What knife is your beater?

Fixed: Cold Steel SRK
Folder: Spyderco Endura

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Usual Suspect

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Have beaten my CRKT m16-14mil BADLY over the past several weeks. It is an inexpensive blade that just will not quit. Because of its price I find that I don't hesitate to do destructive things with it that I would not consider with another knife. I just ordered an 03 because of the performance of the 14!
 
WOW! Thanks for all the interesting replies!
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I noticed that people's beaters all tend to be quality pieces. They vary in price, but they are all of good quality. I think most of us know a poor quality beater isn't worth the trouble, it will let you down right away. Good pieces can be found at the low, middle, and high end of the price scale. And they seem to pay for themselves over and over in daily use. Even if you beat em' up a little.
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Thanks again and have a GOOD one!
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Wow! Now this is really cool!! I'm just like the next guy here on the forums, in that I love to hear about the "latest, greatest" that someone just got (speaking of which, just got my new mini-CQC7A #60
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), but I also love hearing about that one knife that you always come back to no matter what. For me its my Delica in plain-edge. No matter how many knives I buy, no matter how many I drool over here at the forums, no matter how many times I bug the nice ladies down at A.G. Russell about when the new CRKT's are coming out, I always seem to end up with my Delica back in my pocket. Really cool thread you started here Tactical!


Flinx
 
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Sean

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Hi!
To all that has answered and the rest of the community that is reading this:
Can you please, if possible post pitures of your well used/beat up knives? i don't know why but i find it interesting to see how knives have been worn, my opinion is that high quality knives wear very well and look good when worn but low quality knives do not.

So, post those pictures!!
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(i don't have a scanner/digi camera or i'd be first in line)

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Be well!/Jonas aka 2Sharp

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I have many different kinds of beaters. For EDC, my "beater" is a BM720. But I have several SAKs, a camillus electricians knife and a western jack knife that I use for serious abuse like stripping wire, scraping gaskets or trimming aluminum siding, etc. For fixed blade beaters, I used to use a Schrade Golded Spike, which is excellent for nosing around in dead trees looking for bark beetles and other bugs (something I'm known to do occasionally). Now I use a Busse Mean Street, the ultimate in a small hard use fixed blade. And I use that for everything.
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I also use Barteaux mini machetes for cutting sod in the yard and in general garden work.

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Hoodoo

I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
 
My Spyderco Wayne Goddard Lightweight 50/50 blade is my beater it is my constant companion at work and it has never let me down. It holds a great edge too.
I also carry an Emerson CQC-7A .They are my two favorites. I have bought others but my heart keeps going back to them.

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I used to be disgusted .Now I am just amused....I feel much better now that I have given up all hope

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My M2 AFCK, currently in use by Nemo!

If it still works after that, I will forever trust that knife!

W.A.

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Good Thread, Tactical!
The day you posted it {two days ago}, i had just sat down & made a list of all the knives i've gone through in the last 12+ {?} years, comparing "chore-ability" {the ultimate quality in a knife...} with my Boye Basic 3 that i've used for thirteen years.
That 'Dendritic Steel' knife with its smooth lines, drop edge, combo of toughness & hardness keeps cutting, hacking & piercing.
i've chopped & chiseled wood from Oregon forests to California doorframes, including using it as a wood-splitting wedge while backpacking/climbing.
Nothing's come close to it. i added a leather handle, & file-worked some "safety notches" in the finger-guard, along with a wire-cutting notch near the pommel, & made two sheaths for it. i lost it for 7 months in 2000, found it again just last week! Each scratch reminds me of an adventure... even had sulfuric acid remove some of its "shine" on 3/4" along its edge; no real damage, & "its still beautiful...to me!"
Waiting to see if Busse's #3 will "cut the mustard" in comparison tests...
Until then, my BDS3 deserves my loyalties as my all-time beater knife,
& close friend.
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Clif :)
"Percival... I never knew how empty was my soul until it was filled."
Arthur the King upon sipping from the Grail.
 
My BM710 does it for mef iv had it only for a few weeks but so far absolutly no complaints iv a question what do moat of you consider abbuse?
Nero

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apologizing in advance for this, but.... i can't believe VG has'nt chimed in here with an answer like:
" my best and true beater is right hand"
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yeah, yeah, i know i'm twisted. what, may i ask is your point?

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A few of my Knives
russ aka BladeZealot

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Oh, so many. My fixed blade outdoor knife is a Buck Vanguard. Fixed blade around the house is a Benchmade M2 Nimravus Cub, heavily modified by my beater dremel.
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Beater folder for EDC would be BM 730 or Spydie Military, while outdoor folding beater is my Spydie Wegner.

My only pics are of the Cub, but apparently photopoint is on the fritz today, so I can't get to the address.

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iktomi
 
LOL!
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Russ, the question is what KNIFE is your beater? Thanks guys for the interesting responses. The picture idea is GREAT! I think well used pieces are fun to look at . I bet manufacturers look at well used pieces closely to see how to improve them or what they are doing right. Thanks, take care!
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