NOW IT'S HIS TURN! Metal Complex EXCALIBUR Knife Review
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- THIS IS A REVIEW OF METAL COMPLEX EXCALIBUR KNIFE DESIGN WITH KUNWU. METAL COMPLEX IS ANOTHER KNIFE REVIEWER THAT HAS NOW CREATED HIS OWN KNIFE DESIGN THE EXCALIBUR. TODAY IM GOING TO TEST AND SHARE MY THOUGHTS ON METAL COMPLEX KNIFE AND SEE IF IT CAN HOLD UP TO SOME TESTING. @metal_complex
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Thanks Jerad. All fair criticisms! The external stops will have molded housing (think XM18) in the final production versions. This should eliminate the potential for play.
Thanks so much for taking a look. Fantastic review! 🙏
👊 great Job M.C i can tell this will be very popular
I couldn’t tell if this was an infomercial, knife sharpening video, website plug video, personal designs video or an Excalibur review.
@@douglasbrmn2 how? literally did an overview of the knife.
@@nicholassauer606 Dude he’s literally plugging everything he possibly can because he knows he’s getting views from MC’s subs. He made the review about him and not the knife, how do you not see that? A lot of knife reviewers and designers do not like Neeves because of the shortcuts he’s taken and going full shill. My guess is MC only sent him the knife because it was easier than answering questions about why he didn’t. MC may be a dirty used car salesman with diarrhea of the mouth but he earned his place in the community.
Still waiting on my MC sticker
MC killed it with that design, definitely the kind of knife I would happily carry.
Every knifetuber who has developed a knife recently has crushed it. All the designs will end up in my collection. Y’all did great jobs!
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YOU, Brian Winters, AAAND Metal Complex releasing knives all around the same time does NOT amuse my bank account.
Mine are pretty spread out but I know what you mean. My first one being the Misdemeanor any day now I should get tracking that they are otw then 2 weeks
@@NeevesKnives My man already helped me in Insta DMs with my Waypoint sharpening, so you already know which of the 3 I'll be buying first. Love myself some thin knives. And once again: I hope you find that large Drift. :)
@@NeevesKniveslink for the drop?
Good design. Good materials. it looks like a winner. Thanks Jerad
Excited to see more and more channels making their own models, I remember you talked to Ms. 1 million subscribers Melissa Backwoods and she wasn’t happy with the first model and I think it’s time for her to try again
I agree!
Really great review of the Excalibur Jared, I preordered this as soon as I saw MC’s first video about it. I love Kunwu knives they do such an amazing job with their detent and the heat treat on their Vanax is very well done. I have the Kunwu ComPadre and it takes a screaming sharp edge and keeps it for a good amount of cutting.
Good choice!
Thanks for the commentary regarding sharpening Vanax. Never had a knife with this steel and there aren't a lot of reviews out there re. sharpening it. I was interested in optimal edge geometry & grit sequence and you didn't disappoint. Of course thanks for reviewing MC's design - honest & interesting as always. Sharp blades all.
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Vanax will not disapoint you. Great steel .
0:23 I knew you loved to expose your tip! 😂😂😂 Great review bro, love to see more knife channels doing designs, i love both channels have been subscribed for years to both, even though im more into the way Jared reviews knives.
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Really looking forward to the sandwich or traditional construction knife 👌
Yeah as it sits, out of my price range. Hopefully it’ll bring it down
I've got that pen! Quite like it, I bring on more formal occasions
I love it and I'm not just saying because it's a sponsor I did switch out the ink to one that i loved from another pen, and not it's my favorite along with my chaves and tactile
@@NeevesKnives I generally use my Tactile for day to day stuff, just because it's shiny and feels awesome. BID I bring places because of the DLC and brass internals, plus the Timascus bolt it comes with all look awesome together
I thinks it's dope how all u guys are dropping ur own designs. Like u said, who better to come up w something than a reviewer who's done thousands of reviews and has a ton of experience with what works, and what doesn't. Tbh, the misdemeanor is my fav, but this one is also 🔥. The inmate is pretty awesome too. I hope by ATL next year, I can have one of ur blades, so when I see u again, I can show it off.
