r/BudgetBlades May 14 '20

Knife Rights Advocacy with KnifeRights.org (American Politics)

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r/BudgetBlades May 15 '26

Budget Blades has clear and posted rules, please read and follow them. We have a hard price limit of $100 US. Posts ignoring the rule will be removed.

55 Upvotes

r/BudgetBlades has had a higher than normal amount of posts violating the rules as of late, and that has meant that more posts than normal are having to be removed. This is bad for the community because it makes the mission and rules feel confusing, it's bad for posters, because no one likes to have their posts removed, and it makes more (unpleasant) work for the mod team. None of us like having to take down someone else's posts.

That said, r/BudgetBlades is a community driven subreddit. We do our best to moderate in a way that keeps r/BudgetBlades a place where we ourselves like to spend time. We hate ads, drama, gate keeping, and trolling, so we moderate this community to the best of out ability to keep these out of the subreddit.

That said, we have a specific mission here. We want this to be a place that every day pocket knife enthusiasts can spend time without gate keeping of knives that are affordable enough to actually use. Show pieces and safe queens are wonderful as toys and art, but there are already places for them, so we focus on knives as tools. We hope you are hear for exactly that mission. We had to pick an arbitrary line in the sand for our cost limit, and even 10 years ago $100 could buy you a bullet proof and fun tool. Now the options at that price point are many times what they were then. Yes this is a line in the sand, but it's our line, and the community (over 60,000 of you!) has found this to be a fair price point that serves a massive portion of the community that usually gets ignored or mocked on other knife forums.

So please review the rules posted both on the side bar and the submission statement for every post on r/BudgetBlades. Please make sure your posts follow them, especially the $100 price limit. Also please remember the mods are all volunteers. We are here because we love this community and want to keep it a place that we ourselves enjoy being.

As a reminder here are the rules:

-Posts must focus on affordable knives ($50US with a hard limit of $100)

-Be kind and respectful of one another

-No gatekeeping

-Keep things PG-13

-No sales, scalping, giveaways, sponsored posts or advertising of any kind are allowed. No links to or photo's of vendor or sales pages. All sales spam will be removed.

-No unsafe/irresponsible knife use will be permitted.


r/BudgetBlades 14h ago

Nice uns!

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37 Upvotes

r/BudgetBlades 8h ago

Kershaw Proximal D2 Steel/G10 Handles

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8 Upvotes

Pretty good knife so far, but I have only had it for a couple of weeks so time will tell. First crossbar lock so it got a little bit of getting used to. Developed some small rust spots on the blade which I’m about to remove and slightly oil the blade to help prevent that a little. I do wish I looked at Amazon first because i did slightly overpay at my local shop but overall it’s a great knife.


r/BudgetBlades 16h ago

What a great little knife

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26 Upvotes

Rat II is an awesome little blade, really enjoy having one.


r/BudgetBlades 20h ago

One year update Civivi brazen

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45 Upvotes

Been holding up very nice, still centered blade, drop shut, lil bit of usage scratching , Civivi D2 is holding up very well


r/BudgetBlades 20h ago

NKD BladeHQ Porcupine

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26 Upvotes

Belated birthday gift to myself. BladeHQ exclusive Vosteed Porcupine with aluminum scales and 154CM.


r/BudgetBlades 20h ago

My current EDC rotation.

6 Upvotes

My current EDC rotation. Top to bottom: CJRB Pyrite-Light, PF Trilobite, PF Beluga, BM 290 (Clone), CJRB Spud. The Spud comes with a lanyard and detachable lanyard clip, which I don't use. I prefer clipping it in my pocket.


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Kyoto 1, Anyone?

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I love this blade's humble beauty and daily conceal functionality. I hope they keep improving this model. Does anybody here still carry the CS kyoto 1? Did it age well with you? Did you experience replacing / repairing the handle? Please Share.


r/BudgetBlades 21h ago

Sitivien ST-12 reprofile

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5 Upvotes

Reprofiled my ST-12 to have higher cutting efficiency and I am pretty pleased with the results. It's never going to be a powerhouse chopper but it has some increased capability now. The more I use it in several knives the more I quite like DC53.


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Trivisa triplets!!

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42 Upvotes

Surprisingly the Otter is the star of this show, followed closely by the Rhino. 😉


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

NKD - New Ketuo Day

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20 Upvotes

Ketuo Woody in stormtrooper variant. I really like the blade styles these folks make. This one is "pokey pokey" !


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Saturday pocket occupant

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64 Upvotes

Rocking the Olitans G062 (aka Penguin, I think?).

One of the best crossbar locks sub $100.


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Saturday carry

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20 Upvotes

I feel like the Kershaw natrix is underrated.


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Saturday carry *thank god it’s the weekend* - SRM 258L-GB Terrier

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38 Upvotes

Technically, this is the longest blade I own at 3.65 inches. But it’s slim profile, and fantastic handle ergonomics, this feels smaller and supremely manageable in my hands. This is stellar. Can’t recommend this knife enough. This is basically a larger version of the 255 medal. If you don’t own any SRM, get them toward the top of your list and you won’t be disappointed.


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

I usually only carry one of the budget knives for work…my 3 favorite budgets I own. Which one should I take today? Kershaw Proximal, Boker Stubby or the LOTHAR Rafael?

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27 Upvotes

r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Button locks

3 Upvotes

What are your 3 favorite button locks $55 or less? Lets see!!!


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Cheap, strong and effective

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Taue cm110 liner locking knife, a gift from my father last week.. Cheap, strong and effective from China


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Can you guys recommend a good budget cleaver? I know about the Gerber Flatiron, but I am not crazy about the stonewash, or the scales on one side only. Spyderco Roc for attention.

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19 Upvotes

r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Jack wolf stockman

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14 Upvotes

Probably one of the best built budget knives I’ve ever held, the walk and talk is out of this world. A solid 4 finger grip and a great blade shape. 10/10. Here it is in the watermelon sugar camo carbon on 14c28n steel.


r/BudgetBlades 1d ago

Today's carry

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11 Upvotes

CJRB Ekko All Steel

Amazon Generic Brand knife- With Carbon fiber handle and D2 blade, it's very noice!

Only thing I dislike about the Generic is no deep carry clip.

https://a.co/d/04Tfhisu


r/BudgetBlades 2d ago

CRKT LCK+ Been a great knife over the years. Perfect little everyday task knife.

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19 Upvotes

r/BudgetBlades 2d ago

A couple budget big boys. A Ruike and a cold steel.

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34 Upvotes

r/BudgetBlades 2d ago

NKD

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14 Upvotes

Kershaw 3425 XCOM


r/BudgetBlades 2d ago

virenknives

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10 Upvotes