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

Yes. I carry and use all price range of knives that I own. $25 Tremor to $485 CRK. I like them both for the value and utility they provide. If you find yourself feeling bad about not giving love to a knife for whatever reason, let it go....or force yourself to use it I guess.
 
I cycle through all of my knives, but no matter what I'm carrying, my Kershaw brawler is always riding in the bottom of my pocket. I can't go anywhere without it.
 
lemmuhj said:
No, took me forever to even think about carrying a 1k knife for EDC...now i do with all of them...you get to enjoy it more as opposed to sitting on the coach playing with it;)
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As in $1000? What did you mean by "...now I do with all of them..."? Sitting on the coach huh? I'm guessing you're in England maybe?
 
If something ever went wrong said:
That's a good point.

I couldn't read your post without hearing Bo Diddley tell Dan Aykroyd in "Trading Places", when Aykroyd is trying to pawn his $7K watch..."In Philadelphia, it's worth fifty bucks!" Classic scene!
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I guess I do carry a less expensive knife after buying a more expensive one. I have an Older Keith Coleman folder and an Insingo Sebenza from Chris Reeves.

My EDC is an $80 GEC lockback folder. It serves my purposes exceedingly well, disappears into my pocket, is large enough for my daily uses and doesn't freak out anyone in the office.

I am actually getting ready to sell off the Insingo. I appreciate how well made the knife is but I cannot seem to feel the love with it.
 
I carry a lesser expensive knife most of the time because the law is unreliable (worse) and I would hate to lose a good knife. So, I carry good knives of lesser cost. For example, I carry a Cat rather than my much loved Chaparral. I carry a Delica rather than a Stryker.
 
Pokerchip said:
I still carry and use my SAK classic everyday and it's the cheapest knife I own.
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What this guy said. It opens my mail at work, boxes and picks stray whiskers without causing alarm. SAK classic opens stuff up, Delica opens up people.
 
For me , carrying a cheaper folder ....like a chinese made junker ....is pointless. I own the other knives because i realized the cheap made ones were just that, cheap. After getting into and collecting higher priced higher quality folders i feel like using a cheaper knife now is like using crappy tools to fix my car instead of just using my snap on's. i only use junky tools or knives if i know im going to ruin or break them ...,usually doing something that would ruin or break most other knives or tools.
 
Loulasher said:
For me , carrying a cheaper folder ....like a chinese made junker ....is pointless. I own the other knives because i realized the cheap made ones were just that, cheap. After getting into and collecting higher priced higher quality folders i feel like using a cheaper knife now is like using crappy tools to fix my car instead of just using my snap on's. i only use junky tools or knives if i know im going to ruin or break them ...,usually doing something that would ruin or break most other knives or tools.
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This is exactly how I feel. I don't carry knives that I ever plan on breaking, so why pick one for that reason. Even if I did, I would still want to carry the best, because if I'm planning on breaking a knife it must be a hell of a lot of necessary and needful, so I'd want the best to do that task.
 
Yesterday I carried a Hogue EX-04 4" alongside a Utilitac II. Today I'm carrying a Spyderco Yojimbo 2 with the same Utilitac. I also frequently carry a higher end knife with an Opinel or Douk Douk of some type, so the answer for me is a definite yes. :thumbup:
 
Have a white collar job that doesn't require much heavy use on the knives. I keep going back to an Opinel #6. Can't even feel it in my pocket. I think I paid $13.00 shipped....probably paid too much.

I have a Sebenza clone, look alike, copy, counterfeit, whatever. Keep it in my pocket and dimes and penny's get caught between the handle and blade. Plus it is much heavier than the Opi.

As far as an "expensive knife" I have a Spyderco Bob Lum Tanto. Used to carry it in my back pocket and it was pretty comfortable. Too big to carry with my current job. Just sitting in the drawer. Ya'll wouldn't be interested in it though. Pretty much a beater.
 
Carry this Olamic Wayfarer or the Sigil.

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I edc my Rockstead Shun and Medford Viper. Both see use. The cheapest I typically have on me to use at all is a Small Sebenza 21 Micarta, or sometimes a CQC-10 Emerson.
 
timberweasel said:
A word about expensive knives: when I caught the 'knife bug', I was buying a lot of budget blades. I wanted to try 'em all, and that proved to be an impossible fantasy. Soon, I realised that I already had several hundred dollars sunk into more knives than I could realistically use. When it dawned on me that I was already past the point of sanity with my collection, paying big bucks on a single blade no longer seemed so silly. Or at least, just as silly as owning a drawer full of more knives than I could possibly use up in a lifetime.

tl:dr

Don't fill up on candy when you really want a steak dinner. :D

-Brett
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Interestingly I walked the opposite path. I started off buying fairly high end knives, then discovered that almost as many expensive knives have crappy geometry as less expensive ones do, and the more I learned about the mechanics of edged tools I began to focus less and less on the premium offerings because I was able to find highly desirable traits in a lot of more budget-friendly options if a bit of searching was done. At this point I still have my expensive knives, but rarely carry any of them and haven't bought anything of roughly $80 in a good long time now, with most being $50 or less, and many of those being $25 or less. My usual companions are a Mora Pro Flex, a Cold Steel Pocket Bushman, or an Opinel No.8

I agree, though, with the "don't fill up on candy" sentiment. A lot of knives at all price points are "candy" and designed to dazzle rather than perform. I'm willing to spend more on tools made to work well than I am on visual flair.
 
I think too many people fall into the trap of thinking some sort of financial progression is the key to happiness. Your first knife must cost $20, then your second $50, then your third $100, then your fourth $150 and so on until achieve the goal of a $600 knife and all will be well.

All of my less expensive knives were bought for a reason after consideration. Their quality is still present regardless of what other knives I buy. Right now a Sprint Run Delica is still bumping knives that are 3x the price from being carried because it`s just that good.
 
I try to look at the knife objectively and ask if it's a good match for my desired application. If it is, then I look at the price and ask myself if I can afford it. If the answer is yes, I ask myself if it's a fair or strong value. If it is, I buy it. If the answer is no, I look for the next most appropriate offering on the market and repeat. The true value of the knife isn't in what it cost to acquire it, but in how good of a job it does in completing the tasks I require of it.
 
It's been hard to use some of my power end knives after moving up the ladder, but my Lady Bug and recently acquired CRKT Squid get a lot of love still. The Squid is so "friendly" looking and the Lady Bug is basically weightless.

There is useability all over the price ranges, which is easy to forget. I just dig handmade.

Mike.
 
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