List the "best" folders by manufacturers

I truely belive knives in the Sebenza class are the best values. You can use a Sebenza, Strider, and other knives in that price range for years and still sell them for just about what you paid for them. I love the Buck 110, but I can buy a brand new one (when on special at the big chain store) for a few dollars more than I paid for the one I bought 30 years ago.
 
Ademar said:
Please don't accuse me of being ignorant toward your opinion. Your opinion is very important fo me. But at the same time plaese give me possibility to comment your opinion :)

I just cleared it up that the thread is not about an extra-overpriced knives. I own large Sebenza too but can't count it among those very popular knives of all time. Popularity is not defined only by the number of the forum members who can afford CRK prouducts. What is the share of the all forum members owning Sebenze in the world knife sells?

It is only my opinion :)
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If "popularity" is your main criteria than the Sebenza should be on every list. Everyone who is getting into knives knows or hears about the Sebenza, good or bad. It is unavoidable. If you are talking about what the most commonly purchased folders are than you need to word that better and gerber, buck, victorinox, walmart specials would dominate that list I would think.
 
@kawar: +1 :thumbup: Great point.

The title of the thread is "best" folders. Price is but one of your eight criteria. And price and value go hand in hand. The Sebenza is a high value folder in MANY people's opinions, including mine. It is worth the higher price because of the higher level of craftsmanship (tolerances, and fit and finish) and materials. Your statements that it has "highest price" and is "extra over priced" are just not true. You get what you pay for.

Maybe you should have titled the thread "Best Folders Under $100" (or whatever price is not extra over priced in your opinion).
 
The terms "overpriced" and "affordable" are entirely relative. To me, a Sebenza is a deal for the quality of knife you're getting. And it's arguably one of the most popular knives of all time within the knife community.

To make things easier, I'll break it down using your 8 points.

1. Like I said, easily one of the most popular of all time.
2. An excellent value knife that holds its value incredibly well.
3. It is the finest example of a minimalist and clean design.
4. Chris Reeve is recognized as the inventor of the frame-lock, the Sebenza being the first to use it.
5. Always using the best and newest blade steels (BG-42, S30V, and now S35VN).
6. Easily one of the most durable and longest lasting knives, even without the incredible CRK services.
7. I don't even think I need to say much for functionality.
8. Offered in two different sizes, both being perfect for their class.
 
beau007 said:
@kawar: +1 :thumbup: Great point.

The title of the thread is "best" folders. Price is but one of your eight criteria. And price and value go hand in hand. The Sebenza is a high value folder in MANY people's opinions, including mine. It is worth the higher price because of the higher level of craftsmanship (tolerances, and fit and finish) and materials. Your statements that it has "highest price" and is "extra over priced" are just not true. You get what you pay for.

Maybe you should have titled the thread "Best Folders Under $100" (or whatever price is not extra over priced in your opinion).
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Agree with you. The world - "best" - was written so on purpose. The thread is about affordable knives. But I thought that after listing my criterias there would not be any discussion about Sebenzas, Striders and etc...

I am very sorry that the thread has turned into this kind of discussion.
 
Ademar said:
Agree with you. The world - "best" - was written so on purpose. The thread is about affordable knives. But I thought that after listing my criterias there would not be any discussion about Sebenzas, Striders and etc...

I am very sorry that the thread has turned into this kind of discussion.
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No offense, but I don't think many people here would consider any of those knives you listed in the original post as being "the best" of anything. Those are decent and inexpensive knives, but certainly nothing that people would praise as being "best".

Also I know that everybody are at their own level of knife collecting, so it's very subjective. A person who only collects high end customs might look down upon a Sebenza. You consider the $30-40 knives as being the best knives FOR YOU. Then you asked us..... many of us gave you our answers which happens to be the Sebenza. For us that is the best knife for the money. I don't see why you even bothered asking us if you don't like our answers. You might as well made your original post a statement instead of a question.
 
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Ademar said:
The term – best – could be considered in terms of:
1. popularity
2. price
3. design
4. innovation
5. blade steel material
6. durability
7. functionality
8. size
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Ademar said:
The highest price does not automatically means the best. The thread is about the best knives for the price.
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I like the idea of the thread but what you are stating seems a little contradictory first giving a wide interpretation with no weight to whats best on eight categories, then stating best knives for the price.

I like how you selected one model from each manufacturer and its interesting to see peoples takes on what makes them the 'best' for them.

I offer you the $1.99 Key-Shaped Folding Knife from Harbor Freight.

BEHOLD!
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Ademar said:
Agree with you. The world - "best" - was written so on purpose. The thread is about affordable knives. But I thought that after listing my criterias there would not be any discussion about Sebenzas, Striders and etc...

I am very sorry that the thread has turned into this kind of discussion.
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You are missing several points.

1) People are saying Sebenza are affordable in terms of holding their price.
2) This thread is not "about" affordable knives. You listed 8 or so criteria, and affordabilty was only one of them.

And what kind of discussion are you sorry this turned into? One where people's opinions differ from yours? Or one that was ill-defined by you in the first place?

I'm not getting it.
 
Im totally going to harbor freight today to look for one of those lol.

I choose the Umnumzaan as the "best" knife.
 
And your thread is called "List the "best" folders by manufacturers"....isn't CRK a manufacturer? Does CRK make a "better" knife than the Sebenza?
 
Ademar said:
But I thought that after listing my criterias there would not be any discussion about Sebenzas, Striders and etc...
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You obviously haven't been paying attention to the forum you're on. This is BFC and almost every thread will have some discussion about Sebenzas at one point or another, especially when you're playing around in the General Knife Discussion subforum. You may not like it, but it's going to happen.

Read a whole lot more and use the search function. 99% of the time you will find an existing thread about the topic you want to discuss. If the thread you started isn't going the way you want then you can always lock the thread, but that's kind of a cheap way out.

Now to answer that question.

Personally, I think the "best" (what a silly term) knife out there for the money is the Spyderco Gayle Bradley. Excellent design, excellent blade steel, nice thick SS liners with a strong lock, very nice woven textured carbon fiber scales, choice of clip placement, and you can get all this for about $100 with a little searching.

Some folding honorable mentions would be:

Spyderco ParaMilitary 2
Spyderco Military
Spyderco Sage 1 & 2
Kerhsaw S30V Blur
Kershaw Shallot in either ZDP-189 or S110V (when they were available)
Zero Tolerance 056x
Zero Tolerance 0350
Hinderer XM-18 at Rick's table price
 
sqchram said:
Get a whole keyring full so when you open em all up you'll be like Wolverine..
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Id rather be Edward Scissor Hands because his blade are probably VG10 where Wolverines are probably M390 and cost too much meaning they are not the "best" blades.
 
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Back to the thread.
From what I've read I'll offer the Ontario Rat-1 as a knife that performs beyond its pricetag.
 
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