Highly recommend looking at BPS knives if youre looking for a full tang mora effectively. Really good budget option is the BPS adventurer. A little too long for some bushcrafting tasks, but its an absolute beast for 40$. I also have 4 moras just because theyre impossible to beat cost to performance wise. 13$ for a companion that weighs nothing and you can just throw onto your pack and never have to worry about it.
@dustyak79 Sounds like a good idea for people who don't want to carry extra weight. Imagine this. You didn't bring the hatchet thinking you will not need it, but situation changes on you. Wouldn't you love to have a knife that can take on the job of a hatchet decently enough?
@@vashonmart but you thought you might need a knife larger than a pocket knife ? The weight savings are voided by the extra work and less efficiency of using the wrong tool for the job. Pack the hatchet
@@vashonmart ngl that situation sounds like being ill prepared. That or something has gone horribly wrong. Honestly if you feel the need to bring a knife that big and tough you're probably better off just bringing a hatchet. That said my main point is that this isn't a very good test of a knife's value because this isn't what you buy a knife for. Most knives aren't this tough because they don't need to be and it's significantly harder to maintain a knife that tough once it starts to dull. For example professional kitchen knives tend to be quite brittle but maintain a very thin edge incredibly well. These are fantastic knives but would be absolutely destroyed in a test like this.
@@robertfields3420a small handful of people will, and those people probably appreciate seeing the hard use scenario I doubt he's out just to trash the product
@@PensnmusicI'll choose not to trust somebody who says "you get what you paid for" in reference to a 30 dollar piece of metal, implying its cheap, when everyone in the comments is talking about some amazing knife for 10 dollars. So I guess "you get what you pay for, unless you pay 1/3rd and get something better" - a """""knife expert"""""
Abuse the knife then call it trash. Great review technique. Knives are not hatchets nor are they meant to be pry bars or used to stab hard objects. Even high dollar knives will fail under enough abuse
the soft temper actually means it will pretty much never break under bushcraft, and the edge retention was good. The main use for a knife tip is skinning game anyway and fine carving. For 30 dollars it's a winner
So true, especially after seeing the Mora Robust being insanely abused by Joe X, he couldn't break it! 🥰 Unlike that stupid Kabar, which always breaks off the handle from batoning and chopping.
@@Leftyotism Oh my wow, what a video! I know what I’m buying later today. That Robust is a marvel. Mora’s heat treatment must be on another level. If only they made a leaf shaped or spear point variant. Ugh, I’d buy six. This weekend. Edited to add: Oof, my bad. I watched The Dutch Bro’s _try_ to destroy the knife. Try and fail. Over, and over again.
Mora seems to have invested so much in producing awesome knives for rock-bottom prices that they saved on the other end by needing no huge marketing campaigns. I know about Mora because of countless people saying “$10/15 knife good 👍🏻”. ColdSteel is similar, but so experimental that I honestly do appreciate seeing them dismember hogs and stab through car hoods. If I have $40 that I want to spend on a folding knife, I want that locking mechanism torture-tested with heavy metal music playing.
@@ZenSponge Haha! Hell yeah brother! Or sister! The DBK guys also tested that Magnacut Kabar, and guess what happened to it! Always the same. Oh, and if I ever manage to mortally wound my Mora Pro C, I will get a Robust next! (Or if I wanna be extra save when I go somewhere.)
Agreed. If shit hit the fan and i didn't have anything else, id use it. and if i did have something else, id still use that one as a bullshit throwaway anyway 🤷🏽♀
Yea thats what im saying wyf this troll stuff has gotten to fare so so they act stupid as fuck so people like me and you talk in the coments look out for it for now on theses guys are usimg tiktac and helping china yall have a great day if i show up dissappeared you herd it here fidst
Yeah let's be honest this guy probably gives bad reviews to most inexpensive knives to push the "you get what you pay for, guh-huh🤓" narrative so he can shove hundred dollar knives jn your face as "the only option"
I'd love to see you do a review on the Old Timer 169OT. D2 steel fixed blade for 50 bucks. Curious to see how it would hold up since it seems to ve decently made.
Tbh that knife was really good, you're just a purist, and I can guarantee you that if you look after that and don't abuse it like you just did it would last you mamy many years. (Perhaps not that top handle bit, but,) cheap knives aren't always bad. Most people use their knives for small jobs around the yard, qnd would never try to chop a tree with it
So he does these tests because there are knives that pass these tests. So essentially he is grading on a curve and the cheaper the knife the lower grade it gets for the most part because of fabrication cost cutting that allowed for integrity loss. Him doing these tests actually should allow everyone a better idea of what knife they should get for the price and use intent they have personally
@@calebz1448 I get that, but I think that that knife performed very well for its price. It's a knife though, and isn't supposed to be ever treated like this. If you want to have a knife thatcan withstand these conditions, then get something with a chunky blade an a bigger angle edge geometry, it'll still be plenty sharp. The crappiest knife experience I've ever had was with a knock-off Gerber that I got as a present lol. The blade was fine enough, but the tang, which was disguised as a full tang, broke out of the handle when I was butchering a chicken. Needless to say I think that you should keep your eyes open for such things. But in general, not all cheap knives are bad, especially if they are just used as dayly carry.
@@sirflamedrop6165 I agree that it is an unrealistic torture test but since he is doing the unrealistic testing we can know that butchering a chicken will be easy work for this cheap knife is my point. If he just butchers chickens though we may miss the truly well rounded blades because so many would pass the test with flying colors undistinguished from the other competitors. Easy tests are for lower performing tools. Complex tests are for professional grade tools when it comes to knives as well as tools of trades. I know that Lowe's tin snips will get the job done but not for as long as Midwest tin snips as a professional roofer I know to buy once cry once on the things that are built to last
His channel focuses on survival and outdoors and chopping wood with a knife is something that you will probably end up doing, and something he does with every knife he reviews.
