Thrifty Thursday... Cheap Traditional Knives

[JohnDF]

Micarta Monday, Trapper Tuesday, Wooden Wednesday...
We all carry some pretty nice knives, some of them are down right expensive.
I think we need a day devoted to those "cheap" inexpensive knives I know we all have.
"Thrifty Thursday" so we will carry those cheaper Traditional knives and show them some love.

A Colonial Scout Knife worthy of some pocket time.

 

[Onebigbill]

Got this one free at a trade show some twenty years ago or so. Reshod it with yellow scales because the original scales just disintegrated on me. Small but very handy.

 

[black mamba]

All well under a double sawbuck, and perfectly good and useful knives.

 

[Rich S]

Pretty much any Rough Rider.
Rich

 

[joeradza]

About $50 for all four.

 

[flatblackcapo]

 

[Georgecatl]

About as cheap “TRIFTY” as they come.

A company promo piece from AMP Connectors from about 40 years ago. Sits in my desk drawer and handles most tape cuttin’, pry Barrin’, and schmutz pickin’ duties. Note “Hong Kong” manufacture, not China.

 

[Headwinds]

Sabre (Japan) pen. I inherited it from my Dad so I don’t know what it cost, but I guarantee it wasn’t much.

 

[VashHash]

Paid $10 for this considering I got 3 SAKs for $30 off the exchange. Worth every penny. I've used the scissors countless times and the other tools too. Always nice to have a mini toolbox in my pocket.

 

[Jack Black]

Great thread idea I'm carrying my A. Wright Rosewood Big 'Un today, didn't cost me much

 

[screened porch]

Shell-handled Imperial and Irish Imperial with solid plastic handle covers and snap-on faux bolsters, both cheap when they were made and cheap when I bought them. Fiskars fixed blade that was well under a dollar when new, though sold without a sheath.

 

[Henry Beige]

I have a lot of cheap knives, but I will spare you the everyday Moras and Opinels and Antoninis and Filmams and Doukdouks and get right down to the cheapest of the cheap.

The Kudu was selling for about five bucks the day I bought it. The Okapi went for nearly three times that.
The pride of this tableau is the Sani-Safe paring knife, $3.29 delivered.



More bottom-of-the-barrel Cold Steel, and a Cedar Ridge left under the seat of an old Ranger by the previous owner.

 

[Jolipapa]

 

[Modoc ED]

"The Beater"

 

[Hickory n steel]

Probably some of the best " thrifty " knives ever, the Colonial ranger series knives were made to be very affordable without showing it.

Now I bought this knife for a mere $20 in mint condition off Ebay, but I believe these were available for under $15 from K-Mart in the finals years of colonial.

 

[Gevonovich]

Tons of Thrifty
One of my first Garage Daze in 2011

 

[Norcaldude]

Can buy some version of the TL-29 for under 20 bucks all over ebay.
This one was made by Camillus.

 

[Just Tom.]

“Inexpensive” describes my entire collection, of which there is a subset which can definitely be called “cheap”. Here are most of the ones I haven’t modified or rebuilt:

And some others:

The first thread I started a little over a year ago when I joined was called “Cheap and Cheerful Traditionals”, but I like “Thrifty Thursday” better, since it comes every week!
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/cheap-and-cheerful-traditionals.1658309/

 

[black mamba]

Jer, if that's an Imperial Ireland stockman, I have the same model!

 

[K33ncutter]

All of these all together cost me no money at all. The Gerber on the top right was a service award so I did put in a few years of hard work for it. The others were all freebies or else my wife found them.