Cheaper Than Dirt Rough Use Knife 13.5", any good?

yeah, I was thinking of going with one of those two or a ka-bar, but found that guy and saw some pretty positive reviews so I figured I'd see what you guys thought.
 
Cheaper Than Dirt charges a LOT for shipping and handling, so the knife would cost you significantly more than $11.
 
I suspect the knife says "china". Its been my experience that a lot of china knives from the last decade or so are decent. If you are a collector of mostly expensive American made knives, you will be dissapointed in this one.( It depends on what you want it for or what your going to do with it) I'd probably give $11 for this knife to keep in my truck, tool box, whatever, unless it bore the name Pakistan or Taiwan... wich you usually can bend with your hands. (I own 2 or 3 I keep on the back porch... I only cut okra off the stalk or corn tassles off with em and the boys sometimes throw em around) You pretty much get what you pay for. I hope the shipping and handling isn't over $2-3 on this thing. As for supporting America, no one does more than I do. I am grateful to God to be an American, and I try to be aware of where products are made and buy American also, but I wonder how many brother knifenuts have strong feelings about buying only American products and drive Fords, which is one of the top ten finacial supporters of the gay agenda in this country. Men marrying men and women marrying women, and Ford is helping em make it leagal and acceptable. No wonder the Arabs call us infidels. Not tryin to make anyone mad, just tryin to get us all to think before we call a knife (that we've probably never owned) a piece of junk just because its not American made, and a man who is interested in buying one because its affordable, asks our advice.


"THE MOST VALUABLE TOOL OR WEAPON IS A CLEAR MIND"
 
knarfeng said:
This knife was discussed in this thread:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=488736&highlight=cheaper

The final determination was that it was not a bad knife for that price point.

The search engine is your friend, :eek:
but it helps to have a good memory and read a lot of threads.:D
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That cracks, me up, I did a search for it in the forums and came up with 2 results, neither of which were that thread. I'll try a google search next time like the bottom poster suggested.
 
spinnerbait said:
I suspect the knife says "china". Its been my experience that a lot of china knives from the last decade or so are decent. If you are a collector of mostly expensive American made knives, you will be dissapointed in this one.( It depends on what you want it for or what your going to do with it) I'd probably give $11 for this knife to keep in my truck, tool box, whatever, unless it bore the name Pakistan or Taiwan... wich you usually can bend with your hands. (I own 2 or 3 I keep on the back porch... I only cut okra off the stalk or corn tassles off with em and the boys sometimes throw em around) You pretty much get what you pay for. I hope the shipping and handling isn't over $2-3 on this thing. As for supporting America, no one does more than I do. I am grateful to God to be an American, and I try to be aware of where products are made and buy American also, but I wonder how many brother knifenuts have strong feelings about buying only American products and drive Fords, which is one of the top ten finacial supporters of the gay agenda in this country. Men marrying men and women marrying women, and Ford is helping em make it leagal and acceptable. No wonder the Arabs call us infidels. Not tryin to make anyone mad, just tryin to get us all to think before we call a knife (that we've probably never owned) a piece of junk just because its not American made, and a man who is interested in buying one because its affordable, asks our advice.


"THE MOST VALUABLE TOOL OR WEAPON IS A CLEAR MIND"
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First of all, Taiwan produces some pretty darn good knives. Second, there are a ton of posts elsewhere for the religious, political, and gay bashing topics if you're into that kinda stuff. Chill out :cool:.


As for the knife in question. I ordered what appeared to be the same knife from SMKW (in a set). It was machete thin, and the blade was bent. The CTD knives discussed in the other thread are described as being heavy, so while the one I've got looks identical to the CTD one, it may be different. The one I got wasn't worth 11 bucks though.
 
Serrinon said:
That cracks, me up, I did a search for it in the forums and came up with 2 results, neither of which were that thread. I'll try a google search next time like the bottom poster suggested.
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The thing to remember about the Bladeforums search engine is that it uses an "OR" operator instead of an "AND" operator. That is, if you put the words "cheaper dirt", the search engine looks for any thread that contains "cheaper" OR "dirt".

Standard hints:
1) read the FAQ stickie about searches
2) use the "advanced search" option (it's on the SEARCH popup)
3) start by search thread titles and single forums
4) use single words

I knew there was a thread about this knife in the "general knife discussion" forum in the last 6 months.
I started by searching thread titles
I expanded to searching threads, limiting the search to this forum and the last 6 months.
I searched for the word "Cheaper"

Like I said, memory helps, but the search function does work.

And RF, the guys who actually bought the knife and used it said it was a reasonable beater knife for the price. They felt they got their money's worth.

Copy? doubtless. Junk? Apparently not.
 
I would get the Ontario Birds head bowie it is copied off of or a Buck 119. Once you pay for shipping etc it will be close to the same price and you can usually find the Birds head and especially the 119 used.

CS has decent cheap machetes in 1050 steel in small sizes like the Kukuri machete I own that are quite good.
 
I guess there is only one way to find out... Two cost $32 (incl shipping). At $16 each they'll make great Christmas stocking stuffers for my kid's campers. As an all around camp tool I'm sure they will last forever... only $200 knives go missing.
 
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