Do y'all still carry cheaper knives once you've bought higher quality ones?

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Well i usually carry two or more knives one me, one higher quality one for normal cutting task, and a beater knife (20$~70$) for hard use cutting that won't break my heart if i actually manage to break it
 
Two reasons I've never bought a sebenza one is cost two is I only buy knives that I don't mind digging in mud in and crap like that and sebenzas look more like jewelry to me than a tool
 
blade dude said:
Two reasons I've never bought a sebenza one is cost two is I only buy knives that I don't mind digging in mud in and crap like that and sebenzas look more like jewelry to me than a tool
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You shouldn't dig in mud with knives. Use a blunt object.

My Seb is not jewelry, it is a tool that I trust completely to cut what I need cut. I've carried some version of a Sebenza since 2006. No knife has ever felt as solid and reliable. To me, the Sebenza is the best meeting point of price and quality. There are knives that function as pocket jewelry. the Sebenza is not those knives.
 
On of my favorites is a kershaw chill. 20 bucks and it can do all sorts of stuff....Not a very broad blade but it carries well and looks great. Sometimes I have 20-40 dollars of gear on me. Sometimes 300-500, just depends. I just try to enjoy everything I choose to buy.


 
Cold steel Aus8 bought during the liquidations. Knives that eat shit and ask for more.
 
A lot of people carry a 500$ phone that lasts a few years, so if you look at it that way, a 500$ knife that lasts a lifetime isn't that expensive.
 
Sillyship said:
And seriously, I don't even have Hinderers, or a Strider, or any CRK's yet. Does anyone who owns those carry other knives? It almost feels like if I'm gonna own them, I'm gonna use them. I do have some safe queens, but they are more like ladies in waiting.
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I carry my CRK Umnumzaan and MT Scarab quite a bit but I also bought them slightly used so I would carry then and not let them sit in a drawer. I usually buy my more expensive knives used because I found that if I buy a new one, I will tend not to carry it but I will carry a used one since it already has a few marks on it.

I also carry my less expensive knives from time to time but I usually have one of the "better" ones in my pocket. I do not carry them as status symbols, no one that I work with has any idea what they are, they just feel better to me and I like quality over quantity.
 
Varies. Modern folders, not really. These days I have either a Benchmade Adamas or Manix 2 XL in my pocket 99% of the time. Traditional folders, yeah, I only have one decently expensive slipjoint and it gets rotated around with a SAK and Boker Tech Tool. Fixed blades, oh yeah. I happily switch between various Moras, a Cold Steel Master Hunter in 3V, a North Arm Osprey in S35VN, a Buck Selkirk in 420HC and my nifty new Schrade SCHF42D. All get the job done just fine.
 
Assuming "cheap" to mean less expensive.

YES, my Dragonfly with British Racing Green FRN handle (used as a money clip) is always in my pocket ;-) or say a Mora for a cheap fixed blade.

If by cheap you mean a piece of sh-t knife like corner gas station - NO there is no place for that kind crap except for the ignorant.
 
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I have and I was sorry, because a cheap lock back folded on me trying to hack through a cat breir. The tough vine had fallen across my hiking trail, hacked part of it into with my Hinderer XM-18 a few days before. Came back and more of it was in the way. Took out a little Bucklite 422 I had with me that day. Hacked at it a good while and wasn't hardly denting it. Then from the shock of hitting the vine edge first the blade just folded up on my finger. Cut to the bone on my index finger. I'm not saying all cheaper knives would fail doing this, but this one did and I was sorry I'd even tried hacking the very tough vine into with it.
 
I have to admit that at times, I carry a Bad Blood Dreadnaught once in a while.
 
