The Black Market Knife is a curved shape butterfly knife from Valorant, which is thought to have a lot of elements that are adopted from the CSGO butterfly knife.
Because of the lower usage rate compared with other balisong melee weapon skin, it was not as well-known as the RGX knife, Champion Butterfly Knife, Recon Balisong, etc.
But I do like its realistic style, so I made the metal replica of the Black Market knife once it was released in 2023.
Picture of the trainers I made.
The Black Market knife replica I made is not only a balisong replica for collecting but also a nice balisong trainer made with prime steel and aluminum alloy material.
You can check how the balisong flipping lovers reviewed it.
Review from Balisong Flipping
Review from Seongbae Balisong
In short, word, if you are a beginner who wants to master the skill of balisong tricks, any curved handle balisong, such as the CSGO butterfly knife or the Black Market knife is not recommended.
But if you really want a curved handle game balisong, or really like the Black Market knife from Valorant, my version is your best choice.
Since there are a lot of untrustable sellers using my picture to mislead collectors to buy their cheap metal toys, I think it's better to do some comparison to help you guys know the difference.
Maybe it will protect you from an unhappy shopping experience or scammers.
Here are their main difference
1. Raw Material
To make the Black Market knife replica a nice balisong trainer, I used CNC technology to make each of them. The raw material of the game balisong is high-quality steel and aluminum alloy. This is different from the zinc alloy metal I usually use. The steel and aluminum alloy is much stronger than zinc alloy, which is a kind of soft metal. Besides, the aluminum handles are lightweight, which will improve the flipping effect of a balisong trainer. Unlike my black market butterfly knife trainers, the cheap one uses zinc alloy as the material, which means they are not as durable as butterfly knife trainers.
2. Size
I have made the Black Market knife in a real-life size, which is a 1:1 scale.
It has a very nice feeling of holding.
Instead, to save the material cost, the cheap one is a mini scale.
So you will feel it too small to hold unless you have a kid's hand.
3. Structure
The Black Market knife balisong trainer I made uses the channel structure handle, which is usually applied to high-end balisong trainers.
The cheap one uses a sandwich structure.
3. Details and Mechanism
There are bushings inside the Black Market Knife I made to improve the flipping feeling. The screws I used to make it are top-quality screws for making balisong trainers. Instead, the cheap ones use cheap quality cross screws to fix the handle and blade, which makes their knives quite loose and easily broken.
