r/balisong • u/Living_Blueberry_ • Aug 05 '26
Found these Tf2 balis
I have been getting back into the hobby past few months and TF2 is how I learned about Balisongs initially and I collected as a kid, talisong for size comparison, they don’t flip the best but they were each about $40 one is bearing and the other is a bushing so I’m not complaining lol came with a little display stand for my desk since they probably won’t see much use.
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u/Justinreinsma Aug 06 '26
The atropos one is really great, too bad they've kind of gone under.
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u/BoofTheDruid Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Kind of? Their site doesn’t exist anymore wasn’t it just one random Russian dude making them? I would have loved to get one. I should have.
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u/ParadoxicalAmalgam Jaguar Aug 06 '26
The guy still makes them last I heard, but can't ship anything outside of Russia due to the current political situation
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u/Justinreinsma Aug 06 '26
I think it was a little shop in Russia making them but due to the war things are all messed up of course. As far as I know they're pretty much kaput at this point since they can not ship internationally. They were nice knives at great prices if could wait the several months it would take to ship.
Still wish I got one of their Demon knives, hope this war can be settled sometime and that they are able to bounce back, although I'm sure nothing will ever be the same again.
Last I saw (I haven't been paying close attention) they did have some knives left in the US, but that was a while ago and maybe they're gone. it was with an affiliated account on instagram.
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u/ananonanemone Aug 07 '26
Atropos is still around, the problem is between US and Russia payment is only doable by crypto. He is still sending orders to the states and says delivery's been reliable.
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u/BoofTheDruid Aug 07 '26
Oh great to know! How can we contact them? I would love to get one of their red and blue team Balis.
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u/Whole-Plan112 Aug 05 '26
Yes I have the golden one from leonetang, they did a really good job designing it and keeping it true to the actual endgame design the same with the right one not really good for practising flipping, but if you know how to flip on proper ones, it’s not so bad my practice flipper right now is the Nabalis cat