What's your limit on price versus performance and design?

$200 is my limit for a large fixed blade. (So far, the most I have paid is $160 but I would go to $200.) $50-75 is the most for a folder.
 
Well for me i don't have a hard limit but is about $200-ish, and that is about performance. I might pay a smidge more for 'the right" knife, but I'm about users and performance.

A good steel that reduces my sharpening tasks, is always a bonus, having a knife I can use all day if necessary without it becoming frustratingly dull. A design that does all the tasks I need well without having to carry several.

and EDC is more likely to get more spent on it because its going to get used and carried more than one that sits in a pack or safe, or shelf...
 
None. If I want it and can afford it, I get it. If it costs more than I can save for/afford, I can't, obviously.

Why limit yourself to a certain price range if you want something else and can afford it? I love value/budget knives (Mora, cheaper Kershaws, etc.) But if you can afford something that you want, why not?
 
When I first started collecting about 2 years ago almost now i thought 100$ was a crazy amount to pay for a knife. But as I learned more about materials and what I liked my spending as gone up and up. Most the knives I buy now are in the 100$-200$ price range but still by a few 30$-50$ knives if design catches my eye. Right now my edc knife is a 35$ Kershaw Thermite and I really like it better in my pocket than most my 100$ plus knives
 
If I can afford it and like the design or looks or whatever draws me to a particular knife I'll buy it. I don't really put a cap on what I'll spend other than whether I have the money or not. Sometimes I'll sell something else off the get something new. Or when I need funds for something else. Most of what I buy are for using either pocket knives to carry, or fixed blades to use camping and hunting. The prices have gone up over the last 30years or so that I'm willing to spend. As my taste changes or the use I will put something to so change the amount I'm willing to shell out.
 
I haven't seen a single knife that I like that cost more than $200, so that's my limit.
 
I generally put the limit in the CRK pricepoint and that's usually for one knife in that pricepoint at a time. I've spent more a few times bit discovered I'm not comfortable using them, so it's unlikely I'd go there again.

At this pricepoint, it's about appeal over performance for me.
 
To date, the most I've spent on a knife was $189 for a ZT 0801. I wasn't familiar with that model, saw it at a gun show (knowing I was probably overpaying) and bought it on the spot. Will I ever use it? Probably not, less because of what I paid for it than because I want it to remain in essentially the exact condition as when it first caught my eye. I feel the same about a Kershaw Groove that I bought a couple years back, although I did buy a second one to EDC . . . very infrequently. Same with a few other Kershaws I own (RAM, Mini Cyclone, Storm,) as well as a Benchmade 300SN, SOG Mini Vulcan and Spyderco Ulize that I bought simply because I loved the design. The same premise applies to those and numerous others as to the ZT. Ordering a custom currently doesn't hold much appeal to me, as I don't think it would be a very educated purchase with my limited knowledge of knives overall. I don't have a "dream knife" just yet.

Whether or not I'll crack the $200 mark at some point remains to be seen, but it would probably not be for a user, as I just don't do the types of things that call for an expensive knife. My typical EDC knives all came in under $40, and with the exception of the Benchmade Adamas 275 I just bought on the Exchange, I don't think I own a $100+ knife that I'd feel compelled to carry during the zombie apocalypse. Most of my "serious" work has been done with ho-hum blades made of 440A, 420HC and AUS8.
 
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