knives

a couple good knife review sites...another expensive hobby that i shouldn't get into...

http://www.edgeobserver.com/

http://bladereviews.com/

the most expensive folder that i have is my cold steel pocket bushman at $30 bucks and the cheapest is one from walmart that was $1 dollar...nowhere near the 300-500 dollar folders that are on these sites...since i didn't win the $640 million dollar lotto, this hobby will have to wait

hinderer

this is the xm-18 from rick hinderer knives...another ridiculously expensive knife that would be nice to own...this is supposed to be a hard use knife and from the thickness of the blade, it would probably be able to  take a little more abuse than the sebenza...it is supposed to retail for about $400, but they are hard to find new...a quick search on ebay came up with prices in the $900 to $2000 plus range...way overpriced

pocketknife

this is a chris reeve sebenza (small size)...looks like a nice clean little folder...i've been looking for an everyday carry knife...i used to carry a cutco and a small swiss army knife...unfortunately several years back, for some reason they were in my work bag and i didn't know i put it in there...i found out at the airport security check in when they kept scanning my bag...they pulled out the knives, and they took them...i was not pleased...stopped carrying one since then...

the knife store in the mall had it in stock, so i went to take a look...opens pretty smoothly and seemed sharp...i couldn't test it on anything...definitely a knife i would carry, and they're nicknamed seb...perfect knife for me if they weren't $300 plus dollars...ridiculous...a simple knife like this for that much money...i abuse knives...use them not just to cut stuff but as flathead screwdrivers, wedges, choppers...everything you shouldn't do, so no way i can spend that much money on knife...i went the complete opposite route and bought a $1 walmart folder...literally 1 dollar...i've been using it for a couple weeks, and it's already chipped...used it to cut tie straps while i was up in the ceiling taking down wireless access points (my job stinks)...because the wap was tied on to some thick gauge wire and i was way up on a ladder (i have the balancing ability of a 2 year old with an ear infection), i couldn't hold it firmly to cut the strap, so i just wedged it in a gap within the strap's loop and torqued it to the side...not a good use of knives, but it was sharp enough and strong enough to cut it...some minor chipping, but much more than i expected from a one dollar knife...and if it breaks, i can get another...the sebenza will be another one of those things i'll get when i win the lotto