My new collection of 50+ Chinese knives

posts deleted to help prevent the innocent from being scammed by the discoverybuying bastards and their band of crooked thieves. :Sp

Now they work!

Though they come too late ; )

Links work for me…and about to cost me more $ :open_mouth:

Sheesh, I just bought another EL-01, this time in yellow.

Darn you Enlan, why did you have to make such a good knife?

Just say NOOOOooooo to Enlan! She’s a real sexy girl, but can you really handle more than 4 or 5? :bigsmile:

She’s very insistent.

Discoverybuying is a little bit special - I think it is the 4th or 5th name (formerly discoverybargaiin) of the same shop, often had Paypalproblems. So I would only buy there, if you no other chance, not to save $1-2.

I just checked my records and youre right. I have a few old pp disputes from discoverybargain (to put it politely, they are/were a bunch of lying cunning bastards.) Partial orders were shipped but they never credited me for the unshipped portions of the orders. They kept lying and said, “any day now”. They wanted me to cancel my pp disputes to allow more than 45 days to pass - so that I wouldnt have any recourse.

Of the items I did receive, they were in perfect shape so no complaints there. So as Buwuve mentioned, avoid unless you have no other choice and can put up with the paypal dispute process if necessary.

The post with links above was deleted to save the many from such grief.

discoverybuying bastards: if youre reading, the truth of documented testimony will be known to the public. May your lousy stinking company of thieves, liars and con-men be buried under a mountain of hot smoldering camel dung 1000 meters deep! |(

My Navy K602 arrived. In the words of Steve Irwin, “crickey, that’s a big one.”

Delivery took a little while, and it went through Customs after being checked (contacting the Police Firearms and other weapons officer may have got it through smoothly) and it came with a little chip in the edge which sharpened out easily.

I’m not sure it’ll do anything that my Endura won’t (and probably the Endura, being a Spyderco, will do a lot more) but it sits nicely in the pocket, and I’m sure, if nothing else, unfolding it will cause at least a few raised eyebrows.

nice collection…i don’t collect anything in large quantities…my collection consists of the following…
benchmade emerson cqc7…
benchmade osbourne apparition…
benchmade elishewitz sentinel…
a.g.russell sting…
crkt pat crawford point guard…
spyderco stainless native…

i am adding a pack knife before the year is over and the choice is down to 2…the cassel pack knife with tanto point or the jericho honor mark iv with tanto point…

sorry no pics…i haven’t figured out how to post them yet…the two pack knives are worth a look…

It sounds like you’ve got a nice collection of knives. I went the budget route and discovered a very descent and consistent quality among the Sanrenmu and Enlan/Bee knives. If you decide to buy a few, I would probably avoid anything made by Ganzo. While their appearances are pleasing to many, their quality lags behind the other two I just mentioned. Especially in holding an edge and its ability to resharpen as well as the others.

JohnnyMac posted a great how-to for posting pics here. Its easy after your first post. Give it a try!

thanks for the link but that is way too much trouble for me to go through…besides i think loading a picture to a forum should be just as easy as posting my avatar…

I need a couple….a larger folder, and possibly a fixed blade or two, to practice sharpening on until I get good enough to sharpen my good knives. I have a Lansky 3-stone sharpener, crock sticks, and a Chef’s Choice sharpener. Actually, I wouldn’t feel too bad if the knives were good-looking and would hold an edge pretty well, too.
But, I dream, right?

Any suggestions, both for blades and inexpen$ive sharpening systems? Is there any truth to the rumor that Chinese “diamond” sharpening stones are only glass imbedded in the metal?

Thanx

Having used Chinese made diamond sharpening stones, they certainly sharpen well enough. Since, as I understand it, the metal is nickel, with the industrial diamonds stirred up in it, it would be doubtful that it would be glass since the melting point of nickel is 1455°C and glass melts at roughly the same temperature (depending on the glass of course). You’d get slag, not abrasive pieces in that combination.

The Enlan EL01 is a big folder, easy to sharpen, and once you’ve done so you still have a solid knife.

If you don’t want to risk damage just start on a finer stone, coarse stones take off more steel so have a greater risk of taking off too much in the wrong place. Once you’re used to getting the angle right with a fine stone you can sharpen/reprofile more quickly with a coarse stone.

I like the first one. Is that real oyster shell?

This one?

Its plastic but pretty decent for what it is.

When first joined the forum I was a bit skeptical of budget Chinese knifes but after reading this thread and a couple of others I decided to give them a shake and ia thoroughly impressed with the quality of them especially the SRMs tight tolerances so I just wanted go ask do you believe the blade material will improve in the near future?

Just a quick update about that Tekut LK5050 I reviewed a while back.

I’ve been carrying this on my key chain for nearly a year now (wow, has it been that long?), and it’s still sharp and pretty and nearly everyone who sees it wants one. Fortunately, I bought a bunch to give as gifts, so when they express an interest I can usually give them one. Color varies from unit to unit though.

The off-center blade is now more off-center, all the way to the side as far as it can go, but that doesn’t seem to affect anything. The blade lock actually works better now than it did when it was new. Most of the corners and edges have lost enough coating to show the bare metal, but the large smooth areas are still quite colorful and the wear isn’t obvious. The knife has microscopic scratches all over, but again, it’s hard to see unless looking for it with a bright light. Fingerprints are still more noticeable than any of the permanent wear. It’s holding up pretty well, overall, especially considering the amount of wear it gets from being on a heavy and scratchy keychain.

I got a second one to use when this one gets too old, but it looks like that won’t happen for at least a few years. I haven’t even needed to sharpen it yet (though, to be fair, I normally use my Enlan EL-01 for heavy-duty tasks and use this item for relatively easy stuff).

Also, FastTech now sells this item and some other Tekut knives. Some of the others are rainbow-finished too.

I have ordered a few SRM and I am looking forward to trying them out.
I have read as much as I can online about them.

My question is what happens after a few years. All the reviews describe their condition when they are received. So it may be wise to have some sort of issues log for the Chinese knives.
Has anyone given these knives a good workout for a few years?
(the previous post reminded me to ask this!)

Hi there Billyo and welcome to the forum.
I’ve been using/collecting Chinese knives for about 3 years and have quite a few. They wear just like anything else that’s used but no more or less than other knives that use the same materials. The G10, Micarta and wood handle scales get a patins on them as do the blades if you don’t clean them.
I strip mine down and give them a good clean, polish and lubricating before re-assembling when I think they need it - it’s not really necessary but it’s all part of the hobby for me. just a few drops of light oil on the pivots and washing the blade then letting it dry would do.
The coatings can wear off the blades if constantly cutting abrasive stuff like cardboard.

I’ve never had one wear out yet, sharpening takes a bit off the blade but it would take a long time to go through a blade to the point that it was unsafe.

Same as anything else, if you look after it then it will last. For the price they are remarkably good tools, when I look at the prices charged by companies like Boker Magnum for the Enlan EL-01 or the A-Stan as they call it you are getting a real bargain.
Some U.K. knife shops are charging £25 for a SanRenMu 710 and £30 for an Enlan EL-01. (AU$ 46 and 55).
Overall they wear very well.