SOG Pentagon OTF - Nice... But WOW The Price...
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The very nice, but very pricey SOG Pentagon OTF.
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Great review!! I had a Combat Troodon for a whole 2 days. The action was so stiff I could only open and close it a couple times before my hand wore out. Unacceptable to me, and not the first time I've heard of that issue. I think my next OTF will be a Guardian Tactical.
GT makes the best production OTFs imo. 035 & 040 are awesome.
I have the SOG Seal XR Flipper , it's worth every penny. I've really enjoyed it so far & will say it's one of my favorite EDC knives that I've carried. I'd by the Pentagon OTF just based off of the Seal XR .
Some how the Seal XR feels more "worth it" than this does.
@@SliceyDicey that's disappointing to hear .
I’ll stay with my cheaper ultratech and combat troodon.if anything that button looks a mile long!
Is it too much to want a basic D2 OTF from a reputable company for less than $100?!?!
I had a Tac- R which uses the same pocket clip and is about 5.5 oz and just as thick. That pocket clip is one of the best i've used. It works really well, and i'd say it's comparable to spyderco's wire clip, only maybe a thicker piece of wire.
I've loved SOG since the 90's. But that price is to high. If it were around $200 I'd buy one. I'll stick with Microtech for that price.
Respectfully, this is way better, you have to spend hundreds more to get something that's in this league.
Odd thing is, the dealer cost on these is maybe $5 or $6 less than the micro tech, but the MSRP is $100 less🧐. Not sure why they think we’d fork out just as much to put them on the shelf, have a much harder sale, and have a far smaller margin rather than just stock the MT’s and watch them walk out the door with ease. It is a nice looking knife, and sounds like it’s top quality, but man…they need to drop the dealer price and msrp if they want us to push these into the market.
I have a benchmade autocrat which is pretty similar and a similar price. I am very happy with it.
I love SOG ,I would buy that !
Don't buy one mind taking edge damage from something inside the mechanism
Massive handle!
Man that's a nice chunk of change for a sog. Admittedly, I don't watch a ton of sog reviews, but they seem to have improved since my early knife dsys.
SOG in the late 90s used to be AMAZING for its time. I have a BG-42 blade from that era of SOG and it will hold its own against many options today. Then they became a Walmart knife in the early 2000s and quality went to crap. Seems like they're getting their mojo back.
(Update - don't buy this knife, wait for the V2) God I just love the look of this knife, just picked one up should be here in a couple days. Kinda took a gamble because there are very few reviews and it is a fairly new release, but mannn that's a sexy piece of metal right there! I hope I don't have the issues others seem to have with the blade becoming damaged after prolonged use. If it is, I'll be replacing it with a Guardian Tactical, while I save up for a Deadlock Model C 🔥
Can't legally carry them but thank you so much senor Dicey.
I do like that there are slowly more and more OTF’s with different handle materials. Hogue, microtech, and Benchmade, and now SOG with G10 OTF’s. I’m digging it! Now for more Ti OTF’s and full CF or micarta… I know it’s doable, we have the technology lol.
Do you have any experience with the Boker OTF? Those are catching my eye here lately.....but I'm unsure since it's new.
Not past the kwaiken otf I played with at bladeshow this year, and their little usb one that has been everywhere. I suspect that they are farming it out to someone, not sure who though. The kwaiken was interesting though, love the shape, felt good. I haven’t had the best past experiences with Boker however, so I’m a little cautious lol.
@@fukemnukem1525 don't do it. I had a screw fall out and the handle to blade ratio is horrible
the grip is very comfortable and lockup is tight.
I have it, it is very impressive with the lockup. It makes cool sounds. It has not failed to fire or retract so far. Hint, if you tap the button down after firing it, it will lockup even better. Like 99.9%. Things I do not like... it is heavy for an otf. The switch on mine is also crooked, and worst of all mine came dull as fuck! I had to make mine sharp myself with my Work Sharp onion machine. Now it is one of my favorite otf's. Still isnt taking the crown from my GT Recon Elite.
Thanks for your input. 350 is a little high. I have two Microtechs and two Guardian Tactical’s and I can’t imagine any crooked buttons on them.
