Which knife company has the coolest packaging?

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One thing that always gets me excited when I receive a new knife in the mail is seeing how artistic and well thought out the company's packaging is. The knife itself is obviously the main part that matters, but it's cool to see when a maker puts effort into their packaging to draw in the customer's interest.

A few that have stood out to me are Brous Blades and Medford with those nice, hard plastic cases with the logo printed on the top. Curious to know which companies you guys think have the coolest packaging. Thanks!
 
Chris Reeve is quite nice. Personally I like CKF and Reate a lot, the pouches and nice simple, and I like the cards that come with the CKF knives but even more importantly they come with spare parts. (I know I know, it's kind of a cop out due to their limited warranty)
 
b00n said:
Chris Reeve is quite nice. Personally I like CKF and Reate a lot, the pouches and nice simple, and I like the cards that come with the CKF knives but even more importantly they come with spare parts. (I know I know, it's kind of a cop out due to their limited warranty)
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Theres a company called maxace that provides an entire extra set of hardware with their balisongs including 4 sets of ceramic bearings and a second trainer blade. Thought that was pretty cool. Didn't know anyone else did that
 
stonproject said:
Theres a company called maxace that provides an entire extra set of hardware with their balisongs including 4 sets of ceramic bearings and a second trainer blade. Thought that was pretty cool. Didn't know anyone else did that
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CKF includes a set of bearings, scale screws, washers (to go between the bearings and Ti), a space lockbar insirt too, the Morrf 5 even came with a spare (milled) clip. Again, CKF only does a 1 Year Warranty, I think you're SOL if something happens afterwards. On one hand it's nice that you have the parts to fix stuff yourself after the warranty is up, but on the other hand, depending on the issue those parts won't help all that much. And of course it's in part because they don't have any long running models, they do a few hundred of a model for about a year in batches, then move on. So asking them for a screw for a 3 year old model, nope. Pros and Cons I guess.
 
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Or this unknown maker:

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I must say that the packaging doesn't intereste me much. Whatever I buy, I use. So I don't think about keeping the resale value (which includes keeping the boxes intact). I keep them for a while, but they are the first thing to go when I need to do general clean up at home.
 
I like nice packaging/presentation with my knives. I think Chris Reeve does a great job.
 
Reate and the brands that use reate, like Chaves, Todd Begg Knives, etc. Massdrop knives made by WE generally have fantastic packaging for the price, as well as Civivi and WE in general
 
As said above, definitely Chris Reeve. The DoB card, tool, cloth, lube and (on other than basic models) leather slip pocket sheath are hard to argue with.

On the other end of the scale, I have to tip my hat to Spyderco, too. They don’t waste one tenth of one red cent on packaging and I salute that. That’s effective cost containment and I dislike paying for fancy closet shelf filler when I buy modestly priced, “working class” (like me) knives.

IMO, packaging (beyond the level of preventing damage to the knife and not regarding collector-level custom knives) is nothing more than feel-good eye/ego candy if it doesn’t include tools, lube, a cloth and maybe spare parts. When I’m carrying/using a knife, the quality of the original packaging is immaterial. The knife itself is what really counts.
 
I'm pretty old school, so I like when a hard paper box is the packaging. I detest see through plastic types (like those clamshells). Kabar, Ontario, GEC, are some examples of what I like to see them come to me in. My hobby is in collecting mostly traditional fixed and folding knives, and traditional packaging adds to that traditional feel of my purchases :)
 
Not experienced with Chris Reeve knives packaging but the knives Ive seen are horribly ugly and bland. Same with ZT.


BRS has good packaging. They upgraded their packaging from what it was. And IMO it's only because it's $300 plus dollar knives that aren't really worth it. It's basically a monopoly on a niche market. But you get a nice zippered case and cloth and some coin that a marketing gimmick for paying $400 for their balisong.

I've always been a fan of cold steel boxes. But now they are switching to clamshell too.
 
I love that all my Olamic Tactical knives have come in a zippered padded case with a decal, and their pivot tool (shaped like the Olamic logo).
 
Massdrop Gent came with the nicest packaging I’ve experienced.
What a waste of money.
 
WE and Reate have some pretty cool pouches. You get a cloth and an ID card for the knife and such.
 
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