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hatman
362
Mar 22, 2018
I am a sucker for thin, lightweight folders with 3-inch blades -- I'm in. Also, MD offers a larger selection than I can find online. I prefer the stonewashed blade offered here to the satin offered elsewhere. And the price is lower here.
kyleemj
512
Mar 22, 2018
hatmanThanks for the comment @hatman!
Kavik
5531
Mar 22, 2018
hatmanDefinitely lower price here. And maybe they did mean some of the finish combinations are new here before released elsewhere? But if that's what they meant the wording could be better
I'll probably join before this ends too, just being irked by the constant questionable descriptions here....every drop I'm interested in I've got to research myself to verify anything they've written
@kyleemj : maybe we could get the description tweaked a bit for those two points? And can we PLEASE start getting country of origin and pivot type (washers/bearings and type of either) in the specs of these knife drops before the inevitable questions start pouring in? It happens on practically every drop, and other users are always relied on for the answers, rather than having an official answer from the retailer, like there should be. Thanks
JKreese
109
Mar 22, 2018
hatmanI have one. It's not thin, but it is pretty light. Actually since it's pretty small the regular thickness handle is a plus. The blade is satin with stonewashed flats. There is no stonewashed model.
Omniseed
1972
Mar 23, 2018
KavikI always get a confused kick out of people who ask where a Chinese knife maker's knives are made.
None of these brands are obscure, they're easily researched and don't pretend to be something they're not.
Which is more than can be said for American companies who basically don't build knives at all, only serving as design and distribution companies who use obscure no-name Chinese OEM facilities.
They trade on their reputation as 'American' companies to get past the nationalist 'no Chinese knives!' sentiments some people cling to.
And the build quality+materials are almost universally worse than legitimate Chinese makers, and generally at a higher cost to boot.
Nationalism is nonsense, especially in an extractive capitalist economy where so-called American companies don't actually exhibit any specific loyalty to American labor or customers.
Kavik
5531
Mar 23, 2018
OmniseedVery much agreed! Sure, there are US companies who do manufacture themselves too, and they are worth supporting IF the quality is there and the pricing is reasonable. But I'm not going to buy crap or pay 3 times the price for equal quality just because it's maker happens to share soil with me 🙄 For all the people who take the 'national economy' standpoint; it's a freaking knife man. How many of these would I actual need to be buying to equal the 'national economical impact' of just ONE (of the millions of) imported cars on the road? It's a small drop in a HUGE freaking bucket. Don't think you're going to shame me for giving china $50.
"Oh, wait! Shouldn't be buying those either! Buy American cars!" Alright.... Chrysler? Ford? GM? They all have manufacturing plants in Mexico lol
I can't count how many conversations I've had in just the few months I've been a member here, where people want to blindly support American products of lesser quality, or ridiculous pricing, and in many cases not having a clue whether something is 100% designed, sourced, manufactured, AND assembled here or if it just has an American name on the label
Did you know a few years back forbes put out an article looking at the "most american vehicle" and the Ford F150 didn't even qualify to be in the running? Lol even the ones assembled in US plants contained around 30% foreign parts, which disqualified them from the running.....I love seeing the die hard "gotta be made in America, you gd traitor!" types lose their shit over stuff like that lol (yes, I've genuinely been called a traitor on here lmao)
Fun fact : The "most American" vehicle in their list, based on domestically sourced parts content, assembly, and sales? A Toyota Camry hahaha True Story. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2015/06/29/whats-more-american-than-a-ford-f-150-pickup-try-a-toyota-camry/#64969f4fc321
Omniseed
1972
Mar 26, 2018
KavikIt's an eternal struggle on enthusiast's boards it seems, it actually kind of drove me away from my paid membership on BladeForums. I wasn't able to get clear information about foreign products that didn't include a tax for being sold under an American company's brand. I wasn't really able to ask questions about or discuss Chinese knives at all without threads getting locked because of hotheaded bonises who wouldn't quit calling basically any Chinese maker a design-stealing slave labor-using state-subsidized den of treachery and warranty disappointment.
They would even just casually imply that a Chinese knife maker must have a terrible warranty experience if any at all, ignoring that those were the days of Spyderco rejecting warranty work requests if people had broken their factory threadlocker.
Kavik
5531
Mar 26, 2018
OmniseedYeah, i can imagine....I haven't been hanging out there much for a while (not for any particular reason, just haven't been that much into knives until just the past few months again. Before that there was a bit of an obsession with kitchen knives, but used other forums more specific to that), but I do recall that place feeling skewed towards certain brands and makers. Forums will always be very clique-ish.
It's just fortunate. Forums in general, potential for being such a perfect place for people to be able to be introduced to new gems that they may have never found out about otherwise....so many companies out there, no one can find/test them all on their own.....and instead things that could actually be really good get squashed by the closed minded hive mentality before they even get a chance