That wasn't my issue.... I chop wood with knives not much more expensive with good results...but when are you gonna whack on the side of your knife blade like that??
you WILL NEVER CHOP WOOD WITH A KNIFE MATE IF YOU DO YOU HAVE TO BE AMERICAN. Everyone I know owns a hatchet or a straight up wood axe. they are incredibly common, light and easy to maintain. Right tool for the job and all that.
@@annoyedmarine1578 You know what is lighter and on me literally at all times? A fairly robust fixed blade that is perfectly capable of batoning wood. Have done so. But yes, a hatchet is better, but I don't always have one with me.
@@michealbates6369 you know what you literally don't have to do at all times? Baton wood. You know what you will have when going into the woods with the potential of working with wood? A 3 pound hatchet. A knife is meant for knife work. You dont use a hammer to filet a fish.
Are you using the tip to open fucking cans and stab excessively hard objects? Theres these things called tools for that. Like a reliable spike that can do both.
opinel's are quite cheap, but ive found them to be quite good! obviously wouldn't stand up to most of this since its a folding knife but ive been using it for wood carving for over a year and its still got an okay edge on it! would love to see a review because i cant bring myself to torture test my own 😅
The lesson here is that a knife is for cutting, and not for giving to some idiot who’s going to try and hammer it through stumps or purposely bash it with a big log…This isn’t about survival. Survival depends on you using the resources you have - carefully.
Hey, recently found the channel and really enjoyed the content. would love to see what survival knives you do recommend maybe at different price points. Thanks
The crkt lck is a 30 dollar knife and its my favorite out of my whole collection, even though its one of the cheapest. Sometimes you get more than you pay for
This knife may indeed be trash, BUT, it bent when subjected to abuse you wouldn't perform to a $200.00 knife. It. Did. Not. Break. Both bends can be repaired in the field. You'll probably have a wonky knife that cost $30.00 that is still usable. A $200.00 broken knife is expensive trash that needs to be packed out from the bush
And this is why morakniv is the best. It’s the best bang for your buck at $20-80 I have three different variations and none have broken nor have I really had to sharpen them.
@@MacGyver27058 you got the cheap stainless steel one theirs a big difference between the 2 who cares if carbon steel rusts it’s 10x better then stainless
@@tylerwestman5258 that depends on your purpose for it. For example I like stainless steel for a utility knife which is mainly what I use that knife for. I also like it for skinning animals. Carbon steel is good for a camping or survival knife but even then it kinda just depends on what you train with and personal preference as to what is the best.
@@MacGyver27058 There's a whole world of people who haven't caught up to the year 2023 and still think the solution to steel is more carbon = more better and that the best stainless has to offer is 440 and refuse to accept that there's stainless that performs as well as or better than carbon in outright edge retention and strength and plenty of stainless that is worth it for many trading a slight loss in edge retention for not having to keep oil and rags on you for every time you use the knife, all this ignoring the many differing needs of users resulting in no one formulation being a perfect fit for everybody It's best to ignore these people and be happy with your stainless
@@BrennonIsMilak Regardless of the heat treatment or whatever Garbage youtube had fed you blades are not meant to be abused like that. There are blades with specific edge geometry for specific things. Cutting/Splitting Inch and a half branches requires a wedge focus edge not a shearing or slicing edge.
Could be wrong, but im sure it wasn't intended to be used as a hatchet or a pry bar. Im not expecting a whole lot from a $30 retail store knife, but lets be real here.
There’s no direct correlation. Swiss knives are reasonably priced and superb in quality. Fancy expensive knives might charge you a lot for the brand or design and still be subpar. There’s just quality and knowing the quality.
It all depends my man. I have a hobby in music and same topic came up. And sometimes the cheapest knock off guitar cable lasted for over 10+ years while the expensive $100 Ernie Ball guitar cable lasted for about a few weeks. I my personal experience lmaoo
@@CageyTroller ive got tons of experience with cheap vs expensive knives. ive owned over 200 knives and cheap almost never beats the quality stuff quality vs quantity, buy once cry once are said for a reason.
I would love to see how an Al Mar SERE holds up. Not a cheap blade so I'd rather not test my own. 😂 love the videos short and to the point. (No pun intended)
I'd really like to see you do civivi knives, they're basically the kings of budget knives. More in the range of 50-150. Specifically the civivi sokoke is what I'm interested in
As usual, a great review. You do get what you pay for! So here's some advice, don't buy a cheap knife. Save a little longer, get a better knife like an ESEE. It's not a custom blade, but it is a good knife with a good guarantee. And it is affordable. Learn from videos like these videos, they are honest. Respect!
@@ezor5609 Hello. I was just giving an opinion from experience. I've had Mora knives, they are decent, but they are not built like a heavy duty survival knife. They will never take the abuse of an ESEE made knife. The ESEE knife guarantee can't be matched by Mora either. I went through a few Mora knives over the years. My ESEE knives have outlasted them all. This is why I noted to save for it, it's worth it. I'm just a regular guy, but I would rather save a little longer and have a way better knife at my side that can do so much more if my life depends on it. Stay Safe out there!
@@ra8640 Let's be honest to ourselves if we use knives as knives not as a crowbar or an axe, everything that holds an edge is good. Be it esse, busse, benchmade, mora or even little swiss army is great. but they pretty ofc
@@Niesmiesznyy I never use a knife as a crowbar, that's not even debated. But I have used a good thick knife to baton wood. We all have different ways and techniques for using knives. I've camped weeks without an axe. A heavy duty knife in the field is an incredible tool if you know what you're doing. From camping to combat, a good hard use knife is amazing like an ESEE 6 or an OKC Rat 7. Just my opinion, I'm not trying to debate. Just experience.
