Just as the title says, but I'd also like it to be thin and have a pocket clip... and it also has to be pretty cheap. I don't carry a knife everyday, but like to carry a small knife in my front pocket when hunting for small stuff thats not worth

getting my real knife out of my pack over.

I have a nice thin Buck knife, but at 2.6oz, it feels plenty heavy. The benchmade mini bugout is probably the perfect edc knife, but at $170, I just can't justify that kind of money for a knife that rides in my pocket maybe 20 days a year..

The Gerber LST looks to be the perfect shape, size, and weight, but doesn't have a belt clip. The Gerber Paraframe Mini seems to be about the best I've found a website, but I'd like to see what else you guys have for suggestions.

thanks for any help

 

CRKT knives are sold in Walmart. American made, durable and quite a few choices for $25 and under.

 

Go to Walmart, Bass Pro/Cabela's, HD/Lowe's and you can have your pick of $30 knives.

If those are still too expensive, try the local gas station.

I have a Milwaukee one...good fit, crappy blade. Dulls easily.

 

Wait, a knife is in your pocket for only 20 days a year?? What do you do the other 345 days? Borrow somebody else’s knife???

 

Had a knife in my pocket 365 days a year since I was 6 years old.

 

I use to also but I am traveling all the time through airports and since 9-11. I know longer do, as I would hate to loose my knife.

Buck Spitfire is light weight and a nice knife for the price.

 

Kershaw Leek. Super thin, razor sharp and with assisted opening. I've had a few Gerbers, I'd never buy another.

 

CIVIVI Mini Praxis $30 on Amazon. Also look at Petrified Fish, QSP, Tunafire.

You can get knives made with great steel if you shop online. I don’t know any store that sells D2 steel blades for $30.


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There is a Spyderco Native in my pocket every day.

 

I have a couple Kershaw/Ken Onion knives that I carry all the time. The Leek and the smaller Scallion are great pocket knives. Check out eBay, there’s always a few on there that can be had for fairly reasonable prices.

 

Opinel. About as light and inexpensive as it gets. Birch handle models in the 20 dollar or less range. Cheap enough to have different sizes ranging from ridiculous small to ridiculous large., they can be addictive. Van Gogh may have sliced his ear off with one. Thin blade and strong enough construction if not used as a crowbar. Not a fast flip open or close. Will easily sharpen to a razor edge for fruit or cardboard. Stainless or old school carbon steel which may look traditional patina cool but leaves a metallic taste on sliced apples. I find the stainless sharpens and retains an edge as well as the carbon steel.

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Careful Mekajen. You are flirting with the dark side. If you should follow up on your urge, I will bet you one of my knives you won't have just one in a few years time. I was once like you, didn't really need a knife for the most part, bought a Ken Onion Scallion assisted flipper (autos only legal in real America, after all) just because I thought it was cool, and kinda lost all my discretion and resolve a while later. Of course, now living in Arizona, I have no silly restrictions, so I kinda explored everything from auto to fixed blade. I would still be using that scallion if I hadn't found a sweet left handed auto that doesn't interfere with my right sided firearm pocket carry. But then again, my right sided fixed blades don't get in the way of firearm pocket carry either, except I must drop my right handed knife (If I am using it) to deploy my firearm, which just illustrates that the rabbit hole is wide and inviting.

The real thing to understand is that once you have a knife you can pull out of a pocket and deploy the blade using only one hand, your definition of an acceptable pocket knife is going to change forever. Needing two hands just will not be acceptable.

 

Mora fixed blade fits in pocket probably the best bang for a cheap knife

 

I am a big fan of the Gerber Air Ranger knives - typically they can be had with a plain blade or one that is 50% serrated (I prefer the plain blade). They have a decent pocket clip.

They list for around $30 ~ $35, but Cabela's sells them for $19.99 and you can find them on Ebay for around $10. With all the flying I do if I forget to remove it from my pocket I am not going to cry if I have to trash a $10 knife...

I find them to be the perfect balance of size and thickness, and with aluminum scales they are light. I probably own four or five and they are my EDC knives. The steel is decent and they take & hold an edge.

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In construction,, I carried a 3 blade buck 3 in her....not a lightweight, but you could field dress a deer!!
Later, a 2 3/4 inch 3-blade case.....
Now, a 3-blade K-bar 2incher well-worn and sharp.......
If you don't tote a SHARP knife, (2 or more blades)... you ain't country!!!!! Ya'all.........m

 

I have one of these in my pocket now. Very good cheap knife

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I have a shitton of knives, from $free to $400+ and this is absolutely one of my favorites. And it's the sharpest knife I've ever seen come from a factory. Scary sharp.

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You could keep it simple and try a Gerber EAB, also is a stocking stuffer at Christmas.

 

Will have to say I love my Kershaw 1830.. light weight..holds a Awesome edge...

 

My vote is for a Havalon replaceable blade...Surgical sharp, cheap replaceable blades,, pocket clip, very light weight, and not that expensive on Amazon, less than $50 and capable of gutting your deer with ease.

 

Can't board a plane with a knife????
The planes of 9-11 were hijacked with box cutters.......or were they??????........
Years ago, a comedian suggested everybody boarding a plane be issued a baseball bat to thwart any potential hijackers.........sounds reasonable to me.........but I'm old.......m

 

Haven't flown commercial since 9/11. All through school I would never have thought to assault someone with a weapon and tarnish my families good name. Virtually every boy carried a pocket knife and thought the same.

 

I like this little Kershaw Chill, really light, big enough, thin, flip open, serrated or plain.

 

Buck 110 lightweight.
Poly side plates with a pocket clip
Bought mine at Walmart.
Around $30

Ontario Rat1, my every day knife
Not the lightness, but very nice.
Got my 2 for $20 each at Walmart.

Camalis brand are good workhorse knives. That's what I used at work for the last 5 years, light, sharpen easily and cheap.

 

I have a Bear Grylls Compact Scout Knife either in my pocket ot hanging off my daypack. with a 2.5" blade at 2oz. it fits my Inexpensive, thin, light weight and sharp knife list. I don't mind getting in the muck with it and keep the BenchMade Hidden Canyon Hunter in the pack until its needed

 

Leatherman Free series has some great pocket knifes that are more Swiss Army knives. Really like mine. Enough to buy one of each. I’m never without one anymore.