👊 I hope so to
Pre ordered that variant day it was available to!
Me too, the full DLC version looks awesome 👍😊
Nice Edge Jared, definitely a good looking knife, Thanks 😎
I love stud stops as they strengthen the engagement by an order of magnitude, as compared to regular studs, with shoulder studs somewhere in between. The point regarding locking bar cutout not being on the inside, that’s definitely a missed opportunity because being an integral knife, it could be easily machined on the inside. The end mill is the a tool commonly used for deep cuts, which has cutting edges on the end as well as the sides, so they could have cut it during the hollowing pass. It’s an easy fix for a CNC programmer.
I ran mills for 7 years in my younger days btw.
Good luck to both of you!
Love it. Reminds me of my Artisan Arion. Which is one of my all time favourites!
I really like both the pen design and the knife design. Sweet designs, especially the knife blade shape.
Thanks Jerad... Can't wait for my DLC Excalibur Kunwu killed it!
Can you make a video touching on the topic of hardness of vanax and why you corrected the hardness score from 5.5 to 7.5 please. I have a lot of knives in vanax, so I'm naturally very curious about the topic. I've heard you mention it before, and it perked my interest, but that's the only other time I've heard about it
So im not sure why that chart has it so low, but the edge retention usually sits around 7.5 to 8 out of 10 in edge retention it's better than m390 and 20cv I'm not sure why it's low on that chart maybe a mistake
Remembering the Kunwu budget Ironfly Zesty, I wish there was a comparable budget version of this knife for those of us who don't want to shell out top bucks for a good knife.
It's good looking knife great video man 👍
Fantastic review. Thank you 👍🏽
Very good looking knife. Looks like a Medford.
Everybody is sleeping on AT Knives first release. The H.A.L.T is an amazing knife with the best action I've personally ever seen. Titanium bolster lock, magnacut blade, and either Mars Valley carbon fiber inlay or purple haze or micarta. No branding anywhere on the knife. It's perfect.
Not every knife is for everyone and you may or may not like a design, that's completely normal. What's important is the implementation, materials and high-quality manufacturing. It can also happen that you don't like something at first and then realize that it's actually good. That's what happened to me with the Microtech Amphibian Ram-Lock, for example. I didn't like it at all until I had one in my hand and now it's one of my favorite folders and I own two. A few points of criticism were mentioned in the review, otherwise it's up to everyone whether they like the Kunwu MC Excalibur or not.
cant afford one now, but I can't wait till I have the funds for this sharp thing.
i would love to play with one of these so bad
Expose as much of the tip as I like? I wish I had that option, but I always go full shaft.
😆 🤣
It would be cool if Metal Complex did a ‘Knights Series’ line of knives, with Excalibur as his first featured blade of the series
Fair play Jerad you did exactly what I thought give a fair and honest review. I don’t really know what some of the people in the comments was watching or hearing ( it might be the little mice in the brain cavity’s) but some of the comments are incredibly interesting to the point of thinking if they have had their medication today!
Then again as we know you’re a man that believes in freedom of speech which is a beautiful thing.
As always stay safe and healthy J&K and have a cracking rest of the week both🫵🏻😘👍🏼
Jared was just being respectfull to MC because he is a good and decent human being.With them being toxic they cannot even wrap their minds around one person showing admiration and respect to another.
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@@BigHammerz very nicely said my friend
Have a cracking day and more immediately stay safe and healthy 🫵🏻😉👍🏼
Two sweet designs
Looks really good! Can't wait to get one!
NK brand on blade like kubey sencut and ganzo grat job neeves tsss
As much as I’d love to buy this, I’m saving my money for Winter Blade’s crazy drop this October
Which one are you thinking of getting? I'm leaning toward the M-FIRE
@@averageguruenjoyer6938 Probably the XL factor. The M fire looks awesome but my state is really dumb about switch blades. The Veyron is one of the coolest, but I can’t get over how goofy that blade shape is lmao.
yeah this is microtech expensive so it better be a good knife, definitely excited to get this in my hand
Reminds me of the We Knife Baloo. Looks very similar
That was a proper pause if I must say so myself
He knocked it out ofnthr the park. I love it.
