Looks very cool. Microtech occupies a strange space for me in my relationship with knives. I generally disdain anything that is as melodramatically tactical as many of their designs, and I tend to shy away from companies with reputations for poor CS or QC inconsistencies. If I hear about a known issue or horrible design choice, I get turned off. I hate gaudy designs, as a rule. I dislike bead blast finishes.
Yet, I will always have this beast, which breaks damn near every criteria I have for loving or buying a knife:
It’s huge. Proprietary hardware. Too much money for S30V. Bead blast. The blade is too thick, and the grind makes it fat. The pocket clip was every bit as terrible and painful in hand as advertised (I’ve had it modified to fix it). It’s not a great flipper (it opens consistently, but isn’t especially smooth or fast, and the blade is heavy enough to try to keep the knife moving in hand after lock up). The materials are weird (aluminum handle, and those insets). It’s a Strider collab, so both of the names on the thing have sketchy reputations.
Somehow, it still makes me giddy. I loooooove the Strider shape, and that it’s a flipper.
All of this is to say, I frequently look at Microtech stuff that isn’t my style, at all. When I do, I often get weirdly turned on. That Sigil, too...
