Ultimate hard use folder

Steel130 said:
Cold Steel Recon 1
Cold Steel American Lawman, most Cold Steels with the Triad Lock are tough.
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There are the first ones that came to mind for me. Its hard to beat the Lawman when it comes to toughness. Big, thick G10, robust pivot and probably the strongest lock in the business.

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The zt 0560 is basically the mass produced version of the xm24 from what i understand. Idk what u can spend but there 250$
 
ZT 0200 - absolute tank of a knife. Use with confidence. On the budget side, Ontario RAT-1 is yet to let me down in any situation I've subjected it to.
 
For me "Ultimate" takes it to the upper level. Any Demko Folder, check the you tube vid. Yuna type S,Crusader forge FIFP and grayman Satu are insane. If your looking for production Benchmade 275 or 755 and the Zero Tolerance 0200 or 0300 series. Hogue is making some awesome hard use big dogs as is lion steel. To me the most bang for the buck of any knife I have is my Sog Vulcan. I got it for under $90 it is a .16 thick Vg-10 blade and stout lock. Next is my ZT 0400 I got it for about $100 and aluminum handle, Ti liner lock and s-30v blade. You can get a hard use knife in any price range. If you want Chinese cheap, H&k 14201.
 
look at medfords and you can get a hoback for 465 custom and look at the grayman satu and crusader forge knives
 
C@llector said:
look at medfords and you can get a hoback for 465 custom and look at the grayman satu and crusader forge knives
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Thanks for the suggestions, never heard of hoback nor medford and they got some sick blades! Only thing is that now you're making me hesitate between a XM_24 and an A-15
 
Demko AD-10 and 4Max, Grayman Satu, Strider of any flavor, ZT 551 and Les George VECP. I think all of these are great as knives......I'm just hoping I'm never in a position to need them to pry with!!
 
zt 30x series, benchmade adamas, benchmade 810 contego, and spyderco gayle bradley , best hard use folders I have owned and still currently own, the 0300, is the only knife I would ever consider prying with and i did the other day, dumb new guy got his hand caught is a clamp at work and zt 0300 to the rescue it pried the clamp up enough for the dumb a$$ to get his hand out and the knife only had a few scratches on the blade, but I called ZT and they said I could buy a new blade , but for now I'm gonna keep it, as it has character, and a pretty cool story as to why it's scratched to hell now.
 
Your first response was correct. For a real for sure hard use folder that's gonna get punished bad, you really want to get something that is solid but not so expensive because the thing is going to get broken. I would therefore second the CS Recon, CS Lawman, Ontario Rat 1. These are going to be something like 90% as strong (if not closer to 100%) to the Hinderer, gonna cut just as well if not hold an edge as long, and when it breaks, you're out $50 to $75 instead of $800. Because if you really are serious about using a folder for the "hard use", the kind of thing the fixed blade is made for, it is gonna break probably sooner rather than later.
 
There are some pretty good test done out on the net. The military reviewed all of the heavy folders to see which faired best for hard use. Test included stabing, chopping, battoning, rope cutting, and darn near everything else in which one might use a knife. The ZT and folders costing way more than ZT and build way heavier all failed when it came to doing anything other than cutting paper, rope, or making traps. Blades you would think had a chance pretty much all fail first, with none making it to the end. Bottomline, never beat on a folder or use it for a pry bar.

You can do some lite work with a folder as long as you do not open it all the way to the locked position. The impact on the lock is what normally causes folders to fail. Leave the blade at 90 degrees, and go easy and the blade might survive.

...and these were blades the military that the military requested the manufacture send them based on what the manufacture thought might survive.
 
Check out the Calavera Cutlery El Patron. And for a smaller hard use edc TSF Three Sisters Forge Beast fits the bill.

Cheers.
 
Raphael.caluwe said:
For some time now i've dropped my eye on a xm-24. However, considering the price its not a knife i will(or can for that matter) just buy. So i was wondering, wich folding knife in your opinion is an absolute tank, wich knife would withstand any abuse you throw at it ?

I have owned a sng cc, but i sold it because of the fact it didnt felt bomb-proof. It didnt give me more "peace of mind" than my sebenza (or even my bm940). Not trying to bash strider, but for me a knife doesnt only have to be solid, it also has to feel solid. I want to have the feeling that i can without any worries pry the hell out of it without it faling.

Tl;dr: are xm-24's worth 1k and what in your opinion is the ultimate hard use knife?
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This is the toughest folder around bar none:













"Peace of mind" for you. If you can break this, I'm officially scared of you.









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