At the risk of getting myself sued for libel in addition to copyright infringement (in for a penny, in for a pound as my mother used to say!) I have to say that while I enjoy Tactical Knives magazine, they really only seem interested in posting good things. While this is a fine idea, we all know that no tool/knife etc is perfect and that's why the reviews at Multitool.org (at least the ones written by me) have three pros and three cons. It's my way of being fair to both the customer (reader) and the manufacturer, plus I don't believe on dumping on folks.
At worst all the TK writers say is what they'd like to see done to the design (ie- "I'd like to see a tanto point version" or "I wish there was a g-10 version") which I don't think does the reader any justice. It's like going to a used car dealer who tries to convince you that every car on the lot is absolutely perfect for your needs.
If everyone blows smoke up the manufacturer's arse, how will they know what needs to be fixed in the next generation? And if someone doesn't point out what the drawbacks are, how are the consumers going to feel when a glaring fault is overlooked? Quite frankly, when I surf a review site like Epinions.com, the first thing I do is scan the pros and cons listed at the beginning of each. Anything that's mentioned several times in the cons section is obviously a problem, and I decide if it's the kind of thing that's important to me. Often times it's something I can work around or something that isn't a huge deal to me, and sometimes I just don't consider it a liability.
Of course, this is all my opinion, and it doesn't for a moment detract from me continuing to read every issue. In fact, their trend lately has been to take knives to certain places and use them for specific purposes, like hunting or fishing or general woodland chores. Then they say how well the knife did, which is much better than the straight out review where the knife does the "standard" tests and performs as well as every other knife that ever went through those tests.
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