@@ra8640 Didn’t mean it to downplay esse or that they aren’t worth it or anything like that. I myself have knives in that price range and also above. To me the benefits of the mora are that they are as stated inexpensive, good quality for the price and if you break it and want to continue exploring the knife/bushcraft world you can go with something like an esse or buy another mora if you liked it.
yes in most cases you get what you pay for, thats why its our job to test and show what knives are actually good for the money regardless if its a little or alot of money we should be able to recommend the best option
But man you have to also realize or you keep forgetting. There are legitimate gems you can get for $30. After all we have all seen $100+ knives fail even worse than this $30 one. So I mean that's the thing(also yes I know there are just wayy wayyy too many out there, but you get what I mean)
And it's kind of funny because the same topic came up on guitar cables. And someone said, "you can tell which one will last a long time and which one won't" but funny enough in my experience that expensive one lasted a few weeks while the cheapest knockoff non-brand one lasted 10 plus years still counting. It's been through hell and back. So it all depends you might get lucky
When I was a young Teenager I bought a $30 7" bowie knife from my local flea market. When I was 17 a couple buddies and I were messing around in a sand pit when suddenly that $30 "SOG" knife with its included sheath was released and ended up square through my toes... After 3 hospital trips and many stitches I went and bought a Ka-Bar and leather Sheath, with the bandages and pins still in my foot. I am 24 now and the Ka-Bar is still going strong. Bring it on every hunt.
Budgetbois swear by Kershaw, and I am a Budgetboi 😂😂 Eafengrow is another budget blade with stellar quality. Most of their blades are D2, but actually have a little corrosion resistence unlike Civvi. The build and blade quality of EF makes it kinda hard to tell that it's a Clone-Circus
@@shonwooten6550 Eafengrow has already been busted once lying about their steel, claiming it was D2 when it was 420J. Probably the reason their "D2" is unusually corrosion resistant is because it's not even D2 but some uber low quality stainless.
Seemed good for a survivalist knife. Rule one - you want bending before breaking! If it bends you want to be able to bent it back true. You do not need your knife breaking on you or it is useless on the field. It held an edge pretty good as well.
Yeah, it's a piece of crap, but anybody that would buy a knife like that for chopping on branches deserves what they get. Even in it's price range there are many options with infinitely better designs and materials. Maybe test it under the conditions it was actually meant to be used in, because I'm pretty sure it would excel at stabbing soda cans.
Many expensive knives are honestly awful, however if you have a saw and file you can actually buy quality blades for like 25 dollars and handle them yourself, sheath included usually less than 80 bucks and have never gone wrong with them
To all the people in the comments he’s not showing that it can be used as an ax or a hatchet. He’s showing the temper of the blade and the connecting points integrity. He does this to every knife he reviews so I’d say it’s a qualifying test. And equal across-the-board to find out if you want to buy a cheap knife or a little bit better one. 🤷♀️ With all the fake advertising poor reviews on the Internet, this is a welcome site to see especially with countries selling cheap crap and lying about what it is. Not to mention they’re quick and to the point you don’t have to go through a 20 minute history of each knife
I’ve told people who buy the same cheap knife ten times, why do that spend $150-$200 on something like a Tops blade and it’ll last you a lifetime or go all out and just get something made of CPM-3V and it’ll last several generations in your family!!!
A lot of people cannot afford to buy a two or $300 knife to go hunting or camping. $30 will take a big bite even out of the grocery money and the case don't fit. Just get a new case for it and get one for about 5 bucks
I would love to see a review on some Helle knives, most don’t have a full tang but have some of the most interesting materials for blades, they have a carbon steel core for the edge and stainless outside so protect it
this man uses a cheap knife like a axe, prybar, splitting wedge....anything besides a knife and complains that it doesnt hold up. if you judge a fish by its ability to fly it will lives its entire life thinking its a failure. -Einstien.
Some people in the comments don't seem to know what destructive testing is and what it's purpose is. When you test something, you shouldn't just test it once and call it good. You test it far outside its typical use cases, and typically keep doing it until you destroy it. That way you know the limits of your tool and how well it compares to other tools. The average person won't beat the hell out of the knife like this, but when it matters what would you prefer? A knife that has undergone rigorous testing and came out unscathed; or a knife that was tested with paper, thrown against a tree, used to strike a ferro rod once and called "good enough"?
I dont buy folding knives anymore. Luckily i have a local knife maker who doesnt charge absurd amounts, and they make insanely high quality pieces. Fixed blade, full tang. Thats what you need for a good knife that’ll last a lifetime.
Actually I’d like to make one point here. Id always thought magnacut and s35vn and 110v m40 etc were awesome steels. But I saw one guy reviewing a cheaper steel I believe it was Cr13Mov or Aus8 or something of the sort. He said for a working knife he would rather have a knife that’s soft enough to bend. A bent knife can be bent back, a broken knife is useless.
Hultafors heavy duty is 9 euro's (1 dollar is almost the same as a euro) and they are amazing! Had mine for 9 years still in perfect condition, and i do all kind of bushcraft stuff with it
morakniv is $10 and is somehow much better than a ton of knive companies. funny thing is i snapped the blade on a benchmade fixed blade and then i use a my morakniv for the same task of splitting some small sticks and it didn’t break. a $200 knife broke and a cheap $10 knife did the same task and didn’t break
Great video, I have to say this though, that knife failed due to the handle and sheath it came with. The foundation itself, meaning the steel, was actually solid and did its work by bending and not breaking, I'm guessing a softer steel such as 1055 or 1075.
