I want to buy my father a nice pocket/hunters knife for his birthday.
My budget is £150. Anyone recommendations?
Thanks

not got one, but I’ve always fancied one from the Leatherman range

leatherman

but more of a tool then a knife I think. Depends what you think he’d like.

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http://www.benchmade.com/

I was going to suggest thr Ray Mears Woodlore one but it £450 and there is a waiting list. I think he sells some cheaper (but still expensive) ones on his bushcraft website. BTW its considered bad luck to give a knife as a gift.

This may be of some use?

http://www.whitbyandco.co.uk/specialoffers/productnews.cfm

enjoy – lots of great stuff here.

I bought a Leatherman Skeletool CX and the set of screwdriver bits to go with it a few months ago, it’s very sharp! 😳

One of these?
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2011-05/video-master-bladesmith-bob-kramer-visits-popsci-shows-his-chops

Try here, a wide selection of style and price.

http://www.heinnie.com/Knives/c-1-92/

Randall. Waiting list for new ones, but you get them crop up on flea bay occasionally.

How about a SC-242 Tanto Hunters in Damascus steel at about £160.00

Now this is a knife

japanese knife direct

or from Mr Hattori himself

Hattori hunting knifes

can’t go far wrong with an opinel and you’ll have about £140 change.

now what is the law with knives, i fancy one for my toolbox as the knife on the gerber multitool I have isn’t always enough

(sorry if I’m highjacking a thread)

Falknivven make several that would fit your bill and your budget. The F1 is probably your best bet though. I have the WM1 and it would be a bit small for things other than skinning.

The blades are Solingen (or so I am led to believe) so of very good quality.

Picked up a very nice knife in Norway (quite a number of years ago now…) The Norwegians told me it was a “Finnish knife”, much valued by the Scandinavians as a general outdoors / hunting knife.

Mine is a modern version with a moulded handle and scabbard, but the proper traditional ones look very good…

Finnish Puukko

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like the the damascus blade but the comment on Opinels is bang on the money.

like the the damascus blade but the comment on Opinels is bang on the money

Depends on what it is for…

For utility, then yes, an Opinel works well – although I never really got on with that lock ring thing (assuming they still have it in these legally stifled times)

For something with more “special” value, then there is much to be appreciated in a hand crafted piece.

Having said that, my “most valued” knife is very much a utilitarian knife – and cruder than any Opinel I have seen. A hooked bladed folding knike with a black blade and weighty wood and brass handle. All I know about it is that the blade is stamped “Poland” and my Grandfather carried it pretty much everywhere he went….

These folks do nice knives too, both functional and decently priced and more ornamental and in your price range too.

http://www.marttiini.fi/in_English.iw3

I have one of their ‘modern’ rubber handled Lapp hunting knives in my archery kit and also one of their kitchen knives – would put both up against anything else I have tried in each category (the hunter is certainly a better blade than the one on my leatherman and the kitchen knife I currently use in preference to almost all my other 10 or so ‘general’ cooks/chefs knives – even the Global/Porsche Japanese steel ones I have).

slainte 8) rob

http://www.laguiole-france.com/index.php?module=Accueil

+1 had lots, but only because i keep losing them….

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like the the damascus blade but the comment on Opinels is bang on the money.

damascus steel isn’t damascus steel. the technique used in making true damascus steel was lost many years ago.

what you are referring to is pattern welding, which produces similar visual reslts, but not the fine edge that tru damascus steel is renowned for.

i have japanese wood chisels (oire nomi) that are prodced in a similar way (folding layers of hard and soft steel). the effect looks like that of damascus steel, although the result is (compared to normal stanley or marple chisels) very impressive.

These are pretty highly regarded by some folks on a South African knife forum I’ve been following recently:

http://www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/a-wright–son-700-rosewood-handled-bushcraft-knife-1059-p.asp

If you want to get him a really neat and UK legal folding picket knife that would fit into the budget along with the fixed blade, then one of these would be perfect:

http://www.heinnie.com/Knives/Spyderco-Knives/Spyderco-Knives-Squeak/p-92-191-6782/

I love Spyderco knives, I’ve got a bunch of them, and their little pocket knives are a treat to use. My current EDC knife is a Spyderco Lava, sadly now discontinued, but I got mine from the S.African site, and it’s an ergonomic joy to use.

am not into knives myself,but was googling them after seeing this thread.have a look at these (might be slightly above budget though 😉 http://www.cjdeubel.com/folders.html i can remember reading a magazine back in the 90’s where a designer had made kitchen knives that were composite (they were carbon i think,with what looked like a blue blade zycronium or something?) they looked fantastic (but were very expensive)

Leatherman
I have one of these and it seems to get used every day .
Knives are very handy ….I didn’t think I would ever have any use for a knife until I had it given to me.

A good selection here:

http://www.lakelandbushcraft.co.uk/acatalog/Knives.html

A knife I purchase last year:

http://www.pumaknives.de/dispitem_102.php?item_no=7161312&PHPSESSID=81hn962bem8hgpamfnhjrc1fe0

http://www.sheffield-made.com/acatalog/Pocket_Knives.html

Speak to Paul at the sheffield shop.

Try this bloke ;-

http://www.todsstuff.co.uk/index.htm

And look at the English Cutler section for outdoor knives.

I’ve a selection of knives from him, they’re not cheap but each one is individual and beautifully made. I have one of these :-

http://www.todsstuff.co.uk/knives-military/rondel-daggers-military-knives.htm

with a trefoil-cut hilt and triangular section heavy blade,
also
http://www.todsstuff.co.uk/knives-military/misericords-military-knives.htm
and
http://www.todsstuff.co.uk/knives-military/bollock-dagger-military-knives.htm

As you can see his craftmanship is amazing.

Seeing a Puma mentioned reminded me I have one of these:

Puma White Hunter, bought it in Weymouth on holiday many years ago, I think for around £8-9, now they’re around £350. I bought a Hunters Pal some time after, and they both have matching serial numbers, which is cool.

£144.95 from Heinnie’s. It’d be my choice for a collectors/eye catcher/man, that feels comfortable to handle.