I understand 100%. When I first started watching knife reviews I used to watch Neeves Knives. I stopped watching his reviews when I first saw your reviews. Too me he’s a fake. Now you on the other hand seem real, and I appreciate that. You have a regular job and make time to still do reviews. You sound like you really enjoy your followers and knives. So keep up the great work. I really look forward to your short videos and the guy that said he thinks your hands are too dirty should probably go watch a Martha Stewart video. 😂. So keep up the great work and keep it sharp Kev.
I haven't watched the entire video yet, but yes 100%. Reminds me of Apostle P/Shabazz in the early days, Bearded Gear, or that Seven Seas (I'd have to recheck the name) dude. UA-cam was flooded after I got out of the hobby back in 2016/17, but dudes like this are gems.
I’m with you 100 % on USA vs china made. I used to not really care but the last couple months it’s changed for me and I want to support/own USA made knives mostly….
I totally relate to this. I'm quick to buy new knives to check out, and many times I really like the knife, and I express this in my friend group so the other members can make an informed decision on their next purchase. Mainly, the folks that may buy a knife based on my review, are enthusiasts who relate to me and the kind of knives I carry. That doesn't mean I will keep the knife. I will usually offer it up for sale in my group, and that knife may pass around to a few folks until it's found a home. Now, relating to knives that I keep, and don't sell... Because of those particular knives, of which I have a bunch, I'm not really looking to knock them out of rotation just because of a new knife that I like. "Like" doesn't mean "keep". Every so often a new knife enters my collection that is an absolute keep though. And there are some which I buy then sell later on but end up buying again, in a different configuration. The Spyderco Military, for example fits that. I've carried one since they released, but I've had at least 10 of them in different variations, but only 1 at a time. If I had to keep only 1 knife forever and get out of collecting and being part of the enthusiast discussion, then yes, the Military or Military 2 now, would be the 1 knife I say to everyone, is perfect for me.
Now that you are carrying that Grimsmo everything else will probably pale in comparison. I have respect for you and your approach to reviewing. I find it refreshing to hear someone say, after a little more time with the product, I’m not loving it. UA-cam reviewers usually start out well and buy their own products to review and the reviews seem genuine. But over time as the channel grows, they start to receive products to review and all of a sudden they don’t ever have a critical comment about said products. Everything sent in is wonderful and better than the last one. I have mild buyers remorse with 2 of my knives because of glowing reviews that didn’t highlight a less than desirable design issue. Luckily they were very affordable and I’ll keep them anyway.
Most of us understand reviewers can’t keep them all… and you don’t owe anyone an explanation or justification for what you decide to keep. Thanks for the video, Doody
I love civivi we knives but don’t connect with them either.. I connect more with the spyderco’s. My go to is the salt 2 hawk bill knife.. lite and very functional
Currently downsizing my knife collection because I don’t use over half of them. They were a purchase that UA-camrs recommended, it’s a good knife but I just don’t like it. Sometimes I have reasons sometimes I don’t. Great example is the Vosteed raccoon crossbar in aluminum. Everything feels great, but for some reason I hate the wider crossbar so I’m selling it.
I can relate. I have a WE and a Jack wolf that are among the highest quality that I have. There's just a cold and unfamiliar feel to them compared to others. I enjoy to carry my sodbuster, pm2's, saks, delicas, Bark rivers ect. I don't think it's entirely about where it's made but it's part of it. A non-stainless steel like 1095/k390/cruwear/3v that is tough and will take a patina i'm much more drawn to as well.
Everyone's entitled to change their minds. Also, I appreciate this candid video. It's refreshing. Some of these big channels are owned by the knife companies. Your point about Chinese vs American knives is something I'm definitely feeling lately. I still have some and will buy more, but made oyn USA holds a lot of weight for me.
I respect that. I have a couple reate made knives but I don’t even use them. My whole collection barring Japanese and Taichung spydercos is American. They just make me happy and I like to carry them.
