Least amount you would spend$$$$$ ???

fishiker said:
Part 2 is a completely different answer for me. I would expect to pay $150 or more for a decent pair of boots. I wouldn't want to walk across the street in a pair of $10 K-Mart boots.
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Great answer:thumbup:

I think I needed to start another post-as most people will not see post #69
 
Sometimes cost and quality go hand and hand, and that is usually very evident. Gransfors Bruchs comes to mind, as does any number of knifemakers on here. However, I wouldn't buy a 12c27 Bark River knife over a 12c27 Mora just because it's fit and finish are prettier... I think back to the days when a Kabar Warthog II was the most expensive knife I owned, and how much I trusted it and how much I used it. Use builds trust, I think... I wouldn't rely on any blade no matter how expensive unless I've had extensive experience using, maintaining, etc. the blade. If you throw footwear into the picture... I guess I've kinda lucked out as far as that goes. I have a pair of New Balance 473's that were the last pair in stock in JC Penny on Black Friday three years ago. They're still going strong three years later and are the best running shoes I've ever had. I've done many packing trips in them and would trust them on a cross country trek for sure. Cost to me? 35 bucks. I love softsoled mocs as well, they're very reasonably sized and lightweight so they make a great secondary pair for packing. 35 bucks a pair, I'd trust my life to them. I think I have more miles on Converse assault boots than any other shoe, and those costed 65 bucks. The uppers are still in factory condition, but the soles peeled off this winter when working on a demolition job...
 
WILLIAM.M said:
Again=

read the question please

list the $ amount you would spend

$10,$5??

What is the least amount of $ you would spend on a knife YOU would risk your life on???

stating a mora is not an answer

the $ amount is the answer
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Bill,I think that stating a Mora as an answer..answers all of the question. Not just the $$$ amount. It says.." I am smart enough and skilled enough, to use this tool to live with"
Just so you dont yell at me:D $20
 
WILLIAM.M said:
See the question in the post

Do not list the knife--list it's value

As in the dollar amount --NOT the knife

Thanks

Doing a survey--need the $ amount
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I must take exception to this, Dr. Bill, for the simple reason that there can be a great disparity in knives of a given dollar amount. I believe that there is a great deal of difference between, say, a BK-2 at $60, and a very fancy mall ninja tacticool knife at the same price. Which one am I going to trust my life to?

No, in my opinion, a dollar amount alone is entirely meaningless. Which knife at a given price point is telling.
 
WILLIAM.M said:
this Part my friend

"Also, for every broken Mora I'm sure we can post a picture of a broken full tang knife. So I'm not sure what that proves..."

My answer is no you can't --not even close.(Unless they are cheap $5 ones made overseas)

Mora's can not take abuse like a fixed blade can

They are not designed to take abuse.

I have several--but not any I would risk my life on.
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First of all, why would you abuse anything? And why abuse your ticket home?? IE, your blade,

I saw a spyderco take a nose dive on here not to long ago...I have had full tangs handle slabs come of, while wittiling, and had 2 serious knives, full tang, both lose there tip while drilling.
To say we dont see failures in all knives is wrong.
 
The knife I have used and trusted the most over the years cost me about $25 back in the late 1960's. In today's currency adjusted for inflation, that would be $144.66. Believe me, $25 was a lot of money back then. I could not begin to list the number of times that knife was a lifesaver, an indispensable tool that never failed me. I still have and use it.

I bought a very servicable used one like my original at a fleamarket last weekend for less than $20. That one will go to a forum friend who lost his some time back and misses it like I would miss mine. A knife can be of good design and materials without being expensive. A dead mint, new in the box example of my knife sells on the bay for about that same $145 now. But, being a knife nut, I buy them as I find them in the $25-65 dollar range with more than enough life left to outlast me and my adult children.

The name of the manufacturer and pattern have been withheld per OP request, to protect the innocent, and to protect my ability to pick them up for a song!::p
 
I'm doing a survey--

I just need the $ amount of the knife you are willing to risk your life on

The model of the Knife is NOT in question

Not sure why that concept is so hard to pin down

Just tell me what the $ amount is

then read post #69--and give me that amount

I do not care what model of knife or boots --that is not part of the survey

Just the $ amounts are

THANKS
 
WILLIAM.M said:
I'm doing a survey--

I just need the $ amount of the knife you are willing to risk your life on

The model of the Knife is NOT in question

Not sure why that concept is so hard to pin down

Just tell me what the $ amount is

then read post #69--and give me that amount

I do not care what model of knife or boots --that is not part of the survey

Just the $ amounts are

THANKS
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It's your survey, Sir, and you can conduct it however you choose. To me, though, a dollar amount without any indication of what it represents is meaningless. You could just as well arbitrarily choose random numbers that would have just as much relevance.

It's your survey though.
 
My guess is that the OP is determining what people spend more on. Boots or knives? Just a wild guess.
 
cmgray said:
My guess is that the OP is determining what people spend more on. Boots or knives? Just a wild guess.
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Close my friend:thumbup:

It's the difference between them I'm looking at

Never thought it would stur up so much crap

Thank You to those that read the OP and followed it as requested---

Just the Cost of the Knife and the Cost of the boots

Nothing else is needed

It makes NO difference to me if you spend $11 on a Mora or $11 on a Chinese Junk Knife--I'm only interested in the $ amount of the knife--vs the $ amount of the boots!!!!!

Nothing else matters in this post...

Thanks
 
Hey Dr Bill, don't call me friend. Hahahahahah. Just kidding. Sorry I couldn't resist.
 
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