Smith & Wesson 8in High Carbon S.S. Folding Knife with 3.3in Drop Point Blade and S.S. with G-10 Inlay Handle for Outdoor, Tactical, Survival and EDC

This is probably not suitable for everything it's advertised as. My husband and I have debated the glass breaker and whether it would work. In an absolute emergency we agreed it might break windows meant to break more easily for safety but probably not that quickly and only if hit just right. I didn't even realize the small angled blade was for a seatbelt. There is no way. It will cut lots of thin and small objects. Especially line, string, or very small gauge wire that is easier to hook and pull than try to provide tension while bending it over the blade. For something as thick as a seatbelt you'd definitely be better off relying on the serrated blade to rip through it rather than slice easily. Not knowing anything about what the knife was advertised for when I got my first one it is absolutely perfect for my myriad of uses.I was gifted one of these knives probably at least 6 years ago. It replaced some $10-$20 Buck Knives I'd bought as a teenager/early 20s. I misplaced it a few years ago and my husband got me a 2nd one from this listing. I found the old one after a few months. I can't tell them apart after using the new one for a couple years. The older one is probably the one with the slightly loosening thumb screw (I should tighten that) and that has some type of gritty material left in it. I probably stabbed into a bag of something and didn't fully wipe it off or dropped it while doing outdoor work and just stuck it back on my pocket.I promptly put aside all other pocket knives I had and carry these around every single day since I got my original one. The first thing I loved was how easily it opened and yet stayed open. That was the main reason I wanted an exact replacement to be sure it was as easy and quick to use. No more having to grab my knife with 2 hands to open it and the clip slides onto and off of jeans, cargo pants, or even the waist band of some pants that have zip up pockets easily. 90% of the time it stays there. Occasionally because I keep it in my pocket with the clip on the outside it is long enough that if not placed right and wearing women specific pants with the usual shallower pockets it will hit my leg when crouching or bending over and get shoved off my pocket. Otherwise I don't notice it most of the time and find myself brushing my pocket with my hand while walking to be sure I didn't forget it somewhere. I pull it out so many times a week and often several times a day that it's a quick motion without looking to get it out and then put it back.I was walking out of the pet store with a treat for the dog we'd taken with us and it required cutting the end off the roll to open. Without thinking or changing my stride I pulled my knife from my pocket and flicked it open in a single, smooth movement before I even finished lifting it up to the dog treat in my other hand. I realized I'd just pulled out a fairly large blade when a person walking at us to go through the door same door suddenly hesitated. I had similar happen when we were trying to find good boards at the hardware store for a project and there weren't enough not still tied in bundles. The employee coming over to help stopped sharply for a brief moment because in the time it took me to register someone was coming over I already had the knife no one notices me carrying out, open, and ready to slide under the plastic band. It's just so easy to casually pull these knives off my pocket practically already open that I don't think about the fact I'm standing in public and it's near the maximum size allowed for general carry in some cities around here.Some have said you can adjust how easily it opens by tightening or loosening a screw. I had no reason to. There is no one else except my husband that is going to end up using one of my knives without me handing it to them and it's the perfect tension for me to open easily. Both remain completely locked when open no matter what I've done with them.I always keep my fingernails very short so I frequently can't lift edges of things or even take the paper or foil top off a new bottle of something. I've used these knives for literally everything and anything. Cut cardboard, mason line, thin wire, stabbed and sliced open bags of all sorts of animal feed, fertilizer, potting soil, dog treats...... Plastic packaging, stabbing holes in seals on containers from food/drink to strong chemical solvents. I've had them on me when wading in lakes or streams with the dogs. I've gotten mud, sand, compost, food, and everything else on them. Occasional use of the back of the tip as a screwdriver for easy to turn screws or locking/unlocking bolts on other tools and household objects like the vacuums.Unless I'm going to use it cut food I never fully clean them or and have never lubricated or oiled them any. I wipe most of any debris or moisture off them on my pant leg, the bag I opened, or other nearby objects and then close it and put it in my pocket. Never had a spot of rust.The handle fits even my smaller hands perfectly and both the older and newer one are equally durable material. I have no idea what someone is talking about with a paint coating on anything. The metal on the ends and all other parts is slightly lighter than the blade but obviously just smooth metal with no coating unless it's galvanized or similar. The black center is a thinner metal section on the inside covered over in solid, single pieces of a rough, hard plastic of some type with no coating on it. Neither have separated, cracked, or chipped anywhere on the handles. No screw has ever fully come out or rapidly loosened. Over years one might loosen slightly but after forgetting it for several more days/weeks it's still there and a brief turn of a screwdriver makes it completely stable again.Looking at both blades I realized there isn't even a bur anywhere on them. No dents or raised areas along the edge at all. My equivalent price Buck knives got little nicks in the blade edge within 6months. Years of use and these do not. The older one is also so close in sharpness as the newer one I couldn't tell the difference without having both to test out and compare and I've never sharpened them. They don't really dull from their factory edge.However, they don't come particularly sharp. The serrated section is often necessary for tougher or thicker material and it's probably not going to make a perfectly smooth cut through a sheet of paper right out of the box. If you put a sharper edge on then it may be at risk of easier damage and more maintenance than if left as is. It's is still far sharper than most pocket knives I handled growing up on a farm. I cut myself far more often with those dull little blades including down to the bone on the back of my left thumb. I can't even remember any time I've cut myself with these knives. I am a little smarter about it with experience but they also are sharp enough they don't require working the tip into something first, sawing at it numerous times, or slip right off the surface without managing to cut into it.I have to wonder if some people aren't getting some type of knockoffs or a different manufacturing source. I have come across companies using 2 different locations to manufacture their products and one using slight differences in materials from the other due to what is more readily available in that area. Most often when a company uses different countries to manufacture their products for more convenient supply worldwide or as a backup source if one can't fulfill all demand. I don't know if that's the case here but sometimes even when something is being sold directly from the same company it can vary depending which manufacturing plant it came out of. With an Amazon listing and sometimes different sellers using the same listing you can end up with products from a wide variety of sources and still be recognized as produced by the same company. It can help to check the "fulfilled by" prior to ordering things to know if it's the main company, a secondary seller, or a mysterious source sitting around in an amazon warehouse with no further info who provided it for amazon to fulfill. With some things it doesn't matter but numerous times now I've ended up finding it extremely important to make sure an item is coming from or not from a specific source.

