What do you want to get from folding knives priced between $100 and $200?

Are you looking for recommendations? If so, what are you into? Small folders? Autos? Assisted? Large? Heavy duty? Traditional? Modern? Carbon steel? Stainless? Do you carry to an office each day? Do you need to skin wild game frequently?

I like Cold Steel, Spyderco, Great Eastern Cutlery, Hogue, Demko, and Buck for folders these days. Each of which has a multitude of offerings in your price range, depending on your desired use.
 
In this price range I am looking for a user or edc with a blade around 3“. It may have plastic, G10 or CF handle. it will probably be a linerlock. If I can I would pick a blade made of s35vn, cpm154 or something similar that can deliver correct performance at 59-60 HRC or under.

At the moment in this price range I have a WE Banter and a Spyderco Native 5 that I carry often. I also have a Cold Steel AD10 that is my work knife.

But you have a lot of options for very good work knives in this price range.
 
Reliable, safe, ergonomic, construction with a PM steel blade that is a good slicer and is heat treated properly.
The F&F doesn't have to be perfect, the packaging can be cheap, the warranty can be meh. But I want a good tool that will perform for many years.
 
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That is about civivi limit for me because the Australian dollar isn't great.

But I like a nice knife over a bunch of expensive materials.

My last one was the vision. And it appealed to me because it ticked a few fun boxes. (Has a defensive utility vibe, interesting shape, solid lock, fidgety) but it is g10 and nito v.

And I purchased that over the spyderco ronin that would set me back around $300.

But I don't really think I missed out that much.

I was looking through that $400 knife thread. And just didn't like the shape or the pallet of a lot of those. And that effects my decision quite a bit.
 
I tend to get bored with less expensive frame/liner lock knives so I have come to expect knives in the $100-$200 range to have something a little more exciting or exotic like a button or axis lock. A knife in this range should also have a decent steel...not expecting super steel but something decent.
 
In that price range, I expect to get a good steel but I dont need anything exotic. Something in the range of S35vn, or pretty much anything comparable is just fine. By the time I get past the lowest parts of that price range, I also expect to get G10 or Micarta scales, and American made.

Considering that for $180 I can get a Hogue Ritter folder from Knifeworks, with G10 scales, Magnacut blade, crossbar lock, and USA made, I consider it to be the standard bearer for what you can get in the $100-$200 range. (As a matter of fact, that same knife but in 20cv is what I have in my pocket right now)
 
For $100-$200 , I like the BM Adamas (full size). But it’s a good size knife. The mini can be had for just over $200 ($204 , I think). These are prices for brand new. I’m not sure what they’re going for used on the exchange.
 
I really want a price tag more along the line of $50-$75 out of most of those knives, because it feels like just a couple of years ago that is what those blades were selling for. Inflation is shocking me, and I realize everything has gone up, but when I look at the price of new blades it just seems ridiculous to me.
 
I really like the Benchmade Mini Griptilian models. Especially the 555 with the Spyderco influenced deployment hole. But I am looking at ordering a BM Osborne that I can get within that price via a military discount site.
 
I’d recommend buying in that range via the secondary mkt. You can nearly double the return on what you’re getting for your money. Tbh the only knives I buy brand new are ones I can’t get otherwise or at minimum will hold their value. As long as you’re not trying to buy the overhyped overpriced flavor of the month.

So many knives get bought up, never used and then sold less than retail that it almost seems foolish to buy anything new that’s readily available on the secondary.
 
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