About Pakistani Knives

[Steely_Gunz]

The few Pakistani knives that I have seen that were actually pretty damn decent...weren't marked coming from there. There are a few decent Tracker style knives that are supposedly made out of D2 and come polished and sharpened and have a decent scout carry sheath. The edge seemed to hold up fine and it did all the trackery things well enough.

It came in a box with an authenticity card and seemed to be made with a lot of pride...but it never once said "Made in Pakistan" on the knife or in the lit or on the description on the site. I had to track it down with a little googling.

In my opinion, it was a good knife for the $58 it cost. I wanted to try out a Tracker, but I didn't want to fork over over $200, and I kinda find Tom Brown to be a Woo Woo Chucklehead, so having his goofy logo all over the knife at a premium price didn't appeal to me.

The knife was decent but the philosophy of use didn't mesh with my needs. I gave it to my brother and he uses it so chores around his little urban farm.

There may be a few examples of good Pakistani knives out there, but the couple examples I have seen certainly aren't making a big deal about being proud from being from there. Like I said, the cheap Tracker I tried out was certainly worth the asking price and the absolute best Pakistani knife I have seen in all my collecting years.

 

[ElementalBreakdown]

No excuse to sell garbage except for profit.
I would not buy a computer made in the Congo using coconuts for the same reason - don't sell something if you can't make it correctly. They are often melting together garbage and it is about profit, not craftsmanship.

Besides being trash, the largest site selling knives made in Pakistan, Ebay, often has auctions with blatant lies about heat treat and materials.

There are lots of ways people in that area of the world have used creativity to create weapons much more complicated than knives, often enough to trouble the most advanced military forces in the world, so I don't buy the excuse of less tools.

There are German knife makers that create masterpieces using only hand tools.

A few hundred years ago, Japanese makers used ovens and charcoal to heat treat and natural materials, but did it to master a craft and produce a product with pride.

When I first started collecting I had lots of money taken by garbage Damascus made in Pakistan.

Your country is in the top 10 as far as nuclear warheads, I think that you can figure out knives if you wanted to.

 

[Daedric Panther]

No excuse to sell garbage except for profit.
I would not buy a computer made in the Congo using coconuts for the same reason - don't sell something if you can't make it correctly. They are often melting together garbage and it is about profit, not craftsmanship.

Besides being trash, the largest site selling knives made in Pakistan, Ebay, often has auctions with blatant lies about heat treat and materials.

There are lots of ways people in that area of the world have used creativity to create weapons much more complicated than knives, often enough to trouble the most advanced military forces in the world, so I don't buy the excuse of less tools.

There are German knife makers that create masterpieces using only hand tools.

A few hundred years ago, Japanese makers used ovens and charcoal to heat treat and natural materials, but did it to master a craft and produce a product with pride.

When I first started collecting I had lots of money taken by garbage Damascus made in Pakistan.

Your country is in the top 10 as far as nuclear warheads, I think that you can figure out knives if you wanted to.

^^^ I agree. I’ve seen plenty of beautiful, very usable knives made with only hand tools. Difference is they’re made by master craftsmen who take great pride in their work and spend years refining their craft. Apparently Pakistan can make AKs and weapons of war no problem but not a simple fixed blade worth a damn? I smell BS here

 

[Blues]

Closed due to off-topic, political and rude comments. We can and should do better welcoming someone who didn't ask to be piled on when he wanted to discuss knives and eventually share his own custom built knives at that.