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Hehe.. A double edged (though false second edge) dagger Cudeman was my first. Friend brought it back from Amsterdam.
They're actually not that bad. The handles are so squarely cut the dig into and rip on your fingers when you're rolling them.. especially on the backs of the knuckles.
The inserts are also cheap 'cause usually they're only glued down (some don't even have pins), and will come out in the first month. Happened all 3 of the ones I was around. I'm actually not even sure it's wood.
The latch is pretty weak on it. The cups are almost always too deep or get deformed immediately (first hour), so you never end up needing to squeeze the Bali together to pop the latch to unlock when open. No second tang pin to lock closed and it come apart in your pocket all the time... which I don't recommend.. might puncture something
Despite that.. they're quite solid. Took me a couple weeks before mine started getting wiggly-loose.. and I played with it 4 or 5 hours at a time. As far as cheap knives go.. compared to say, the ones on KnifeZilla's site, the Black Diamonds and the Classics, they're 4 or 5 times the knife.
A bunch of you trash Jags, but there's a *lot* of worse stuff out there. There's just no point in getting anything worse than a Jag. Like most of you say.. good starting knife. Cudemans, aren't bad.. but for about the same price as a Jag, are relatively horrible.
Cynake
They're actually not that bad. The handles are so squarely cut the dig into and rip on your fingers when you're rolling them.. especially on the backs of the knuckles.
The inserts are also cheap 'cause usually they're only glued down (some don't even have pins), and will come out in the first month. Happened all 3 of the ones I was around. I'm actually not even sure it's wood.
The latch is pretty weak on it. The cups are almost always too deep or get deformed immediately (first hour), so you never end up needing to squeeze the Bali together to pop the latch to unlock when open. No second tang pin to lock closed and it come apart in your pocket all the time... which I don't recommend.. might puncture something
Despite that.. they're quite solid. Took me a couple weeks before mine started getting wiggly-loose.. and I played with it 4 or 5 hours at a time. As far as cheap knives go.. compared to say, the ones on KnifeZilla's site, the Black Diamonds and the Classics, they're 4 or 5 times the knife.
A bunch of you trash Jags, but there's a *lot* of worse stuff out there. There's just no point in getting anything worse than a Jag. Like most of you say.. good starting knife. Cudemans, aren't bad.. but for about the same price as a Jag, are relatively horrible.
Cynake