I wish that I could keep every knife, but that is not possible! There have been many knives where my opinion has changed over time. It is not that the knife is bad or anything. Maybe it is not an action or the look that speaks to me. For example I had 3 Chris Reeve Knives and sold 2 of them. They are great knives, but I don't care for the action and am not a huge fan of frame locks. I hear you on the Chinese knives! I have been fine with American companies that have knives produced overseas, but not "pure Chinese" ones. I also like slipjoints and small fixed blades that I make. Small Fixies are starting to really gain pocket time with me.
I have that same High Fin and I absolutely love it. That said, its cool if you dont connect with it. Ive been enjoying alot of WEs lately. Recently got the Attor and im in love with that blade and have a Riff Raff coming in that im excited for. I personally could care less where a knife is made as long as I like it and while I like to support US companies as much as humanely possible, im not fussed about its origins. For me its all about design. Im pumped for the new XL High Fin in gold/black. Edit: Apon reflection, the thing I like the most about Chinese companies is their ability to give us production variants of customs I would never be able to otherwise afford. Ie my Attor, my Strix (amazing), my Efros Elder, my Merriken Mini Ultimatum etc. Thats where alot of my collecting has been focused recently.
That was a knife that when I first saw it, I really thought I'd end up wanting to get one. But in the end it just somehow ended up one I didn't mind passing on. I think it's got an element of eye-catching style but not enough substance.
Fully understand "connecting" to a knife. I've had cheapo knives that i connect with and end up carrying all the time. I've also had really nice knives that i haven't connected with. It's regardless of price. Cold Steel Tuff-lite, with it's crappy steel, surprisingly wormed it's way into my pocket over and over a few years ago because it just connected. I've got others (Hogue Deka, one of my PM2's) that are great but they just don't make it in the pocket. For me it's got nothing to do whatsoever with country of origin (matter of fact I currently have a gripe with the U.S. manufacturers that i continually support, well some of them) , but the feel, action, way the blade sharpens my carpenter pencil (literally) and other things that are subjective as hell. I don't know until i carry it at work for a few days.
I totally get changing your mind. I’m not patriotic about knives though. I connect with a Chinese knife just as easily as I connect with a USA made knife. With the current pricing and mediocrity of the US made goods, I’m looking at country of origin as the last thing I worry about.
It's a free country, you're allowed to change your mind. I've had knives that happened with both ways. Some I liked initially but quickly found annoying issues with and some I disliked but then they grew on me. I love the look of the Highfin but it's too small for my taste, We is releasing the Highfin XL on Dec 16 and I'm thinking about getting one. My own taste in knives has changed several times in the past 5 years, it's all good.
You don’t have to have a UA-cam channel to understand this. If you have a number of nice knives you tend to start to gravitate towards some more than others, including ones I thought were by far my favourite possibly only months before. I still like those knives and sometimes I want to hang on to them anyway (My Hinderers are a good example of this) but in reality it makes more sense to sell or trade them. It’s easy to like a knife a lot but like others even more too, not because they are better but just because there are things that are more to your personal preferences. For me, buying and selling knives is now about finding half a dozen or so knives that I absolutely love rather than a pile of good knives that I have to choose between. I did go through a point of wanting to collect, but it’s not really what I want to do with my life. Essentially I want to get down to those few knives that I love and just use and enjoy them without worrying about putting wear on them and causing them to lose value when I decide to sell them a few months later - because I’m not going to sell them. Being an Aussie, an Australian made slipjoint or two will be likely to become a part of my permanent collection. Most of my knives are USA made though.
Bought my most expensive knife so far the other day... had it so hyped up in my head but in hand it just didn't feel all that special. In fact it felt worse than some of my mid tier knives. I can't afford to "collect for the sake of collecting" knives so I'll probably sell it even though it was a grail of sorts for me. You just never know until you handle and sometimes carry something for a bit. I've also had the opposite happen where I didn't have great first impressions of a knife but after carrying overtime fell in love with it.
I tend to be on a different mind set… I feel like the American knives are the ones that have no soul and the Chinese ones are the ones with personality and soul.
