I ain't spending $200.00 on a SOG. I went to Sportsman Warehouse to get an Seal XR and the jimping all around the handle made it feel like shit. I bought a ZT instead.

@@mistersmith3986 The Seal XR is a baddass well made knife. You must have soft girly hands.

Benchmade also is going crazy with pricing

All of these companies are a little high

@mister smith have it and love it.. I just smoothed the jimping around with sandpaper and it's one of my favorite folders together with benchmade adamas and spyderco military..

My sentiments exactly. They used to produce a great value high quality line, now they're selling crap at premium pricing. Don't worry. It'll bite them in the Arse sooner than later.

Some are good. It is an easy way to get your knife open when working and don't want to flick your knife in a cramped space..... but I said the same thing, even time stamped it too 😆 so yea a good non assisted knife is easy better for most of us. Springs feel a little gimmicky.

The only benefit to the assisted knives is that some states still restrict autos. People want what they cant have and assisted gives a legal substitute. Thankfully, my state got rid of those laws not too long ago. After actually getting what I wanted (an auto for EDC), the novelty wore off and now I carry a manual ball bearing. Funny how that works.

Well those guys got fired i guess

@@mattrc77 yeah I remember! Kinda stupid too how they changed the logo to have the entire acronym. When I think of SOG I think of super secret special forces not crap that loudly spells it out in front of everybody!

I just picked up a Spyderco Para 2 in S45vn for 189. 350 for aluminum and S35vn is nuts.

But it’s precissssiiiooonnn

I have learned that in the knife community 'gentleman' means: I spend more money than value received. If a knife has that gentleman labe then it's going for premium price for those upity boys.

@@charlessalmond7076 I thought $300 for my Benchmade presidio 2 auto with aluminum scales and a cpm m4 blade was expensive...are any of these SOG knives even US made?

They make their money through a thing called excessive markup. That $300 "premium" knife in the beginning is made up of mediocre materials but demanding a premium price point. When you look at it from a materials standpoint, there's less than $70 in materials. For that price I expect Ti handles, Skiff bearings and Elmax or Magnacut.

Even with titanium $300 is still too pricey

Real men carry fixed blades.

The Pillar and Seal Pup are pretty good knives!

GSM recouping that investment with their pricing.

well people begged every company for years for all deep carry so we reap what we sow

Why wouldn’t you want it to be a deep carry? Genuinely asking, I find they work great and the knife doesn’t get caught on everything as much.

@@KimballPrecisionRifles In my line of work, if I need my knife, I need it immediately. Deep carry puts the knife in a position that it’s harder for me to get to it. I don’t mind having a bit of handle sticking out of my pocket. It makes it easy to grab the knife.

@@FriedPi-mc5yt there is a reason knive’s has a little hole at the butt end. Check it out. You might find it useful. Also check out the pocket clips on some of Hogue’s autos. Ballista has a rlly nice clip with jimping.

@@PatelPresh I don’t like lanyards.

I wish they would make knives in Seki Japan again!

@@ELVendedor5000 EXACTLY, those were amazing

I like assisted knives and know others that do. How big was your sample size in your poll?

@@davidgarrett5671 Hate to break it to you bud, but real knife enthusiasts, aka the target audience that SOG is attempting to cater too, do not mess with anything assisted. That's the truth, assisted died back in 2015 after the community realized that company's have finally perfected their detents on manual knives. Then throw in the fact that ball bearing pivots added a whole new dimension to the closing action with free falling blades, and assisted knives became as sought after as HIV in the 90's. Gerber, Kershaw and CRKT literally come out with 100's of new assisted knives each year; more then enough for the like 8 assisted die hards that are left. SOG dug themselves outta that niche over a long period, only to revert back to the same designs that killed their brand reputation to begin with. Hence why they went bankrupt and got bought out by the brand on this guys shirt.

@@wes.killed.it.5511 Well,I guess I can’t be a knife guy. Thanks for telling me. And how long did it take you to survey all the knife buyers in the world? Guess Ken Onion isn’t a knife guy either.

@@wes.killed.it.5511 you have no idea what you are talking about. I have contacts with a few companies in the industry, and the reason they still make assisted knives is because they don’t cater to the “knife community” as much as they do the average person. The knife community makes up maybe 20% or sales. All the complaining from the knife bros falls on deaf ears until a company will occasionally throw a bone to the 20%

I really like the new line up 👍. I didn't think I was going to like their releases this year, I'm happy to be wrong on that👍. In my opinion if anyone lost their way this year it's ColdSteel😔🤷. That's probably not a big surprise to anyone though 🤷.

They used to make cool, cheaply built knives. Now they have improved quality,,,, but have lost their way and they are just another knife.

They lost their way when they quit building quality knives and started building cheap trash that was barely a step above gas station knives. At least now they have discovered that people will also pay money for knives with good steel. They sat on the success of their name for a long, long time and made nothing really new or innovative. Only when people quit buying their cheap, garbage tacticool knives did they realize they wouldn’t be around very long if they didn’t take steps to save their company.

@@FriedPi-mc5yt Yep that's how I see it also👍 I think SOG will make a comeback, we'll wait to see what the lineup looks like in 2024🤷. This year they took a step in the right direction only time will tell if they will listen to the knife community.

Well, your girlfriend for starters. Last night when we were laying in bed, she listened for hours while I talked about it.

Springs are installed when they reach their final location.

@@mistersmith3986 definition of switchblade according the us import laws: (3) Unassembled knife kits or knife handles without blades which, when fully assembled with added blades, springs, or other parts, are knives which open automatically by hand pressure applied to a button or device in the handle of the knife or by operation of inertia, gravity, or both; or It doesn’t matter if it’s assembled or not. Spyderco got hit with something for importing Bali parts years ago. My guess is that sog is claiming to be a “contractor for the the armed forces”, which is a loophole to the import laws.

No, they are a large knife retailer. They are going from booth to booth. Not grasping my friend. Business. If they didn’t have people buying SOG’s they wouldn’t bother sharing. 🤔😉

Ok you just started a problem. Some are bad, but most budget brands that make knives make good spring assisted

Lol my grandpa says the same thing. I enjoy all of mine!

@@AJbercher yea I got my dad a knife for his birthday (56) and I was telling him about it, and my grandpa says what happened to lockbacks and Barlows? I'm like a lot has changed in 50 years!

I like mine haha Kershaw leek is fun to fidgit with

Sping-assisted knives are fun. Not as much fun as your mother of course, but fun nevertheless.