What is the most you would spend on a production knife?

[Death's Head]

I paid $230 for a Surefire Bravo at one time. Felt guilty about spending that much money on a knife I would not be able to carry around due to its limits in utility and it was essentially a punch dagger.
I am about to purchase a Emerson HD-7 for $199 brand new.. I don't have any problems spending that much on a knife with the features present in this knife.

 

[Planterz]

$400 for a MT Scarab is my highest so far. I spent a little more for a Sand Shark, but that doesn't really count since I sold it less than a week later. It's unlikely that I'd ever spend much more, mostly because there's not a lot of production knives in this price range, and except for automatics, I'd probably be going with a custom instead.

 

[proguide]

I'm about 5 minutes away from buying a new Strider SNG. Just can't decide on the color. $400

 

[tarmix101]

Well to be honest, Frosts and Eriksson's have ruined me. I have a very hard time spending more than $45.00 for a production knife. Every knife I have over $120.00 is a customer made knife. That wasn't the case before my Frosts $12.00 Frost knife.

 

[SpyderJon]

Probably $300 for the Kershaw/Zero Tolerance/Strider folder. I think a knife has to be a VERY special production model for me to spend over $200 on it (street price).

Edited to add: If we're counting regular Striders as Production, then the most I've spent on a production knife is about $350.

 

[dniice87]

i wouldnt want to go over $200

 

[7k7k99]

so far, the max price I am willing to go is no more than $175.

have several close to that price point, beyond that, I would be afraid to use it.

had to up my original price point, my recent purchase of a Benchmade Skirmish broke the $150 barrier [155] oops

 

[DavidW3]

I wonder who are buying all those expensive knives here:

http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm

I mean, some of them are >US$900.

 

[Artfully Martial]

I've seen customs go for 3000+ routinely....from makers I never hear about. I think there's a whole society of knife collectors that operates over the head of the general knife people here...I wonder if THEY'VE ever heard of DDR, or even Benchmade...

But in general, 200 dollars is my limit. But I might trade up over that. I certainly haven't done so yet though.

Past 200 bucks, and I don't think I could handle using it. For me, the sweet spot appears to be between 110-130 dollars...I can get everything I want in that little area, with rare exceptions....I don't really see much of a reason to go over 200.

 

[waynorth]

For a production folder for EDC, up to $150 maybe $200. You can get a real nice custom for $300 and up, so why spend too much for a production knife? If there are 1000 or more like it, then it ain't so special.

 

[dawg]

150.00......Max. Can't justify higher prices when blades under that ceiling will do it all as well or better. A Ranger or Falkniven is all one could ask for or ever need. The exception would be if one was going in harm's way and for whatever reason required a mission specific criteria not otherwise met by the above. I smith as well as own and if I need something special, I'll make one or ask a more talented buddy or two to make one. The prices nowadays for blades are ridiculous.Also, blades under use can break. No matter what model. If one buys a tool....pay a reasonable price. Art is a very subjective thing and often is priced by the eye of the beholder. Apples and oranges. Perhaps the question should be, how much would you pay for a WORK knife.

 

[T.K.C.]

You did say PRODUCTIONS. I have had Strider SNG's, amd I think that those are the most expensive production knives I have had. Now if you ARE talking customs, that is a different ballgame.

 

[dawg]

If there are 1000 or more like it, then it ain't so special.

After reading this quote, I'm going to agree and add that as such (production in high numbers), we're talking about a piece of metal. In large part created and assembled by machine. Much the same as a hammer or pair of snips etc..Granted that some steels cost more and treatments differ and can be more expensive in their science. However, when I can take an old leaf spring, heat and forge, quench it to a nice straw color and grind it into a blade that works as well as a 300+ dollar knife (I'm not bragging here, it's a basic skill that can be learned by anyone-eighth grade was the best twelve years of my life so I'm no rocker head) then I question why I or anyone else would pay big bucks for a piece of metal.

 

[kylekim]

My limit used to be ~150 bucks. I'm not going to make it a habit but I guess my current limit for a production knife is now approximately $400 (CRK or Strider).

 

[Bob W]

I'd pay $100 - $150 for a production knife if it was something really nice. Any more expensive than that and I'd expect a custom.

-Bob

 

[beefangusbeef]

Folder limit is 200, though I'm inching towards a sebenza, not sure what it has over my other functionally but they are works of art. 300 is the limit for fixed blades, anything over that and I go custom. Most of the time if I spend over 200 it's either busse or custom.

 

[Chefget]

2k

-Michael

 

[Easyrider]

The most I have ever spent on a knife was $200. I'm not sure what my upper limit would be but it will have to be one hell of a nice production knife for me to spend that much again or go above it.

 

[Hair]

The most I have spent was $385 for my Large Classic Sebenza. I am going to buy a Strider SMF for $475 in a month. The SMF is about the most I would spend on a production knife. I would spend a little more for a custom, but not much more. Maybe $700.

 

[Nimick]

well, the most I've ever pent on a single knife was $180, but I've spent as much as $600 at one time, which could easily be one knife. It's just that, there are so many different knives I want to try, I usually try to fit as many knives as I can into the excess pile of cash I have. so instead of the Manix, a MOD Caracara, and a CQC-11. I buy an endura, a native, a 732sbk, a bump, 3 Schrades, and a CQC-11.