What do you guys think about this knife

If you can find a Kershaw Diskin Hunter, that is a nice knife and in your price range. I have one and it is excellent. I have not tried to baton with it as I have a small hatchet for that, as intended. But, as a knife, it is pretty good and it has very good steel.

Buck makes several knives in your price range, such as the Endeavor and the 119 Special. You cannot beat Buck warranty, either.
 
If you really want a chopper, Condor is a good place to begin. A Golok or some flavor of Parang would serve you well, even if they didn’t have quite the look you want. For a good all-around camp knife that will chop as well as do a lot of other things, take a look at the Varusteleka Skrama. Mine was well under $100 including shipping from Finland.

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I will second the advice to take a look at Baryonyx for an excellent selection of good values in working knives. Not necessarily the last word, but the first place I look.
 
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hexenjager said:
I'd suggest looking on this site as well. They carry a lot of excellent "bang for your buck" brands.
http://www.baryonyxknife.com/

FortyTwoBlades FortyTwoBlades has a lot of great options in your price range and has always been a super helpful part of the blade forums community.
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This is great advice, especially because he offers the special grade option where they fix up the factory edges you get on some of the budget knives.
 
Pakistan has a strong and well-established reputation for making things just well enough to look nice in an eBay listing photo, and no better. The steel is universally butter soft and probably not even cutlery grade. There will probably be huge gaps in the scales filled with wood putty, the leather will be low quality, stiff, and cardboard-like, and so on. This reputation HAS led me to genuinely wonder what Pakistanis themselves use for knives, though. I have to figure that they have a variety of traditional edged tools that aren't total garbage--they just probably don't get exported at all.
 
Cameron Duck said:
I would like a knife that looks good and (I know it sounds childish) a knife that looks a little bit intimidating. I'd like it to be able to be reliable when I go camping with my brother in laws (which isn't all too often). I also wouldn't mind handing it down to my son when it comes time for him to be having a knife. So essentially, it's gotta be sturdy, and stand the test of time and a good looking knife would be good but not essential.
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If you want those things then there is no point in buying cheap pakistani pot metal crap knives. Sorry to put it bluntly but it is true. Further, if you want all you said then it might be best to save your money and get something nicer. As was suggested above, the various dealer websites have useful tools that help you narrow down exactly what you want (price range).

You'll be hard pressed to find a knife with all your desires at $50. That said, performance and quality should be paramount and the knife you showed above will be about as low as you can go on those two things.
 
Get a Condor Hudson Bay Knife.
Looks good, some might say it looks intimidating, and you can pass it down to your son.

Plus, it actually works! :)

It's right in your price range too.
 
knarfeng said:
A Becker Knife and Tool BK-5 can be had for about $50-$60. Won't look as fancy. But it is a fully satisfactory knife.
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The BK is a great bargain; it's my favorite and excels at food prep; not the best chopper in the Becker range as he has others for that task.

For functionality and hand-it down-to-the-next-generation ruggedness, Becker knives present much value. For a do It All the BK7 is great but if you want to do chopping then the BK9 is not called The King for nothing. Other than chopping, the BK16 is about all the knife one really needs around camp other than the real heavy use. My favorite, the BK5 is great/fantastic for food prep and light limbing but it's not known as a chopper compared tot others. For ann all around beast of a camp knife that can chop, be batoned through firewood, slice/dice food, make a PBJ sandwich, make then pound tent stakes the true do-it-all knife around camp is none other than the knife known as the Campanion; the Becker BK2. It's a beast that can do it all in camp.

For a good looking knife at an easy price from a great company, the Buck 119 "Special" is a good knife - though I do not see it being a great chopper.
 
As others have said - dont buy that Pakistani knife.

With a high degree of probability NOT a quality knife.

As mentioned - Becker BK, Buck or Teräva Skrama etc etc. I have the three mentioned and they are all good (if very different) blades.

Svord also - look into the von Tempsky. Dont know the price. Just buy it.

Ohh, yeah ....

... since I notice you are an Aussie:

Stay away from 'Down Under Knives.'

They are 'carp.'
 
I do have to hand it to the places in Pakistan making a car bumper look like a nice knife......
 
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