Kershaw Pico is quite nice, just a bit larger I think.
Ok, since this is the budget thread: are there any assisted knives available from gearbest or similar with better blade material?
Kershaw Pico is pretty much perfect but wish it held an edge better.
Hmmm……Not real sure. I don’t have but a few assisted knives. I like the the Ganzo 758 auto opener. I think that and a blacked out Leek are the only assisted knives I have. I gave the Pico to a buddy who needed it more than I wanted it. My brother in law swears by his SOG Flash II. Aus-8 assisted knife. Might take a peak at that, see if that is your thing.
Have you got a link for that Ganzo 758 Auto?? I can’t seem to locate it.
For high quality budget assisted-openers, Kershaw owns the market.
Automatics are a different story, however.
With all the photoshopped knife pics, is there a practical way to know if they are assisted or automatic?
For Kershaw, their website will tell you.
For other manufacturers, I don't know.
I just got this in my inbox. Westernactive.com have an 11% off coupon (HBTHANKYOU) on any of their Honey Badger knives.
Well I bought it over a year ago. I could have sworn I got it off Ebay but couldn’t find it in my orders. I found out that I ordered it from Fast Tech. It’s listed as discontinued now. Here is a Ebay ad for it. I am always on the lookout for another aluminum handled one. If you can find one, grab it, quickly.
Thanks for the link, much appreciated…. :+1:
Vouking Stedemon TS05 knives 30% off on Amazon. Makes them pretty affordable. Amazon ad doesn’t have much information included so I stuck a BladeHQ ad in there as well with all the pertinent info.
https://www.amazon.com/VOUKING-TS05/dp/B07C714VF1
https://www.bladehq.com/item—Stedemon-Vouking-Samgun-TS06-Frame—84509
The Pico would be a decent design without that huge gap between the handle and the lock-bar.
After having a couple of frame-lock Ganzos and Sanrenmu Lands all of my frame-lock Kershaws look quite ridiculous.
That’s like the Grand Canyon compared to the Ganzo G722 or G742. :laughing:
Hadn’t noticed that before. I don’t have the knife anymore so I can’t lay eyeballs on it. It was just one of the only two Kershaws I had at that moment. I did just look at a Sanrenmu, CRKT, and Ganzo frame locks here in my little knife box next to the computer and none of those have that huge of a gap.
Although I’m a tip-up carry guy I tend to edc my frame-lock Kershaws tip-down just to hide the gap by the pocket clip.
I picked up the Ganzo 758. Nice knife. A bit big. I’d love to see Ganzo do a clone of the Calmigo. I think that’s perfect sized/styled knife.
We’ll see what life is like with a knife this big in the pocket all the time. I have a feeling I still may end up with Kershaw Turismo, Pico or Ember.
758 is the Protech-lookalike auto, correct? Where did you manage to find it?
The 7582 does bare quite the resemblance to the ProTech TR-4, yes.
Like I said, if Ganzo did a Calmigo copy I’d be all about that.
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