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ronnchy

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hello.
a good friend of mine is turning 40 and he is into pocket knives (hope he's not on this forum...) I was trying to get a bunch of his friends to go in on getting him a nice collector knife.
i don't know much about knives myself but my hobby is woodworking. both my friend and i like the look of damascus steel, hence the idea of the damascus pocket knife.
I'm in the Toronto area and found a shop called Knife, downtown. They sell a brand called Mcusta. As i said, i don't know much about knives and have no idea if this is a good brand or not.
My friend likes the tactical type folders. I've been searching online and found a bunch of ones that i personally like. there looks to be a lot of imitation cheapie type knives out there and then there's the 'mortgage your house' boutique knives. I'm looking for something like the SOG Arcitech Damascus. (just not the $600 price tag) or the Boker Tirpit ($900!) I don't even know if these are good brands. i just like the way they look.
Depending on how many of his friends come in on the deal, i'm looking to spend between $200-400.
what are some other known good quality brand names? does anyone know where i could go locally (within the GTA) to take a look at different brands? does anyone have any suggestions within that price range?
thanks in advance
 
If you have access to Mcusta there locally, go take a look at them. They are good knives.
 
Mcusta has several good options. Also look at the Kershaw Shallot Damascus, Spyderco Delica 4 Titanium/Damascus, and Spyderco Stretch Damascus w/ blue glass fiber handle.
 
Mcusta makes high quality Damascus knives at reasonable price. The fit and finish on both Mcusta knives I have is excellent.

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For that kind of money, and less, you can get some very nice damascus bladed knives: The Endura, Delica, Stretch (black or blue nishijin), all by Spyderco. Kershaw makes the Shallot and Leek, and you know the Mcusta.
I can't begin to tell you how beautiful the nishijin glass fiber is that Spyderco uses. I like the blue, but the black is nice, too.
 
Well Mcusta already has a pretty strong showing so them for sure. (They also did the Browning Ice, I believe. Dunno if that came in plain VG-10 steel, or also in Damascus) I'd throw my hat in for Sante Fe Knifeworks. They have a decent selection of damascus knives with fairly similar lines to Mcusta's. LionSteel also has their Ladder Pattern Damascus on the SR-1(A) probably on a few of their others as well.
 
brets-ftw said:
Well Mcusta already has a pretty strong showing so them for sure. (They also did the Browning Ice, I believe. Dunno if that came in plain VG-10 steel, or also in Damascus).
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Plain VG-10 only. And as others have said, Mcusta is an excellent brand. :thumbup: (By the way, Mcusta is actually an abbreviation. It's derived from "Machined custom". :) )
 
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thanks everyone. I only joined this forum hoping to get some info. there's a great bunch of people here. I'm going to check out the store downtown that sells Mcusta.
the Spyderco Stretch Damascus looks nice too. anyone know of shops in the GTA that i could go check some different brands that were suggested?
 
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