Fixed Blade Recommendations

[Blackscorpion]

You get what you pay for.... Poor quality, cheap steel is hard to work with, won't keep a decent edge & is likely to break. I have stopped using cheap poor quality rubbish and took the time to research what I needed from a knife and how it would perform. It's one of the reasons I use my Extrema Ratio. It's wickedly sharp and holds an excellent edge. The steel is full tang, handle perfect and the balance point is spot on. I've had Mora Knives snap in two, resulting in them going in the bin, just weeks after I paid for them. Worthless junk...

[metatron]

Hi end option for long term use Fallkniven A1 Pro, cheap will rust on you, but great knife a high carbon steel Mora.

[dangerman]

I've heard a lot of people complain about the BG ultimate survival knife the way blackscorpian is talking about moras, but in my experience it's been invincible. I've battered it and think it's brilliant. I also have the Fallkniven F1 and think they're comparable for most uses.

Maybe the cheapy mora will be good for most tasks too. I detect some knife snobbery.

[Mortblanc]

You can tear anything up if you try hard enough.

Are you really going to put a Mora, or any other knife, through what it taes to break them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOgDtWMEY_Q

[Smudge]

You get what you pay for.... Poor quality, cheap steel is hard to work with, won't keep a decent edge & is likely to break. I have stopped using cheap poor quality rubbish and took the time to research what I needed from a knife and how it would perform. It's one of the reasons I use my Extrema Ratio. It's wickedly sharp and holds an excellent edge. The steel is full tang, handle perfect and the balance point is spot on. I've had Mora Knives snap in two, resulting in them going in the bin, just weeks after I paid for them. Worthless junk...

You sure get what you pay for but what you get isn't always worth what you pay and sometimes you get more than what you pay for.

There are pictures, videos and examples of any number of high end knives breaking, end of the day you treat a knife poorly it'll break. Funnily enough if you watch the destruction test videos there are "cheap" knives that out perform/last many more expensive knives Cold Steel GI Tanto is one example.

[jansman]

I've heard a lot of people complain about the BG ultimate survival knife the way blackscorpian is talking about moras, but in my experience it's been invincible. I've battered it and think it's brilliant. I also have the Fallkniven F1 and think they're comparable for most uses.

Maybe the cheapy mora will be good for most tasks too. I detect some knife snobbery.

That last line is soooo true. I use two knives every day as a butcher ( I am back in it full time again now), a 12" steak knife, and a 6" boning knife. They usually last about 18 months until they can be sharpened no more. They are kept razor sharp, look like hell, and get abused like you cannot believe. Many knife 'experts' talk about using a knife and ' batoning' with it. I do not use a cleaver, they are unwieldy and crude. I use my Victorinox steak knife and hit the back with a plastic 'fat basher' ( a heavy baton).

I never pay more than 18 quid for either knife.

[woodsman]

the mora is good had mine a while and not yet needed to put it on the stone, i use smurf poo and a leather strop to hone it ( very sharp ) but saying that it hasnt done any really heavy work thats what a axe is for

[Melj]

I,ve got the Anglo Arms Nomad knife not used it much and added a fire steele .


Just ordered a Mora companion for £6.99 and another Nomad £6.99 on a Black Friday deal

[bunkai]

I'll say it:

If money is not a problem then it's a Woodlore or Jacklore + a nice water stone to sharpen it.

Knife == Survival, if I could only take one thing it would be the knife and what's in my head, which by the way is not much but I am working on it...

[ForgeCorvus]

I'll say it:

If money is not a problem then it's a Woodlore or Jacklore + a nice water stone to sharpen it.

Knife == Survival, if I could only take one thing it would be the knife and what's in my head, which by the way is not much but I am working on it...

Why those two?

Blackscorpion: Which Extrema Ratio you got and why ?


I find the concept of paying over a ton for a field knife a little hard to fathom, can someone explain please ?