Hello and welcome back to Switch and Lever!
So, to make a long story short, I got a knife from a company in China called (((BEEP)))
for the purpose of doing a review.
After having a look at the knife, and doing some research, I simply cannot bring myself
to do a review of it, nor to spend any more time reviewing low quality chinese knockoffs,
but more on that later.
But to humor you and do a super quick overview.
The "brand", as much as it can be called a brand, is Piranha.
Looking at the knife it's a simple folding pocket knife, with a big finger hole in the
front, a big clip on the backside and a second serrated blade folding out on the opposite
side.
The blades fold anything but smoothly, almost like there is sand on the bearing surfaces.
Looking a bit closer at the knife it kind of reminds me of something.
Could it be?...Yep, it's essentially a really bad copy of a Gerber Mini-Remix 2.
The Gerber knife is currently discontinued, but looking at pictures online it's easy to
see the extreme difference in build quality.
Anyhow, enough negativity, let's take a trip through the workshop, take the knife apart
and strip it down, and see if we can do something to make this trainwreck into something better,
shall we?
There we are, a spruced up knife, with wooden scales and a much nicer grip comfort.
With a bit of cleaning and lubing the blade slides out much easier as well.
Even though I can't quite wrap my head around the usefulness of the hole, it is still a
fun feature to twiddle the knife around with.
The wood used is curly birch, and just coated with a simple matte polyurethan varnish.
But I digress, let's move on to the most important test, cutting paper.
Yeah, no...
You can definitely dress up a pig, even take it
to the dance, but try cutting paper with a dull knife and you'll still fail.
The point is, if the steel of the knife blade is crap, it doesn't matter how much you work
on the rest of the knife.
Get a good proper knife one to begin with instead.
I don't have a problem with chinese merchandise per say, but when you buy something for pennies
on the dollar, you should expect a quality to go along with the price that will just
end up in the trash before long.
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