What is your "Bang For Buck" Knife?

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What knife gives you the most bang for the buck? Any purpose any type.
Currently Cold Steel is mine.
 
Kershaw leek. Love that little cheap thing,every knifenut should have one.
-Barry-
 
I have beeen carrying a Rough Rider Peanut for a while now, and really like it. Under $10.00, and takes a wicked edge. Great f/f, too.
 
Victorinox Classics!

Also, the Swedish Frosts 'military' knives are excellent values...
 
The Leek is on the very high side of cheap, at around $50. However, many of Kershaw's knives are priced very cheaply, and are excellent values. Spyderco Byrd knives and Benchmade Red Class knives are also value priced, though not as good as some of the Kerhsaws, in my opinion. Buck makes several excellently priced knives, including the venerable 110 Folding Hunter and the 119 fixed blade. A couple of Gerbers are decent for the money, especially the Gator- it's a little bit more expensive than the Buck 110, but if you need a knife that is light, or used for wet environments where the 110s wood scales might not be great, it's the way to go.
Ontario and KaBar both make some value priced traditional and mil spec fixed blades. KaBar also market the Becker line of knives, and the Dozier line of lock-back folders. Ontario makes foders, too, but I know nothing about them. Ontario also makes some very good traditional working knives, the most familiar of which is the Old Hickory line of traditional kitchen cutlery. Victorinox also makes excellent kitchen cutlery (called Forschner)
Victorinox also probably makes the best value-priced knives in the world, the Swiss Army knives. Wenger also make SAKs.
Many traditional knives offer great value, specifically the yellow-handled models from Case and Moore Maker. Americans aren't the only ones with traditional knives, though- Europe and Africa are full of them, including the Douk-Douk, Mercator K55, Opinel, Otter, and Okapi knives.
Finally, Mora of Sweden makes some very good fixed blades that range between $10-$30.
 
I'm addicted to Buck 110's and wish I had more money for a personal custom stag.

My Rat-1 is also a knife I don't like to be without and it was money well spent.
 
My tiny little Buck Smidgen....best $15 I have ever spent. Gets lots of use.

For a larger Tactical style knife my Byrd G10 Cara Cara. Chinese but impresive. Or my S30V Spyderco Native, premium steel at a bargain price.Made right here in the USA.

Then my secondary market USA Schrades. Money well spent.
 
The yellow CV Case knives are a good deal- especially for being made in the USA.
Ditto for the Spyderco "Wally World" S30V Native.
The Buck 301 is a classic, and (relatively) cheap.

Victorinox gives you a lot for what you pay, as does Great Eastern Cutlery, IMO.
 
Native.

I have a few. I have really beat the hell out of one of them, just so see what it will take. Turns out, a lot. Still kickin.
 
I'll have to second a CV sodbuster. The CS pocket bushman is really nice too.

I'll throw in the Forschner Fibrox kitchen knives for consideration.
 
From my collection, all these are in my opinion good examples of "bang for buck knives"

- Eka Swede 88
- The big, sturdy yet affordable Opinel #12
- The normal sized Opinel #8
- Douk-Douk
- Victorinox Soldier
- Victorinox one-hand Trekker
- Spyderco Tenacious
- Boker Trance
- Browning Ice Storm (the one with curved handle, ie the rebranded Mcusta)
 
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I think the Kershaw Cyclone is a hell of a knife for the money although they apparently have decided to discontinue it. That is the best knife I own for what I paid that isn't rebranded.

Speaking of rebranding though, the Browning Ice Storm FTW
 
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