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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Cheap Smokey Mountain stuff?
- Thread starter GarageBoy
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Er, uhh, well, you see that's one of those things my therapist says I shouldn't talk about to avoid the flashbacks . . . actually no, but I've bought cheap Paki crap before I developed my current refined, expensive taste and it wasn't a pleasant experience. I only buy the smokin' deals SMKW manages to get sometimes on Spyderco and Marbles.
(wish they'd stop selling it, but then again, their catalog would only be 2/3 it's current size)
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Some crap is better smelling - stil smells like crap.
I find that the snap-on-fingers Pakistani folders are only slightly superceded by factory knock-off type Taiwanese and Chinese made folders. I have handled some really really so awfully bad Pakistani "attempted" Buck-110 models that looked like they were put together with an angle grinder by a guy with no thumbs. You get the occasional good knife, but its usually entirely an accident on the part of the factory / maker. And its still some doubtful steel / HT.
My suggestion is that unless you can personally handle, test the knife in question, don't even think of getting one. Even more important, don't get any mail-order stuff. I swear these things ferment to smell even worse in the mail. You almost always get the junk reject one.
From bad experience before I knew better. Jason.
I find that the snap-on-fingers Pakistani folders are only slightly superceded by factory knock-off type Taiwanese and Chinese made folders. I have handled some really really so awfully bad Pakistani "attempted" Buck-110 models that looked like they were put together with an angle grinder by a guy with no thumbs. You get the occasional good knife, but its usually entirely an accident on the part of the factory / maker. And its still some doubtful steel / HT.
My suggestion is that unless you can personally handle, test the knife in question, don't even think of getting one. Even more important, don't get any mail-order stuff. I swear these things ferment to smell even worse in the mail. You almost always get the junk reject one.
From bad experience before I knew better. Jason.
