Why We Buy Expensive Knives

[EddieCubillo]

I like knives, but swords peak my interest more than anything else. Honestly, any cutting I ever do I do mostly with my cheap 10 dollar folder. Expensive knives are NOT a necessity, but I like them so I buy them anyways.

[DJJimCowley]

some nice American kami blades in the background there !

[azreal289]

In all honest truth you buy things because you dont want to make them. I wont comment on responsibility or manliness because those are seperate issues but I promise I enjoy my knives more than you do. even if youve read your knife porn magazines, stared at pictures of it for weeks and then get it and pose with it infront of your mirror every day to justify the boatload of cash youve spent, you still dont enjoy yours as much as I do mine.

[azreal289]

look guys, its nice that you have the money to buy neat looking designs. perhaps your one of those people that just buys things. When I see something cool I dont say hey I want to buy that. I say, clever idea I'm going to make that. Then I make it. I could spend $70 on a kabar. Or I could drive to my local scrap yard and buy a piece of d2 tool steel bar stock and hammer it out into a half inch thick blade, and grind out the shape using stones I found by the creek and make a sheath for $20.

[RebelWrestler45]

@azreal289 Some of us have jobs, friends, and girlfriends

[azreal289]

@RebelWrestler45 I have all three. And I keep up with my classes at the university. You are lazy, and trying to discredit my ways by hinting I have no life confirms it. it takes me a couple weeks to put a knife together. I work on it Saturday mornings before I head to work. I put 3 hours in at a time at the very most. You have to enjoy making them, as I do. Maybe you stare at your collection, play video games or whatever. I make things with my hands.

[Coffeenescafe]

omg .... you have probably a few knives that are razorsharp .. shave your beard with them

[FuglyStick]

I appreciate your common sense approach in your videos. Too many of the people doing reviews on youTube act as if the only acceptable knife is something that will kill a bear; if something comes out that will kill a kevlar wearing bear, then they just have to have that, and nothing else is acceptable. Truth is, odds are pretty good you're gonna be bear food even if you paid a million for your knife.

[XAxNINJAxKITT3NX]

maybe you would not need money if you did not spend it on expensive knives...

[MsLukejames]

i bought a benchmade stryker and it works great and i love it but when the blade is shut its not that centered..it kind of favors the right side of the handle,i looked at some of my s.o.g assisted knifes and they are simular ,is this something common among assist knifes?it hasnt caused any problems with the funtion of the knife,it just kind of bothers me not knowing if that is normal or not,i dont really know to much about assist knifes as i usually dont buy them.....thanks

[CanItAlready]

You could say, though, that if you don't buy the expensive knives, then maybe you don't find yourself needing to sell knives to get quick cash in the future 'cause you didn't spend it in the first place... It's kind of a chicken/egg thing.

[Myrmecia]

Have you done a video on sharpening?

[UrbanNiceties]

Hey, you should put up the tracks that you use... they're pretty good... I've been sorting through your vids to pick up the lyrics.

[GatorNate5]

I consider myself some of both a collector and user. I buy some knives just to put in a case and look pretty, however, I also like to buy a more inexpensive knife to use and beat up on and not feel that guilty if my cheaper knife breaks or something

[PomelA11231]

Here's where the problem comes into play , for me anyway. My most recent purchase " Cold Steel Caledonian Edge "  Only now after shelling out $250.00 and some change for the knife I don't want to mess it up so therefore I don't use it for anything , I just play with it and look at it. So in a round about way did I waste my money ?

[Airborne1957]

Well done...your a good salesman!

[tapeworm1111]

Ok thx

[WarTornHero92]

quality video thanks for the insight

[tapeworm1111]

When r u gonna make a new vid?

[QuietBearr]

@tapeworm1111 Soon, be patient. Its not like a charge to watch the videos. Its a free service

[Arcwerx01]

A friend of mine told me a story a while back. He knew a guy that was a guide up in Alaska, and was sitting around at camp with the people he was taking on trip. They were all bragging about their expensive knives, and the guide bet them $100 each his little folding Buck could do something their knives couldn't. After all agreeing to the bet, and the guide stood up and threw his Buck into the river and laughed. Waste of a nice Buck, but he won the bet! LOL

[QuietBearr]

LOL that is true

[SRostislav]

I think people buy expensive knife to show off. It seem that alot of Knife in America very over priced anyway. You take like Zero Tolerance , anyplace bewteen $150.00 to $275.00 , Benchmade over $100.00 , I see some Microtech OTF more than $2000.00 for what ? You buy knife to use to cut things not to keep for souvenir LOL We have some good knife here , I like Кизляр Стерх . They use Z60 carbon and knives well priced. It looksto me like Russian knives not popular there

[QuietBearr]

Sometimes you get what you pay for. many times people buy knives for more than cutting, like collecting

[SRostislav]

Oh I see , maybe expensive knife to you is the same as buy stock , when value go up you sell and make lot of money. Be careful buy knives e bay from seller over seas , especially around my area. Lots of people Estonia , Latvia , Belarus make copy of knife like Busse , Strider , benchmade,Microtech, They look and feel the same , same weight , same good finish , same trade mark stamp , even same paper work in box but is no real , useing much cheaper steel , but people can't tell difference.