I can't believe the name Excalibur wasn't taken! lol
THATS AWESOME
Im kind of surprised by the hate in the comments, idk if they watched the whole video but you pointed out more negatives then i expected, great video
me too, it’s hilarious! people will never be pleased
@@nicholassauer606 so crazy, I'd like to know what negatives they think he left out cause he came up with more then I would have been able to😂
Absolutely, people should calm down, a good knife is just a good knife and some points of criticism have been mentioned.
I think it’s mostly just people who dislike MC for whatever reason
I don’t quite understand why
He doesn’t spread misinformation, nor constantly praise knives
But since none of them had actual criticism, and just said “wow an Ad”
I doubt they had anything to say about the knife, especially since no one has got to handle one yet
The knife community is fickle, and a bunch of new people don’t like being told that knives cost more then 100$
@@bornonthebattlefront4883 That's true, MC hate also makes ZERO sense to me
Having a lock bar cut out on the inside messes up lock face geometry. It doesn't flex right, and WE should have told you that.
I was wondering about that. Jerad likes the cutout on the inside, but 90% of frame locks have it on the outside. I knew there was some physics involved that make an outside cutout desirable
No i don't think that's true, especially for a light duty pocket knife, I have Dozens of knives with internal lockbar reliefs all are just fine, WE , Reate, Bestech all had no issues or worries. And I've tested enough to know that it's not a worry. If I was trying to make a hard use knife it wouldn't be a framelock with a thin blade
@NeevesKnives Thanks Jerad, now we have both sides of the story. You're right, a hard use knife would be something like a Cold Steel AD10, with the tri-ad lock
Looks like a cool knife.
Oh dang! That's NOICE!!! 🌊🌊🌊
I was hoping for an MC impression. Great review tho! 😄
😆 oh dang I shoulda
It’s a good thing you sharpened it for him. You know, since he doesn’t know how to sharpen knives.
i was ready to criticize the design, but the closer i looked the more i liked it.
So many cry babies in the comments 😂 I thought we were men. Metal complex exists ahhhhhhh 😂
0:23 caught me off guard
Ur shirt is sick!
Thank you
Absolute banger. 🎉🎉🎉❤😂❤
Let the glazing begin BrÜThErS 😆
I saw the pre-order price. Its a bit to much to pay for just one knife in my opinion. I dont care about money at all. I just like to get as much as i can for the money i got. For that asking price i could get a few pretty good knives that could last for years. Just my take on it
It's an integral which always costs more, typically they fall in the 450 + range especially in these materials
As Long as you and he both allow PayPal I’ll buy it. Too many won’t let us buy with PayPal so I don’t buy. I wanted Mangarnus new knife but they won’t even ship to Australia so he can put his knife where the sun don’t shine. Don’t do the same!
Reach-around complete...
Do the Vanax is better than Elmax ..,
I think it is.
Yes by pretty much everything metric.
@@NeevesKnives i like your engagement with your community.
Once again... a lockbar cutout on the inside makes it weaker and ALOT more likely to disengage. Kunwu told him the same thing! There's a reason lockbars are on the outside!!!
No I don't think so, I've tested dozens of them with zero issues, Reate, WE and Bestech had no worries or issues doing it. A framelock is not typically a hard use knife so I can't see a scenario where it would be used very hard use with a thin blade
Hey, I'm considering getting a stropping kit with 6 micron, 3 micron, and 1 micron. However, I only have a double sided strop and can't get another leather strop. What could I make a strop out of to apply the compound to, could I cut up a fake leather belt and use that?
A paint stick will work great
Unfortunately I can't get paint sticks where I live, is there anything else I could use?
Also, god damn bro is replying to every single comment, keep up the good work.
@@StormSpider-iw1uzcan you get a piece of wood and shape it to match your other strop and then find some leather and glue it on but make sure the glue is very thin and even so no high spots
is this considered a polished dlc blade like the kizer militaw?