@@actor4nyc I have a few of each of those as well. Personally I prefer them more too. That said, this knife is still pretty cool in it's own right. It is a lot more complex, many more parts to it too. It is pretty tough though, and is still working great. For $350, the way it locks up alone is worth the price. Only other knife currently in production that achieves that goal is the G&G Hawk Deadlock, that sells for $1600 if you can find one. So I gotta give SOG a pat on the back for keeping it at a realistic price point. I do love this knife too. Even though it doesn't make it into my pocket as often as my Combat Troodon or my current favorite, the GT Recon Elite. Pretty much always have one of those on me at all times, if not both. I do try and rotate in some of my other knives as well, because I don't like knives that just sit around and collect dust. I have a bunch of knives, and all of them get carried, or I sell them to someone that can carry it more than me, if I notice that It doesn't make it into my pocket anymore. Lol. Pretty much the only ones so far that I have let go are my otf Benchmade's. Gave my dad the mini infidel for farhers day, and sold my Autocrat, for a nice profit to someone that carries it all the time now.
@@studdaman420 thanks for the response. I have a Benchmade Mini Infidel and it has the less blade play than my Ultratech’s and GTs. Benchmade’s a little overpriced too but I have four. 🤦🏻♂️
My newest loves are my Guardian Tactical 035 and 040. Definitely waiting on a G&G Model C drop. I’ll be honest, I’m a “dresser queen.” Meaning, mine do sit on a dresser. I can’t carry any blade that’s more than two inches here in La, La, Land L.A. Still, I love collecting and learning. I’m also guilty of the more it is, the better it is. Probably not smart. However, for $450, and hearing a few complaints about the SOG I’m going to pass.
@@actor4nyc The sog is $350. But I hear ya. Mine wasn't the sharpest out of the box, but my ken onion work sharp fixed that right up. Other than that mine has been great. I have heard that some people have had issues too. Maybe I got one made on a good day... I wish the Recon 040 would come in a different blade style other than drop point. That is why I went with the Recon Elite. Really want a D/E 040. GT is doing some great things. Does have a lot more open blade play, but has never failed to deploy or retract. It is my #1 currently.
@@studdaman420 absolutely regarding the 040. I got the the two tone partially serrated. Definitely wanted the all black. Hard to come by but will still probably get it when available. Would have been a debate on the double edged or drop point if they did a version of that in the 040. I have so many d/e with my OTFs. Still, when I got the 040 and held it and fired it, all reservations went out the door. Great knife. Both the 035 and 040.
I'd love to see a bttd with this and the Dirac delta.
If I had a Dirac, it's probably how I would have done the review.
My experience was not good, when I took the knife out of the shipping box, the blade slid back into the handle, my guess came off track, told me they are doing inventory this month January 2023, so will be 3 weeks for exchange, and 20 business days for a refund.
I have both the SOG and the Microtech dirac and I like the former better.
Prior comment aside, I will say it’s impressive for sog considering what I bought a few years ago at academy before I became a knife nut.
Oh yeah. The action is really good.
I just cant get past the blade / handle ratio!
I'm afraid I'd still have to go with the Boker OTF..... I own a few SOGs but not any worth that bank (to me)....it may be on par with microtech.... But they're proven. That said.... I really like it....I'm just financially insufficient for that much moolah.
I've got a couple of the different ones boker sells. I've been happy with them for what I paid.
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It's a sog, I wouldn't buy it if it was 100. They need to stay in their budget lane and perfect that first. Then venture into more expensive knives under a new brand, and change budget line back to sog instead of studies and blah blah because nobody cares, they're studies and observations mean nothing.
They've actually made a couple good users in the 100 dollar range. I collect high end knives. And I like the terminus even tho it's not highend
I wish they weren't out of stock already...
Thanks Brian, $250 ish with S35VN. This isn't rocket science.
For what you get, SOG charges way to much. The majority of their knives are made out of cheap d2 steel and always develop a lot of blade play. There is now way that I will ever buy a SOG again until they can sell at a more realistic price point.
My Dirac is is half that size , I would rather have that SOG.
This is more comparable to the Combat Troodon than a Dirac.
Sog is out of their minds if they think the price is justified! I'll buy a microtech ultra tech and still have money left over to take my girl to a nice dinner! Lol. Good luck sog!
why would you pay more for less, you have to spend hundreds more than this to even get on this level.
@@SOGKnives or just like 70$ more for a Combat Troodon.
