Crkt M16-03KS

[shane45-1911]

Now, you know that's not true.

We'll never know, will we?

Oh, it's true. And I DO know.

 

[Chronovore]

Forget CRKT. I've owned them in the past and the jokes in this thread are well-deserved. They were more competitive a decade ago and seem to fall farther and farther behind with each passing year. Now there are just too many brands offering much better quality at much more competitive prices.

I don't know if you are still looking, but here are the product pages for Sencut and Civivi, the entry-level and mid-tier brands for WE. Note that these are the company sites. Street prices tend to be lower, sometimes significantly but not always. They'll have a Black Friday sale coming up but it's definitely worth shopping around at places like Knife Center, BladeHQ, etc. if you like one of these models. The jump in quality just to one of the $40ish Sencut models is astronomical.

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www.sencut.com

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All Products - CIVIVI

www.civivi.com

 

[ShaiHulud]

Forget CRKT. I've owned them in the past and the jokes in this thread are well-deserved. They were more competitive a decade ago and seem to fall farther and farther behind with each passing year. Now there are just too many brands offering much better quality at much more competitive prices.

I don't know if you are still looking, but here are the product pages for Sencut and Civivi, the entry-level and mid-tier brands for WE. Note that these are the company sites. Street prices tend to be lower, sometimes significantly but not always. They'll have a Black Friday sale coming up but it's definitely worth shopping around at places like Knife Center, BladeHQ, etc. if you like one of these models. The jump in quality just to one of the $40ish Sencut models is astronomical.

All Products

www.sencut.com

All Products

All Products - CIVIVI

www.civivi.com

I have this knife in my kitchen, I don't really remember where it came from, my working theory is that it waa originally here and they built the house around it, it's some kind of mystery steel stamped China, or was, but half the letters faded, anyway this knife has been through it all, used it to cut wood material from the cutting board, through frozen meat, cool meat, hot meat, frozen food in general, there's a small chip that I can't really work out near the tip and I have a million reasons to toss it but I don't, cause it's not code red and or a big deal. Point is, I have no knowledge about this thrift store bargain bin POS yet it is a true champ, and worker, with that being said crkt m16 line is fine, my dad found one while hiking and used it on ferro rods, used the tip as a screwdriver, pryed some with it, and it put up with lots of abuse, even mine did, not going to list everything I did to it, eventually gave it away, 20 bucks at Walmart, it was a trooper. If you don't like crkt, that's fine, but I personally have no complaints [End rant]

 

[Chronovore]

I have this knife in my kitchen, I don't really remember where it came from, my working theory is that it waa originally here and they built the house around it, it's some kind of mystery steel stamped China, or was, but half the letters faded, anyway this knife has been through it all, used it to cut wood material from the cutting board, through frozen meat, cool meat, hot meat, frozen food in general, there's a small chip that I can't really work out near the tip and I have a million reasons to toss it but I don't, cause it's not code red and or a big deal. Point is, I have no knowledge about this thrift store bargain bin POS yet it is a true champ, and worker, with that being said crkt m16 line is fine, my dad found one while hiking and used it on ferro rods, used the tip as a screwdriver, pryed some with it, and it put up with lots of abuse, even mine did, not going to list everything I did to it, eventually gave it away, 20 bucks at Walmart, it was a trooper. If you don't like crkt, that's fine, but I personally have no complaints [End rant]

I'm sure I could do a lot with a $5 Ozark Trail in 3Cr13 from Walmart. That wouldn't make it a good knife or worthy of recommendation. If anything, such a recommendation would be widely derided here.

CRKT doesn't have their knives produced for them in isolation. They do it in a market that is rich with other options. Evaluating the quality of their knives means evaluating them relative to the competition. Doing that just at the Walmart knife counter, they might not look so bad. Expanding our scope to include what is available online, they become laughably bad.

 

[ShaiHulud]

Got my crkt m16 03KS, so far carved up some old seasoned pepper wood, a door stopper (don't ask) and other tasks, it may not be a Dew Hara custom or a Medford but it works well enough
I personally have no complaints
It's a 43 dollar knife so for that price it's wonderful