I purchased this after seeing my nephew with a Tac-Force knife, and realizing how handy it would be to have one of these emergency first-response knives in case of an accident or my daughter locking herself in the car. I think originally this knife was over $30, and the Amazon price was $26, and the day I purchased this there was a lightning deal on a Gerber Bear-Grylls tool, but it turned out that it wasn't the Ultimate Survival Knife (which is what I had hoped to get.) I had this on my wish list prior to that, and the only thing I didn't like about this compared to the others was this didn't have the emergency whistle, lanyard, sheath with built-in sharpening stone, or fire starter like the Ultimate Survival Knife...and it didn't have spring-assisted open like the Tac-Forces. However; I popped over to my wish list, and saw that the price had gone down to around $13, so I immediately ordered this with the Pocket-Pal sharpener, and my total was still just over $20...so I added a couple humidifier packs for my humidor (fulfilled by Amazon for free shipping,) and just waited for the arrival.) When I got the knife I was more than pleased. The construction and quality of the blade and sharpness were beyond my expectations. I immediately banged the glass breaker into my solid-wood coffee table my wife received as a gift from her grandmother, and there was no give anywhere on the knife. There's a little allen or hex-wrench twist on the side to adjust tension on the blade to make it easier or harder to flip open, but it arrived at just the perfect tension for me (too hard for my 4-year-old daughter to flip open but easy enough for me to snap open with one thumb.) This knife is a work of art, and I'm sure it will be handy in any emergency situation and good for self-defense in case of a home invasion. Also, in retrospect, I'm glad that its not a spring-assist open; that's just one more thing that WILL eventually break, making the knife defective and (at least to me,) annoying. I am completely happy with this purchase, and considering the quality of the knife, AMAZED at the low price. I mean really; a Smith & Wesson knife for right around $13...lol, where else but Amazon? Thanks again, Amazon. One more thing, Indiana just signed an agreement to be the 4th state to start charging taxes on Amazon purchases beginning in 2014. My brother is more than livid about the whole issue, and I'm not pleased about it myself, but if you continue to offer such great deals compared to local store shopping, I'll be more than happy to pay taxes on purchases through your website; it will still be an amazing deal compared to walking into the local Walmart to purchase the same things for $20-$30 more.

Auf der Suche nach einem Geschenk für einen Mann, "der alles hat" und gern draußen in der Natur ist, bin ich auf dieses Messer gestoßen. Es hat spontan Begeisterungsstürme ausgelöst. Und die Qualität ist laut dem Beschenkten top.

Buenísima navajA. A muy buen precio

Einfach gut, Supper verarbeitet keine Grate oder etwas. Liegt sehr gut in der Hand

Coltello di spessore,si presenta bene,satinato e apparentemente robusto...corposo|L'unica nota stonata Smith and wesson...made in china!!!Vedremo nel tempo robustezza e filo.Rinnovo e aggiungo info a distanza di tempo su questo prodotto...Fa il suo sporco lavoro senza una minima scalfitura o punta di ruggine...e ci ho fatto.di tutto...a mare pulendo pesce..in campagna tagliando di tutto e campeggio....Basta averne cura e pulirlo dopo ogni utilizzo.CONSIGLIATISSIMO

Sehr sehr gut nur gurtelschneider kann ein bisschen Schärfe sein