ALL THINGS BUDGET KNIVES

Have you looked at Ruike? The P108 and P801 models are popular. They’re supposed to be also made by Sanrenmu/Realsteel. Depending on shipping, you can also look at some US brands like the low end Spydercos.

Just received this Ganzo 7551 orange G10 handled knife/cleaver.

I like the quality of mfg, and fitment. It’s different enough to excuse its truly bad sharpness. It rivals my FB7603 for out of the box dullness. Its hard to love a dull knife, butt it does fit my hand and I like the choil.

Maybe I can use it as a butter knife as long as the butter is room temperature. :disappointed:

It must be a sign from above that the time has come to test your sharpening skills! :wink:

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Harnds CK7210 Disguiser, Ganzo G742 and G722 side by side.
Here is my review about these budget friendly frame-lock folders.

Another day, another Cold Steel… The Pocket Bushman in CTS-BD1…Couldn’t resist… ~30€ shipped from the US… a good deal for me :sunglasses:

Slaying tomatoes with confidence!

It is a bigger more modern Douk-Douk. :sunglasses:

or to expect more or less for my money per manufacturer?
either way, I’ll flail this monkey to my satisfaction.

Yes, apparently the Douk was an inspiration for this model. At least the Cold Steel has a nice and sharp edge out of the box :smiling_imp:

You should do yourself a favour and buy a proper sharpener. It could save you a lot of frustration.
An issue like this can be fixed on a Spyderco Sharpmaker under 5 minutes.

Typical ganzo junk

Typical troll post on a forum like this

I was going to point out that most Ganzo knives are excellent value for the money, but this comment is even better.

If someone posts an honest statement that their new knife can’t cut butter, then I reserve the right to call it junk. I call it like I see it. A knife that can’t cut is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

You are welcome to disagree, that is how discussion forums work.

You are not welcome to post hostile comments accusing me of trolling for expressing my opinion.

I have a Spyderco Sharpmaker and others, and after financing my daughter’s wedding by selling more than 150 Spyderco’s from my collection on eBay, I never had a complaint about a dull blade.

I understand you review knives…do you mention iffn the blade came sharp or not?

LMFTFY

And this manufacturer was always very good at making them looking like folding knives.

For me Ganzo is definitely not in the same league as Sanrenmu when it’s about quality but to call it junk is asking for getting bashed on a budget knife forum.

Check your sentence and think about it if you would have liked that on any topic that you favour from any other poster.
When I see that sentence I can imagine your own reaction to such words.
Telling me about hostile comments is like saying to the LEO The fight only started when he had the courage hit back.

Anyways, Ganzo was always great at bringing Benchmade designs to folks who don’t want to spend that much for an axis lock knife, the 712 was even better - cos more pocketable for non-giants - as the original Bedlam. Still I haven’t found a Ganzo as good as my SRM 910+ or 9104 which seems to be more due to bad QC than bad design or materials.

Also I think they should’ve kept the name and the slightly communist logo instead of changing it to such a generic name like Firebird.

Only Real Steel Knives is even worse in that aspect.

And they all have blue thumbstuds & screws now :person_facepalming:

I own two Ganzo knives, and in my experience, they are an excellent value for money.

(I even like them more than my Sanrenmu knives.)

The vast majority of BLF members have great experiences with Ganzo knives.

So the typical Ganzo knife is the opposite of junk.

On many knife forums, you can get away with calling Ganzo junk, but that doesn't generally fly here where value for money is king.

May I correct you?

I think that phase is over, the newest FH11, FB7621 and FB7631 but also the older G727M and F713M (compact G713) don’t come with this blue paint.

I liked it on the G7531CF, iirc they started that blue craze on the G/F753x series, after some models it got old just like Kizer’s turbine pivot screw.

And about the junk part, the budget Kershaws and esp. CRKTs I’ve handled were closer to junk for twice the price of a typical Ganzo.