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Ahh, some have said this is a troll thread. I think it is just a new member wanting to start threads and see what the reactions and comments are. There is usually some basis of fact behind words. So, I think that if you hang around here, you will probably not think $100 is a huge amount for a knife. I speak the truth. It may take a while and certainly if you are earning minimum wage, $100 for a knife is a huge amount (and IT SHOULD BE).

It took reading thread after thread on ZT knives for me to consider buying one. Last year about now, after handling a few different models at a knife store, I decided that I was going to get one. But it had to fit my use and carry preferences and only being a ZT was not enough. I chose the ZT 0770CF and love it. Yeah, it was fairly expensive, but I have have purchased knives since that cost more. I carry this ZT and a SAK pretty much every day. Sometimes substitute a large traditional (GEC #42 two blade) for the large 111mm SAK I normally carry.

About a year or two ago, I kept reading all these recommendations for a Kabar Becker BK-2. Figured.....I would get one and see what all the fuss is about. I did and I don't use it or carry it. It is just too much of a prybar for me but in the past, I liked prybars. That is where you are right now..... the Mtech ninja knife.... you'll change, but if you don't it is still fun.

I wish my mortgage was $100 a month. That has been said, but it puts knives in perspective in the current value scale of the OP. That's okay.
 
So be it... To be really porny let's show off the silly expensive (the upper one). It actually turned out silly expensive because I had to send it back and the seller forgot to mention "warranty return" on the customs form, so I paid the custom fees twice. It already was at the top of my allowable range from the beginning, anyway. But sure, she's hot as hell... The little one below was somewhat up there too but it was handpicked by a reliable seller and it had just zero defect. Zero... Why past tense ? I gifted it to someone who had a kind of "love at first sight" with it and who keeps it in his pocket 24 h / 24 h from that day (like it should be). It makes me happy whenever I think about it...

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aelfred_allspach said:
One thing I don't understand is why you would spend over 100 on a folding pocket knife. Now I understand having the money to blow. But most people I know, that's a house payment. I think a good sharp buck could beat ANY spyderco, ZT, or whatever else. Everyone knows I keep a sharps 300 on me. That's my one and only folder. I have given away each and every other folder I ever owned and they couldn't compare. Skill beats price tag IMHO. Any one else feel like David( cheap but really reliable folders((buck, kershaw))) beats Goliath?(anything more expensive)
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1. My rent is $1235/mth. Find me a place in Chicago where rent or a mortgage is $100/month.
2. I rarely see a sub $100 knife I care for. I only own three sub $100 knives--ESEE Izula, Spyderco Dragonfly 2 ZDP-189, and LionSteel Opera.
3. You are a troll.
4. On to the pics:






 
RX-79G said:
I don't exactly agree with the OP, but if a folder is ultimately suspect compared to a fixed blade knife because of the weaknesses of lock and pivot, the whole idea of having a super high performance folder is a little bizarre. I really like pocket knives - but they are a compromise from the get-go.


But the OP keeps posting a lot of I-know-better stuff that sounds very... youthful. He should consider his audience and the reasons that other points of view exist.
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That was the impression I was getting as well. Time will tell... ;)
 
You will have to open an account on Photobucket or similar picture storage server, load your images there and then click the icon "add image" in Your message. It's quite easy if not that simple. Hell, I got there, you certainly can do it. From your i-phone... don't ask me. I'm a no-phone guy (almost).
 
K.O.D. said:
1. My rent is $1235/mth. Find me a place in Chicago where rent or a mortgage is $100/month.
2. I rarely see a sub $100 knife I care for. I only own three sub $100 knives--ESEE Izula, Spyderco Dragonfly 2 ZDP-189, and LionSteel Opera.
3. You are a troll.
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I count the Opera among my sweetest knives ever. I managed to secure one in stag. A true beauty and the assembly is just faultless !

To the OP : this Opera here is a sub 100 $ folder that would send every knife lover into backflips of joy ! Some italian brands like Lion Steel and Viper really stepped up the game while
keeping the prices astonishingly low. Available in the US for your pleasure...
 
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Crappy cell pic but my two favorite knives.

One is my carry knife for the past two months. Gets used for just about everything.

The other is my most prized, valuable knife. It is a safe queen now. A gift to me from my young (at the time ) son. I could never replace it.

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We all get what we like and what we think is a good value for our use relative to our financial resources. I wouldn't beat on that one too much batonning. But that is me.

My older brother absolutely can not see the value of spending $100+ on a knife when he can buy one for under $50 that cuts good enough for him. He can afford any knife he would want. We're all different.

I like the Cold Steel Tuff Lite a lot and it runs about $30. My original Spyderco Native from WM cost about $45 as I recall. The Kabar Dozier folding hunter runs about $20. These aren't bad knives and I would not be hesitant to carry one and I do from time to time.
 
