Dark Ops Bad Rap

J85909266 said:
I can't really see how they could perform well with quater inch thick blade stock on a damned folder. That's absolutely stupid. I'll never understand this type of knife. ER included. Seriously, what the hell would i use a knife like that for? It's too small to effectively chop anything, and it's too thick to cut well. What's the point?
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But-- But... What if you should suddenly need to cut an oil drum in half, or stab through a car door, or, or baton through an iron pipe? Don't you wanna be _prepared_? DON'T YOU WANNA BE _PREPARED_?!

;)
 
those new designs are amazing! (amazingly Uggly :D )
I don't think they gonna sell one of those knives.
From where did they take that money to maintain the company alive?

At the end, i understand why they copy ER... their design dept is managed by a 10 year old boy..

I can't believe they would produce those new knives... it's probably April Joke !
 
eojk said:
The ad mentions the "award-winning Stratofighters." Anyone know what (if any) awards these knives won?
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An award for the "most idiotic marketing campaign" maybe? Or perhaps the award for "least blood-spray in deanimation activities"? "Mall ninja knife of the year"? So many possibilities...
 
irish1 said:
I have all 2 dark ops folders and 7 MOD knifes and just bought 2 extrema Ratio.
Why is everyone so down on dark Ops .I think the knifes are very well made and would put them upto any tactical knife out there.Plus the owner is a very nice man and will work with you and has great customer service.I can't wait for the fixed blades.
Brian:mad:
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Because they are the epitome of the M4ll N1nj4 knife. Their marketing is directed at thirty-five-year-old armchair commandos who live in their parents' basements and have never been laid, and fifteen-year-old potential Columbine-style schoolyard killers. Because they are badly overpriced. Because no serious military or law enforcement personnel would actually carry the things. Because if you do use one on somebody and wind up being judged by twelve instead of being carried by six, you are going to go to jail.

The knives may be very well made. I don't know; I've never handled one personally. For the prices they charge, I should hope that they are.
 
The Vendetta looks like the offspring of a Spyderco SPOT and MOD Scorpion.

I dislike Dork Ops because they promote the kind of "evil knife" crap that so many of us try to avoid and dissapate.
 
Uhhh, everytime I hear the name come up it makes me sick. It makes me wonder how they're still staying in business? I have never seen anyone holding a dark ops knife, nor have I ever seen one for sale in a store? Oh yeah, I need to take my night vision off because they're invisible, duh........
 
Planterz said:
The Vendetta looks like the offspring of a Spyderco SPOT and MOD Scorpion.
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You know, I had the same thought. Looked like a MOD Scorpion that had been out of work for a while.

Can you imagine using that auto for SD? Just think of the impression it'd make on a jury to have the prosecutor point out the words "Dork Ops Fighting Knives" through the dried body fluids on the blade??? Yeah, THAT'S the kind of thing I want to be judged on. Besides, that auto reminds me of a Khalsa knife I've seen- which if THAT'S where they got their ideas from is sad really. He makes actually GOOD knives.
 
Their marketing is the biggest turnoff for me. It's absolutely ludicrous.

Dork Ops said:
The finish on the blade is Carbon Black Titanium CarboNitride (TiCN) vacuum deposited finish and is designed to shed the micro-fine airborne sand of Middle-eastern deserts.
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hahahahahaha

Dork Ops said:
The choil-notch doubles as both a bottle opener and peacemaker-its’ deployment and use is a great bar fight deterrent in exotic third world locales.
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Oh, my. Sounds great. *snicker* The thing is 13.5 inches long, and has a bottle opener on the guard....

Dork Ops said:
optimized for airborne crews who need a blade strong enough to cut through aluminum, sharp enough to smash through canopies and small enough to fit the body in cramped cockpits
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And we know, of course, that a knife must be sharp to smash through an airplane canopy...
 
Those new designs are truly awful. And I like how they talk about them as if they actually existed in the physical world (and not just a picture on somebody's computer). Oh, wait. That's what they did with their first batch of knives, too. :D
 
eojk said:
The ad mentions the "award-winning Stratofighters." Anyone know what (if any) awards these knives won?
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I am not sure, but I seem to recall that they won the Mall NInja "Knife of the Year" in the Covert Deanimation category.:D
 
maybe cliff could do some tests, defeating commie block armour and measuring blood splatter and similar cool stuff, to see if they really produce less blood splatter, covertly of course..:thumbup:
 
The sorriest part of the whole story is that they probably will sell a lot of these to LEO and military who don't know knives.

That's the real rip-off.

Compare DO's new designs to ER's new models, like the Shrapnel. A world apart ...
 
irish1 said:
I think the knifes are very well made and would put them upto any tactical knife out there.
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I see this line used a lot and it never fails to amuse me.

What does "put them up to" actually mean? Head to head comparo to see which ones work best for posing with at the mall? Opening your mail? Slicing up cardboard in your garage?

How do you quantify this?

C'mon. :jerkit:
 
Esav Benyamin said:
The sorriest part of the whole story is that they probably will sell a lot of these to LEO and military who don't know knives.

That's the real rip-off.

Compare DO's new designs to ER's new models, like the Shrapnel. A world apart ...
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I think the Shrapnel is cool, and I love the fact that the blade isn't cluttered with big idiotic text.
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I think Dork Ops should have just kept stealing ER's designs.
I wonder if they are getting sued by ER? Might that explain why they haven't even released the first line of fixed blades, and are now designing a new line of idiotic looking terrorist deanimators?
 
I understand that ER doesn't want to get involved in long-distance litigation, especially since DO isn't even making much money on their long-awaited productions. What would they sue them for, copying pictures and phtoshopping them?
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I understand that ER doesn't want to get involved in long-distance litigation, especially since DO isn't even making much money on their long-awaited productions. What would they sue them for, copying pictures and phtoshopping them?
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good point.:D
 
I haven't seen a single Dork Ops knife that I'd want -- even at a third of the price. If they ever make a pushdagger I might reconsider. . .
 
They haven't made a push-dagger for several reasons... It would be tough to build one that covertly measures up to their covert Controlled Blood Spray standards, and there would also (covertly) be too little space on the blade for their (not-so-covert) logos.
Covert covert blood spatter covert covert covert.

hahahahaha
:D :D :D
 
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