Is there anything a $400 to $600 knife can do that a $100 Knife can;t"

DJC72 said:
Once a person gets serious about a hobby, their tastes grow for a more refined item. When I was in college, I use to think Miller Light was good brew, now I want a hand crafted beer or a Belgium Ale.
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I still have zero interest in the high end folder market. None. Over time I've been drawn more and more to good, cheap working knives. I have an opinel in my pocket right now. It'll rust and the edge won't last forever but it's good looking and out cuts every other knife I own. I personally don't see the "better edge holding" argument as being very viable. You have customs being made in the same steel you can get a spyderco in for about half the price. So IMO, you're paying for more nice not more useful. Nothing wrong with that at all if that floats your boat. But not everyone who is an aficionado leans toward more expensive. Though I have to give it to you on the beer. Life's too short to drink Schlitz. ;)


cistercian said:
I wear an old Rolex everyday.Very few notice it.The women that do and treat me extra nice are exactly the kind I like to avoid... the ones who desire it most must be avoided...trust me on this.
So not worth it.
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I have to agree with this. I take it a step further and break "fashion rules." Sandals with socks in the middle of winter is a sure fire way to keep the snobs at bay. :D
 
stabman said:
Good point!
Make sure you have something to pass on that will spawn a legend sung around the campfires of the distant future. :thumbup:
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In the distant future, all campfires will be holograms. Safer, but the marshmallow industry will suffer.
 
I think it depends also on your disposable income and if your passion for knives makes you want to spend a good chunk of that income on them.
 
Ha ha, great post Shotgun. To be honest, my folder collection has more economical knives than anything. I have three Opinel #8's. They actually look elegant and people comment on them all the time.

Not to long ago I unfortunately had to move back in with the parents (long story) and I've been drowning my sorrows in an epic knife buying frenzy.
 
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Shotgun said:
I have to agree with this. I take it a step further and break "fashion rules." Sandals with socks in the middle of winter is a sure fire way to keep the snobs at bay. :D
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To send them running, wear shorts when you wear socks with your sandals. I've done it: Patagonia shorts (= cool), white socks (so-so), and Teva river sandals (= cool). But put them all together, and hipsters bolt away at amazing speeds. Chortle.
 
I'll never know --because there's no way I'm spending gun type money on a knife. There's just simply no way I can justify in my head that sort of expense on a piece of heat treated sharpened steel.

I enjoy my $20 SAK as much as my $175 Benchmade---BUT they have very different uses and therefore both have a place in my pocket.
 
For fixed blades I found the more you spend the more the it is worth it... I've seen the very opposite of the "diminishing returns" everyone assumes exist (for fixed blades at least)... My BK-9 was unusually good for a cheap knife, but its blade was slightly curved sideways from uncontrolled cooling warping after heating... It went in the trash after a few months, largely because of that, though this had no functional effect: I just dislike badly made things more and more over time...

My Randall Model 12 was eight times more expensive, is over twice as thin at the edge, tree times as sharp, hollow ground so twice as effective a chopper, and will last decades upon decades of hard use at the exact same sharpness, given the "edge wearing" room built-into the hollow grind cross-section... Oh and the Randall is much, much, MUCH easier to clean, doesn't rust at the edge or elsewhere, and has a more confortable handle. Which one do you think was a better deal?

Gaston
 
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Well, is there anything that a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader can do that Roseann Barr can't?
 
Monofletch said:
Upon your death........ do you want them handing your only grandson some plain 'ol fixed blade or Grandpa's Busse Team Gemini? :D
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My grandfather's (Mom's dad) knife is nothing special, but it's priceless to me. I can remember when my Dad (in his late 60s or early 70s by then) lost his father's pocket knife and how dejected he was. That knife was nothing special as far as knives go, but it meant a lot to him. I know my son will cherish my Vic Farmer because he has seen me carry and use it every day.

Point being -- the sentimental value of a mundane old knife your family sees you carry and use all the time will mean much more to them than the monetary value of the safe queen they never saw you use and may not even know you had.
 
What is $100 worth?
A knife maker can make whatever they want for any amount of money, the knife market will determine what a knife can do at a "price point".
 
treewizzard said:
...the knife market will determine what a knife can do at a "price point".
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Not quite. The knife market will determine what a knife will sell for vs what it can do.

What a knife can do depends on the knife and the user regardless of what it cost.
 
We are talking about a theoretical blade here, with the attributes of a $100 or $500 value knife, and so we base what the knife in our heads can do on those prices as there is no other information available.
 
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