Cheap knives

[Scythe13]

Alright GR,

This is a very good question. One I've been playing around with.

The basic thought process went like this: What is better, a £100+ knife, or a cheaper £10-£20 knife.

Well, truth be told....the cheaper knife was just as good, and somehow worked out much better than the more expensive one. There is a video by Nutnfancy (on youtube) where he did just that. Tested an expensive one, and a cheaper one. Cheaper one won. But that might not always be the case.

With a machete, lets be fair, there's not LOADS you can do with them. They're a chunk of sharpened metal, and do a good job as long as their blade is sharp. The only real differences is the metal, the shape, and the handle. Most other things fall into one of these categories.

Personally, for knives, I have a simple rule. We need a ratio of 3:2:1. We should have 3 smaller knives, for every 2 big knives, and 1 machete. When walking around, EDC, I like to have 1 big and 1 small knife. But a machete isn't really much use in the UK unless you're fighting or gardening.

I've managed to dent my Gerber Gator (SD saw it and was impressed I'd managed to do that). Having said that, they are great machete's, but what for, it the main question. Gardening or fighting? I'd stick to bigger knives, instead of a full on machete.