M48 makes really decent knives for cheap. Like $40 for a 12 inch full tang combat knife. Like 20 for a boot knife. I've had one for probably 8 years I use as a throwing knife. Hasn't broken or bend at all. Meanwhile in like 2010 I spent $300 on a fancy Kershaw hunting knife that literally shattered opening a beer bottle. Like it was glass. The tip broke into like 4 pieces just from popping the cap on a bottle. I'll never buy "fancy" knives again. Buy durable trash once it breaks in a few years buy another.
Bought a 10 dollar Ozark Trail knife from Walmart, aside from needing resharpening it turned out to be a really good, lightweight knife. You dont have to pay a lot of money for a "good knife" 🤷
I got this nice blade from oden wolf for 30,served me half a year now and hasnt rusted or really chipped at all,tip is wonderful and has survived my idiot-ness when i first got into knives and bushcraft lol so id definitely recommend it
See to me a $30 - 50 folding knife is for me to carry everyday for work. So when I drop it, it gets lost, breaks it doesn't matter. And when camping I always have a couple cheap knives in my pack and an expensive fixed blade.
You should do the buck selkirk, I bought it as a hunting knife but it quickly became my survival knife. I bought it for 30 when it first became available, and it has been the most durable knife I've ever had
Thanks for the reviews dude. A lot of these people in the comments don’t want to see at what point a knife will give way. Or they don’t want their cheap knives exposed as not the best.
Didnt the knife torture go a little too far this time? I mean like.... what do you wanna do with your knife? Chop a tree down? Take down a tank? Use it as a bullet proof vest? Bro stop being so spoiled. As long as its made of steel and it cuts and stabs its a damn good self defence weapon as well as a good survival gear. Also ppl in jail have knifes made of tooth brushes and you dont hear them complain
There are 2 cheap knives that are worth buying. Cold steel SRK and Glock Field Knife. Honorable mentions are any cheap Morakniv and a lot of the cheap Cold Steel knives as well
Each day I’m more convinced that a morakniv is the only real budget option.
Highly recommend looking at BPS knives if youre looking for a full tang mora effectively. Really good budget option is the BPS adventurer. A little too long for some bushcrafting tasks, but its an absolute beast for 40$. I also have 4 moras just because theyre impossible to beat cost to performance wise. 13$ for a companion that weighs nothing and you can just throw onto your pack and never have to worry about it.
Cold steel SRK, either the full size or compact is pretty great too
@@michaelsantoro170I have 2 from bps and they're fantastic
Or the Ontario sp-6 is a good option for a thumper for around 50 bucks. I've owned I've for years. Love it
Seriously, ~$15 for a Mora companion is awesome. Just cant beat it for the price.
Imagine paying $30 for a knife and it doesn't do the job of an axe.
Imagine promoting spending hundreds of dollars on a knife to beat the hell out of it and do the job of a 25 dollar hatchet
@dustyak79 Sounds like a good idea for people who don't want to carry extra weight. Imagine this. You didn't bring the hatchet thinking you will not need it, but situation changes on you. Wouldn't you love to have a knife that can take on the job of a hatchet decently enough?
@@vashonmart but you thought you might need a knife larger than a pocket knife ? The weight savings are voided by the extra work and less efficiency of using the wrong tool for the job. Pack the hatchet
@@vashonmart ngl that situation sounds like being ill prepared.
That or something has gone horribly wrong.
Honestly if you feel the need to bring a knife that big and tough you're probably better off just bringing a hatchet.
That said my main point is that this isn't a very good test of a knife's value because this isn't what you buy a knife for. Most knives aren't this tough because they don't need to be and it's significantly harder to maintain a knife that tough once it starts to dull. For example professional kitchen knives tend to be quite brittle but maintain a very thin edge incredibly well. These are fantastic knives but would be absolutely destroyed in a test like this.
😂😂😂
You actually put that knife through a lot more than most people would in a year with a 30$ knife
Exactly no one is doing all that with that knife he’s being extra lol
@@robertfields3420a small handful of people will, and those people probably appreciate seeing the hard use scenario
I doubt he's out just to trash the product
@@PensnmusicI'll choose not to trust somebody who says "you get what you paid for" in reference to a 30 dollar piece of metal, implying its cheap, when everyone in the comments is talking about some amazing knife for 10 dollars. So I guess "you get what you pay for, unless you pay 1/3rd and get something better" - a """""knife expert"""""
I'm not sure I would treat any blade like that and not have the ghost of my father slap me in the back of the head.
One. I wish I could share pictures.
Two. I want to see a high quality knife survive this fairly brutal test.
Abuse the knife then call it trash. Great review technique. Knives are not hatchets nor are they meant to be pry bars or used to stab hard objects. Even high dollar knives will fail under enough abuse
Lol there are plenty knifes that can stand this test while only being 70 bucks. Stop defending gas station blades fool😂
and there’s knives that are a fraction of this piece of turd and still outperform it by miles
That is not exactly trash . It did a lot for 30 bucks, most people that buy a 30 dollar knife are not going full outdoors survival mode with it .
the soft temper actually means it will pretty much never break under bushcraft, and the edge retention was good. The main use for a knife tip is skinning game anyway and fine carving. For 30 dollars it's a winner
Him: You get what you pay for.
The $10 more I will perform better than 90% knives in that price range
So true, especially after seeing the Mora Robust being insanely abused by Joe X, he couldn't break it! 🥰
Unlike that stupid Kabar, which always breaks off the handle from batoning and chopping.
@@Leftyotism Oh my wow, what a video! I know what I’m buying later today. That Robust is a marvel. Mora’s heat treatment must be on another level.
If only they made a leaf shaped or spear point variant. Ugh, I’d buy six. This weekend.
Edited to add: Oof, my bad. I watched The Dutch Bro’s _try_ to destroy the knife. Try and fail. Over, and over again.
