Well, FWIW I just spent some time on your site (
www.tacticalreviews.co.uk ) looking through the reviews at (more or less) random and you seem to be pretty evenhanded with your comments etc. Just a suggestion, maybe if you mention in each review where you got the item it would help people to decide how much salt to take the review with
Not to say you don't but I didn't see it on the 5 reviews i read
I think that the more interesting list , for me anyway, would be what cutters you plan on testing. I think the materials are pretty much covered but a suggested list of tools would be interesting.
My contribution? The Dive Rite cutters / Trilobite
On my website I have a coverall 'Disclosure' in the 'About' menu. I've done this for stylistic reasons so on my own website I don't have to keep repeating the same disclosure. This pretty much does cover it as 99% of the time the item has been provided by the manufacturer, so for example if it is a Leatherman tool on test, then Leatherman supplied it. When it varies from this, I would normally state where it came from (like the ZTS MBT-1 review).
On forums, where I like to post reviews to get the type of discussion only forums allow, the rules usually require the disclaimer/disclosure/statement to be in the individual thread. So if I post the final review here, I would have this disclosure at or near the top of the review; if I forget, call me out on it then so I can fix that.
Not to make this thread about the forthcoming review, but the list so far is:
Spyderco Salt Assist
Benchmade 122B H2O Dive knife
Promate KF529 - Barracuda Blunt Tip Titanium Diving Knife (4 1/2 In Blade)
Promate KF593 - Sharp Tip Titanium Diving Knife (4 3/8 In Blade)
Promate KF090 - Seal Titanium Folding Knife (3 1/2 In Blade)
Promate KF505 -Blunt Tip Diving Knife (4 3/8 In Blade)
Promate KF001 - Line Cutter
Whitby DK9 (MAC Coltellerie Apnea9)
Whitby DK511/14 (MAC Coltellerie Sub 16)
Whitby DK11 (MAC Coltellerie Aquatys)
I am also expecting a couple more, but the ones in this list are confirmed as I have them already and am part way through the review process (which starts with studio photography).
I can't just go and buy test candidates as it would never end. The costs are bad enough on test materials, equipment, travel etc. Already this test has grown larger than I expected and if the last entries do arrive there will be 13 cutting tools to cover.
So as it stands the materials list is:
15lb Monofilament - typical main line fishing line.
50lb Monofilament - typical monofilament leader.
15lb Dyneema - dyneema main line equivalent.
115lb Dyneema - heavy dyneema leader.
2mm Nylon Braid - to represent netting and cave line.
3-4mm Nylon Braid - to represent netting and cave line.
50mm heavy duty webbing.
Cable-ties.
(I'm not including steel cable leaders or any other metal cables)
Hopefully the results will be interesting and useful. If nothing else the review will provide a close up look at all of these knives/tools.