Any Thoughts On This Older Frost?

[Smashtoad]

Hi All,

Just curious if anyone had any thoughts on this old Frost. A friend gave it to me about ten years ago, and said his dad had it for years. I can’t find any pictures of it online although I did find a picture of the exact same knife with the straight razor only, but not with the other blade in tandem.

I know many of you abhor Frost knives, but I was just curious, in case this may have been built prior to the company going to crap.

This knife seems very solidly built, and holds a good edge. My main complaint with it is that both blades, once past the point of no return, snap closed with a lot of relative force.

I am going to make new spalted maple scales for this knife, and will most likely leave the Frost badge off.

Any thoughts are appreciated.
Jarrod

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[Austinaftermath]

Frost doesn't make knives they always have imported them from other countries; the only frost knives I have are some old 80's balisongs they imported from Japan, really good compared to knives of today.

 

[orca8589]

I have an all-stainless knife similar to the one in the OP, with no razor but another clip-point blade. No maker name, but a very comfortable little pocket knife, with either blade open. Okay snap on both.



Frost has made some okay stuff in the past - like, decades ago - but most of the knives now with that name on them are of pretty low quality. Oh, and don't mix up "Frost" the low-end importer with the "Frost's" of Sweden, who that make the Mora-type knives, those are great quality knives.

~Chris

 

[The Highlander]

Seen them called "hemp cutters" many times, usually cheap Chinese knifes with the non razor blade is 3 quarters serrated

 

[Smashtoad]

Thanks guys...all makes sense. Orca, it appears to me that for all practical purposes, we have the same knife. So it definitely is a assembly line knock off. Not even sure I want to waste the effort scaling it up. I guess it will be good practice.