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Good evening,

New to the forum. I am contemplating a purchase from an online vendor whose work I cannot examine in person. As a kid, my friends and I bought and used Pakistani knives because they were cheap and all we could get our hands on, but we were well aware of their limitations in quality.
Knowing little of steels with regard to their countries of origin, I wonder if I am being closed minded by avoiding Pakistani steels today. There is a particular knife I am considering for purchased, but have avoided moving on it because A. I have not (and will not) handled it personally, and B. Its country of origin is Pakistan. Though it is hand forged of leaf spring, I still wonder if there is anything I ought to look for when considering whether or not to move on the blade I have in mind. I appreciate any input you of significant experience might contribute. Thank you in advance.
 
Burnston said:
Good evening,

New to the forum. I am contemplating a purchase from an online vendor whose work I cannot examine in person. As a kid, my friends and I bought and used Pakistani knives because they were cheap and all we could get our hands on, but we were well aware of their limitations in quality.
Knowing little of steels with regard to their countries of origin, I wonder if I am being closed minded by avoiding Pakistani steels today. There is a particular knife I am considering for purchased, but have avoided moving on it because A. I have not (and will not) handled it personally, and B. Its country of origin is Pakistan. Though it is hand forged of leaf spring, I still wonder if there is anything I ought to look for when considering whether or not to move on the blade I have in mind. I appreciate any input you of significant experience might contribute. Thank you in advance.
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The majority of knives imported from Pakistan today are still known to be junk, and they're commonly misrepresented as custom ...ect so I personally wouldn't but I'm not you.
If the price is reasonably low and you really like it I guess it's up to you to decide if you want to take a chance on it and let everyone know how it goes.
A good knife can some from anywhere after all.
 
I would expect the quality of made in Pakistan knives to be very similar now as to when you were a kid.

O.B.
 
Most of the Pakistani knives from what I have seen are low quality as mentioned above. Generally, I find the junk is sold at outlets who do not specialize in knives and therefore, do not know or care about the quality of the knife they are selling. The Bay and Amazon are 2 such outlets. Not a knock against them, they just have a different business model. One of the clues for spotting junk knives is that the photos are way better than the price seems to indicate and the backgrounds of the photos are too well staged, if that makes any sense.

I will say that I recently saw a line of Pakistani knives being carried by one of the big online knife dealers. I was pleased and also vindicated as I had 2 knives from that manufacturer and I thought the quality was good for the price. I'm still glad I got the 2 knives on sale rather than regular retail price, and I doubt I will be purchasing more of that manufacturer, but my reasons are not because I feel the knives were junk for the money. They were just bigger and heavier than I normally like for a hunting knife.
 
For a long time "made in china" meant all but "junk" automatically by nature.
More and more production companies continued moving their work over to China to save a few bucks. Today you have a plethora of quality Chinese manufactures from Kizer to WE, Reate, Stedemon, and more making a very respectable product...

Maybe the knife you're eyeballing from Pakistan is in fact quality made and heat treated from the steel they said it was... Surely not everyone in Pakistan is unscupulous, and surely someone can make a decent knife... But, all in all, there's also a very good chance it's junk.
(There's been questions raised about "reputable" US makers regarding blade steel advertised vs. actually used, so no surprise it happens in Pakistan).
 
Dan of Bazz Clazz said:
Most of the Pakistani knives from what I have seen are low quality as mentioned above. Generally, I find the junk is sold at outlets who do not specialize in knives and therefore, do not know or care about the quality of the knife they are selling. The Bay and Amazon are 2 such outlets. Not a knock against them, they just have a different business model. One of the clues for spotting junk knives is that the photos are way better than the price seems to indicate and the backgrounds of the photos are too well staged, if that makes any sense.

I will say that I recently saw a line of Pakistani knives being carried by one of the big online knife dealers. I was pleased and also vindicated as I had 2 knives from that manufacturer and I thought the quality was good for the price. I'm still glad I got the 2 knives on sale rather than regular retail price, and I doubt I will be purchasing more of that manufacturer, but my reasons are not because I feel the knives were junk for the money. They were just bigger and heavier than I normally like for a hunting knife.
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I know exactly what you're talking about.
They're staged very nicely laying on a either an animal pelt with a nice fiream and some vintage hunting items laying around, or on a camo tarp with some more tactical type gear laying around.
They either want to portray it as a simple classic outdoors knife ( which it looks too fancy to be ) or a rugged tactical blade.
There's one particular company that does this a lot, their name is 3 letter but I don't remember what they are.
 
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