ZT 0990 Folding Knife - Overview and Review

Full review of the ZT 0990.
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[@avatar_of_battle4735]

Whenever I see someone talking about the lock failing on the ZT0350 they pretty much use the spine to hammer something like it's Mjolnir. No shit something's gonna go wrong.

[@keithmcdonald787]

Definitely on my wish list. Great video as always.

[@johnwest4492]

Hi MC, might you know where I might purchase a landyard removal tool? Please

[@prenticegoodwin3522]

Maybe the hole to access the pocket clip screws is ment to be used as a lanyard mounting point?

[@DougFLA123]

You made a lot of great points!

[@propblast82nd]

Whitey at USA made blades is one cool cat , thanks MC !

[@ryanthatoneguy5797]

ZT got some really cool weird knives

[@Simon-hd6dc]

I wish this would come in 3.75" blade length.

[@matthuck378]

Thanks to the law of diminishing returns, I cannot justify buying a ZT over a nice Kershaw for actual EDC use. An exception is the ZT Hinderer...Because it's essentially a half price Hinderer.

[@AudibleVisibIe]

The 0562s are too much now. Id spend an extra 150 for the real thing

[@bladedge183]

Complex,. Great video man!!! Spot on! Off subject, do you have a cricket down in the dungeon, I swear I hear one on my headphones 😂

[@metal_complex]

I have been searching for that cricket for 3 months. His name is "Howard the Vexing". When I find him we will do battle, and I will destroy him.

[@silentblackdisc]

@@metal_complex With a CRKT knife, no doubt!

[@bladedge183]

@@metal_complex Cricket vs hand and a half sword. EPIC haha

[@jamieluvsknives3912]

I wanna like but besides the 20cv blade steel it's an over priced Kershaw which is what they should have done just used d2 blade steel charged 100 dollars and made it a Kershaw

[@tristandauod]

Yeah, more people probably would've bought one in the configuration/price that you described.

[@wallman117]

What's wrong with steel?

[@Erikhw187]

Actually love the aesthetics of the knife, but it definitely comes off like an easy use knife. I've noticed designs that have exposed detent holes seem to be fancier design that expect the buyer to use as a true edc and more of collecting thing/easy use. The back locking bar almost reminds of an ad-15 but obviously they are nothing alike. Nice review.

[@BParker55]

That would look really good in bronze ano.. oh wait.

[@erhon5]

I may be wrong but I was pretty sure steel can be heat anodized.

[@haydenbryan8958]

@@erhon5 yes it can be, but it’s not near as good as a titanium ano, and you can really only hit straw colors under 450 degrees.

[@erhon5]

@@haydenbryan8958 ahh ok 👍🏻

[@chrisjaskulski8613]

Dip in salt water... boom.

[@erhon5]

@@chrisjaskulski8613 😂😅 good point

[@jamesp4896]

Bummer it's not in titanium but it still looks cool

[@anthonyberardi8904]

Cool looking knife, and great idea paying tribute to the 999, but Anyone who’s handled a 450 and 452 knows 3.25 is just too small for a lot of edc. This would’ve been sooo much better if it was 3.75-4” I’d probly own 3 if it were

[@Lungorthin666]

"Wahhhh its not titanium😭😭😭😭" The jist I get from this video and comments.

[@Basiloftheplains]

Wish they'd just got back to making Emersons or Hinderers.

[@craigrj232323]

This would be more my jam if it wasn't so out there, but I respect the quality.

[@TheAwesomenessist]

Heck yeah

[@MayhemMechanic]

Am I going crazy or has your cricket returned?????🤔🤔🧐

[@mikejurnak4253]

I give it out of 5

[@Apex_grind562]

Zt went the wrong route by cutting corners. I feel like they became more Kershaw (sister co). I miss the days of overbuilt. But the money is with in edc.

[@nicholasferrara9227]

ZT designs are steadily sinking to “WTH” levels. I have some great earlier ZTs (0452 and 0308). They are great knives and the 0452 is my EDC. Poor ZT has lost its way!

[@tristandauod]

Agreed. I had an 0850 and that one was surprisingly good. Super smooth action on pb washers and the sub-framelock was cool (with no lock-up issues).

[@AudibleVisibIe]

Agreed these designs are trash but I didn't love the 450 series either

[@adamimberti6948]

This is much closer to some of the early ZT designs than it is to the current stuff. They did the classic hard use folders (0350, 0550) and they did some usually limited more futuristic knives like this one. If anything this knife is a nod to the past. 0452 isn't an earlier design, it is smack in the middle of the classic ZT's and the modern stuff that I think we can all agree is mostly pretty awful.

[@chrisjaskulski8613]

That thing should have been released as a Kershaw.

[@phdeez565]

Bigfoot did not agree to this! No Ti, T6 body screws, c'mon ZT.

[@mak450]

Personally I think all this hype about titanium is exactly that, hype. Isn't the ultimate point of titanium in an application like this to make the heavy parts of a knife lighter? but this thing is less than 3oz, so what's the benefit of titanium in this case? making it less rigid, easier to scratch, and more expensive, so I can brag to people online that it's made of titanium? I guess some anodizing would be pretty sweet and they can do some CF with woven fabric in it to match... That aside, I'm going out on a limb here, but I suspect making the scales/frame of the knife in Ti was a no go. There's gotta be metal that CF where the spine and handle meet, which I THINK is just gonna be a part of the steel scales under the CF overlay, and maybe that's just too thin of a piece to make out of Ti? I suspect that if they did remake this is Ti alot or all of that CF is gonna have to kick rocks. Not that that's my area of expertise or anything. I'd actually be very interested to see someone do a disassembly of this knife just so I can see what's going on underneath.

