Sanrenmu Land 9103 knife review. A well made $15 blade using Sandvik steel.

If you were finally waiting for Sanrenmu to Ganzo a Reeve boy have I got the knife for
you.
Youre like didnt they Ganzo the 21 with the 710?
Wait so if the 710 was put out in 2010 maybe Ganzo this whole time has been sanrenmuing.
Now if youre wanting to know if the 9103 Im reviewing is more like the 6108 or the 717
then go buy all the damn knives yourself.
So while your contemplating what I just said, and while Im contemplating what kind of beer
Im going to drink this weekend, lets go over the dimensions of the Sanrenmu Land 9103 which
borrows heavy visual clues from the Chris Reeve Inkosi, which is a Zulu word that means
roughly Cant afford.
So lets look at the overall length and weight its actually a few tenths of an ounce less
than the large Inkosi.
The blade length, and cutting edge, smaller blade than the large inkosi too.
The handle size and grip area.
And the spine thickness and handle thickness.
Now if youre no stranger to knives then you know Sanrenmu is no stranger to Chris Reeves
knife designs Welll examine that in the last 20 minutes of this $15 knife review where
I bought the $445 large Inkosi to prove it, but first lets examine the blade, which is
a drop point and a flat grind, made from the not really hated Sandvik that Sanrenmu uses
in a lot of their knives to great success- I assume 12C27 is of course the knife nerd
name for Sandvik.
The other Sanrenmus I have that use Sandvik are all easy to sharpen and have never had
any real QC problems.
They hold an edge a decent amount of time, and theyre not called Aus-8 or 8cr13MoV, so
people generally feel better about them.
The blade length in the mid 3 inch range is of course the length I prefer, which is good
for food prep, general cutting tasks, and not making you look like a wuss in front of
other dudes.
As some guy is still saying length he prefers.
Then theres some fine jimping that provides traction up top not spyderco fine, but sort
of in the neighborhood.
Also the top of the blade isnt a full 90 degrees, as its sort of rounded, and ends in an edge.
The blade is deployed by blue thumb studs, which are different than the standard silver
ones in the fact that it takes them a few weeks to turn back to silver after the paint
rubs off like it has on one of mine from some pocket wear.
Someone somewhere is like well looks like Im saving $15.
It isnt my fastest deploying large blade though as you have to give it a medium hard flick..
to deploy its smooth and consistent throughout the travel of the blade but it aint a Spyderco
PM2 or nice Benchmade 940.
Its locked into place by a frame lock, thats pretty easy to disengage 1 handed.
Detent is pretty good when closing, although it sucks it in pretty close to fully closed.
I cant get the knife to even partially deploy when flinging it while closed.
Which is sort of unique because I only have a handful of knives you cant do this on.
The handle is nice and smooth and stainless steel, sort of satiny so expect it to be slick
if you got some nice smelling fish guts on it or its covered in squirrel intestines.
The handle fits my hand nicely without fanger crowding.
Its an open back design with silver spacers, except the lanyard hole which is blue.
I did notice the back lanyard sleeve hole rattles slightly.
I dont know if that kills tacticability- probably.
Maybe it does you could always spray paint the whole knife black to offset -1 sneak.
I think thats how it works.
I tried to tighten the torx screws around it, but they were already tight AF.
The clip is reversible to the right or left side tip up only.
While it is over 4 ounces, so its a little heavy its an easy pocket carry.
The clip is tight but I found no problems getting it into the pocket.
Think just a tad tighter than a Spyderco clip, but no Southern Grind clip.
Ok so lets do a little mini comparison.
I reviewed the 9052 last year, and found it to be a good slip joint blade.
This is a setp up slightly in quality but this knife is heavier with a slightly longer
blade plus that one has a beer opener on it.
And some dude is light I can open a beer with any knife.
Here hold my beer.
Ok.. thats true- but theres the slight chance your too drunk and you wind up shaving the
top off the bottle like I did once, and waste your beer.
Maybe real men arent concerned about eating glass.
Then here s another Ganzo I random chose thats a bit bigger.
So that one is cool right?
Thats the G753 Firebird.
In my last Ganzo review a subscriber was like you forgot to mention that was a Firebird
Ganzo which brings up oh yeah this is a land ganzo.
Whatever that means.
I think it means they put some blue paint on a few of the screws.
Its not like a Benchmade gold class where its unique and or expensive materials they
still use 440c, deployment feels same, and construction is the same except the word Firebird
or Land.
And finally my favorite knife other than the 940-1, the PM2.
I like this knife better than the Sanrenmu its lighter, much more fun to deploy, has
a higher end blade steel, and costs 120 more.
That said the 9103 is a great value for $15-$20 or whatever this knife is at the time.
Its solid and well made most of my experience with Sanrenmus are smaller blades, or larger
slip joints so its cool that this locks, and has a big blade.
If you are interested in this knife you can buy it from my links from Gear Best who provided
this for review.
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Thanks for watching.

Sanrenmu Land 9103 knife review. A well made $15 blade using Sandvik steel.

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