My Knives Just Arrived!!! Just Bought 18 Knives for Under $200, Good Buy?

rprocter said:
Quote Josh K "This is a joke, right?"
Answer: No.
Until recently i firmly believed "you get what you pay for", that there is a a direct, almost linear relationship, between price and quality.
Collecting and playing around with knives is my hobby and being retired i get to spend a lot of time at it and really enjoy every aspect of 'knifing'. I buy a really wide variety of knives often just to see what a certain brand or knife is like.
For the last few years i've been buying Customs, often in the $500 range from well respected USA knifemakers. I love my Customs. They are very special to me.
I've also bought a lot of various 'offshore' production knives.
It has taken me a long time to get over the mental hurdle of cheap price equals poor quality materials and workmanship. I was biased against very inexpensive knives and would really look hard at them to find evidence of lesser quality. Often they are kind of 'lacking' but a few of these offshore brands have consistently proven to be of a quality far higher than their price would suggest.
So now i'm almost over this prejudice of low price equals crappy knife.
I still buy Customs as well as American manufactured production knives because i really love any well made knife. The SRM, Hanwei and a few others have finally taught me to judge a knife independantly from it's price.
I'll be listing my one remaining fancy large Classic Sebenza shortly.
roland
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Let me know when you do list it.
 
THEY JUST ARRIVED, Check them out
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I know, but i'm pretty happy with what I got. Still not sure if it was the right move, I guess only time will tell if I use and like these knives in the long term. Or I just go back to my higher end stuff.
Wort case I have knives to leave in my tackle box, give to friends and family, leave in the car, wherever.
But, most of them seem to be of pretty good Quality
 
Dorito Monk said:
Time now for you to review all of them. :D :thumbup:
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I know your joking, I wish I had enough time to do that. I havent even had a chance to open them all.
But if anyone has any specific questions about any of the knives on the list I am happy to answer them.
 
How about just telling us which one is the best or your favorite and why. That would work :)

Slider817 said:
I know your joking, I wish I had enough time to do that. I havent even had a chance to open them all.
But if anyone has any specific questions about any of the knives on the list I am happy to answer them.
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How safe are those knives to use? What if a lock fails or blade snaps? Does it need to be sharpened every day? Unless you are planning on giving them away as presents, I think it's a total waste. I could understand having one or two lower quality knives just for random use but that many? If you put them all in your daily rotation then you wouldn't have any time using your other high quality knives LOL. It's just my opinion no intent to put down your decision.
 
Admittedly the packaging on some of those is nicer than I thought it'd be.
 
rookie4real said:
How safe are those knives to use? What if a lock fails or blade snaps? Does it need to be sharpened every day? Unless you are planning on giving them away as presents, I think it's a total waste. I could understand having one or two lower quality knives just for random use but that many? If you put them all in your daily rotation then you wouldn't have any time using your other high quality knives LOL. It's just my opinion no intent to put down your decision.
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From what I can tell. Most of them seem pretty solid. Especially the ones with the axis lock. The frame locks, liner locks, and back locks seem pretty good too. Most of them have either 8cr13mov (same steel as spyderco tenacious and most other china knives) and 440C, and in my general experience and with my limited experience with these knives. If you have a good strop with a course and fine compound like the black and green bark river and when you first get them touch them up on the black and maintain of the green, you will have a pretty sharp knife. And it will last well enough depending on your use. But I don't plan on taking these knives out on a week long backcoutry trip.
It is becoming a bit of an issue though that I'm not using my higher end stuff as much. But I find that I like these knives allot. And I'm willing to use them a bit harder and more than my nicer stuff.
Still not sure if I would have a ZT551 or a TI Spyderco Military or similar instead of the lot. But time will tell
 
Reeek said:
How about just telling us which one is the best or your favorite and why. That would work :)
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Ill do that in the next couple of days. I wonder if I should start a new thread. Or just tack them on to the end of this one, this one is getting pretty long.
 
If you are happy with them then you got a darn good deal. What else matters? Many high dollar knives are over priced just as some cheap knives are.
 
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