embarrassing knife

Jarrett Fleming

Jarrett Fleming

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Anyone here have a knife that you are actually embarrassed to own because its goofy, ugly, useless, just plain dumb, etc.?
For me its a knife I got when I was very young at a general store in dahlonega ga. Its a John Deere made in china knife that came in a tin. It has a tractor and a huge green stone on the handle. The shape of the knife is possibly the most ridiculous thing that I've ever seen. I was very proud when I bought it though haha.
 
Yep yep, I have one of those Chris Reeve knives.....umm, I think it's called a Sebenza, or something like that....Horrible horrible knife, totally embarrassed to even admit to having such a thing....:D
 
Hahaha I'm sorry you have to deal with such a dreadful knife. You can send it here so you don't have to look at such a thing anymore!
 
My son has a few of those, the knives with the feather and the stone. It even came in a fake wood gran presentation box! What quality!
 
I have a Boker Magnum tanto folder that is everything I don't want in a knife. The other day I was at my workbench and it was sitting there with some other knives that don't currently have a home, and I cut a piece of tape with it. Even though I was alone, I still looked around to make sure no one was looking.
 
Embarrassed doesn't cut it. So embarrassing in fact I'm afraid to throw it away because someone might see it in the dumpster and think it was mine. :(

It's a gift shop knife, made in China, and the knife handle is a plastic molded eagle. Some day I may take a picture of it. I've seen many ugly eagle-handle knives, but none as hideous as this. The OP's John Deere tractor is probably a William Henry by comparison.
 
I have a "gift shop" two blade slip-joint from Bermuda. Got it almost 10 years ago. Not only does it just look TOTALLY cheap all around, the blade itself looks like it may have been forged from recycled rebar. And then not sanded at all. I cant really figure out what was going on in my mind when I HAD to spend the $5 on it. I had forgotten that I had it and it turned up in a drawer the other day. I just closed the drawer and tried to forget that I had seen it.
 
benchmade 160. a buddy gave it to me as a gag gift. i think its ugly as sin.

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A damascus knife I bought for a fairly low price(less than $50) off of eBay. It rusts just from being exposed to the air. Makes a nice little shovel for digging around the dirt though:thumbup:.
 
My brother found one of those Yellowstone national park gift shop knives. The blade is SO bad. Rusts like crazy and the handle is made out of a plastic/wood thing. Also I bought a knife that is Multi Colored and it has some purple on it that people can't help but laugh at when they see it. I am currently carring a ZT 0200 tho :)
 
Pakistan folders with the wood scales left unfinished from the saw cuts.

A Chinese "balisong" with black plastic handles and a looped wire for a latch. About 30 degrees of side-to-side blade play. Extra special #1 bad.
 
I have a few, but the really annoying ones are gone. I sharpen them up, oil 'em, and give them away to someone that thinks a knife is also a good screwdriver or mini prybar. Win/win for me and them. That way I don't feel like I completely wasted my money.

Robert
 
gundude73 said:
benchmade 160. a buddy gave it to me as a gag gift. i think its ugly as sin.

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Hey now, ugly knives are plenty useful. You can beat on them as much as you want and not have to worry about uglying them up. :p

Kind of like cheap hookers, come to think of it...
 
Where to begin?
Colt tacticool folder. Decent steel (8cr14), and takes a good edge, but it looks like trash, and is clunky.
Coleman fixed blade. Bought it as a throwing knife, and it does that well and holds a good edge, but the dimestore sheath made it just get buried in my knives.
2 small S&W fixed blades. Good knives, and nowhere near the terrible reputation people give them, but they just jab my in tthe side all day, and the sheaths feel more like plastic than leather.
A small Boker Plus traditional lockback. Tried to sharpen it myself, and all I did was mutilate the edge. Currently waiting to get it professionally sharpened.
My broken Glock. They don't make good throwing knives.
2 Coast SAK-style multi-tools. Those things will not sharpen, and are also just buried by all of my knives.
My 7in. Ka-bar. I tried to resharpen it and like my Boker, mutilated the edge. My sheath also dulls the knife, so it wouldn't have kept the edge anyways.

Do returned knives also count? I could go on for a while there.
 
The only knife I was embarrassed to have was probably the first one I ever bought with my own money. I was a kid in the 70s, and ogled the knives on display at the local Rexall drug store. I was saving my nickels and dimes to buy that really handsome Imperial folder for months. Such an object of desire I could taste it. After what seemed like an eternity, I remember going down to the store with my money, getting the clerk to pull out the model I wanted, and riding my bike home, proud as can be with my new acquisition. Opening and closing the blades for the first time was like a religious experience. Looking inside, admiring the scales and bolste--wait---what is this---the bolster is hollow?!?! And so are the scales!!! Jigging tamped out of sheet metal with a decal to make it look like dyed bone!!!! :mad: What kind of phony crap is this?!?!? I felt like a fool, like I'd been a mark. The blinders fell off, and that object of desire was revealed for what it was: a cheap pocket knife with pretensions of grand traditional craftsmanship. Its fake cosmetics didn't affect its function. It was a perfectly good knife. But it represented my lack of observation and willingness to be fooled. My misguided willingness to be defined by my acquisition was exposed for the shallowness it truly was. That moment, my new pocketknife was no longer a symbol of responsibility and independence. It was now just another tool. Tough but valuable lesson.
 
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