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Most significant impacts in the knife industry in the last 10 years?

I hate the position it leaves you in as a potential buyer, but can appreciate that it helps new makers get their name out there and keep a business afloat...small batch drops and lotteries direct from the maker being the normal/accepted way of buying a high-end folder. Oz's last lottery was for Rosie's numbered in the 42XX range and you've never been able to just buy one. One maker I follow on Facebook seems to make 1-3 knives at a time and just post them for open auction when they're ready. There are plenty of knives that I'd love to own that I can't just go buy or order when it makes sense for me which leads to me spending money on the secondary instead of sending it to a maker.
 
Chinese manufacturing is showing its capabilities, producing good knives with still reasonable prices, but, for me, the Italian manufacturers have moved from making basic traditional knives to matching the Chinese for price and quality. M390, used heavily by them, has become synonymous to a gold standard for mid tier + knives.

D2 has also established itself a the go to steel for lower cost knives that want to offer something more than 8cr, 420 steels.
 
Buyer education.

As in actual education, along the lines of what Larrin Thomas does or people like Cliff Stamp did or what happens on forums like this one every day. It is much more difficult to slip wives tales by people these days so knife makers have to deliver actual performance to be successful.
 
I will just stick to H***ck, St**er and G***o these days.



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elkins45 said:
Sorry, I don’t understand.
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Bad Thread 'Survive! Deserves A Permanent Post In The Hall Of Shame'

At the beginning of August @shinyedges compiled a comprehensive overview of Survive! Knives and the deeply troubling way that they have done business since at least 2013. Here is a link to that thread.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/survive-knives-forum-should-be-closed.1613828/

Despite not having fulfilled orders taken in 2015, Survive! recently posted (and then deleted the comment) on Instagram that they will be selling knives again soon. I think that it is important that people get a full picture of Survive! Knives' history of providing inaccurate information and...
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I think mainly the massive influx of quality Chinese-made knives. I think this has pros and cons, but that the result is likely to be more of a con than a pro. I won't take it away from them, a lot of their manufacturers are doing work of enviable quality that the younger social media knife collectors are gaga over, but a machine can be precision-made and still oddly soulless.

The other two things are people, like was said already - Larrin Thomas and Doug Ritter.
 
3. The Reeves Integral Lock, the widespread use of titanium, the proliferation of Chinese product into the market.

2. Doug Ritter’s continuing efforts on behalf of all of us from a political standpoint.

1. And, perhaps the most significant: the testing, the research, and the resulting information gained/shared with us by Mr. Thomas: Including the invention of Magnacut steel. (And he continues to move forward.)
 
Because of YouTube trends, knives are now often built thicker behind the edge and more overbuilt — to survive batoning and prying, which seem to be the first test in every video

After Benchmade’s AXIS lock patent expired in 2016, allmost every brands started using their own versions. Now "crossbar locks" are everywhere
 
skirm said:
Because of YouTube trends, knives are now often built thicker behind the edge and more overbuilt — to survive batoning and prying, which seem to be the first test in every video
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Oof, I think you are right on the money with that one but would add that there are some benefits from Youtube: makers/manufacturers cannot easily get away with cutting corners and falsely advertising the quality of their knives. Some still do, and probably will continue to do so, but it's much more difficult when any user can show ironclad proof of poor performance.
 
You can't really get ivory or alot of the nicer woods anymore, so there's that. More people save knife boxes and packing materials now, for resale I presume. Stainless is way more prevalent in all quality levels than it use to be. Pakistan was replaced by China for cheap knives. Then again the USA is headed that way for the rest of the knives too. Otherwise it doesn't seem much different to me than the turn of the century. YMMV, I'm sort of looking back over the last 25 years though. :)
 
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