Ever disappointed in a knife?

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Cody777

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Have you ever bought a knife and was disappointed in what you recieved. This mostly pertains to quality control such as poor edges, handle or pivot to tight, and other slip ups. I'll start with my experience.
I bought an orange delica 4 ffg last month on amazon and was pretty shocked with how it came. The edge was very uneven, hand was tight and was scratching the blade everytime I would open it. For that kind of price and spyderco's famous sharp and good factory edges I was regretting my purchase somewhat. My tenacious and even my spyderco bug had good edges and were nice and sharp. I know I probably got a lemon (even though I've seen another person's orange delica came with a bad edge) But now it's good after having to reprofile it. Let's hear your experiences!
 
My very first Benchmade Mini grip was disappointing.

First impressions:
Great knife fundamentally, great lock feature, the handle seemed a little short for my liking but my particular knife came with an almost non existent relief edge & wasn't sharp enough to cut paper or even cut myself. Easily fixable, but annoying on a brand new knife.

Long term:
A couple months later, one of the springs snapped, but the Axis-lock still worked. A couple months after that, the other spring snapped... I was disappointed but I understand that shit happens and that doesn't mean I think any less of BM. I have since sent it in and got it fixed, however I have a little stigma against axis locks now. I'm not entirely sure I can trust it and it usually just sits in my storage bin. Seems like everyone else has positive experiences with the Axis-Lock, so someday I wanna rebuild my trust and buy a 940 or 710. :thumbup: :cool:
 
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Already fixed it haha i finally got it hair popping sharp after getting down to 30 degrees inclusive with the sharpmaker and micro beveled it. But it sucks to have bought a lemon. To fork out that much and get one like that was disheartening.
 
Once.... I ordered a Daniel Winkler belt knife and when it came in the edge looked like it was ground by an 8 yr old, it was wavy and botched. I couldn't believe it was a $375 knife. I contacted Mr. Winkler himself and showed him pictures of it. He immediately said he would send out a replacement and explained that he had a new guy working the grinder and a few bad knives got out. The new one I got was absolute perfection.

FYI every spyderco I have gotten has been perfect, yours might have just been a fluke. You could have easily contacted amazon and gotten an exchange.
 
The Condor Warlock. The sheath didnt fit and its chopping performance was pretty marginal for its size. I ended up just giving it away although i liked the handle and will pick up a Boomslang soon.
 
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Im sure its an alright knife but it doesn't get any carry time only because of the where its made.
 
Boker Subcom came with a broken pivot.

I let my dad take it apart and he accidentally put the pivot screw in backwards and the knife starting working fine somehow. Before it either had a sickening amount of blade play or the knife was simply too stiff to even open with both hands.

I let him keep it after he sorta fixed it. He really likes it.
 
I've got several factory knives with problems, but I won't mention the companies since they have almost always made it right when sent in.
 
Got a Gold Class BM griptillian that I instantly regretted. It had QC issues and it just felt wrong in my hand. Kinda weird since my new favorite BM is the 581 Barrage... not too far away from a grip.
Never met an Emerson that I've liked, but I bought one that I thought I would learn to like... no luck. Don't understand the hype around these knives, but that's okay.
Got a Hinderer collab once - not my style.
Strider knives - not for me.
Busse blades have great steel yet haven't made anything that I find useful in my line of work.

me - not a stabbie guy, I'm a worker
 
Boker Subcom came with a broken pivot.

I let my dad take it apart and he accidentally put the pivot screw in backwards and the knife starting working fine somehow. Before it either had a sickening amount of blade play or the knife was simply too stiff to even open with both hands.

I let him keep it after he sorta fixed it. He really likes it.
 
I bought an Emerson cqc14, and the scales and the liners did not match up and it looked like someone had attacked it with a dremmel. I sent it back and was sent another one immediately, and the new one was perfect.
 
I purchased a Columbia River M-16 a few years ago. Got lots of pocket time. Used but not abused. It was retired after about a year. It didn't hold edge very well, the blade got wobbly pretty soon after purchase and the pocket clip kept trying to fall off. Screws in plastic I’ll never understand.
 
DedRok said:
My very first Benchmade Mini grip was disappointing.

First impressions:
Great knife fundamentally, great lock feature, the handle seemed a little short for my liking but my particular knife came with an almost non existent relief edge & wasn't sharp enough to cut paper or even cut myself. Easily fixable, but annoying on a brand new knife.

Long term:
A couple months later, one of the springs snapped, but the Axis-lock still worked. A couple months after that, the other spring snapped... I was disappointed but I understand that shit happens and that doesn't mean I think any less of BM. I have since sent it in and got it fixed, however I have a little stigma against axis locks now. I'm not entirely sure I can trust it and it usually just sits in my storage bin. Seems like everyone else has positive experiences with the Axis-Lock, so someday I wanna rebuild my trust and buy a 940 or 710. :thumbup: :cool:
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My mini grip was also disappointing, dull, not centered blade, scales off and hollow.
 
Benchmade Barrage Tanto.

I didn't really like it because there wasn't much grip on the handle and I felt
having an assist on a lock like the Axis was just plain redundant.
 
Medium Cold Steel Voyager Tanto
Came dull/had blade play

Just recently took another chance with Cold Steel and picked up a Spear Point Recon 1. Pretty happy so far!
 
I know I couldve easily sent it back. I was really tempted to but I decided to try and fix it. The thing that really pissed me off and was really making me regret getting a delica was trying to get it sharp. Then I read it gets wire edges like crazy and discovered better methods on stropping vg-10 differently than the rest of my knives. Believe me I was hoping I wouldn't get a bad edge and did. I was so close to sending it back I was about to get on the computer and print out the return label.
 
SOG trident. It was my first "high end" knife. And by "high end", I mean not the $5 knife you buy at a gas station. It came extremely wobbly and learned I didn't like the assisted open feature. I didn't like the AUS-8 steel either as it just felt cheap and didn't come with as sharp an edge as I hoped for. I conveniently lost it, and just recently found it. Strangely it's not as bad as I recall, and the blade is sharp enough to cut armhairs with. I don't recall it being able to do that when I got it. I don't recall whether or not I sharpened it either.
 
I can only think of one knife I have bought in the last 10 years that I was totally disappointed in. the Extrema ratio MF2. when I got that knife I was pumped, but after carrying it for a couple weeks I began to notice issues. the blade became off centered after a little bit. then I removed the pocket clip... while putting it back all of the screws that attached it to the handle stripped out. thankfully I was able to get a refund. I took the money and bought a couple benchmades and have never been happier.
 
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