Handle looks 3D printed.
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Amazon listing claims G10 but who knows at this price point. They do make a crossbar locking version of this knife for $16 as well because everything has a crossbar lock these days. Probably will see one on a SAK before too long.
Curiously, "3D Printed" or rather "3D Printing" for some reason is becoming a popular term in the word-salad titles of Chinese knives lately. Even on knives that are, quite clearly, not 3D printed and have nothing to do with it. I think this is due to the carrot knife fad that just crested not long ago. They must think someone is searching for this.
Check out this Alibaba query, for instance, which is related to the fidget-knife post I just did.
And note that some of these are just calling their silkscreening or offset printing or whatever of eagles and wolves and flags and shit "3D Printing" when it isn't that, either. But some of them baffle me, containing no sort of printing whatsoever.
At least they didn't slap "AI Enhanced!" on it.
Yet.
Just wait, I'm certain there will be novelty folders flooding the market soon printed with AI generated big tiddy anime girls with the wrong number of fingers any day now.
For more inexpensive knives, see previous posts on the $5 and $6 axis lock folders from Walmart:
It is frankly astonishing the level of quality you actually can get for just a few bucks from China these days. The machining, fitment, and finishing of modern Chinese knives is light years beyond what you used to be able to get just a few short years ago.
But China is gonna China, and it seems that most or all of them have some baffling design detail or manufacturing shortcoming that mars what otherwise could be a decent knife. Is like they can't help themselves from cutting off the tips of their own noses just to scratch the pathological itch cheat the world out of a penny. You may as well run the ball right to the 1 yard line and then spike it into the dirt.