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my manager uses some knife that has a white handle and the blade is square and is sharp on 1 side, idk what it is or called and idk where he got it
nope the store wont order a damn thing he actually bought all the knives in the produce section himself, he went to a shop and bought them.
techniclly i cant la it down on the cart i get in trouble because it has to be in ur hand or on ur person when ur on the floor ever since someone left it there and walked away and a little kid got it, but i see ur point, and a folder is a complete pain in the ass ur right thereYou know, having seen the option you now have, and having read your description of the alternatives, I think -- if I had your job -- I might approach it differently.
I'd look for a knife that either had no real "stabby" point to speak of, or one with a short enough blade that having a point wouldn't be a big deal.
I'd go for a really simple and durable design. Something along the lines of a sodbuster. Or a cheap bushcrafty almost-puukko knife.
If you're working the produce display floor, you probably don't want to be reaching into your pocket, opening a folder, cutting something, and then folding it up and putting it back in your pocket. Repeatedly. Like three times a minute. If you have a standard wheeled produce cart, you could just lay it down between trimmings, but that won't always work. So, a cheap alternative that will do an honest day's job of cutting, hang on your belt, and cost less than $20 including shipping, would be something like the Ahti Finman, seen here <deal spot removed>. It's less than $12, and with $6 shipping, you're in under $18.
Now, if the pointy nature of the knife is a problem, then something that looks like a sodbuster might work better. So, I'm racking my brain for a cheap fixed blade that looks like a sodbuster, and it occurs to me that actually a guy could just use an actual sodbuster, provided he had a sheath that would fit it. And then, at the end of the day, he could just fold up the sodbuster and drop it in his pocket.
So I looked for something that might do that and found a couple of things. First, I found this knife. I'm embarrassed to say that I actually own one of these -- it's a great little knife -- and I had completely forgotten about it. It's <deal spot removed>, about 3/4 of the way down, the #893. The blade is just over 3 inches, it's not terribly pointy, and it's got a nice thin blade that's superb for dealing with produce -- which is what I use mine for at home. Under $20, and with shipping it's right at $25. Serious value. Good quality.
The other thing I found was a variety of leather sheaths intended for use with the "trade knives" seen above them <deal spot removed>. The third one from the left would probably work with a sodbuster.
Sodbusters can be had cheap. In fact, there are some (imported) Imperial sodbusters that seem to be available for around $10.
Anyway, maybe there is something you can use in my ramblings above.
cheap is good just to slop it up all the time, i wouldnt wanna spend 100+ to just mess it up, my work knives get used dulled half assed sharpened just so they are sharp and have uneven angles and stuff from 20 sec belt sander jobs so the cheaaper the better tbh, also idk but for this type of stuff carbon steel seems to hold better then cheaper stainless if u no anthing that fits that billWhich is why I recommended using a sheath for the sodbuster.
You see, thinking along "improvised sheath knife" lines, it's not hard to make a sodbuster behave like a fixed blade. A popsicle stick and a couple of rubber bands . . . poof! Primitive locking sodbuster. (Don't tell Steve I recommended this. He'll think I've gone all improvised old school.)
For a job with a constant cutting requirement I'd absolutely not involve myself with remove-open-cut-close-replace-repeat. I'd either use a fixed blade or a folder in a sheath pretending it was a fixed blade.
BTW, there is a fixed blade sodbuster out there, complete with sheath. Couple of them actually. Not cheap, though.
Here's one for $175:
Here's a Harvey King "Small Game" knife for $150 (yeah, very like a sodbuster, isn't it).
(It's the one over on the left.)
And then, there's the Gene Ingram fixed blade sodbuster, for a mere $270.
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Or maybe not.
I think I'd go back to my original plan: cheap bushcraft field knife or sodbuster-in-a-sheath.