Amazingly affordable alternative to tell TACTICOOL Fox 599 Karambit

[dkb45]

Counterfeit? I dunno. One might argue that they are both Emerson knockoffs.

The Chinese knife is not quite a copy of the Fox. A little too inspired by, but they did change a little. I mean it's pretty much a Fax folder (just different enough to not be a direct copy).

 

[Glenn056]

The Chinese knife is not quite a copy of the Fox. A little too inspired by, but they did change a little. I mean it's pretty much a Fax folder (just different enough to not be a direct copy).

Its a 98% copy of the Fox. The only visible differences are the the lack of coating and different labelling.

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[`br4dz-]

China, china china china. About all I can say, there are so many issues with this. First being that they blatantly ripped off Fox's design, second being that it's using an Emerson wave feature without being licensed, and third....it's a cheap chinese production. Possibly got lucky with a decent one, but it's always a craps shoot with chinese produced knives.

 

[Glenn056]

China, china china china. About all I can say, there are so many issues with this. First being that they blatantly ripped off Fox's design, second being that it's using an Emerson wave feature without being licensed, and third....it's a cheap chinese production. Possibly got lucky with a decent one, but it's always a craps shoot with chinese produced knives.

Not necessarily. Budget chinese companies Enlan Sanrenmu and Ganzo (yes i know, but their quality is there) and higher end ones :Reate ,Kizer, WE etc. There are good ones and there are bad ones, not necessarily always the latter.

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[symphonyincminor]

China, china china china. About all I can say, there are so many issues with this. First being that they blatantly ripped off Fox's design, second being that it's using an Emerson wave feature without being licensed, and third....it's a cheap chinese production. Possibly got lucky with a decent one, but it's always a craps shoot with chinese produced knives.

QTRMSTR is like our domestic version of the low-tier Chinese rip-off manufacturers.

 

[`br4dz-]

Not necessarily. Budget chinese companies Enlan Sanrenmu and Ganzo (yes i know, but their quality is there) and higher end ones :Reate ,Kizer, WE etc. There are good ones and there are bad ones, not necessarily always the latter.

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China doesn't have the same quality control standards as pretty much every other country on earth. Doesn't matter if it's Kershaw's china plant, or Spyderco's, or Kizer's, or no-name chinese brands, the quality variations from knife to knife are appalling sometimes. Example, I have a tenacious that is pretty close to perfect, as far as a tenacious can go, and then I have one that will not center no matter what you do, opened it up and the washers weren't stamped out correctly, they had jagged edges and pieces of the stamping inside of the pivot making it very rough, and so forth. I've had the same kershaw model with extremely different edge grinds and actions, and I bought 2 of the same Kizer knife at once, again with highly varying quality. Flashy designs that have built in acceptance for loose tolerances is what China is known for.

 

[Glenn056]

China doesn't have the same quality control standards as pretty much every other country on earth. Doesn't matter if it's Kershaw's china plant, or Spyderco's, or Kizer's, or no-name chinese brands, the quality variations from knife to knife are appalling sometimes. Example, I have a tenacious that is pretty close to perfect, as far as a tenacious can go, and then I have one that will not center no matter what you do, opened it up and the washers weren't stamped out correctly, they had jagged edges and pieces of the stamping inside of the pivot making it very rough, and so forth. I've had the same kershaw model with extremely different edge grinds and actions, and I bought 2 of the same Kizer knife at once, again with highly varying quality. Flashy designs that have built in acceptance for loose tolerances is what China is known for.

Good points but then again America isn't too free from their own quality issues as well. The Buck Vantage line for example have issues with centering and very late lockups (100% isn't uncommon)

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