The Bokker practice knife is cheaper, heavier, and better balanced than this. The reviews for this seemed pretty positive but I don't know why. This would make more sense if it was like $30-40 max. Read more

It’s really lightweight, it’s rubberized so you don’t get hurt as much when you get hit by it. It’s harder to damage it if you drop it on the floor. There’s no need to add lubricant for a long time (this is my second purchase, the other one I have I bought months ago and it’s still perfect) . This is the best cheaper alternative. It’s almost similar to one’s I’ve tried that were over $150. Read more

Box came with a dent. The pink and blue balisong came with many chips, dents and scratches. Disappointed. Created a return to re order, now out of stock :( Read more

Section #1: Durability So I purchased this Balisong just over two weeks ago, as my first trainer & balisong in general. I mainly try to get decent with new tricks flipping over my bed, but it has taken an uncountable amount of drops on tile, wood floor, and a thinly carpeted floor with cement underneath, a wooden deck a few times, and even a few drops on concrete. So far almost no cosmetic damage, no tap and almost no play, in fact since it has worn in the almost non existent play hasn't increased a bit! Section #2: Design In terms of design, in the last two weeks after learning about 10 tricks, no not all are perfect but I can repeat them without drops 90% of the time and 75% of the time the tricks are very fluid. I credit the incredible design of the Marcolo Comet G10 for this, because the more I learned the more I appreciated the thought out in! Every groove, is helpful for a beginner to not only get proper finger placement but also grip, there are grooves that help greatly with fanning, and for other tricks feeling the groove makes ot easy to know your finger placement is correct. The speed channels and Comet logo engraved on the aluminum sides help with other tricks especially in terms of knowing when to flick for arials The G10 provides the perfect amount of grip, and when fanning slides smoothly on your hand and fingers as the G10 is not a rough G10 it is soft, subtle and extremely comfortable. This thing also flips incredibly smooth and feels very well balanced. Section #3 Customer Service @thomasbalisong on instagram is the designer/creator of these products to my understanding, super chill and awesome guy, he responds to feedback and questions and all in all is a very helpful individual and its nice to know that the person behind these Balisongs is as dedicated to his products and customer satisfaction as he is! Section #4 Maintenance Although I didn’t have any tap or play I decided a couple of days ago to loctite my pivots as I thought “If I haven't had play or tap after my first two weeks of flipping where its going to get its most abuse due to my fast progress, I shouldn't have to adjust or mess with it any time for the forceable month or even couple of months.” So I did, however I put too much loctite on my screws and it made it flip worse, so I watched some youtube videos on Balisong Cleaning, Tuning and how to properly loctite it, I stripped down the balisong, meticulously cleaned all parts, reassembled lubing the bushing and washes as I assembled, and I didn't even use new spare washers that are included, just flipped the original washers to the side with no bushing indent, after reassembly I lubed the pivots from the outside again and back to clean flips, no play or tap, and after I removed the screws, and put the right amount of the included loctite on and let it sit for a little over 12 hours and still no play or tap, perfect and even swing and it flips even better than it did out of the box! So long story short, do your research before tinkering so you dont have to deep dive into tuning your balisong and doing pretty much all the maintenance you can do aside from tuning the bushings like I did or better yet, maybe dont loctite just because of you haven't had any change in tolerance. However the bright side of my mistake is being able to inform you that it is easy to maintain whenever you will need to do any tuning, so I expect to be able to flip thing Bali for a long time moving forward, and keep it flipping well. And the last bright side of the experience is having the confidence in myself to know that since I have done everything but tune bushings I know I can maintain my Bali and again keep it flipping like a dream just like it has from day 1. Final Thoughts As my first balisong, I think It was my best choice after some debating with myself iver this or the Nabalis Vulp, I am glad I went with this option, I live the Teal and White G10 color wave, oh and quick tip, you can easily keep the white G10 looking like new by keeping a Mr Clean Magic Eraser available, I cleaned it twice a week since I got it and it looks stunning every day! All in all I think this is the best entry into Balisongs and I credit its great design for how fast I have progressed in these two weeks, it definitely is built to last and I am glad I chose to wait and not just buy a cheap $20-30 trainer like I initially planned and got a solid starter Balisong. In closing, I highly recommend this to anyone looking for their first balisong and given how well it flips and how fast I progressed with it I think even experienced flippers would appreciate it at least close to how much I have. Read more

Can’t beat it for the money! Like perfect tolerances and build like a tank. Read more

The quality is poor, the product is broken after 1 month of usage Read more