Cheap yet good knife

[Runsalone]

Well, to be blunt, it's a cheap piece of junk. It's an inexpensive Chinese-made knife that will fall apart over long-term use. The liner lock will wear steadily until it's at the far end of its travel, leaving you with a blade that won't lock open properly, if it even does so now. The coating on the blade is intended to hide flaws in the steel more than to make the blade look "cool." And I'm willing to bet that the heat treatment of that blade is such that the knife dulls extremely quickly, sharpens up again easily, but simply won't take a good edge.

Plus, it's really ugly.

What is a good entry level knife then?

Almost anything else.

BWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahah!
Thanks Phil! I needed a laugh.


Stick around centurion, this is a great site and a good place to be If you want quality in a blade. Not always expensive, but quality. Welcome!!

 

[shangchi108]

Stick around centurion, this is a great site and a good place to be If you want quality in a blade. Not always expensive, but quality. Welcome!!

Yes, and let us know when you actually do find some good cheap knives. You might want to start your search with Spyderco's Byrd line, as others have suggested.

 

[Kaizen1]

Welcome to the forums CenturionNL. Give us a price range and we can provide many suggestions for real quality knives.

 

[kungfucowboy]

it's the same stuff that's in every night market. the thing is 44% of the stuff is garbage not worth 1 cent 44% of it is ok for the price and 2% is pretty decent.

for example most of the knives on there are your normal fakes that copy one brand and put the name of another on it all unrelated to the actual company who makes it like the "cold steel" "dark ops" knife or the kershaw et knock off (which is unsafe btw). on the other hand you have the "Silver Folding Fighting Knife 723" (although how they can call a sub 3in blade a fighting knife i don't know) is the sanrenmu model 723 i bought one over here and it's a decent little frame lock knife that struck me as being close in quality to the byrd knifes i handled (at the one place here that sells real knives albeit at prices like $100 for a boker subcom).

 

[trentu]

Good call Phil!! Cheap copy junk.

 

[Hawkings]

it's the same stuff that's in every night market. the thing is 44% of the stuff is garbage not worth 1 cent 44% of it is ok for the price and 2% is pretty decent.

for example most of the knives on there are your normal fakes that copy one brand and put the name of another on it all unrelated to the actual company who makes it like the "cold steel" "dark ops" knife or the kershaw et knock off (which is unsafe btw). on the other hand you have the "Silver Folding Fighting Knife 723" (although how they can call a sub 3in blade a fighting knife i don't know) is the sanrenmu model 723 i bought one over here and it's a decent little frame lock knife that struck me as being close in quality to the byrd knifes i handled (at the one place here that sells real knives albeit at prices like $100 for a boker subcom).

Okay I'll bite....Thats around 90% what about the last 10???

 

[Confederate]

This knife is only a few bucks and rates a 9.5 out of 10, and you're going to pass it up? Budgetgadgets has some Cold Steel and Gerber models that haven't even been released yet! Hasn't it occurred to you that CenturionNL might be a pseudonym for Lynn Thompson and that he might be trying to test his knives among a group of experienced, suave knife users at bargain prices?

No? Me, neither. But we could be WRONG....

 

[kungfucowboy]

Okay I'll bite....Thats around 90% what about the last 10???

hehehe i don't know what the last 10% is either they have some really weird unidentifiable stuff there?

or

the other answers i was debating on were

the last 10% is stuff Chinese say is eatable and I say isn't.

or

if you use "Chinese logic" you never get things to add up to one hundred percent (seriously logic as we are taught in the west is not nearly as valid or as important)

 

[gbuskirk]

Here's a quote from Bernard Levine (from this topic) pertinent to this discussion:

Asian knife companies that contract manufacture US brand knives, routinely make their own versions of those knives, for sale outside the USA -- usually marked with the same US brand. Sometimes they pay royalties to the US brand owner, but more often they don't bother.

 

[JNieporte]

Cheap yet good knives... Moras, Swiss Army Knives, Opinels, Boker Chad Los Banos designs, Spyderco Byrd line, Kershaw Scallions, many Buck knives, Kabar Dozier folding hunters, and even Cold Steel series of 4116 Krupp steel. All of those can be found for under $30 and all are very well-made. No need to resort to rip-offs when there are so many well-made folders that deliver nice quality.

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