Remember when a good dive knife was just a sharp hunk of steel?

Honestly, I dropped about $350 on one of those new titanium knives with the fancy quick-release sheath a few years back. Ngl, the thing snapped clean off at the tang when I was just prying some old growth off a piling in Galveston. Anyone else find the old simple tools just held up better?

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lucashart7d ago

Titanium's brittle for prying (it's great for not rusting, though). Sometimes the right tool is just a chunk of softer steel that bends instead of breaks.

nancygrant7d ago

Yeah, that's so true. I tried using a fancy titanium bar once for some light prying on a project, and it just snapped clean. Felt like a total waste. @lucashart is right, you want that softer steel that gives you a warning by bending. I keep an old, beat up steel crowbar in my truck just for that. It's ugly but it never lets me down.

hunt.quinn7d ago

Titanium isn't really brittle, it's just got no give. That's why it snaps without bending first.