The $100 Traditional Knife Challenge

[mnblade]

Let's play a little what if ....... Tragedy just struck. You were out fishing or buying beer and a meteor demolished your home. Luckily, your family members were all away so they're fine, but all your knives (and less important possessions) are now dust. You get $100 to buy knives that will have to last you the next 3 years. After that, you'll be back on solid ground financially and will be able to buy more toy.... err, knives. BTW kitchen knives don't count in this $100. I'm just talking about your EDC, gents knife, outdoors knife, etc.

So let's hear it. How would you spend your $100 knife budget, guys?

-- Mark

 

[coop1957]

Para 2. If I had $1,000.00 to spend on a knife I would buy a Para 2.

 

[Railsplitter]

I think I could get by with a GEC Calf Roper for 3 years. If there was any money left I would buy a Mora fixed blade to replace the knife I keep in the garage.

 

[kamagong]

In this hypothetical scenario do I get to keep the two knives I almost always have on me?

- Christian

 

[mnblade]

Sorry, kamagong. On the way home you were mugged by a wayward Sikh who took only your knives. Rough day, I know.

-- Mark

 

[BRL]

I'm squeezing my eyes shut and plugging my ears and pretending this thread doesn't exist because the thought is too horrible.

 

[The Government]

If I really had to start all over with a $100 budget:

-Classic Mora #2 wooden handle....20
-Buck 301..................................30
-Tramontina Machete...................15
-Estwing hatchet.........................35

(If the hatchet and the machete don't count, then upgrade my Buck to a GEC)

 

[Maddogg774]

Cold steel recon 1($50)SAK tinker($30), cold steel kukri machete($20)

 

[86blade]

1st EDC knife is Spyderco Resilience G-10 ($40) 2nd EDC Ontario RAT 1 ($30) 3rd Cold Steel G.I. Tanto Tactical Fixed Blade ($30)

 

[powernoodle]

If that happened to me, I would tell a crybaby story on Bladeforums about how a meteorite demolished my home, and a couple of swell guys would voluntarily send me a free beater knife or two. Thats how things work around here. I then incubate that $100 until I am on sound financial footing.

But if I did buy a knife, it would be something pretty cost efficient. Something like a Schrade USA peanut for $15 (which I just did), or maybe a Victorinox Explorer Plus for $30. Bang for the Buck. Hey, wait a minute - a Walmart Buck 110 sounds good too.

 

[Shotgun]

Izula 2
SAK Soldier if I can find one. Otherwise a Farmer.

 

[jackknife]

I'd go get a Buck 301 stockman and a Case peanut in some form. Maybe amber bone, or chestnut and CV.

Those two knives will take me pretty far.

Carl.

 

[richstag]

Borrowed Image

 

[Getahl]

SAK Classic - 9$ at Wally's World, my most pocketed knife.
Yeller Case Trapper, 45$. I should carry this guy more often, since it fits my hand so well.
Buck 309, the clip and pen blade one, about 2-1/2" long I think. 20$ on Amazon. This is one of my favorite models.
The remaining 25$ or so can go toward a sharpener and a Fiskars folding saw for woodsbumming.

 

[ndeezl]

Sorry, Kamagong. On the way home you were mugged by a wayward Sikh who took only your knives. Rough day, I know.

-- Mark

This made me LOL

With $100 I'd be on the bay picking up a Delica and the nicest slipjoint I could find with the remaining cash. I'd then live on Ramen noodles for the next three years so I could by more knives And if that's not part of the scenario, well I'm good with the first two.



Nathan

 

[black mamba]

I've always said (at least since they came out!) that Queen's D2 with ACSB handles were the most knife for the money,
so I'd get a #98 fixed blade hunter/skinner and a #2 serpentine jack. Back in bidness!

 

[300Bucks]

Would go to Buck dealer and get 110 with leather sheath, should handle butchering chores. A 371 for a edc. A Yellow scaled 309 for fingernails. Then couple of stones and some oil. That should leave me about 10 or 12 dollars with which I would buy duct tape because I am gonna be taping up a lot of plastic to get out of the rain.
300

 

[TMHunt]

I only got $85 bucks! Because the first thing I would buy would be that pizza that richstag posted!

 

[BRL]

Option 1: KA-BAR phat bob and Cutlass machete.
Option 2: Becker BK7 and a Leatherman squirt ps4.

 

[Bigfattyt]

Borrowed Image

It was like you read my mind!!!!!!!!!

Traditional folder (preferably from GEC, because then I don't even have to worry about re-profiling the edge right away). And a decent Machete.

Between those, I can get by.

I was thinking Cattle barron (used???) and a full sized machete.