kid, who showed the design to Medford, and Medford liked it. Or something like that. Anyways, the blade shape is nice but the knife is just too big.
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Agree, that General is probably the only Medford I even would consider. The other ones...well, they kind of hurt my eyes. I'm not into the whole "knife like objects" thing. I wonder why there exists virtually no video on YouTube where someone actually cuts anything with a Medford :rolleyes:

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There is a thread on BF of a guy slicing a whole bunch of stuff with his Praetorian, pics included. They cut well, people are just too hesitant to truly use their $600 toy. That's more a reflection on us then MKT.
 
btinder said:
There is a thread on BF of a guy slicing a whole bunch of stuff with his Praetorian, pics included. They cut well, people are just too hesitant to truly use their $600 toy. That's more a reflection on us then MKT.
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Or maybe they took one look at that .19+ blade thickness and decided this wasnt the tool for the job.

Is medford the guy who designs knives but doesnt carry one? That just seems really odd to me.
 
btinder said:
There is a thread on BF of a guy slicing a whole bunch of stuff with his Praetorian, pics included. They cut well, people are just too hesitant to truly use their $600 toy. That's more a reflection on us then MKT.
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They cut well in comparison to what? A potato? An Opinel?

I have an extremely hard time believing that a Medford would cut like one of my Thorburns or Rocksteads...
 
Cut well compared to a jack hammer bit on a tomato lol
Blues Bender said:
They cut well in comparison to what? A potato? An Opinel?

I have an extremely hard time believing that a Medford would cut like one of my Thorburns or Rocksteads...
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Praetorian G with green G-10, flamed lock side, tumbled DPT blade

Panzer with all titanium handles flamed, S35VN vulcan blade
 
Your question misses the point, completely. We don't buy knives because of how finely they cut tissue paper. We don't spend our days in our homes cutting reams of newspaper clippings, pausing to wonder if another knife could cut ever so slightly better than knife that JUST CUT THE PAPER.

If it cuts well, that is good enough for me. Beyond that, we get into more subjective qualities like design, looks, origin, etc.
 
btinder said:
Your question misses the point, completely. We don't buy knives because of how finely they cut tissue paper. We don't spend our days in our homes cutting reams of newspaper clippings, pausing to wonder if another knife could cut ever so slightly better than knife that JUST CUT THE PAPER.

If it cuts well, that is good enough for me. Beyond that, we get into more subjective qualities like design, looks, origin, etc.
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Sorry bud, but I'm probably one of the few guys on this forum that doesn't cut paper. I base my judgement of cut-ability on real world use like cutting wood, zip ties, leather, cardboard, fabric, vinyl, plastic, etc... I use my knives... all of them.

I didn't miss the point, you did. Now care to tell me what it compares to?
 
WTF tinder said it cuts well. Compared to what? Who gives a shiz. Cuts well for him. Not for you...ok then go use your exacto or katana or jackhammer if that's what you like.
 
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