embarrassing knife

never too sharp said:
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.
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hehe, i won a Boker G4 wharncliffe in a cometition at another forum.

it is, without question, the single most vulgar thing i own.

it lives in my First Aid Kit on the grounds that, like everything else in my FAK, i hope i never have to use it.
 
My best friend thought it nice to gift me a Smith&Wesson tacticool folder this year for my birthday. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was god awful, so I carry it on days I have to work with her, or she comes to visit. I cringe every time I look at it. lol
 
Nah, I don't have any embarrassing ones any more... they've all been given away to non-knife people who needed/wanted something to cut with.

Also... THIS THREAD IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT PICS!!! :D
 
My mom bought me a present one year for Christmas; a goofy dagger thing with a wolf's head handle and genuine particle board presentation stand. The blade is about 6" long and 1mm thick. She keeps asking me where it is, I tell her "when I have a case to display my knives mom!"
 
I have a few, not necessarily bad knives but even so products that do not fit me at all, I don't show them to anybody:

- Cold Steel Spartan. In fact I was curious about its lock, but still it's a very ugly thing. My only Cold Steel knife.
- CRKT Shakaulu. What was I thinking?
- CRKT Ultima. Not a bad thing for the price, really, but meanwhile I realize that I prefer more neutral designs.
- 2 or 3 assisted opening knives. To my taste it's a feature for impressionable teenagers.
- a set of all stainless made in china laguiole-style table knives. Even while I have eaten with similar ones in restaurants, they do feel very cheap indeed.
 
Cold Kill said:
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.
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One thread you're defending Bear Grylls knives and the next you're saying how embarrassed you are by your Kabar and your Boker?

I feel sorry for your knives. :(
 
R15K said:
One thread you're defending Bear Grylls knives and the next you're saying how embarrassed you are by your Kabar and your Boker?

I feel sorry for your knives. :(
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I am embarrassed by my Ka-Bar and Boker because my lack of sharpening skill left them both with a joke of an edge. The knives themselves are excellent, and the steels used are great. Also note that I was not defending the whole BG line, just the machete and fixed blade. I do not care for the folders or multi-tool at all, and honestly think they should be discontinued. I also do have complaints with the fixed and machete, but I won't go into that unless asked.
 
Emerson15 said:
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.
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I'm about to read your mind.


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This is the store from your childhood. In the town square, right across from the old courthouse/gold museum. It has very squeaky floorboards. When you go in there's an old gypsy fortune teller machine to the right, a surprising variety of old-timey rock candy to the left, a player piano toward the back, and a huge wooden bear near the counter. Oh, and you can get coffee for 5 cents a cup.





Haha, never expected to see Dahlonega mentioned here. That's my hometown. Spent a lot of time on that square and in the general store.

I've got plenty of embarrassing knives (I started really young :o), but it seems only right that I should post one from the same store.

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Not only did it have a thumb stud, but a pocket clip too! And serrations! I've never had many knives with serrations. Serrations are cool, right guys?
Hideous knife, but I loved it when I was ten. :p

(Oh, and credit where credit's due and all that. I didn't take that pic of the store, found it through an image search. Photographer is Scott L. Robertson. You can click on the pic to go to a page on his site with a few more pictures of the town, if anyone's interested.)
 
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Every single knife my Mother-in-Law has given me. She knows I like them but she hasn't a clue. The last 2 I sold at a garage sale and they went fast! A knife in a tin that said "Marines" on plastic scales and the other side had some Indian feathers. What in the hell do they have to do with each other. The other was some hookbill Frost with plastic camo scales and a snap pouch made out of recycled "green" grocery bag material. The worst ever was a Pakistani fixed blade with plastic deer glued to the scales. I had fun bending the blade at 90 degrees until it melted from fatigue.
 
Buck Terani Strider. Total POS, won't show it to anyone. Only saving grace is that I got it as an Xmas gift, so it's
not really my fault. Wouldn't have the gall to try and sell it to someone--it's really that bad.
 
CARRERA50 said:
Buck Terani Strider. Total POS, won't show it to anyone. Only saving grace is that I got it as an Xmas gift, so it's
not really my fault. Wouldn't have the gall to try and sell it to someone--it's really that bad.
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If you dont mind me asking what is wrong with the knife? I know that the QC on lockup was always a problem (especially the 889, either wouldnt lock or was at 100% brand new) but even still as a slipjoing the knife works well
 
I got a tracker knife as a gift last year. It’s still in the closet. I only tuck it out once. And got a real hard time form some of the older guys a work with.



It’s our generations version of the Rambo knife.
 
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bigmo66 said:
Every single knife my Mother-in-Law has given me. She knows I like them but she hasn't a clue. The last 2 I sold at a garage sale and they went fast! A knife in a tin that said "Marines" on plastic scales and the other side had some Indian feathers. What in the hell do they have to do with each other. The other was some hookbill Frost with plastic camo scales and a snap pouch made out of recycled "green" grocery bag material. The worst ever was a Pakistani fixed blade with plastic deer glued to the scales. I had fun bending the blade at 90 degrees until it melted from fatigue.
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Marines. Feathers. It's obvious! The marines drove ducks in WWII.
 
Edwood7 said:
I got a tracker knife as a gift last year. It’s still in the closet. I only tuck it out once. And got a real hard time form some of the older guys a work with.

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How do you not like that thing? I think it looks unique and cool. *cough* If you... no longer want it, I do take donations *cough*
 
I have several cheap knives from when I was in m early teens. Have owned/owning them isn't the embarrassing part though, it is not being able to bring myself to get rid of them. Even though they are useless and never leave their drawer I can't bring myself to part with them, they were some of the first knives I got so they will probably collect dust until I die.
 
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