Gotta love Pakistan!

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Slice O Life said:
You know the funny part is, I bet a lot of really good hunters use these horrible Pakistan knives and still make it work.
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I have an uncle who is an advisor hunter. He will show me his Pakistani “Damascus” knives. I guess they work for him, who I am I to judge. I need to gift him a nice knife sometime and see how he likes it.
 
I wonder if the locals actually use these lower end Damascus blades and if they are happy with them.

I do have somewhere a couple of ebay damascus blades bough several years ago, for the looks. :)

As hinted previously, you do not need to have the latest supersteel to have a knife that works for you. Most people just know steel that rusts and stainless steel.
 
I see stuff like this pop up all of the time on FB. Surprisingly enough, they sell knives “knifes” like hotcakes. One guy claimed to make a Damascus knife by forge welding air hardened and oil hardened steels together. He even got called out by a reputable blacksmith, but it appears their business is still booming, so go figure.
 
TheEdge01 said:
I see stuff like this pop up all of the time on FB. Surprisingly enough, they sell knives “knifes” like hotcakes. One guy claimed to make a Damascus knife by forge welding air hardened and oil hardened steels together. He even got called out by a reputable blacksmith, but it appears their business is still booming, so go figure.
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You know I work as a chef, talk to hunters and fishermen, and 90% of the time they have no idea about how to tell if a knife is good or not. Those that do, usually just have a kershaw, or very rarely a spyderco. Most of the time, even people who say they are knife collectors in real life (in my experience) have these junkyard no name knives. We must be a weird group of people.


Gonna edit in, I do see a lot of benchmades as well by those 10% of knife guys that I happen to meet IRL that know what good knives are somewhat. But that’s it. And I work with people who use knives quite a lot. The most common things I see are small fixed blades or box cutters with replaceable razor blades.
 
Slice O Life said:
You know I work as a chef, talk to hunters and fishermen, and 90% of the time they have no idea about how to tell if a knife is good or not. Those that do, usually just have a kershaw, or very rarely a spyderco. Most of the time, even people who say they are knife collectors in real life (in my experience) have these junkyard no name knives. We must be a weird group of people.


Gonna edit in, I do see a lot of benchmades as well by those 10% of knife guys that I happen to meet IRL that know what good knives are somewhat. But that’s it. And I work with people who use knives quite a lot. The most common things I see are small fixed blades or box cutters with replaceable razor blades.
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I rarely hunt anymore, but when I did I would use a puma, or even a Schrade sharp finger when they were made in America. I can honestly say I have never purchased or will ever purchase a Pakistani knife
 
Vlade said:
I rarely hunt anymore, but when I did I would use a puma, or even a Schrade sharp finger when they were made in America. I can honestly say I have never purchased or will ever purchase a Pakistani knife
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I wish more people would, the pakistani knife thing should be a obvious thing as something bad for most people… or at least one would think.
 
When I was a kid, “made in Japan” meant the cheapest, lousiest product you could import to America and get Americans to buy at the lowest price. But the proceeds from that mass produced junk allowed Japan to decide what they were going to specialize in, and now their electronics and medical equipment and optics are as good as anybody’s, and cost as much. And their knives.

Taiwan is about 20 years behind them, China is perhaps 10 or 20 years behind that, and Pakistan is on the bottom rung. The thing is, they’re making progress from killing each other over goats.

Someday, when Paki knives have reached their pinnacle of quality, somebody else will have to build the cheap throwdowns. Maybe Africa, who knows? Somewhere labor is cheap and plentiful, there’s no regulation, and the merchandise can be transported to relatively affluent markets. Maybe a lunar penal colony, for you Heinlein fans.

Gotta happen somewhere.

Parker
 
catspa said:
When I was a kid, “made in Japan” meant the cheapest, lousiest product you could import to America and get Americans to buy at the lowest price. But the proceeds from that mass produced junk allowed Japan to decide what they were going to specialize in, and now their electronics and medical equipment and optics are as good as anybody’s, and cost as much. And their knives.

Taiwan is about 20 years behind them, China is perhaps 10 or 20 years behind that, and Pakistan is on the bottom rung. The thing is, they’re making progress from killing each other over goats.

Someday, when Paki knives have reached their pinnacle of quality, somebody else will have to build the cheap throwdowns. Maybe Africa, who knows? Somewhere labor is cheap and plentiful, there’s no regulation, and the merchandise can be transported to relatively affluent markets. Maybe a lunar penal colony, for you Heinlein fans.

Gotta happen somewhere.

Parker
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Well Mr Parker I used to hear it everyday. My father was a World War II vet. Must have did something to him he seriously disliked the Japanese products
 
Sure, and there was much anti German sentiment in America also. But in both those countries, the fact is that the US assisted tremendously in helping them rebuild after the war. Now, generations later, the hard feelings have largely subsided and we do business together regularly.

This situation is so rare historically as to be remarkable. Remember that next time you hear somebody bitching about how terrible Americans are.

Parker
 
I do not think the anti-German sentiment after WW1 and WW2 was strictly a US thing
 
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