Waning appeal of super steel

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I hope that more knives are made of the best steels. I don't care if they are harder to sharpen.
Superior materials are the first rule. Titanium and supersteels are what is it about.
Firstly the materials need to be the absolute best. First Priority.
Secondly the design needs to be well thought out. Second Priority.
Lastly, the fit and finish needs to be spot on flawless. Third Priority.
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I have seen knives with a great design that where made of absolute shit materials. However the craftsmanship was amazing and they were designed beautifully. The design was well thought out.
For those reasons I love these knives.... I would really rather have a knife that has been well thought out and executed made of inferior materials than a knife made of superior materials that has a poorly thought out design...
An example would be some boker knives. They are 440, but the heat treat is exceptional. Some of their designs are amazing. Like the boker kwaiken. Perfection.
Some knives made of supersteels have horrible blade designs. Like a combat fighting knife with a handle that Is impossible to grip. Some of these tacticool knives are anything but. In my opinion most are the bastard child brainstorms of overprivaleged children that have never been through the rigors of hard manual labor and don't know how things work or what things are worth. The only thing they understand is AWE and COOL factors of things and have no real experience with military operations or tactical applications. These are the kids that buy that mall 440 with a cheap heat tread because the knife has a cool design. They buy two of three of those knives and all break. They could have saved and bought a CRKT knife or Cold Steel. Maybe a PUMA white hunter or Cattaraugus 225Q Quartermaster instead of that junk Mtech or Chinese generic piece of junk and had a knife that they would have with them for ten years or longer. Like a CRK or an Emerson Sheepdog or a CRKT M16 14M...
That is just my personal opinion.
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I hate that fantasy plated junk with cheap anodizing.
I hate junk that just looks cool.
And overall; I HATE how most cutlery is so thin. Blades should be made thicker with thicker liners.
Crazyness.
Take what I just wrote to the patent shop.
Why are liners so thin, and why are the scales so thick?? Tell me an answer that makes one bit of sense.
 
All lockback knives should have thicker handles and liners.
Ever handled a 1970's Vintage Browning lockback?
Why are they so nice? Design and thick liners.
If you added a pivot screw to the knife and made the same knife out of titanium, they would sell like hotcakes and our great great great grandchildren would carry them around in onehundred years.
Make them out of supersteels and make the handle slightly thicker and with double thicker liners. FORGET all this black label junk coming out. There are some nice designs, but most aren't even close to the 1970's design and execution of the classic lockback. These are the knives that you find now on ebay for 200-500 dollars. Fourty to fifty years from now, browning black label wont be close to that. Mark my words. The original Gerber combat knife was one of the best knives ever made. They sell for 200-300 dollars now a days. Now Gerber makes knives with thin blades and dull lines from mystery steel and with tacticool designs. If you are going to make a tactical knife; make the design tactically applicable. Horrible. Horrible stuff. Shoot the engineers in the streets. Wasted steels. I will say; It is nice to see some variety in designs. Some of that stuff is interesting.
 
I wonder who actually manufactured that Browning from the 70's? Back then, most of the lock backs were strong as heck, even the Japanese ones. No Chinese stuff at that time and we were just getting over the general feeling that Japanese stuff was all junk.

People today like light folders. You loose strength with the design, but most people don't need a lot of strength in their pocket knives.

I might add that I purchased a AG Russell Sowbelly Trapper (Chinese made, Chinese steel) late last year and other than a weak snap, it is a really nice traditional knife and made like a tank.
 
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