Quality & Value
Just a general question for the knife experts out there.
For knife quality, there is nothing special about
this knife to warrant $800, right? I'm assuming the value is based on nostalgia, history and age? (Just like classic firearms?)
The short answer -- given the way you asked the question -- is basically "no."
There's nothing from a
knife quality point of view that would drive a price of $800 for that knife.
If I were in the market for, shall we say, a survival knife, and I wanted something of serious righteous quality, I might look at something by Chris Reeve.
Let's take, for example, his
Shadow knife.
Actually, as it happens, there's
one up for auction even as I write this. The current bidding stands at under $240 (10 bids).
Here's what it looks like:
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It's made from a single billet of steel. There are no welds or brazing or bolt-together joins. It's a solid chunk of steel that has been machined into a knife. A serious heavy use knife.
If I had serious cash available, I might just crash that party and snap it up. I doubt very much that I'd wind up spending $800 for it.
In my humble and considered opinion, that's a knife whose quality can legitimately drive a $400 price. (Never mind that they aren't made any more and never mind that the not-made-now status status probably makes it a collectible piece, so sprinkle a little more money on it.)
And, by the way, I've
always wanted one of those.
Now, if you were just looking for a quality outdoor knife made of modern materials and having been proven in the wild, it's pretty much a given that there are knives of approximately that size that will flat perform in the field available for under $100.
Just a matter of what you're looking for.