What's your threshold for "too expensive?"

OK I will throw in my 2 cents. My limit on a production knife is around $200. If it is a custom built knife and it really strikes me as "value" I will spend around $400 (not lately because I have been unemployed for a while). My gripe comes when it gets over the point where you are paying for a "Name" and not the quality or material in the knife or sheath. As an example look at some of the USA made pocket knives and then look at some of the imports, compare the material and the quality of "fit and finish" and tell me how you justify a $70 or $80 price tag on a two blade whittler with bone or stag handles and 420 stainless blades. Some knives are just plain over priced.
 
I might add that in this forum look at the knives Bill Aker is making for under $200, and they are good high quality knives with good steel in them. Just an exampe, I am sure there are many more.
 
$800.

I want a special graphic damascus sebenza and it will cost around this much.

Spent $500 on a Walter Brend Bush Hog at the New York knife show when I was 16 (it was my grail). I didn't buy another knife for 20 years until I came across Busse knives which have since forced my budget to move well beyond what I had formerly considered reasonable. A gladius can have that effect on a person.

You can do pretty well without compromising for $100 or less if you stick with Spyderco, Becker and Esee. The new Meyerco Kirby Lambert shockwave is outrageous for $40.00.
 
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2x 350 for a folder
2x 220 for a small fixed blade
1x 400 for a medium fixed blade
1x 550 for a large fixed blade
1x 100 for a kitchen knife
1x 50 for a sharpening kit
1x 30 for a sharpening rod
1x 20 for a strop
2290 total

Maybe one more folder for 350 and I'm done. Can't afford anymore and I have enough toys to last me a while.
 
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Cold Kill said:
Dear god, some people take knives a bit too far. $50 is a lot for a knife, and I won't touch or even so much as look at anything over about $70. I don't think you should pay more for a knife than a trip to the grocery store, or a car payment (insurance and installments). Unless you use said knife to rob somebody for money for the groceries or car payment. That way it is an investment.
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You sure you joined the forum you meant to join? This is Blade Forums, where people seem to have all different taste in knives.
 
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