Boker Magnum Blitz Manual Button Lock knife?

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I just found this online and at first I thought it was crap. But upon further examination despite this being part of the cheap Boker Magnum Chinese made line, It appears to be made of relatively high grade materials and all for less than $20.

The blade is solid 440c (certainly better than most Chinese made knives). It has an aluminum handle that is textured and layered with G10. It has a fairly innovative button locking system that allows for near automatic opening and closing speeds... So my question for all the gurus out there is, why is this knife so cheap and what in the bloody hell is wrong with it? Or is this the new $20 Spyderco Tenacious beater??? :D

The thread wont let me post with URL address big than 25 characters so please google the words below for a direct link to the info. Thank you.
"Boker Magnum Blitz Manual"

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I'm still interested in finding out more about this knife... Does anyone own one? Can anyone share their opinions about it?
 
I don't own one, but I can always share my opinion!:D

I have several BokerPlus knives from China, and am very pleased with what they are. I have three that have 440C steel, and one with a Chinese steel. All take a great edge, though the 440C steel does seem to hold it better. I heard a couple stories about the BokerPlus 440C, which I'm sure would be the same for a Magnum branded knife.

One story says that this is actually a Chinese version of 440C and not the "real" thing. The other story says the 440C steel is imported into China, via Boker, and then used for the blades.

Naturally I like the second story better and after having used the 440C knives a bit, I found that they held a good edge for a long period of time, and that they sharpened up reasonably fast when it was time.

Whichever steel it may be, the heat treat has apparently been done correctly, and that may count more than origin of the steel. Boker keeps a tight ship in China.

For the price, it would be worth getting the knife, just to see how good it may be.
 
I don't have any folders from Boker that are from China, but I do have a couple fixed blades and am very happy with them. They're worth every bit of their low prices.
 
If i had that knife i would probably want to convert it into and auto. I had one boker knife that was chinesse made and it was a good general use knife. It wasn't the worst or the best knife out there. So im pretty sure for general use this knife would do okay(as long as no hard use is used on it because i tend not to trust button locks too much for hard use)
 
ghostpoo said:
Bump can this be converted?
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Nope. It doesn't have the cutouts in the handle to accomodate the coil spring. Unlike certain earlier knives where they just left the spring out when shipping to the USA, these are actually made differently for the US market than for other countries.
 
G. Scott H. said:
Nope. It doesn't have the cutouts in the handle to accomodate the coil spring. Unlike certain earlier knives where they just left the spring out when shipping to the USA, these are actually made differently for the US market than for other countries.
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I have the bits and tools to modify the handle to accept springs its too bad they went that route..makes it harder pfft:thumbdown: anyways thanks for wrapping up my question 73
 
I'm kind of glad this thread got bumped. For some reason I really like the looks of that knife. If I weren't in the midst of downsizing my knife-pile, I'd probably order one to use as a beater.
 
It's an okay knife, very heavy duty with a solid lockup, but it has issues due to the lack of a spring, at least mine does. In the closed position, the edge lightly touches the center pillar. I took it apart and slipped a thin black nylon bushing I found at the hardware store over it and that solved the dinged edge issue. Now the edge has formed a shallow groove in the bushing and rests against it when closed. With the auto version the spring tension would keep the edge safely away from the pillar.
 
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