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Best Pocket Knives Under $100
Like many categories, there’s a massive range of what you can spend on a pocket knife, and the differences between the sub-$100 spend and the $1,000 plus spend are fairly dramatic. Choices of steels, scale materials, bearings, and other details make a big difference in the durability and overall quality of a good knife, but that’s not to say that nothing good exists in the lower budget range. If anything, Narrowing the pool of best pocket knives under $100 becomes even more challenging than the top tier, as there’s an established benchmark of quality when you go up the scale. In the sub-$100 range, there are so many brands slapping blades together, that it’s a lot more like shopping at a thrift store; there’s a lot of useless garbage on the racks that you have to wade through in order to find something good. Case in point, Blade HQ (one of our preferred resources for this) lists over 6,000 folding knives in this price category, though there’s a strong majority we wouldn’t be recommending.
Effectively that’s why we’re here today, to root through the vast expanse of average to mediocre options and cherry pick our 10 best pocket knives that you can count on without spending big money. Don’t worry though, as time goes on we’re going to step our way up through the full range of price brackets. Our selections come in no particular order, rather than listing by rank or by price.
Given both the price point and the fact that we’re directing the dialogue towards things that are easy and safe to pocket carry (check your state laws to see what’s legal in your home state), these are all going to be on the relatively compact side, with many selections having blade lengths around three or four inches. If you’re looking for something that’s a lot more ‘heavy duty’, our recent list of survival knives will be more up your alley.
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