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Cheap BOB Knife/ Under $30?
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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1723802" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 1723802, member: 229"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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