Most of the knives I have given the best reviews for are no longer with me because I need the money more than the knife. What I keep is the experience and the memory ❤️
I completely understand about feeling one way about a knife and then feeling like howhum about it later. I have a bunch of knives dwelling in my knife storage that aren't seeing any use anymore.
I've been in the knife hobby for years. There are lots of knives I have liked or want to buy, but then realize I have another knife of 2 that fits in that use category. I don't need 4 or 6:knives in the same category. I have a 3 tier machinest wooden toolbox from grizzly filled to the gills with knives. Then realize I only really carry 20ish knives on rotation. I'm currently down sizing. I love all the knives I have gotten rid of, but ot practical. I think if in the hobby for some time, all knife addicts go through it.
When you say your pocket time is precious I can realte... i think "i wouldn't be caught dead with that." When I have all this nice stuff, I dont want to die with high-fin in my pocket 😂
Knives come and go just part of the hobby. I’ll never understand the “I don’t sell any of my knives” I’ve seen a lot of people saying lately lol. I’ve had to sell a lot of knives that I really like and I even miss some of them, it is what it is. But like you said it is hard to feel the connection with China made knives. I will buy them. And I have some that I love. But I never develop a connection with them like I do with my CRKs, Microtechs, MachineWise, Spydies etc. Even though some Chinese knives have really good fit and finish a lot of it is cookie cutter not in design but the materials and feel: fat carbon, titanium, same detent. lol
fun fact for everyone, you can sell knives that you do like. Hopefully for something else you like or love. People are so unrealistic, you can't keep everything and if you could, why would you want to? You're awesome, Dood.
It’s funny about the High-Fin because I really wanted one when they first came out, and I did buy one. But I ended up selling it in short order, kind of with the same reasoning.
How dare you need cash you Ogre! 😆 I just put up a Timascus Fenrir and my Frag Ti Kizer Cormorant for sale and yeah it would be great to keep all the knives but bills and Christmas are more important than a knife sitting in my case.
One thing ive noticed is that chinese knives tend to be moments but american made to last. And thats not even national pride, im not american at all lol. It seems to be more of intent in design and manufacture
I would hate to never carry a sharp by design production knife. I wish Reate was in the U.S. I have not handled U.S. knife the felt as high quality. I know they are out there, but I have not spent 700 bucks on a knife yet. Most Reate knives feel so much better than any benchmade or spyderco they are not even in the same ballpark. Idk
It sucks when you buy a knife you wanted but end up not connecting with it. That's how I was with my MBK Rosalinda so I sold it as a black Friday deal hoping it'd go to someone that enjoyed it more. I'm also kind of feeling that way with my Benchmade 943 that I hunted down for a while.
The system has enslaved us ALL Doody. We feel u homey. Nothing has gone right for my family for like three years now I’m starting to feel oppressed 😂😂 seriously tho. 😂
I think its completely fine to change your mind about something, everyone does. In fact, someone who isnt open to changing their mind at all isnt trustworthy to me. At the same time I think its important to realize that the general audience WILL hold a reviewer to a completely different standard than "regular" people, and that changing ones mind too often as a public figure in a relatively small community will most likely make people question those opinions to begin with. Whether or not one thinks its right for it to be this way is kinda irrelevant, its still a thing if that makes sense. I think the best way to deal with it is just transparency, like when you said in this video that sometimes you need the money more than the knife. Thats very justifiable and relatable to me at least.
I want the WMK xl version. I sold all my American made knives for Chinese. I just like kizer Kansept Vosteed and kubey designs better. Have some civivi never splurged on a WE
I’m partial to my blue collar Spyderco’s. I hated them for the longest time, buuuut they’re hard use engineering marvels….USA to boot…Chinese made/American designed knives are too materialistic…
Why are you so patriotic fella, It looks class , however WE knives seem really expensive from what i have seen, but kizer, kunwu and vorsteed are my fav knife designers(as good as WE and half the price, alongside A Wrights current custom designer and the rest of the sheffield gang... as you can tell I am British, so yes i kinda get your point...