I have a cheap CRKT that I don't use mostly because it feels incredibly cheap. I have a Cold Steel Hold Out 3 that costs the same and I gladly carry and use it. The Hold Out's lock is going to be stronger than most framelocks and AUS8A, despite all the steel-hype out there, works just fine. I've owned (and used) >$1k customs also. At this point for me it's more about changing up for variety's sake.
 
jill jackson said:
I have and I was sorry, because a cheap lock back folded on me trying to hack through a cat breir. The tough vine had fallen across my hiking trail, hacked part of it into with my Hinderer XM-18 a few days before. Came back and more of it was in the way. Took out a little Bucklite 422 I had with me that day. Hacked at it a good while and wasn't hardly denting it. Then from the shock of hitting the vine edge first the blade just folded up on my finger. Cut to the bone on my index finger. I'm not saying all cheaper knives would fail doing this, but this one did and I was sorry I'd even tried hacking the very tough vine into with it.
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Not sure how you managed that, but hacking at vines maybe isn't suited for a small to medium folding knife?

coldmrk said:
On of my favorites is a kershaw chill. 20 bucks and it can do all sorts of stuff....Not a very broad blade but it carries well and looks great. Sometimes I have 20-40 dollars of gear on me. Sometimes 300-500, just depends. I just try to enjoy everything I choose to buy.



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However to the OP and coldmrk (whom I agree with), I've carried a XM-18, a SMF, and a Sebenza 21. Loved em all and had no problem carrying any of those however I also occasionally carry an endura or a case hobo in combo with an emerson Cqc-12 or CFS. I just picked up a ZT0200sw and plan on carrying it daily after a mod to make the liner lock easier to get to and maybe some aftermarket scales. Ultimately if I own a knife I'm going to carry it and the only exception is a Warren Thomas custom and that's because it's huge and I just haven't felt like carrying it for the last few months.
 
I like each of my knives for different reasons; the budget friendly and the more expensive. I like to carry each of them in a loose rotation without feeling obligated. Keep it fun and useful.
 
Hacking a vine isn't abusive use at all, I use a folder for that more than anything else I do with a knife. Those older Bucklites can't handle much shock. They will hold as long as don't jar the blade. The new model Bucklite I recently purchased seems much more robust. Locks up super tight, the older ones I have are easily defeated with moderate spine taps against softer objects, such as a mouse pad setting on a desk.
 
jill jackson said:
Hacking a vine isn't abusive use at all, I use a folder for that more than anything else I do with a knife. Those older Bucklites can't handle much shock. They will hold as long as don't jar the blade. The new model Bucklite I recently purchased seems much more robust. Locks up super tight, the older ones I have are easily defeated with moderate spine taps against softer objects, such as a mouse pad setting on a desk.
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Never said abusive. Just saying right tool for the job, Hacking at vines with a thin lightweight knife that's not sturdy sounds like user error not really knife error. That'd be like blaming a slipjoint for getting stuck in wood and when you try to pull the knife out it pulls the blade out of "locked" position and then snaps closed on the person. It's not the knifes fault the user wasn't careful and hurt themselves is my point regardless of spine whack failure.


and for the OP and the sake of the thread

Examples of my range of carry




 
I've hacked many a vine with all sorts of folders, that lock open and never had anyother fail from pressure applied to the edge side, besides the Bucklite. It doesn't take hardly any shock to jar the lock open on the 3, I own. Even the brand new one. User error? Not so just a weak lock back.
 
I do a quite a bit of hiking, but I rarely have vines blocking my progress. Where is it that vines are that quick growing and intrusive? Or are you going off trail and bushwhacking? I find a lot more downed trees in my path, but it's usually easier to step over them than to whack them to kindling. :) If you are exploring little used trails or making your own - that rocks! Most of my hiking is limited to established trails.

I have a good bit of confidence in most of the knives I carry, but I wouldn't want to do much, if any, bushwhacking with them. I have some knives that would be decent for that, probably, but they are larger than I carry for EDC, so I would have to carry them specifically for the purpose of going off-trail. And if I was planning ahead like that, I might want to wear some leather gloves to protect my hands from the vines, thorns, etc.

jill jackson said:
I've hacked many a vine with all sorts of folders, that lock open and never had anyother fail from pressure applied to the edge side, besides the Bucklite. It doesn't take hardly any shock to jar the lock open on the 3, I own. Even the brand new one. User error? Not so just a weak lock back.
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