>>1792920If you want a purpose-built knife, what do you need it for?
For fine work and carving, I'd suggest one of the better moras. they're sold as "mora frost" or "trilaminate" depending on where you are and are available in multiple lengths and blade styles.
For rough work (batoning, splitting) and hunting harmless animals (which you can dispatch with a stab to the brain), glock 79 is the way to go.
For hunting aggressive animals (which you need to be able to kill from the front with stabs to the lung), you'll need a wider blade. The cold steel bowie machete comes to mind, but they'll need to be reground as cold steel will often ship them with literally no edge on them, and refuse returns on the basis that their faqs say that machetes are not sharpened completely. So don't buy those unless you have a proper belt- or angle grinder. I used up three whetstones on my one CS machete before I gave in and gave it to a buddy to grind at his shop . by that time, I'd barely removed .5mm. At least the blade seems to be hardened properly, I guess...
And if you want another "all-purpose" knife, just stick with mora. the only large-scale manufacturers I'm aware of that (barely) surpass mora, are ones like Eickhorn, where a single knife will cost you around 200€. For that money, I'd rather buy 20 moras and be set for life. Or go custom.
>>1792928>cold steelWhy do people still fall for this meme?
so far, every single one I've seen had terrible quality and workmanship. From bad fitting, over edges not being ground all the way (my gladius machete had a whole 1.5mm of thickness left, all over one "edge") all the way to grips not being deburred to the point where just grabbing the knife (secret edge, in that case) cut up a guys hand.
Unless you have the tools and skills to make a knife from scratch, whether something bought from cold steel will be usable is up to luck. And if you do, think seriously about whether saving a few hours of work is worth their prices.
