Saw recommendations

[u/big_dick_chaddydaddy]

Im looking to start a new bushcraft project soon and am after a better bushcraft saw. I currently own a Gerber freescape which is good but struggles at cutting larger bits of wood, I’m also after something a little cheaper somewhere in the $50 range or preferably lower?

My local hardware store has this Fiskars one for pretty cheap.

[u/Alarmed-Strawberry-7]

Fiskars is fine, Silky is the gold standard around here but pricy.

If you want a budget pick, may I recommend Samurai saws? Another really good pick is Corona, perhaps even better than Samurai depending on what the prices are like in your area. I'd just get whichever one of these two is cheaper if I was in your situation. Both of these are better than Fiskars, in my opinion.

[u/big_dick_chaddydaddy → u/Alarmed-Strawberry-7]

Thanks heaps

[u/CockroachJohnson → u/big_dick_chaddydaddy]

Friskers can definitely hold their own, but my advice is to get the most expensive Silky. I like to save up for things, even if I have enough in the bank, so if I were you, looking at silky saws for $50, I'd just touch it out with my Fiskars $12 bow say for a couple more weeks, and put the money away to have a $100 budget for a silky. And going from $50 to $100 dollars when buying a silky takes you from a 5" blade on the pocket boy to a 14" blade on the Big Boy, and that thing just fucking eats through wood. So if you can get $50 together for a saw, you can probably hold off and put another 50 away and get something that's really going to work for you.

[u/walter-hoch-zwei → u/big_dick_chaddydaddy]

Bahco is also a very solid choice. Cheaper than silky, but also very tough.