best edc $500 max

Id just get a good pair of pruners for roots (Felco), a mutitool for wire and a little trowel for the dirt. Get some garbage stainless fixed for the sod. You have all those for about 150 bucks. They will beat any single knife. Like mentioned earlier, use the right tool for the job.
 
smitty1505 said:
thanks for all the great advice guys and im deff listening but it seems like some of you guys are using edge retention as an excuse to buy a cheaper knife. if edge retention has nothing to do with it ( 10 mins a week to sharpen my knife seems like a small price to pay for what i get in return) would you still say get a cheaper knife. if thats not what you guys are getting at im sorry im just being a newb and dont understand "abuse" lol.
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Smitty, Im with you here. (Being a farmers son and nowadays more of a moonlight farmer, hunting and fishing for food and amusement and building on my house I know a little about abuse) I cant see the abusive things you are supposed to do with the knife. Not in the list you wrote in the first post anyway. Sure you will have to use a sharpening stone once in a while as you will use your knife for real work.
In my first post I pointed at some simpler knifes. That was made because I didnt think that you needed a tank of a knife to do your shores. Off course I think that you should by as expensive and good knife as possible. From my point of wiew Its good with a beautiful knife with good edgeretention for a knife that truely going to be an EDC.
If you dont going to stab cars and pry open cans of paint stay away from the thickedged prybars that look like cuttingtools.
Im glad you dont want a safe queen in your pocket.

Bosse
 
Expensive doesn't always mean better, especially if you're buying something to beat up.

Your tasks sound like a job for a good multitool. Any of Leatherman's full sized multis will work just fine. If you really want to supplement it with a hard use knife, get something in the fixed blade category, like a RAT Izula. It's small enough to pocket and from what I know, should hold up to any abuse those high-end folders could at less than 1/6th of the price.
 
Get a busse for work and hiking. With a kydex sheath you cant even tell they are at your side. I have an active duty model with a kydex sheath and cut all kinds of nasty sh***. I picked it up on ebay for around 180.00 Get a nice folder for on the town and light work. I actually carry my busse all the time even in nice clothes. They kydex sheaths are tight!!!!!!!!!! Just use a good manufacturer, some gun show kydex sheaths arent any good. Good luck, nice to have 500 bones for a good knife or two.
 
if you can go with a fixed blade go with a Ed Fowler knife
it will never break and he can make one just for what you do the size you want

they are built as an awsome work knife that you can depend on for the rest of your life
 
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moonwilson said:
I would say get a Sebenza. Nothing else comes close, IMO. And pick up a couple Moras for the abusive stuff. Not that a Sebenza can't take it, it's just silly to beat on a nice knife unless you really need to. A Sebenza is as tough as a Strider, but better engineered, more comfortable, and better looking IMO.

Sebenzas rule. I don't think I'll ever carry anything else as a primary EDC.
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I agree. After 20 years of knife collecting probably 200 plus knives I would agree that the Sebenza is the best overall EDC. There are also several good Spydercos (lately my favorite is the Manix 2) for less money that are great EDC's.
 
a 500 edc knife??? are you serious? are you planing on actually using a 500 dollar knife?
 
eccvets said:
a 500 edc knife??? are you serious? are you planing on actually using a 500 dollar knife?
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I lot of people do :)

There are people who have $10K+ plus edc knife collection that gets used and abused .

There are people who have ten $50 knives in edc rotation that they use and abuse. And there are those who prefer using one $500 knife instead of choosing from ten $50 knives. It really comes down to what are your preferences, needs, wants and means :)
 
SteelSnob said:
Here's a video of a member of this forum using a Yuna to cut roots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0PHxVP6WSo&feature=youtube_gdata
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.... wow.... I mean, the only reason I could ever see for needing to use a knife like that is if you are on a very big job site, ranch, or something similar, and only have what you are carrying on you...

I've done plenty of work with landscaping/sprinkler systems, even on a larger site, I'd rather spend the 30 seconds to walk to the truck and grab a shovel and some proper hand tools to do that kind of work. Instead of spending a minute and a half putzing around trying to use a knife(a really expensive knife at that) for something it shouldn't be used for...

I mean, it's good to know it can handle it. But so can just about any $30 knife you can find at WalMart, and they'll most likely work just as well when it comes to abuse like that.

Of course, I would never spend that much money on a knife like that, so it might be skewing my judgement. Knives are tools, and paying for the best is great, but once you get past $100 there is basically no tangible improvement to be had, most of the time.
 
@ goodeyesniper I believe that you don't understand what you're talking about in terms of there being no tangible improvement once you pay more than $100. And try what you saw in that video with a $30 folder and see what happens.
 
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I think the list of things he gave us were examples of daily things he runs into where he *may* need to use his EDC for those. I 100% agree you should be using the right tool for the right job, but maybe those tools arent always available.
 
I carry a Busse fixed blade (SJTAC, iwb kydex), and a Leatherman Wave (no sheath, just sits in the pocket watch pocket of my jeans). I have a lot of bases covered with those. And who knows? Maybe someday I'll have to pry my way out of my overturned truck or something.
 
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