Survival Knife

[sneakerd]

Are you guys with the Seal Pups happy with the Taiwan steel? I see the early ones can be had at a premium, and they were made in Seki City.

[StagLefty]

Are you guys with the Seal Pups happy with the Taiwan steel? I see the early ones can be had at a premium, and they were made in Seki City.

I can't speak on Seal Pups but if I remember correctly some Spyderco blades used to be stamped Seki City and seemed to be a good blade.

[sneakerd]

I did watch some of those Utube vids on these various knives- they can be helpful but- there are many that love the CS SRK- even though the handle comes loose after a while. That would drive me nuts.

[mcantar18c]

Are you guys with the Seal Pups happy with the Taiwan steel? I see the early ones can be had at a premium, and they were made in Seki City.

Mine is an early one from Seki.... never really realized it was special till now.

[2008f450]

Seki city is in Japan and known for making really good knives. I have several, they hold an edge wonderfully and take some pretty rough use. As far as Cols Steel SRKs loosing the handle. I have 2 and havent had the problem. 1 of them gets used pretty hard ona regular basis. Maybe I have been lucky.

[sneakerd]

I also found Scrapyard Knives on the internet, looks like some cool, high quality stuff fairly priced.

[sneakerd]

Fairly priced -IF- the prices on their site are current. I checked ebay and there are 2 "SOD" knives posted for sale at twice the price shown at the Scrapyard site.

[sneakerd]

Ouch. Customer service at Scrapyard leaves something to be desired. Their website shows quite a few knives for sale, types, prices, etc. Remember these are not $400 and up customs, these are basically $100 and some change knives. When I inquired via email as to the availability of a knife shown and to verify price- I was told the following virtually word for word- we put a few knives up on the order page for 4-8 weeks, when they're gone we take them down and they may never be available again. We only have blah and blah avail at this time. Thank you.
Have a nice day Scrapyard and goodbye. (from me)

[ray1970]