More of a fine satin with dlc
Hey will the inmate be available with the black handle and a satin blade, in other word a non black blade?
Yes it will have plain blades available probably in 5 options
Put me down for each one.
So glad to see he did not put his name on it just logo on pivot, within three years nobody will know he was even affiliated with the KNIFE. Lol just what he deserves.
The logo will be on the relief cut 😎
Sorry if I missed this, is this a hollow or flat grind?
Flat
Question:
If Spyderco made a likewise beefed-up Shaman, which, basically, this Kunwu Excalibur is, would you shell out $400.00 plus to get it?
If it was a titanium integral in DLC Vanax? I would... but I might be biased 😉
You need to go and have them eyes of yours tested!! How in the name of all that is holy did this Excalibur make you think of a sypderco shaman?
Please explain to me exactly what part of this knife said Shaman to you?
And before you do reply just take a look at both pieces first!.
That’s if you do reply and if you do please make some sort of sense and not be an idiot in a corner with a bucket over your head hitting it with sticks!
While shouting who’s there.
Can’t wait to here your reply until then stay safe and healthy my fellow human well at least I think you are or for a sheep you can type on a phone excellently 🫵🏻😘👍🏼
@@SkunkPunch73
Might have something to do with its lines… or reading between them! 😁
@@metal_complex
Might!
I wouldn’t!
Good luck, in any case!
@@polyviossimopoulos2436thank you!
Lock rock isn't ok. You can't assume it will break in and go away.
I'm returning a cruwear pm2 because of this exact thought I had in my head the other day. Lock rock = bad.
Yes lock rock is bad, however any liner or framelock can get a subtle amount before lockbar breaks in, and I can see that it's going to have more fantastic soon. Either way it's a prototype production versions are always better and more critiqued and they get better at them after doing one
7:24 - you can hang those off the back of your truck!
😆 🤣 😂
It's not smooth,,, it's smaooth !! ^^
Samooth
BRUUUUUU
I think the MC logo looks really cool and i think he should be proud of the logo and have it laser etched on both sides of the pivot and on the lockbar cut away.He once considered doing this and should reconsider it,maybe some with and some without,let the buyer decide if they want the logo on the pivots and lockbar cutout.
Metal Complex consistently talks about neutral handled drop points as something we’ve seen plenty of times before and not too exciting. And after handling literally thousands of knives, goes out and designs a neutral handled drop point that isn’t exciting.
Well like myself as well, I love what works great it's the little details that make the difference
@@NeevesKnives I’m sure it will sell well. And I hope it sells well for him. I’m also sure it’s well designed and manufactured. But it looks like countless other knives. And since MC often pushes for more interesting knives from makers and designers, I was hoping for more. I didn’t expect him to be the next GTC or Hinderer. And if this knife flops, it may limit his chances of putting another design out. I just hope the next time he spices up his design language next time.
Would LOVE a larger blade version with a much deeper carry,low profile pocket clip which goes into the pocket easier.
I think highly of your opinions on knives and sharpening. You're intelligent, experienced, and creative. But your comment about knife reviewers making knives around the beginning diminishes the intelligence, experience, and creativity of knife designers. Ray Laconico, ~Ostap halp, Jespar Voxnaes, to name a few, are inimitable.
Complimenting one group of people's achievements, doesn't discredit another group. Thats like saying complimenting modern architecture, diminishes the ancient Egyptians building the pyramids.
@@OUTDOORS55 I say again, as someone who loves your content. You and Neeves have brought my sharpening game to a whole other level. I've bought the Sharpal and magnifying device, using your links. And I've bought multiple knives and have given on Neeves' live videos in appreciation. That being said, please review what is said @1:00 for context, but specifically @1:20. He says after listing a few UA-cam knife reviewers, including himself, coming out with knife designs, " Who is better to design a knife than...."
@@strawman817I agree with you, that comment is laughable actually a shameful thing to say. To think these sheep leading knife influencers have the audacity to put themselves at a higher level than the likes of the Grimsmos, OZ machine, Chris Reeve, Shirogorov, Brian Nadeau, Sinkevich, Pena, Anso,Vox, Skiff etc etc guys that actually make knives as well as design them. This knife influencers phase who make Chinese OEMs build from their paper sketches knives is an era of the knife industry I hope ends quickly. I’ve never been more turned off by the hobby than right now. Fingers crossed the sheep stop supporting this crap.
