I'm sorry guys, except for bragging rights about who spent the most money for the newest steel, manufacturing process, or molecular bombardment of the blade, I don't get it.

If it holds an edge and does the neccessary task, I go with what I can afford at a sensible level. In my most active years (Which are long gone now.) I never considered a knife as a hammer and anvil to be taken into the woods.

Unless the T-Rex is being cloned back into existence and you plan to stick one with your knife and then pick up the T-Rex by the handle of your knife and flip the T-Rex away, it doesn't matter how tough your knife.

I like knives, guns, onyx eggs, crystal balls, marbles, scooters, motorcycles, tools, boats, outboards, sailboats, and a whole host of toys and "necessaties". If I were wealthy enough with my own warehouse, I would buy anything that strikes my fancy. I buy my knives to cut first and formost and if they do that, I do not try to impress people by the name of knife, but the efficiency with which it does its job. The size and type of the knife is determined by the anticipated use. I have already mentioned having an 11" bladed swiss bayonet that I would like to be able to mount and remove from a walking stick as a thrusting spear. It is hard to sharpen and very tough stainless steel, but you could probably dig a fox hole in rock with it. I may never use that bayonet, but my everyday walking around knife is sharp, small, not designer made, and still does what I need from it.

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