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Default knife configurations you can't stand

I hate knives with waisted space at the bolster end. Full finger choils on folders as an example. Why? No one needs to “choke up” on a 8” folding knife. If you do… buy some scissors!!
Also, I purchased a very famous (and expensive) folder that had terrible action out of the box. Everybody including the manufacturer said “wait until it breaks in”. A knife that expensive shouldn’t have to “break in”. So much for tight tolerances.
 
Yeah the "break in" thing is rampant in the gun world as well, if you have problems with a gun the manufactures these days are like "Well put 500-1000 rounds through it and see how it works after that". Ridiculous, if the parts are properly fit and finished, they will be 98% as smooth and fully functional as when they wear in. Don't get me wrong there's some wearing in of even great fit/finished parts, but it's extremely minor. I've yet to see a knife that felt bad wear in to the point it was amazing, and I've never seen a gun with significant issues running, suddenly become flawlessly reliable just because you ran a few hundred rounds through it. Not only that but as the consumer should you really have to spend $300 on ammo and frustration, only to find out it still has issues.

It's just a scam they try to pull on consumers to sell them subpar stuff with poor tolerances and cut corners on finishing/fitting.
 
Sometimes super minor issues will correct themselves after the knife has worn in, but if you are expecting noticeable issues or flaws to suddenly correct themselves just because the knife worn in, then you'll be in for a surprise. Materials will mate with each other and the locking mechanism will rest at a certain lock up% but its likely little else besides that. Ive had lock stick that never went away up until the knife was sold off.
 
ShaiHulud said:
Sometimes super minor issues will correct themselves after the knife has worn in, but if you are expecting noticeable issues or flaws to suddenly correct themselves just because the knife worn in, then you'll be in for a surprise. Materials will mate with each other and the locking mechanism will rest at a certain lock up% but it’s likely little else besides that. Ive had lock stick that never went away up until the knife was sold
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If you pay over $200 for a knife it should almost flawless out of the box.
 
SharpBits said:
99.9% of David’s knives are cutting machines, but sometimes he makes something “just because “.
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Even my sharpened prybars have very thin edge geometry, unless someone specifically asks for something thick behind the edge, which almost never happens. And even then, thick behind the edge, to me, is .020". Because I can't stand thick behind the edge.
 
I'm not a huge fan of thumb studs to begin with, but when they're added to a knife that also has a nail nick opener/hole opener and/or flipper tab I'd prefer it if they fired the thumb studs into the Sun. There should only be one opening mechanism per knife.
 
Drop bear said:
I think I am more the minority in not minding them.

Although I consider them more of a sheepsfoot
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I have a Civivi mini cleaver I really like. Flipper opener. Hard to open one-handed for whatever reason. The flipper is quite stubborn to deploy. Solid lockup though.

My other Civivi has zero issues lol.
 
The Grendels said:
There should only be one opening mechanism per knife.
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This really should be a rule, in the vast majority of knives I've owned with multiple opening methods one of them, if not both don't work as well as they should. ZT's with flippers and studs used to be notorious for that, so much so that ZT had to defend their thumb studs as "blade stops" and were not designed for opening :)
 
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