Yeah I'm not taking away from knife makers or designers intact i give them even more credit as they created stuff with no references. However that does stop rather people that test the products to also have the ability to create a good product considering they have some many references
"PAUSE* 🤣🤣
Too Big
The ANAX with a twist and it ain't close....
Pocket clip right hand only?
Make a folding dagger ganzo samson style that has better than D2 steel
Right and left hand variants available 👍
That's a nice civivi praxis
Ouch! 🔥
I love the knife just don’t love the price. Will be nice if he does a version that isn’t integral to get the price down
It's a large integral, i would expect around 450 tbh
@@NeevesKnives yeah I get it just would be cool if he did a run that wasnt a integral
*Micro Chipping* 🤣 ..
Any excuse to sharpen I guess!
Yeah gotta find something
Meh. I will be getting the Neeves design.
I think the tristache is sick!
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No left-sided clip option? Lol pass.
If you watched the video he has left handed versions
Either the hole or the stud. No need for both. If he wants the option, include a screw on stud. If that was mentioned, apologies.
The thumb studs are the blade stop as well since it’s an integral knife.
@@bdub1804 do all integrals require thumbstuds?
Being that it's integral it's easier to have an external stop pin which i personally love these just so happen to also work as studs
You reviewers love to blow smoke up each other's butt's. Anyone who collects is an expert
Wow, guess showing the clip issue and lock rock was blowing smoke.
We can't win. If we're critical, you guys say we have our nose in the air. If we're positive, we're shills or we're rubbing elbows.
Knife reviewing is pretty straight forward. People love to dramatize it for their own twisted sense of self reaffirmation. "I see through the smoke and mirrors. What a smart boy I am".
It's not that deep. If you don't want it. Don't buy it. I'll live. So will Jared.
Thanks for forgetting lefties time after time guys. Youre doin swell 👍 i know how hard it is putting 1 or even 2 small holes on the other side as well. Such an engineering puzzle.
There are lefty specific models I believe.
There are left hand models. Way to bash it before checking 😂
There is a dedicated lefty version. Frame lock and all hardware reversed.
You just have to watch video and you will see if showed lefty options in beginning and said it in the video during action
sorry Jared, but that knife from mc is way overprice from chayna!
Knifes fine it’s just 25% overpriced
who?
just say its a shitty knife , full of problems and not ready for sle
It's a prototype and a really really good one that he should be proud of, it's more than ready
Why on earth would I pay $400 for that when I can get a Hinderer for the same money.
Hinderer isn't a unibody construction, nor do they use Vanax superclean
Well Hinderer is not an integral, also hinderer in full ti would be more, and they don't use steels like Vanax which is more expensive than m390 or s45vn
@@IDKReviews-db9xf give me a break. $400 on a mass produces Chinese knife is crazy.
@@NeevesKnives I would also very careful with the materials coming out of China.
That ad was weird. Never see you do one of those.
Yeah they are going to start being more common as I'm allowing companies to sponsor videos. No influence on the video at hand just being paid to show you guys other cool products that exist
No lefty love = no interest!! WTF
@@pacoman5816 if you checked you would know their are left handed versions
Ya gotta watch the whole video however i did show lefty options within first couple minutes
Ugg. I feel like I just watched an infomercial. Please go back to what you used to do
What does that mean he's always done the same kind of reviews!?
I literally did the same reviews I always do minus the edge retention test
Wayyy too long of a add jesus
Dude it was like 30 seconds, if you don't like it fast forward it stop whining!
@@jamesgoodlet6554 you can't fast forward this one it was 2 mins long 🙄
@@clavididk1236 no it was like 35 seconds, are you talking about the add at the first of the video or a UA-cam add?
It was 30 seconds what are you talking about?
@jamesgoodlet6554 I meant the mf usual skippable beggining but nah