Going back to cheaper knives.

Never have anything that you can't walk away from in 20 seconds flat.
 
Wowbagger said:
I'm ALL screwed up. My favorite user is an $8 Cold Steel paring knife. I'm all about the handle / shape / ergonomics of the thing. Top knife in photo. So I have never left cheep knives (though my last purchase ( last three days of 2016 ) was a Gayle Bradley One).
but
the $8 Cold Steel paring knife isn't made any more and chances of buying another one on the exchange are pretty remote. So for me it is practically priceless and I would be seriously bumed if I lost it. (They still make something like it but for me it is no where near as good; I have one).

Then what do I do ? I buy a Boker Urban Trapper and rehandle it with a larger version of the paring knife's handle (still a few of those to be had out there but disappearing fast).

So what do I have now ? I have a $60 knife with a $18 handle and about two hundred dollars worth of my time putting the two together. So now I am carrying practically my most expensive knife, a one of a kind, custom so I don't loose the $8 knife.
. . . or something like that . . . I'm sooooooo confused.

But having a heck of a good time at it.


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This post hit me in my soul. For me this is how my collecting works it's about what I find interesting and valuable. I feel the same way you described about my Swiss army tinker. It's not expensive or hard to replace, but is mine and I have an attachment to it. Carried it daily for about the past 3 years and was with me through important life events. I'd be more bummed if that got lost or stolen than any other knife in my collection. It's been retired by a green alox pioneer
 
Never have anything that you can't walk away from in 20 seconds flat.
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but, but . . . but . . . but . . .
I had a girl friend like that once does that count ?
 
Charlie Mike said:
Never have anything that you can't walk away from in 20 seconds flat.
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I won't walk away from any of my stuff.
When I went to Paris, I bought a knife there; cost about $60 Canadian, if I remember right.
When I got lost in a less good area of town, I had it in my hand...wrapped in the bag, not as a weapon. It was so no one could pickpocket it from me.
If anyone had tried taking it, I would have bashed them unconscious with the very stout hardwood walking stick I had with me. :D

You ain't getting my knife from me, no way. :)
 
It's been retired by a green alox pioneer
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Very wise.
I had a pretty robust knife I carried through some fairly significant medical work that went on all summer off and on. I felt it in my pocket and focused on it when things got scary. I sent the knife back for work and they couldn't fix it so I elected to get a different replacement. I found myself back in the clinic for the final few procedures . . . without THAT KNIFE. What the heck did I let it go for ? ? ? ?

Now I want to get it back just for the reasons above (and like you said) not that I would / could use it again.
 
had my knife, in my hand, wrapped with a bag, couldn't use one of my many pockets to store the knife, couldn't defend my self from knife theft with my knife, had to carry a chunk of wood in my other hand for that
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Life sure is silly and complicated isn't it ?

I'm not making fun of you; no way.
 
Wowbagger said:
Life sure is silly and complicated isn't it ?

I'm not making fun of you; no way.
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Well, it had no lock, less than a 3 inch blade, and I hear that French prisons aren't the greatest place to be.
And I don't even speak any French!
Good luck explaining much to the cops.

But "Guy with cane luckily avoids injury when attacked by horrible Parisian thugs" makes an easier explanation process, regardless of language barrier. ;)
 
snooka said:
It's 30 seconds :p

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20 seconds for me. I don't like to waste time.
 
I'm with CM and this is part of the reason I'm choosing to retire my cheapie, but priceless to me Kershaw. My circumstance are probably a bit different then a lot of folks. I live in the middle of nowhere. Lord knows when I'm going to get stuck somewhere because of a mechanical truck or four wheeler failure or even an accident and how long I'll be there until help arrives. My knives aren't as much tools for defense as they are tools for survival. If I go into the city and some dude walks up to me either carrying or pointing a gun and asks for my stuff, he's getting it. I have a concealed carry permit here in GA, but I'm not about getting into a knife fight or a gun fight over a few pieces of plastic in my wallet, a wedding band and a pieces of steel in my pocket. Now if he wants the truck I'm at least going to try to bargain to keep the dog. Hard to replace a good dog that sleep in your bed at night :D
 
Lapedog said:
Swiss army knives are so useful, in the city pretty much anything else you carry is just for sport.
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+1
We sometimes carry for SD, having not the right/possibility to carry a gun, but for usual knife tasks and normal cutting chores the SAK is the king of the city and the wilderness alike. I share many lines of thinking with you, Lapedog, and I carry both for different reasons. Like today:

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Have a nice day! :thumbup:
 
Really the only cheaper knife I carry these days is my victorinox ranger. And if there was a higher end equivalent with the same utility as that? I'd carry it instead.
 
I have been fairly consistent carrying around the $100-200 mark EDC for no particular reason. There are a lot of appealing folders in that range that I tend to buy from. There aren't many $400+ ones I'm willing to buy outside of a Bodega but dropping $1500+ one one I want isn't a good life decision right now.
 
I went through a middle age crisis, and after I sold off almost everything I had in the way of collections and excess stuff in my life. My Randall's were sold off by A.G. Russell on his knife lists and I went to not carrying anything I couldn't replace at the next big box store or sporting goods store. My main pocket knives were Case and Victorinox, my guns were off the shelf Rugers or Smith and Wessons. Now I use Glocks. If I need a heavy duty cutter I use Ontario machetes or a Plumb hatchet.

Things are just things. The older I got, the more the people in my life mattered more than inanimate things like guns and knives. If I have a SAK in my pocket, I'm good to go.
 
I like well made less expensive knives a bunch. I also like custom knives of which I have a few. Currently carry a 311 in Rattlesnake kydex and a Rough Rider Deer Hunter or a Remington Circle R lock back most of the time. But today for some reason I am still carrying the 311 but I have my Crawford made Falcon folder in my pocket, so go figure.

I kind of look at it this way, I like owning and playing decent guitars. What I have found is guitars made today from the better names like Gibson/Epiphone, Fender/Squire, Cort etc.etc. there low end guitars are just very well made as compared to say 15 yrs ago and even 10yrs ago as compared to higher end models from the same company. Main difference being might be pickups or finishes and woods used. Which in an electric guitar doesn't mean that much. It seems to me the technology today used in making a less expensive knife with a decent steel and heat treat is far far ahead as to what was available 10yrs ago or even 5 yrs ago in knife making. Case in point is my Rough Rider Deer Slayer. Think CASE clasp knife or the Buffalo knife. I own variants of them and the Deer Slayer for less than $30 is just excellent. So there ya go. keepem sharp

PS I want to add and addendum to this thought. I have always had a hard problem with knives that cost more than a decent gun. I know for the most part it is an individual making a custom knife but.......
 
Funny...I never really got into carrying really expensive stuff (for me really expensive is any knife over $200). I however have had my fair share of knives from $0 - $500. Now my preferred carry is a Spyderco Native 5 LW. I prefer the FRN to G10 and the no BS nature of the knife. It's like a Glock, which I also carry daily.
 
Hey guys,
New member here. I carry about 5 Benchmades in rotation but the higher end stay in the safe. The older I get (and I'm old by most standards) I want to start carrying all of them before I kick the bucket. You can't take it with you as they say. It would be cool to carry my CR's and enjoy them. I'm not a rich guy but I buy quality knives..............learned that a long time ago. Thanks for letting me join this forum as I really love reading about knives and the different opinions. If I'm off base with this post let me know........
 
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