5 knives you regret purchasing

Gerber Paraframe: it's trash.

The Swith and Wesson Extreme Ops made in China folding piece of junk. I'm going to intentionally break that knife by using it as a pry bar the next chance I get. Blade does not get sharp and horrible blade play.

Kershaw Leek: Only after I bought this knife I realized that

1. I'm a lefty, and this does not have a reversible clip; that's a no go.
2. I don't like gentlemen's knives, I like rugged knives
3. I like knives with bigger blades and handles
4. The torsion bar broke after two weeks, and I don't want a knife that has a part that may quickly break and need to be replaced, regardless of how good the customer service is. I want a knife that will last a long time before I need to repair it somehow (aside from sharpening it).



Buck Vantage Pro. . . kind of . . . I love it, but I hate the very noticeable blade play. I guess I should have waited until they fixed the problem after the first few batches, otherwise this would be my favorite knife I own. Everything else about this knife is perfect, but damn that blade play.
 
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1)Kershaw chive. Costed me quite at a local store. I really hate Ao as it stabbed me a couple times. Second it rusted like an iron nail. Havent got a kershaw since. They might make nice knives, but too much ao which is just an unsafe gimmick in my books

2) Stainless delica half serraed. I just don't like serrations but I wanted to try em. Gave the knife away--nothing wrong with it, just not for me.

3) Spyderco caly 3--great knife, mine just had blade play. Gave it away

4) Busse Batac. Really love the knife, my brother helped me buy it too. I just regret that it isnt very useful. I love how busse look but I find they are just collector pieces, not real users. I know I could sell it but it is somewhat special to me=P

Love the rest of my knives. Don't use them all but I find they would be useful if i wanted to use them.
 
The Benchmade CQC-7 - which I'll never sell. The coated blade lost most of the stuff sawing through a shipping tube, the tanto profile doesn't allow easy box cutting, the chisel edge steers to one side, and is difficult to sharpen to the tip. The G10 scales are square edged, the thumb ramp notching rapacious, leaving you to slowly guide your hand past the clipped knife to keep your skin. Emerson fixed all that when he took it back.

Gerber Multipliers - heavy, poor tool design, broke them working on camo netting clips, and too soft to cut wire. SOG was even worse, the tool head kept flipping sideways in work.

Buck's FRN Tarani joke - it may be a SnG in profile, but it's all wrong in action. The cheesy checkering literally saws through jeans, the liner lock is too short and thin to guarantee lockup, the hollow grind makes the edge weak, the stippled upper blade hangs up cutting in cardboard and is a weak method of deployment, it also looks too ninja in public. 420, even treated by Bos, is a value engineered choice for a retail at $60, and reinforces the idea you got screwed. Fit and finish is none existant, all the punched parts haven't even been dressed, the FRN scales show mold marks, and it's not really a framelock - which Buck did do with the Mayo TNT.

CRKT Lightfoot M1 - fat, heavy, and a weird blade tip. Not that good in cutting, and the blade ratio just looks wrong, although it's ok side by side with some other knife.

Chinese Lightfoot automatic copy - it looks Lightfoot, it's already broken. I estimate less than 150 snaps. You get what you pay for, a flea market find for $25. The blade grind was atrocious, cut soft and dulled quickly. Nice bolster fired gimmick. Maybe I can JB weld it.
 
Only one. SOG Flash II.

It looked so good on paper, it was probably the sharpest knife out of the box I've ever had, but the first time I held it, I said "oops."

Mine doesn't have a lot of the blade play that people complain about, but mine was an early run (the blade is stamped pat. pending). But the handle feels cheap and unbalanced, the action was gritty and slow right out of the box, so I took it apart to clean it up and discovered a torn washer that SOG said they'd replace, but never did.

The Flash II has one of the best blade shapes I've ever seen, but it's set so far back of the handle that the tip is nearly useless.

And then there's the pocket clip. Again, mine is an older model, so the clip may have changed... but the Flash II and a lot of SOG knives that I've seen have the worst designed and placed pocket clip in the industry. And it saddens me that a lot of companies are starting to follow their lead.

The Flash II was my first experience with a "low rider" clip about five years ago, and it made me realize how horrible they are; which is why I now say that a low ride clip is a deal breaker. I will never own a knife with a low ride clip unless there's space to drill and tap for a regular clip somewhere on the handle.

That knife taught me a few lessons. Aside from learning that I hate low ride clips, I learned that assisted openers aren't my cup o' tea, and most importantly I haven't bought a knife since that I haven't handled first.

It's sad that with a few tweaks it could be a pretty nice knife.
 
The CRKT Stubby folding Razel. I wanted one since I saw it on the cover of their mini catalog, thick blade with ram horn scales on a frame lock. I looked on ebay and no one had any so I bought the only one this dealer had for $50, now they are all over ebay for buy it now price of $23 and free shipping. I have since learned to wait and see. Not to mention they moved a lot of their production to China from Taiwan :confused: and don't even mark their China blades except on the box.
 
