A good strong knife?

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If you want a knife that doubles as a prybar, you could try the Boker Toucan or the CRKT Spare Tool, but I don't think you'll find any folders that can be used as pry bars, at least not reliably.
 
Benchmade Contego 810. Its a strong as a folder comes and is still a fantastic cutter and pocketable. Its the only folder I have now and Id trust it with my life.
 
I believe we throw terms around without really being clear as to what we mean.
A folding prybar begs the question of what you mean to pry.

A strong folder is not necessarily a folding prybar. That takes a strong pivot.
 
The Gayle Bradley is a very strong folding knife, but if you want to actually pry.. get a mini-prybar :P
 
Well why not a prybar.. You know to pry stuff with.

You use a hammer to hammer. Why not a prybar to pry with?
 
Just get a good knife and a prybar.

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Oh Brother.

TOPS Mini-Pry Knife. 1/4" thick, 3 1/2" blade, and they make a bigger size, too.

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TOPS knives are the real deal, but their marketing is a little goofy.

Using the word "pry" and "knife" in some sort of association, is anathema around here. But, yeah, there are knives out there that will allow you to use them as leverage tools.

Anything with a 1/4" thickness should do most of what you want. But be careful, because knives are heat-treated differently. A prybar is softer (lower RC), and will bend long before it breaks. A knife blade is treated for higher hardness, and, if done correctly, will chip, or snap.
 
Zero Tolerance 300 series knife Is about the best you can get for that amount of coin

However, If you go up by 5 bucks, or look long and hard for a deal. The greyman Satu is insanely beastly.
 
razorsdescent said:
Zero Tolerance 300 series knife Is about the best you can get for that amount of coin

However, If you go up by 5 bucks, or look long and hard for a deal. The greyman Satu is insanely beastly.
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Do you know anywhere I can find a good deal on that?
 
[video=youtube;64MdLjeDfbA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64MdLjeDfbA[/video]

I would take American Lawman and AK47 anytime. If i have the dough it will be Andrew Demko custom
 
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Prying, you say?

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I cringed watching that video. When he was prying apart the wood all I could think is "That guy is one slip away from a trip to the hospital, or morgue."

As far as the knifes prying ability, naturally we aren't able to inspect the knife afterwards to tell if the pivot sustained any damage.

Is that what people are doing with their knives on Youtube? I wonder how many aspiring "knife-testers" wind up in the hospital, or with life-long, crippling, knife-related injuries. Perhaps all the "knife-test blooper" videos don't make it onto Youtube.

Folding pry-bar, isn't that like "jumbo-shrimp" ;)
 
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