I'm responsible for enforcement of club show rules for vendors at our twice a year shows. Mass produced low quality and misleading knives are prohibitions.
Be warned that there is a lot of "too good to be true" stuff out there.
I make a practice of trying to keep up with the state of the 'art'.
I had to educate two vendors about their knives, IOW I outed them, and ask them to remove the misleadingly marketed Pakistani knives from their tables.
The Bigcat Roar "damascus" knives took me a moment to identify as not USA handmade knives from a few feet away, but standing at the table it was clear to me. Looking at the sheaths made it apparent from the summer camp craft wallet plastic look what they exhibited. The cheap price was the three alarm wail that cinched it before I even went to the internet.
Do not buy this junk and know that any "handmade damascus" knife under $200 is suspect.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=bigcat+roar+knives&_trksid=p4432023.m4084.l1313
Be warned that there is a lot of "too good to be true" stuff out there.
I make a practice of trying to keep up with the state of the 'art'.
I had to educate two vendors about their knives, IOW I outed them, and ask them to remove the misleadingly marketed Pakistani knives from their tables.
The Bigcat Roar "damascus" knives took me a moment to identify as not USA handmade knives from a few feet away, but standing at the table it was clear to me. Looking at the sheaths made it apparent from the summer camp craft wallet plastic look what they exhibited. The cheap price was the three alarm wail that cinched it before I even went to the internet.
Do not buy this junk and know that any "handmade damascus" knife under $200 is suspect.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=bigcat+roar+knives&_trksid=p4432023.m4084.l1313
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