I don't have any knives I regret purchasing. With each knife, either I:
Learned something about the steel
Learned something about knife designs
Got a knife that spends time in my pocket.

It's all good.
 
ZT300- cool but just too heavy
Lone Wolf T1 Harsey - got the Beretta Harsey which is much better
Benchmade Griptilian- good but got the Ritter version later (Sweet!)
Buck 882- never loosened up
 
1. Cold steel night force
2. CRKT M16
3. Bear SOS Knife
4. All my old gerbers
5. BM 426 Hybrid (only produced for one year for a reason)
 
Worst knives.

1. Kershaw Leek, flimsy, minor changes would have improved it's performance.
2. Gerber multi-tool.
3. some old Spyderco POS about 13 years ago, cheap lock broke with normal use.
 
Gerber multi tool, should have bought a Leatherman.

Gerber AR3.00. I could have done so much better with a Byrd or chinese spyderco, for example. That things was my EDC for a few years before I became enlightened
 
Cold steel Kudu
Tramontina Amazonas
number of cheap chinese copies...

gave all these away.
 
Timberline Envoy- it was the first AO I ever saw, so I had to have it. Wish I had the $ back.
Timberline Worden- bought it to use as a beater, but it's not even a good beater
Timberline Kickstart- What was I thinking!?! Cool design - crappy knife. I plan to use it as a beater ( and beat the he!! out of it)
Wenger Skate - At least it was cheap. I keep it at work for a loaner.
Kershaw Leek - great knife!! Too small for my hands to grasp. I think I traded it.
 
Gerber Guardian. Awesome design, or so I thought, when I bought it. Nice little lightweight self defense knife that I could use for CCW. It was the first I paid 40 dollars for a 440A 3 inch blade... what a joke. The tip broke off without ever really using it, the edge dulled rapidly even after meticulous maintenance, and the finish RUSTED-the finish, not the steel.
Gerber Fast Draw-that lock is a bigger pain in the ass than it is useful. The spring wore out after a week of normal carry use so it turned into a loose button lock manual with an annoying safety. Now that I think about it all the gerbers i've gone through the two I only really liked was the profile and the prodigy-they hit both those knives on the head as far as design quality and budget. I took the crappy rubber grips off the profile and did a 550 chord wrap, what a nice little budget rough use knife.
 
Ok I can chime in on this now that its gone. There are only three I regret. The first is the SnG while I loved the materials and ergos and the quality control did erck me, mine was fitted pretty good but after a few days everything started loosening. I should have known better on that one, I shouldn't need to retighten everything on a new knife so soon. Next the Spyderco G10 Police I love Spyderco but this one was just too thin in the handle for me. Finally the Grip.....That knife could be so much sweeter with a real handle.
 
hmm, would have to say the gerber para frame.

I would seriously had sooner wiped my ass with that $15 bucks I spent on it.

Other than that though, all the CRKT, Kershaw, spyderco, benchmade, ka-bar, SOG, Grohmann, buck have been fine, they all work for me.

Though the spyderco look nicer.:D
 
Emerson CQC 10, Emerson Somethingorother (I'm sure it was a cool name:rolleyes:) ChinaBuck Mayo framelock thingie, every Gerber since about 2003. Unknown brand impulse buys at gun shows in my younger years.
 
CRKT Hissatsu. A SOB to open!

Busse Game Warden. Everyone raved about them but it just did not work for me.

Most Benchmades I have owned.

A few Queen Slipjoints that were beautiful but SO hard to open they were dangerous. But others I still have are perfect.

All the BRKT knives I owned, I really never warmed up to. Way too expensive for what they are. IMO...




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every liner-lock folder i've ever purchased (about 5 of them) :mad:

best folder purchases: cold steel bushman, mercator k55k, douk-douk, 3 swiss army knives

i've had no regrets on any of my fixed blade purchases :)
 
Here are a few for me. All of them obtained when I was trying to get a feel of what I would/(would not) like.

1) Composite Kershaw Leek - Just felt really flimsy in my hand. Sort of like a toy. *chink* Also sounded like one as well. Doesn't help that the AO didn't always engage the blade into the locked position.

2) Benchmade full sized grips - Gave more than one a shot. Got rid of them quick. The hollow-ish zytel handle was just too much for me to overcome. I feel they would only be decent with aftermarket handles. At that point, you might as well have started with a different axis from BM.

3) SOG Trident tf-1- Vertical blade, handles were just slightly better than the grips. Hollow handle & strong kick back from AO = terrible feel

The three I mentioned weren't terrible knives. I just don't think they offered enough for the price they are available at.
 
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