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Artisan Cutlery Classic Folding Knife
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Artisan Cutlery Classic Folding Knife
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The Artisan Cutlery Classic lives up to its name. Though the company has been producing plenty of forward-thinking designs of late, the Classic brings things back to a more traditional aesthetic, albeit with some characteristics you won’t find on anything in your grandfather’s bedside drawer Read More
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keyboard_arrow_downThatGuyZack
3
Oct 7, 2019
Is no one else noticing that the blade screw almost looks like a swastika at first glance?? 😅
rumata13
563
Sep 28, 2019
These were selling on eBay for $109. With 8% eBay bucks back and 5% back from Discover I've got this exact knife in blue for under $100.
And I didn't have to wait until Sep-23, I've got immediate shipping.
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reswright
3850
Sep 27, 2019
I've seen a few people here with reasonable opinions about knives that seem to like Artisan Cutlery, so I try to reserve judgment about them.
Why I try to reserve judgment: to me, their catalog looks like someone took someone else's catalog full of knives, handed it to a generic metalworker that had never designed or made a knife before, and said 'make me a bunch of stuff that looks just like this'. Kinda like how Chinese gunsmiths tried to reverse engineer Western pistols in the early 20th century for military use. What they end up with will work, but if you know what you're looking at, you'll see a lot of things that make you scratch your head and wonder if they really understand what they were trying to reengineer -- design elements that look like Western elements but aren't functional. I see a bunch of stuff that looks cool, like blades with wild looking curves and grinds and over the top geometry, but I have a hard time connecting it to a purpose.
Rudolph
279
Sep 30, 2019
If the Chinese have had it for more than a week they've reverse engineered and are producing it that's just a global fact (look at the "clone" world of knives m390 and titanium for a $100 not to mention s35prices). It's what bothers me the most about Chinese companies I wonder sometimes if the same companies selling s35 out the front door for $300 arent selling it out the back for $50. All the same until I hit the lottery I'll be buying from them.
reswright
3850
Sep 30, 2019
RudolphI think it's beyond the need to wonder at - so long as we aren't being too precise with the word 'companies'. There are many Chinese approaches to that sort of enterprise. I've seen it estimated that China makes half the world's steel and sells their steel for 25% less than US and European firms charge. A certain amount of that is accounted for by scale, a certain amount by centralization, and quite a bit of it comes from government subsidies - like getting special rates from the electric company, which can mean millions a year when it comes to powering a factory.
I think it might be best to say that they sell all their production whenever they can, even if it's total junk sometimes. The price you get and the quality you get seems to depend on your access to and the strength of your relationship with the manufacturer, who is someone that you and i don't get to just walk up to IRL, or their trusted agent who often has relationships to protect and is also uninterested in letting us come chat them up.
We have a saying that 'three can keep a secret if two of them are dead'. The Chinese seem to have more of a 'Two can keep a secret if one of them is me and the other one is dead and buried in my basement so don't even ask, ' thing going on.
MCH_87
32
Jul 6, 2019
@JonasHeineman What’s up with the “brown” one? The pictures plainly show RED scales, not brown at all. The red would be the one I’d be most interested in. So what’s up? Is it a typo? Or are the pictures wrong?
JonasHeineman
5987
Jul 12, 2019
Motorcityschmidty
40
Jul 6, 2019
I have owned this knife (red scales w/Damascus blade) for over a year. It’s a nice show piece , but too heavy in my opinion to be an every day carry
very stuff action out of the box and takes a long time to improve
love the shape of the 1911 scales though
rlw6534
1
May 8, 2019
I ordered the Black version and received the Black/Blue instead in the mail today. If anyone has the opposite problem, let me know and we can fix it up for both of us... There isn't any stock for exchanges per Drop support...
Seab
1
May 13, 2019
I dont want to trade, sorry. Nothing against you, but I've been taken advantage of too many times on trades over the internet, and to me the color change just isn't worth the hassle. I apologize and hope you get a refund or the $20.
techroller
11
Apr 23, 2019
Aside for the unfortunate likeness on the pivot screw, does anyone here own this knife or the lower-price, non-domascus variant? If so, what are your thoughts?
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