Sanrenmu7056 Folding Pocket Knife 8cr14MoV Blade Frame Lock with Clip for Tactical Camping Hunting Survival Fishing Tool Portable ECD

This is a great knife for the money! It is reminiscent of a Kershaw Cryo or the Chris Reeve Sebenza.The blade is about 2 3/4" and bears a matte gray finish. It is a drop point blade with about 2/3 of the spine swedged. It also has a flipper that will allow speedy deployment. It is very stiff out of the box, but will hopefully smooth out with cleaning. The edge comes shaving sharp, but with a bit of honing could be wicked. The edge however, stops before the sharpening choil. This leaves about 1/16" of unsharpened blade. Also it has a bit of a wave, but detracts little from the utility and will be remedied on my edge pro.The frame has the same grey finish and matched nicely with the blade. It feels good in the hand with the corners properly radiused. At first I didn't understand the jimping at the bottom of the grip, but after holding it, it provides a place for your pinky to hang on to. Moving to the inside, the brass (colored) spacers add a measure of rigidity to the frame. The liner lock snicks in its full width and leaves about half the blade width left for wear in.The pocket clip is set up for right hand tip down only. Luckily this is how I like it. It has stout tension with out being difficult to extract from the pocket. It is not made for deep carry as it leaves about 1/2" above the pocket line.Overall a great deal for a quality item. The flipper is stiff, but most likely get better after cleaning. If you are looking for a smaller folder for you or for a gift, you cannot go wrong with this. Great design and execution. Proof that China can make excellent products while still giving a bargain price. Would recommend.

Comparing this, the Sanrenmu 7056 Series Pocket Folding Knife, the Sanrenmu 7010LUC-SA 710 Pocket EDC Folding Knife and theGerber 22-41493 EVO Jr. Serrated Edge Knife.First the 2 Sanremnu's:The 7056 is noticeably heavier - it weighs in at 111 grams vs 88.5 grams for the 7010LUC-SA.Both knives are well made and almost exactly the same size, folded, with the same size and shape of blade.As it turns out I would like to have features of each one in the other one.I wish the 7056 was as light as the 7010.And I wish the 7010 had the lever on the bottom of it like the 7056 does, to flip it open.As I said, both are made well and - not having used them yet and judging only by look and feel and judgment of quality from looking and handling - both are good buys.However I would not keep either one for myself due to my own personal taste. Hopefully the 2 guys I'm giving these 2 will not care about the same issues as I do and will be happy to get them, as I would be if it were a gift.So what I want is a knife with the lever on the bottom for opening it quickly, but the weight of the 7010 or perhaps even a little lighter weight than the 7010.I just find this knife, the 7056, too heavy to carry around in my pocket all day. I'm not a knife expert so maybe there's a big advantage to having a heavier pocket knife. If so please enlighten me (no pun intended). But for my taste I think I prefer a lighter knife. If I need a heavier knife for heavier duty I will have my Buck 119BKS Spec Hunting 6" near by.Now the Gerber:The Gerber is much lighter at only 52 grams, less than half the weight of the Sanenmu 7056. It is also smaller which helps account for the weight. The Gerber has a lever on the bottom to open it (or get it started opening and then just a flick of the wrist can open it the rest of the way). The Sanrenmu 7056 also has this feature.However the Gerber came with the mechanism to fold the knife back up after it locks into place, being very stiff and it actually hurts my fingers to push it in in order to close it. I have very strong fingers (I play guitar) so this is in fact a defect. I have ordered a replacement and hopefully it will be better. If not I will refund it. It *might* loosen with use or I might be able to put some silicon or oil on it to make it work better. I'm not a knife expert so not sure but I feel it should work out of the box so I'll give it at least one return and then see what happens. If it still doesn't work, I'll try lubing it before returning it for a refund.That said, I like the Gerber the best of the 3. If it were as easy to close as it should be it would be my favorite by far.I prefer it for the weight and slightly smaller size. I realize that you really can't compare a larger knife to a smaller knife because it comes down to what you prefer. But I wasn't sure what I wanted so I bought all 3 so I could make a decision which one to keep for myself and then give the other 2 as gifts.All 3 are well reviewed and all 3 are quality knives - again, notwithstanding the unlocking problem with the Gerber which I hope to be replaced with one that closes more easily as it should.I feel that anyone would be happy to get any of these 3 knives as a small gift. For a bigger gift, get a more expensive knife, perhaps a higher quality Gerber, Buck, Ontario, or Scrade... preferably an American made knife.These 3 are all Chinese made (not 100% sure re the Gerber but pretty sure it is Made In China as most cheap knives are and I know that even Buck and other famous "USA" knife companies are farming out their cheaper knives to China manufacturers. They may say "USA" on them but not "Made In USA"!) but the Gerber one has a limited lifetime warranty whereas these 2 Sanrenmus are only warrantied for 90 days.

What a shame so many knife manufacturers scimp on .03 cents for bronze washers and use nylon washers at .003 cents. Everything about this knife, fit, finish and even the copied design is really nice, in fact I like it better then the Kershaw Cryo they copied but the user experience opening and closing leaves a lot for improvement..

Okay, putting aside the "knockoff Kershaw Cryo" stuff and the issues of intellectual property and international patent law I'm just going to focus on the knife. Fantastic knife! Super sharp out of the box, great ergonomics. Great look to the knife, the grey coating with the "brass" thumb stud and pillars looks very nice. The deployment is a bit stiff for me but the framelock seems to be 100% engaged so I think the framelock is causing some friction and making the deployment stiff. Lockup is rock solid, no blade play front or back or side to side. The blade centering when closed is a bit off, again I think because the lockup is so strong but not enough that the blade touches anything. Deployment of the blade is still "smooth" but it just take a bit of thumb pressure to get it out, and the flipper only works with a heavy wrist flick. Will probably smooth out as I use the knife. Okay jimping on the handle and good jimping on the knife spine. All in all just a great all around knife that you can put in your pocket and have with you all the time. You will be very happy with this knife, I am.Okay, putting aside the "knockoff Sebenza" stuff and the issues of intellectual property and international patent law I'm just going to focus on the knife.

Get the Kershaw Cryo instead. The pocket clip on this is terrible and needs to be removed and bent back into place to provide adequate tension. The blade is completely uncentered and it takes a hard wrist flip when using the flipper to get the knife open. The blade does take and hold a nice edge though. Not worth the $15 I paid for it. It seems to always be a mistake to but cheap chinese rip off garbage knives. It doesnt matter if the authentic counterparts are made of the same materials in the same factory by the same abused workers, the knives arent the same and come with a high degree of misery to use.