Glad to do the weigh-in after it arrives (unless someone else can please jump in here).
126g
Thanks McNugget 
Too bad that the pics from photobucket don’t show up, I can’t even see their own homepage.
Anyways, seems my milling and sanding of the scales and removing one thumb stud didn’t help so much to reduce the weight, my G-753 is 120g now.
Maybe I have to drill through the scales and there’s also enough space to drill a smaller hole into the liner at the butt.
It should be balanced so that I can hold it with one finger at the choil behind the finger guard (under the axis lock).
Maybe it needs real cf scales…
G753 & G749
G7802 (Ti handle & S35VN blade) & G751
The G749 looks quite tempting with the satin blade. :+1:
I also like the overall design of the G751 but I’m not sure about those green lines on the handle. :question:
IMO it would be better if Ganzo improved fit and finish, grinds and quality control instead of going for better steels and materials. Also smaller versions of these same offerings wouldn’t hurt - 3 inch/7.5cm blade length for example. A lot more people and police friendly instead of the 4inch monstrosities.
Their blades also tend to be unnecessarily thick, even compared to their original versions. Many of those originals had too thick blades to begin with and make for a sub-par slicing tool.
A Ganzo knife with a more consistent fit and finish, a good grind on a blade of appropriate thickness would make for a much better tool than the current typical Ganzo knife with S35V - which will arguably just make the knife more annoying to sharpen. And the blades will be likely to chip if they come burned from factory sharpening (as they do in so many brands).
That’s a good point of view :+1:
Agree! 
I dont see why they cant do both. I like big pocket knives, but I do wish there were more 3inch knives that appealed to me.
They can but better steel and titanium raise the price significantly while not solving the issues typical Ganzo knives have so you end up getting a poorer deal overall. If you’re unlucky and get a defective unit, not only do you still have the hassle of getting your money back you’re also out of pocket for more money.
Instead, if they used a few dollars more per unit to improve some of the features I mentioned the value for money ratio would be even better. Better quality control = more customer satisfaction.
Doing everything means that costs would increase beyond the point that it wouldn’t be a cheap knife from China anymore. I don’t want a 60$ titanium D2 Ganzo - I can just buy an already well made Shirogorov clone for that.
PS: personally I’d pay quite a bit more for a Ganzo knife if they’d include a bag of omega springs, or just sell springs themselves. I have no idea why they haven’t done that already, Benchmade owners would go bananas over them and they’d make a killing on the things.
These are some very good points right there! There is already a huge segment of exceedingly well made 50 to 100 dollar knives with bearings, titanium or carbon fiber, better steel etc.
All the things you are looking for can be found in the Spyderco Byrd line
The Byrd - like Ganzo - knives has improved Q&A a lot the last years
There are now Ti and better steel Byrds, and you also pay a bit more now
Two things.
Spyderco knives are absurdly expensive in Europe. There’s no point in buying a Chinese made knives with a US brand markup and European import tax. Usually its overpaying by a factor of 2:1 for what you get.
In the US where the street price on Byrd is about the same as Ganzos buying into Spyderco warranty and Q&A for a few dollars more makes sense.
Eg:
Spyderco Byrd Cara Cara 2 on US amazon =20$ - more or less what the knife is worth
Spyderco Byrd Cara Cara 2 on German amazon = 36$ - that’s 2 Ganzo knives off Fasttech, which are at most slightly inferior
Ganzo has been taking a lot of heat lately on quality. While the new G753’s seem to be a little off center, I dont see the quality problems. I buy a lot of Ganzo’s, but maybe I have been lucky. I think the overall quality is at least as good as other budget brands. That said, what do you all think? Have you had issues with Ganzos, or is it just the internet getting worked up over nothing?
I haven’t had any problems, my comments were more regarding what Ganzo can improve rather than criticism.
Things like spaces between scales and liners, liners not aligned with scales, asymmetric grinds, overtly thick blades, their axis lock implementation are not really “problems”, just things to refine before going into the “premium” steels.
Its cool that their latest knife has both carbon fiber and anodizing at the same price point, but improving the lock, the springs and other things I mentioned are worth more to me from a user perspective.
That’s a nice one again. I like that they’ve moved the firebird logo to the unground area, if they made it that the Ganzo writing is looking nice in closed position than my nitpicking heart feels better 
If it would be possible to put a 753’s blade into this handle and some grinding work after the second choil and it would resemble much closer to the Protech TS-5.
better this time …
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Thank goodness they aren’t putting deep carry clips on these, otherwise I’d have to buy them.
Excellent! :+1: I prefer this blade shape to the G753.