Pro-Tech Godfather Operator | Glow in the Dark?!! Automatic Knife Review
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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The Protech God Father is a popular push button automatic knife but is it practical for Everyday Carry?
In this video we see some of the pros and cons and take a close look at the Operator edition with a glow in the dark tritium inserted into the auto button.
We will talk about its applications in a defensive role too and test out its versatility in a combative situation.
Find out if the Pro-Tech GodFather Operator is right for your mission!
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I get why it scored lower on carryability but I'm grateful to live in a state where those legal issues don't currently exist. I've been looking to get one of these for some time now, after having owned two other Protech autos.
They are super snappy and I love the shape of this God Father 🔪
I hope you pick one up and enjoy it as much as I do!
Is the color the same as the swat? I'm seeing the operator is a tad darker in photos but that may just be cameras and screens issue.
You can't make a knife with a tip that thin in the steels you mentioned. They're far too brittle and would break with normal use. Also, the buttons rotate so they don't wear out. If you used it in one spot for long periods, the much softer button wears out faster. Meaning you'd be replacing a very expensive button with just a year or two of use on it.
S35VN is tougher and more wear resistant over 154.
@@anthonyb2990 It's definitely more wear resistant, but tougher at the thin thickness used on these knives, it is not. The higher carbide content makes it more glass-like in structure. While this increases the wear resistance, it does make it more prone to fracture. The added niobium helps make this steel durable, but honestly I've found niobium steels to trade off wear resistance for added strength & machinability. Both are great steels, but needle point tips like on this knife are more stabile using lower carbide steels.
Please educate may. Source the claim. Cpm 154 is less prone to fracture than 154cm. Therefore, there are a lot of less brittle compositions that would warrant strong points or tips. Are you taking heat treat into consideration? 154 cm is equal to a 420 or vg 10. You throw a crucible cpm s35v, 45, 20cv magnacut and you have the perfect materials for pointed pocket knives. I wont argue this point because I have the metal compositions and percentages in front of me. Your statement that 154cm is less prone to fracture is incorrect. The truth is 1. It is cheaper and maybe easier to treat. But If your statement was correct mideorech, heretic and protech would have failed big time on manufacturing different compositions on acute tips. Bro, we have seen the highest quality of cts xhp , bohler m390 , k390 kick ass in the "fracture department". Mateo is 100 percent right. 154cm is what kershaw uses. The Godfather deserves a cts xhp at the least. We could pull out charts. But bro, this is in peace and I dont mean to put an ego in this. Science based and rationale should always determine the goal....the truth. God bless.
@@Apex_grind562 Steel works on a sliding scale. When you gain in one area, you lose in another. Adding carbide to steel makes it more glass-like, which means it is far more prone to fracturing. It becomes more brittle. That's the price you pay for gaining in edge retention.
If you want proof, just watch Forged In Fire. You absolutely could *not* chop into a metal pipe with s30v. You can barely drop a normal knife on the ground without the tip snapping off, let alone baton it into steel. That's because they are all using carbon steels, which are incredibly strong, but not so great at holding an edge like a super steel & also are not stainless. So they gain immense strength while losing in both stainless ability & edge hold capabilities. Steel science is the attempt to find combinations & methods that end around this basic law of steel.
You can simply remove heat treat from your calculations. Two different steels with the exact same heat treat will still behave in this manner. Higher carbide content = less strength. The only thing that has improved this in recent years is CPM technology. If you want proof, just study the fundamentals of steel. Or just go look at the various charts online. Higher carbide content gives better edge retention, but lowers strength. 154cm at 60hrc outperforms every steel with a higher carbide content. That includes XHP, which is also much more expensive than 154cm. There's a reason no one makes needle point knives in these steels.
