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Will be using it when I go to do outdoor activities, so cutting wood, food etc.

The an assisted knife is not what you are looking for. Plain as that. The springs add yet another point of failure both in terms of locking, and in terms of something to break when you use the knife hard, and something to clean when you inevitably drop it into the dirt. If you don't know what I am talking about, buy a cheapish Kershaw Leek (great everyday knife), and take it apart, then put it back together in working order. Hint: read instructions online, because if you don't the little torsion spring will never be found again.

Here is suggestion number 1: use a fixed blade knife for outdoor activities. They are orders of magnitude stronger, and much easier to clean.

Suggestion number 2: if you MUST use a folding knife, use a large knife with wash-through construction (meaning separators for handle scales must be posts), which automatically excludes ALL back-lock knives from the discussion. Really, variants of the axis lock and liner lock are the only things you should be using... and the axis lock knives are expensive and easier to damage the lock.

Suggestion number 3: the best outdoor folding knife is something cheap, replaceable, rust-resistant and easy to sharpen. I'll recommend the Spyderco Tenacious or Resilience depending on how large you want it. If you insist on spending a lot of money, a Benchmade Rukus or Mini-Rukus is good. If you will use the knife in a salt water environment, the Spyderco Salt models are great, as they pretty much don't rust at all, but the backlocks are hard to clean, and the H1 steel has peculiar properties.

I can recommend some small-ish fixed blade knives for much less than you are prepared to spend, which will work much better for outdoor activities than any assisted knife.

That being said, the large Kershaw assisted knives will do the job... they are reasonably priced (under $60, and the C18N28 is a decent steel, but trust me - you will regret your decision.

In summary, a $10 Mora will be "better" for outdoor activities than a $1500 assisted Ken Onion knife. Personally, I use a small-frame custom fixed blade from John Landi. It's a 3.9" drop point high-hardness carbon-steel knife with a canvas micarta handle, and a Kydex sheath with multiple drain holes. Despite not being stainless, it has never rusted on me. I simply clean it after every trip, spray some Pam on it (canola cooking oil) and wipe the oil off with a paper towel. I had the blade profiled to a gentle full flat grind, and the edge is profiled at a 20-degree angle for strength. It's sharp enough to shave, easy to sharpen, and can be used to split a log if need be (batoning is for those who lack the foresight to bring a hatchet though). I've owned it for 3 years now, and it's been with me through maybe three dozen trips, and never failed. I paid something like $150 for it including the custom sheath.

For pre-made stuff, I really like the Rat cutlery RC-3 and RC-4 knives. They are small enough to be unobtrusive, but strong and robust.

P.S. Don't even think of getting serrated edges for anything, and even worse - combination serrated/plain (like the knives in the photos above) - they are truly and utterly useless. Carry a Leatherman with a small saw and a dedicated serrated blade for hard rope cutting. If you do outdoor stuff, you should be carrying a multitool with pliers anyway.