MOD Survival Knife

[Will_]

J Adams http://www.sheffieldknives.co.uk/acatalog/2-88.html
Is 50-55 pounds a good price for a new knife?

I'd say so. Heinnie also sell them: http://www.heinnie.com/search.asp?strKeywords=nowill+survival&submit= 
http://www.heinnie.com/Survival-Knife/p-0-0-1159/
The John Nowill knives often don't come with a very good edge though. There's lots of great advice on this forum about sharpening them up though.
Well worth the money in my opinion.
They're the real deal. I think webtex does/did an imitation of the MOD survival knife too, but not as thick, and not nearly as good quality.

 

[Laurentius]

I'm sure a toothpick, crappy scissors and a thin 3" slipjoint blade will be much more useful than a solid knife that can chop and carve when bailing out over who-knows-where...

That may be so, but you will be hard put to better the saw on an SAK farmer, it will certainly do things a bigger knife cannot without a lot of effort.

 

[Skull66]

I have one that was issued to me in '93, it served me well in PNG, Cambodia and a few other places I can't mention, it is a JA issue knife and I have absolutely no complaints. I made a leather sheath from harness leather I cadged off the Safety Equipos and dumped the crap one it came with. When I work out how I will post an image of both.