What's your favorite "beater"?

These two :) They just keep coming back for more!
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My " cheap" beater is a Sog Seal pup I've had for 5 or 6 years now. I have a few and my original is still going strong. I actually thought I would have broke it by now or snapped the tip or something , but it just keeps on going. It is a great back-up knife and I carry it often.

Going up in price, my Benchmade 162 Bushcrafter is still trucking along as well. Three years old now , no blade issues whatsoever. Always in the bush with me.It laughs it's way through battoning , but I don't really do it that much . ;)

Folder is a Buck Vantage Avid in Sandvik w/aluminum scales. It's my edc ; not too bad but developed a little blade play as the liner lock wore down and is at the end of it's travel. I put that knife through hell though.:)
 
A Kershaw brawler is always in my pocket. I've cut through everything with it. From paper to copper wire to tin cans to belted fire hard suction hose!
 
I've seen a few posts where people say they aren't a fan of the company (Cold Steel) but like their knife. I will second that by saying I like my old medium Voyager. It's my edc and favorite beater.
 
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Hello, I carry and use almost all of my small number of knives. However, if I know I'm going to use a knife for "hard use", I use a Roselli fixed-blade "Carpenter" knife. I'm a big fan of Roselli knives and I believe they are a relatively good value knife... good (enough) steel, solid, takes a great edge, and holds the edge pretty well. Regards, Adam
 
For a folding beater I have been using a Ka-bar mule for the last three years and as the name suggests its a work horse, I've put it through everything you would want to put a folder through and then some and it took it all and laughed. My fixed of choice at present is a Russell-Grohman survival knife which replaced my Ka-bar Bull-Dozier as my bush knife, haven't run all the extensive testing on that one yet as I've only had one camping season to beat on it, Bull-Dozier was a beast through two seasons just felt like a lighter more bush oriented blade might be beneficial.
 
Buck 446 Goliath. I keep it in the workshop for things a knife shouldn't be asked to do. Last time I used it was for cutting open bags of asphalt patch. It was pretty crusted up last I saw it but a little WD-40 and some time with the Sharpmaker and it will be ready to work in the yard/garden this spring.
 
blade dude said:
Spyderco delica. Also the most expensive knife I own but I use it just like I would a $5 knife. I was planting seeds earlier and dug with it. The reason I bought a more expensive knife was so it would handle more abuse. Not to keep it looking nice and use a cheap one. Also used it to cut wires and I cut up an old shower with it.
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I can sense the saltiness from your other thread :D

My favorite beater is gerber ripstop II. Cheap knife (perfectly centered for $15 or so), half regular, half serrated to be used for package opening to other stuff.
 
My good old 0560. First "good" knife I ever got.
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This thing has gone through it all. I have used it to cut up tons of thick cardboard, chopped down small trees, pryed various containers open, lent it to people who destroyed the edge cutting fiberglass and steel wires, slashed open more aluminum cans than I can count, used it as a throwing knife, and worst of all used it to baton firewood on a camping trip (as in splitting wood thicker than the span of the blade).
Between sending it back to ZT for Elmax-related edge retention issues (all they did was grind the edge back a ton at about a 60 degree angle) and all the other times I re-profiled it after the edge got destroyed it's no slicer. That edge that looks like it is really lean is actually 40 degrees inclusive and there are still chips that haven't been sharpened out. There is also a crack going from the thumb stud to the spine of the blade that appeared recently.
There is horrible vertical play and lock-rock from batoning and although it is still really smooth you can feel the dents in the bearing track left from prying as the bearings roll over them.
The g10 around the pivot is all scratched up and full of super glue from where I stripped the pivot screw and had to fix it to the scale and rotate it 180 degrees, break the glue, and fix it again repeatedly until I got it out and could put a new screw in.
The steel liner under the G10 is covered in rust spots, the clip was DIY blackened with a blowtorch and has worn to what it looks like now, and there are still some spots on the titanium from where the knife stabbed half-way through my palm (my fault) and got soaked in my blood.
Despite all of this the lock never slips, there is no sideways play, it drops freely even with lockbar tension, the detent is still the same depth into the detent hole that it was when I first got it, and overall the knife is still mechanically sound and I see no reason to stop using (possibly abusing) it.
 
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Mine is definitely the Gerber Aspect!

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Bigbobg said:
I'm interested in hearing about your favorite "beater" knives. You know, the ones you're not afraid use.
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SanRenMu 605 is also a great candidate for a beater. Small but usable, disappears in pocket and around $10.

 
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