Since nobody else will even respond will u please try to get a bnb raven and review it? As u kno they have them in stock locally. Nvr heard of them but seem ok but possibly made in Pakistan? Would love a real knife person’s opinion abt the brand. They aren’t expensive per se. the raven and this Damascus wood inlay one that I’m looking at abt both 99$. Maybe they would send u a cpl who knows. They are sold all the sudden at Blaine’s farm and fleet fyi so they must have some sorta influence or something.
How does a ZT, Benchmade or a US Spyderco have more soul than a WE knife? All of them are mass producing knives. I mean if you don’t connect with a knife, that’s fine, I know the feeling. And I understand if an American preferably buys American made, but to say a knife has more soul just because it’s American made? Idk.
I tend to wait wait on buying a knife after watching all of the reviews and then go back to you guys and ask if you still have it after 3 months. Jason from Knife Dope buys and sells most of his knives 2 or 3 times and I kinda rate the knife as a good buy if he buys it 3 times! 😂
Subscription goes out Greetings from Germany. What do you actually have to do with Germanic mythology? Do you have German ancestors? Personal question from German to German?
I think a lot of people r just interested in what ur carrying and y. So naturally, when u sell a knife, u said u liked there will be questions as to y u sold it. I would take it as a compliment that people are interested in ur opinions enough to want to know the y behind it. Like u said people's opinions and taste change I can love something one min but then after I really carry it and use it I'm like nah this isn't for me and so when ur as big as u r people just want know what's going on with u that's all, and if a comment does rub u the wrong way u just heart it and don't reply. It usually aggravates the type of people that leave negative comments more when u don't give them the attention they r looking for. I should know. 😅
I remember you saying not to long ago that you were not going to review Chinese knives anymore. Then I see Chinese knives still being on your channel. As much as I agree with you about American knives being far better, they can’t come close to value you get from Chinese knives. The majority of Americans can’t afford American made knives and you would lose some beginner knife collectors. If you’re going to take Chinese knives away from your channel just do it and stop talking about it.
I'm in the same boat Doody. It's a difficult feeling to define but you explained it well. It takes a special design, from a Chinese company, for me to even think about buying it anymore.
This is why u cant trust his reviews. This guy will definitely lie for money. At least hes honest about that part. He said the qsp hedgehog was the best at one point
I understand 100%. When I first started watching knife reviews I used to watch Neeves Knives. I stopped watching his reviews when I first saw your reviews. Too me he’s a fake. Now you on the other hand seem real, and I appreciate that. You have a regular job and make time to still do reviews. You sound like you really enjoy your followers and knives. So keep up the great work. I really look forward to your short videos and the guy that said he thinks your hands are too dirty should probably go watch a Martha Stewart video. 😂. So keep up the great work and keep it sharp Kev.
That’s the best compliment I could get, thank you!!
Couldn’t agree more… I love this guy
I love this guys too but if any are fake and douchey it’s metal complex. Neeves seems like a good guy just high strung 😂
I haven't watched the entire video yet, but yes 100%. Reminds me of Apostle P/Shabazz in the early days, Bearded Gear, or that Seven Seas (I'd have to recheck the name) dude.
UA-cam was flooded after I got out of the hobby back in 2016/17, but dudes like this are gems.
Yeah, Doody is the best. Jared Neeve is a great guy that is crazy about knives
I feel this HARD. Great points
I’m with you 100 % on USA vs china made. I used to not really care but the last couple months it’s changed for me and I want to support/own USA made knives mostly….
