Okay Jow Forums, I need to gift an aesthetic but functional knife to a person. Budget is around 100 bucks
What would you recommend? It would be for splintering logs when making a fire among other general things
Okay Jow Forums, I need to gift an aesthetic but functional knife to a person. Budget is around 100 bucks
Kayden Reed
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Leo Baker
Mora classic
Jonathan Foster
>aesthetic
>functional
>$100
Chose two, and only two. Welcome to the world of knives where hte price of everything has been hiked super fucking high.
Mason Lee
OP I would genuinly consider looking at antique shops for knives. You can find some oddball and old school shit that still holds a decent edge.
Luke Baker
if you're talking about batoning, a knife is really not the best tool. buy the homie a nice hatchet instead.
otherwise, aesthetic is in the eye of the beholder, but based on op pic I'd take a trawl through the knives on the Ragweed Forge website (RIP Ragnar, I didn't know) and see what caught my eye. Helle Scout? Ahti Kaira? Roselli Hunter?
Branching out a little bit aesthetically, you could also go for a Kabar or maybe a Buck 119/120.
lol wut. where do you live and what are you looking at/for?
Daniel Wood
Ethan Gray
Glock field knife.
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Christian Wilson
make one yourself
Jaxon Hill
Cant wait til this meme dies
Joshua Reed
An "aesthetic" knife like the one he's posting in the OP will cost past $250 and possibly far, far more if it's made of a decent steel and is of good build quality. Forge welding, burlwood, etc hike up the price a lot. Unless the steel is mysterious paki junk you're not going to find forgewelded damascus with what looks to be zebrawood, brass, and black g10 or perhaps even horn for anything less than $300 on the modern market. Hell, if it's made by some more fancy makers that's going to run well past $600 if not near $1000.
The aesthetics OP is asking for cannot be done for less than $200.
Ethan Parker
Get a puukko from ahti, isaaki jarvenpaa, or martinni. Leuku maybe also. You won't get anything as artisan as your Pic but still good stuff.
Not really desu.
Blake Harris
>knife
>splintering logs
Get them an axe instead of a gimmick ass knife they're going to break the first time they baton it.
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Josiah Morris
Commission a piece from a local amateur knife maker, many will work for parts cost only and will spend much more time in the overall finish than some Chinese 440c PoS that has a nice logo.
Hunter Barnes
Fair enough, I guess I assumed that OP wasn't saying "I want literally pic related for $100" but I see where you're coming from. But would forgewelded damascus with fancy handle materials ever have been cheaper (adjusted for inflation)? If not, surely it's that OP just doesn't know what prices have always been like, not that they've been hiked recently. W/r/t my own very limited corner of knife shopping, I've been really impressed with the steels, build quality, and range of designs that you can get for your money.
Robert Ward
>It would be for splintering logs
Pretty good bait for getting the batoning and anti batoning retards arguing
Colton Gonzalez
Serious response OP:
Hunting Style:
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Machette Style:
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Bushcraft Style:
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A lot of these are going to be Ontario Knife Company. They should still look decent, and perform well for your budget.
Leo Collins
Warning. My experience with Ontario Knives machetes is that they're extremely, extremely soft with the edge retention of a sharp cheddar.
Connor Myers
This is a good call. Something extra cool about getting something handmade, specifically for you.
Hunter Rogers
>gifting a knife
Matthew Anderson
Reminds me of how my father and mother said never to gift someone a knife, always ask for a penny. And to never return someone a folding blade closed if they hand you it open, and never open if they hand you it closed. Bad juju.
Why these things are so I have no clue.
Jordan Evans
Gifting a knife is said to symbolically sever a relationship, so you must demand token payment.
That shit about the folding knives sounds completely made up and silly tho.
Joshua Flores
Nah, a few places online mention it so they didn't make it up. It's just one of those less popular superstitions
Anthony Russell
I have had a buck 119 for 6 years and it’s never let me down for hunting purposes/stripping bark. Not a bad looking knife either.
Wyatt Ross
Neato but that's not the aesthetic op posted. What OP is asking for is extremely expensive.
Andrew Morris
Looks like a POS mall ninja chopper. I hunt trees with a HI kukri.
Henry Miller
My girlfriend gave me a full set of Wusthof kitchen knives for our first anniversary, should I be concerned? Maybe if I salt her I’ll be uncursed.
Jaxson Anderson
I hear ya I didn’t see anywhere in the OP that the guy wanted that specific knife.
Anyways, function > form as long as form is pretty good. The knife will become beautiful before your eyes when you realize how much stronger you become as an outdoorsman when you carry it, lame as that may sound. My knife has replaced much of my other gear.
Brandon Roberts
She may be a witch trying to hex you.
Does she knit? Has she tried making you a sweater?
Chase Thomas
Ah shit. How to kill a witch?
Anthony Brooks
Op, start scouring on ebay for a Damascus knife. make sure to get something with at least over 400 folds.
Tyler Smith
The folds don't matter at all. It's only personal aesthetic taste that determines how many folds are good.
Josiah Hughes