# Do you have experience with knives?

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**Created:** [August 9, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-have-experience-with-knives/158370 "2005-08-09T11:38:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![upuaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9fc348/32.png) [@upuaut](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/upuaut)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-have-experience-with-knives/158370/1 "2005-08-09T11:38:33Z")

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I’m looking for a gift for a friend of mine. He fancies himself a masson in the making, and I was thinking about a nice looking, FUNCTIONAL, ritual blade.

I’ve been looking at [www.by-the-sword.com](http://www.by-the-sword.com) and find some nice looking blades. The important thing to me though is if my friend is out camping and needs to cut a side of meat off a cooking spit, that the blade will serve this function. I dont want a mock blade, but a real one. I want him to be able to welt the blade, and not lose so much metal over time that the blade is usless within a few sharpenings. Obviously I want it to be able to hold it’s edge well.

… and I want it for a decent price. 100 - 150 max.

so… if anyone has experience buying blades, and could give me a heads up on what to look for and what to avoid, I’d appreciate it.