would you buy this knife ???

Kyle_4 said:
Listen...you asked for peoples opinions on a junk knife. When everyone said its junk and they would never buy it you got butt hurt. Why ask the question if you might not like the answer?
I have a good feeling that if everybody had your opinion on buying cheap junk made overseas you would be out of a job. :foot:

Just to stay on thread it looks like junk and is junk, I would never buy one.
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im not upset lol far from it but until you have one in hand you wont know if its truly worth it
 
No I would not eat green eggs and ham sam I am. Because my chickens lay yellow yoked eggs and I don't have to.
 
In your original post you said that it was made in the USA. It clearly has china printed on the blade, why did you lie about the country of origin of this knife?

I would buy one if I knew the scales were big enough to make scales for another of my knives.
 
I find it hard to believe that a knife that costs less then a gallon of milk could be well made so no I would not buy this knife. It reminds me of those knives that are sold on those home shopping network shows on tv at 3am, you know the ones where you can buy 50 knives for 10 bucks and they will throw in a real samurai sword made from genuine metal.
 
$2.50 for the knife, $250 for a trip to the hospital to get stitches. Nerve damage lasts a lifetime, much longer than this knife will.
 
You seem awfully enamored with this knife.

I've had Frost knives from the 70s-80s and the ones I had and still have were made in Japan and were made quite well, in fact I still EDC a Frost Black Hawk II, it's a One Armed Razor Swayback Jack with a hawk bill, it's a great little knife.

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As for the knife in your op, it looks like a copy of a Bench made, can't place the model but it just looks like a poor copy, as far as the F&F and build quality, unless your buying the knife used on the secondary market and is a quality made USA or whatever country you get what you pay for, you can't make a quality production folder for $2.50, is physically impossible.

Something had to suffer somewhere, materials, heat treat, F&F, something. Somewhere the end product comes up short and the consumer gets short changed.

I'm not saying they don't have a place in the market, my buddy would rather spend $100 and get 20 POS Chinese knives and best the hell out of 'em and their then away or not worry about losing one, ('cause he has 19 more) than to spend that same $100 on a quality blade.

(I'm not putting down China as a country just the companies that use the cheap labor and production facilities to crank out substandard knives, be it China, Pakistan or Taiwan)

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There's nothing wrong fundamentally with Chinese knives... just got a Kershaw Crown that I really like. BUT. I had to buy two to get one good one, the first had issues. Still a good deal but even so, QC is lacking. Secondly, marking a Chinese knife with "USA" is in my mind a clear attempt to confuse and deceive; I'd pass for that reason alone. For similar reasons I would not buy an Enlan because they appear to be infringing on Benchmade patents.
 
The import laws on the books since the early 1900s have required that manufacturers mark the country of origin on the knife blade somewhere. Most companies of substandard knives either print it on the blade with ink that cleans right off our a sticker that peels right off, this way unscrupulous dealers can remove the mark and sell to the uninformed this way misrepresenting the knife. That along with a gratuitous USA stamp that stays behind when all other marks are gone is just unacceptable in my opinion.
 
Guarantee that made in china, especially for $2.50, I wouldnt buy that for any reason. It probably says usa cause it a us company but china made and theyre trying to make it look more appealing, kind of like mtech. Its a trap!
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
No temptation here. At that price significant corners have been cut, likely in places like raw materials and heat treatment. The overall design isn't appealing to me, either functionally or aesthetically.
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fsatsil said:
I find it hard to believe that a knife that costs less then a gallon of milk could be well made so no I would not buy this knife. It reminds me of those knives that are sold on those home shopping network shows on tv at 3am, you know the ones where you can buy 50 knives for 10 bucks and they will throw in a real samurai sword made from genuine metal.
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This.^^
 
knives4ever said:
until you have one in hand you wont know if its truly worth it
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Actually we knew it was junk and not worth it when you posted a picture of a Frost USA knife. Don't even need to hold it in hand to know that. It's a gas station throw away knife made for people that don't know anything about knives or just don't care about carrying junk.
 
I wouldn't buy it, because I don't have a need for such a knife. Being cheap it's probably the only thing it's got going for it. If for some reason I had to buy a very inexpensive knife, I'd get a Mora or a paring knife from Victorinox or Opinel (I used Victorinox paring knives as utility blades for quite a while, they are easy to modify).
 
knives4ever said:
um actually its a legit spyderco paramilitary 2 i own lots of spyderco,bench made,crkt's but for 2.50 this is a wonderful buy made in china or not
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Anyone else find it hard to believe that anyone that owns lots of Spydercos, Benchmades and CRKT's would edc a $2.50 Frost?
 
knives4ever said:
um actually its a legit spyderco paramilitary 2
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marcinek knows it's a legit PM2, trust me. He would care for it and love it as his own if you sent it to him. So would I. :D

I don't know if you really have a lot of Spydercos, CRKTs and Benchmades,, but if you don't seriously it's okay. I will try my best to gift you one. Not even joking.
 
cchu518 said:
This a really bad example - my Toyota Highlander, Tundra's, Tacoma's and various other Toyotas are built in the Indiana, Texas and Kentucky. Except the tranny all the parts are made in the USA too.

Much of GM's (Chrysler, Chevy, Jeep) fleet is built in Mexico or parts sourced in Mexico and Brazil, ain't that a hoot!
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