The reason you don't see ,many high quality knives, is that we here on this forum are maybe a fraction of 1% of the society at large. They in fact, see us as afflicted with an obsession about knives. And of course they are right. But we are the vast, vast, minority. Most people just want a knife to cut something. With that as a simple fact, even a cheap China made 3 dollar special will actually serve them. They don't care about fit and finish, or if the blade holds an edge through x number of car doors or a thousand cuts of hemp rope. If it tears open a UPS box, their happy.
When you are as obsessed about something as much as we here on a knife forum, we tend to loose sight of reality. Out grandfathers got by with what most key board comando's would consider a POS, some little carbon steel traditional slip joint, with no one hand opening, no locks on the blade, no primo action movie placement. Yet they got by with it just happy with it as most of you with the latest and greatest tactical knife of the month.
The fact is, a knife is not rocket science. The ancients did well skinning a mammoth with a sharp piece of flint or obsidian. A car nut thinks anything less than a Porshe or whatever the car magazines are touting as the hottest thing since the model T is needed to run down to the store, while most of the people are happy with the Honda civic or Toyota corolla they are commuting to work in.
Being obsessed with a hobby can make you loose sight of the real world. The fact is, most people go about their life without carrying a knife at all.
Carl.
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