The ProTech Knives TR-5 Assisted Pocketknife: The Full Nick Shabazz Review
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Today, we're going to take a look at a very tacticool knife that takes ProTech's well-proven TR-5 pattern, and turns it into an assisted knife, putting it into the hands of many folks who can't carry autos.
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I’ve had one of these since first released a few years ago…fires like a beast and one of my favorite blade shapes of all time.
Does the safety allow the blade to remain locked in the open position?
World class hand examples of the detent mechanism. Best part of the video.
I always wondered about this model. Thanks for the great video brother.
Kudos to Matthew Lerch for designing an assist feature that is superior to Kershaw's Speed Safe designed by Hall of Fame Designer Ken Onion. The Speed Safe spring is loose and is held somewhat by grease to the scale wall. The aim of both designs is to to have an amount of blade travel before the assist kicks in. No one wants a hair trigger blade sprung open in their pocket. Both designs achieve this making knives more palatable to the masses. Great review of one of my favorite design lines Nick. 🙏🏼
I recently have a new love for protec after getting the godson in rose gold. The fit and finish is absolutely fantastic.
Swagg. My dude got the God son in a special edition off urban edc wirh nebula carbon fiber. I am not a fan
I’ve been edc’ing the protech/Emerson cqc7 for work for the last 3 years now and absolutely love it for hard use. And I’ve only had to replaceable single spring over this time. It get used multiple times daily and just keeps taking the beatings and asks for more.
Why do i keep coming back to your channel ? 😂 why do i want to watch a guy that doesn’t test the knife?!
Stop hypnotizing us
Hiya Nick sill loving the channel .... Greeting form West of Scotland UK, Love knife's that your review their outstanding but cant get them over here. Saying that i did get the Smock( outstanding folded :) Loving your watch review and after 27 years of wanting one i finally got my Omega Moonwatch the Speed.
I have tr-5 operator and i love it!
Thank you Mr Shabazz
While the TR-5 probably isn’t a design I’m going to rush out and try to find, I agree that it’s exciting to see them do more knives that are accessible to those of us that live in dumb law states. I do kinda hope they focus more on the manual ones but I’m ok with a quality assisted knife here and there.
The STRY/PRO, SNG yes that would be awesome! I regret not get that knife for all it quirks.
I got this a while back, I'm happy with it but this in a button lock would absolutely rock
Beautiful
I just got this knife and few days ago and love it. It has a great mechanisms and offers a lot of user engagement and attention. I like the manual dexterity required as I prefer flippers and thumb studs launchers, etc. over auto mechs. I like fidgeting with my knives, (age old ADHD). I can carry autos, but prefer not to. On the downer the clip looks to hang too low and may bend when using ice braker feature, some hot spots at thumb stud and back spacer where lanyard loop is. Go Knife Rites and AKTI, too many laws are not based in reality, and many antique laws need to be abolished.... "prunes?! LMAO!!
I would love to have this knife with a dlc coated blade. Love this Pro-téch!
Knife laws are dumb. I'm glad that they're making a version of this one for people who otherwise couldn't carry it. Unfortunately, some states have cracked down on assisted knives as well. At least in NY, we have the "I was fishing" excuse.
Care to explain?
Yeah what he said. You're aloud to use assisted knives whole fishing but no other time?
@@theknifeconnection9571 Correction, you can carry assisted knives in NY, at least upstate NY. The laws changed for the better a while ago and now we are allowed to carry automatic knives "switchblades" while your fishing. Go figure.
@@theknifeconnection9571 I meant for automatics, not assisted. I should have been more clear. In areas of NY that aren't NYC, there is a sporting exemption that allows carrying automatic knives while hunting or fishing. There is also an exemption for public safety (police, fire, EMS).
"We are all safer when our laws are based in reality rather than fear" - most sensible I've heard in a long time.
The SOG zoom uses the same detent system. I have several autos and the Zoom is as fast or faster than any of them. Also a button lock.
i really really like my TR-4. been carrying it for a good number of years. Just wish it was 3v and not 154cm
I feel like they should do this with all of their more popular models. The sales would go crazy. Like you said, the sng done like this would sell out quick. The cqc7, rockeye and a few others would be awesome like this also.
If they made the Stryder version I’d buy one in a heartbeat…I have an original TR5 and love it.
for me impossible to deploy. futilely placed o rings on the stud for cushioning. returned it post haste when that failed.. a month to resolve my thumb soreness too.
I have a Benchmade Arcane/Amicus 490 and for roughly the same price you get s90v BUT Benchmade QC....On the other hand you can ALWAYS find the 490 in stock at any major knife seller and I like how they went with the smallest flipper tab I've ever seen since it's assisted anyway. Would love to see a comparison between the two!
Well this has slight blade play he couldn't get rid of. And idc what kind of knife it is. Side to side blade play is unexeptable at this price. Sometimes axis locks can have a little but you can easily fix it by having slightly stiff action. But I have like 5 Benchmade and after breakin they will all drop when unlocked with no play.
If I ever own a prune farm, I'm gonna name it Erma's Prunes. I'll give Nick a 3% royalty.
