Hey EZ, what do you think of the Cold Steel Bushman? I got a couple of them, seem pretty functional, did some paracord on the handles. Seem pretty sturdy too.
Honestly, it's a good knife for $20. I personally like a few of Cold Steel's products (despite their cheesy marketing) and my favorites are their value-priced knives.
That being said, SK5 steel is getting down to the bottom of what you really want in a knife steel and the Bushman is at a Rockwell of about 54 which is extremely soft. I still subscribe to the theory that softer is better in the survival knife world, but there is a point where you get too soft to maintain an edge (or too soft for a knife is made with stamped steel hollow-handle construction). I don't think the bushman is past that point of being too soft, but it's pretty close.
The Bushman has survived more than a few torture tests on the net though, and most folks in the knife community seem to regard it as a high value knife, so that says a lot.