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

Yo Mama said:
On fine stones I've had no problems. What are you using to sharpen?
Click to expand...
Wskt blade grinding attachment, It chipped on the 3k grit belt on slow speed when I was removing the factory burr lol. I fixed it thou by reprofiling it, I'm also going to grind down the swedge a lil to make it more gradual to the tip.
 
Last edited:
You can get blades in the 8$-10$ range which are decent steel for stocking stuffers/beaters.
 
davek14 said:
You can get blades in the 8$-10$ range which are decent steel for stocking stuffers/beaters.
Click to expand...

Where? Ebay maybe? I don't buy knives on Ebay as I've had too many bad experiences there. Looking around at other sites, the cheapest I've found are Enlan and Sanrenmu stuff, and almost all of them were at least $9+$4 or more in shipping. Certainly not bad, I have a few of them myself, but that's still $14 vs $4...
 
They probably aren't even heat treated. From what I've read about chipping while sharpening and a file biting deeply into the blade. They seem like a waste of 4 bucks to me.
 
I bought 4 last night to try out, and I took one out of the package and tried the file test and mine didn't skate, so maybe there's a few bad ones. Overall, mine seems good for $4
 
DShiflet said:
Where? Ebay maybe? I don't buy knives on Ebay as I've had too many bad experiences there. Looking around at other sites, the cheapest I've found are Enlan and Sanrenmu stuff, and almost all of them were at least $9+$4 or more in shipping. Certainly not bad, I have a few of them myself, but that's still $14 vs $4...
Click to expand...
Yeah, the bay usually has new Kershaw Crowns for under $10 shipped. (US sellers, not overseas) I've had very good luck with them in the past. I personally would not gift this Walmart knife to anyone.
 
emw479 said:
The lockback is merchandised separately from the holiday feature. Most people are talking about the 12 foot long pallet train, but the lockback is on a jewelry spinner on the sport goods counter. Still $3.87.
Click to expand...

After looking twice on previous visits over the last week, I finally found them in my store and they were between auto and household in the center of the isle on probably what you referred to as the train. They were on the end and there must have been 100-200 of each, tan flippers and black ones. Not many had been purchased (yet). I was in for four of the tan ones and I yielded to the suggestion made last week of checking the lock up, I must have looked at 20 to find four that were further to the right than left. I have opened one and it does take wrist action to get beyond 3/4 open without any post factory love.

My question is, who will be the first to post the picture of a "polished" blade in this thread?
 
fatboy148 said:
After looking twice on previous visits over the last week, I finally found them in my store and they were between auto and household in the center of the isle on probably what you referred to as the train. They were on the end and there must have been 100-200 of each, tan flippers and black ones. Not many had been purchased (yet). I was in for four of the tan ones and I yielded to the suggestion made last week of checking the lock up, I must have looked at 20 to find four that were further to the right than left. I have opened one and it does take wrist action to get beyond 3/4 open without any post factory love.

My question is, who will be the first to post the picture of a "polished" blade in this thread?
Click to expand...
I already did lol gonna grind off the Swedge next and make it more of a drop point.

5Sn1ssS.jpg


The quality is all over the map thou.. I looked at a few that the lock wasn't even engaging in the package, it was completely to the left. Others were completely to the right, but found a few with it in the sweet spot. This was found in every model too.
 
Last edited:
Not bad, I don't like the thickness of the frame. For a frame lock, the frame should be thicker. For only four bucks, not a bad deal.
 
fetzer85 said:
Yeah, the bay usually has new Kershaw Crowns for under $10 shipped. (US sellers, not overseas) I've had very good luck with them in the past. I personally would not gift this Walmart knife to anyone.
Click to expand...

What does US sellers have to do with anything? The orders I've had problems with in the past were from US sellers, none of my few overseas orders ever had any problem(I haven't made many overseas orders, but the handful I did were fine).
 
DShiflet said:
What does US sellers have to do with anything? The orders I've had problems with in the past were from US sellers, none of my few overseas orders ever had any problem(I haven't made many overseas orders, but the handful I did were fine).
Click to expand...
Sorry, should've clarified. I wasn't referring to problems with overseas sellers, just a potential long shipping time which may bother some people.
 
Well, crap. I was just at Walmart, but I didn't see this thread till just now.:grumpy: I'll have to look into these next time I go. :thumbup:
 
Today I picked up two, the tan g10 model as well as a camo aluminum handled one that looks very much like a Kershaw Ember in profile. Liner lock, I chose one with early lockup but unfortunately the blade actually slips closed. The pivot in not adjustable either, the screws immediately stripped out - I even dremeled a notch in each screw to use a flat head and those suckers do NOT want to come out. Even after heating the screws, no luck there.

The tan knife is pretty impressive for the price though.

The Ember lookalike:
BKZDwkzjGOvN1fudMY1U1K49WJrfSN18uvoJ7Xic8nMLAYspN_zpsfqltwpu2.jpg



There was also a black g10 handle knife with half serrations as well. Didnt get that one.
 
btw, my handyman buddy swears by his! This Wally folder has been his go-to EDC since he got it.
rolf
 
I think these will become a way of introducing people to the knife world. People will buy em bc of the price, but after awhile of it not holding an edge long will likely lead em to seek out a better knife.

For a beater knife thou these are hard to beat, IF you pick out a good one from the pile. I'd rather pry staples out with this knife than my pm2. It may not hold an edge long but for $4 I can afford to throw it away in a year after I've sharpened the edge back lol.... It's also good for when a co worker says can I use your knife, I can hand em this thing instead of having em snap the tip off my pm2.
 
DShiflet said:
Where? Ebay maybe? I don't buy knives on Ebay as I've had too many bad experiences there. Looking around at other sites, the cheapest I've found are Enlan and Sanrenmu stuff, and almost all of them were at least $9+$4 or more in shipping. Certainly not bad, I have a few of them myself, but that's still $14 vs $4...
Click to expand...

You can find them with free shipping.

Know what though? For a couple years I carried a Paki Buck 110 clone. Sharpened it every day or two with a file and was perfectly content. S'all good.
 
I found several different models this past trip to Wal-Mart. Thousands of tan g10, a camo model, a black handle model, a wood handle, a blue g10, and a small black and grey camo model. They also had a multi tool for the same $4 price tag.

I bought the black and grey camo one for a back up beater, and the blue/black g10 tanto and multi tool for a stocking stuffer for my step son. (He's been wanting a new folder since losing his last, but being irresponsible as hell 13yr old I'm not buying another $80+ pocket knife until he proves he won't lose it again with this one).

fyMrQk2.jpg
xevsJM8.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top