My new collection of 50+ Chinese knives

Just some more detail to add: I read that it was a local police ordinance that ordered SRM to haul production of their larger 9 series knives due to at least two murders involving a 9 series SRM. Thats why I keep telling people to buy them up when they turn up from time to time. They boast the same legendary quality of all other SRM knives but in the larger size. Its sad that such gross incompetence in the local police jurisdiction of SRM halted production. I can only imagine what new ingenious creations might have been available today, had SRM been allowed to continue producing larger folding knives.

While researching the Browning 863 before purchasing it, someone compared it to a very high quality steak knife. I would second that motion, as it lives up to culinary carving duties far better than most knives of its size. Of course, it also works well for utility purposes. Its a real beauty, with a polished steel finish and buffed burly maple handle. The blade, grind and steel quality is on par with SRM, as are all the Brownings in my collection so far, but the fit & finish is above anything else in my budget collection... that's Browing in general.

I used it at a friends BBQ tonight and let others use it to carve their steaks. Well, I actually insisted that they try it. LOL! Now I need to order 3 more. Its to bad that Browning doesnt make a matching fork and spoon to go along with it. I almost didnt buy this knife and now Im more than happy that I did.

Check out the other Brownings in the first post. IMO, they are great buys for what I paid for them.

I know the feeling. I also wasted far to many greenbacks on pocket knives from DX, MF and several others, etc... but we all have to start somewhere. If you havent owned an SRM or Enlan, then you probably dont have anything of high quality in your budget collection to compare it with. And once you do have an SRM or Enlan, then nearly everything else in the price range seems like pure junk. I hung onto only a few of those "DX" knives and gave the rest away as gifts. Of those gifted, I dont think any of them survived a year before they were worn out, broken, lost or thrown away. Pure rubbish!

Only one of those knives made it to my list as "recommended": Dealextreme sku19366

It retains an edge quite well for the harsh box cutting duties Ive used it for, but I have yet to abuse it to find its true muster. I found another similar Kershaw knife for +$50 in a local store. The sales person agreed that the DX was of higher quality. He never asked me what I paid or where I got it, and I didnt have the heart to volunteer the information and embarrass him in from of several other customers in his store. Its roughly a $5 knife.

I think the whole Tekut-series is considered to be of decent quality. I don't own any of them, though.

I bought this smaller Enlan for curiosity, but I still prefer the bigger ones.

Wow that looks awesome, Ive never seen that model before...

Can you pls let me know where you ordered it? I could not find anything with that model name on Google...

I found it at Ebay. There's also a camouflage alu handled version with a plain satin blade (M018CA).

One of my favourites from the middle size category is the Navy K502 (more pics in my blog):

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Finally my Ganzo G710 has arrived. In two words: highly recommended!

More pics in my blog.

I've been avoiding the link in your sig like the plague...have always been a knife hoarder, but have tried to avoid the Chinese market as much as possible. I guess just because of "knife snobbery" and general reputation of Chinese produced garbage. LOL

CRKT has been my personal fave and EDC for years now, but their quality has been going to crap. Have retired my beast M16-14ZSF that I carried horizontally at my back simply for the need of a multi-tool more often. That rarely saw use anyway and I used my M16-13Z that's clipped in my front pocket for almost everything.

Have recently been eyeing Böker's Magnum line and have to admit that the quality is amazing! And now I have broken down and clicked your links...I'm screwed... Will probably have at the least an EL01 ordered by the end of the day. (have just gotten so used to that flipper that I'd be lost without it)

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Will probably have at the least an EL01 ordered by the end of the day. (have just gotten so used to that flipper that I'd be lost without it)

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A wise choice, if you want my opinion.

I've got a black Sanrenmu 939 on order from this excellent ebay seller, doingoutdoor. Paid $13.50 shipped. I wanted one in silver but no one had any. How does the black hold up?

My small but growing Chinese collection

Please, more opinions/comments about ganzo 710 before i buy it.

thanks!

You guys made me order six knives in the last two days.

Here is what i get from Exduct, Dinodirect, doingoutdoor and Manafont:

Enlan: EL-01, EL-02B, EL-03A

Sanrenmu: 939 black, 710 black

CRKT: small fixed blade: http://www.manafont.com/product_info.php/crkt-stainless-steel-knife-black-shealth-p-7112

I dont know if this one is genuine. Any comments on that?

If anyone wants to order from exduct: PM me, I'll give you a 5% coupon code.

The CRKT is not genuine - this one is:

http://www.crkt.com/Ritter-RSK-Mk5

Differences: For example the 4 cut on the handle. The cuts on the genuine are really small - the manafont version are much bigger.

If it has a bad quality, you lost only $4.

I'll see if it can be sharpened to decent sharpness. I don't care for the $4, so it's no problem if it can't.

Im more excited for the Enlan and Sanrenmu knives, as they are told to be of really good quality.

I have the Enlan EL-01 and EL-02B and both are really nice. The Enlan is a little bit to heavy for me, but the quality is relly good. The EL02B is great, because is looks differnet to others, because it has the stonewashed finished blade and is much thinner as the EL02.

Which ones you got from DD and MF?

Christ! That's quite a collection of knifes you have there! Thanks for showing!

I got the EL-02B and the EL-03A from dinodirect.com. There are $5 gift codes you can use on orders above $30 and I had a $5 gift card and a few dinopoints. So I paid only $24 for these two knives shipped with tracking number.

At Manafont i ordered the Sanrenmu 710 and the fake CRKT.