What’s your favorite big name/well known/large scale production knife and/or company?

LostCause said:
Several issues.
1. Usually soft.
2. Too expensive for the materials used.
3. 1075 even on some small blades. I mean, 1075 is great for big choppers, but small knife has nothing to lose using 1095 and being ran at higher hardness.
4. I dislike the designs. Mostly models without any kind hand guard/choil and lots of scandi grinds.

Condor is basically trying to be bushcraft version of ESEE. I'm not bushcrafter or huge fan of ESEE. I'd take Terava Jakaripuukko over Condor any day.
Better steel (80CrV2), better heat treat, better design than most of their models and way better pricing too.
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I tried a recent Condor this summer. The fit and finish was terrible with serious grind issues. I returned it.
 
Given all the Kizer pics I posted yesterday, I suppose I should post some WE pics. Here is one each from Sencut, Civivi, and WE respectively. While the first and third are not stock, they are still good representations.

Kizer has only recently overtaken them in pocket time but it's not a huge gap.

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1. Cold Steel (passed #2 a few years ago due to price increases). Great value still. Have never needed warranty work on some heavily used work knives. Durable.

2.Spyderco. Love the thumb holes and hate flippers. Used to be number one until I found stronger, well made knives for a fraction of the new Spyderco prices.
 
coolbreezy37 said:
In terms of Esee, Kabar/Becker, Cold Steel, Buck, Spyderco, Benchmade etc. What’s your favorite out of the large scale easy to obtain brands? Include a specific knife if you want, makes it more fun! For me it’s Tops Knives and the Alaskan Harpoon so far.
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I really like Benchmade (own the bugout and the 162). Great feel and solid craftsmanship.

Have a bunch of moras that use to pieces - they are my do-work-around-the-house knives.

Have a fällkniven s1 PRO that I loved for a week before the tip broke off. After losing the argument with them I hate it every time I see it.

Have two Gerbers. Inferior feel compared to the above but somehow I like the Strongarm because of the sheath (am a leftie - hard to find knives with out-of-the-box ambi sheaths). I heavily abuse it at work and it holds up better than the much more expensive fällkniven.
 
My CRK may be the best quality knives I have, but given their price, I don't consider them as accessible, nor do I have as many of them. Of the two brands I have the most of, these would be Buck and Spyderco. As a BCCI member, I started building my collection of Bucks before I tried Spyderco. But, lately, my Spyderco count has grown to exceed that of my Bucks. Both are great knives. As a representative sample of both brands, I would offer these two that I seem to be drawn to the most. There is the Buck 112 Ranger Koa and the Spyderco Chaparral. Quite literally, that is the thick and thin of it.

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Spyderco for me, the Crucarta PM2 is a thing of beauty, but my M4 Kershaw Blur seems to find its way in quite frequently.
 
Spyderco.

I think they are setting the standard and I'm having a very hard time considering knives from anyone else when I can get a spyderco model In anything from s30v to maxamet and 20 steels in-between. Every major manufacturer should be offering at least their top models in a variety of steels to suit folks needs. They are also an amazing value. You can get a maxamet spyderco for 100 dollars or more, LESS than a s90v benchmade.
 
I have had more Kershaw's than any other brand but I do like Benchmade also for work and getting dirty, for cleaner things I like Chris Reeve.
 
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