I changed my mind on the small Inkosi when I got a sebenza. I completely understand
I totally relate to this. I'm quick to buy new knives to check out, and many times I really like the knife, and I express this in my friend group so the other members can make an informed decision on their next purchase. Mainly, the folks that may buy a knife based on my review, are enthusiasts who relate to me and the kind of knives I carry. That doesn't mean I will keep the knife. I will usually offer it up for sale in my group, and that knife may pass around to a few folks until it's found a home. Now, relating to knives that I keep, and don't sell... Because of those particular knives, of which I have a bunch, I'm not really looking to knock them out of rotation just because of a new knife that I like. "Like" doesn't mean "keep". Every so often a new knife enters my collection that is an absolute keep though. And there are some which I buy then sell later on but end up buying again, in a different configuration. The Spyderco Military, for example fits that. I've carried one since they released, but I've had at least 10 of them in different variations, but only 1 at a time. If I had to keep only 1 knife forever and get out of collecting and being part of the enthusiast discussion, then yes, the Military or Military 2 now, would be the 1 knife I say to everyone, is perfect for me.
Yes I agree 100%, well said
Now that you are carrying that Grimsmo everything else will probably pale in comparison. I have respect for you and your approach to reviewing. I find it refreshing to hear someone say, after a little more time with the product, I’m not loving it. UA-cam reviewers usually start out well and buy their own products to review and the reviews seem genuine. But over time as the channel grows, they start to receive products to review and all of a sudden they don’t ever have a critical comment about said products. Everything sent in is wonderful and better than the last one. I have mild buyers remorse with 2 of my knives because of glowing reviews that didn’t highlight a less than desirable design issue. Luckily they were very affordable and I’ll keep them anyway.
Check out the high-fin XL 😉
Most of us understand reviewers can’t keep them all… and you don’t owe anyone an explanation or justification for what you decide to keep. Thanks for the video, Doody
I love civivi we knives but don’t connect with them either.. I connect more with the spyderco’s. My go to is the salt 2 hawk bill knife.. lite and very functional
Carry what makes you happy 🤘
I completed agree. My collection has shifted way over to overbuilt American made knives. They feel different and are from places ive been or heard of.
Currently downsizing my knife collection because I don’t use over half of them. They were a purchase that UA-camrs recommended, it’s a good knife but I just don’t like it. Sometimes I have reasons sometimes I don’t. Great example is the Vosteed raccoon crossbar in aluminum. Everything feels great, but for some reason I hate the wider crossbar so I’m selling it.
I can relate. I have a WE and a Jack wolf that are among the highest quality that I have. There's just a cold and unfamiliar feel to them compared to others. I enjoy to carry my sodbuster, pm2's, saks, delicas, Bark rivers ect. I don't think it's entirely about where it's made but it's part of it. A non-stainless steel like 1095/k390/cruwear/3v that is tough and will take a patina i'm much more drawn to as well.
Yeah totally, I also prefer something that patinas over stainless steel
Everyone's entitled to change their minds. Also, I appreciate this candid video. It's refreshing. Some of these big channels are owned by the knife companies. Your point about Chinese vs American knives is something I'm definitely feeling lately. I still have some and will buy more, but made oyn USA holds a lot of weight for me.
I respect that. I have a couple reate made knives but I don’t even use them. My whole collection barring Japanese and Taichung spydercos is American. They just make me happy and I like to carry them.
I wish that I could keep every knife, but that is not possible! There have been many knives where my opinion has changed over time. It is not that the knife is bad or anything. Maybe it is not an action or the look that speaks to me. For example I had 3 Chris Reeve Knives and sold 2 of them. They are great knives, but I don't care for the action and am not a huge fan of frame locks. I hear you on the Chinese knives! I have been fine with American companies that have knives produced overseas, but not "pure Chinese" ones. I also like slipjoints and small fixed blades that I make. Small Fixies are starting to really gain pocket time with me.
I’ve been wanting to buy one of these forever. I’m actually interested in this one. The xl is another one I want when it’s finally out
Solid - stick to what ya feel
I have that same High Fin and I absolutely love it. That said, its cool if you dont connect with it. Ive been enjoying alot of WEs lately. Recently got the Attor and im in love with that blade and have a Riff Raff coming in that im excited for. I personally could care less where a knife is made as long as I like it and while I like to support US companies as much as humanely possible, im not fussed about its origins. For me its all about design. Im pumped for the new XL High Fin in gold/black.
