PE vs. CE???

[JSR]

It seems the large (vast even) majority prefer PE blades over CE, finding the mixed blade edge to provide too little of PE or SE edge to be useful. I have seen a few say they prefer CE, but relative to those who prefer PE, it seems like a small few. So, why is it that so many knives (I'm mainly concerned with folders since they're typically smaller) offer CE blades? And many, especially for limited or special version runs, only offer CE blades? There's some folders I like, but with they offered a PE. Everyone loves PE, but CE seems more common in what's offered. I know many casual buyers, especially ones that shop at Big5, Wal-Mart, etc. like the CE for the mean look, but is that the sole reason?...to appeal to the casual buyer? It's like the thing with x-drilled rotors on cars...they do it mainly because most consumers relate it to racing brakes, even tho they're less efficient than other designs for enhancing braking performance(actually worsen it)...they just "look racey".

Just wondering. Thanks.

 

[tirod3]

You got it. It's marketing to the technically challenged. Mind, I still get bit, but I've learned to avoid the highly visual knives for ones that actually work. CE blades generally are too deeply serrated. The best ones are actually small, like the Ginsu knives, not the standard seen today.

People who can't sharpen buy CE.

 

[EDCeeker]

I would imagine the membership here, probably better-educated and informed about knives than the average buyer, constitutes only a small fraction of the knife-buying public--at least for production folders. As far as the rest are concerned: CE knives look tacticool.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

People who don't know how to sharpen buy CE blades, because they can tear into stuff with the combo edge long after it is dull.