What are the best knives with non-metal blades?
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What are the best knives with non-metal blades?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “non metal knife“
About Quinn
I have a bunch of them and they’re all pretty much novelty junk.
Yes, I have a set of those white ceramic bladed kitchen knives. They’re fine for me but within a month “others” in my house had chipped the edges or snapped off the tips. I stubbornly used the largest one (chipped) but they finally get dull. Then you’re screwed. Even my diamond sharpening plates are darn near worthless on those things.
I also have several of the “magic” plastic knives. I had a box full of “CIA daggers” for back in the day when they first started getting all pissy about knives on airplanes. I have a Blackie Collins plastic switchblade with a non-detectible beryllium spring — non-detectible until they came out with those full-body scanners. (bastards) I find the “Grivory” blades all just showpieces and cannot remember ever carrying one, except for the Cold Steel Delta Dart, which I have worn as a backup neck knife on a couple of occasions.
All junk.
Then I discovered the El Salvadorean knife company, Condor, and their Arkansas Hog Spear blade. It’s a piece of high strength steel tubing, cut on a very long bias. Tough enough to be mounted on a shaft and fatally wounding a wild boar, while the hunter stays on horseback. Lord, what a weapon.
As a guy who knew why tubular shapes can be so strong and simultaneously working on super-hard, super-strong carbon fiber tubes, one day I grabbed a 1-inch (25mm) CF tube and cut it to look like the steel one in the photo.
Woo-hoo was it stiff and strong. Kept it on my desk for years, holding a plastic floral arrangement (a C-cell battery fits perfectly in the base of the “handle” to counterbalance the weight of the blade tip and flowers.)
It was always fun to watch a visitor fiddle with some of the crazy crap on my desk, get to the CF hog spear, pick it up, realize what it was, and either make noises of incredulity or quickly return it to its place.
So far, this is the only non-metallic “blade” that is worth trusting to do any job, in my opinion.
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The only thing even comprable would be a ceramic bladed knife.
There are definitely pros and cons, but I’m not going to go into all that since you didn’t ask that question.
***** If you ask this question because you want to take it on an airplane, I highly suggest you don’t. Your anonymity here might be a clue as well. You wouldn’t be the first person who’s thought of this. They have high-tech equipment to detect these types of knives, and you will be looking through metal bars before you can say “WTF”, !
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For sharp cuts I’d say glass, obsidian. Both are brittle though. Other rocks perhaps.
Non metal folding? I’d imagine some plastic number but as the other responder indicated don’t expect them to last.
Maybe bone would work. Antlers maybe.
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Cold Steel makes a number of full-size non-metallic knives, the FGX series. Search results for: ‘Fgx’ I have several and though I have not done any serious testing with them, they seem to be very functional as far as “plastic” knives go. They are made of what Cold Steel calls Griv-ex or Grivory, a fiber reinforced, hard nylon type material, similar to but supposedly stronger than Zytel.
Edit:I didn’t think to mention ceramic knives. Kyocera is probably the best known producer of ceramic knives. This link gives some good info on ceramic knives. Ceramic knives
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