Vespa Combat Troodon OTF Knife Side By Side With Microtech!! D/A OTF, S35VN, Under $200!

[Music] hey guys this is a quick look unless I want to review but maybe a overview of the brand new Vespa combat Troodon style I wouldn't call it a direct clone because you're not gonna see a combat Troodon that looks quite like these but they are combat Troodon style double-action OTF knifes holding here the gold one so if you see this online and you're like no I'm not quite sure what that's gonna look like in person it could be a little garish for some of you but I am in love with it it's my new favorite knife probably you see it's got the nice micro textile Hardware just for reference here is the prior generation the vespa knife you see it's got the three dot type screws and no carbon fiber inlay so they switch screw style then the king of them all or what they're copying or imitating is the actual micro tech combat Troodon this is the double action full serrated on one side the biggest OTF that micro tech makes at least last I checked and you can see it's it's not nothing too fancy looking this knife was made for for Navy military so on and so forth so it's not made to be pretty it's just made to be used unfortunately it's also 500 plus dollars and I I'm just scared to carry it because you know I I was this it's like almost kind of mini freakout time these knives aren't cheap by any means they're they're around 150 each but I I could probably stomach losing one of these but this guy would just heard but it's nice that I have one of these because we can show you for reference in weight in a second but right now I'll show you the difference in blades so you can see how good a quality these best Bazaar so here's your micro tech so if you take out the black which is just style and the full serrated what we want to look at is is knife quality lock up very good in the micro tech this guy's Lmax bowl or super steel super thin crazy strong and it holds an edge like nothing else so they say imitation is is the best compliment you can make or something like that anyway so let's just say these guys are making a compliment and in some ways almost an improvement so there's your micro tech again pay attention to how much movement I have very little it's not going in and out fires very hard and very reliable here a little ring on that believe this generation micro tech was a single spring so there's that one you've got your prior generation Vespa knife which I just love this read it's kind of funky and different not for everyone but I think it's kind of cool these all Vespas were single edge here that one's got ring to it's a single spring as well so I almost stabbed myself with it really really nice finish work on the blade they chose s35vn and they still use that on the combat treatment it's a blade steel similar to two L max maybe a little bit harder it's a little bit harder to sharpen but a lot of people it's it's it's a big debate but the end of the day a lot of people would would have no issue taking s35 over L max or vice versa I personally I don't think it gets quite as sharp but it holds an edge through just about everything so you know it's kind of a trade-off but there's your prior generation Vespa it's got a little where I've carried this guy a ton and it's got that same that kind of ring a single spring I call it single spring ring maybe and now on to the new ones there's gold alright and here's the black one let's go ahead and fire the Troodon and for fun we'll throw out this final Vespa here too [Music] so you can see you know across the board here and style blade blanks overall knife look on there they're all identical in in in those attributes this one the only difference obviously being the single edge put this guy I compared the micro tech wavelength is identical these two new Vespas are again they're s35 which I again have no problem with they're shaving sharp out of the box you've got a really really nice carbon fiber inlay on the blade which is an extra touch I just haven't seen anywhere if you're wondering if this is a copy of something or or what its closest to as far as resemblance I would say if you look up Murphy own custom carbon fiber on Google you'll see a couple custom micro text in the two to three thousand dollar range that have this same type of inlay both on the blade and on the handle here really nice touch again with with vespa they do a lot of stuff that's not strictly necessary but but it really stands out I mean this is an easy 500 two thousand dollar knife that they're selling for a hundred and fifty bucks which is just just fantastic if you guys want to check the store out its dhk it's really sort of weird to navigate but these are sold by China high-end EDC they are the actual makers of Vespa other sellers sell it but China high-end actually makes them so that's my go-to source for these knives you'll know you'll get in the actual best but because people imitate the imitation I guess you'd say so there's another look you'll see that these don't ring near as much almost no ring at all these guys are double spring which makes a huge difference and again my favorite gold it's just beautiful [Music] that's just a really really nice knife I can't say enough about it it's all CNC on the handle anodized these inlays are fantastic again that blade inlay and sorry you see house cuts I've kind of like tape or something with this so we'll try to ignore that that blade inlay is flush and it's really really fantastic and again it's just an extra touch doesn't need to be there but wow it pops okay put that one back in and just for reference guys I always like to weigh these so let's take a quick look compared to main link compared to the micro tech let's see what we get zeroed out I've got five point two seven ounces if you can see that let's see if we can take a look here it's kind of hard to read but five point two seven now let's see what mikrotik comes in at five point four four ounces so you'll see we're we're darn close to hit and hitting it spot-on wait why it's a tiny bit lighter again thanks for watching guys I I do these reviews for you thumbs up appreciated again China high-end EDC

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Length: 10min 0sec (600 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 01 2018