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Well...really, after owning innumerable actual Italian switchblades in the past, and quite a few otfs from Italy as well...it’s this very reason why the origin of this knife really matters little to me. Why? Well, with the exception of the leverletto, the general overall quality of Italian switchbla...

Shouldn’t really speak of benchmade and microtech as if they’re equivalent in build quality, as they most definitely are not, at least in their otf knives. Sad to say...but the design and function of the internals on this Mago far surpasses the abortion benchmade came up with for the Infidel. I own ...

Bill...exactly my point. Earlier in this thread, someone else posted that these were available on dhgate..as to support their Chinese origin. What I said concerning benchmade and microtech..was to possibly illustrate that these could possibly be counterfeited as well. Also, as I said in my original ...

A couple of thoughts on the origin debate: First of all, the availability of like knives on dhgate proves nothing, as benchmade, microtech, et al are available as well. Secondly, if these are actually from china(and not Italy), that may be a boon...as anyone with any background collecting Italian st...

To start with...I went ahead and ordered one of these from grindworx...as I don’t trust DHgate any longer. I vowed that if I was satisfied with the build quality enough..I was going to rescale it in stag, and polish it up a bit. I own otfs of all types, from cheapo Italian crap, to one of Paul Panak...