Biggest Pile Of Scrap You Ever Bought.

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The biggest, most worthless, useless as tits on a boar, hardest to sharpen, no edge retaining, handle breaking, saw teeth sporting knife I ever bought was a black, compass on handle, saw teeth on back, hollow plastic handle knife. Jeeze that was a piece of sh!t. The sheath was a vinyl, leather hybrid material with a supposed sharpening flint. What was the worst knife investment you guys ever made?

The above comes close to Schrade fixed blade I bought one time that had a hammer/claw on the pommel. Looked good in the magazine though............. oooooh I am going into the woods today and whilst I'm at it I might do a little finished carpentry while i'm there :D
 
I would say a few cheap Frost folders I bought for sharpening practice and some S&W knives before I knew better.
 
I bought a bundle of 12 assorted culled kitchen knives from SMKW--there were some real dogs in it. I also bought the Ginsu 2000 set at a yard sale for $2--I overpaid!

The worst folder was probably a Frost of some sort.
 
Knockoff flea market Leatherman probably wasn't as bad as the knockoff SAK I owned as a kid. At least the fake Leatherman had pliers that kinda worked. The fake SAK wasn't actually useful for anything beyond spreading Peanut butter.

In the bicycle world Big Box store bikes are called BLO's (Bicycle like objects). The look like a bicycle but don't function like one should. They pretty much blow!

KLO's (Knife like objects) anybody?
 
I hate most products that Herbertz sells under their own name.
You never heard about Herbertz? Then you must be American (or perhaps British) as they are everywhere in European shops since it's one of the biggest European distributors. They don't make their own knives and I think that nearly all their Herbertz-branded products are made in China. Unfortunately not China as in "The Spyderco Tenacious is made in China". Especially their folders are ugly and lacklustre.
I have one of them and I will throw or give it away pretty soon.
 
Some El-cheapo Leatherman copy is strong candidate with poor and dangerous noname chinese balisong I bought from I don't rememberwhere and mTech MT-304 ( its linerlock was dangerously poorly made. Those are my three worse knife ever.
 
I bought a cheap auto at a fleamarket a few years ago. After about a month, the blade wouldn't close all the way and the point would stab me in the leg in my pocket
 
Cheap mutitools piss me off more than cheap knives. Some of the gas station $2.00 SAK ripoffs have got to be the POS's of all time.
 
To be honest my first knife I bought, a Schrade Uncle Henry lockback about 25 years ago, is a very good knife. Fast forward 15 years when I became a knife nut and I have been happy with every blade I have bought. I research and only buy what I like. Money is too hard to make to waste it on things like crap knives, guns etc.
 
I got my mom to help me mail order some knives advertised in a comic book ad... 2 for $1.98, shipping included (oh yeah, this was about 40 years ago). They looked cool in the ad. They came, they were little POSs about 2.5" OAL. I may still have them some where...

On a better note about the same time frame, I picked up a Mora fixed blade for $1.50, I still have it. Good knife with a laminated blade.

Ric
 
That survival knife they advertised on the TV years ago...the one with the fishing line in the handle...that I bought second hand when it was really, really blunt and useless form a junk shop as a kid. Found it easier to make my own! LOL! Although one or two of the ones I made to begin with have been a close second and third.
 
I had the RAMBO knife when I was a kid. I tried to use the wire saw once, and it snapped before I even started sawing.
 
A blister pack from Menards quite a few years ago with Winchester branded products. IIRC it was a folder, a big multi tool and a small multi tool. I don't remember exactly, though, because they fell apart while ago.
 
The Government said:
I had the RAMBO knife when I was a kid. I tried to use the wire saw once, and it snapped before I even started sawing.
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Same to me - the cable saw in the handle was laughable in its uselessness. Still, I have to say I loved my rambo knife as a kid. When I got that I thought I was as badass as Rambo himself. I don't remember whatever happened to mine. I kind of wish I still had it for sentimental sake.

I once bought, pre-knife nut but as an adult, a spyderco delica knock off for $5.00. As I was buying it the clerk told me 'you know that is a piece of junk knock off of a real delica and he showed me the delica which was $58 dollars. 'I'll just take the $5 knock off' I said. I broke it within a day of having it. Not cutting anything, just trying to open and close it and figure out its lock. It fell apart as I was jiggling the blade to test the lock strength.

Needless to say, a week later and I went back to the same store and bought the real deal spyderco. Compared to all my past experiences with blades, I found out that VG10 was truly some magical stuff and what sharpness out of the box really meant. I didn't fully convert to a knife nut yet at that point, but I think the juxtaposition of a super crappy knife followed up by the excellent original the crappy one was copying did a good job of instilling the value of great cutlery.
 
SOG Flash II. Looked good on paper, but I got it home and regretted it immediately. Nothing about that knife has a quality feel to it. Cheap handle, blade play, terrible pocket clip, and a very sharp, hard to manipulate lock release.

It did come extremely sharp out of the box, but that's about all it had going for it. I haven't wasted my time with SOG since.
 
Rambo III bowie; impossible to put any kind of edge on,& im sure it would dull pretty quick anyway. i bought it when it first came out.
 
CRK&T ZillaTool. It would have been okay if the liner lock on the blade didn't have to be manually moved into position to lock... On the plus side, I only paid like $10 for it at a going-out-of-business clearance sale, and the pliers are nice. But as a knife, it failed miserably.
 
Mine is a Klein Tool 110 knockoff...bought it in the late 80's. At the time I was pretty put off that it was made in Japan, being most if not all Klein tools were USA made at the time. Plus it cost more than a real deal Buck 110. It was/is hard to sharpen and won't hold an edge woth a damn, not to mention it has the worst blade play, in every possile direction, that I've ever encountered. I still keep it as a reminder of what I don't want in a knife.

Dave
 
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