Edit: Apon reflection, the thing I like the most about Chinese companies is their ability to give us production variants of customs I would never be able to otherwise afford. Ie my Attor, my Strix (amazing), my Efros Elder, my Merriken Mini Ultimatum etc. Thats where alot of my collecting has been focused recently.
I feel you, It’s definitely a cool knife. Would be a whole lot cooler if it was USA made.
That was a knife that when I first saw it, I really thought I'd end up wanting to get one. But in the end it just somehow ended up one I didn't mind passing on. I think it's got an element of eye-catching style but not enough substance.
Fully understand "connecting" to a knife. I've had cheapo knives that i connect with and end up carrying all the time. I've also had really nice knives that i haven't connected with. It's regardless of price. Cold Steel Tuff-lite, with it's crappy steel, surprisingly wormed it's way into my pocket over and over a few years ago because it just connected. I've got others (Hogue Deka, one of my PM2's) that are great but they just don't make it in the pocket. For me it's got nothing to do whatsoever with country of origin (matter of fact I currently have a gripe with the U.S. manufacturers that i continually support, well some of them) , but the feel, action, way the blade sharpens my carpenter pencil (literally) and other things that are subjective as hell. I don't know until i carry it at work for a few days.
I totally get changing your mind. I’m not patriotic about knives though. I connect with a Chinese knife just as easily as I connect with a USA made knife. With the current pricing and mediocrity of the US made goods, I’m looking at country of origin as the last thing I worry about.
Right on man! Theres something for everyone
It's a free country, you're allowed to change your mind. I've had knives that happened with both ways. Some I liked initially but quickly found annoying issues with and some I disliked but then they grew on me. I love the look of the Highfin but it's too small for my taste, We is releasing the Highfin XL on Dec 16 and I'm thinking about getting one. My own taste in knives has changed several times in the past 5 years, it's all good.
Just ask the knife “can we just be friends” or say “it’s not you, it’s me” or my personal favorite “I just need some time to find myself”
You don’t have to have a UA-cam channel to understand this. If you have a number of nice knives you tend to start to gravitate towards some more than others, including ones I thought were by far my favourite possibly only months before. I still like those knives and sometimes I want to hang on to them anyway (My Hinderers are a good example of this) but in reality it makes more sense to sell or trade them. It’s easy to like a knife a lot but like others even more too, not because they are better but just because there are things that are more to your personal preferences.
For me, buying and selling knives is now about finding half a dozen or so knives that I absolutely love rather than a pile of good knives that I have to choose between. I did go through a point of wanting to collect, but it’s not really what I want to do with my life. Essentially I want to get down to those few knives that I love and just use and enjoy them without worrying about putting wear on them and causing them to lose value when I decide to sell them a few months later - because I’m not going to sell them.
Being an Aussie, an Australian made slipjoint or two will be likely to become a part of my permanent collection. Most of my knives are USA made though.
Bought my most expensive knife so far the other day... had it so hyped up in my head but in hand it just didn't feel all that special. In fact it felt worse than some of my mid tier knives. I can't afford to "collect for the sake of collecting" knives so I'll probably sell it even though it was a grail of sorts for me. You just never know until you handle and sometimes carry something for a bit. I've also had the opposite happen where I didn't have great first impressions of a knife but after carrying overtime fell in love with it.
What knife was it?
I tend to be on a different mind set… I feel like the American knives are the ones that have no soul and the Chinese ones are the ones with personality and soul.
I‘m from Germany and sold all Knives from China. I now buy just USA Made Knives. Same opinion, the China Knives feel all the same.
I have the same feelngs with Civivi and We. I can't connect with them enough to keep them.
Most of the knives I have given the best reviews for are no longer with me because I need the money more than the knife. What I keep is the experience and the memory ❤️
I completely understand about feeling one way about a knife and then feeling like howhum about it later. I have a bunch of knives dwelling in my knife storage that aren't seeing any use anymore.
