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OodlesOfNoodles

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Well you guessed it. A hole in the wall, mall cutlery shop has a DarkOps knife. It really suprised me. When I asked him where he had purchased it, he said he got it straight from the company. If you want to check it out, and are in the Dallas/Fort Worth region of Texas, its the Knife Shoppe, located in the Parks mall. Maybe this is old news since I haven't been on this site for about 5 months, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
 
OodlesOfNoodles said:
Well you guessed it. A hole in the wall, mall cutlery shop has a DarkOps knife. It really suprised me. When I asked him where he had purchased it, he said he got it straight from the company. If you want to check it out, and are in the Dallas/Fort Worth region of Texas, its the Knife Shoppe, located in the Parks mall. Maybe this is old news since I haven't been on this site for about 5 months, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
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Did you invite the shop owner to read about them on Bladeforums? :)
 
gajinoz said:
Did you invite the shop owner to read about them on Bladeforums? :)
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I'm afraid that I didn't think of it. I was just so shocked over DorkOps knives actually existing. I did tell him about whats been going on with them though.

Edit: Its not too bad a shop. They stock BM, Spyderco, CRKT, and various other quality knives along with the cheapies. The prices are a little higher, but thats likely because they have a brick and mortar location. As a note, I got my knock-off Leek there.
 
Well, go and check the knives out and report back to us!

I know that in a knife shop you can't exactly do edge retention or long-term wear tests, but you can look at the fit and finish, try shaving your arm or slicing paper or shaving a letter off of piece of newsprint.
 
and rugged. :D Using strange wording in advertising to sell and having a bad reputation is ugly.

Ask my Strider
 
J85909266 said:
UberTactical knives are so ugly and ridiculous. I would feel like a jerk with a DarkOps in my hand.
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I cannot tell a lie, some of them are pretty cool looking, must be the mall ninja in me :o
 
Think it was the DarkOps people at the Blade show I made upset. Whoever it was at the Blade show was back near the food vendors and had this huge banner with Camo-Faced, Boonie-hat wearing, M-4 toting soldiers on it. On the banner was also some slogan crap of "Close in and Eliminate.." crap. I made a rather too loud comment to my pal of

"So I should put down my rifle, pull out my knife, sneak up on the armed bad guy, and kill him with a knife? Well I must of missed that class in my Army training. Of course my Platoon Sgt always did say I was lazy as I would rather just stay at a distance an shoot the bad guy."

Brought a bit of a chuckle to all the people in line and a bit of upset looks to the knife vendors. Of course them trying to turn a profit off imaginary knife fights an sentry removal b.s. stories annoys me so I don't care if I upset them.
 
I actually hang around that store pretty often, as I attend the University of Texas at Arlington, nearby.

In fact, I was there about two hours ago.

Normally, the people there don't give me the impression of being too knowledgeable about knives, but are very nice nonetheless. Occasionally you even find a good deal in there too (really). However, today I got some jerk. He threw a fit that I referred to a Spyderfly as a balisong.

Their prices overall are about the same as the list price from the companies, too high. Nonetheless, they have by far the best selection of knives I've ever seen in one spot. Tons of benchmades, spydercos, crkts, camilluses, gerber...I mean, you name it. Even SOG. So it's normally a good place to check out a knife, and like I said, occasionally you do find a good deal there.

Interestingly, I did not notice any Dark Ops knives while I was there today. Maybe I'm losing my.......edge?
 
Artfully Martial said:
However, today I got some jerk. He threw a fit that I referred to a Spyderfly as a balisong.
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Did you complain about the way you were treated? If you didn't, I encourage you to do so. You don't want a jack -as making the rest of us knife people look bad.
 
Artfully Martial said:
Interestingly, I did not notice any Dark Ops knives while I was there today. Maybe I'm losing my.......edge?
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They're invisible. They only show up to certain people, and advertisement photo ops... then they return to the world of invisible, covert, deanimation jobs that they're so widely known for.
 
Gollnick said:
I know that in a knife shop you can't exactly do edge retention or long-term wear tests, but you can look at the fit and finish, try shaving your arm .
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:eek: I would highly recommend NOT shaving your arm hair in a knife shop. Personally (my opinion only) I find this practice tasteless, and besides this, you're taking something of a foolish risk, certainly not quite on the calibre of sharing needles, but I wouldn't consider this safe.
 
Walking Man said:
:eek: I would highly recommend NOT shaving your arm hair in a knife shop. Personally (my opinion only) I find this practice tasteless, and besides this, you're taking something of a foolish risk, certainly not quite on the calibre of sharing needles, but I wouldn't consider this safe.
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:eek: paranoia will destroy ya...mm mm, mm mm, and it goes like this. :cool:
 
Who shovelled all the money into Dark Ops start-up,how long have they been around and what do they have to do with Extrema Ratio?
 
No idea. Looked like they are trying to compete with Blackhawk Industries. And I am thinking they contracted with Extrema Ratio to make their knives.
 
Artfully Martial said:
Interestingly, I did not notice any Dark Ops knives while I was there today. Maybe I'm losing my.......edge?
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It was in one of the display cases on the side of the store as you walk in. You know, where they keep things like their chess boards and stainless steel naginatas.
 
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