Knife Chatter. Show and Tell!

[desert.snake]

A friend gave me a Sunfish from Marbles. He also gave me a book on medical parasitology.. Forums say it's the same factory in China that makes Rough Reader and Remington (not sure about the latter). Then I looked at the price, looked at the knife, looked at the price again and again looked at the knife. Now I understand why they have a huge ~300 page thread on the blade forum. The quality of the mechanism, fit and finish is better than many Case's for $70-100. The small blade would get caught on the corner of the tang when closing, scraping metal. There was a rough corner here. It was smoothed out with a small ruby file. The bone is CNC-cut to resemble a horn, most likely laser-scanned from a real specimen. The left and right scales are the same, the painting creates the illusion of difference. I've been wearing it for 5 days now and I'm extremely happy!!

 

[gurdygurds]

Picked up another Dragonfly. Carried one in serrated edge for years so I love the platform, but I'm a little shocked how much I like the plain edge Wharncliffe blade. Such a great pocket knife. Hooray for Sal.

 

[Buff]

A couple of Para 3 lite weights in the new Spy27 hit my mail box Thursday. One for me one for sons birthday. Got my other son a Camo Para 3 in the S45VN for his birthday in June. I love all the steel and handle choices Spyderco has to offer. They are my No 1 choice for EDC. Been a customer since they first began.

 

[old4570]

YJGDCN Slip Joint from China

YJGDCN = Made in YangJian GuangDong China Sheep's foot Slip Joint in 9cr13mov . Build quality was ................... amazing ! You could spend $500 and not buy better ! The only let down was the factory grind on the edge , it was ....................................... very ordinary ...

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Already tested this knife BRANDED = YJGDCN , and did it perform or what ? ( It did )
So I wanted another .. Butt on Ebay they were getting hard to find ..
Butt !! You can get them on Ali and I did just that .
Paid some 38 Bananas ( Australian Dollars ) for it to my door .
Bolted together 10/10 .. Honestly , insane for the $ . You could spend $500 and not buy better ( bolted together ) .
1st one was branded YJGDCN and this one is un branded . Seller claims D2 for the blade .
It will be sharpened on the wet stone grinder and then put to the rope . That first one impressed so HARD I had to get another .
I dare say ( claim ) that they are made at the same factory . I would rate these a WOW grade knife , especially for the $$ .
My 2nd one for now !

 

[The-True-North]

 

[old4570]

AD20 ......... AUS10 Taiwan (?) Factory edge was complete rubbish / lock was ho hum and needed a little tune .
Interesting lock design = Something different .

 

[old4570]

Latest knife to arrive !
$48 banana to my door Bowie Knife .. Mystery Steel , 285mm . Paper slicing sharp out of the box !
That finger / hand guard is ? . Gets in the way of indexing the knife , I may need to put it to the grinder ! ( I have to )

 

[old4570]

HUA-AO D2 Some kind of lever locking system !

I have actually seen this before , but never had the opportunity to buy one till now .
Interesting all be it heavy . One for the collection in anyways . ( To be put to the rope soon )

 

[jz6342]

I've been carrying these two quite regularly; a SAK Compact and an LM Skeletool. They compliment each other very well!

 

[desert.snake]

A friend sent me a prototype of a slipjoint for testing, I'm testing it

 

[old4570]

It's a Big'N ..
Thumb studs are useless . Only took about 2 or more years to get one at a price I could live with ! ( came today )

 

[desert.snake]

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Huge collection!

I bought two DAK 1961 and 1963 (old Dutch army knives by AMEFA factory). I photographed one next to a Wenger 84 or 85 mm or so. The second one was in worse condition, so I tested its can opener. Quite a handy thing. But it seems cheapness won out. The subsequent crab claw type openers are cheaper to make by punching out the metal than this one, in which have to make a hole and attach a stop pin

 

[old4570]

Just came during the heatwave .. CRKT PIET ! From what I have seen a RAVE knife !
Yes , online ( Utube ) reviewers are raving about it ! It's bolted together well enough .
Will hit the rope , once I have gone thru a few knives .

 

[old4570]

I saw , & I had to have it ..
Came today !

 

[jz6342]

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I saw , & I had to have it ..
Came today !

 

[old4570]

$22.87 For a CHINESE BK2 in 8Cr13mov supposedly . Does that mean no rusting ? Factory edge was average rubbish and I reground it on the whetstone grinder . Super B typical of a factory edge ( Relatively poorly done ) .
It chops ! Really it does . I did a little work with the factory edge and the heft is perfecto for trimming tree branches .
@ 20.79 Oz bananas or 22.97 with GST to my door . Is it really 10x worse ? Again I would like to see these branded : "Made in China Replica"
Cos if its an Homage to the original , then maybe that's ok .

my excuse was or is the crazy cheap price ! ( and no I would not buy the real deal ) .. At that price the knife would need to be damned good , if not in the 1000+ slice range . ( I have a spyderco spy27 that's in the 1000 slice range ) .
Imagine paying 1 million for a Bugatti that went 80MPH full trot ! Your $15000 ecco machine can probably do better . And that is the issue with knives .. Paying $$ does not guarantee performance , maybe bragging rights until a $10 knife comes along and does better .
( I actually own a $9.99 knife that does better ) Life is hard sometimes and knife blades overly soft .

 

[Monocrom]

Hate to break it you, but the real thing?..... Yes, it's that damn good!

 

[xxo]

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Again I would like to see these branded : "Made in China Replica"
Cos if its an Homage to the original , then maybe that's ok .

Should say "Made in China - Counterfeit/fake/knockoff - stolen brand/ripped off design - Buyer beware"


But I do agree that good cheap knives often out perform more expensive knives. A cheap machete will out chop most expensive Bowies/tactical knives as will the Cold Steel shovel. And a good saw will "chop" even faster with much less fuss.

 

[old4570]

I don't know about buyer beware . Some real deals should come with that warning - Cough Cough - Gerber Strongarm !

Machete ........... Here in Oz , the cops want to destroy all the machetes ... U know , cos their evil !
So apparently , they want machete laws !
It's already against the law to EDC a blade / weapon / multi tool . Just how many more laws do they need ? for something that's already against the law to do ?

Why not just "UP HOLD" the laws already in place ?

 

[xxo]

Most scammers wouldn't stoop to knocking off most current Chinese made gerber knives and if they did, they might even be better.

One of the few exceptions was the big rock hunter - not bad for what it was.