Need Help finding A Knife For Brother

[Cultro]

This is my first post on a blade forum. I do not know much about knifes but my brother is a huge knife connoisseur. With that being said, i need to find him a knife that i can order online (preferably Amazon) or any other website that can deliver before Christmas. Before you say it...Yes, i know...I'm a huge idiot, why would i wait just days before Christmas to order something online...I get it.

With that being said, as a completely ignorant person to the world of custom knives, would anyone like to give me some advice as to what knife i can order for my brother?

His current EDC is (I believe) a Zero Tolerence knife. One side is a black color, and the other side is a metallic looking color. I think it is a "Hinderer Collaboration" But im not sure. The knife that he absolutely wants is a Chris Reeve Large Sebenza, but unfortunately those exceed my budget. I could buy him a Small Sebenza, but i cannot find those on amazon...

Does anybody know a website where i can order a Chris Reeve Small Sebenza and receive it before Christmas? How is the shipping on BladeHQ?

If not, does anyone know of a good knife that is below $350 that you think he would enjoy (Based off of his love for the Zero Tolerence and Chris Reeve Knives)?


Any help would be highly appreciated. I just thought that as a person who knows very little about knives, this forum could give me some expert advice that i so desperately need.

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[gadgetgeek]

My best advice would be to not buy a knife. If you do want to buy him a knife, then let him do the picking, either tell him how much you can put in for it, and he can add in the rest, or if its the sort of thing where its outside for both of you, he can better pick something in budget and in his style. Spending that kind of cash is a big risk if its not something he is going to love, and there might be something about what you pick that he would prefer different

Any time you try to buy for someone else's hobby, you will run into this problem. Its better to have them help. Depending on his sense of humor, I'd put an obviously cheap (5$) knife in a box and when he opens it, be all "I know you like knives.... But if you don't like this one, we'll return it for a small sebenza" to let him know what you were thinking.

 

[Cultro]

You know its very funny you say that. Because I was going to buy him a new coat, and a knife. I was going to buy him a $5 cheapo china knife like you said and after he opens it i would be like yeah its a very good knife then he would probably laugh at it but pretend to like it. I was going to put the Chris Reeve Sebenza in the coat pocket.



But i agree with you, the best thing to do would be to just let him pick out what he wants. He seems to have a very particular taste, so yeah...

Thank you for replying, much appreciated..

 

[Colorodo]

Gift certificate with an amount to go towards the purchase of the knife he wants.

 

[strategy9]

I have never had to overnight anything from bladeHQ, but their standard shipping was always rather timely:

I just ordered a knife on Thursday morning from knifeworks, a gift from my stepson to his uncle, and i paid extra to have it engraved and expedite shipping (not even over night)...

I received email confirmation of order in minutes, and a shipping confirmation within the hour. I received the knife Saturday... I had another order through them from the week before, standard shipping, that only arrived Monday... That said, I can only assume their overnight shipping option will be on point, esp. If you get the order in early...

If you do go the cheap/trick knife route, I'd suggest getting him something he can still appreciate as a cheap knife: Rough Rider Traditional pattern, a Buck Bantam, or a Kilimanjaro Vertice... All still "okay" knives, great even for their respective price ranges...


If you insist on buying him a nice knife rather then gift card, and you know he carries a ZT, I'd suggest something like a higher end Benchmade Osbourne 940 or Nakumura in s90v he can certainly appreciate from both a design and performance level...

Or really switch it up and get him a really nice 3-5" fixed blade! A nice Bark River in a premium Steel (3v, elmax, or s35v) or an Arno Bernard... He obviously appreciates knives, and if unsure what folder to get someone, I can't imagine anyone being dismayed or put off by a nice BRK or AB.