>>I finally got my 42, and I'm going to say what everyone else did, wow it sure is light. One thing that I did notice is that it is a lot more smooth than my china cheapie.
Compared to a lot of the worthless junk that comes out of China, the butterfly knives are not to bad for the price. The problem is having to get them into this country. In order to get them past Customs, I am told they ship them in parts, and assemble them here with cheap compression pins. Not only the China, but even the Taiwan Butterflys seem to have a lot of excessive play, or what we use to call slop in them between the handle and the blade. Today I just got in a new serrated China butterfly, and on top of having a better quality blade in it, I noticed that there was very little slop in it. When I looked to see why, I discovered they had put thin washers between the blade and the handles. Also, the pins did not look to be the cheap compression ones, but the solid hammered pins that usually hold up pretty good. So, my conclusion is that in China, they designed those butterfly knives to have those thin washers in them, but whoever is importing them, does not put the washers in there, but just quickly puts a pin in them. It's something people may want to look into when they are rebuilding them and replacing the "fly apart" pins, with solid pins. Thanks, JohnR7 (on Ebay) www.BalisongKnife.com
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Compared to a lot of the worthless junk that comes out of China, the butterfly knives are not to bad for the price. The problem is having to get them into this country. In order to get them past Customs, I am told they ship them in parts, and assemble them here with cheap compression pins. Not only the China, but even the Taiwan Butterflys seem to have a lot of excessive play, or what we use to call slop in them between the handle and the blade. Today I just got in a new serrated China butterfly, and on top of having a better quality blade in it, I noticed that there was very little slop in it. When I looked to see why, I discovered they had put thin washers between the blade and the handles. Also, the pins did not look to be the cheap compression ones, but the solid hammered pins that usually hold up pretty good. So, my conclusion is that in China, they designed those butterfly knives to have those thin washers in them, but whoever is importing them, does not put the washers in there, but just quickly puts a pin in them. It's something people may want to look into when they are rebuilding them and replacing the "fly apart" pins, with solid pins. Thanks, JohnR7 (on Ebay) www.BalisongKnife.com
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