Inexpensive beater knives

[s7brad]

Mine are the Condor inca knifen bushlore
CS canadian belt knife
Spydie tenacious and boker plus yellow lockback. Kissingcrane are good cheap slippies

 

[bearthedog]

Bear certainly gets the prize for number of knives where the sheaths exceed double the cost of the steel they house Kydex always makes things look so clean doesn't it?

Wrong, I didn't pay for any of them, but I do really love and appreciate them. They do make things look clean and they are better for people who do not clean their knives very much.

-RB

 

[Switchblade61]

Hard to get better price/value knives than the Moras.

 

[Jeff H]

I have Vic Farmers that I got for under $30 and a handful of Moras too, but I have seen both so far on this thread.

Don't forget what $10 will get yiou at A. G. Russell:

And a Tram I do't think I paid a single dollar for,.... nope, this one was a gift from a good friend.:thumbup: 'Never made myself a sheath though.

Pretty nasty shot, but the two on the left are Green River knives that cost about $6/each when I got them. The Ritter Grip' is another story.

 

[bearthedog]

I have Vic Farmers that I got for under $30 and a handful of Moras too, but I have seen both so far on this thread.

Don't forget what $10 will get yiou at A. G. Russell:
And a Tram I do't think I paid a single dollar for,.... nope, this one was a gift from a good friend.:thumbup: 'Never made myself a sheath though.

Nice one old pal!
-RB

 

[Jeff H]

Nice one old pal!
-RB

Took me a while to find that picture, but I had to dig it up because it's too dark to get a new one right now. I just used that Tram today too!:thumbup::thumbup:

 

[ivan51]

this post is makeing me want try out a mora #2

 

[bearthedog]

this post is makeing me want try out a mora #2

Well then these pictures won't help!

-RB
#2

 

[cramsey3006]

No camera because the wife is at the hospital waiting on nephew #2 to show up.

But I can list them.

Mora Stainless Clipper
Mora carbon clipper
Mora 911 carbon
Mora 946 stainless
Cold Steel Canadian
Cold Steel Roach Belly
Kershaw....

Oh hell, I think just about all of the current stuff I have is/was under $30 or so.

 

[Carolina River Rat]

I'd also like to recommend the Cold Steel Long Hunter and Western Hunter. Very good knives for the price. I have them somewhere around here. I'll try to find them tomorrow and take pics.

 

[ivan51]

Well then these pictures won't help!

-RB
#2

doh! looks like i need to give bensbackwoods a call now!:foot::foot:

 

[JNieporte]

Condor Kumunga...

Cold Steel Kukri Machete (with the finish removed)...

Cold Steel Magnum Kukri Machete (with the finish removed)...

Condors (all were under $30)
Kukri, Hudson Bay, Golok, Bushlore, Parang, and Nessmuck...

All of these machetes were less than $30 a piece...

As were these...

And these...

These too...

Cold Steel Norse Hawk...

Cold Steel Trail Hawk with an Old Hickory Butcher Knife that I made into a small Nessmuck...

 

[Carolina River Rat]

Coolest Norse hawk I've ever seen.

 

[bigshowrenfro]

All my mora knives. You just can't beat the value of these knives.

 

[August West]

One knife that goes everywhere I go and gets used maybe more than any other is my tried and true Rachel Ray Gusto grip, 6.95 at Bed Bath and Beyond. You would not believe my hunting and fishing buddies that bought one after using mine. Probably like it better than my mora.

 

[cultivateitnow]

Is that for those hunting and fishing trips that take 30 minutes or less?

 

[never too sharp]

Ba-zing!

Why do you like that Rachel Ray knife so much?

Check out this review: (lol)

This knife is less than a year old and it got rusty spots on it almost right away. Then, I let it soak in the dishwater once and the handle got all gushy and wierd. Letting it dry for a long time didn't help much. Handle is still mushy and I don't use the knife as much anymore. Would have been nicer with a hard grip handle, instead of this soft grip.

 

[sadiejane]

I had a thing for the parring knife bitcher combo!

-Rb

love those old hickory knives. have numerous ones left whole, others restyled for my own uses. have even found numerous redesigned ones at yard sales over the years. really dig the sheath set-up. v:thumbup:

 

[ratamahatta]

here's mine....

 

[cultivateitnow]

I have a bunch of $30 to $70 knives. For the first 10 years I collected them most of what I bought was in that price range. Many I grew tired of and gave them to people that needed a good knife. It gave me an excuse to buy more too.

Maybe this is part of the issue I have with super steel blades, even though I own a few. Many, if not all, of those beater knives look as good as new and are still razor sharp. They never once let me down. Though some designs worked better than others, the material they were made of wasn't at fault. I too tried the little odd shaped knives, and the big "camp" knives. I figured rather than take someone elses word for what worked best I needed to prove it.

Even though I have knives that cost many times more, a couple of $30 knives are still the best knives I own. Both are great designs, and perfect steel for the jobs they were ask to perform.