Butterfly Knives

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Balisong Guide (Getting Started, Terminology, and Purchasing)

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Hardware Guide

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VIEW THE GUIDE HERE

Hi everyone, this has been in the works for quite a while and has finally gotten the blessing that it needed to be ready for everyone to see.

Thanks to u/xXxXhermitXxXx, the previous purchase guide served us all well. However, a lot of time has passed and a lot of things have changed. After the pestering nudging of some friends from the subreddit, I've decided to pick up the torch and write a new guide. Instead of just being a purchase guide, it eventually morphed in to including some other important info for getting in to the hobby that I may still add to. I also decided on doing it in Google Sheets instead of just a Reddit post so it can be more easily formatted and updated in the future and I can possibly pass on editing permission to someone else in the future if needed.

If anyone has any questions, suggestions, or other proposed changes, please let me know as I think community involvement is very important here.

VIEW THE GUIDE HERE

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I was recently inspired by the recent mods to the Canyon I've seen here, so I completed my own.

I've only been a part of this community for about 8 months, but I've been inspired every day - to the point of learning FreeCAD, 3D printing my own bali design experiments, trying Ti anodizing and of course flipping and collecting.

It's somewhat frustrating living in a country where the best you can get beyond trainers is false edge balis, but here's hoping that changes some time in the future. Until then, I live vicariously through everyone on here who posts their gorgeous NKD's, so keep them coming!