Best Place to Get CRK in Los Angeles

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alexlinap23

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wattup yall,

I'm planning to get an Umnumzaan on my vacation to Los Angeles. I'll be staying in Santa Monica most of the time.
Are there any places near by that have decent collection of CRK?

Thanks.
Alex
 
According to CR's website there are no Dealers in Los Angeles, but you can try some surrounding cities.

Arcadia will be the closest; 17mi outside of LA.

Costa Mesa is drive; 42mi outside LA.

Try giving the following peeps a try:

Advance Cutlery
Arcadia, CA
(626) 445-6066
advancecutlery@yahoo.com
advancecutlerysharpening.com

Plaza Cutlery
Costa Mesa, CA
(714) 549-3932
dan@plazacutlery.com
plazacutlery.com
 
If you can, go to Plaza Cutlery. It was the first ever knife shop to be in a shopping mall. It has changed over the years but they have a great selection of knives. I am a bit biased though. I worked there for years when I was in college and always try and make a trip back when I am down in California. Its a great store with a great group of people running it.
 
Plaza cutlery is a great experience. Friendly staff and knives from all the big guys, CRK, hinderer, grayman, strider, Medford, winkler, as well as benchmade, spyderco, ZT, etc...
 
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Another very biased recommendation for Plaza Cutlery. (I worked there with Driften.) I purchased my one and only CRK Sebenza there some years ago. They often have a good selection of CRKs on display. I takes a strong will to leave the shop without getting a new knife!
 
Advanced cutlery has a small collection compared to Plaza cutlery in regards to CRKs
 
Recon1 in the San Fernando Valley is about 20 miles from Santa Monica.

They have a pretty good stock of CRK knives. They usually have a few knives in stock that aren't online. Lots of cool customs too.

Costa Mesa where Plaza is will be about 40 miles I believe. Maybe a bit more. That being said, traffic will likely be worse to Recon1.
 
If you are going to be in town on July 23rd Plaza Cutlery is doing an in store knife show. Greg Medford, Darrel Ralph, Brandon Hampton, and Derrick and Leonard from Steel Flame will be there among others. In October 22nd Plaza Cutlery puts on the California Custom Knife show where CRK will have a table.

I know Jeff_R and I will be meeting up for in store show 7/23 checking things out. It was lucky my trip down for San Diego ComicCon and visit family/friends in SoCal lines up with the in store show. Not that I would not have visited the store anyways. I always try to when I am down from Washington. I really miss the California Custom show... Maybe I will have to try and make the trip down in October for it.
 
Also Ross cutlery in downtown has a good selection. That's where OJ Simpson bought the knife he killed his wife with.
 
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