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"""""
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.)
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
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
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.
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 😅
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.
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
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
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
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.
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 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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
there are all sorts of great inexpensive knives from Morakniv to BPS knives (have been really impressed with them, come with a really well made leather sheath.).
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
Cheap knives out of the box are surprisingly sharp. My dad bought me a cheap W33 folding knife, doesn't have a lock, so sharp that it nearly cut part of my thumb off accidentally 😅, but the blade not very strong
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
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.
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 would like to see you test the schrade sharpfinger, its one of my personal favorite knives, not made for bushcraft but its worked well for everything ove put it through. And its only 25 bucks
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
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
@@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.
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.
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.
You can find a lot of D2 steel knives for $30. QSP Penguin, Petrified Fish Loco...you get the idea - though I suppose it's hard to find a good $30 FIXED blade.
Question, what would you recommend for around 50-75 buck's. I just need a decent camping, backpacking knife. I probably would not be too hard on it, but want something that will last and worth money
I only got one good $30 knife ever and it was a Gerber fixed blade that you reviewed I got lucky and found it at a dirt cheap one day for $35 and bought it instantly
What price makes a knife worth buying, and good for the price?? I bought a knife set for $40, including a Bowie knife, a fisherman’s knife, and a small axe. Haven’t noticed any issues yet, and the knifes stay sharp
