Buying a New Blade ???????

sanddragger28

sanddragger28

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I am looking at buying this Karambit 1/4 inch thick beautiful handles and it made of D2. What do you think the price of something like this should be? Any opinions or reviews? I am actually shocked on price but want your pinion on what you think the price is.

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Im not a big fan of these kinds of knives, but i would guess at about twice as much as a fallkniven s-1, which i would recommend instead.
 
I see no purpose in these silly shaped knives other than they 'look cool'. I am guessing this unit is around $200 and to me worth about $5.
 
generic1 said:
I see no purpose in these silly shaped knives other than they 'look cool'. I am guessing this unit is around $200 and to me worth about $5.
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They are Karambits, and the hawkbill knife has a number of useful attributes, making it a popular blade style for mariners, and those who often need to make drawing cuts at arms length. There are also styles of self defense that use this type of blade. If you are going to speak on a subject so definitively, you had better have your facts straight.
 
These aren't a style that I would use, though I know that there are some knife fighting styles that utilize such. (I say this to fudge my guesstimate.)

A properly balanced blade is almost a custom deal. I would guess several hundred dollars for well made ones.
 
I understand the utility of a karambit's general design---I like the Emerson folding models, and Spyderco's own version in all stainless.

For utilitarian cutting chores, and even self defense, the blade geometry looks like it might limit the slashing and slicing ability of the knife. You'd have to test to make sure, certainly, but quarter-inch thick stock and such a narrow profile and low grind certainly wouldn't lend itself to utility.

To each his own. :)
 
It's NOT one of mine.... It is however my design (just very poorly executed). Some Japanese knock off company stole the design (along with several others of mine) and started making them and selling them with a very vague description that could lead someone to believe that it's a custom...

Believe me, it's not a custom and it's not D2.. It's some low end stainless and I know this b/c someone sent me one so I could verify....

The bad part is, I've been in negotiations with a company to sell the design outright as I've discontinued the single edged version.... So I guess they'll be dealing with the mess..

Mine will always have my logo on the primary side and will be individually numbered on the opposite side...

Here's an example of a real one....

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Here's what I discontinued it for...

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I know full well they aren't for everyone, but they absolutely have their use, and karambits in general are one of the best self defense/fighting knives you can use... I'd suggest looking up the fighting system involved with them as well, it is actually very interesting and it comes from a very old knife design from the Philippines.

Anyway, that knife (the knock off). Is REALLY becomming a pain in my ass. At first it was an annoyance, now I get about 3-4 emails a day asking what the deal is... I wish I could do something to these guys, but since they're in Japan, there's little I can do...




MT
 
Fakes suck. I'm sorry to hear about your problems with the clones---it seems like this has been an issue for many in the knife industry as of late.

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Yep, and it just gets worse and worse. So long as there's no recourse, there's probably going to be no end....



MT
 
That does suck!!!! These damn copy cat artists are copying everything they can make a dollar on. It's becoming such a problem that sometimes you are afraid to buy something on the internet unless you know it comes from a reliable source.

Since we now know it is not a Terrell that would change my original price guess of around $300 to approx. $5 for this rip-off POS. I assumed it was an earlier Terrell karambit.
 
Yeah, sorry for your misfortune on the ever-growing plague of design rip-offs, Mark. Technology has certainly made it easy. I think consumer education is really key here.
The following is stretching the topic a bit however, here goes; With knives becoming ever more present in the collector industry($) and authenticity being key($), might I propose the idea of imbedding a micro-chip. What say the blade clan?

Gibby
 
I received my Karambit today,
And it looks to be a great knife, with the following caveats:
the picture in the ads shows no markings on the blade, when in reality, the left side of the blade says "claws" on it... claws?..plural?....
on the right side of the blade it shows
the type of steel used on the blade...
surprise... its not D-2 as advertised, but AUS-8A

On the up side, as a copy of the Mark Terrell Karambit, its a great blade with 1/4" blade, tight grind lines, and at under a 1/3 the price.

not a bad deal.
 
It seems like the Karambit fad has faded a bit now. I think they look cool, but they seem pretty useless. I mean really, what bad guy is gonna stick around while you whip out little tiger claws :)
 
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