Is this Sanrenmu knife a copy of some other knife?

shecky said:
oops... too late. ;)

Seriously, knife nuts have to be some of the thinnest skinned people on the planet, when $10 Chinese knives causes so much petty bitterness. Or even calling them POS knives. I have no problem calling out a POS when I see one. But clearly, as anyone who's handled them, SRM knives do not fall anywhere near that category. To make such a claim is the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "La la la...", a denial of reality that's just unhinged.
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I don't know what you've been smoking shecky but I'll be over. :D A few Canadian and Australian members were cracking on the USA and I don't have anything else to say about it except; that was the wrong text you quoted and I couldn't care less about the 2 SRM folders I have.
 
I ordered a pair of SRM's a few days ago and they just came in, a 763 and a 939.

I'm carrying both right now. They aren't perfect, but they're not bad at all. I've paid more for knives that I liked less.


as for paying $30 for a "better knife," that $30 knife is probably a SanRenMu. :D
 
The 710 is the best of the Sanremus I've tried, and I'd rate it highly, along with my Spyderco Tenacious, Persistence and Ambitious. In another thread, I also listed the 710 as fun to use.

Next, I'd rank the 738, 563 and the Navy 507 together.

At the bottom were two Elans with locks so dangerous they went into the trash.
 
GlockLobster said:
Damn... you guys were SO right... Sanrenmu's are amazing... I just found this test that shows how strong their liner locks are:
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Do you need to free cut a water bottle often? show me the chinese made Spyderco doing it side by side with the edge profiled the same to the same grade hone. And I've seen benchmade axis locks snap closed smashing the spine...the spine of your knife is not a god damn hammer!!! and the shock of doing so will throw the lock bar back, you know I own a lot of slip joint knives too and never had one snap closed on my finger when using one with NO LOCK AT ALL.

So many nancy's in the knife scene these days wearing their mothers blouse...if you dont like it for whatever moral reason, shoot for the moon, but the quality issue isn't one, they are on par and in some cases above the import models from the big American companies.

cziv said:
I don't know what you've been smoking shecky but I'll be over. :D A few Canadian and Australian members were cracking on the USA and I don't have anything else to say about it except; that was the wrong text you quoted and I couldn't care less about the 2 SRM folders I have.
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You must be smoking the good stuff too, I was being SARCASTIC about the people who wont buy anything but domestically made and then hate on everything else...yeah I hate the US so much I am leaving Australia permanently for the US, that really makes sense.
 
^^ I may be wrong, but that WASN'T a liner lock in the video.

There are posts and videos of Benchmade Axis locks failing, it proves nothing.

Maybe glocklobster doesn't know that you can sharpen a knife blade so that it may cut a water bottle? Some quality USA knives are known to occasionally come dull. I wouldn't expect a $9 knife to come as sharp as I can get them. With paperwheels even d2 and s30v sharpen in under a minute.

No matter what locking system, it probably isn't a good idea to be using a knife in a way that it could cause serious damage if it closed. If you need to be doing something like a stabbing motion or someway that it could close on your hand, maybe you shouldn't be using a small folder?

Those of you who said they are garbage, POS, junk,etc how many of you handled the knife. And if you did what makes them junk. If you elaborate it helps people avoid that product. Not "its junk". Is the material sub standard, bladeplay, break easily.... what makes them junk!??!
 
bluebanshee said:
^^ I may be wrong, but that WASN'T a liner lock in the video.

There are posts and videos of Benchmade Axis locks failing, it proves nothing.

Maybe glocklobster doesn't know that you can sharpen a knife blade so that it may cut a water bottle? Some quality USA knives are known to occasionally come dull. I wouldn't expect a $9 knife to come as sharp as I can get them. With paperwheels even d2 and s30v sharpen in under a minute.

No matter what locking system, it probably isn't a good idea to be using a knife in a way that it could cause serious damage if it closed. If you need to be doing something like a stabbing motion or someway that it could close on your hand, maybe you shouldn't be using a small folder?

Those of you who said they are garbage, POS, junk,etc how many of you handled the knife. And if you did what makes them junk. If you elaborate it helps people avoid that product. Not "its junk". Is the material sub standard, bladeplay, break easily.... what makes them junk!??!
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It was an axis lock model...I only have experience with SRM's axis and frame lock models but I did order the model this thread is about (but it will be a couple months till i'm back in the US to try it out in the EDC rotation) so will get a chance to try their liner locks.

