I have got to admit I have been bitten by the knife bug recently. I now have 9 knives...like I need 9....lol...I'm in good company here, so I can say that. But I have noticed that I have spent quite a bit of money on these knives. So I wanted to take a step back and look at the knives...a bird eye view if you will, of what I am actually holding in my hand.
It's...well...its a tool used to cut things. Ok, so what makes one knife that cuts things cost 4x or 5x more than another knife that cuts things?
To give some background, I started with Case knives, well not really, my first knife was a Strider GB (tanto). BFK I bought because I had to have the biggest badest knife around. Anyway, I had it for years and found it so big that I stopped carrying it. Not practical for me. 10 years later, I found Case pocket knives and began purchasing them. Big difference, I know, but I think its part of the getting old process...lol. I found that that the case knives where incredibley sharp...sharper than my $400 Strider. I got into the whole paper cutting thing but I noticed the blade would dull from paper cutting sharp, down to rub your thumb across the blade sharp, in surprisingly few paper cuts. So I began purchasing high dollar knives with fancy steels to get better edge retention....and found that I really can't tell that much difference from my laymans perspective. Yeah they hold the edge for 5 or 10 more cuts but big whoopty doo....lol...is it worth paying 4x more money for the knife? I am kind of disappointed in the amount of money I have spent on a blade that I will have to sharpen almost as quickly as I would have to sharpen the cheaper Case knife. Can someone get me back in line here? Is there a steel out there that is affordable, can get a super sharp edge really easily and quickly, will not rust and won't roll or chip easily? I really am not feeling like paying a bunch of money for this high end steel when the end product is still the same...you have to resharpen it, but its a major pain in the butt!!
It's...well...its a tool used to cut things. Ok, so what makes one knife that cuts things cost 4x or 5x more than another knife that cuts things?
To give some background, I started with Case knives, well not really, my first knife was a Strider GB (tanto). BFK I bought because I had to have the biggest badest knife around. Anyway, I had it for years and found it so big that I stopped carrying it. Not practical for me. 10 years later, I found Case pocket knives and began purchasing them. Big difference, I know, but I think its part of the getting old process...lol. I found that that the case knives where incredibley sharp...sharper than my $400 Strider. I got into the whole paper cutting thing but I noticed the blade would dull from paper cutting sharp, down to rub your thumb across the blade sharp, in surprisingly few paper cuts. So I began purchasing high dollar knives with fancy steels to get better edge retention....and found that I really can't tell that much difference from my laymans perspective. Yeah they hold the edge for 5 or 10 more cuts but big whoopty doo....lol...is it worth paying 4x more money for the knife? I am kind of disappointed in the amount of money I have spent on a blade that I will have to sharpen almost as quickly as I would have to sharpen the cheaper Case knife. Can someone get me back in line here? Is there a steel out there that is affordable, can get a super sharp edge really easily and quickly, will not rust and won't roll or chip easily? I really am not feeling like paying a bunch of money for this high end steel when the end product is still the same...you have to resharpen it, but its a major pain in the butt!!
