I had a green ok81 come in that I forgot I ordered and it's really nice. No problems at all. Hopefully it really is vg10 although there would be no reason to lie about that. The scales are way better than I thought they would be. F china but at least they didn't get much.
I bought a g729 can't afford 100 plus pocket jewelry but anything with a hole in the blade is on my radar gonna pick both of these up was looking at spyderco byrd series but cant justify the steel and price i know thats funny coming from a low budget knife collector 😮😅😊
lol you prohably shoulda given it a test go before filming! this knife operates extremely smoothly, the ok-81 is easily the best 26$ I've spent in a while. Thanks for giving me an idea of the other model I was wondering if it would be similar in quality.
Yes, I still have the bottom one (OK-535). A great budget Bugout alternative, I like this knife a lot. Very light, very slicey. 👌 There were no serious problems, only recently one axis spring broke, which I easily replaced, and everything is fine again
I read in your product review on OK Knives website that you took apart the 535 to do some modifications. How did you get it to come apart? Mine has really bad side to side play and needs to have the pivot tightened. Unfortunately it is a free spinning pivot with no torques screw on the clip side and appears to be heavily loctited. Aside from that I really like the knife, but that free spitting pivot that can't be removed is super frustrating.
My version has a D shaped pivot and the knife comes apart very easily.. if you haven't seen it yet, watch this video, hope it helps ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iQseB8EyQ2k.html
My bad. It was not a free spinning pivot. I got it confused with another new knife. But the loctite was really overdone. I worked it and worked it and finally was able to get the screw out and clean it up and then tighten it sufficiently. Happy now. Thank you!
The 81's are good knifes for the $. Good heat treated VG-10 steel and some of the most comfortable and grippy G10 scales on any knife I have. The mechanics of the knife are spot on too. Unfortunately beauty is skin deep and as soon as you disassemble it's not pretty but it works! Also the fit and finish on the jimping where your thumb rest is about a 5 out of 10 on the 2 that I own. No where near as nice in that area as a Jufule brand knife. If you want a great work knife... Buy this knife. 👍
@@jordy1294 6 months later this is still my favorite knife. I have no lock rock and no blade play at all? It's also very easy (and even marked) to cut the scale for easier access to the locking mechanism. As far as hardness, who gives a shit as long as the metal is heat treated good which I feel it is. I've sharpened this knife on a 1x30 finishing at 1000 grit and stropping on a leather belt loaded with both white and green compound and got a great edge but too slick for my liking. The best edge it's taken had been on my Toohr fixed angle sharpener using Sy Tools diamond plates to 800 grit, then using a leather bench strop sprayed with 7.5um diamond emulsion for a screaming sharp blade. It holds it's edge as well as any other $60-75 budget knife I own too so for $25 bucks it's a great knife as far as I'm concerned.
@@jordy1294 I do have a PM2, 2 in fact. And one PM3. But I like a really good beater knife also. Of course the OK-81 is not quite as nice as a real PM2 and the steels aren't going to compare to their blades but for $25 it's a steal.
Well I mean it is a near one for one clone of a pm2. I won't buy clones but I don't condemn then neither UNLESS they are one to one clones and have the maker markings on them making it a counterfeit.
