Picked up a Wasp this week. Absolutely love it. I knew it was too quality when I took it out of the box. Seeing the care and craftsmanship that goes into them just makes me love it even more.
I had never heard of Manly, until this weekend. When I had the knife (Patriot) in my hands, I knew it was a good knife! (I am a metalurgist myself), so I bought one and I am suprised by the quality. The craftmanship shines of this knife. After this vid I it looks to me that this is in the quality range of Helle and the other scandi knives. Keep up the good work. Cheers Ronald
Hi there thanks for watching and commenting. Good to hear from a metallurgist, especially when they are talking about knives! Glad you liked the video!
Great knives indeed, hands down! But, guys, for the sake of your own well being, please wear some hand/eyes/ear protection. Impressive workmanship, but look after yourselves too. Kind Regards!
Love manlys craftsmanship, and great knives at a very reasonable price. I have all the s90v steel knives and they're beautiful. I did pay a crazy amount for a spyderco pm2 in maxamet as well. I just love collecting quality knives.
Hey thanks very much. Yeah they gave me full access and so this made the job very easy for me. They have had several knife aficionados I believe (from Germany) before me, so used to this sort of thing.
I just ordered a Manly Patriot in D2 with black scales. I've been wanting one for a while and just found a new in box knife for just $60 as a close out. I wish I could find another one but with a convex grind.
@@BushCampingTools I do like it quite a bit. It carries very well and feels incredible in my hand. It's probably the best designed knife I've carried for my specific needs. I'll probably save up and get one in CPM-154 while they're still available. I Googled leather sheaths for the Manly Patriot and found a great one in Germany but there's not a translation feature on the website. I'll be carrying this knife for many years, it's taken a long time to find this great design.
Really nice Video! Brilliant to see where this wonderful knives came from! And cool to get a fraction of an idea how many work it need to make one of this knives. Thanks for this little window to see into the manly company. Hope you brought some "materials" for new videos with you ;) Best regards
I guess that's just how it is with them. No short cuts were happening in that factory. I had full access to every procedure and whilst I'm not an engineer (briefly taught some metallurgy to 3rd year mech eng students,) they certainly were all looking serious about their work.
Yeah, that's real skill at work. This guy is also one of their sharpeners as well as assemblers and finishers of components. In fact I noticed that all the staff there are multi-skilled. I have one of those drugar models and I thought the gimping was milled out LOL! When I saw him performing this I was thinking exactly what you commented!
A u know I've been there and everything I saw looked pretty good to me for sure. Europe certainly has some of the best steel in the world, but unfortunately the dominant market is still the USA and this is bolstered by the large social media force. (not to say they don't have some great steels, nor the Japanese ).
Hi, they have some great designs but what I really liked was the constant QC that was in operation, that told me they really care for their products. Thanks for watching!
I’ve been interested in manly knives now for a while. I had no clue that they put so much pride in the product. This video sealed the deal, I’m getting one. Very nice video!
The care and serious nature of the knifemakers in this factory blew me away-and why wouldn't they care? They all took their jobs very seriously. That video was completely un-staged as you can see, there were no "retakes" etc LOL. I had to exercise my skills (LOL) as a filmmaker (my real job BTW). I think they make great products and it has to have been the quickest ever purchase of a knife I can remember, when i bought a DRUGAR. In my hands for 5 minutes or less, then out wit the cash LOL, I was so impressed. It's a rare thing for me when it comes to buying stuff. Thanks for watching my stuff!
If I had seen this 2018 many of mine knives had been manly today, ordered my fisrt manly knife last week. Good to see that humans do most of the work and not machines that produce thousends of knives with no soul
I just watched this video and am sorry that I recently just heard of Manly knives. I am a fixed blade collector and have many nice knives that have fetched prices from $50 to $400. I have two of the Crafters, one in Walnut the other in Black micarta, both D2 steel. I can say that they are every bit as good as the Bark River knives and at 1/3rd to 1/4 of the price. They are the best knives I own due to craftsmanship, quality, price, and design. I paid $65 in US money for them from a shop in Europe. I am looking to add others to my collection as soon as possible. Do yourself a favor and buy one or two! No one touches a Manly at those pries!
Awesome.no stamping or injection moulding,all machine and handwork.i plan to buy the peak full flatgrind directly from the manly website as I cannot find it on eBay or in Australia.i can only find the partial flat grind version. Looks like I will not be disappointed.
Hi, yeah I actually bought mine when in Bulgaria. I think there is a distributor in WA. I'll ask them again for their name. If I remember correctly it is some obscure name with like no relationship to selling knives (LOL-of course!).
thanks bct for the video,i need to get a wasp,have a few of the others already-i don't like to talk up stuff too much then pretty soon i cant afford them
Anyone heard of counterfeit Drugar’s...ordered a Walnut CPM154 version and the fit and finish is horrible...that and I used it as a steak knife for one meal cleaning it immediately afterwards. It stained like it was 1095 or 01 tool steel...purchased from a large well known US dealer.
I don't know personally however, I would say that like any very popular knives and they def are (eg being even sold by Böker in Germany!) people will make fakes. My own experience with the couple of model I have and even looking at ones the other day in the shops, no way would they release some poorly made product. You saw the factory tour no doubt, this was a regular day for them and not some put on display for me.
I believe Manly Knives has gone out of business. I ordered and paid three weeks ago and they have not answered emails or chats or answered their telephone since then. Beware.
