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I have always loved Balisong/Butterfly knives and got my first one in the early 90's before YouTube was a thing. I figured out the basics just by constantly playing with it.
I haven't owned one in quite some time and now there is YouTube so I've seen some fairly complex flipping and would like to try my hand at it (pun intended).
I added a Kershaw Lucha to my wish list for Christmas to add some variety and my wife ended up ordering one for me. I love the feel and weight of it as well as the aesthetics but other then a few beginner open and closes I am just not willing to try the more complex stuff - it came razor sharp and I'm not sure I would just get away with a little cut should I mess up.
Side note - I can't believe they are on the list of collect but not legal to carry bs, rant over lol.
So to the question, now that I have looked at trainers I feel like I've gone down a rabbit hole. They are as cheap as $8 on Amazon and go up to (imo) exorbitant prices. Kershaw makes a Lucha trainer (which I realize might be perfect) but I just can't justify paying $110+ for a trainer when the real deal wasn't hardly much more then that.
I am smart enough to know the cheapest ones out there are most likely not going to last but I would like a nice quality to price ratio for something that is basically a fidget toy.
I have seen companies promoting bearing hinges to having replacement screws and bushings to basic you can't adjust anything and when it breaks it breaks.
I'd like something as close the the Kershaw Lucha with about 5.8oz with a 4" blade (dull obviously) and 9" long open but not anywhere near the $100 mark
Color makes little difference to me but stainless would be my preference over the rubber coated or polymer ones.
Heck even if you just have some random advice that would be appreciated as well.
Thanks!
I haven't owned one in quite some time and now there is YouTube so I've seen some fairly complex flipping and would like to try my hand at it (pun intended).
I added a Kershaw Lucha to my wish list for Christmas to add some variety and my wife ended up ordering one for me. I love the feel and weight of it as well as the aesthetics but other then a few beginner open and closes I am just not willing to try the more complex stuff - it came razor sharp and I'm not sure I would just get away with a little cut should I mess up.
Side note - I can't believe they are on the list of collect but not legal to carry bs, rant over lol.
So to the question, now that I have looked at trainers I feel like I've gone down a rabbit hole. They are as cheap as $8 on Amazon and go up to (imo) exorbitant prices. Kershaw makes a Lucha trainer (which I realize might be perfect) but I just can't justify paying $110+ for a trainer when the real deal wasn't hardly much more then that.
I am smart enough to know the cheapest ones out there are most likely not going to last but I would like a nice quality to price ratio for something that is basically a fidget toy.
I have seen companies promoting bearing hinges to having replacement screws and bushings to basic you can't adjust anything and when it breaks it breaks.
I'd like something as close the the Kershaw Lucha with about 5.8oz with a 4" blade (dull obviously) and 9" long open but not anywhere near the $100 mark
Color makes little difference to me but stainless would be my preference over the rubber coated or polymer ones.
Heck even if you just have some random advice that would be appreciated as well.
Thanks!