A Little Rant (Or Some Likes And dislikes)

Crag the Brewer said:
What do Makers do at shows?
With my group/circles of friends, when I hand them a knife I Warn them that it's sharp... They inevitably cut themselves, and look at my like I'm evil, because it was So Sharp....(too sharp?)


One of my goals, is to someday go to a show....
I just assume all those knives are dull? For liability reasons?
Idk
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Good point brother. I’d say have them fairly sharp? Look if your friends and colleagues take a knife from you and you warn them that it’s sharp that’s their fault. LOL same thing has happened to me too. Told a kid at work my knife was sharp as fuck and no more than got the words out of my mouth and he cut himself. 🙄
 
Brian_in_indiana said:
It's funny you mention that, I finally replaced the 110 that was stolen 30 years ago, spiffed up the edge with my 1000 grit ceramic... And promptly cut myself three hours later with it... Knife kisses.... So I am that kid you work with Terry M. Terry M. ..... Derp


https://imgur.com/a/cBxKfld
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Sorry that happened. Sometimes love bites. I think Def Leppard once said that
 
Brian_in_indiana said:
It's how you know your knife loves you as much as you love it, gives you kisses the first day you bring it home. Like a puppy ..... With hair shaving teeth.....
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I have a ZT0620 that bit me damn good during a bit of foolishness on my part, and I will never sell that one! Note how close it is to the vein! I bled like a stuck pig, but if I would have found the vein it would have been a trip to the ER!
 

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norcalAF said:
I have a ZT0620 that bit me damn good during a bit of foolishness on my part, and I will never sell that one! Note how close it is to the vein! I bled like a stuck pig, but if I would have found the vein it would have been a trip to the ER!
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Yeah, you seriously dodged a bullet on that one..... Got a cool scar to impress the ladies now 😉.
Doing dumb things with sharp knives.... I don't recommend it... I just super glued my daily buck foolishness.....don't try to thumb flip a standard 110... It'll bite your pinky finger ..... Trust me....
 
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Terry M. said:
Good point brother. I’d say have them fairly sharp? Look if your friends and colleagues take a knife from you and you warn them that it’s sharp that’s their fault. LOL same thing has happened to me too. Told a kid at work my knife was sharp as fuck and no more than got the words out of my mouth and he cut himself. 🙄
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If anyone over the age of 13 needs to be told a knife is sharp ... I say it's natural selection ... let nature takes it's course.
 
Worked twenty years in metal fabrication and it’s those pesky box cutters that get me every time! Every other piece of industrial machinery is a pussycat by comparison. Usually happens when I’m tired, rushing to finish up someone’s home project on a lunch break or after hours. So dumb.

My preferences these days are for slipjoints. No belt clips. No lanyards. Prefer natural cover materials. Prefer sheepfoot blades.
 
ebidis said:
I have many knives. None of these issues are deal killers, just preferences.

And who are you calling old? I'm just middle aged. Well, on the far end of middle aged, but I guess I'm still cranky. 😂
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I am old, and act even older as I grew up with mostly grown friends. I thought my classmates were silly, even in college. I also have a fairly nasty form of arthritis, and "tension tremors" in my hands, so I'm picky about knives in that I want ones I can "draw" and open/close easily with one hand. So far, the PM-2 fills the bill.

Back to the thread, I've loved every Spyderco knife I've bought. That said, I only buy the ones with a prominent "Spydie-hole".

I've become something of a super-steel snob, and we can discuss for days which steels qualify for that title, and that's because I'm damned tired of sharpening knives. I once enjoyed it when I had a lot of slack time at work, but my "hand" in sharpening on a whetstone or diamond sharpener now varies so much in angle that I went to a Tri-Angle sharpener. There are better sharpeners, I imagine, but I'm a boarder and have no good place to put one.

I like finger choils, they don't snag on things if you fill the choil with your finger. I was the cook in our home until I started working such ridiculous hours that my wife took over - but that was 15-20 years after we married. When using a chef's knife I preferred a large one and I almost always "choked up" on the knife as much as possible with my forefinger on top of the blade, so choils work great for me. What's worse is that I learned to cook with what's commonly called a Chinese cleaver (it isn't, it's a proper vegetable knife), and I could seed a bell pepper or do even finer kitchen work with one.

