MTech USA – Fixed Blade Knife – Satin Finish Stainless Steel Blade, Brown Wood Handle with Stainless Steel Bolster, Includes Nylon Sheath - Hunting, Camping, Survival, Tactical – MT-20-03

Great knife at this price point. Very sharp point with a double edge blade. Knife also looks good and feels good in the hand. Sheath is not leather but is adequate. I mean you can't expect a fancy leather sheath for this price. It has a belt loop to attach rather than a clip. I have a Smith & Wesson H.R.T. knife that came with a nice leather sheath but it has a clip and I hate it. I'll use this sheath to also carry the Smith since they're the same size.

Okay lets clear the table right off, Yes this is not a "collector grade" knife. Now that this issue has been addressed, I recieved my MTech MT-20-03 today and after all the bad reviews I read I was really ready for a piece of $#!T , This was NOT the case! This 13.00 dollar ( and let keep that price in mind through out this review ) Knife turned out to be a really nice add to my collection! So the cons: The Sheath is a low 3 out of 4 stars. The stitching is single run through out the nylon. The Sheath's button knife locking restraint is without a stiff backing ( which would be nice ) And only one spot appears to be uneven where the tang meets the bolsters on the blade side, HOWEVER! a quick 1 min grind on the old Dermel tool fixed that. The Stainless polished up pretty nicely with the Dremal buffing wheel and some Frizt polish. aside from that , the knife is pretty darn cool! The handle seems to be made of some form of wood and has a really good feeling in the hand ( a nice slight palm swell ) The brass pins were tight and finished off nicely. The fit and finish not too bad! ( at least on the one I got ) The Blade is not razor sharp but definitely sharp enough to do what this knife was designed to do! The Blade is a full tang and quite strong. From what I have read in the past I think MTech has been improving on this knife because what Ive read on the bad stuff about this knife, is not what I'm seeing. Remember folk $13.00 not $200.00. To sum it up ... It's a wonderful product, You can't go wrong with this knife.

Reviewing a knife like this can feel very difficult to do. The reasoning behind this difficulty is the fact that this knife was only $16 at the time of purchase. This is such a low price (and not a mora either) that they could have sent me a piece of unfiled metal sticking out of a handle and I could not really complain. So rather than “reviewing” it I will give my best description of the blade I received and let you discern whether or not you believe it is worth the money. I personally have 0 complaints, however if I payed approx $10 more I would be mildly upset with the issues in manufacturing this knife received.Let’s start out with blade sharpness: the blade comes sharpened out of the box. Although it’s not “razor” sharp like my moras are out of the box it is still deadly and not to be used as a toy. It won’t glide perfectly through a piece of paper but with a small amount of force it still sliced the paper cleanly. It could be sharper, I will have to take this thing to a grindstone then a whetstone and report back.Next thing I would like to address is the grind on the knife. This knife (at this price) can be assumed to be machine milled/ground rather than hand ground. My knife has the exact same grind defect I’ve seen in youtube reviews for the knife. The burr on the knife is not perfectly straight, it curves to the right and ends approx 1.5mm from the true sharpened point of the blade. In terms of functionality this has little effect as this knife is designed purely to stab things, not slice.The handle: the handle itself feels very good in the hand. It uses 2 real wooden plates that are held to the full tang of the blade with setting pins commonly found in older pocketknives and chef’s knifes. The handle itself feels high quality and sturdy in the hand, however closer inspection reveales that the tang of the knife sticks out about 0.5mm out from the wood plates all the way around the handle. This doesn’t bother me but a knife collector may want to grind down around the outside of the tang then polish it. This would level the tang with the wooden handle.Weight: this is a hearty n hefty little knife. It has a very good weight in the hand for the size of the knife. You won’t forget that this is on your persons however it remains light enough to not be a bother when sheathing and unsheathe. Would not make a good throwing weapon as the balance is way off from center of knife to the blade tip.Sheath: the sheath is just a crappy “tactical” sheath. I would have preferred a poly sheath like the ones that come with a Mora as this one catches the blade when quickly sheathing the knife. I tend to carry it without using the blade strap because it sits in there firmly enough to not fall out against the tension. I find I am able to deploy the knife in under a second when carrying this way. If I was doing physical activity such as running I would recommend strapping the knife into the sheath. This will drastically reduce your draw time. I prefer the “click in and snug” type of sheaths offered by Morakniv the most as they do not hold moisture and are extremely easy to deploy yet remain sturdy when running. The sheath that comes with this knife is belt loop only.Hope this review helps!

The media could not be loaded. The knife is great. The sheath isn't. I usually don't buy M-Tech knives because my impression of Mtech knives are overly tacticool, cheap knives that are only really for looks. However I was browsing through fixed blades and found this, which has a great look, is easy to see its full tang, and looks well made. The knife came very sharp and after a few passes on the sharpening stone it could slice paper. The sheath however is bad. The first problem with this sheath in my opinion is the it doesn't have a clip for IWB carry, just a belt loop. Now of course I could have seen that by looking at the product page but its ok, I was too excited about the knife. The other thing is the buttons make it impossible to return the knife to the sheath without lots of effort to move the button straps out of the way. They are basically placed directly in the way of the knife and it doesn't make any sense, unlike sheaths that have the button strap come over one of the sides of the guard, this one has them come around the handle from both sides. (you'll see what I mean when you look at my pictures). The good thing for me is that I bought this knife and the Smith and Wesson HRT boot knife at the same time, didn't like the looks of the S&W so I used its sheath for this knife (they're almost the exact same size so it works fine) Overall, I love the knife but I would never carry it in its own sheath.