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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1416002" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>What's the budget? ESEE is sort of known for being some of the best valued hard-use knives in the business.</p><p></p><p>An ESEE Izula is about $40 with no scales or you can spend $60 for the Izula II:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.rockynational.com/search.html" target="_blank">http://www.rockynational.com/search.html</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Also, what do you want out of this knife? </p><p></p><p>No matter what, I'd get a knife with a full-tang and scaled handles over most others for a hard-use or "survival knife".</p><p></p><p>If you want a blade around 2-1/2" to 4" for general cutting use, whittling, cutting rope, etc., then there are a few makers out there that make something that would work for you.</p><p></p><p>TOPS, ESEE, SwampRat, all make pretty top-notch knives in this category for under $100. Ebay has a lot of the old Rat Cutlery RC3s and 4s (older versions of the ESEE3s and 4s) for pretty cheap.</p><p></p><p>If you want something bigger... say 4-6" blade... for batoning wood or chopping, then the choices get slimmer and the budget goes up for quality blades.</p><p></p><p>Strangely enough, if you want a machete, the price goes way down. </p><p></p><p>Tramontina and Imacasa make some good machetes and are almost always about as cheap as the shipping to get them to your doorstep. Condor sells a sharpened version of the Imacasa for a few bucks more (and I want to say its got an upgraded handle over the Imacasa) and for a few bucks more than that, ESEE sells an upgraded version of the same machete with better handles, a different profiled blade, and their own coating.</p><p></p><p>I've actually tested a few knives when camping and found that more than a few of them didn't hold up to even the weakest of tests (whittling, cutting small limbs, batoning, cutting rope/webbing, etc.).</p><p></p><p>Among the worst at this were the Gerber LMF II, the KBAR USMC classic (I bent the guard with almost no effort and when attempting to do very light batoning, I bent the tang at the handle).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 1416002, member: 229"] What's the budget? ESEE is sort of known for being some of the best valued hard-use knives in the business. An ESEE Izula is about $40 with no scales or you can spend $60 for the Izula II: [url]http://www.rockynational.com/search.html[/url] Also, what do you want out of this knife? No matter what, I'd get a knife with a full-tang and scaled handles over most others for a hard-use or "survival knife". If you want a blade around 2-1/2" to 4" for general cutting use, whittling, cutting rope, etc., then there are a few makers out there that make something that would work for you. TOPS, ESEE, SwampRat, all make pretty top-notch knives in this category for under $100. Ebay has a lot of the old Rat Cutlery RC3s and 4s (older versions of the ESEE3s and 4s) for pretty cheap. If you want something bigger... say 4-6" blade... for batoning wood or chopping, then the choices get slimmer and the budget goes up for quality blades. Strangely enough, if you want a machete, the price goes way down. Tramontina and Imacasa make some good machetes and are almost always about as cheap as the shipping to get them to your doorstep. Condor sells a sharpened version of the Imacasa for a few bucks more (and I want to say its got an upgraded handle over the Imacasa) and for a few bucks more than that, ESEE sells an upgraded version of the same machete with better handles, a different profiled blade, and their own coating. I've actually tested a few knives when camping and found that more than a few of them didn't hold up to even the weakest of tests (whittling, cutting small limbs, batoning, cutting rope/webbing, etc.). Among the worst at this were the Gerber LMF II, the KBAR USMC classic (I bent the guard with almost no effort and when attempting to do very light batoning, I bent the tang at the handle). [/QUOTE]
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