There is no logical reasoning with some people, too much emotion involved.
 
Robert.B said:
I hate the US so much I am leaving Australia permanently for the US, that really makes sense.
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Please stay there we don't need anymore of you blokes over here! Why does the USA suck over this and that but we can't keep people outta here? :confused: :D Alright, sarcasm - c'mon over here it's better, think of all the shipping charges you'll save on knives. :thumbup:
 
Robert.B said:
Do you need to free cut a water bottle often? show me the chinese made Spyderco doing it side by side with the edge profiled the same to the same grade hone. And I've seen benchmade axis locks snap closed smashing the spine...the spine of your knife is not a god damn hammer!!! and the shock of doing so will throw the lock bar back, you know I own a lot of slip joint knives too and never had one snap closed on my finger when using one with NO LOCK AT ALL.
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Not only that.

1) You're comparing a Sanrenmu 710 which has an approximate 2.75" plain blade with a Spyderco Tenacious which has a 3 3/8" serrated blade.

2) The water bottles themselves seem to be different, not just by design, but maybe in density/thickness, as well.

3) Those two water bottle cutting tests were done by two different guys with different swing techniques. The difference in cutting angles was easy to spot, so were the initial target areas.

As for the 763, I just tried that test with mine, and it did not fail.

Really, for a 710 costing less than $10, this is sharp enough for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sSK7yeQQ44

Same goes for the 763:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekKIGWkbgh8
 
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cziv said:
Please stay there we don't need anymore of you blokes over here! Why does the USA suck over this and that but we can't keep people outta here? :confused: :D Alright, sarcasm - c'mon over here it's better, think of all the shipping charges you'll save on knives. :thumbup:
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I've been away from my wife for 5 months nearly immigrating legally at an insane personal expense (when I could have flown to Canada and made an epic W&S thread on how to border jump from Canada to the US on one pack full of rations :p), I'll go Mr.T on any foo' trying to keep me from my wife any longer than required haha. I've been shipping all my knives to my US address as they wouldn't make it through ATM with the giant liberal bug shoved up customs butts, so i'm kinda getting impatient to play with 15 or so knives I bought recently. :D
 
risen said:
Hmm, interesting. A Benchmade 710:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7553470131749739284#

For a $100+ knife..., think I'm okay with my SRM 763.

Btw, I also have a Benchmade Grip & a Mini Grip.
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I don't own any Sanrenmu , thus my dog is not in the fight ( although I did recently 'bay' a Navy K-506 out of curiosity, havent received it yet though... ) ... but I am sure am glad I took the 710 my fiance got me for Christmas back and exchanged for a BM with a far more reliable lock than the cheesy axis...

Tostig
 
I'm awaiting the arrival of three Sanremnu knives. And with all the hostility this thread has created about them, I feel like buying ten more. ;)
 
IMO posting up you-tube videos is about as useful as citing Wikipedia in a college paper. I've seen a video of a CRK Umnumzaan fail the spine whack test on a twig for God's sake.

Who knows what happened to these knives, including the 710, that we didn't see on camera.
 
ElectrikHellfire said:
IMO posting up you-tube videos is about as useful as citing Wikipedia in a college paper. I've seen a video of a CRK Umnumzaan fail the spine whack test on a twig for God's sake.

Who knows what happened to these knives, including the 710, that we didn't see on camera.
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Shock load any knife lock into doing something and of course it will fail...they're designed for cutting.
 
ElectrikHellfire said:
...Who knows what happened to these knives, including the 710, that we didn't see on camera.
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Very true. With my SRM 763, I whacked it pretty hard, and the axis didn't seem to slip one bit.
bluebanshee said:
...Doesn't cut too bad. No fancy stropping or anything like that needed.
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Dayum!!!
Robert.B said:
Shock load any knife lock into doing something and of course it will fail...they're designed for cutting.
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Agreed.
 
I can see that I'm trying to hard here. I should have known that because of the title of this thread there are none of the serious knife nuts in here that I post with on the other threads. I'll leave you fellas to your grout cleaning and get on to my forest clearing with a real knife.

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You ain't going to get much forest cleared with a ZT 0301 dude. I've onwed one. Nice strong knife, but "not all that."

This thread isn't about hard use knives anyway. :cool:
 
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