Due to hand problems I can't reliably used a thumb stud, but flippers and compression locks are great - but I much prefer the latter.

Liner locks don't feel secure to me. Most are brass, and I've worked enough with sheet metal to know that brass has a mind of its own, work-hardens easily, and is prone to small parts made from it snapping without warning.

I should close by saying that I'm just a knife user (thanks/no thanks Amazon), and not a collector or enthusiast.
 
NWFRS said:
Worked twenty years in metal fabrication and it’s those pesky box cutters that get me every time! Every other piece of industrial machinery is a pussycat by comparison. Usually happens when I’m tired, rushing to finish up someone’s home project on a lunch break or after hours. So dumb.

My preferences these days are for slipjoints. No belt clips. No lanyards. Prefer natural cover materials. Prefer sheepfoot blades.
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When I was a teen working in a grocery store, I had one of those hit a weak place in the box unexpectedly and zip through it to embed in my kneecap. I've been wary of them since - I had to wiggle it along the plane of the blade to get it out (and damn!, that hurt), but with so little blade with such a big handle (it was one of those big gray ones that holds several extra blades in the handle) dangling from it, I didn't want a trip to the ER because I feared that the blade would snap off during the trip and the Doc would have to grind or saw away at my kneecap to get the broken tip of it out. (I've seen them break off in other things, digging the piece out of the kneecap sounded painful).

I was 16 then, and at 71 it still hurts to kneel on it, although I'm sure it healed long ago - but then Mr. Arthur Itis had his way with it. That bastard has a way of finding every old injury and every skeletal weak place in the body. It's nearly crippling in its aggressive forms, which I unfortunately have.

Back to knives, in the past I loved big slipjoints, usually in the "wrangler" pattern and large ones at that. I was a "cross country" surveyor at the time, and doing that it seems that no matter how carefully the rod-man selects the right location for the next tempory benchmark, there's always something the transit can't see through. I've used the big blade much like a machete many, many times to clear a line of sight from transit to BM. It was the perfect knife for me at the time, and since we usually had a little downtime at some point of the day, I could keep mine really sharp.

After seeing friends' results, I bought a Buck large Wrangler. The party chief had encouraged it, but said "it's going to take some days to reshape the edge as this is hard steel" which he did freehand, and he was really good at it. I would have bet my life on that Buck. Nowadays, though, I'm more likely to have it fold up while using and sever a finger.
 
I don't like thumbstuds, G-10, plain Ti, dogs, FRN, wave, tactical, people, shallow clips, tip down only clips, guinea pigs, and axis locks..

Reeeeeeeeeeeee
 
ebidis said:
I don't like back locks.
Don't like serrations.
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ebidis said:
Lockbacks are not necessarily a deal breaker, but they are my least preferred lock.
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Ajack60 said:
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Don’t lie a fully serrated blade
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Spillproof said:
Spydies are ugly.
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Boattale said:
I won't have any of those weird blade shapes
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Quiet said:
- I don't love serrations, because I just don't need them in my cutting uses.
- Backlocks aren't my favorite locking mechanism,
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Shorttime said:
Serrations. No thanks.
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bdmicarta said:
lockbacks (and backlocks if you're trying to make lockbacks sound better)
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ferider said:
- i don’t like recurves .... j
- no serrations ... except the ones Josh made.
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It's ok, fellas...you're safe here with me.

 
ebidis said:
Just some thoughts.

I don't like deep carry pocket clips. They just make it harder to get my knife out, and since I actually use my knives often at work, it's a PITA. And come on people, you're not fooling anyone. If someone sees a clip on your pocket, they know its a knife. I guess I'm lucky, because where I live, no one cares, and carrying a pocket knife is as common as wearing glasses.
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☹️ I thought I convinced everyone I was carrying a Montblanc in my jeans
 
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