Good knife brands that are cheap?

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I was looking to get a nice knife with good steal for cheap. Anyone got any suggestions on good brands?
 
Kershaw has a lot of offerings, most at pretty quality for price ratios. I'd recommend looking at their line up.

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SanRenMu
Enlan
Schrade
Smith & Wesson
CRKT (avoid the Ken Onion designs, those are costly)
Kershaw
 
Before anyone else on this forum lays into you too hard, let me tell you "cheap" is a relative term here. Your short post included a lot of subjective terms, whether you knew it or not. "Good steel", "cheap", "good brand", and "nice knife" are all extremely subjective here, for better or for worse.

As a community we can help you a lot more if you provide the following pieces of information: Price range withing $25, primary media you intend to cut, blade style you prefer, and a cursory overview of knives that you already know that you like.
 
Bill_Brasky said:
Before anyone else on this forum lays into you too hard, let me tell you "cheap" is a relative term here. Your short post included a lot of subjective terms, whether you knew it or not. "Good steel", "cheap", "good brand", and "nice knife" are all extremely subjective here, for better or for worse.

As a community we can help you a lot more if you provide the following pieces of information: Price range withing $25, primary media you intend to cut, blade style you prefer, and a cursory overview of knives that you already know that you like.
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I think that as long as the blade steel goes no lower than 5cr13mov, 420HC or 440a, it's all good.

Although I have gotten by for extended periods of time on 3cr13 as well.
 
Kershaw are great entry level pocket knives with many sub $30 models. I love the ontario rats. Spyderco has some well built budget blades. Buck makes decent folders. Opinels aren't trendy, but are well made and well liked.
 
Victorinox Swiss Army Knives. I recommend the Alox Farmer.


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Most of Buck's knives don't cost that much, and a really good one that I never hesitate to recommend is the 482 which only cost 20$
 
Give us a budget. Rockstead guys can call sebenzas cheap sebenza guys can call benchmade cheap. I'll assume cheap is under $40. In that case byrd, Kershaw crkt and sanrenmu for modern folders, Buck victorinox schrade for traditional.


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Sooooooo so many strong and affordable values out there. Most major manufacturers have good budget options in their lineups, but as far as brands built around value, Mora, Mercator, Douk-Douk, Opinel, Condor, Nagao Higonokami, Victorinox, Svord, Tramontina, Byrd, Rough Rider...all depends on what you're looking for in a knife, of course.
 
440 blade steel is going to be one of the most common in that price range. It is good steel for the price. Look for that among your choices. It isn't the best, but it is a nice, solid performer.

What is the general opinion of Gerber knives? I had a couple that seemed good, although I don't remember the model or price. I carried one of these blades for years, and they worked quite well.

Let us know what you choose, too. Please.
 
In the last fifteen years I have had a couple of Gerber blades. That was enough to tell me I won't be needing any more.
 
Your budget sounds like $50 or less, is this an appropriate estimate?
If that's the case, I assume a folder.
Kershaw has many as does Gerber and S&W (many of which I've had for many years without fail).
 
I recently discovered Ganzo knives and bought one yesterday to try it out. It did not disappoint me, opening and closing is very smooth, it came out of the box sharp. The blade centering is perfect and lock up was solid. I got the G727M it's similar to the Ontario RAT1 the blade steel is 440C.
 
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