The Cheapest Knife that You Trust.

[Ron53]

My Victorinox Farmer ($18) or my Super Tinker ($16), my Case #6347 Stockman ($39), my Eriksson Mora #510, or my Frosts Moras #680 Triflex or 740-MG (all under $12).

Ron

 

[DaleW]

Sorry I got no pics as of yet. I took the black coating off the blade and gave it a satin look. Ground down the tip to make it a drop point then sprayed bed liner stuff on the handle for some grippiness(if thats a word). Then hit Eric up for a sheath. I was surprised how the bedliner spray and the kydex match up almost perfectly.

[drum roll] And the knife is? [cymbal crash] Cold Steel Bushman?

 

[sketchbag]

Anyone of my plastic handled Mora's. The 780 triflex is quite tough, yesterday I used it to baton through frozen poplar (ok, not the toughest or hardest to split wood, but still had to beat the hell out of it to drive the knife through). I stabbed the tip as deep as I could into a thawed log and pried it out at least a dozen times until the log was all chewed up, the knife flexed quite a bit (maybe 35 degrees, judging by eye), no tip damage and went back to true.

For $10 this is the best all round knife Ive got when considering cutting ability, durability, ergonomics and especially price.

I can see how someone could 'break' a wooden handled mora, there isnt a whole lot keeping those handles on, but the plastic moras are pretty tough. Barring a manufacturers defect I cant see how I'd break one without doing so intentionally.

 

[udtjim]

Me neither.

 

[JTR357]

What is the cheapest knife (or knives) that you trust for everyday use? I imagine most everyone will answer with a folder. I would have to say my Marble's jumbo trapper and Buck medium trapper.

At under $50 I'd have to go with the Kershaw Junkyard Dog II with the G-10 handle & black combo blade.:thumbup:

 

[batosai117]

I trust me with my buck 110 or buck 286 bantam. Both were under $30.00 and my Gerber Freeman Hunter for a fixed blade which was $40.00.