Hi there, there is a lockdown occurring in Bulgaria right now on various businesses I think you should bear this in mind. Did you try to contact them via the facebook too?
@@BushCampingTools Fair point and yes I have tried Facebook too. I live in France and most of the EU lockdowns have been lifted or recently restarted like in Italy. I will certainly delete or update this post if I find out that they are just suffering due to lockdown. Sucks for alot of businesses and they might as well. They could easily communicate though and/or post a note on their website. Thanks for the comment. Gives me hope!
Well after my time there it was easy to see why. Small company wanting to make good their products. Staff were knife lovers and also knife makers in their own right too, not just working there for a wage. One can employ lots of image processing cameras on a production line checking for quality but at the end of the day the human eye is still used as a final check.
Hi Michael, check out my reviews of the Manly Drugar fixed blade, I saw it in a shop and 5 min later after handling it, it was in my bag! (of course after paying for it LOL!) I found the factory and was blown away and asked if they wouldn't mind a factory tour, hell why not eh? So you see that's what I think about their products. I have a small blog on one of their folders, the one which you see at the beginning of this video and a quick field review of it too. They are making some great stuff at really decent prices (heck I don't normally mention the goulash LOL).
it is made with 154cpm, check this site. arms-bg.com/component/customfilters/fiksirani-nojove/manly.html I buy stuff from these guys a lot when I'm in this part of the world. They are good guys!
Ive got 2 Manly knives and each one of them is having Problems. My Peak got a slightly bend blade (if looked upon from the Top) and the blade of my Wasp is touching the Inside of the handle when closed. Very nice Knives tho, but not what I would call Premium quality
Hi this is not good to hear and I hope you contacted them about this. From what I saw in the factory (I filmed over 2 weeks there-no scripting and somewhat impromptu from me LOL) I only saw serious workmanship being undertaken at every step. My own personal experience with both a folder I own (a Peak and my Drugar fixed blade, is nothing short of perfection). Please let me know what their response was. Also where are you based?
@@BushCampingTools Hey, didnt expect an Answer! I'm from Germany. I am in no way against Manly, but I would consider their Quality ,,rustical"... With my peak it is ok for a user and my Wasp was replaced by the German seller. Still if I pay for a knife I want it to be ,,perfect" to use, and the whole process, even tho no loss happened, was smthing I could have lived without
@@L.T.112 Hi, firstly, I try to respond to all reasonable questions and even unreasonable ones LOL! Yes, I understand what you are saying and as consumer's we all like to get our products, the way they should be in the first instance and not have to be doing any exchanges for warranty. Although on saying that it is good that you were able to have this rectified somewhat with an exchange Wasp. My understanding is that they are quite liked in Germany. They are not yet popular in Australia as yet.
@@BushCampingTools yes many People got Manlys here... Maybe I give them another shot with one of theire Fixed blades, but this Time i'm going to buy it in a Store so I can check the knife first. It is very likely that I just had bad luck because most of the times you hear good stuff bout them. God bless
@@L.T.112 Hi Leon, yes, that is the best way. Despite the amazing usefulness of the internet shopping (experience etc etc). If I can purchase stuff like this in a regular store then I do. If not just to make sure my hand is comfortable with it.
D2 is a generic descriptor for a particular set of elemental percentages, which characterise this tool steel alloy. There are many versions now of "D2", they simply use a German made version and it carries a different designation.
@@BushCampingTools I do not believe this to be a truth, have a nice day. D2 has a specific make up and anything that isn’t d2 just isn’t d2... and 1.4116 is a different steel all on its own...
@@FPSNovaS Hi, you are right but you have made a mistake with your numbers. In the video description it reads: " 1.2379" NOT 1.4116 as you state, this is indeed something else ie a stainless steel designation. Please read the description carefully.
Bush Camping Tools hey! Stop m'y internet because i go to m'y garden for m'y vegetable, IS m'y only food today!! The nature IS great un south of France!!! See you soon on tour Chanel !!
I'm sure that depends upon many factors. Such as Kw; time, beam diameter; material thickness; type of steel material; cooling rates etc etc. Without serious analysis and microscopy of random samples, I would not personally suggest this is the case here (or any where). Higher accuracy can be had with the laser.
@@knivarsmario6508 Hi, ok I won't argue with you since you are using both and I'm going to assume you have looked at he microstructure to verify what you say. I do know about microstructure of metals as I once taught this to engineering students. To be honest I asked them why they were not using a water jet and I was told for the accuracy they needed a laser to cut these parts. So I figured it was based upon their experience. I do know that any use water jets for cutting out their blank blades, that's for sure.
Hi, I'm not so sure I can see the humour here. I worked with machine vision once and even if for example we look at such amazing assembly techniques as employed by say for example: Casio Japan, assembling some of their state of the art limited addition watches, the human eye is still one of the best methods for QC, especially for low volume runs. I also worked for a world leader in optics manufacturing and part of QC was also simply checking things by eye (not just the eye of course but with highly specialized machines and other optics but we are talking knife manufacturing here, not optics) If you can tell me a good example of even German technology where the human eye is not required at any step of QC then I'll laugh along with you. Thanks for watching and commenting. BTW are you an owner of any of their knives? Their folders are very well made.
It seems that the “Eye” of the customers, are deciding quality control. So, I guess the “Eyes” have it. I know it appeals to my eve. I should have bought 2 Patriots, when I had the chance.
