Looks like Brous is going to China

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Wow. Look (2 seconds on googol) at the product pic posted on 6/9/10. His contribution was to take a Sharpie and mark the blades D2, 01 and cpm154 (this way you know you're getting a high quality product), and he was super clever to slide in one blank with a grade school Sharpie outline on it.

The debate has nothing to do with China, but with a guy who long ago pretended to step into the light via a name change whilst trying to dupe everyone with his (China's) products.
 
Oh and he was sure to mention military personnel when he did it. Sound familiar? :rolleyes:
 
Lapedog said:
I figured you wanted to support American manufacturer but I was curious then why you have no issue buying Japanese Spydies.
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The Spyderco Delica was my first Spyderco bought before i worked selling knives, i just read something about the Delica ordered it and i thought all Spyderco's knives were made in Japan, after working selling knives i started learning about Spyderco's and found out many were Mfg.ed in the USA.
When i was asked to fill in for the knife man who had been hurt, i really knew hardly anything about knives or their steels.
When a man came in and wanted to see a Chris Reeves Sebenza (i missed Chris Reeves) a $500 dollar knife and he wanted to know about it's blade steel, we did not even have a catalog i had no idea about it's blade steel, told him if he would return the next day i would have the correct answer later i called Chris Reeves from home and got the information and asked for a catalog.
I did the same thing later for every knife i did not have a catalog for, i went to the Net. looked up every knife steel i could find i have a large folder of knife steels, i have many many knife catalog's i never wanted to ever have to tell a customer i had no answer for them and i am still learning and finding answers.

Hope this answered your question about the Spyderco Delica Mfg.ed in Japan.
 
snapshot2017 said:
highest quality made OTF knives, and i support their workers,same can be said about Benchmade and ZT&Kershaws Mfg.ed in the USA.
Hope this clears up any misunderstanding as to my post.
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They make more money off the Chinese brand than they do on the US and Taiwan models. You can support them by buying them too.
 
Mo2 said:
They make more money off the Chinese brand than they do on the US and Taiwan models. You can support them by buying them too.
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If you are implying Microtech makes knives in China your are 100% wrong.
Maybe some Chinese company is making knock off of Microtects OTF knives but it has no connection with Microtect.
Maybe it's you that can support them.
 
Kershaw has been doing that for a while along with other brands. For the cheaper knives (<$50) it will save them (and the consumer) some money. As long as they make their premium knives in the USA I don’t see the big deal.
 
Lapedog said:
Well I really liked the Perrin La Griffe and Le Shark neck knives not only as a little self defense neck knife but as a little tiny utility blade. However they are ground very thin from thin stock. The Silent Soldier neckers have alot of that same defensive capability while also being better suited for a tougher utility job.

I almost never wear them around my neck. Rather they tuck very nicely into my waistband. The butt of the handles sort of hook over the belt and I use the ball chain necklace as a static cord.
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exactly.

I also don't really like any of his designs but everyone hits it right occasionally. he did pretty good with the SS neck knives . Not the end all 100% perfect knife. but a pretty solid overall design for its intended purpose.
 
Ok went and read the JD thread on Brous. Damn he is one cocky little bugger . and as info started to surface about his methods I have to say it does leave a bad taste in the mouth . cant say as I would ever buy another Brous knife. there is that shady Mid tech deception BS going on again that I see all the time nowadays. and first he says he is 19 then he is 23.
and that attitude. wow.

It always makes me wonder when reading stories like this. How many aspiring knife makers are out there? ALOT!! and like being a movie star or musician how many ever make it to the "Big Time"? Not many me thinks

so how does one person like Brous come out of nowhere and immediately score a deal with a huge company like SOG? he gets into magazines as a kid. so odd. its like a political movement where they pick one dude and prop him up there and manipulate from behind the curtain. I think he was chosen as a marketable image by people with the money to push him into the limelight. and maybe (just wondering here) just maybe he has family in the "Knife Industry" who laid down a nice easy clean path to success for him?
 
snapshot2017 said:
If you are implying Microtech makes knives in China your are 100% wrong.
Maybe some Chinese company is making knock off of Microtects OTF knives but it has no connection with Microtect.
Maybe it's you that can support them.
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spyderco.where did you see microtech?
 
His U.S. made knives retail prices keep steadily getting higher,and I have no interest in paying those prices and I don't like those designs either...
 
goldie said:
His U.S. made knives retail prices keep steadily getting higher,and I have no interest in paying those prices and I don't like those designs either...
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Not every knife they market is the greatest, but they have a solid plan of taking what they have and building on it.
Name another knife Mfg. that can add a color or new blade material, and have so many people buy the same knives over and over these being their "Sprint" runs and their giving one distributor the rights to a "Limited Edition" really smart marketing IMHO.
 
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Mo2 said:
Ah I selected the wrong text in your post.

I'll never buy a microtech for various reasons.
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Thats the bad part of posting in a forum, sometimes it just does not get done just right or is not understood as one hopes it is.
Anyway i now understand to were not meaning Microtech.
 
snapshot2017 said:
Spyderco is also having many of their knives made in Taiwan, i made a comment in their Spyderco forum, said the only Spyderco knives besides one Mfg. in Japan i would have had to be Mfg. in Golden Co where they Mfg. their American knives.
Don't think Sal or his son
Spyderco's owners liked my comment in their forum, since i no longer can post there.

I was not down grading Taiwan quality of knife Mfg. just implying my own feelings.
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Yeah but Spyderco's Taichung facility is hands-down their best one, with the best build quality and most capability. They use at least two different shops in Japan, primarily in Seki City but also in Moki, and they use a great facility in Maniago, Italy as well. They have two different Chinese lines from different manufacturers.

Some of my favorite models are made in Golden, but to avoid Taichung knives is absolute lunacy and strikes me as extremely misguided.

More for the rest of us, I guess.
 
How the heck did this become a Spyderco thread. Do we not have 70 million of those where this discussion can take place?
 
Phixt said:
Wow. Look (2 seconds on googol) at the product pic posted on 6/9/10. His contribution was to take a Sharpie and mark the blades D2, 01 and cpm154 (this way you know you're getting a high quality product), and he was super clever to slide in one blank with a grade school Sharpie outline on it.
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My google-fu has failed me. I can't figure out what you are referencing.
 
goldie said:
His U.S. made knives retail prices keep steadily getting higher,and I have no interest in paying those prices and I don't like those designs either...
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The thing that seems shady to me is when his knives go on sale for 70% off. He wouldn’t sell them if he wasn’t making a profit so he is pretty much admitting he is ripping people off with the “normal” pricing. There are a lot of shinanigans going on with that company. Don’t get me wrong. I own a brous but I knew what I was getting into.
 
SpySmasher said:
My google-fu has failed me. I can't figure out what you are referencing.
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It's another forum, and I'm unsure of the rules as far as this is concerned. Maybe give "Kutthroat Knives name change" a try, and it's option four or five on my device -- which is currently blocking me from going there because it's saying it's an unsafe connection. o_O
 
Owen K. said:
The thing that seems shady to me is when his knives go on sale for 70% off. He wouldn’t sell them if he wasn’t making a profit so he is pretty much admitting he is ripping people off with the “normal” pricing. There are a lot of shinanigans going on with that company. Don’t get me wrong. I own a brous but I knew what I was getting into.
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they can charge whatever they want and if people pay it then its good for them

But the 70% off sales which seem to becoming more frequent do hurt retailers I would think and I don't quite get whats going on .
 
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