What is your price limit for an EDC?

EDC folder is a large Classic Sebenza with micarta inlay handles and double thumb lugs. Cost lots more than I imagined I'd spend on a knife (pre forum 'education'). Its a user, not an art knife. After a few years of hard use, can send it back to the factory to have it refurbished to like new if I want (or not). That also makes it easier to put to hard use, for me. If I ever decide to get rid of it, I can get quite abit of my money back and call any loss taken as 'rent' for several years of knife use. - - Also EDC small SAKs just about all the time, while carrying another knife. The little scissors & toothpick get almost everyday use. - When out in the mountains (hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, etc) I prefer a fixed blade. Like the Fallkniven F1 at under $100, and often neck carry a Mora which goes for $ 10.

P.S. - SGTCap made a good point about EDC sidearms. Heck even a very modestly priced (decent) pistol is gonna be in the range of a custom knife - - $500 or more. And the consequences of losing a sidearm are considerably more unpleasant.
 
I really can't see myself spending more than $4,000 on a knife I planned on carrying every day. Any more than that would just be ridiculous.

Seriously though, there are plenty of guys out there who wear $20,000 watches. To my mind, a knife is much more useful than a watch. There's nothing wrong with spending whatever you want on a knife, as long as you can afford it, and it makes you happy.
 
I think about $250 would be the most I am really prepared to beat on. I always carry two knives, right side's basicly always a BM 610, left alternates between BM 615, ZT0200, BM 710 or enduras. I am pretty particular about the knives I buy and don't own any I would care about scraching. I just believe that half the beauty of a knife is it's functionablity. Besides like SGTCap said the Kimber on me when I'm not at school costs alot more then any of my knifes....of couse they don't have crimson trase grips either...
 
The most I have ever spent was 600.00 for an Anso Nemo folder for EDC.

I never travel by air with any knife worth over 50.00 in my checked baggage however.
 
Price limit . . . well, I EDC a small Sebenza and just ordered a second blade in Damascus so my limit just increased by over $200.

That said, unless I lose this one, I'll never buy another. Got more knives than pockets now.
 
I never called anyone a "jerk off". It was just a smily. Get over it.

He clearly didn't put any thought or effort into his reply and it missed the point of the question. I can afford a lot more than I am willing to spend on a knife I intend to really use. I don't think you always get what you pay for either. Sometimes, you get a good knife for your money and sometimes you don't. That is life.

I think there are people who actually use their knives and look at them from a function viewpoint and then there are those that only use their knife to open mail or cut a string from their coat once in a while. If that is all you carried a knife for, I could see spending more money on it since it will last a long time and is more of a piece of jewerly than a tool.

For me, I do both. I have a work knife (BM 921s Switchback) and I have the knives that I carry on the weekends and such. I have a lot more knives that fall into the weekend catagory but this thread is about EDCs. An edc by most definations will be abused a bit now and then. It is an every day, every thing knife.

Even though I could afford more, $150 is about all I feel comfortable carrying in this role. I used to think $50 was a lot for a knife so maybe someday I will carry $300-400 knives at work and not think anything about it. I doubt it since my line of work invloves the risk of losing the knife as well as breaking it. Buying the best I can afford doesn't make sense when you consider I could lose a $400 custom knife just as easy as a $20.00 Kershaw. The extra quality won't keep it from sinking to the bottom of a 40' hole filled with water.
 
cwiehle0 said:
Bought my little schrade from wal mart 4 years ago, open boxes and cut stuff everyday with it. Cost me about $20. Best $20 I ever spent.
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Been there, done that, my unpretentious Schrade cheerfully did everything I wanted it to do.
 
EDC for me typically means traditional. Roughly $100 is my limit. I have been burned by some of the high cost traditional vs good old Case and Bokers. Besides my tastes seem to be going to the cheap side. I have more fun with my Mora, Case Sodbuster and Cold Steel Bushman, not EDC, but showing my interest. Heck I just bought an old carbon steel butcher knife on EBAY for $12. I'll be more excited opening that than I was my Ontario RAT3.

Oh, and some of you big spenders ought to get off your wallets and upgrade....jeez "I'd pay $1K for a pocket knife..." heck spare a good website $25 and lower yourself to a $975 knife. I have no affiliation with the site but have enjoyed my time here and learned a lot.

tjg
 
price limit?
i didn't know there was one. any idea how many times i've told the mrs. "this is the last one''. but i really mean it this time( new sebenza). haha
 
I'm not exactly the spending type so......

Any more than 200 dollars makes it a safe queen.
 
I can't say that I have a price limit. I am carrying at this moment two knives that cost nearly $500.00 each and I use them. i plan on buying another custom at tax time. It will set me back over $1000.00 and I will carry and use it. It just seems as soon as my friends think I have gone over the top I set a new peak to clime to. My wife has said that my knife and flashlight collection is worth more than I am and if it keeps up she will cash it in. I told her "Over my dead body!" She replied "That's the plan!"
 
My limit on an edc is about 30$. On special occasions or just around the house I may carry a 60$ knife. Joe
 
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