I've been in the knife hobby for years. There are lots of knives I have liked or want to buy, but then realize I have another knife of 2 that fits in that use category. I don't need 4 or 6:knives in the same category. I have a 3 tier machinest wooden toolbox from grizzly filled to the gills with knives. Then realize I only really carry 20ish knives on rotation. I'm currently down sizing. I love all the knives I have gotten rid of, but ot practical. I think if in the hobby for some time, all knife addicts go through it.
When you say your pocket time is precious I can realte... i think "i wouldn't be caught dead with that." When I have all this nice stuff, I dont want to die with high-fin in my pocket 😂
If your already using a Rosie at work WE knives have no place in your collection. That being said its still a great knife
Haha yes!
Knives come and go just part of the hobby. I’ll never understand the “I don’t sell any of my knives” I’ve seen a lot of people saying lately lol. I’ve had to sell a lot of knives that I really like and I even miss some of them, it is what it is.
But like you said it is hard to feel the connection with China made knives. I will buy them. And I have some that I love. But I never develop a connection with them like I do with my CRKs, Microtechs, MachineWise, Spydies etc.
Even though some Chinese knives have really good fit and finish a lot of it is cookie cutter not in design but the materials and feel: fat carbon, titanium, same detent. lol
Well said!
Happiness is KEY 🔑🤍✌🏼
It's always gonna be your own feelings about a knife.
I have changed my mind about a lot of knives I have!
fun fact for everyone, you can sell knives that you do like. Hopefully for something else you like or love. People are so unrealistic, you can't keep everything and if you could, why would you want to? You're awesome, Dood.
Yes exactly!
It’s funny about the High-Fin because I really wanted one when they first came out, and I did buy one. But I ended up selling it in short order, kind of with the same reasoning.
How dare you need cash you Ogre! 😆 I just put up a Timascus Fenrir and my Frag Ti Kizer Cormorant for sale and yeah it would be great to keep all the knives but bills and Christmas are more important than a knife sitting in my case.
One thing ive noticed is that chinese knives tend to be moments but american made to last. And thats not even national pride, im not american at all lol. It seems to be more of intent in design and manufacture
I would hate to never carry a sharp by design production knife. I wish Reate was in the U.S. I have not handled U.S. knife the felt as high quality. I know they are out there, but I have not spent 700 bucks on a knife yet. Most Reate knives feel so much better than any benchmade or spyderco they are not even in the same ballpark. Idk
Yeah my Sharp By Design mini Evo is one Chinese knife I love and I’ll never get rid of it
You completely make sense, we can only carry so many knives and to dedicate my carry over a great American made knives for a WE knife isn't happening.
Yes exactly!
Fell ya 100%.
It sucks when you buy a knife you wanted but end up not connecting with it. That's how I was with my MBK Rosalinda so I sold it as a black Friday deal hoping it'd go to someone that enjoyed it more. I'm also kind of feeling that way with my Benchmade 943 that I hunted down for a while.
Yeah totally, sometimes it just doesn’t fit
The system has enslaved us ALL Doody. We feel u homey. Nothing has gone right for my family for like three years now I’m starting to feel oppressed 😂😂 seriously tho. 😂
I get it! I have a large collection but 95% of what I carry is american made stuff.
I think its completely fine to change your mind about something, everyone does. In fact, someone who isnt open to changing their mind at all isnt trustworthy to me. At the same time I think its important to realize that the general audience WILL hold a reviewer to a completely different standard than "regular" people, and that changing ones mind too often as a public figure in a relatively small community will most likely make people question those opinions to begin with. Whether or not one thinks its right for it to be this way is kinda irrelevant, its still a thing if that makes sense.
I think the best way to deal with it is just transparency, like when you said in this video that sometimes you need the money more than the knife. Thats very justifiable and relatable to me at least.
It’s a real good looking piece. I have the same one. I’m waiting for the XL version. I understand completely that you’re not feeling it anymore. 👍🏻✌🏻
I’ll trade you my Kunwu Pulsar (diamond Ti) w/ aftermarket Kunwu milled clip for that High Fin
I want the WMK xl version. I sold all my American made knives for Chinese. I just like kizer Kansept Vosteed and kubey designs better. Have some civivi never splurged on a WE
Right on man!
