Knives from Pakistan

[bryson123]

Has anyone purchased knifes from Pakistan? If so, how would you rate the quality and transaction?
Thanks.

[sammy the blade]

I've had a couple cheap ones and they were a little crude but they worked well and were tight.

[bryson123]

But no where near the quality of some of the Italian makers?
However Italy can be expensive.

[whippersnapper]

Bryson, you need to explain yourself a little better. Are you talking about buying something cheap made in Pakistan and sold here (or wherever you live)?. Or are you asking about buying a Pakistan custom knife directly from a maker there?

[bryson123]

Buying a custom knife from Pakistan as compared to a custom one from Italy. Didn't want to mention any specific makers.

[whippersnapper]

Thank you for making things more clear, although it seems to me like you would get better answers mentioning individual maker(s). To my knowledge there are no rules about that.

Specific transaction details about how to get something from one place to another you have to be careful discussing on the public forum--but nobody knows what is discussed through the private message function.

Good luck and I hope you get some answers.

[bryson123]

Thanks. I really like this forum.

[LOTFK]

It really depends on where you're sourcing the knives from in Pakistan. There are folks there who are putting out "volume" of cheap Damascus blades where the edges will not cut butter lol. And then you have some seriously talented makers who do a good leaf spring auto. As long as they're using good steel on the sere pins that hold back the blade when closed these aren't bad and some are great in fact. People used to dump on Chinese made blades at one time and now there are companies who are exalted at every Blade Show such as Two Sun, Maxace etc. It's not necessarily Where you get them from but WHO you get them from in my opinion