Weird knife buying experience.

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Etched1

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So I decided to go to my “local” knife shop. I live in Illinois so I have to travel to another county for this. Cuz I’m too close to Chicago. Anyways I go in to look at knives and they have a lot of Benchmarks, Bucks and other names I’m not familiar with. For me, I really like a wood scale knife. But I just bought the Buck 110 direct from factory and most of what I am seeing are very interesting multi colored scaled pocket/folders. While they do look good, I’m just not really drawn into them. Lots of big $$$$ too for me like over $200 and upwards. I get to the last case and still not anything I’m truly into. So I bit the bullet and left having purchased the Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm Shield. Which is really weird for a knife purchase.
 
Many people state that they will only buy US-made knives. Well, skilled US workers cost a lot more than workers in China, so, yeah, the knives cost much more that Chinese brands.
 
Etched1 said:
So I decided to go to my “local” knife shop. I live in Illinois so I have to travel to another county for this. Cuz I’m too close to Chicago. Anyways I go in to look at knives and they have a lot of Benchmarks, Bucks and other names I’m not familiar with. For me, I really like a wood scale knife. But I just bought the Buck 110 direct from factory and most of what I am seeing are very interesting multi colored scaled pocket/folders. While they do look good, I’m just not really drawn into them. Lots of big $$$$ too for me like over $200 and upwards. I get to the last case and still not anything I’m truly into. So I bit the bullet and left having purchased the Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm Shield. Which is really weird for a knife purchase.
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So you went to buy a knife or look at a knife and you bought a 9mm pistol? Nothing better than that!!
 
Etched1 said:
So I decided to go to my “local” knife shop. I live in Illinois so I have to travel to another county for this. Cuz I’m too close to Chicago. Anyways I go in to look at knives and they have a lot of Benchmarks, Bucks and other names I’m not familiar with. For me, I really like a wood scale knife. But I just bought the Buck 110 direct from factory and most of what I am seeing are very interesting multi colored scaled pocket/folders. While they do look good, I’m just not really drawn into them. Lots of big $$$$ too for me like over $200 and upwards. I get to the last case and still not anything I’m truly into. So I bit the bullet and left having purchased the Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm Shield. Which is really weird for a knife purchase.
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Illinois hmm, let me guess, GAT guns? Their knives tend to be overpriced, over MSRP even. I remember like 9 years ago them selling a ZT 0301 for $400.

Second amendment sports in McHenry has a decent selection of Benchmade and Microtechs for reasonable prices.

DSA Arms is a little shop in Barrington but they have Kershaw, Benchmade, Spyderco, and Hogue, a few others too.
 
Locutus D'Borg said:
Many people state that they will only buy US-made knives. Well, skilled US workers cost a lot more than workers in China, so, yeah, the knives cost much more that Chinese brands.
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Lotta dudes seem pretty thrilled to pay double for a third of the machine work, honestly
 
K.O.D. said:
Illinois hmm, let me guess, GAT guns? Their knives tend to be overpriced, over MSRP even. I remember like 9 years ago them selling a ZT 0301 for $400.

Second amendment sports in McHenry has a decent selection of Benchmade and Microtechs for reasonable prices.

DSA Arms is a little shop in Barrington but they have Kershaw, Benchmade, Spyderco, and Hogue, a few others too.
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Yup. That’s where I went. Thanks for the advice on two shops.
 
Locutus D'Borg said:
Many people state that they will only buy US-made knives. Well, skilled US workers cost a lot more than workers in China, so, yeah, the knives cost much more that Chinese brands.
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From what I see, and I'm in no way omniscience, CN seems to have moved passed manual labor in some fields. Machine tool parks instead of people. That gets you close to CRK tolerances for whatever the local market financing for machine tools may be. Sure, still some human labor for this and that, but basic blade-shaping, handles...machine tools. Investments out of the reach of smaller US and other Western makers.

New entrants to established markets can leap-frog the competition by starting out on a higher tech level if given an advantage, i.e. CCP economic strategy and financing.
 
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