Erich
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Puma's SGB line has been around for a couple years: they send German blades to China where they're built into these inexpensive knives bearing the Puma medallion. I've seen generally good reviews of them, with occasional remarks about less-than-perfect fitting of the parts. Puma lists the Lonestar yellow-bone sodbuster model for $25, and Midway USA sells them for that with free shipping thrown in; Amazon has them for $21 (free shipping) - I threw this into a Sierra Trading Post order I was doing (free shipping) and it cost me $11.67, a price point at which I thought I could not go wrong. I was right.
You can see the fitting of the scales on mine is absolutely fine, and the smooth bone scales feel like an old bar of soap in the hand, yet retain enough natural bone grippiness that I don't see the thing slipping.
The sharp-from-the-box 440A steel blade was advertised as having a Rockwell hardness of 55 to 57, and has a useful size and shape.
There is no lock (of course) on this sodbuster, so it's a light duty pocketknife. It's one that I can see having some pride in, however. Gina likes everything about it except she has reservations about the Happy-Face-Yellow (her term) scales - me, well, you all know how much I like knives that are easy to find once I set them down. For $11.67? What a deal!
