Opinels so hot?

The 13 makes a great club.


Bob W said:
If I were to recommend a single model for you to try, it would be the Garden Knife. Midsized with a drop point blade.
For pocket carry I prefer just a tad smaller, like the #6 or #7. For a knife to keep in a briefcase, glove box, or backpack, the #9 is excellent.
You want to be really adventurous, the #13 is for you. ;)
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The Opinel #8 is probably my favorite folding knife for $10 or less. It does everything I would need a knife to do. Great size overall.
 
Opinels have always been popular, but any recent boom in popularity, IMO, is a backlash response to the current trend of tactical "folding pry bar" knives we've been seeing the past few years. A 3/4" thick Ti/G10 framelock with a 4" long, 3/16" thick slab of hard-to-sharpen supersteel is great if you need to carve car doors in half or compensate for small genitalia*, but many people are realizing that a thin blade slices things like cardboard or summer sausage much better, and a simple steel is far quicker to sharpen and easier to get razor sharp. If you look through the "What knife are you carrying" threads, you'll see far more Cases, Schrades, Opinels, SAKs, and other traditional knives now than a few years ago.



Just a joke, lighten up.:D
 
I go with #9, good carbon steel , just right not too big or small. Have a #12 its a butcher lol. Any opinel with carbone steel is good . Gary
 
Sometimes work travel takes me to developing countries. I take a few Opinels as gifts (in checked baggage) and they are very welcome as useful and lasting tools.
 
There's a lot of guys on here that use inexpensive knives. I carry a SAK as my edc and use a mora quite often for hiking. I have spendier knives but they don't work as well for the things I need a knife for in a lot of cases. Old designs are old for a reason. ;)
 
I woudl start with 2. Choose 2 sizes, fore example a 6 and an 8, and get one of them in carbon, and the other in stainless. Then decide what size and steel your prefer and buy a third that meets those standards. Total cost: not much over 30 bucks.

Charlie_K said:
I need to get myself an Opinel...
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Love my Opinels, excellent slicers. My tastes change and I'm currently into modern folders only but the Opinel is a mainstay regardless of that. If you use a knife for what their meant to be used (cutting,slicing), it stands up performance wise with other fancier options.

For me, it's not just a "great for the price thing"...It's great on its own.
 
It's fairly easy to find quality at high prices. It's more unusual to find quality at rock bottom prices. This is where Opinel excels (though they do have some very pricey specialty models). Much like Mora of Sweden sells fixed blade knives with much greater quality than their prices would suggest, so Opinel does with folding knives (though they also have a few fixed blades). I think of Opinels as folding Moras of sorts. Opinels aren't perfect. It's almost always necessary to address the edges out of the box, and sometimes something else pops up like having to file a wee bit off the blade shoulder to get the locking ring to close a little further, either when open or closed. Nothing major, and Opinel's materials make these minor tweaks a breeze. Once you have them where you want them, they'll last most people a lifetime. I also agree with all the above: pleasing traditional appearance, phenomenal slicers, fun and cheap to mod and tweak, etc. What else can I say? They're simply an iconic knife, and with good reason.
 
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