Best factory knife?

While they are a bit more than $50 I would go for a Busse group knife.
Scrap Yard knives comes to mind. There the single best value for the money.
 
Here is the Dog Father being tested. it did not break.
Blade is .275" thick, 10" long made from SR77


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Knoss did a distructive test on the Scrapper 6".

Here.....http://www.knifetests.com/
 
cutter17 said:
Using a knife to bend back a roofing nail is not what I would call a common use test. Unless your life is in imminent danger from said nail, I believe I would go get a flat head screwdriver to pry the nail with.
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Actually it is a fairly common use in this household for a knife. Sometimes I even lay the blade over the bent nail, then hit the spine with a hammer to <gasp> chop the nail. I've had knives that can do both tasks, then peel an apple afterwards, or score the first cut on a 2x4. What I wrote of is that such blades have become much harder to find. To me a good knife is a tool. Yes, it has limitations. I can't lift a 400 lb piece of slate with its 3/16" spine as my crowbar. I know that. However, I do expect it to be able to bend or lift or pry out a bent nail. If I had wanted a flimsy razor, then a flimsy razor or butter knife is what would have been on my belt. Trust me, work a big construction job and you will quickly learn the guy with the nail claw (or other tool you suddenly need) isn't at the spot you are working. He and those tools are usually 3 floors away.

I actually have a broken Leatherman multi tool I will test the warranty of by returning it to them soon. It broke on a nail related task but an old reground Mauser bayonet finished the job.

No I had no particular manufacturer in mind when I spoke of cardboard sheaths. Instead I recall a co-worker's sheath (the moral of the tale: never buy a knife from a mail in ad in the back of a comic book or 'mens' magazine) dissolving in the rain as the glue softened.

I agree with Ontario and thank you for that tip. Their P-3 seems pretty close to the old Q-master knives and I will order one and give it a try. Sure would like to try one of that pattern in D-2 though. Too bad no one makes one.

I looked at the RATS, they seem to be too big, too military. I have worked some jobs where the owner's guards ban the old bayonet or the big K-Bar, but ignore the 'less pointed, less military' looking blades. A sad reality but quite true. When I go to a site, I am there to work, not argue with the guards about how I need the "weapon" to do the job. Small (under 6") blades walk by them easiest. Too small however and the knife becomes useless to me.

I had an old Buck 119 type once. I don't think it had a number stamped on it. If my memory serves, slicing through a nail under a hammer as described above, used to be part of their ads. The tip went prying a nail up, but I kept it anyway grinding the stub to chisel shape, then loaned it to someone who promptly quit taking the boss' portable generator and the knife with him. The cops got the generator back, but I never saw the knife again. I bought a new one, but the metal was different and it didn't hold up. Have they gotten better again?

I won't point a finger (least I offend someone trying to sell the thing), but at least one type suggested has been in my experience better suited for use as a strategic kitchen knife rather than as a general utility blade well suited for construction tasks and hunting/camp use.
 
Why would you use a knife to do anything nail related?
I remember what my dad used to say when I'd use a screwdriver as a hammer.
 
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