[QuietBearr]

Yea counterfeit knives are a real problem. Cold Steel seems to attract a lot of counterfeiters

[SRostislav]

This was in beginning was CRKT & Cold Steel few years ago. When they see how easy to get away with , Now moving up to better name like I say below. Its now happening with ZT , Microtech and Pretty soon it's happening to Entrek , Rat and other brand too. They don't have copy right law around this part of world so no laws to stop them. people buy these knife and even expert like you can't tell difference until you use and see bad edge retention because not same steel as original. Good Luck

[nycdave212]

Solid. Well said, Man.

[QuietBearr]

thanks man, dont know why that was marked as spam

[nycdave212]

No worries, Man :) Someone just doesn't like me.. I'll live ;) heh...

[dsmith308]

Not to be a dick but you can always get Busse knives from Jerry's website. The thing is, they only sell one model at a time. Also, you can only get INFI in Busse's not Scrap Yards. The companies are somewhat related but Jerry only has INFI. There may be some old scrap yards with INFI but I don't know. Also, it is pronounced bus-ee. Having said all that, I went through a brief Busse stint but have luckily realized they really are not worth all the hype. Great knives but not worth the hype.

[QuietBearr]

Scrap Yards do make models with INFI steel, you should at least look at their site. Their model Street Scrapper 4 is made in INFI steel. Check your facts.

Many times on Busse's ordering site, there is nothing available.

THat is why you see so many posts always about people not being able to get one, and why you can sell them so easy, since no one can get them. Yes right now there is a model for sale, but many times there is not.

[dsmith308]

I stand corrected about the Scrap Yards. I just knew they used a lot of SR-77. I did not want to come across as an all knowing a-hole because there is plenty of that on the forum and I like to avoid all of that. The Busse Company Store is a good place to get them but it looks like they only have two models for sale right now.

[QuietBearr]

Its really only one model, just one is black coated and one is polished.

Point is, I have checked many times and there was nothing there.

There is now, but soon it will be gone and there will be nothing there again.

Point still stands, if you want a specific model of Busse, then it is hard to find usually. Either you have to go to a show which many people cant, or you have to buy them on the forums or on ebay, either new or used, either way paying more than what they are worth.

[bushmag]

nice vid man!! cool points:)

[QuietBearr]

thanks man

[mz9393mz]

Nice vid. What song is that playing in the intro and outro?

[QuietBearr]

Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes

[clap5]

What blade is that on the screen @ 00:10?

[QuietBearr]

Entrek Destroyer

[chrisw40]

glad you were a winner at water days : D

[QuietBearr]

lol, I wasnt, its just a shirt that I got somewhere, I dont know where, I think my Grandma gave it to me.

Waterdays is from my hometown though.

[thecajunblaze]

That's what I'm talking about. 20 years from now I want to see what some of my knives are worth. I bought inexpensive knives all my life. Now I just want to collect some knives that will hold or increase it's value years from now.

Great Video! Thanks for posting. You do love to talk knives.

[QuietBearr]

Most of your Spydercos will increase in value, just slower, as they have to go out of production or have the production change before the increase in value.

But 20 years from now your collection will be worth plenty my friend, at least what you paid for it.

[oTHEBLESSEDHELLRIDEo]

You get what you pay for always with knives.

[QuietBearr]

Thats what I am trying to disprove, not always. Sometimes inexpensive knives can perform just as well for the average joe as the expensive ones. Ask Noss4.

[jake262144]

Agreed. Noss4 really gives those blades a beating, huh? And every now and then the result comes as a surprise - such as Chris Reeve's Green Beret failure.

[QuietBearr]

and the cold steel $20 GI Tanto really took a beating! Or the way the Schrade SCHF1 out performed the $350 CR original Project.

[oTHEBLESSEDHELLRIDEo]

Well most of the time...but there is a lot of decent cheaper knives out there.Nutnfancy just did a review on a good one IIRC.

[QuietBearr]

So why did you say you get what you pay for? That is not true and what I was trying to say.

Many times you dont get what you pay for.

[jimilli09]

What about in combat or self defense...does a more expensive knife really outperforms a cheaper blade?

[QuietBearr]

Not usually, sometimes yes

Usually what you pay for in expensive knives is the assurance that it will perform, where as you really have to do a lot of research to find the inexpensive knife that will still perform. That is why Noss4's tests are so valuable to me as a knife lover.

You never know what you are going to get.

[oTHEBLESSEDHELLRIDEo]

Gary Bucy.

Buss-e knives.

:)

[fredde90210]

I collect Spyderco knives..they are affordable high quality and most of all "cruel" looking.

Nice vid by the way.

[QuietBearr]

thanks man

[Hissatsu5]

i buy expensive knives because im a knife addict lol but really the knives that i spend a lot of a money on have a artistic or historical value or 2d kind of cool

[QuietBearr]

Same here, I usually dont like to use the expensive ones os much though, that way they stay nice

[streetmaster63]

Very interesting and helpful advice.

Thanks.

[QuietBearr]

thanks man, I try to make informative videos!

[xXshaneofruinsXx]

dude u need to do an updated collection vid!!

[QuietBearr]

LOL I will soon