Originally Posted By: hikermor
For knives, like so many other classes of consumer goods, there is a wide range of quality and prices, going from very low quality/low price to high quality/high price. It gets interesting in the middle of the continuum where you can often find very good quality coupled with a reasonably low price -i.e., "the bargain."......When it comes to knives, I would get a decent model, paying no more than about $50,........


Yup. Me too. The 80/20 rule applies to knives, in my opinion. Fifty buckaroos or thereabouts should get you a decent knife. Put the rest into some other item(s) critical to your personal situation.

"Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
-Voltaire
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