@@Apex_grind562 "Toughness and edge retention are generally opposing properties and it is difficult to improve both of them at the same time. There is no such thing as a steel that is a “10” in both toughness and edge retention. Or even a 7 in both categories. In general, higher carbon and higher vanadium steels have higher wear resistance and edge retention but lower toughness. In general, the more carbide the steel has and the larger the carbides the lower is the toughness. For high wear resistance and edge retention you want a large amount of hard carbides. And for high toughness you want little or no carbide. So the major tradeoff is in how much carbide you want in the steel for edge retention without dropping toughness too much for the intended knife and user."
- Knife Steel Nerds, Dr. Larrin Thomas
There's your source.
The Operator is badass no doubt, but $85 extra for a small piece of tritium is a tough one to swallow, I went with the standard black version.
on the flip side you can hide better in the dark hahaha
Great review- thanks
It's a cool blade! Really cool blade! 😎👍🏻🔥
Considering legality of a tool or weapon, to evaluate "carryability" is a stark deviation from an otherwise objective review.
How so? I believe it’s important to consider
@@tacticaltavern the laws have nothing to do with the machinist/manufacturer.
@@tacticaltavern definitely important to consider, simply not viable as a means for examination.
@@tacticaltavern and I want to tell you something;
What kind of person responds to criticism with love (or a heart symbol)?
A real man, with no insecurity. I respect that. Good on you, young man.
Should check out my EDC Pro-tech Mordax in magnacut
Yes!!
Got their tr3 knife. It's my edc love it.
That is a solid knife!
I am not a auto fan. But, you did a great review on this blade.
Thank you! The shape is super elegant 🔪
Used to own a Godfather. It became the victim of a beautiful woman. You know how it is. She kept telling me she liked the knife so I, in my stupidity, gave it to her. 😆😆😆 I only recently (last December 2022) came back to the automatic game. Got myself a TR3 and an all black Godson.
Hahahaha those pesky girls will take half of everything you own if you aren’t careful 😂😂
Very generous of you and I am happy to hear you are getting back into autos!
I have my eyes set on a godson too!!
Thanks for watching! 🙌🏽🔪
I like this knife. Looks bad ass. But arnt they made by "microtech"? The 3 microtechs I've owned all had quality issues. There were all "OTF"
I love the looks of this knife too!
I believe they are two separate companies and Micro tech Mainly makes OTF autos
What kind of issues did you have with the quality?
@@tacticaltavern oh good lol all my knives I put very little to light use on. Some of them if any use at all. Especially my "SD" knives. I had 2 of those (microtechs) come apart on me and 1 would misfire. So I got online to see if it was just me and my "bad luck" and it wasn't. It was pretty common for those, which is weird for the price of them! 🤷♂️
@@cloudnine8842 shoooot I literally just picked up a Microtech Combat Troodon at the California Custom Knife Show this weekend
Now I am interested in testing the quality out further
@@tacticaltavern Im sure yours will be fine. My situations happnd several years back. I can't even remember which models mine were. That was when I didn't kno anything at all about knives, when I bought a knife because it "looked cool" lol I ended up trading them off to my cousin for some IWB holsters for my sig and Glock. Lol are u going to eventually do a review on your troodon?
@@cloudnine8842 Absolutely!
Oh come on! How can you title this "Glow in the Dark"and not show it glowing in the dark?!
I like the godfather enough to have just ordered one but not the Operator model. I personally like the bead blasted look over the dlc coating but that's just me. This knife isn't legal to carry in my state but, like in known to say-Who gives a shit? I'm not going to let a few years in prison stand in the way right?
Any model of the protech godfather is difficult to find these days. Protech seems unable to keep up with demand. I'm a little disturbed to hear that yours came lacking the edge one would expect to find on a knife in this price point. Perhaps a bad day for the inspector?
Yessir I appreciate your remarks and thanks fir sharing your thoughts
I suppose the “inspector” had a long weekend! 😂 I am very excited to get a God Son! That one looks sweet
Ok now were gonna review the audio quality mainly volume of your review 🤔🤔🤔👿👎👎👎👎👎