Enlan is going to make some Fix Blade

[Mountain Mike]

Are they knock offs from someone else's designs...yup. Are the chinese the only one's that do it...nope.

 

[like em sharp]

I'm interested in how you know that Bee/Enlan is a separate company from Sanrenmu. (And I'm just curious and not looking to nitpick you.) If you go to the Sanrenmu website and look at their products, you'll see Bee and Enlan knives there, with Bee looking like most of their "Athletic" line.

Good question, happy to answer. I'm a business consultant by trade, and for four months last year I was doing a major project for a client who was interested in becoming a major North American distributor for some different Chinese knife brands. The major knife/multitool brands that were examined were Sanrenmu/Land, Enlan/Bee, Ganzo, Tekut and Navy.

They are 5 separate companies with different ownership, unless something major has changed since December of last year. The site that's commonly referenced for Sanrenmu is not actually SanRenMu's official brand site - that's an advertising site run by a third party. That site exists to showcase the brands and as far as I know, they're paid a fee to provide new wholesale contacts to the companies they show products from (not an uncommon business model).

 

[diablo_man]

Many of Enlan's most famous knives arent copies of other knives.

i would challenge people to try out the EL01 and EL02 at least and then tell me they arent very well made knives.

but i dont get how the SRM 710 (being similar to a sebenza) is any different from my mum's 30 something year old Kabar 1189 folder that is basically the exact same knife as a Buck 110.

 

[Gadfly22]

Good question, happy to answer. I'm a business consultant by trade, and for four months last year I was doing a major project for a client who was interested in becoming a major North American distributor for some different Chinese knife brands. The major knife/multitool brands that were examined were Sanrenmu/Land, Enlan/Bee, Ganzo, Tekut and Navy.

They are 5 separate companies with different ownership, unless something major has changed since December of last year. The site that's commonly referenced for Sanrenmu is not actually SanRenMu's official brand site - that's an advertising site run by a third party. That site exists to showcase the brands and as far as I know, they're paid a fee to provide new wholesale contacts to the companies they show products from (not an uncommon business model).

Thank you! That answers a number of questions I've had about those various brands.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

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