how does Frost Cutlery make their knives so cheap?

Rat Finkenstein said:
Because of the ignoramuses (no relation, I am sure;)) who make up the majority of purchases. They don't know any better, and are unwilling to learn.
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I do remember years back swearing to myself that I'd get the money to buy some of their oh-so-cool stuff:barf: .

But that would mean that they'd have to keep getting new suc-, ehem, customers, right?
 
ignoramus said:
I do remember years back swearing to myself that I'd get the money to buy some of their oh-so-cool stuff:barf: .

But that would mean that they'd have to keep getting new suc-, ehem, customers, right?
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You have probably heard David Hannum's* famous quote:

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute" [/FONT]

(*a quote wrongly attributed to P.T. Barnum)
 
I'm pretty sure they don't pay those 10 year old Chinese girls much to put those knives together.

How do they stay in business? Simple; there's always some ignorant person who will buy them at gun shows.
 
I think they stay in business because their customers never use their knives! There is no way any sane individual would buy those pos's after having to use them.
 
Jim70 said:
Made in China of junk steel. If you get the chance watch the video where the guy taps a table with a Katana, it breaks in half and sticks him in the stomach.
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Anyone know where I can find this video? i'd love to send it to my brother -- he'd crack up.

I remember someone had it as their signature...
 
The host guy from the video (not the 'victim,' the other guy) has a website selling "knives" that make the Smoky Mountain Knife Works catalog look like Chris Reeve's Web site. :barf:
 
What's amazing is that even at those prices they are still making an acceptable (some would say good) profit margin (percentage wise), as the factories are selling those knives for around 30-60¢ each. 60¢ being for your 'top of the line folder' of course!

They are nothing more than unsafe novelty items and IMO don't deserve much discussion on this forum.
 
Chinese factories are perfectly capable of producing good quality knives. But for the most part, the market won't bear the cost, as such, China's resources and labor are better utilized producing lower end goods. The scariest thing for manufacturers is that knife making isn't rocket science. It's an endeavor that the most primitive of industrialized nations can successfully undertake.

I tend to think one of the biggest costs may be quality control. The manufacturers of products such as Frost's apparently have an acceptable high rate of failure. Suppose they were to have more stringent standards for what goes out the door? This may be good for output quality, but would cost more retail as the factory has to raise prices to recoup the losses. And the higher retail cost, the less competitive they are on the market.

Outfits like Frost stay in business because people buy their wares. The truth is that that most folks simply aren't very discriminating or demanding of their cutlery. My sister owns a Frost knife. It's plastic handled, "rostfrei" bladed folder resembling a Spyderco Cricket. And it's opened her mail for several years now. I'm sure it would fall apart under Cliff Stamp's testing, but it doesn't get used that way and never will. It's sufficient for her needs. So who am I to tell her it isn't good enough, when it clearly is.
 
Most of their orders come from hillbillies who buy them and resell them at flea marlets around the country to other hillbilies and young kids and teens not to mention all the other deadbeat men who think they are badass because they have a knife, but be carefull these are the same aholes who use these things to hurt people maybe on accident maybe on purpose doesn't matter much since even a $1 knife can hurt or kill someone easily...as weapons it does't matter how good or poor the quality even a butter knife can with enough force can be stuck into someone....
 
MG_Saldivar said:
The host guy from the video (not the 'victim,' the other guy) has a website selling "knives" that make the Smoky Mountain Knife Works catalog look like Chris Reeve's Web site. :barf:
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LOL, thanks for the link to his site, I remember him on the knife collectors show..but hisnew site...well his live feed for the show, has to be the funniest show yet beating the knife collectors show! this show looks like iot is being taped in his basement, just hilarious, lol...I kind of feeld bad watching it...:rolleyes: :D :p
 
I think I'm getting some for Christmas. Which suits me just fine, because I'm actually curious what a $1.50 knife is like.
 
GMT+7 said:
They are nothing more than unsafe novelty items and IMO don't deserve much discussion on this forum.
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You're right about the "unsafe novelty items" part.
But for those who are new to BF, it's definitely a topic worth discussing.
 
A few years ago, I stopped by a knife store located deep within rural Texas, and was disappointed to discover that they only carried these cheap Frost Cutlery knives and a few Colonial items. According to the shop's owner, these knives were priced right for migrant workers; who were unwilling to invest in a knife that could easilly be lost in the field; and, who regularly used these knives up until the blades were little more then toothpicks.

These knives are evrything we say they are: poor action, dangerous locks, weak pins, poor blade material, poor heat treatment, fragile; but, a whol lot of work is likely accomplished with them by people who can do no better.

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
A few years ago, I stopped by a knife store located deep within rural Texas, and was disappointed to discover that they only carried these cheap Frost Cutlery knives and a few Colonial items. According to the shop's owner, these knives were priced right for migrant workers; who were unwilling to invest in a knife that could easilly be lost in the field; and, who regularly used these knives up until the blades were little more then toothpicks.

These knives are evrything we say they are: poor action, dangerous locks, weak pins, poor blade material, poor heat treatment, fragile; but, a whol lot of work is likely accomplished with them by people who can do no better.

n2s
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For the price of a dangerous and crappy folder that cannot hold an edge, he could sell those workers a cheap cutter with a real heat treat.
like this one:

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like 3 bucks, and it will outlast any frost cutlery crap, especially when used for real work.

I'll bet the real reason he sold such crappy stuff is because of the huge profit margin.
 
Because they are made in China by political prisoners in large factory prisons.

Here is the scenario:

A Chinese Christian is caught with a Bible, they sentence him or her to life in prison doing forced labor producing substandard products for WAL-Mart and Chef Tony to sell to Americans.
 
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