How does the Price of a Knife Affect You?

Most of the knives that I’m seriously interested in seem to hover around the $180-$200 mark. That’s my sweet spot. I tend to chase premium steel/scales so... If it’s something I have to have I’ll dish out $300. Anything over that I just say no.
 
Depends how bad I want one particular one. Other wise I get the decent quality at a good price and am willing to compromise on grind and other blade forms and such.

For example, to me the OKC RD6 (Ranger series) is a FFG that normally I dislike and its a clip point as well. But the blade design is a "low" blade height but with a 1/4" spine of 5160 steel that functions more like a saber grind to me. As well its larger choil makes all the RD4-9 knives all able to do those "Bushy" tasks as well. The handle is a little small but micarta and its a full non skeletal tang. And for the price it functions as a literal bomb proof "Surival" category knife I have gifted to friends and family who all used them to some degree to get back home to the warm glow of their computer/tablet and doritios. The RD6 was a"Compromise" knife that had many pluses that out did the "Cons" that to me it had that was affordable and no one had to feel that bad if it got lost when the canoe went over.

Other wise if I'm short on "Back up" folding pack knives, a gator blade, or buck 110 gets tossed in there, or one of the CS models I forgot the name of.

Do get what you want or get the best your budget lets you can get (or one and one for a back up if possible) is my advice.
 
If it's over $200, I want to hold it in my hands before I pay for it. I have made a few exceptions, and I regretted about half of them. I have held in my hands a few knives that would have retailed for over $500, and I never would have paid anything for them aside from the resale value. There was a fixed blade from a maker (I don't recall his name) whose stuff apparently sells for low multi-thousands that was unusable but not pretty enough to look at. If I were a billionaire, my attitude might change.
 
It really doesn't matter what the price of a knife is as long as someone has the disposable income to enjoy this hobby. Everyone is going to be different on why they buy what they do, but the most important thing, IMO, is to have fun, enjoy what you have and show it off regardless of what anyone thinks.
 
When I started buying knives to "collect," my spending limt was $100/knife. Then it was $150, $200, $250, $300, $350, $400 and then $450.

$500 is currently my limit and I've already exceeded that limit once. So you can see the problem. LOL! ;)
 
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For me price has more of an impact on what I will use than on what I will buy. The upper limit of what I will buy is mainly drawn by the fact that it's extraordinarily rare for me to have more than $1,500 in discretionary money at any time, so that's more or less been the hard limit. I've only been over $1,000 once, though. And that was a good investment, as the same swords are selling for $2,000+ now.
 
jeronimo said:
I typically keep my single knife purchases under a $300 limit.
I do/will make a Shirogorov, Hinderer, or Chris Reeve purchase, once in a while.
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I will possibly make a CRK purchase at some point. I’m not into folders. I’ll spend between $250-$500 on Bussekin or CPK no problem. It’ll take a while for me to spend that on that on a folder. The only one that I semi like is CRK and I don’t know that much about them.
 
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