The Pro-Tech Malibu: A Surprising History That Will Leave You Wanting a Button Lock Flipper!

James (from The Knife Life) breaks down the history of the Pro-Tech Malibu, one of our favorite knives!

[jesseespinosa]

Picked up an exclusive Malibu yesterday in OKC (Sharp things on May Ave - they have three left as of Feb 3 2024). Dragon scale, abalone button, 20CV, reverse tanto non coated. Black handle. This thing is delicious.

[notdisclosed]

I'm so glad they kept the blade clean with no thumb studs or cutouts. I wish more companies would follow suit. Button locks are so nice to operate as they keep your fingers out of the blade path.

[DylanLey]

I was finally able to get a Malibu from my local knife store a few months ago and I've been carrying it frequently! Really happy that Protech is making more manuals this year and I'm excited to see what else they will bring in the future!

Really enjoying these Collab videos with The Knife Life!

[FerretChloride]

Appropriately timed. Got my runt 5 and my Malibu in the mail yesterday from you guys. I love them ❤

[Mo..]

Love this series, keep it up!
Dave and Pro-Tech are top notch, love the Malibu and the Mordax.

[jeffreydawson]

Right after the Shot Show videos started, I said “Pro-Tech is gonna get a lot of my money this year” and so far I’ve been right. Love the Malibu and Mordax both as well as their autos.

[Knives]

Great video! Love Protech. They're great knives and Dave seems like a great guy.

[walterstreet]

I love the presentation on the Malibu and plan to add one to my protech collection as a everyday user

[paullambert]

Nice knowing the history of a great knife. Thanks 🎯

[CapFlipGaming]

I have a first production PR1 Malibu and love it. I bought another in the textured handle. It's even better for EDC.

[Paul_Ironwolf]

Finally got a Malibu, haven't arrived yet, but im in EU and you guys are far far away, waiting with anticipation tho.

[BladeLabMiami]

The Malibu is so close to being perfect. Unfortunately it's almost comically thick behind the edge -- at least on my early version. If they gave it a nice, thin hollow grind it would be unstoppable. Oh yeah, also add an opening slot. 😀

[IBEWJW]

My only complaint about my Protech Malibu operator is that it was not Sharp to a standard that I would expect from ProTech. It is hands-down my favorite knife I've purchased and I have a lot of knives when buying it I did not realize how hard this knife was to come across so glad I paid the extra money for it

[-Kuba]

Great video, I'd love to see more content with similar concept

[SMS]

I own a few button lock flippers. The detent on the Malibu is leaps and bounds better than the others.

[Youtube-Censorship-Police]

i received my magnacut malibu this monday and while i'm amazed by the action, i think the knife is overhyped.
why? i think the blade could be a better performer, the stock and grind aren't very impressive for a edc knife, they should've made a high hollow grind and take maybe 0.5mm off that stock.
also the build is pretty simple which isn't a bad thing, but it feels kinda weird when i consider that i paid nearly 300 bucks for it, i have reate made peña's which feel much more high-end and offer full ti construction for the same price or less.
it's certainly a good knife and i dig the magnacut, it's just not a $300 knife and i have better performers for edc tasks (also i wouldn't say that it is a hard user, cause even with the cross-hatch pattern it doesn't offer enough traction and the ergos feel kinda crampy if you have bigger hands).

[PirminZemp]

Great History Of Protech Awesome Company

[BarryMcColeman]

Would like to see a history of Spartan/ Harsey knives..

[DarkDragonSlayer]

1:10 - 1:15: I'll be the first one to say that some of the other knives that "were not" Cali legal, are actually legal in some counties. For example, in LA County, any folder, OTF, switchblade, automatic, and Swiss army knife that has a blade length of 2.99" or below are legal by LA county law. If you're in orange county, and if I am no mistaken, it will only be illegal if the blade length for any knife type I mentioned above is under 4", 3.99" or below, are legal by orange county law. You can legally break the state limit law then, in California. So it's also dependent on where you're at in California.
Edit: The law changed in California recently for the length of folders in Cali. Some guy got prosecuted for using a utility knife, without the intent of hurting anyone, and was just cutting some light amount of wood or whatever, with a 4 or 5 inch blade. So if you have a 3.5" folding knife, it's now legal in California. Any blade length for any folder is legal now in California. If you Google "California folding knife blade length 2023", even though it's a 2021 article, it's okay to have any folder with any blade length for that folding knife. Shouse has this new law under 2023, so it's been changed recently.

[AmericanRustic]

Pro-tech....please make a cleaver version of the Malibu flipper !!! Something that doesn't have a pointed blade!!