Boker Trance - Very dissapointed.

Hey.. look at it this way: The more and more we support knives made in China and Taiwan, the more interest they will have in keeping and securing their jobs, and the better and better they will get at them! Bring on the praise for Taiwan quality! Sooner or later we can give them ALL of our jobs! One day we will ALL work for Walmart (The Company Store), and get that awesome 10% employee discount!! This thread REALLY IS useful! Thank you Boker!
 
archieblue said:
Hey.. look at it this way: The more and more we support knives made in China and Taiwan, the more interest they will have in keeping and securing their jobs, and the better and better they will get at them! Bring on the praise for Taiwan quality! Sooner or later we can give them ALL of our jobs! One day we will ALL work for Walmart (The Company Store), and get that awesome 10% employee discount!! This thread REALLY IS useful! Thank you Boker!
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Sir,
While I do agree in great degree with your feelings and your statement, and I do my best to buy American, and at small businesses, you do realize that Boker is not an American company. We do not produce any knives in the US, and except for one recent exception, we haven't for decades.
Our company is German, and we have knives made from all over the world. We have been a German company since 1869,
and those of us here in the US are the sales and import arm of Boker Germany.

Thank you,
Terry
 
it looks like you have been trying to cut metal and concrete. The blade on my kershaw leek is probally the thinnest out of all my knifes and it looks no where near what that blade looks like and I have used it a lot.

Like others have said, I'd like to see what the company would do about this before making up my mind about the company and knife.
 
Like others have said, I'd like to see what the company would do about this before making up my mind about the company and knife.
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Uh, what more is there to see regarding what the company will do about this? Chad Los Banos himself offered to pay for a new trance for the guy, and the company reps on this thread have been exceptionally helpful and willing to make things right. Literally, I do not know what more they could do to make this right short of driving to Aarong's house and fixing his knife by force, if necessary.
 
This thread caught my attention because I also just ordered a Drop-Point Trance, my first CLB and second Boker. As someone late to the party, I think its important to focus on the bigger picture that this thread has painted.

The fact that ANY $25 Taiwan-made knife could ilicit this type of interest/passion on this and so many other sites/threads is an immense credit to Chad and Boker. I'm mostly a Case slipjoint guy, myself, with a serious bias in favor of American-made knives. But Chad's designs catch my eye and I had to see what the fuss is about. Isn't that the holy grail of knife design and marketing?

+1 on an FRN Lava, but I really wish Benchmade would wake up and pair an Axis lock to a CLB design. Would set the knife world on its ear, IMO.
 
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