Mora seems to have invested so much in producing awesome knives for rock-bottom prices that they saved on the other end by needing no huge marketing campaigns. I know about Mora because of countless people saying “$10/15 knife good 👍🏻”.
ColdSteel is similar, but so experimental that I honestly do appreciate seeing them dismember hogs and stab through car hoods. If I have $40 that I want to spend on a folding knife, I want that locking mechanism torture-tested with heavy metal music playing.
@@ZenSponge Haha! Hell yeah brother! Or sister!
The DBK guys also tested that Magnacut Kabar, and guess what happened to it! Always the same.
Oh, and if I ever manage to mortally wound my Mora Pro C, I will get a Robust next! (Or if I wanna be extra save when I go somewhere.)
That seemed really fucking good for $30
Agreed. If shit hit the fan and i didn't have anything else, id use it. and if i did have something else, id still use that one as a bullshit throwaway anyway 🤷🏽♀
Yea thats what im saying wyf this troll stuff has gotten to fare so so they act stupid as fuck so people like me and you talk in the coments look out for it for now on theses guys are usimg tiktac and helping china yall have a great day if i show up dissappeared you herd it here fidst
Yeah let's be honest this guy probably gives bad reviews to most inexpensive knives to push the "you get what you pay for, guh-huh🤓" narrative so he can shove hundred dollar knives jn your face as "the only option"
you can definitely get way better for cheaper
Its probably a great knife when used the way its designed
The tip bent, it should have chipped if it were worth a damn.
Very, veeery far from what i would call a great knife.
@A-G-F- bent should have broke 😅🤣😂
Give someone a hammer & everything looks like a nwil😅🤣😂
@@A-G-F- I have an axe for chopping
Bro what? Chipping is a sign of a too high hardness which causes the blade to be brittle. I'll take a softer blade every time over a too hard blade.
@@A-G-F-stick to toy guns kid, you don't know too much about the big boy toys for us grown ups😂😂.
Took quite the bend but now the tip is straight again 😂😂😂
Did better than a lot of 80-100 dollar knives u test
I'd love to see you do a review on the Old Timer 169OT. D2 steel fixed blade for 50 bucks. Curious to see how it would hold up since it seems to ve decently made.
Tbh that knife was really good, you're just a purist, and I can guarantee you that if you look after that and don't abuse it like you just did it would last you mamy many years. (Perhaps not that top handle bit, but,) cheap knives aren't always bad. Most people use their knives for small jobs around the yard, qnd would never try to chop a tree with it
So he does these tests because there are knives that pass these tests. So essentially he is grading on a curve and the cheaper the knife the lower grade it gets for the most part because of fabrication cost cutting that allowed for integrity loss. Him doing these tests actually should allow everyone a better idea of what knife they should get for the price and use intent they have personally
@@calebz1448 I get that, but I think that that knife performed very well for its price. It's a knife though, and isn't supposed to be ever treated like this. If you want to have a knife thatcan withstand these conditions, then get something with a chunky blade an a bigger angle edge geometry, it'll still be plenty sharp.
The crappiest knife experience I've ever had was with a knock-off Gerber that I got as a present lol. The blade was fine enough, but the tang, which was disguised as a full tang, broke out of the handle when I was butchering a chicken. Needless to say I think that you should keep your eyes open for such things.
But in general, not all cheap knives are bad, especially if they are just used as dayly carry.
@@sirflamedrop6165 I agree that it is an unrealistic torture test but since he is doing the unrealistic testing we can know that butchering a chicken will be easy work for this cheap knife is my point. If he just butchers chickens though we may miss the truly well rounded blades because so many would pass the test with flying colors undistinguished from the other competitors. Easy tests are for lower performing tools. Complex tests are for professional grade tools when it comes to knives as well as tools of trades. I know that Lowe's tin snips will get the job done but not for as long as Midwest tin snips as a professional roofer I know to buy once cry once on the things that are built to last
Throws knife over shoulder.
Queue wilhelm scream
My leg!
I prefer a Goofy holler
"Im going to shoe you a 30 dollar knife is cheap"
*starts chopping wood
His channel focuses on survival and outdoors and chopping wood with a knife is something that you will probably end up doing, and something he does with every knife he reviews.
That wasn't my issue.... I chop wood with knives not much more expensive with good results...but when are you gonna whack on the side of your knife blade like that??
you WILL NEVER CHOP WOOD WITH A KNIFE MATE IF YOU DO YOU HAVE TO BE AMERICAN. Everyone I know owns a hatchet or a straight up wood axe. they are incredibly common, light and easy to maintain. Right tool for the job and all that.
@@annoyedmarine1578 You know what is lighter and on me literally at all times? A fairly robust fixed blade that is perfectly capable of batoning wood. Have done so. But yes, a hatchet is better, but I don't always have one with me.
@@michealbates6369 you know what you literally don't have to do at all times? Baton wood. You know what you will have when going into the woods with the potential of working with wood? A 3 pound hatchet. A knife is meant for knife work. You dont use a hammer to filet a fish.
I have a $30 Gerber and it's perfectly good for what I need it for
It's a pretty good knife considering how you hammered the crap out of it 👍
The tip bent easily, the knife is probably poorly tempered and soft, imo that ruins it as a whole
Are you using the tip to open fucking cans and stab excessively hard objects? Theres these things called tools for that. Like a reliable spike that can do both.
also the tip would simply snap off in harder steel grades. regardless of temper.
@@annoyedmarine1578
Ah sure, let me pull out my toolbox while im lost in the woods
@@annoyedmarine1578 still doesn't change the fact that the knife is horrible
opinel's are quite cheap, but ive found them to be quite good! obviously wouldn't stand up to most of this since its a folding knife but ive been using it for wood carving for over a year and its still got an okay edge on it! would love to see a review because i cant bring myself to torture test my own 😅
The lesson here is that a knife is for cutting, and not for giving to some idiot who’s going to try and hammer it through stumps or purposely bash it with a big log…This isn’t about survival. Survival depends on you using the resources you have - carefully.