I'm British, so for me a tactical response is an email to your manager explaining why they're equally incorrect and incompetent without being fired as a result
That's why we won the war, old chap. Cheerio.
@@starkparker16 did you compose your emails differently?
Random question. When will we get another presentation of bad knives. I’m looking to add to my collection.
I came for the review. I stayed for the Phillip Glass jokes.
This is an interesting knife and the review was great but I'm just not an auto/assisted guy.
All i can hear now is the MC Nick Shabazz immitation. Very cool knife.
It goes, ..boop!
-Nick Shabazz
Hey Nick, I didn't read the comments, but is the "5" a version number? Just sayin' cus the Runt 5 is a modification of the Runt 4.
Question Nick: How much force does it require to close compare to things like a Kershaw Leek?
You can’t even compare the two. The leek is a very weak spring so it doesn’t take much. There aren’t any autos/assisted knives that fire like protech. That’s exactly why people, and I, love what this company puts out
@@Sleepy_spartan717 Hmmm I have both the Leek and the Protech Newport. Opening wise yes the Protech is much harder but I’m talking about closing. As far as my experience goes, the force they require to close are not that different. So I’m curious how this assisted TR5 performs. Honestly, I don’t want it to be more difficult to close than a Leek.
Why does their website say the blade steel is 154CM not S30VN. The automatic is S30VN
Kershaw Divedend, m390. 85 doll hairs.
The knife’s overall tactical design doesn’t speak to me personally. Love the blade design and generous belly for the size of the knife offered here. The pocket clip appears to be much too long, but that could just be me 🤷♂️
Can this be altered into a auto somehow?
Pass on this one, review 👍😃.
as a lefty my first question is, is that mono-stud swappable?
And why no lefthand carry on their knives ever???
@@acr4809 yes that sucks, but sadly they are not the only one doing this :-/
@@acr4809 they have some left hand models. Lefty SBR for instance
@@f4t4lity0r4I'll have to check them out! Thanks!
I’m a lefty, and I own this knife. I haven’t tried swapping the stud, but it’s super easy to reverse flick, and is actually sort of hilarious good fun to give a flick of the middle finger and have a knife fire this hard.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't most stabbing crimes in the states be with very common everyday utility knives like kitchen cutlery and box cutters.
Kitchen knives are overwhelmingly the most common knives used in crimes worldwide, for a ton of reasons.
@@CNYKnifeNerd Most violent crimes are interpersonal disputes, its not impossible per se, but no one's grabbing their 400$ sebenza to stab their spouse in a drunken fight, lol
I'm from the UK Flipper knives are illegal here so I çollect Spydercos
Very knife
Extremely knife!
has anyone seen a western tanto with a finger choil?
PM2 tanto and Hoback Warhorse are the only ones I have.
Plenty of Strider tantos with choils too.
Also I feel the only people who buy assisted haven't felt a good detent.
You understand someone who can’t carry an automatic but who would still like to carry a protec like this one. Can you now understand how someone who can’t carry a locking blade, would still like to carry something like the non-locking hinderer? And not just a classic slip joint?
Assisted is just a way to get around a good detent and should be priced as such (around $70). I'm sure most of us would have loooooved a folder with a good detent. It seems out of touch, Protech .
Assisted is really a way around automatic laws. Pro-Tech, being almost entirely focused on automatics, would of course try to implement their trademark work in a non-auto. I think that you'd be correct most of the time, and it's a lazy way of making a knife, but it's hardly fair to pin on that on Pro-Tech.
Hey a Philip Glass minimalism joke. Only on the Shabazz Show.
I'm glad *somebody* got it.
Cool blade not a huge fan of assisted knives but ya can’t get everything you want 😢
I live in Scotland, home of stupid knife laws. I completely agree with your desire for rational laws based on science.
Sad that it's 100% lefty unfriendly.
"Assisted" knives are more trouble than they're worth, especially if you cannot de-assist them. In 2022 I would not consider buying an assisted knife unless there was something utterly compelling about that knife
What makes them more troublesome than an auto? Genuinely curious. Idk why knife people hate on assisted but will jump on any auto damn near.
Benchmade used to make a double action assisted knife a while ago. There's a company that makes one currently but I can't remember the make or model.
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They take away any semblance of "action" from closing.
@@CNYKnifeNerd a side fire auto does the same thing. You have to fight spring tension to depress the blade back into the firing position.
Tiny hat
again, the assist ruins it for me... could be a nice knife..but ...No more springy springy for me......
I think anyone carrying this in a no-auto jurisdiction would really be pushing their luck. It's a knife made by a switchblade company, with a button in the same place where a switchblade button would be, and a blade that opens via a compressed spring. If you need to show a cop an engineering diagram to explain how you're not breaking the law, you're already having a bad time.
Do not try to explain yourself to police. Shut up and talk to a lawyer. Non issue.
Stupid automatic knife laws!!
With an emphasis on stupid!
Jusk kinda fffft.
Excuse you, it’s pronounced tac-ti-cool…psh….talk about a waste of a freaking phd good lord😤