Your three favorite Economical Blades..

1. Kershaw Skyline ($35)
2. Kershaw OD-1 ($30 on sale, $40 reg.)
3. Spyderco Tenacious ($35)

Honorable mnetion:
Buck Vantage Select, Avid & Pro ($25, $35, $45)
Victorinox SAK's (all)
 
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Okapi or Kudu take your pick, I love 'em both.
Any Opinel, I just happened to have this one handy.
Medium Douk douk, this is the small, again, just happened to have it handy.
All these knives take a heart-stopping, terrifying edge and once you learn their secrets can be as effective in a tactical sense as they are in a practical sense.
Oh yeah, honorable mention to the carbon steel Mercator Kat.
PS. Love the fact that the Kudu is and American-marketed Chinese knockoff of an African copy of a German knockoff of a Spanish knife. How global can you get?
 
I just received a new Ontario RAT 1 Folder from BladeHQ yesterday and I'm knocked off my feet by the quality of this knife for $30.

I have purchased a few economical knives recently and each time I thought they were very good for the money but the RAT 1 Folder has them all beat hands down for quality from tip to heel.

I'm shocked actually. It's Taiwan, not China, AUS-8 blade steel and assembled like many $200 kives with regard to F&F. Dead centered blade, even and thin edge grinds and the deployment action doesn't need one single tweak whatsoever. The detent is just right, you can flip it with ease with no wrist movement yet it opens easily with just the thumb on the stud without a second thought. The lockup is solid side to side and up and down. The way it fits your hand is quite good. And the blade profile is very useful.

I can't find fault in it. If it had G10 (rather than the G10-like finished Zytel type material) for $5 more it would be a major contender in the low cost, quality knife arena. I think it already is. It would be nicer too if they lost the big Randal Adventure Training etching on the blade too. But overall, it's also an attractive knife!
 
Reeek said:
I just received a new Ontario RAT 1 Folder from BladeHQ yesterday and I'm knocked off my feet by the quality of this knife for $30.

I have purchased a few economical knives recently and each time I thought they were very good for the money but the RAT 1 Folder has them all beat hands down for quality from tip to heel.

I'm shocked actually. It's Taiwan, not China, AUS-8 blade steel and assembled like many $200 kives with regard to F&F. Dead centered blade, even and thin edge grinds and the deployment action doesn't need one single tweak whatsoever. The detent is just right, you can flip it with ease with no wrist movement yet it opens easily with just the thumb on the stud without a second thought. The lockup is solid side to side and up and down. The way it fits your hand is quite good. And the blade profile is very useful.

I can't find fault in it. If it had G10 (rather than the G10-like finished Zytel type material) for $5 more it would be a major contender in the low cost, quality knife arena. I think it already is. It would be nicer too if they lost the big Randal Adventure Training etching on the blade too. But overall, it's also an attractive knife!
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+1 started carrying mine again this week and forgot how great it was, takes a razor edge and the blade just flies out of the handle.
Definitely my #1 economical blade.
#2 would be the buck vantage (avid and pro) don't have the avid, but i do have the pro, and for about $50, this knife cannot be beaten.
#3 would be a tie between opinel's and vic SAK's. just great knives that everyone should have at least one of.
 
UpChUcK said:
1. Kershaw Skyline ($35)
2. Kershaw OD-1 ($30 on sale, $40 reg.)
3. Spyderco Tenacious ($35)

Honorable mnetion:
Buck Vantage Select, Avid & Pro ($25, $35, $45)
Victorinox SAK's (all)
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The OD-1 is an awesome knife and I don't think it gets enough praise.
 
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