i just got the ganzo firebird and its a lot longer than id thought.
seems hard to find shorter ganzo knives, i just put in an order for a sanrenmu 710.
can someone suggest ganzos that are in the 160-ish mm range? ill be mainly cutting cardboard boxes and cord/rope (that means a “pointy” blade is preferred).
This are really nice looking except for the blacked out blades. Why would they do that? I don’t mean that it looks bad. It actually looks pretty sweet but from what I’ve seen the black coating always wears off and ends up looking trashed with any regular use. I’d like to see if they make those in a stonewashed or plain finish. Dig the holsters. I see a seat belt cutter and there are obviously extras based on the additional pocket and the nub sticking off the back of the handle. I’d think glass breaker but there’s no sharp point I can see. Thanks for posting those. Ganzo makes some impressive looking knives. I wish they had better customer service though. I reached out to them through the contact us link on their website because I need a replacement clip which I explained in detail and all I got back was a generic response.
I replied back to them with all the requested info and a repeat of what I needed a month and a half ago and got no response. I think it took three weeks to get my initial generic response. I guess at their prices customer support isn’t part of the deal…
Ganzo labels their steel as 8Cr13MoV instead of 440C. Strange.
I do like the Ganzo branding and especially the slightly communist looking logo much more than the generic Firebird name and logo.
If they at least came up with some ancient Chinese name or so.
Ok, even worse is Real Steel Knives, I mean, seriously?
I really like my Griffin folder though, but the brand name is crap…
8Cr13MoV is not so different from 440C, it’s more about the heat treatment.
58HRC is possible for both of these steels but not necessary for an outdoor knife.
Actually the XCrYMoV labeling is more accurate than any AISI code, you find that a lot in kitchen cutlery.
So Ganzo’s 440C is most likely the same as SRM’s 8Cr13MoV or 9Cr19MoV or whatever.
In Chinese knives I don’t trust steel labeling annways and I don’t knpw if the SRM 910’s Sandvik steel is really from Sweden but it performs incredibly well, much better than it should for the price paid.
Why would they mislabel more or less identical mediocre steels deliberately? It makes no sense.
If they had wanted to take advantage of a trusted, well known steel name they would have labelled these fixed blades with 440C steel.