Miscellany: Microtech Makora review (2022 release)

I like my Combat Troodon just fine, but it's turned out to be an impractical knife to haul around everyday. Enter the Microtech Makora, rejiggered for the 2020s with a smaller size and higher price:

If you're at all familiar with Microtech's top selling model, the Ultratech, the Makora should look very familiar. They're both double-action OTF automatic knives with 3.3ish-inch blades, side-firing switches, and tungsten carbide glass breakers. In short, they're super similar, so much so that the gun store I bought my Makora from actually had it mislabeled as an Ultratech in the display case.

So why does the Makora retail for north of $400 as part of Microtech's "Signature Series"? Well, the Makora has two nice upgrades from the work-a-day Ultratech: nickel boron internals for a slightly smoother action, and a grippy traction inlay on the handle. Not exactly earthshattering improvements, but for an EDC blade, if you're going to have one or the other, you might as well go big.