"That's identical to mine, just without the character"


I would be lying if I said I'm stunned by this knife... I'm still in for a Buck because it was the dream knife of my youth (way too spendy for me then, but oh ! so beautiful...), just not this one. But to each its own, I never criticize a man's knife (or wife, by the way).
 
Herissin talking about the sharp? I know it's not a looker but my grandfather carried it for 20 years and I've carried 5 so far. Most durable I've ever had. But all the knives you guys insist on are making me itch for a little tax return spending spree
 
Guest5160 said:
I concur.

I too was expecting some knife porn.

So here's most of my folders:

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I really like that case you are storing your knives in. Is it a pelican case? And did you have to cut the slots in the foam yourself?
Thanks
 
aelfred_allspach said:
One thing I don't understand is why you would spend over 100 on a folding pocket knife.
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That's a legitimate question, and its too bad that people are calling you a troll. 90% of people outside of Bladeforums would ask the same question if you whipped out a Sebenza in front of them and told them how much it costs. But because we are knife guys and chicks, we forget that its almost nutty to spend several hundred bucks on a knife.

People spend $100+ for a knife almost exclusively for the emotion it gives them.

They want to feel good. They want to be distracted from their worries, and the grind of daily life. The act of imagining what knife to buy, the internet search, the youtube videos, the hunt for the best price, the ordering, the anticipation, seeing the package in the mailbox, the opening and the fondling - each step makes us forget for a little while that we have a sucky job or we aren't as good looking as Powernoodle or we hate the boss. Knives are anesthesia in a cold, cruel world. Other guys self medicate with porn or booze or golf clubs. We do with with sick blades.

So guys put up this cover story that $100+ knives actually perform better than $35 or $85 knives. This is largely a falsehood that we unintentionally construct to justify our purchases. We don't want to admit that expensive knives just plain dang make us feel good. High end steels may hold an edge a little longer than mid-range steels, so its fair to say that there is a modest gain in performance in that limited area. But as I have beautifully bloviated in the past, a Delica 4 will cut up a box better than a Sebenza, and an apple has no idea whether you eviscerated it with a Buck 110 or an Emerson. They all cut stuff pretty much the same.

So to answer your question, spendy knives make us feel good. That's why we buy them. The guys who condescendingly say "if you have to ask, you wouldn't understand", or words to that effect, are living in complete denial. Sweet blades make us feel good. That's it.
 
I just like being asked, "Is that a $100 knife in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
 
powernoodle said:
That's a legitimate question, and its too bad that people are calling you a troll. 90% of people outside of Bladeforums would ask the same question if you whipped out a Sebenza in front of them and told them how much it costs. But because we are knife guys and chicks, we forget that its almost nutty to spend several hundred bucks on a knife.

People spend $100+ for a knife almost exclusively for the emotion it gives them.

They want to feel good. They want to be distracted from their worries, and the grind of daily life. The act of imagining what knife to buy, the internet search, the youtube videos, the hunt for the best price, the ordering, the anticipation, seeing the package in the mailbox, the opening and the fondling - each step makes us forget for a little while that we have a sucky job or we aren't as good looking as Powernoodle or we hate the boss. Knives are anesthesia in a cold, cruel world. Other guys self medicate with porn or booze or golf clubs. We do with with sick blades.

So guys put up this cover story that $100+ knives actually perform better than $35 or $85 knives. This is largely a falsehood that we unintentionally construct to justify our purchases. We don't want to admit that expensive knives just plain dang make us feel good. High end steels may hold an edge a little longer than mid-range steels, so its fair to say that there is a modest gain in performance in that limited area. But as I have beautifully bloviated in the past, a Delica 4 will cut up a box better than a Sebenza, and an apple has no idea whether you eviscerated it with a Buck 110 or an Emerson. They all cut stuff pretty much the same.

So to answer your question, spendy knives make us feel good. That's why we buy them. The guys who condescendingly say "if you have to ask, you wouldn't understand", or words to that effect, are living in complete denial. Sweet blades make us feel good. That's it.
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Now I get it. It's like why us mechanics go buy snap on when the dollar store wrench turns the same bolt. And whatever floats your boat is cool. I personally really like te looks of them. But I don't buy them because if I did, I would use them. If I used them, It would be my luck they would shatter or become lost
 
aelfred_allspach said:
Skill beats price tag IMHO.
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I agree on this, however it doesn't mean that companies making 100+ knives are not skilled also.... ;)

My first ever knife was a small buck and I was very happy with it, for some time My most expensive knife was a spartan SAK...

However now that I tried something different I would say that IMHO sometime the price is really related to an higher quality/material/design combination

At the end everyone has to trust his own experience
 
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