Taiwan Special W/Rostfrei Blade

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JohnR7

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I just got a wholesale catalog from one of the companys who import butterfly knives. Right now, they are importing the Taiwan Knife. The wholesale price on it is about $1.05 more than the current price on the new improved China knife. Most of the reason for this is the wholesaler bought out all of the importers supply of New Improved China, so if you want them, you have to pay more. This may soon happen on the Taiwan knives as well. The wholeseller may decide to buy out the whole shipment and push the prices up.

The old China knives are still available. But with so many people complaining about the quality of butterfly knives, I just am not buying them much anymore. You got to figure my inventory runs about $500 - $600 for each type I decide to sell. So, I am even considering to quit promoting the New Improved China and just promote the Taiwan Knife with the Rostfrei Blade in it.

Most people say on the Taiwan knife once you replace the pins in them, that they can last up to 2 or 3 years with reasonable use. The problem with the New Improved China is that even with the better pins & blade, the handle is still very soft on it. So the pin tends to round it out and it gets sloppy.

So what do you all think. Would you rather pay $10 to $12 for a Taiwan Knife with a blade sharp enough and hardened enough to easily go though a coin. Or would you rather pay $6 to $8 for a China Knife that will last you for about a week or two under normal use and is not really all that much better off even when you do replace the pins in them? Thanks, JohnR7 www.BalisongKnife.com
 
>>It seems to be very strong...

It seems to be the right choice for the money in terms of what is on the market and available to us. For me, I would be better off to sell people the China knife, because then in a very short period of time, they will be back to buy the Taiwan knife and I will benifit from selling two knives. I have never really had anyone buy the higher priced Jaguar because of problems with the lower priced Taiwan. Usually people get the Jaguars because they want to add something different to their collection. Also, we get a lot of the money back from Taiwan. They buy a lot of weapons and defensive airplanes from America. Currently they have $8 billion dollars worth and are very interested to buy more from us. Of course China is not real happy that we keep selling weapons to Taiwan. But I can see why, we were not happy when Russia was putting weapons in Cuba. Thanks, JohnR7 www.BalisongKnife.com
 
John,

I am not sure if mine is the same quality. I got it in the early 90's, a chromed waved balis, with Rostfrei stamped on it. Blade thickness is about 1/10 of an inch.

The quality is ok. With original pin, it still serves me till today, although I guess the pins have flattened somehow around the contact point of the blade so that when the handle is pressed against the tang pin, the pivot pins got displaced a bit, making latching open is impossible. I resolved it by stuffing the 'cup' of the handle with plenty of epoxy glue with some stapler bullets to strengthen.

Enough said, the blade can be sharpen almost to shaving sharp but doesn't hold the peak (shaving ability) very long, though for normal paper cutting and apple skinning it works quite well still.

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Chris
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