'Keith' titanium gear

Montgomery Wick

23/04/2012 at 06:34

Anybody heard of them? Very little on the web. Just been looking at some their pans in a local shop - quite interesting, obviously tilting at the Evernew market (cold forged, very light). The wider pans have frypan lids with integral handles, a handy alternative to the simple pan and flat lid style.

ed h

23/04/2012 at 06:38

Look interesting; very Evernew. Could not find pricing...

Montgomery Wick

23/04/2012 at 06:45

Pricing here in China is a little cheaper than roughly equivalent Evernew stuff in the UK. Foreign imports to China are often more expensive than in the UK due to high import taxes, thus difficult to draw any conclusions from that.

ed h

23/04/2012 at 06:52

Would be worth seeing the quality. Like the look of the nesting bowls...although quite what backpacking use they might have I don't know.

Expensive to import foreign goods? - there's a surprise; I guess you don't get 8% for nothing!

Montgomery Wick

23/04/2012 at 07:19

What's the URL? The few I've found aren't getting past the Firewall.

There's a reason Chinese tourists go nuts at Harrods and the Bicester Shopping Village for Burberry, Louis Vitton (and other names I'm aware of but have no idea as to what they mean) - all that consumer crap that gets made in China for foreign companies is often more expensive in China than it is in the UK.

ed h

23/04/2012 at 07:23

Here's the first I found:

http://keith-ti.gmc.globalmarket.com/products/details/titanium-camping-pot-set-kp6015-471503.html

Montgomery Wick

23/04/2012 at 07:33

That works. This was the interesting one:

http://newimg.globalmarket.com/PicLib/649/2423649/prod/21_1330154817343_l.jpg

Essentially an Evernew 900ml wide pan with a frypan lid. It was ticketed in the shop at about 485Y (so £48ish), but you can usually haggle them down 15-20%.