friend needs a hollowed handle survival knife for less than $50

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What are his options. He wants the hollow handle to store things but is having a hard time finding one in his price range. probably around 5 in blade

I was thinking the ontario pilots knife. But does the ontario pilots knife have a hollow handle?
 
I would look at Schrade. Probably the only knives in that price range that would be worth considering.

Tom
 
Forget the hollow handle, get a solid knife and a sheath with a piggyback type pouch.
 
AITOR jungle king 11 survival knife fits the bill . But i don.nt know how much it is in u.s.ds
 
The schrade ultimate survivor is a nice knife for the price, and has a hollow handle that is fairly large. One piece carbon steel, very well made. You can get them for around $50.
You don't want anything that is two pieces put together because it will break! The schrade is the only knife that is not two piece in that range that I know of.
 
RevDevil said:
Forget the hollow handle, get a solid knife and a sheath with a piggyback type pouch.
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Typically, I would agree with this and hollow handled knives are not something that normally interests me. But...

Ernie1980 said:
The schrade ultimate survivor is a nice knife for the price, and has a hollow handle that is fairly large. One piece carbon steel, very well made. You can get them for around $50.
You don't want anything that is two pieces put together because it will break! The schrade is the only knife that is not two piece in that range that I know of.
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I've been thinking about the Schrade SCHF2SM Extreme Survivor. As Ernie1980 mentions, it is one piece construction. It is made entirely from a single piece of 1070 carbon steel and coated with a battleship gray coating (wonder how the coating holds up?) to help avoid corrosion. Hollow handle contains a multi-bit screwdriver, but it can be readily removed for use of the entire handle area.

What intrigues me is the one piece construction. Eventually when I find the right deal I will get a CRK one piece to join my small CRK collection, but have been thinking about this item in the meantime. One has to realize that for $50 - $60 you get what you get. It seems, in this case, there might be decent value for this knife.

At any rate, I wouldn't suggest any other hollow handle knife at that price point. This one might be a consideration.

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While there are a few hollow handle knives that are tough and durable most aren't in that price range the only ones I can think of are the schrade and cold steel bushman. I'd go with the schrade over the bushman.

Now if you go up dramatically in price there are quite a few that are tough and well made.
 
BTW, I've not seen the Bushman in person. In the pictures, it looks like the hollow handle is designed to fit a wooden staff to create a spear and is not designed for storage. For those personally familiar with that knife, is that correct? Or does it have a waterproof cap that is not readily visible in the pics that I have seen?
 
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BTW, I've not seen the Bushman in person. In the pictures, it looks like the hollow handle is designed to fit a wooden staff to create a spear and is not designed for storage. For those personally familiar with that knife, is that correct? Or does it have a waterproof cap that is not readily visible in the pics that I have seen?
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you are correct sir! it in no way shape or form has any sort of cap.... that being the case, I have one and you can ram a plug in the handle if you use your imagination, but as far as waterproof, it sure is not.
 
Like others said, the Schrades are really the only option at that price point. The CS Bushman is a nice little knife, but the hollow handle is more for mounting it to a pole to make it a spear than it is to be used for storage. You could cap it with cork or something, but it's definitely not designed from the ground up to be used for storage, the Schrades are.
 
I would say the Schrade would be my choice. But in reality a Mora and a pouch would be the far better choice.
 
Schrade doesn't usually get much praise around here, not since Taylor Brands acquired the name anyway, but their fixed blade knives are reasonably well regarded considering the price point. I have a couple of their Chinese fixed blades, and my take on them is that the typical weak link in many imported knives - moving parts - obviously isn't a concern, leaving reliability to be more a matter of the actual materials. In the case of their hollow-handled knives, if the steel is what they claim and the heat treatment is decent, $50 isn't unreasonable *if* a hollow handle is a priority. Two of my three imported Schrades are from the "Extreme Survival" line (discontinued BT01 and current SCHF27) and I am just as likely to take them with my on a wilderness excursion as any of my more expensive, arguably "nicer" knives.

At some point in the near future, I'll probably pick of some variant of the SCHF2 to satisfy my curiosity.
 
Lots of good suggestions above. Yes, the hollow handle thing is a gimmick, and useless. Started in the Rambo movies of the '80s.
Anything you can fit in a hollow handle (not much) can fit better into a pouch on your sheath. Or anywhere else but the handle.

If your friend just wants to play with one for grins, Harbor Freight Tools has one now for $8. in stores. No name, made in China like all the rest. You can also pick them up on eBay for around $6-$10 delivered.
 
Well hollow handles didn't start with rambo but much earlier. Randall made lots of them for guys in Vietnam, and there are many really well made ones available still. Your not going to get those for 8 bucks at harbor freight though lol. The cheap knock offs from the rambo movies gave many a false impression of there strengths though.

I keep a fire steel and scraper and some kevlar cord in the ones I use hunting and camping.
 
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