ALL THINGS BUDGET KNIVES

So I got my Master Hunter in 3V and it’s a hell of a knife… fully processed 130kg wild boar and it’s still sharp. Not shaving sharp but sharp enough. Seems to loose its initial sharpness and then hold an enge for a long time. The boar was covered in mud and had his winter coat on so I’m really happy with it. Not hard to sharpen either.

Civivi Pintail arrived.

Pintail

Interesting knife. Shorter handle than my beloved para3 and smaller in the pocket but longer blade edge. Surprisingly lightweight, party due to the thin blade stock, which is my only gripe, the tip looks like it could be a tad fine and dainty and the top blade bevel is not quite even on both sides. I want to like this, it feels good, we’ll see how it holds up.

This store is not making scales. I just tried to order. It turns out this is only an engraving service for the scales, which they do not have.

I would understand that if they’d engraved the original steel scales - but copper or titanium? Wtf?

I’ve been adding a few SAKs to my collection. Second hand but barely used. Nice to find some near new knives for not a lot of money on ebay.

Any clue on how good this knife/steel can be?
Sanrenmu 7129 - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001011626830.html

"Any clue on how good this knife/steel can be?
Sanrenmu 7129 – https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001011626830.html"

That's a good looking knife.

I think Sanrenmu tells the truth about what steel they use, and I think 12C27 is fairly decent.

It’s kind of a miniature Ruike P801 (which has 14c28n steel), it’s a tiny knife.

The blade is 2.56 inches long, which is kinda small.

I like the dragon etching on the handle.

Thanks for the reply RC!
I do have other SRM knifes (my only 2 :D) and I like them. They don’t have tail clip, though, it is located where the blade rotates. Looking to this one, I find it has a good overal size ~16 cm, and it is kind of elegant.
I read that this kind of steel is prone to break if bent, but I don’t intend to make it bend, so maybe it is a good option.

I’ve been looking to get a better knife and was looking to some Kizer knives (as this one), but I’m not sure if I’m ready to go that expensive yet :stuck_out_tongue:

Where did you order these scales from?

Got about 40 replica/clone knives (only ZT Kershaw and Benchmade) some remarkable good (Benchmade 940) Some very poor (ZT308) Decided to buy a genuine ZT357 and it is such a big difference, especially the blade sharpness out of the box and the way the knife handles.

Still will keep some good replica’s but decided to sell most of the other ones.

The SRM 7129 is indeed a small Ruike P801 except of a different steel and a thumb stud instead of a flipper tab.
The Ruike is using ball bearings iirc, the SRM uses washers.

It’s nice to make new scales for it but it’s too tiny for edc.

The surface is hand sanded (different directions) I wish they just left it with the dragon stamped in without sanding (not etched, no CNC, stamped with a die .
It’s looking better stonewashed I’d say.




Carbon fiber from a decommissioned wheel chair’s wheel cover, the cut-outs were there for the fasteners for different mounting positions.

Fun fact, it has the clip that was designed for the Kershaw Chill.


Just saw on Aliexpress that there is a tiny “report fraud item” icon on articles in the top right corner. It’s gonna be fun :smiling_imp:

Hum, I don’t like big knives, and the Ruike seems a bit bigger than what I would like.
It seems the steel is better, though.
Decisions decisions :person_facepalming:

Thanks for your inputs folks :+1:

What do you want to report?

Me, nothing, I’m not a knife company owner. But if I were Victorinox… but I don’t doubt they already tried.

My mistake maybe, where was it about Victorinox?

Because I just saw this
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32921914250.html

and then noticed the “report fraud item” icon. Made me laugh a bit.

Would be a tough one for Victorinox as long as they don’t use their shield or name.

There were “sports knives” around long before the Swiss copied them, namely Boker made them and many other companies in Solingen some 170 years ago.

I also heavily doubt it that they have patents in China. You can report them but nothing will happen.

Brands on seller’s pictures are different, like the butterfly or CR logo, they even edit locking mechanism as locking knive are illegal in China.
What a surprise.

edit: on the buyer’s pics there is the Victorinox shield but if they could do anything?
Send a mail to victorinox.ch as only the owner of the IP can do anything.