Customer Reviews
I got my Nautilus in the 'Donut' colorway, and I gotta say, this thing is crazy good for a clone! Right out of the box the tolerances were amazing, the balisong came out a bit muddy and not consistent with momentum but a quick light lubing instantly cleared up this problem! Came out of the box with absolute perfection, minimal tap but NO play! Redoing the screws and threadlocking them also cured this issue. Now my nautilus has no tap or play! This thing is surprisingly light for being G10 and aluminum, and i love playing around with this balisong! I'll definitely order another balisong again soon.
My knife came in much sooner than I expected. It took 13 days after purchase to come in and is the correct color and looks flawless. I was nervous after reading reviews but I had zero problems. I would recommend.
Took a long time to show but I am very pleased with the knife. It feels great and the many times I've dropped it already, it holds up well.
I own a lot of squid industries balisongs, and wanted to try out the clones.
The clones themselves are very good, especially for the price. They are on washers instead of bushings, so feel a tiny bit different, and they came fairly well tuned but didn't flip as well. With a quick 5 minute retuning, breaking in washers and applying carbon honey lube (I recommend getting good bali lube, much improves these clones), they now flip incredibly well, they feel like squid industries washers balisongs, very pleased to flip these as beaters out and about
I'm very impressed by the tolerances, the hardware / screws are high quality and can be tightened very far and still flip smoothly, and the balis come with a screw, a cute bite handle indicator, 4 spare washers, 2 sets of spare hardware and I think a tube of thread lock or something, and a lil pouch
I don't own an original krake raken v3, but the armed shark clone feels great and flips very well.
I do own an original nautilus v2, and while the armed shark one not being on bushings means it loses momentum a little bit without perfect form, it's a very similar very grippy plastic scale, and flips 90% or 95% as well for like a quarter of the price, very cool
Delivery time to the UK was about a month, not too fast, not too slow, all good
There was no response to a couple of questions I asked about delivery times 2 weeks in (radio silence, took a while to get tracking number), and I've read reviews of wrong models delivered, and read online that the site might not be official, so maybe the prices are marked up a bit, and it's weird that the site is permanently "on sale,"
but both balis arrived in perfect condition, so it seems that armedshark.com is a good place to go 👍
tl;dr site's legit, month delivery time, slight but easy tuning required, incredible clones
Shipping took a while (3 weeks to EU) but I am more than satisfied the quality, my best balisong so far!