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Designed in the 1980s by the late Al Mar and Nick Rowe for the S.E.R.E (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) school of the US army, this folder packs a serious pedigree. Known as one of the strongest designs ever made, the S.E.R.E 2020 Night G is now even stronger, thanks to tighter tolerances and updated materials Read More
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DWNGHearing this often but no one's giving specifics and it's hard to know where folks are coming from on the issue, whether they know of specific flaws that they can point to, or they're just concluding that a Yangjiang knife won't ever be as good as a Seki City knife and that Al Mar's widow or whoever is just making one more buck off his work, or they have a Japanese Al Mar they're planning to sell, or what. Folks are speaking with certainty and authority but there's no way to know whether their opinion comes from comprehensive knowledge of the old Al Mars as well as the new ones, or whether it's not. If you have one, any chance you can post a side by side pic with a new model and we can start getting down to brass tacks?
On the one hand I know the Seki Al Mars are semilegendary among some communities and I own many fine knives that were made in Seki City, so it doesn't sound outlandish that a new manufacturer in China might not match their excellence (especially out of the gates). On the other hand, no one's actually saying what makes the new ones bad, and there are Chinese manufacturers that do better work than any Seki City knife I've ever bought, so my natural skepticism starts getting involved. Is it material -- the D2 just isn't as good as the old school thick ass VG10? Is it fit -- is it a matter of machined tolerances and blade and lockface centering? Is it finish -- is it a matter of polish and texture and radiused edges? Is it design execution -- little things are wrong or inconsistent? Are people just saying these things out of cultural allegiance, the way we do?
As someone with literally zero $ invested in the answer, I think someone who knows both the old and the new really ought to post them side by side and be objective about this.