Hey, recently found the channel and really enjoyed the content. would love to see what survival knives you do recommend maybe at different price points. Thanks
Review the NedFoss Survival Hunting Knife I’d love to see how much it can actually take!
For 30 bucks it seems ok. Your test are beyond what anyone would do to a knife.
The crkt lck is a 30 dollar knife and its my favorite out of my whole collection, even though its one of the cheapest. Sometimes you get more than you pay for
Hey Brother. Could you try out some of the Joker knives? Those are Spanish and Look really clean, but I Wonder about their durability
they're trash sorry
This knife may indeed be trash, BUT, it bent when subjected to abuse you wouldn't perform to a $200.00 knife.
It. Did. Not. Break.
Both bends can be repaired in the field. You'll probably have a wonky knife that cost $30.00 that is still usable.
A $200.00 broken knife is expensive trash that needs to be packed out from the bush
And this is why morakniv is the best. It’s the best bang for your buck at $20-80 I have three different variations and none have broken nor have I really had to sharpen them.
The $20 one is garbage it’s crap steel get the $50 carbon steel one
@@tylerwestman5258 idk what you mean by crap steel. That steel retains its edge it hasn’t broken yet and it’s rust resistant.
@@MacGyver27058 you got the cheap stainless steel one theirs a big difference between the 2 who cares if carbon steel rusts it’s 10x better then stainless
@@tylerwestman5258 that depends on your purpose for it. For example I like stainless steel for a utility knife which is mainly what I use that knife for. I also like it for skinning animals. Carbon steel is good for a camping or survival knife but even then it kinda just depends on what you train with and personal preference as to what is the best.
@@MacGyver27058 There's a whole world of people who haven't caught up to the year 2023 and still think the solution to steel is more carbon = more better and that the best stainless has to offer is 440 and refuse to accept that there's stainless that performs as well as or better than carbon in outright edge retention and strength and plenty of stainless that is worth it for many trading a slight loss in edge retention for not having to keep oil and rags on you for every time you use the knife, all this ignoring the many differing needs of users resulting in no one formulation being a perfect fit for everybody
It's best to ignore these people and be happy with your stainless
I love my little reaper Karambit style knife honestly it’s more of something I’d collect but would also use as a defense weapon if needed.
"It's a thirty dollar knife" *Proceeds to use it as a fucking hatchet and is confused when it breaks*
With a proper heat treat it should take little to no damage
@@BrennonIsMilak Regardless of the heat treatment or whatever Garbage youtube had fed you blades are not meant to be abused like that. There are blades with specific edge geometry for specific things. Cutting/Splitting Inch and a half branches requires a wedge focus edge not a shearing or slicing edge.
@@BrennonIsMilak also side note steel has its limits its not magic m8.
It actually never broke. $30 seems fair for it.
Could be wrong, but im sure it wasn't intended to be used as a hatchet or a pry bar. Im not expecting a whole lot from a $30 retail store knife, but lets be real here.
Good is not cheap and cheap is not good.
99.9 percent of the time you always get what you pay for
There’s no direct correlation. Swiss knives are reasonably priced and superb in quality. Fancy expensive knives might charge you a lot for the brand or design and still be subpar. There’s just quality and knowing the quality.
Depends, I've round quality knives for around 30 dollars.
It all depends my man. I have a hobby in music and same topic came up. And sometimes the cheapest knock off guitar cable lasted for over 10+ years while the expensive $100 Ernie Ball guitar cable lasted for about a few weeks. I my personal experience lmaoo
Mora would like a word
@@CageyTroller ive got tons of experience with cheap vs expensive knives. ive owned over 200 knives and cheap almost never beats the quality stuff quality vs quantity, buy once cry once are said for a reason.
Don't use knife to chop wood. Ive learned so much today. "The square peg didn't fit in the round whole, cheap garbage"
Please do a review of the Mora Garberg and also the BPS knives.
bps is trash
garberg is good but overpriced
companion is all you need or companion HD
I would love to see how an Al Mar SERE holds up. Not a cheap blade so I'd rather not test my own. 😂 love the videos short and to the point. (No pun intended)
lmao if you can even find them
@@nothingsreal6810 They are indeed hard to find.
@peerx7866 hmmmm how hard to find? Mine is in good condition. Not quite excellent since I've had it since 2008. Absolutely love this blade.
For a knife that didnt break and only fault were the screws, tested for use cases it wasnt designed for. I think $30 is a fucking good price
The reason expensive knives last longer is because no one has the balls to do this after shelling out that kind of cash.
If my $30 knife doesn’t take a direct hit with a club directly from the side without bending it has no use in survival. 🙄
I'd really like to see you do civivi knives, they're basically the kings of budget knives. More in the range of 50-150. Specifically the civivi sokoke is what I'm interested in
That last whack would likely destroy even a high quality knife.
That knife is perfect for most of the people, lmao, no one is gonna chop fucking trees with a knife or smash it in the center with a log....
As usual, a great review. You do get what you pay for! So here's some advice, don't buy a cheap knife. Save a little longer, get a better knife like an ESEE. It's not a custom blade, but it is a good knife with a good guarantee. And it is affordable. Learn from videos like these videos, they are honest. Respect!
Esse isn’t affordable for many people, better to just go with a mora instead.
@@ezor5609 Hello. I was just giving an opinion from experience. I've had Mora knives, they are decent, but they are not built like a heavy duty survival knife. They will never take the abuse of an ESEE made knife. The ESEE knife guarantee can't be matched by Mora either. I went through a few Mora knives over the years. My ESEE knives have outlasted them all. This is why I noted to save for it, it's worth it. I'm just a regular guy, but I would rather save a little longer and have a way better knife at my side that can do so much more if my life depends on it. Stay Safe out there!
