Thanks for the replies to all of you! I am rather new to knives. One day I was passing this retail shop, see some good looking blades and I am suddenly into 'em. I have quite a few bowies and tactical folders right now. I am looking for the Cold Steel Ex Large Voyager, which is sold way cheaper from the said e-tailer than in local shops.☺
Right now I am just looking for a folder that is of good quality. So if you got any recommendations, do tell me!��
Everybody seems to start with Cold Steel. It's testament to their marketing efforts and OOTB edges. I swear everyone has seen their videos or parts thereof.
I would say keep an open mind about what you want/like/want to collect. Many view knives as a 'weapon' or 'tool' for men who wage wars and stray towards the 'tactical' look. But in all honesty, knives are used mostly as a tool - in the kitchen, in the field (think harvesting, farms, gardens, fishing, camping, orchards, cabins, bushcraft, living off the land etc), in workshops (think carpentry, carving, electrician, sculpting etc), hunting (think native, skinning, butchery, field dressing etc) and much much more.
There are slippies like SAKs that are so much more useful and fun to collect than the latest hunk of black-coated steel with nylon, FRN, G10, kraton etc handles. Designed to deanimate sentries
I think urban tool haus (a local SG e-tailer) carries some CS stuff...or at least I recall seeing. Generally quite a bit of stuff is cheaper to buy on-line, although the increase in the USD:SGD rate has diminished it somewhat. There's also been an increase in the USPS shipping rates.
I don't know much about CS knives, don't have any, although I used to own a fixed blade from them, which I gifted to a native guide - of course, he was completely chuffed about getting it...especially when he saw how I could tactically defoliate my leg hair with ease
Being the knifeknut that I was (this was in another lifetime when I was a greenknifeknut), I asked if he wanted to shave with the knife - and without any reservation, he promptly brought me down to reality with his "no, I have a gillette" answer