EDC Karambit Help- Knife Noob Needs Help

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Ok, to be truthful I'm new to knives and want to start to get into them. I want a karambit for EDC but don't have the money for an expensive one like Emerson or Fox. I'm not going to be flipping it unless I have practiced with a trainer for a while so safety is not my concern. I need a karambit that WONT BE USED FOR SD and will simply be something that be used as cool looking tool until I train to use it properly. So here's my question: Can I find a karambit under 50 (preferably far from it) that will be good as a tool and I can grow into the knife world with, also FIXED OR FOLDING(WHICH IS BEST). It must be 4" OR UNDER. Thanks. A CHEAP TRAINER RECOMMENDATION will be greatly appreciated as well.

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I'm a minor(very responsible my peers won't even know I have it wont show it off everywhere i go)
In Florida
 
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Short answer... no.

In my opinion, a quality folding kerambit will start around $300 with one exception... 511 folding kerambit for just over $100.
 
Charlie Mike said:
Short answer... no.

In my opinion, a quality folding kerambit will start around $300 with one exception... 511 folding kerambit for just over $100.
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I respect your opinion completely, but I just don't think that this is fair considering I will be using as a simple pocket knife tool and practice device until I can get a professional Karambit. If you have any recommendations on a cheap trainer I would be very grateful.
 
Not true. There are many Karambits on Ebay. Yes, there replicas of Emerson and Fox and they are excellent. I have both an Emerson and a Fox and to speak quite frankly the respond and do the job. There's one on Ebay for about $10.00 bucks plus shipping with 440C there
 
taty63 said:
Not true. There are many Karambits on Ebay. Yes, there replicas of Emerson and Fox and they are excellent. I have both an Emerson and a Fox and to speak quite frankly the respond and do the job. There's one on Ebay for about $10.00 bucks plus shipping with 440C there
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Sorry, there's a Karambit right now made by Bladetech with AUS 8 and G10 handle for $26.00 bucks plus there are trainers for around $10.00. These knives open from your pocket just like Emerson and Fox and are way under 4" inches. There nothing like the real thing but this is not a bad start if your on a budget. Check your state laws before you take one out on the streets. Here where I live the fixed blade are illegal. Plus your a minor and they will bust you for that alone. Be careful because there extremely sharp and cut threw hard plastic like butter. If your a collector then save your money and get an Emerson or Fox which ever you prefer. But this would be a good start for a novice to the Karambit world.
 
taty63 said:
Sorry, there's a Karambit right now made by Bladetech with AUS 8 and G10 handle for $26.00 bucks plus there are trainers for around $10.00. These knives open from your pocket just like Emerson and Fox and are way under 4" inches. There nothing like the real thing but this is not a bad start if your on a budget. Check your state laws before you take one out on the streets. Here where I live the fixed blade are illegal. Plus your a minor and they will bust you for that alone. Be careful because there extremely sharp and cut threw hard plastic like butter. If your a collector then save your money and get an Emerson or Fox which ever you prefer. But this would be a good start for a novice to the Karambit world.
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Thanks I'll check that out
 
EdcMaster said:
Could you give me a link to it I couldnt find it.
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Please familiarize yourself on the forums. If you would like taty63 to send you the link, please PM him as non-sponsor links are not to be posted within threads. Also, Charlie Mike's advice is solid. Don't waste your time or money on a sub-$30 Karambit.

Karambit's are designed for fighting, not to be used as a utility blade. As a minor, I would highly stress that you do not carry a karambit, regardless of intended purpose.
 
I'd say save your money, and go with an Emerson, Fox, Spyderco, 5.11 or the upcoming Cold Steel knife.
 
Buy quality and only cry once.
 
At minimum I would suggest a 5.11 journeyman. IF it has to be cheap you can check out mantis but I would not expect it to last long at all.
 
DAVE_M said:
Karambit's are designed for fighting, not to be used as a utility blade. As a minor, I would highly stress that you do not carry a karambit, regardless of intended purpose.
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I agree with this. A cop isn;t going to see that vicious curved blade and think "oh he uses this for opening boxes". Think about if it's worth jail time or a big fine (the answer should be no).
 
DAVE_M said:
Karambit's are designed for fighting, not to be used as a utility blade. As a minor, I would highly stress that you do not carry a karambit, regardless of intended purpose.
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This.
They are also a weapon variant that depends pretty heavily on understanding the arts they came from. Not really a blade for improvisation...get a delica.
 
DAVE_M said:
Please familiarize yourself on the forums. If you would like taty63 to send you the link, please PM him as non-sponsor links are not to be posted within threads. Also, Charlie Mike's advice is solid. Don't waste your time or money on a sub-$30 Karambit.

Karambit's are designed for fighting, not to be used as a utility blade. As a minor, I would highly stress that you do not carry a karambit, regardless of intended purpose.
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I agree with the spirit of this post, but the simple fact is that karambits originated as utility knives. They were pressed into service as emergency backup weapons or used by fighters as a useful, concealable offhand weapon, but they were definitely designed with utility in mind, not combat.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
I agree with the spirit of this post, but the simple fact is that karambits originated as utility knives. They were pressed into service as emergency backup weapons or used by fighters as a useful, concealable offhand weapon, but they were definitely designed with utility in mind, not combat.
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The big ones may have descended from the arit (sickle) but the little guys have always been hideouts. My teacher attributed this to a western/north american desire to keep their beloved kerambit from becoming a proscribed knife, but to each his own.
 
J W Bensinger said:
The big ones may have descended from the arit (sickle) but the little guys have always been hideouts. My teacher attributed this to a western/north american desire to keep their beloved kerambit from becoming a proscribed knife, but to each his own.
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I was taught much the opposite, that small karambits were primarily used as utility knives in marine settings, places where hawkbill style blades would be particularly useful, and that the combat application came later.

I suppose I always found it fairly plausible, as most hideout blades cross culturally and throughout most of history have been heavily focused on thrusting, whereas a hawkbill style blade is just what the doctor ordered when cutting media that tends to slide off a more conventional plain edge blade.

Regardless, an LEO in this day and age will definitely view one as a pure combat tool and it will be very difficult to argue it as a utility knife.
 
Yep. I was also taught the little ones were usually coated in something bad-and not the old "keris are poisoned" misunderstanding about the arsenic etch. The archipelago's a big place.
They definitely don't fit well in the north american legal/civil context-cutting somebody by suprise when they throw a strike at you is the SOP everywhere else on the planet (because there's a lot less of the "you spilled my beer/insulted my team, we fight and next friday we watch the game together" crap and more "this is for keeps"), but not here... I do love training with the damn things though-and whatever their history they will open the heck out of a box.
 
What Charlie Mike said the first time...

Also, a karambit will run a high risk of running outside of Florida statute allowing for carry of a "common pocket knife", which has never been completely defined. Given that you tell us that you're a child, I don't see this ending well if you choose to buy and carry that type of knife around routinely, there are much better options with much less potential downside.
 
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