There's a place for the sub 15 dollar edc knife. To be completely honest, I lost my griptilian years ago somewhere and I think it was like 180 bucks at the time or something if I'm remembering right and I haven't edc anything that's worth over 20 or 30 bucks ever since. Expensive knives are nice, have quite a few but my feeling aren't hurt if I chip or even break a 5-15 dollar knife or even lose it completely. Losing my nearly 200 dollar pocket knife made me re-think the edc game.
The orange model is crazy tunes, completely unavailable these days. The similar white model was barely available until people started figuring it out, now it is probably completely unavailable. But the green model was still available and I wondered if it was any good. No youtubers were showing it so it was hard to learn anything about it. Now that I see it out of the package it looks good and would be perfectly acceptable for my occasional use.
It might be fine but in my experience those cheap knives dull quickly and don't resharpen well AT ALL. If anyone has experience with that please let us know, cheap or not, in the end a knife is only as good as it's blade.
That's the way it will be unless you spend a lot more money. I have the white knife that was sold alongside these green ones. Mine came extremely dull so I sharpened it, not too hard to sharpen with my equipment. I've been carrying it for normal use cutting paper, cardboard, occasionally whittling on wood in my workshop and it is holding up pretty well, better than I expected. I suspect there are similar priced knives on the market that will be much worse, and of course expensive knives that will be much better. I think edgeholding is on par with what I would expect from a $20-$40 knife although the cheap knives available on Amazon with D2 steel probably do a little better than that.
It is what it is -- it doesn't hold an edge extremely long, but it is easy to resharpen. I cut baler twine and all sorts of nasty stuff that take the edge off things fast, anyway, so I don't go for shaving sharp and just touch up to good enough frequently. I know what you saying, though -- I have had cheap knives that I couldn't sharpen at all for some reason or that would lose the edge after just a couple of uses. This one isn't bad at all.
I bought one of these when I saw them, went back to buy 3 or 4 more a week or less later, and they were all gone. It is a very good knife for $5!
Also enjoy this knife - curious if it draws comparisons to any other knives in the market from folks. I love action, shape and size...
I bought one of those and 2 white handled axis lock knives definitely worth the $5 apiece went back 4 days later and they were all gone
Nice review. I picked up one of these yesterday. Solid EDC. Not disapointed at all.
Grabbed that as well but I kind of favor the bone handled old style and grabbed a few of those the second trip.
There's a place for the sub 15 dollar edc knife.
To be completely honest, I lost my griptilian years ago somewhere and I think it was like 180 bucks at the time or something if I'm remembering right and I haven't edc anything that's worth over 20 or 30 bucks ever since.
Expensive knives are nice, have quite a few but my feeling aren't hurt if I chip or even break a 5-15 dollar knife or even lose it completely. Losing my nearly 200 dollar pocket knife made me re-think the edc game.
Haha that's my problem. I don't trust myself to own anything over $100
It's almost up there with losing your wallet
@@erikl6988 Me either. Even stopped with the nice jackets back in the day when going out. Party up and leave it behind.
Thanks for the reviews I watch all your reviews they're very good I'm not how to spend $300 on a knife
I picked one up today, not bad. Definitely not a "deep carry" pocket clip though.
The orange model is crazy tunes, completely unavailable these days. The similar white model was barely available until people started figuring it out, now it is probably completely unavailable. But the green model was still available and I wondered if it was any good. No youtubers were showing it so it was hard to learn anything about it. Now that I see it out of the package it looks good and would be perfectly acceptable for my occasional use.
I did manage to score one of the elusive orange handle D2 folding knifes today. Maybe I should have bought more than just the one.
Did you find it in store or online?
The old version is a ferro rod scraping beast. This is not
It might be fine but in my experience those cheap knives dull quickly and don't resharpen well AT ALL. If anyone has experience with that please let us know, cheap or not, in the end a knife is only as good as it's blade.
That's the way it will be unless you spend a lot more money. I have the white knife that was sold alongside these green ones. Mine came extremely dull so I sharpened it, not too hard to sharpen with my equipment. I've been carrying it for normal use cutting paper, cardboard, occasionally whittling on wood in my workshop and it is holding up pretty well, better than I expected. I suspect there are similar priced knives on the market that will be much worse, and of course expensive knives that will be much better. I think edgeholding is on par with what I would expect from a $20-$40 knife although the cheap knives available on Amazon with D2 steel probably do a little better than that.
It is what it is -- it doesn't hold an edge extremely long, but it is easy to resharpen. I cut baler twine and all sorts of nasty stuff that take the edge off things fast, anyway, so I don't go for shaving sharp and just touch up to good enough frequently. I know what you saying, though -- I have had cheap knives that I couldn't sharpen at all for some reason or that would lose the edge after just a couple of uses. This one isn't bad at all.