This knife snob loves these 3 inexpensive knives.

IMG_2670.JPG Inexpensive to me is probably under around $80 - $100.
Very rarely see anything under $60 that I like, or trust.......but there are a few that I have and would never sell!
This one is the only Boker I have, or want. It shocked the shit out of me!! Tough as nails, great great action....flies open effortlessly, locks up with a sweet note of finality and is great in hand! And I got it off the Exchange for less than $40. I don't even know what model it is. Excellent work knife!
After this one, I figured Boker isn't too bad......the other 2 I bought were given away immediately! Ugh.
I also have 1 CRKT........Swindle. That's a fun flipper, but dulls if you stare at it too long!
Everything else I have would be between $150 - $450.
Joe
 
PirateSeulb said:
I do want to get one of the BM 319 Propers myself looks great with the leather. The ZT is pretty nice looking too but I am not too much for the blackout look with the coated blades. I like the Kizer but looks like it will be a bit too much heft for me to enjoy. I am not really a snob, too poor to be, but it really just comes down to the final product and how it feels for me.
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ZT also makes the 0450 with a pair of plain old titanium scales; that model doesn't have a coated blade, but it also lacks a carbon fibre scale on the presentation side. Alternatively, if you don't mind going bigger, the 0452CF doesn't have a coated blade and it has a carbon fibre scale but it is sizeably larger.
 
Aw dangit, now you've done it. I had no idea about the Benchmade Proper. Now I have to buy one or so. Thanks a lot.
 
I don't know about those being inexpensive. Besides they all have S30V / S35VN, Micarta, Carbon Fiber, and Titanium all of which are considered premium materials by many....
 
19-3ben said:
Oh well. I'm happy to have beer taste, because I certainly dont have a champagne wallet!
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Something I learned from my Old Man a long time ago, always buy the best you can afford and if you have to go without something to get the next better one then do it. After many apprenticeships in the trades it was a sentiment echoed by my many masters ove rthe course of 40 some years in the trades. Always upgrade your tools as needed, better tools produce better results, Go buy a cheap 4$ hand plane from an overseas offshore company like ali*****ss or a US made
Lie-Nielsen Hand Plane. You get what you pay for and the more you pay as long as it's for quality manufacture and materials and not brand name.

I find this to be true for most things.

ETA, most people I find who think there's no difference between a $10 gas station knife and a $100 quality folder have probably never used a good knife with a good steel and HT for any length of time. JMHO
 
I own one knife over 100 dollars and the wife bought me a red jigged bone Case Barlow back in 06!
 
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