Youngcutter says:
Neat gimmicks, but they'll never be quality knives
Typical of somebody who probably bases that opinion on something he read somewhere. Im sure he will come here and say how he has used them ALOT and finds them to be junk....I doubt he has used any.
CRKT makes a fine knife, and for te cost they are hard to beat. The Mirage is a neat design, and CRKT AUS6 is not the newest wonder steel by any means, but its a nice steel that holds and edge fairly well and is quite easy to sharpen up very well.
Yet more words of wisdom for the ultra-wise YC:
But in my mind CRKT will always be pandering to the poor, and I find that a disappointing direction to take a company.
Ah, so you consider making quality knives at a low price point "pandering to the poor" and "disappointing"? How nice for you. Actually CRKT has models that cost as much as many other companies such as Benchmade or Spyderco. They also have models which are there so that folks who have a small budget can also enjoy high quality knives and not be restricted to buying real junk like home shopping channel crap. I seriously doubt that Kit Carson or any of the other many makers that CRKT collaberates with would allow their name to be placed on junk knives.
YC, why dont you get a CRKT or two, use them in real life, grow up a bit, then come back and shower us with you knowledge.
Ok, enough about YC.
Personally, I have owned and used plenty of brands of knives. I own (or have owned) knives from Chris Reeve, MT, BM, Spyderco, Puma, Sog, Kershaw, AG Russell and so on. Each was quite nice and very useful. I also own (or have owned) a fair number of customs. Having used the above mentioned knives, I can say that I also enjoy my CRKTs and find the quality to be very good.
Enjoy your Mirage.