Bear Gryllis Knife

I have seen him start fire with a fire saw... oh wait... I guess that could have been fake as well.
 
knarfeng said:
There was a thread from a guy who bought one about a month ago in the General Discussion Forum. By the time the thread ended the guy had had time to use it a bit. He found it to be well balanced, held an edge well, seemed pretty tough to him. He is a collector and had several other blades of similar type to compare to. After reading his hands-on experience with the knife, it seems that the knfe performs well enough, but is priced a bit high. And of course most folks around here would not be caught dead with one because of what would normally be the justifying factor for the extra high price.

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That was the thread that I was referring to. I'm glad you found it. I could have swore that I posted in it to "bookmark" it for myself. Now I did!
 
£350 is about $720US. It had better be one heckuva knife for that price. It would be hard to bash a nice knife with a rock to cut wood! Design-wise, it looks fine to me. Would you call that a Scandi grind? Saber grind maybe? Other than that, it's all marketing.

All said and done, I put Bear in the same class as those guys on Jackass-- why would anyone want to do that to themselves? You should always climb down a waterfall to save time, right?
 
I think the price becomes much more understandable when one considers that you get a free weekend at any Marriott resort with the purchase of one of these knives - just to make your experience more like Bear's.
 
Dylside said:
It wouldn't be a knife. It would be the Les Stroud Multitool. lol. Les rules.
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Les used a buck fixed blade, I think it was a special. It was the season final on the tropical island. They run about 45 dollars at the Gander Mountain where I live.
 
I would save my money and buy like 7-8 S1's or A1's.All the knife I'll ever use and I could even supply my whole family with them.I'd personally lump this in with the Rambo 4 knife/sharpened leaf spring.
It's not the price of the knife (or the name on the blade) it's how you use it.
P.S. Les is the man.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
It's a bushcraft knife. There are quite a few of them running around these days, not to mention the plentiful Scandinavian models that inspired them. The price is a marketing ploy, but that's true of many prices, charging what the market lets them get away with.
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Easv has a good point. They are using a very smart marketing ploy. And the funny thing is, people will buy it for that price. Why in God's name does the Woodlore sell for such prices when we (in the know) could commission a good maker to make a custom for half the price.:confused:

Of course for those of us that are addicted to steel, it's ridicules. I would buy a Fallknives, and GB axe, and a SAK and still have enough $$$ for gas to actually get me to the outdoors.:eek:


BTW.... if you do the conversion, it's a mere $725.00 minus shipping USD. Great deal huh?!?!
 
I watched this show the other night. I dont think its realistic. He's in the desert and climbs a huge cliff to get out of a canyon. Who would risk that in a survival situation?I mean you have limited food/energy plus barely any water. Who going to use what limited energy you have to scale a wall. Just go around the obastacle....
 
buddylee said:
I watched this show the other night. I dont think its realistic. He's in the desert and climbs a huge cliff to get out of a canyon. Who would risk that in a survival situation?I mean you have limited food/energy plus barely any water. Who going to use what limited energy you have to scale a wall. Just go around the obastacle....
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That horse very...VERY dead. In fact it's a bloody freaking smear at this point.
 
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