[@silentblackdisc]

They should have made the clip in a Sasquatch foot shape! Then output this in the Kershaw line at a reasonable price point. I'm walking away from this one, though I'm a bigfoot fan.

[@AtKnifepoint1]

There’s a street in my city named Bigfoot. Whenever the bus is approaching that street, there’s a prerecorded message announcing “Passing Bigfoot”. I always get a kick out of it as if a Sasquatch is walking by. 😂

[@silentblackdisc]

@@AtKnifepoint1 Hilarious. You should have a sasquatch sound ready on your phone to play directly afterward, to amuse the other passengers. (I was always looking for a laugh on public transportation to ease the often-present social tension.)

[@TheFallenAngel187]

ZT has fallen a long way from it's glory days

[@christopherm903]

I agree, and that’s from me, a very early adopter. The 0200 military knife was a beast, the 0301 another beast! I still have those 2. The only one I regretted giving away was the 0350, and i lucked out finding and re-buying the 0350 in carbon fiber with m390! The only one i regret not buying was the MUDD. All the others i traded away for one reason or another…

[@thepracticalblade9013]

"Why do people keep buying all these Chinese knives?!?!?!?!?!" Because they don't even have to ask if the metal parts of the handle are TI when you get above like $100. Lol. Companies like Reate are just ANNIHILATING ZT on F&F and materials these days.

[@haydenbryan8958]

Agreed. Quality if found in the effort put forward, not geographic location.

[@landonjones676]

I have got to quit buying knives. I’ve spent almost $2000 in knives within the past 3 weeks. Just ordered a something obscene jcape 3.5 last night and a smock natural g10 m4 today...... this is a problem. The only knife company I’m not interested in happens to be ZT. This video definitely doesn’t help at all.

[@AtKnifepoint1]

That’s a serious addiction, my friend. Let me help you by taking that j-cape off your hands.

[@brandonmugele2224]

Damn the exposed detent and KVT bearings are a no go for me. Idk what is wrong with phosphor washers, some of the smoothest knives I own are on washers. They need to get away from the pocket jewelry and go back to making tough knives. PASS!

[@reykjavik9187]

3:20 "Not titanium, but steel" ZT lost me long time ago, at that very moment they started to put cheap materials on knives that came after iconic Sinkevich knives that were about the same level price-wise. Yes I still keep checking them out from time to time for some reason. 🤷‍♀

[@AtKnifepoint1]

They really messed-up on the patterning of the footsteps.

[@HopsAndLead]

Those feet just ruin the knife. Looks great other than that. Cheers!

[@AtKnifepoint1]

I like the feet, but they messed them up. First, the gait is too short. Second, they messed up the alternating pattern. Whoever designed them obviously didn’t give AF. It would like good with individual footprints instead of doubled up like they are.

[@jameshealy4594]

@@AtKnifepoint1 Maybe bigfoot travels by putting one foot halfway ahead of the other and hopping like a kangaroo, ever think of that smart guy? ;)

[@AtKnifepoint1]

@@jameshealy4594 😂

[@redryder1146]

@@jameshealy4594 🤣🤣🤣

[@19Bearsfansince79]

Dude...that's a USA made blade exclusive.... they added the sasquatch theme before this blade was purchased.. it's pretty much their trademark...

[@taydiggs9609]

Not my style by comment for the algorithm

[@billcosbysjello2513]

The blade looks like a stretched out microtech stitch blade😋 hope they don't sue microtech🤔

[@CNYKnifeNerd]

If everyone has forgotten about the strider drama, they've definitely forgotten the Kershaw/MT drama. A for effort though, I guess.

[@metal_complex]

Ya im done with all that. I just can't dedicate any more energy to it. I think most people feel the same

[@johnj.baranski6553]

really ZT...this is the model you re- release? 0550? 0560? 0630? come on man...

[@HOLLEMANz]

They really messed that up with that stupid sasquatch and foot prints. Lol

[@19Bearsfansince79]

Okay so here I am telling a third person, those footprints and the Sasquatch theme are a USA Made blade exclusive done by USA made blade before the knife was sold that was not done by zero tolerance

[@Mrche626]

🦗

[@jpolhamus71]

WTH ZT!!?????

[@2ndGenSpeed3]

I miss the old zt’s that were big and badass, looks too thin and dainty 👎🏼

[@jamieluvsknives3912]

I totally agree they should stick to over built hard use knives

[@anthonyberardi8904]

Check out the new 0308

[@2ndGenSpeed3]

@@anthonyberardi8904 i had one but unfortunately wasn’t impressed and sold it

[@johnguilfoyle5341]

To small,don't like flipping action,flipper tab to small.Regret buying one.

[@nickkazarian3334]

ZT Just sucks, mainly because they don’t listen to customer feedback.

[@AudibleVisibIe]

A hideous knife

[@AudibleVisibIe]

Zt designs have been ugly af lately

[@scottindefatigablish6291]

A person shouldn't talk about things about which he knows nothing.