Knife Manufacturers You Avoid

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Hey guys,

Just wondering which knife manufacturers you avoid and why?

Edit - Personally I avoid gerber and sog because i had a bad experiences and a new one DPX because of his shenanigans on the forums.
 
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Sog - bladeplay, rattlig, expensive for what you get.

Gerber - Usually sucks, basically.

Byrd - They look like knives i'd hate.
 
I tend to only like USA made products with one exception, Spyderco in Japan. I do not have any use for Clamshell prepackaged knives sitting on the wall off mass merchandizers. I also HATE that TRUE VALUE has stopped selling CASE knives and are selling cheap imitation overseas made junk. I argued with a store clerk about it ,he did not understand you only draw the type of customer you have by the stuff you sell. People that want quality will pay for it, if they are not smart enough to sell it ,well thats a shame.
 
I prefer US made tools. I do own knives from Taiwan, Japan, and China, but those knives are cheap and or overpriced.
Why should I pay to have something shipped around the world, when a guy in the States needs a job?
Knives I do buy are..
ESEE
Bark River
Fiddleback Forge
Becker
I've also got two knives from BF members that are custom/hand made.
 
mickeyblueyes said:
I tend to only like USA made products with one exception, Spyderco in Japan. I do not have any use for Clamshell prepackaged knives sitting on the wall off mass merchandizers. I also HATE that TRUE VALUE has stopped selling CASE knives and are selling cheap imitation overseas made junk. I argued with a store clerk about it ,he did not understand you only draw the type of customer you have by the stuff you sell. People that want quality will pay for it, if they are not smart enough to sell it ,well thats a shame.
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My true value has plenty of Case and Shrade etc in stock, must be by location?
 
This should go well. What could possibly go wrong?

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Gerber and CRKT. Several of their knives I have owned recently. All have shown a drop in quality. Edge retention is bad. Blade play. Steel is too soft.

I know just stop buying and recommending them.
 
SOG. WAY overpriced. The thing is, I like some of their fixed blades, but not for the ridiculous amount of money they want for them. The Creed knife is a perfect example. At around $80-$100, it would be a good knife. But $170 for an AUS8 bladed knife made in Taiwan??? I think not. I could buy the comparable Ka-Bar Bull Dozier for less than half that.
 
SOG (owned one folder from them, terrible knife, never again)
Gerber (steered clear of them because of their poor reputation here on the forums)
CRKT (same deal as with Gerber, also not a fan of AUS-4 and whatever other junk they use for blade steels)
 
Sog
Gerber
CRKT
Benchmade (not a quality issue, but I just don't care for a lot of their designs.)
 
SOG--Way overpriced, as others have said.
Gerber--Quality has fallen quite a bit. Many cheap "Gander Mtn" specials out right now.
 
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Everyone and everything that makes fixed blades with coating and/or stainless.. In other words, pretty much everything.
 
Gerber--once "Legendary" but now garbage at worst and hit or miss everywhere else in the lineup at best.

Cold Steel--design rip-offs and offshore production meet in the ultimate 300lb camera hogging mall ninja.

Strider--ex-con Mickey Burger & Desk Marine Duane Poland create marketing super-heroes "Mercenary" Mick Strider and Duane "Sniper" Dwyer to sell tactical fantasy blades to the gullible.

Mad Dog--another master of fictional biography. Mr. CIA Whiz Banger and inventor of the as yet unseen apocalyptic Electrogun.

Schrade--Who doesn't detest that the "Imperial" in the company's formal name came to denote the Middle Kingdom's commie empire?

S&W--Think playing footsie with the gun grabbing Clinton Administration was their first sell-out? Think again.

Come to think of it, I avoid anything to do with Taylor Brands and anything sold in a blister pack that isn't a SAK. If a fixed blade knife is in a blister pack it is by definition unworthy of being protected against shoplifters.
 
Gerber--except for the axes/hatchets

Taylor Brands--except for their pens

Dark Ops

Mantis

Kershaw--I don't so much avoid them as none of their designs have suited me...yet. I generally avoid liner/frame locks when I can, don't like recurves, and don't like spring assists or flippers. They're a company I very much respect, though.

The "new" Camillus

SOG--except for a few isolated models. I can't stand how they plaster their name all over everything, and there are usually better values for the dollar.
 
Boker - I've had 6 Bokers over the past year and only the SubCom Ti. remains. I didn't like the feel or ergos of any other Boker.

CRKT - I don't care for their designs.
 
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