I hear a lot about how the Benchmade knife is better than the Jaguar knife. I am sure the current production model is better, it also cost quite a bit more.
The question is, why does Benchmade only offer one model of Balisong Knife right now? One reason they give, is because of quality control and cost.
So from what I can tell, Jaguar ripped off the benchmade design, and pretty much ran them out of the balisong business, because people were not willing to pay the higher prices for the better knife.
This does not seem to be true with the switchblade collectors, or knife collectors in general, because Benchmade still makes a full line of those kinds of knifes.
In general, even when a knife company goes out of business, someone else will buy their name and continue to make the knives.
I hear a lot of talk about how benchmade is best and that is what everyone should buy. But the proof is in the pudding. If the average person was buying benchmade instead of Jaguar, then Benchmade would still be making money and still be making butterfly knifes.
Also, if people were really interested in quality, we would not be flooded with all of the junk knives out of China right now. The average person seems to be superficial, only interested in outward appearance, without much regard for how durable a item is or how well it is going to hold up.
We live in a disposable society, where you use it up and throw it away and go out to buy a new one. It use to be not so very long ago you would buy something to last a life time. But you do not see much of that anymore. Thanks, JohnR7
The question is, why does Benchmade only offer one model of Balisong Knife right now? One reason they give, is because of quality control and cost.
So from what I can tell, Jaguar ripped off the benchmade design, and pretty much ran them out of the balisong business, because people were not willing to pay the higher prices for the better knife.
This does not seem to be true with the switchblade collectors, or knife collectors in general, because Benchmade still makes a full line of those kinds of knifes.
In general, even when a knife company goes out of business, someone else will buy their name and continue to make the knives.
I hear a lot of talk about how benchmade is best and that is what everyone should buy. But the proof is in the pudding. If the average person was buying benchmade instead of Jaguar, then Benchmade would still be making money and still be making butterfly knifes.
Also, if people were really interested in quality, we would not be flooded with all of the junk knives out of China right now. The average person seems to be superficial, only interested in outward appearance, without much regard for how durable a item is or how well it is going to hold up.
We live in a disposable society, where you use it up and throw it away and go out to buy a new one. It use to be not so very long ago you would buy something to last a life time. But you do not see much of that anymore. Thanks, JohnR7
