Another inexpensive knife for you consideration..

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SCHRADE SCHF37...1095 steel, under 40 bucks shipped of Ebay. Drop point, heavy duty 7" drop point blade, about 1/4" thick. I bought one of these, haven't used it yet but it promises to be at least the equal of knives costing two to three times the price this one sells for. The only faults I've found so far is the handle is bit short for my size 11 mitts (usable though) and the gimping on the handle is a bit rough if you try chopping something with it. A year ago I bought the Schrade SCHf9, basically the same size blade with a different blade design, I've used and abused it with great results. Typical 1095 steel, takes and holds an edge quite well, has not chipped or bent in spite of my rough use of it. You want a good knife that you can use without worrying about how much you paid, you should give either of these a look-see.

[Herr Walther]

Re: Another inexpensive knife for you consideration..

Made in China.

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Re: Another inexpensive knife for you consideration..

Taiwan actually. Don't make any difference to me, a good useful knife in its price range I'm not too concerned where its made. Heck I live in small town USA, Walmart is about the only business left, most everything they sell is Chinese. I priced other knives, for the same money I can buy two or three of these.

[RT]

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I have been dealing with Asian made stuff for a few decades now, and can say that Taiwan is pretty close to the top of the food chain when it comes to quality of anything that involves metallurgy. The only step better than Taiwan is going to be stuff from Japan, but specifically, Japanese made by Japanese workers, not Japanese supervised elsewhere, which could mean anywhere due to nuances in Japanese law which allow them to call a product "Japanese" as long as it went through Japanese management quality control. For example, a lot of Honda stuff that is "Japanese" is made in China in factories which are "Japanese run" in name only.

Next is Hong Kong, followed closely by Korea then mainland China, but it flip flops between Hong Kong and Korea, since a lot of Korean made stuff is better than Hong Kong stuff. Singapore deserves mention only in that a lot of Japanese run stuff is in Singapore.

The Philippines is a mixed bag, you may or may not be getting a quality product. That will often depend on how an individual factory is run.

India - junk, they are below mainland China on just about everything, but they are really good at bullshitting people into thinking their stuff is better than it is.

The growing manufacturing base right now is in Vietnam, and you have to figure anything that comes from Vietnam came from someone who underbid the mainland Chinese, and the mainland Chinese had previously underbid Taiwan and the Koreans. Harbor freight for example, has shifted a lot of their junkier price beater stuff to Vietnamese sources.

Right now, stuff from mainland China is about on par with Japan around 20 years ago. They are very close to making decent exportable cars and trucks. The Koreans as we know, have surpassed the Japanese in growth of their export car, truck and heavy equipment industry. The Koreans would dominate much of the firearms market if they decided to. For whatever reasons, they stay away from civilian weapons on general, not even doing much with fighting knives or other martial arts weapons beyond a small domestic market. Korean electronics are highly competitive with Japanese and usually several steps above those from mainland China.