I’m partial to my blue collar Spyderco’s. I hated them for the longest time, buuuut they’re hard use engineering marvels….USA to boot…Chinese made/American designed knives are too materialistic…
Why are you so patriotic fella, It looks class , however WE knives seem really expensive from what i have seen, but kizer, kunwu and vorsteed are my fav knife designers(as good as WE and half the price, alongside A Wrights current custom designer and the rest of the sheffield gang... as you can tell I am British, so yes i kinda get your point...
Its yours- you can always change your mind
Since nobody else will even respond will u please try to get a bnb raven and review it? As u kno they have them in stock locally. Nvr heard of them but seem ok but possibly made in Pakistan? Would love a real knife person’s opinion abt the brand. They aren’t expensive per se. the raven and this Damascus wood inlay one that I’m looking at abt both 99$. Maybe they would send u a cpl who knows. They are sold all the sudden at Blaine’s farm and fleet fyi so they must have some sorta influence or something.
How does a ZT, Benchmade or a US Spyderco have more soul than a WE knife? All of them are mass producing knives. I mean if you don’t connect with a knife, that’s fine, I know the feeling. And I understand if an American preferably buys American made, but to say a knife has more soul just because it’s American made? Idk.
To me it does. Maybe it doesn’t to you. That’s fine
You don't have to explain. If you don't feel it, ditch it.
A measure of intelligence is the ability to change
100%
I tend to wait wait on buying a knife after watching all of the reviews and then go back to you guys and ask if you still have it after 3 months.
Jason from Knife Dope buys and sells most of his knives 2 or 3 times and I kinda rate the knife as a good buy if he buys it 3 times! 😂
Oh man I completely get this
Well Dood, it was your first impressions. It happens, all your friends on here understand that.
I agree... Don't bother with that Chyna crap...!!!
Oh my god why are you doing this?!?! Lol jk Dood. I appreciate you showing the human side of knife reviewing!
As long as you don’t have 77 knives in your top 10 I’m cool with you changing your mind.
My pocket time is precious!😆so true, with so many great knives, why carry the just ok?
Yes!
@@doodysdaggersQsp hedgehog knife of the year like you said before 😊
Subscription goes out Greetings from Germany. What do you actually have to do with Germanic mythology? Do you have German ancestors? Personal question from German to German?
My ancestors are from Finland
I think a lot of people r just interested in what ur carrying and y. So naturally, when u sell a knife, u said u liked there will be questions as to y u sold it. I would take it as a compliment that people are interested in ur opinions enough to want to know the y behind it. Like u said people's opinions and taste change I can love something one min but then after I really carry it and use it I'm like nah this isn't for me and so when ur as big as u r people just want know what's going on with u that's all, and if a comment does rub u the wrong way u just heart it and don't reply. It usually aggravates the type of people that leave negative comments more when u don't give them the attention they r looking for. I should know. 😅
One blade for the rest of your life
Chinese knifes are temp
You look really cold. It's 65 in Houston...
Yeah it’s been like 35 in the mornings
I remember you saying not to long ago that you were not going to review Chinese knives anymore.
Then I see Chinese knives still being on your channel. As much as I agree with you about American knives being far better, they can’t come close to value you get from Chinese knives. The majority of Americans can’t afford American made knives and you would lose some beginner knife collectors. If you’re going to take Chinese knives away from your channel just do it and stop talking about it.
No I don’t believe I ever said that.
Doesn’t that just mean you’re not waiting long enough to give an actual review?
I do unboxings where I do initial impressions. A review video would be a different thing, usually after owning the knife for about a month
I'm in the same boat Doody. It's a difficult feeling to define but you explained it well. It takes a special design, from a Chinese company, for me to even think about buying it anymore.
This is why u cant trust his reviews. This guy will definitely lie for money. At least hes honest about that part. He said the qsp hedgehog was the best at one point
Can't trust whose reviews?
@workinhard23 Watch the video dmbass
@@workinhard23Did you watch the whole video Einstein?