LiamLynch
Well-Known Member
I don't know if this is the right place but today I went into Switzerland into a knife shop. They were selling some half decent knives (some kind of damasteel kitchen knife) but what I noticed apart from all the SAKs was that they were selling mostly hunting knives, unmarked, uncontoured handles, no pins and the bolsters had the most obvious halos around the pins I had ever seen. These were being sold for 490 Swiss francs, I don't know quite how much that is but I think it is over £300. It got me thinking, why are these unmarked unbranded knives selling for this much when even a decent branded knife is cheaper? Why are handmade knives going for a few hundred dollars when this junk is selling for so much? It isn't like these knives had any advertising at all as they were completely blank. I came up with no explanation so what do you guys think?