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plowboy87

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Hey Everybody

just wondering if anybody knows of good places to pick up knives in Michigan (Detroit-Utica area). i'm over here for a couple days and i'm always looking to expand the collection.

so if you know of any cool spots to check out let me know.

thanks in advance and happy holidays
PB
 
I know of only 2 dedicated knife shops in Michigan myself. One is in Walled Lake and the other is in Lansing. Neither of which is near Detroit. There is a CaseXX store listed in Monroe which is south of Detroit. Maybe someone local will chime in to help.
 
I know Don at The Knife Trader in Lansing, and he has a pretty decent selection (well over an hour away from Detroit, though). The Case dealer in Monroe and the dealer in Walled Lake is the same company (he's primarily a Case dealer, but he's supposed to have some other stuff too). Here's his web site if you want to contact him:

http://xxcutlery.com/locations.asp
 
Walled Lake is in the metro detroit area. Definitely a little bit of a drive from Utica as metro detroit is a very large area. But..... for a visit to a quality knife shop it isn't that far of a drive
 
The case shop in monroe is not worth the drive, not much to look at and way overpriced.

There is a place in dearborn at ford rd and telegraph called Harrys army surplus that has a decent sellection of Kabar, spyderco, benchmade, lone wolf, leatherman, SOG, and some other. Prices are MSRP so know your Sh!± and you will be ably to talk'em down.
 
Harry's has been around for decades and they'll definitely be pleased to separate you from some $, but they have a pretty large store so it's a nice shopping experience all the same.
 
I try to buy a knife or two from Don at The Knife Trader every couple months. When I first got into Spyderco knives years back, I did all my window shopping on the internet. Id never seen or held any benchmades or spyderco's and was thrilled when I found out that there was a knife shop 10min fom my house that carried them. I went if and bought a para, yojimbo, and mini manix for $20- 30 less than MSRP and have been a customer since then (6 years now). I use the buffer in his back room to my polish clips.

Great selection of benchmades, kershaws, small spyderco, lonewolf, and crkt. Every one is awhile I find a jewel too I bought this R and a stars and stripes Qfor less than $50 for both this summer.

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Its also a great place to meet up with other forum members due to its central michigan locatiom. Derek and I met there for a trade not long ago, and when Ejok was going to MSU we would meet there all the time. Even did a review of an xm-18 during its first passaroud.

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well found a nice Case knife today at bass pro for my brother. it's going to be his first bush craft knife so it's a pretty good fit. so all thats left is a balisong or butterfly knife somewhere between Utica and port huron t/m and ill be all set
 
I also go to Knife trader ,Don is a good guy .I live about 5 mins. away and I love it ,he is pretty cool about me wanting to handle everything in the store.
 
Top Gun Pistol range in Taylor has a very nice knife selection:thumbup:. It is located on Racko road near Southland Mall.
 
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