Country of origin! Not 🇺🇲, I take it ? Pricey. Thx 4 the honest review. 💌👱♀️
like many of our products, it's made in the USA
It's going to take a lot for knife buyers to get over 20 years of SOG making and selling really overpriced cheaply made Chinese knives with terrible fit&finish/quality control!!! SOG had the ARC lock which was a copy of Benchmade's axis lock, it actually worked quite well(SOG Pentagon elite). But then SOG starting using a one-sided ARC lock that was cheaper to make but by its design, it had terrible unfixable blade play!!! SOG had Gunnery Sergeant/Actor R. Lee Ermey(Full Metal Jacket) as their brand ambassador. So when people at Walmart saw R. Lee Ermey promoting SOG they thought that they were getting a quality-made knife, but in reality they were really overpaying for a low-quality knife made with lower quality blade steels. Check out these R. Lee Ermey SOG promos - ruclips.net/video/mzL1U2V6WaY/видео.html - ruclips.net/video/amGV9RbTsZ4/видео.html - ruclips.net/video/3y3lTdy9leI/видео.html
I really don't see the Hawk influence.
when I think of the Hawk Deadlock, it's kind of in it's own league. Just my opinion
I think the name change is because SOG is synonymous with garbage. An image theyve been trying to shake but I don’t think ill even entertain buying something from them.
Thank god they didn’t put the big ugly sog clip on it.
They are going to have to shorten up that name if they want people to call them that. Maybe just change it. It’s pretty dumb haha
They’ve merely put the full name of what SOG stood for…nothing more.
$349! No thanks. Not for a SOG
Throw this crap away and buy an Infidel.
I thought that SOG=Seriously Overpriced Garbage
thought wrong, it happens.
@@SOGKnives You marketed the SOG Pentagon OTF as having absolutely no blade play. But then RUclipsrs have clearly shown that it does in fact have blade play!!!
@@SOGKnives SOG knives suck!!! That's why Gunnery Sargent R. Lee Ermey who was your brand ambassador left SOG and became KA-BAR's brand ambassador!!!! News flash, any real knife buyer/collector doesn't buy SOG knives!!! Only uneducated/ignorant people who know nothing about knives buy SOG(Walmarts finest)!!!! That's because for the last 20 years your knives seriously lacked quality control and fit/finish!!! Prime example, your knives that had your one-sided "Arc" locking mechanism by design had annoying/unfixable blade play!!!! Question for you SOG, your Volcun knife had a two-sided "Arc" locking Mechanism which was very similar to the Benchmade Axis lock and it worked great with absolutely no blade play. But for some unknown reason, you guys at SOG decided to go from a great two-sided "Arc" locking mechanism to a one-sided "Arc" locking mechanism that by design was flawed and had annoying/unfixable blade play!!! Why, did you do that? I know why you did that, it was because it was a lot cheaper and faster to have a one-sided "Arc" locking knife manufactured instead of a two-sided "Arc" locking knife!!!! Then you started selling a ton of these flawed one-sided "Arc" lock knives at Walmart with Gunnery Sargent R.Lee Ermey's image on display everywhere. People thought to themselves if Gunnery Sargent R.Lee Ermey is endorsing SOG their knives have to be good!!! In reality, these uneducated/ignorant people of Walmart were buying your low quality, flawed, and overpriced knives not knowing any better!!!
@@ThomasConnolly you are clearly big mad we are making better knives than whatever brand you have an attachment to. You cannot find and 0TF under $1000 with less blade play. The Pentagon OTF and is rock solid when deployed, and for all intents and purposes it has zero blade play. We suggest not getting attached to brands, they never attach themselves back.
@@SOGKnives I'm not attached to any brand at all, I just have a personal policy of not buying knives that lack quality and are overpriced!!! That's exactly why I don't buy anything from SOG!!!! Instead, I actually prefer to buy knives that not only have great quality control and fit/finish but are also made with premium materials!!! You advertised the SOG Pentagon OTF as having no blade play, yet I've seen several videos on RUclips where people have shown that in fact, your Pentagon OTF actually does have slight blade play. Once again SOG delivers a knife that lacks quality and doesn't live up to the hype. Don't claim in your advertising that your OFT will not have any blade play at all if you can't actually manufacture an OFT without zero blade play!!!!