🔪Worst Value Knife??? (SOG Altair FX Fixed Blade)

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[starkparker]

Wow. That's a $12 knife in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. Fixed blades need comfortable handles above all else or they're outperformed by folders.

[abcdefghijklmno]

A little push back from me on this one. I saw this blade at smkw over the weekend. Very thin, the scales can be removed with a flat head screw driver to make it even thinner. I removed the belt clip and wrapped the sheath in green leather. I turned it into a thin and lite neck knife. I see it being used as a basic neck knife. Carving? Sure. Gutting a fish? Definitely. General cutting tool? Sure. I wear xl gloves because my hand is like a bear paw. Short fingers with a big mit of a palm. It fits my needs and planned sheath. I got it for $120 at smkw. All the other blades you were showing had thicker blades and handles, wider sheathes, and were heavier. The thin blade, thin handle, narrow sheath, and an all around lite package fits the goal. Price point is a bit higher then i like. Field testing is coming up when i go camping this summer

[CanadianBeachcomber]

“Clark, that’s the gift that keeps on giving, the whole year.”

[dallasn]

I almost spilled my drink when I saw that price.😂

[toddcalloway]

What a suprise that is! Im so happy you called that out, and showed good examples of much better options... Good jod Sir!

[just]

So I haven’t been able to use one of these as they come out of the box, but a friend of mine won one of these in a raffle/giveaway. Somewhere along the line, he accidentally epoxied it to his workbench so he had to break the handle scales off the knife (it was disturbingly easy). He made a set of rather nice oversized scales out of some leftover micarta for another project. They’re thicker and they wrap around the spine of the tang as well as extend a little up above the line of the ricasso. Since the sheath is crap and wouldn’t work with the new handle, I made him a leather sheath with part of a hide I used for making a batch of strops.

Turned a turd into a really nice little blade. I wouldn’t recommend buying one, as you would have to replace most of what you get, but it worked out pretty well in the long run.

[Mettle_DAD]

O man. I came into this skeptical but wow you are %100 correct. Thats crazy

[ishinfinity]

Thank you for the review, will you attempt large fix blade reviews / comparisons of all the methods of every day carrying fixed blades / large fixed blades?

[arnoldorodriguez]

Thanks saves my money god bless your soul

[hunterglaspell]

Sog got sold to GSM with cold steel and their warranty and new designs are horrible. Sog pre GSM had a great warranty, and I got a whole new seal xr after the axis lock on mine broke. I requested a clip screw recently for my new one as it is no longer with the knife, and they said that they don’t service that model (even though it’s in production still currently). Multiple people have had similar experiences. It was literally an overnight change. They also changed steel and country of origin on a few designs that were planned to come out before the change, but haven’t changed the description of the original materials and country of origin on their website yet. Sketchy stuff

[timothyvolkers]

I rather enjoy the essee Izula without the handle scales. I have slim hands but long fingers and it's a fairly nice fit

[Hawkings]

Soo....Did you actually use it to cut anything with it ?

[Iamthedudeman]

Thanks for the video, it is also confusing that they made the blade material cryo 154cm on the blade and CPM154 on their website. I thought the knife looks cool on the website though.

[theMeshtar]

Not to mention their customer service is weird. At least that was my experience with them.

[carlk]

I've been wanting that knife but when released we were promised it to be a sub $100 knife. It was released last year or two. Then I saw the price on Knife Center and others. Hard pass since I never saw one in person. I want a knife similar to that one so I'll take recommendations aside from those in the video. Flat grind, and for duty work.

Thank you for doing this video Sir.

[MundaneGray]

Aegis is pronounced EE-jiss. It's a Greek word for a shield or breastplate.

[palerider]

You don’t understand? It is simply 3 letters GSM. For example the original Cold Steel 4Max @ $325 was an American made (later Italian made) knife in 20CV and it’s frame had a larger pivot and stop pin than the Taiwanese made 4Max Scout, which was is a great knife for the price but a compromise to reduce cost and manufacture time with smaller pins. Along come GSM. The 4Max goes on the Scout frame, blade steel is reduced to S35VN and, to me at least, the most hideous color scales available. So it a $275 knife right? Nope. The the prices the same or a slight bump due to the supply chain issues? Nope. $435! Thats encroaching Sebenza territory for a Cold Steel Taiwanese produced knife! That is GSM! They try to recoup their entire development and production budget off the sale of a few knives! That my friend is how it makes sense … to GSM because they do not understand their customer base or pricing!

[BravoJulietAlpha]

Those box clubs are a gamble and most of that stuff is blems. You can't be butt hurt when you gamble and lose. 😂

[gearberserker]

I bet their design... SOG department and marketing their aim is to get you to buy more new sheaths in the future. and guess whether the small protrusion was damaged first, or whether the two clasps broke off first?

[OperationNonsense]

i've bought a few sog knives in the past, and it didnt take long for me to completely give up hope on this brand. save yourself time and hassle, just stick with spiderco; don't bother trying SOG products.