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Grayman: looks like a high school shop project, comes dull, but you can use it as a prybar

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Grayman: looks like a high school shop project, comes dull, but you can use it as a prybar

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Grayman: looks like a high school shop project, comes dull, but you can use it as a prybar

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Hogue knives look like beasts ( .25" thick stock).

Hogue at Blade HQ

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I have my share of "thick" full tang knives, but I'm not convinced they're necessary.  I've gone as thin as 3/32", full flat grind; my preference is between 1/8" and 3/16" inch.  For wider blades that are full tang, these are plenty strong for everything but use as a pry bar.  I'm an advocate of battening through wood with a knife, but even thin blades can effectively perform this task if you take thinner outer sections of larger wood and "shave" it down to a manageable size.

Thinner knives are just far more efficient cutters; much easier to skin and clean game/fish or other useful camp chores.  

As an avid backpacker, thick knives simply suck for their weight penalty, and I've never really needed those 1/4" or 5/16" slabs of sharpened steel through a few combat tours.  They offer mental comfort, but I think it's unnecessary overkill for 99.9% of your cutting needs.  YouTube videos are harder on knives than real-world use...YMMV.

ROCK6

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All the ones I have are razor sharp right out of the box! Yes you can use as pry bar also.
  In the past they came with a "toothy" edge which was awesome for cutting rope etc. but too many people wanted a fancy almost mirror edge.  That's what all mine have. Except my older suenami. That one has the toothy edge. Still razor sharp.
  You don't buy a 1/4" thick ass knife for cutting tomatoes for your club sandwich.  You buy it for camping hunting survival self defense etc etc. which is what they are designed for.

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Everyone's got their preferences on brand of knife for whatever their personal reasons are.

But if I'm going to drop good $ on a "hard use knife," I'm going with something the busse crew put out.  I've got various knives from them and they've all been incredibly well performing knives.  I chopped through frigging dry juniper across the grain with a Rodent 6 and the thing will still shave paper.

Between their edge retention, their "please treat this knife like shit and try to break it" warranty (that I've seen them back up in cases any other knife maker I've ever seen would say "you didn't use that knife within normal usage and as such we won't warranty it"), and the fit/finish/function quotient.....

Yeah.  I sort of hate their business model, but it is what it is.  It's royally pissed me off in the past, but their knives speak for themselves.  If you want pretty, they can do pretty.  But bring the $.