Recommendation? naithawk alternatives / retractable blade knife

[naturalbean]

Hi,

I'm just looking for suggestions for a retractable blade knife. I'm looking for something that is of that stanley knife / breakaway boxcutter style design, but uses a more solid blade that isn't broken into strips. I came across the the y-start Naithawk MT3 when I was looking for cheap knives to practice sharpening - I ended up getting the LK5016 for that purpose, but I keep coming back to thinking that this form factor of knife would be of more practical use for me daily:

(and lots of different style of this same thing on that same line) https://www.aliexpress.com/af/naith...thawk&catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20200803171022

But! I'm not massively inclined to start out with something like this at a $200au price point. Does anyone make something of decent quality like this, a bit cheaper? Ideally I'd like to get away with something more like the $35au shipped the LK5016 cost. From searching this and other forums, I've so far looked at the CIVIVI Mandate and Nitecore NTK10 which look very cool, but they're quite expensive. And the Dustar Model CutterJack, which is more the right price point, but has a review on the site linked for it saying the plastic frame cracked.

I'm not a Knife Guy, so please excuse me if I've mixed up terminology or types of thing here.

 

[naturalbean]

OK, so to followup on some more googling -

The Naithawk knife here is compatible with CKB-2 blades, but it seems to be available with a bunch that aren't at all standard types for that format -

Does anyone know a good source for these kinds of blades, or ones made out of anything that would be worth sharpening rather than disposing of when blunt?

The other alternative I came across was the Gerber Prybrid X -

https://www.amazon.com.au/Gerber-Pr...brid&qid=1596516706&s=home-improvement&sr=1-1

which is available, and relatively cheap, but takes #11 blades. Is anything like the fancy Naithawk CKB-2 format blades available in #11 that anyone knows of ?

 

[jackknife]

Take a look at the Christy knife. Not only an very handy pocket knife, but a real bit of history as well. You can get them with spare blades.

 

[naturalbean]

So just to leave a trail here for anyone on a similar quest for a sliding utility knife - I dug some more and found

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001280671635.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.20ac3c00TPNtdo&mp=1

and

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32834304707.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.78df3c00VHgX6i&mp=1

Both about the cheapest around in the CKB-2 size blade at around $56. Lacks the pre-fit tritium tube inserts, "D2" blades, carbon fibre/flame patterns and other neat visual stuff of some of the more expensive ones but I think I can live without / fix that myself later if need be.

The first store also had a bunch of CKB-2 blades on the same storefront, so I ordered from there just to potentially solve hassles if they don't fit (I asked, they said these ones fit that particular knife).

Other sort-of-reasonably priced ones that might potentially be on sale for cheaper later, for people on the same hunt :

This one in a neat brass finish:

and this one, the chonkiest of all I could find, takes KB-4 blades instead.

 

[HistoricalArcadia]

anyone here got more budget friendly recommendations?

 

[Hickory n steel]

anyone here got more budget friendly recommendations?

The Christy companion knife.
They actually predate the retractable disposable blade utility knife if I'm not mistaken.
They are more of an actual pocket knife than a utility knife though in my opinion.

 

[BJE]

Columbia River knife and tool used to make a model called the “rollock”, I hade one for years, neat little knife and rather unique, I believe it’s a reproduction of an original but the name slips my mind at the moment.
It’s discontinued, but may still be available somewhere, I think I paid around $30 USD for mine new many years ago.