The Sheffield England knife trade died before I was born. There is little left of it in Soliningin and Seki City. Case probably makes the most qualify folders on earth in Lancaster Pennsylvania.Very nice knives, and I completely understand the attraction to well made utilitarian devices. These are very nice. But as to your puzzlement "the Chinese have figured out a way to sell some article related to knives at such a low price I cannot see how it’s possible", I'm pretty sure that you know the answer. It's why I now avoid, whenever possible, buying any Chinese products. I'm just glad that I bought those Chinese counterfeit DuPont lighters already!
I have my grandfather’s last Hammer Brand knife. It has a stamped bolster, and hollow plastic handles. Even Pakistan knives are better today.
I dug out a large JP Miller custom skinner I bought for $20 in 1993 that would cost at least $500 to replace today, and finally sharpened it to a razor’s edge from pommel to tip with my $15 Chinese Diamond rod sharpener. Most of Miller knives are 1095 but this one is some kind of incredibly hard tool steel, likely D2.
An Englishman, a German, a Japanese or an American could make the new higher end Chinese cutlery. They used to.
But there’s really no market for it at the price they had to charge.
These gadgets would not get made, except in China.
And thy have to pay more to the craftsman who make these. That part of human nature never changes.
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