>>1805390Are you in the US or do you live some where that makes it more expensive to get US knives? I know some people who have knife collections and live in Australia or Europe, or parts of Asia, I know it’s more expensive to get name brand US knives.
When I think cheap US Spyderco I think of the Para 3 LW which is on average $98 new in the US. Really good value... but it’s not their cheapest US knife, some of their US slip joints made for the UK market are like $70. And they actually make some cheap kitchen knives in the Us factory that are like $25ish. Spyderco Kitchen knives seem like a cool gift, even if they are budget ones.
Or you can go novelty and see if you can get them Spydiecups, they are $50 (idk if they are still for sale and if they will ship internationally) and I really love mine. Or the Spydie Butterfly pen, the US made ones are like $20 ish.
>>1805480I think I qualify as a steel nerd, kind of is a byproduct of being a sharpening nerd.