@@ra8640 Let's be honest to ourselves if we use knives as knives not as a crowbar or an axe, everything that holds an edge is good. Be it esse, busse, benchmade, mora or even little swiss army is great.
but they pretty ofc
@@Niesmiesznyy I never use a knife as a crowbar, that's not even debated. But I have used a good thick knife to baton wood. We all have different ways and techniques for using knives. I've camped weeks without an axe. A heavy duty knife in the field is an incredible tool if you know what you're doing. From camping to combat, a good hard use knife is amazing like an ESEE 6 or an OKC Rat 7. Just my opinion, I'm not trying to debate. Just experience.
@@ra8640 Didn’t mean it to downplay esse or that they aren’t worth it or anything like that. I myself have knives in that price range and also above. To me the benefits of the mora are that they are as stated inexpensive, good quality for the price and if you break it and want to continue exploring the knife/bushcraft world you can go with something like an esse or buy another mora if you liked it.
Can you review the Helle Utvaer? I bought one a while back. Love it so far but would be great to see how it holds up.
-you got what youre paying for
My 4$ bahco : nope
Love your content mate
Thank you!
yes in most cases you get what you pay for, thats why its our job to test and show what knives are actually good for the money regardless if its a little or alot of money we should be able to recommend the best option
I wanna see you do the flissa $20 11/58 inch fixed blade knife with rosewood handle
But man you have to also realize or you keep forgetting. There are legitimate gems you can get for $30. After all we have all seen $100+ knives fail even worse than this $30 one. So I mean that's the thing(also yes I know there are just wayy wayyy too many out there, but you get what I mean)
And it's kind of funny because the same topic came up on guitar cables. And someone said, "you can tell which one will last a long time and which one won't" but funny enough in my experience that expensive one lasted a few weeks while the cheapest knockoff non-brand one lasted 10 plus years still counting. It's been through hell and back. So it all depends you might get lucky
@@CageyTrollerI’ve had the same guitar cables for at least 10 years with quite a bit of stage time
@@bloodgout Yea, it's all about getting lucky to be honest
cold steel srk for like 50 bucks will do pretty much anything you need.
I didn't know you took requests, how about a 40 dollar bps knife? Seems pretty solid so far, would be nice to see it pushed to it's limits.
Idk what the knife is marketed as, but if somebody just needed a light-duty fixed blade, this seems like it would be fine enough.
My duddy brought me an issued Kabar when he came back from deployment, that sucker is tuff.
I don’t buy expensive knives to beat. I buy throw away knives to beat. That’s why I buy two junk knives lol.
Pls make a compilation review of your best picks, do a cheap and mid range then high end.
When I was a young Teenager I bought a $30 7" bowie knife from my local flea market. When I was 17 a couple buddies and I were messing around in a sand pit when suddenly that $30 "SOG" knife with its included sheath was released and ended up square through my toes...
After 3 hospital trips and many stitches I went and bought a Ka-Bar and leather Sheath, with the bandages and pins still in my foot.
I am 24 now and the Ka-Bar is still going strong. Bring it on every hunt.
A knife is not meant to be use as ax
Could you review the Benchmade bushcrafter
So in other words, if your looking for a knife to do knife things $30 is fine. If you want a knife to do hatchet things, you'll need to spend more lol
Or you could just be smart and carry a knife for knife things and a hatchet for chopping things.
more like $15
*Kershaw, CRKT, Buck, Case, and Morakniv have entered the chat*
Budgetbois swear by Kershaw, and I am a Budgetboi 😂😂
Eafengrow is another budget blade with stellar quality. Most of their blades are D2, but actually have a little corrosion resistence unlike Civvi. The build and blade quality of EF makes it kinda hard to tell that it's a Clone-Circus
@@shonwooten6550 Eafengrow has already been busted once lying about their steel, claiming it was D2 when it was 420J. Probably the reason their "D2" is unusually corrosion resistant is because it's not even D2 but some uber low quality stainless.
Seemed good for a survivalist knife. Rule one - you want bending before breaking! If it bends you want to be able to bent it back true. You do not need your knife breaking on you or it is useless on the field.
It held an edge pretty good as well.
Yeah, it's a piece of crap, but anybody that would buy a knife like that for chopping on branches deserves what they get. Even in it's price range there are many options with infinitely better designs and materials.
Maybe test it under the conditions it was actually meant to be used in, because I'm pretty sure it would excel at stabbing soda cans.
You should do the Benchmade steep mountain hunter
Yeah I don't do any of that with my knives I just cut tape or cardboard lol
Many expensive knives are honestly awful, however if you have a saw and file you can actually buy quality blades for like 25 dollars and handle them yourself, sheath included usually less than 80 bucks and have never gone wrong with them
To all the people in the comments he’s not showing that it can be used as an ax or a hatchet. He’s showing the temper of the blade and the connecting points integrity.
He does this to every knife he reviews so I’d say it’s a qualifying test. And equal across-the-board to find out if you want to buy a cheap knife or a little bit better one. 🤷♀️
With all the fake advertising poor reviews on the Internet, this is a welcome site to see especially with countries selling cheap crap and lying about what it is.
Not to mention they’re quick and to the point you don’t have to go through a 20 minute history of each knife
I’ve told people who buy the same cheap knife ten times, why do that spend $150-$200 on something like a Tops blade and it’ll last you a lifetime or go all out and just get something made of CPM-3V and it’ll last several generations in your family!!!
