Biggest Diappointment of 2017?

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Two disappointments.

1) ZT's 2017 nonsense designs.
I bought 4 ZT's in 2016, and I still own/carry/use every single one. I was expecting great things that built on their success and instead I got kitschy designs with little real-world application. Whether it be "limited edition g-10", nonsensical grinds, colored titanium, or a flipper-tab-on-a-spring, it was a lackluster follow-up to one of the best years a knife company has had in recent memory. I pray that ZT rights the design ship in 2018. Lord knows they'll get a lot more money from me if they take note and cut that bullsh*t out of their lineup in the coming year.

2) Benchmade staying the course
Benchmade needed to correct their quality control, and they failed to do so. Both knives I pre=ordered from them needed to be corrected and/or tweaked after delivery. They let me down with the 490 Amicus in 2016, and I should have learned my lesson. Fool me twice, I suppose. I personally saw no improvement in the one area (QC) that almost everyone dinged them on in 2016. It is such an easily correctable issue that they continue to ignore, they have lost a lot of cache with me. This coming from a person who has a 477-1 as one of my main EDCs. I want to love BM, I want them to get back on track. I'm rooting for them. Benchmade is making it increasingly difficult, and I won't continue to drop $200+ per knife with a company that continues to ignore one of the most fundamental aspects of a high-end knife company.
 
Cold Steel SR1 ; I received one last week, the pocket clip was so tight it was impossible to put in a pocket. I removed it to bend it out. apon putting the screws back in, they stripped. I posted this on the cs forums section here and found 5 other members with the same problem.There was also a guy selling one on the exchange cause 1 screw was stripped, and the head broke off the other. the screws are so thin and finely threaded, they get stuck even if you put them back in by hand. Why would this big tank of a knife have the thinnest softest thread screws ?Its like putting bald tires on a monster truck. I sent it to CS and its been a week of waiting to hopefully get another. Very disappointed in this one right now.
 
FullMetalJackass said:
Lots of disappointing stuff so far:

- Prices hiking up
- Nothing really interesting is coming out from Benchmade and Spyderco this year IMO
- Strider shutting down (?) operations - sorry it that offends some, but I do like the knives, no matter how rotten the Burger is
- Real Les George knives becoming incredibly hard and pricey to get
- Chaves being eerily quiet (come on Ramon, stop counting the money and make us some good stuff!)
- My favorite Canadian maker talking about retirement when I have a to do list THAT long
- The craze about “the shorter the better”, well no I like my blades to be at least 3.25"
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Can I ask who you are referring too? "My favorite Canadian maker talking about retirement when I have a to do list THAT long"

,,,Mike in Canada
 
My biggest disappointment so far is that my knife budget ran dry by the time I figured out what I really like! Also that I've covered a ZT0562 but keep seeing issues like weak detents, which just kills it if it won't flip with authority!
 
Zt 0850 was. Great action but everything else was disappointing

Also the Kershaw Natrix.
 
unwisefool said:
They should combine heavy syrup and light juices and make a medium option for fruit cups. I'm a genius.
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...or...package all canned fruit in sangria and skip the high fructose corn syrup.

I guess my two biggest disappointments are tied neck and neck. Both have already been mentioned:

1. The willful attempt (and success) on the part of a knife manufacturer to stifle critical commentary on their product. This bodes ominously for open discussion going forward.
2. The PM3. How could a knife with such a great pedigree end up so...wrong. I think most of us waited anxiously for this knife only to get it in hand and resoundingly say "meh". It's like a Brazilian underwear model gave birth to a squid.
 
r8shell said:
Photobucket.
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I feel your pain!

For me there are precious little that excited my curiosity this year (or the last year for that matter) thus far. Apart from a few makers like Munroe or Rogers everyone else is chucking out similar boring designs of the yesteryear and hoping to rip the big $ this state of affairs is even worse on the manufacturers scene.
 
- The fact that Cold STeel discontinued some of their best (IMO) folders: the Hold Out and the Talwar series
- Spyderco's MAP
- Leatherman's releases and new products this year
- Photobucket's miserable decision
 
On the other hand of my previous statement, Spyderco is on the exact opposite end of the spectrum of disappointment. I don't think I've ever seen Spyderco crank out so many homerun knives in such a short amount of time. They ain't kidding about the CQI nowadays either!
 
2017 has been pretty good personally. My gripes are really minor stuff:

"Why are all these titanium framelocks that I wouldn't buy anyway so damn expensive?"
"Why can't buy a secondhand Elmax PM2 without someone trying to gouge me?"

Give me another 5 months. ;)
 
Wowbagger said:
Generally (my timing may be a touch off) I would have to say I was quite disapointed when the Spyderco Para 2 natural G10 / M4 sold out before I got one into my pocket.
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They're worth buying on the forums. I had gotten over the PM2 but M4 and jade really does it for me.
 
Just about everything in life.. I did manage to get a Hinderer I finally like and another cqc-15 so I have that going for me..

Oh and the whole Strider closing shop/prices going up bullshit, etc.
 
Knives: thta CS still has not reissued the mini-bushman. Dang dang dang

I am also bummed that Kabar and SOG have not teamed up to make a team leader with SOG design and Kabar steel.

I wish aerosol cheese spread was better for you.
 
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