Anyone carry those 1$ Lock backs from WalMart?

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I've been carrying one for work, every weekday, for about the last month, and man, its every bit as solid as many 20-30$ knives of similar design. 1$ even, in the the camping section. I'm gonna pick up a couple more lol. For a beater, you can do a whole lot worse lol
 
Not sure I could trust a $1 knife...heck I dont ever even carry a knife worth less than $100 at this point. For my uses at work (lots of nasty thick cardboard and plastic packaging) I really need a high hardness, high edge retention steel with a large carbide volume if i dont want to be sharpening multiple times a day, unfortunately those types of steels dont come on a $1 knife, or even a $50 knife for that matter...

Im really not trying to be a snob here, but the fact of the matter is a cheap knife just wont cut it for me (pun intended...).
 
mkjellgren said:
Not sure I could trust a $1 knife...heck I dont ever even carry a knife worth less than $100 at this point. For my uses at work (lots of nasty thick cardboard and plastic packaging) I really need a high hardness, high edge retention steel with a large carbide volume if i dont want to be sharpening multiple times a day, unfortunately those types of steels dont come on a $1 knife, or even a $50 knife for that matter...

Im really not trying to be a snob here, but the fact of the matter is a cheap knife just wont cut it for me (pun intended...).
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For 1 dollar it would be interesting to see what you thought after carrying one for a couple days
 
I actually picked one of these up a few years ago. I was going camping and was curious to see if a 1 dollar knife could stand up to some basic campsite tasks. The cheap plastic scales cracked the first night, and I was not putting it through anything tough- making roasting sticks, kindling, etc. So, I threw it out.
 
jsolack said:
For 1 dollar it would be interesting to see what you thought after carrying one for a couple days
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The guy cuts a lot of abrasive and hard media, he has already determined that he needs a high carbide volume, high hardness steel. I doubt that the steel on those $1 knives comes anywhere close.
 
In my younger days I carried a real cheapo knife that worked fine for a couple of months and then the lock failed and it bit me pretty good. Not going to make that mistake again.
 
singularity35 said:
The guy cuts a lot of abrasive and hard media, he has already determined that he needs a high carbide volume, high hardness steel. I doubt that the steel on those $1 knives comes anywhere close.
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Bingo. I guarantee whatever mystery steel is in those $1 knives just isnt gonna work for me. It doesnt matter to me how good of a deal the $1 knives are or that they are "as solid as a $20-30 knife" if they dont do what I need them to do.
 
My brother got me one for Christmas couple of years ago, I took it as a gag gift... Blade was loose, didn't trust the lock...wound up in the garbage!! Just give me the dollar!!
 
Picked some $1 knives up from my venture to the local swap meet awhile back. All stainless constructions and ten time better than one from Walton's. I'm keeping them in our cars as disposable tools.
 
I bought one to use for sharpening practice, the serrations were almost able to cut paper, the PE part was rounded like a plastic butter knife, it had horrible play both vertical and horizontal and could be closed like a slip joint, I used it to pry something (can't remember what) but nothing that difficult and the whole thing broke in half at the pivot/plastic handle.
 
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