It worked fine until the whole misuse part of the video
A lot of people cannot afford to buy a two or $300 knife to go hunting or camping. $30 will take a big bite even out of the grocery money and the case don't fit. Just get a new case for it and get one for about 5 bucks
I would love to see a review on some Helle knives, most don’t have a full tang but have some of the most interesting materials for blades, they have a carbon steel core for the edge and stainless outside so protect it
this man uses a cheap knife like a axe, prybar, splitting wedge....anything besides a knife and complains that it doesnt hold up.
if you judge a fish by its ability to fly it will lives its entire life thinking its a failure. -Einstien.
Go try an old hickory, its definitely my favorite budget option
Some people in the comments don't seem to know what destructive testing is and what it's purpose is. When you test something, you shouldn't just test it once and call it good. You test it far outside its typical use cases, and typically keep doing it until you destroy it. That way you know the limits of your tool and how well it compares to other tools. The average person won't beat the hell out of the knife like this, but when it matters what would you prefer? A knife that has undergone rigorous testing and came out unscathed; or a knife that was tested with paper, thrown against a tree, used to strike a ferro rod once and called "good enough"?
I dont buy folding knives anymore. Luckily i have a local knife maker who doesnt charge absurd amounts, and they make insanely high quality pieces. Fixed blade, full tang. Thats what you need for a good knife that’ll last a lifetime.
Do you have a knife graveyard? If so I'd love to see a line up of the failures
Actually I’d like to make one point here. Id always thought magnacut and s35vn and 110v m40 etc were awesome steels.
But I saw one guy reviewing a cheaper steel I believe it was Cr13Mov or Aus8 or something of the sort.
He said for a working knife he would rather have a knife that’s soft enough to bend. A bent knife can be bent back, a broken knife is useless.
Hultafors heavy duty is 9 euro's (1 dollar is almost the same as a euro) and they are amazing! Had mine for 9 years still in perfect condition, and i do all kind of bushcraft stuff with it
The Reapr? I'm not scared. And it needs more cowbell.
MORECOWBELL
@@not-a-raccoon Thank you. Every bit helps.😄
@@robertwright7937 happy to help 🔔🔔🔔
I actually think that's not bad for 30 bucks. Not better than a mora, but not trash.
Most people carry small knives like this because they can’t carry guns or they carry both exclusively for protection.
Can you please do the Kershaw camp 10? It seems like a decent budget chopper, and I'm curious to see if it will hold up to your tests.
SRK is an epic 40 dollar option!
200 dollar knife will still bend like that and nobody will use their knife that way
morakniv is $10 and is somehow much better than a ton of knive companies. funny thing is i snapped the blade on a benchmade fixed blade and then i use a my morakniv for the same task of splitting some small sticks and it didn’t break. a $200 knife broke and a cheap $10 knife did the same task and didn’t break
Great video, I have to say this though, that knife failed due to the handle and sheath it came with. The foundation itself, meaning the steel, was actually solid and did its work by bending and not breaking, I'm guessing a softer steel such as 1055 or 1075.
I wouldn't say a $30 knife is trash but it's certainly more of a box cutter than a survival tool
M48 makes really decent knives for cheap. Like $40 for a 12 inch full tang combat knife. Like 20 for a boot knife. I've had one for probably 8 years I use as a throwing knife. Hasn't broken or bend at all.
Meanwhile in like 2010 I spent $300 on a fancy Kershaw hunting knife that literally shattered opening a beer bottle. Like it was glass. The tip broke into like 4 pieces just from popping the cap on a bottle. I'll never buy "fancy" knives again. Buy durable trash once it breaks in a few years buy another.
Can you do a review of the 5.11 Tactical CFK7 Peacemaker? There’s not too many reviews on that knife.
I'm curious what you think of Kizlyar knives. Especially the Korshun and Voron models.
Could you try the M&P Spec Ops 7" survival knife. I got mine a couple yrs ago and it has been tried and true so far.
Have you done a review on the cold steel recon tanto ? My wife and I have one each
Bought a 10 dollar Ozark Trail knife from Walmart, aside from needing resharpening it turned out to be a really good, lightweight knife. You dont have to pay a lot of money for a "good knife" 🤷
I got this nice blade from oden wolf for 30,served me half a year now and hasnt rusted or really chipped at all,tip is wonderful and has survived my idiot-ness when i first got into knives and bushcraft lol so id definitely recommend it
See to me a $30 - 50 folding knife is for me to carry everyday for work. So when I drop it, it gets lost, breaks it doesn't matter. And when camping I always have a couple cheap knives in my pack and an expensive fixed blade.
You should do the buck selkirk, I bought it as a hunting knife but it quickly became my survival knife. I bought it for 30 when it first became available, and it has been the most durable knife I've ever had
Should have had the Wilhelm scream at the end there.
Have you done the Verusteleka Jääkaripüüko yet? The thing is a beast and the sheath is excellent
Thanks for the reviews dude.
A lot of these people in the comments don’t want to see at what point a knife will give way.
Or they don’t want their cheap knives exposed as not the best.
Didnt the knife torture go a little too far this time? I mean like.... what do you wanna do with your knife? Chop a tree down? Take down a tank? Use it as a bullet proof vest? Bro stop being so spoiled. As long as its made of steel and it cuts and stabs its a damn good self defence weapon as well as a good survival gear. Also ppl in jail have knifes made of tooth brushes and you dont hear them complain
You should try a crkt fixed blade sometime i run plenty of there blades and would love to see you put that brand to the test
Would you review the Gerber gator premium fixed blade?? I've been watching that one for awhile now it has s30v steel and a really nice grip!!
There are 2 cheap knives that are worth buying. Cold steel SRK and Glock Field Knife. Honorable mentions are any cheap Morakniv and a lot of the cheap Cold Steel knives as well
I got a winchester buck knife for 30 dollars. Had it for 2 years,got it at Tractor Supply