Fot the price i can't say anything foul obout it. Maybe the blade could be made from stronger steel and the lockout if not done with a fair force isn't reliable.
I disassembled it and grinded the blade a bit where the lockout is and managed to make it more reliable without adding any unwanted side play.
Pretty satified with it. Came reasonably sharp that i did not bother (yet) to sharpen it. Will do in the future when i get a suitable set of stones to make it razor sharp.
It is not a thing i qualify as EDC even if our law enforcement is not overly tedious for such knives (automatics and daggers are forbidden) but you might have some explaining to do if cought with one. Most often the reson why you carry one.
I can legally carry any single edge sharpened blade whose size is equal or less than an average 4 hand fingers which translates to under 7,5cm.
I have this one, it is cheap and not bad at all, but the SRM, Bee, Enlan, Ganzo and Navy knives should be more than 2-3 steps up in quality. SRM is producing for the major western brands like Buck. The steel used in SRM knives is also used by Spyderco (Tenacious... a 50$ knife), Buck and others.
Shouldn't your knives be bigger with a name like anduril than a SRM 710 ? ;-)
I doubt anywhere in the EU would permit what Anduril carried. Round here mere possession of that could get you 5 years to forever in prison. But I'll not rant about our current and previous governments.
Liberty, they've heard of it. And said, @$%%$^ that!
In Germany you can, if you have a reason like a theater play, a knife show or something similar. Anduril is not the guy (Aragorn) it IS the sword:
"I am Andúril who was Narsil, the sword of Elendil. Let the thralls of Mordor flee me."
A female Ecuadorian friend of mine has a nice collection of training Kung-Fu swords, staffs, daggers and so on, with which she practices in the local city park. She does get some raised eyebrows from others over her extensive martial arts weapon collection when she is shadow fighting in public, but she didn't have any problems so far.
Just a really quick heads up since life is keeping me pretty busy at the moment: it looks like Meritline is having a sale on some knives at the moment. Nothing too exciting, but there's a 763 for $10 shipped, which looks pretty good to me and a 704 for $7, which is still an okay deal in my book.
Stay away from the knock-off Mant*s Chaos clone though. I got a couple from the first batch and those are okay but from what I hear, the second and later batches turned out to be crap. The one ML has on their website appears to be one of those because mine look different.
Disclaimer: haven't ordered from them before but it looks like they're legit.
A friend just got his SRM 905 in about ~10 days from tinydeals... very nice, very impressed with the high quality so far.... way better than my DX knife (see above).... I ordered the same from priceangels.... still waiting...I got 905,908,909 in the pipeline... might do a little review when they arrive, if someone is interested..
You may have missed it but Meritline (see my post above) has the sand colored 763 on sale for $10, including free shipping. You're probably not going to find it any cheaper than that unless you buy in bulk. I have two and now I have another two on the way. HTH. :)
Nah i saw the post and recognized it but dont like the color but that does not matter since meritline does not like to ship in my country. Strange becasue it does ship on the top of Kilimanjaro if you so desire. :/
Hmm cheap SRM 763... this one maybe.... didn't display shipping cost (+0.00 for Europe)... but looks like a wholesale site.... you might have to try it yourself.
That is really cheap for such a well built knife... if only they were legal to carry here... might get one anyway... just as a collectors item.... I am allowed to own them.