Ridiculous budget blade-4 dollar Ozark Trails folders, good blade-pic heavy

[Lycosa]

Dang! I wanted to see this thread go to 20 pages!!

And... it did! lol!!!!!!!!!

 

[Yo Mama]

Spike already has a knife.

Ok, you are redeemed! Cool pic

 

[fetzer85]

How they gonna sell like this?!

 

[Bobby3326]

How they gonna sell like this?!

My Wal-Mart parked a pallet of boxes right there when I got mine.. The woman was slightly mad when I accidentally knocked half of it over trying to reach behind to find a good one.

 

[fatboy148]

Marketing at it's finest can be overcome by the employee at the store!

It looks like they sold a lot of product out of this display and that they are about to have a structural collapse 2/3 the way down on the top shelf.

 

[DShiflet]

Went to Walmart last night, sales appear to have picked up on these. The big aisle display had a lot less in it than the last time I was there, the end cap hanger display only had 2 left on it, and the spinner rack was half empty. Of note, the spinner rack consisted entirely of the black handled, black bladed combo edged tanto design, and that model was also the one that had the largest number remaining on the aisle display. It seems to be the least popular by far(and I haven't seen anyone posting it here, either). I find that kinda interesting, since that's the most "tactical" looking model, so one might have thought it woulda been a big seller to the "mall ninja" crowd.

 

[legato1]

I picked up a tan handle model last night, looked at the lock ups on a few and they all looked pretty good. Haven't cut anything with it but it came decently sharp. Definintly doesent feel like a 4 dollar knife.

 

[Bobby3326]

Makes feather sticks fairly well..still has a good edge on it too.

 

[robgmn]

I've played with mine a bit (not a "beating" by any means; just ordinary tasks) and have showed it to several people who will probably buy one too.

One thing that struck me while showing it to someone this morning (due to a thread elsewhere in this forum):
I don't have to worry that someone will ruin it by playing around with it, (and it's not because it would be cheap to replace).
I just can't imagine someone being able to ruin this thing without really intentionally beating the crap out of it.

I wouldn't mind having a $400 knife again and understand their artificially high prices, but not having to worry about someone breaking a $4 knife while being panicked that they will screw up a $400 knife without ever putting it to task? Well...

 

[Zero_Time]

If one of you guys has bought a TON of these things, or lives near others who have, you should build a Jenga tower out of these things... then challenge someone to do the same with sebenzas

Zero

 

[ctf58]

I think I got one that was not hardened very well. I evened the bevel and my medium stone was taking metal off faster than I expected. Got a very sharp edge on it but it dulls quickly. Is there anything I can do to harden the blade? Could I use a propane torch to heat treat it??

 

[Bobby3326]

I think I got one that was not hardened very well. I evened the bevel and my medium stone was taking metal off faster than I expected. Got a very sharp edge on it but it dulls quickly. Is there anything I can do to harden the blade? Could I use a propane torch to heat treat it??

It's a cheap knife with bottom of the barrel steel, don't expect it to hold an extremely sharp edge long. That being said I experimented with mine and found that it actually holds the best edge at 15dps with a 20dps micro bevel. I also knocked the shoulders off the edge and made it slightly convexed.

So far it's been holding up fairly well with light cardboard cutting and whittling wood, and a few passes on the strop brings it back to shaving sharp.

 

[ctf58]

It's a cheap knife with bottom of the barrel steel, don't expect it to hold an extremely sharp edge long. That being said I experimented with mine and found that it actually holds the best edge at 15dps with a 20dps micro bevel. I also knocked the shoulders off the edge and made it slightly convexed.

So far it's been holding up fairly well with light cardboard cutting and whittling wood, and a few passes on the strop brings it back to shaving sharp.

I can't get that precise on angle. I'm free hand sharpening. What I visualize as a 20dps did not even touch the bevel on this knife on one side. I put marker on the edge and my first few passes on the stone did not take 25% of the marker off. The other side was about 20dps. I moved to about twice the thickness of the blade and did both sides. Yeah I know it is what it is a $4 knife. But as you said it is something to experiment with. That is why I was thinking about trying to heat treat it somehow. If I screw it up it is not big loss. I do actually like it though. Mine locks up nice and solid and is centered when closed.

 

[Bobby3326]

I can't get that precise on angle. I'm free hand sharpening. What I visualize as a 20dps did not even touch the bevel on this knife on one side. I put marker on the edge and my first few passes on the stone did not take 25% of the marker off. The other side was about 20dps. I moved to about twice the thickness of the blade and did both sides. Yeah I know it is what it is a $4 knife. But as you said it is something to experiment with. That is why I was thinking about trying to heat treat it somehow. If I screw it up it is not big loss. I do actually like it though. Mine locks up nice and solid and is centered when closed.

I wouldn't say mine is precisely that, but rather close too it. I'm free hand belt grinding it.

 

[Spyder59]

Spike already has a knife.

Ha ha.

 

[Fly]

I bought one of these called the "Wood Clip Knife" by Ozark Trail for 4 bucks. I have to say, very quality knife for the price. It is very comfortable, looks nice, and is a very well thought out. I have had no problems with it. Gut a nice sized deer using it with no problem. I believe that there are like 8 different designs made by Ozark Trail for only 4 bucks.

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[Fly]

 

[Yo Mama]

Any updates?

 

[Bobby3326]

Any updates?

About what?

 

[Jens Schuetz]

Any updates?

I got two more?