If someone posts an honest statement that their new knife can’t cut butter, then I reserve the right to call it junk. I call it like I see it. A knife that can’t cut is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
You are welcome to disagree, that is how discussion forums work.
You are not welcome to post hostile comments accusing me of trolling for expressing my opinion.
I have a Spyderco Sharpmaker and others, and after financing my daughter’s wedding by selling more than 150 Spyderco’s from my collection on eBay, I never had a complaint about a dull blade.
I understand you review knives…do you mention iffn the blade came sharp or not?
For me Ganzo is definitely not in the same league as Sanrenmu when it’s about quality but to call it junk is asking for getting bashed on a budget knife forum.
Check your sentence and think about it if you would have liked that on any topic that you favour from any other poster.
When I see that sentence I can imagine your own reaction to such words.
Telling me about hostile comments is like saying to the LEO The fight only started when he had the courage hit back.
Anyways, Ganzo was always great at bringing Benchmade designs to folks who don’t want to spend that much for an axis lock knife, the 712 was even better - cos more pocketable for non-giants - as the original Bedlam. Still I haven’t found a Ganzo as good as my SRM 910+ or 9104 which seems to be more due to bad QC than bad design or materials.
Also I think they should’ve kept the name and the slightly communist logo instead of changing it to such a generic name like Firebird.
Only Real Steel Knives is even worse in that aspect.
I think that phase is over, the newest FH11, FB7621 and FB7631 but also the older G727M and F713M (compact G713) don’t come with this blue paint.
I liked it on the G7531CF, iirc they started that blue craze on the G/F753x series, after some models it got old just like Kizer’s turbine pivot screw.
And about the junk part, the budget Kershaws and esp. CRKTs I’ve handled were closer to junk for twice the price of a typical Ganzo.
If it’s dull out of the box I mention it. For example I had to sharpen my Ganzo G722 and G724M as they arrived (back in 2015 when they were released). They spent a couple of minutes on the Sharpmaker and they were good to go. Last year I bought a 2nd G722 for modding and that one was sharp out of the box.
For ~ $16 shipped (G722) I can deal with some sharpening every now and then. My cheapest Spyderco cost me around $80 shipped many years ago. That’s a totally different price range to compare.
And I only mentioned the Spydercos I sold because I sharpened all the non-new ones before shipping them, because I didn’t feel the purchaser should have to.
I’m happy (??) to announce that my Green Thorn Jeans with D2 blade developed some surface rust spots while it was sitting on my bookshelf without any salt water nearby.
So the number one first world problem about non rusting Chinese D2 steels is about to get solved. :person_facepalming:
One of the easiest and most effort/cost effective elements in producing a knife is sharpening the blade. Most ppl, after flipping/flopping it out, proceed to cutting something to show how sharp his extended penis is. There really is no justification for a dull blade.
and to expect me to sharpen my new knife is hubris.